It'd be like if Monopoly said to collect up to $200 when you passed go and then only gave you $5.
nuh uh it would be more like if you landed on Free Parking but then there's a $5 service fee
I know this isn't what you're talking about but anyone who doesn't play $500+fees goes to whoever lands on free parking is a no-fun sonuvabitch
free means free you don't get extra shit for landing there you are not smarter than the Parker Brothers you are messing up the game
Anybody who doesn't play "fees go to free parking" is a goddamn commie rat
I know this is like ten pages back, but Lord Dave is right.
There's already a mechanic for them to get money randomly (chance/community chest cards). Why does there need to be another one, from a gameplay (substance) perspective?
OK, so forget gameplay, maybe it's about the "feeling" of the thing. So, the game is about capitalist property owners strangling each other economically by building empires (via real estate and utility monopolies, in this case) that make it impossible to compete with them. How does this make sense from a narrative (style) perspective?
It's a homemade mechanic for progressing gameplay. The game moves slowly, too slowly for some, so they adjust the rules so the game can keep moving.
But it's not even a good or useful rule, it's completely random.
The ass who convinced mom to trade him Park Place for Baltic Avenue has just as good a chance of landing on Free Parking and using the money to buy 2 hotels!
If people really just wanted to speed up the game they'd double the Go money or something.
EDIT: By altering someone else's game with house rules, you're saying that you know better than they do how the game should be played. Since they made games professionally, and this particular game has been very popular since well before you were born, what makes you think that you know better than they do? This isn't like modifying Half-Life to make Counter-Strike, either. This is like modifying Half-Life to make A Version Of Half-Life Where You Get Health Back Whenever You Hit Someone With The Crowbar.
If I have more fun playing with my house rules than with the standard rules than I would say that I know better than the game maker yes.
yeah, defender, sorry. generally I'm with you on the whole "people who think they know better than professionals when they have no reason to think so are dumb" thing, but
monopoly is actually not a good game, despite its popularity (and if I had to guess, I would bet that its popularity has begun recently to wane as people are exposed, through games like catan, to the idea that board games can actually be well designed). and if we're using popularity as evidence of quality--which we probably shouldn't--then it's probably worth noting that the "you get money on free parking" rule is immensely popular. I don't even know to what extent the game is even professionally designed, if you believe the story parker brothers prints in the rulebook (or wherever). professionally marketed, sure, but while that explains its popularity it doesn't make it any good.
so modifying it isn't really committing some terrible sin, even if the modification isn't particularly well thought-out. it's really less like modifying half-life and more like modifying Princess Barbie's Boring Adventure 3D.
Why the Hell would anybody care about other people playing a game with house rules? You are not serving a common good by refusing to play a game slightly differently than the norm.
The point of the game is to have fun. If doing it a slightly different way makes it more fun, then why not? If you dislike changing things up, that's your choice to make, but if you think people are doing it wrong then you're kind of missing the point of board games.
at a party the one time, people were talking about commonly held misconceptions and urban myths and stuff
sort of a general big conversation everyone is taking part in
and i bring up the whole "the free parking money thing in monopoly is just a common house-rule. in standard monopoly you get nothing"
a couple of people knew this, but the majority of the room thought that was bullshit and a giant, like fifteen person argument resulted, with people taking different sides and stuff
it was just hilarious to see this big roomfull of young adults getting into a rather heated argument over the written nature of board game rules
only ended when the dude whose house it was went down to his basement, got his rather old (like 15 years old) copy of the game and brought up the rulebook.
some people still insisted it was part of the original game and that this version of the game must've somehow changed it.
Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
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Oh Monopoly, how badly I used to play you. When I was really young, I used to throw tantrums if I didn't end up with the two dark blues. I've progreesed from that now. Now I just sulk and pout.
Being the banker is just aces though. Finishing up the game with only five random properties and $26,000 - everybody asking why the fuck have I got so many 500s....
i had this great strategy for monopoly in which i would borrow money off another dude to pay for developing houses and shit on my property
and i'd promise like a double return on the money borrowed, so it wasn't hard to secure funds
but then when the dude was like "okay i want my money back" i was like "well... okay, i mean i could give you money right now, but i just acquired the last of the red properties so now i can develop on it, so if instead you give me another bit of cash i can essentially triple your money once someone else lands on the space"
and this went on, i could keep milking "borrowed" money from one or two other players and never pay them back, just promising greater and greater returns until they went broke by landing on a bad square and couldn't even call on me to square their debts
i told my father about this incredible and awesome strategy i invented
he explained to me i didn't invent shit, i was basically just running a ponzi scheme
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i had this great strategy for monopoly in which i would borrow money off another dude to pay for developing houses and shit on my property
and i'd promise like a double return on the money borrowed, so it wasn't hard to secure funds
but then when the dude was like "okay i want my money back" i was like "well... okay, i mean i could give you money right now, but i just acquired the last of the red properties so now i can develop on it, so if instead you give me another bit of cash i can essentially triple your money once someone else lands on the space"
and this went on, i could keep milking "borrowed" money from one or two other players and never pay them back, just promising greater and greater returns until they went broke by landing on a bad square and couldn't even call on me to square their debts
i told my father about this incredible and awesome strategy i invented
he explained to me i didn't invent shit, i was basically just running a ponzi scheme
i had this great strategy for monopoly in which i would borrow money off another dude to pay for developing houses and shit on my property
and i'd promise like a double return on the money borrowed, so it wasn't hard to secure funds
but then when the dude was like "okay i want my money back" i was like "well... okay, i mean i could give you money right now, but i just acquired the last of the red properties so now i can develop on it, so if instead you give me another bit of cash i can essentially triple your money once someone else lands on the space"
and this went on, i could keep milking "borrowed" money from one or two other players and never pay them back, just promising greater and greater returns until they went broke by landing on a bad square and couldn't even call on me to square their debts
i told my father about this incredible and awesome strategy i invented
he explained to me i didn't invent shit, i was basically just running a ponzi scheme
you could say that you madoff with their money.
