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Appreciation post for that one game rule I overlooked for 6 months
I picked up a used copy of a dungeon crawler game from a garage sale back in May. I thought I had the rules down pat after the first play through. But last weekend, I realized I had been handling the monster movement phase completely wrong for like 6 months. The rulebook said monsters take a specific action based on distance, but I was just moving them straight at us every time. It made the game way easier than it should have been. Once I fixed it, things got way more tense and strategic. Has anyone else found a rule they played wrong for way too long?
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the_viola3d ago
Oh man, that reminds me of the time I tried to learn a weird card game from the 90s that had a rule about "discarding to the left" but my friends and I all thought it meant literally throw your cards to your left side. We spent like an hour picking cards off the floor before someone actually read the rule book. Turns out it just meant pass them to the person on your left. We were all so committed to the physical discarding thing that it became a whole joke whenever we play now.
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linda_reed3d ago
Flip through the rulebook one more time and check for a "retreat" rule. I played a zombie game for three months before realizing zombies retreat when they can't reach you. Made the game way more interesting when they'd shuffle back and block doors instead of just shambling toward us every turn.
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