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The New Comic Thread for Monday, May 4, 2009

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The only house rule that we had was that if I ever ran out of money I could have infinite interest-free loans from the banker until I won the game.

    Furthermore, whomever was the banker considered all the bank reserves their own personal cash.

    Also, I was always banker.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I think I only ever finished maybe half of the Monopoly games I've played in. After a while everyone just gets tired of it.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I was always the banker to keep people from cheating.

    If for some reason I wasn't the banker, I watched the banker like a hawk.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    JoeUser wrote: »
    I think I only ever finished maybe half of the Monopoly games I've played in. After a while everyone just gets tired of it.

    Well yeah, once everything gets bought up it just turns into a really tedious game of roulette.

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    russian monopoly roulette.

    land on boardwalk? pull the trigger. roll doubles? trigger.

    railroads? trigger.

    if you end up in jail, you get to pull the trigger six times.

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  • DidgeridooDidgeridoo Flighty Dame Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Didgeridoo wrote: »
    Oh man

    I totally ruined the palms of my hands playing the games in the original mario party where they made you twirl the control stick to do things like reel fish in or whatever

    Those of you who played it as children will know what I'm talking about

    It aways amazed me how I could dig a hole that deep into my hand and never have it bleed. It's like the friction was cauterizing the wound as it being made or something.

    Good times.

    The worst thing was I don't know about anyone elses N64 controller but on mine the grey plastic that the analog stick was made of had long started to shave off and turn into this poisonous looking white powder gently dusting the entire surface of the pad.

    I kept thinking 'if I breathe this in by mistake am I going to have a lung amputated'.

    YES I thought it was just me! Every time I picked up the thing to play some Star Fox or Banjo-Kazooie or whatever I would try and clean that shit off the controller, but there was always, always more of it. I was never too concerned about it, but then again I wasn't too concerned about the holes I was ripping into my hand either. And yes Marcus, it was very strange how they never bled- just made skin peel off in chunks.

    My parents eventually took away the Mario Party game. I was upset at the time, but looking back I think they should have taken it away sooner

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  • Spicy_RevSpicy_Rev Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    If you read the monopoly rules, it is explicit that house rules are allowed, but that the official rules do not include winning the fees when landing on free parking.

    It is like they want you to break the rules. All of them.

    And let me tell you, Monopoly land is a cold, cold place when anarchy abounds.

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I think Nintendo gave out gloves for Mario Party because some of the stick twirling games would eat the flesh off your palm.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I keep hearing about this game and I keep needing to play it. HRRRM.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    More house rules

    I hadn't heard of most of them.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Best house rule is "bank robber"

    Self explanatory

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    * No players may purchase property before all players have passed Go at least 5 times.
    that sure sounds like fun

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I know the rule about having to pass Go at least once, but five times?

    what exactly do you do? What happens to that guy who keeps rolling snake-eyes?

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ness445 wrote: »
    I know the rule about having to pass Go at least once, but five times?

    what exactly do you do? What happens to that guy who keeps rolling snake-eyes?

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  • Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ness445 wrote: »
    that is the only house rule I am familiar with.

    are there other wacky rules that some people apply to monopoly?

    I haven't read the rules of monopoly for a while so I can't remember if this was a rule or something my friends and I came up with. When we used to play we would be allowed a £2000 overdraft. So if you landed on people's property you didn't have to pay them back straight away. As soon as you more than 2k you had to pay it off until you were within the limit again.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009

    But it also says Risk is dumb and I cannot accept that.

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That's stupid. If you can't pay you lose the game, that's the whole point of the game, to bankrupt the other players.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Risk, dumb?

    Shenanigans!

    jwalk, yeah we knew that but we liked making the game last longer. It didn't really change much just delayed the outcome.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    the Free Parking rule might as well be official

    everyone I've ever played with has used it

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Because if you don't you're a communist piece of shit

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    What I can't stand is when people play with this "negotiate anything you want" rule. Like someone lands on your $400 hotel spot and they can't pay so you say "oh just give me that railroad instead".

    NO! FUCKING... NO!! The rules are quite clear, you either come up with the $400 by mortgaging your shit or YOU ARE OUT and all your property goes back to the bank. I mean MAYBE you can take something of EQUAL value but that fucking railroad is only worth $50 you can't take that in lieu of paying $400 rent!

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009

    But it also says Risk is dumb and I cannot accept that.

    Risk is the anger maker though.

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    Fuck off and die.
  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Risk is awesome and people who don't enjoy the game are the worst kind of child molesters.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You're a bastard, Hunter, because now I am sitting here trying to come up with a tiered system for rating child molesters.

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I fucking love Risk, but at heart I am an evil man.

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    Fuck off and die.
  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Risk is the best game to play for six hours straight

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Risk just takes too long.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Risk is infuriating because it's a game that wants you to believe it's based on strategy and superior tactics but then you lose a few unlucky dice rolls and suddenly you're fucked.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I like to build my forces in Australia, then sweep across Eurasia leaving one man in each country

    Do it right and build a "wall" between your new land and the other guy and you're safe

    If you're the swept one, build your forces, punch through, and wipe out all those pissant holds he has on Asia

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Javen wrote: »
    Risk is infuriating because it's a game that wants you to believe it's based on strategy and superior tactics but then you lose a few unlucky dice rolls and suddenly you're fucked.

    Axis and Allies is the same way. Strategy be damned if you roll dice like a retard.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    jwalk wrote: »
    What I can't stand is when people play with this "negotiate anything you want" rule. Like someone lands on your $400 hotel spot and they can't pay so you say "oh just give me that railroad instead".

    NO! FUCKING... NO!! The rules are quite clear, you either come up with the $400 by mortgaging your shit or YOU ARE OUT and all your property goes back to the bank. I mean MAYBE you can take something of EQUAL value but that fucking railroad is only worth $50 you can't take that in lieu of paying $400 rent!

    Or people deciding they have "a truce" with another player and not paying each other rent

    fffffffffffffffff

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    jwalk wrote: »
    What I can't stand is when people play with this "negotiate anything you want" rule. Like someone lands on your $400 hotel spot and they can't pay so you say "oh just give me that railroad instead".

    NO! FUCKING... NO!! The rules are quite clear, you either come up with the $400 by mortgaging your shit or YOU ARE OUT and all your property goes back to the bank. I mean MAYBE you can take something of EQUAL value but that fucking railroad is only worth $50 you can't take that in lieu of paying $400 rent!

    Or people deciding they have "a truce" with another player and not paying each other rent

    fffffffffffffffff

    Using real world currency to barter trades within the board game universe.

    Even better because we only ever played Monopoly at Christmas when the whole family were around so it usually revolved around paying rent and loan bills with turkey and dessert portions.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Great, now I want to play Risk.

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Shit like that is how fights get started.

    Some house rules are fun like Stock Market but the rules clearly forbid cash loans of any kind or "immunities" from paying rent between players. You ARE allowed to trade properties between players for any price agreed upon but even that gets dicey sometimes if people start playing favorites.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    you guys are reminding me that I have yet to play Settlers of Catan

    and I really really want to

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Anyone who thinks Risk takes forever should try playing just a few turns of Advanced Squad Leader.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Settlers of Catan.

    If you like monopoly, but hate the bullshit that goes with it, give Settlers a try.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    really the only board game me and my friends play is risk

    we are all too poor to go buy the other games we'd like to try

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    I tried the demo of Microsoft's Settlers of Catan but then when the demo expired I didn't feel it was worth $30

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