Both the story and the pun made me laugh way too hard
Now that I've started playing real boardgames, affairs such as Monopoly and Risk are stale and uninteresting to me.
That's not to say that no "mainstream" boardgames still appeal to me. It's hardly an exaggeration to call Scrabble the official sport of my mother's side of the family.
Now that I've started playing real boardgames, affairs such as Monopoly and Risk are stale and uninteresting to me.
That's not to say that no "mainstream" boardgames still appeal to me. It's hardly an exaggeration to call Scrabble the official sport of my mother's side of the family.
I am fascinated with what you would consider a non "mainstream" board game that is worthy of your time.
You are talking about the board game that I made up when I was 7 aren't you?
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But it's not even a good or useful rule, it's completely random.
The ass who convinced mom to trade him Park Place for Baltic Avenue has just as good a chance of landing on Free Parking and using the money to buy 2 hotels!
If people really just wanted to speed up the game they'd double the Go money or something.
Skim a little money out of the bank, nobody notices. Never got caught either.
Or maybe they realized it and just didn't care.
Monopoly is about Capitalism, off course you are supposed to steal.
Satans..... hints.....
if it doesn't exist, dibs
The banker quietly collects all the money while even distributing a tiny amount of it.
They then take their ill gotten games and run out of the board game to snakes and ladders.
What they do with their monopoly money I am not sure.
Satans..... hints.....
there is no Go
Satans..... hints.....
yeah, defender, sorry. generally I'm with you on the whole "people who think they know better than professionals when they have no reason to think so are dumb" thing, but
monopoly is actually not a good game, despite its popularity (and if I had to guess, I would bet that its popularity has begun recently to wane as people are exposed, through games like catan, to the idea that board games can actually be well designed). and if we're using popularity as evidence of quality--which we probably shouldn't--then it's probably worth noting that the "you get money on free parking" rule is immensely popular. I don't even know to what extent the game is even professionally designed, if you believe the story parker brothers prints in the rulebook (or wherever). professionally marketed, sure, but while that explains its popularity it doesn't make it any good.
so modifying it isn't really committing some terrible sin, even if the modification isn't particularly well thought-out. it's really less like modifying half-life and more like modifying Princess Barbie's Boring Adventure 3D.
The point of the game is to have fun. If doing it a slightly different way makes it more fun, then why not? If you dislike changing things up, that's your choice to make, but if you think people are doing it wrong then you're kind of missing the point of board games.
Satans..... hints.....
i mean, it makes sense. the banker certainly doesn't need that money
sort of a general big conversation everyone is taking part in
and i bring up the whole "the free parking money thing in monopoly is just a common house-rule. in standard monopoly you get nothing"
a couple of people knew this, but the majority of the room thought that was bullshit and a giant, like fifteen person argument resulted, with people taking different sides and stuff
it was just hilarious to see this big roomfull of young adults getting into a rather heated argument over the written nature of board game rules
only ended when the dude whose house it was went down to his basement, got his rather old (like 15 years old) copy of the game and brought up the rulebook.
some people still insisted it was part of the original game and that this version of the game must've somehow changed it.
people can be pretty obstinate
But at least you go to parties
something something embezzlement capitalism
Being the banker is just aces though. Finishing up the game with only five random properties and $26,000 - everybody asking why the fuck have I got so many 500s....
i had this great strategy for monopoly in which i would borrow money off another dude to pay for developing houses and shit on my property
and i'd promise like a double return on the money borrowed, so it wasn't hard to secure funds
but then when the dude was like "okay i want my money back" i was like "well... okay, i mean i could give you money right now, but i just acquired the last of the red properties so now i can develop on it, so if instead you give me another bit of cash i can essentially triple your money once someone else lands on the space"
and this went on, i could keep milking "borrowed" money from one or two other players and never pay them back, just promising greater and greater returns until they went broke by landing on a bad square and couldn't even call on me to square their debts
i told my father about this incredible and awesome strategy i invented
he explained to me i didn't invent shit, i was basically just running a ponzi scheme
but my bar is set pretty low
i love even the ugliest puns
Both the story and the pun made me laugh way too hard
they sustain me, much like drinking sustains pooro.
That's not to say that no "mainstream" boardgames still appeal to me. It's hardly an exaggeration to call Scrabble the official sport of my mother's side of the family.
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I am fascinated with what you would consider a non "mainstream" board game that is worthy of your time.
You are talking about the board game that I made up when I was 7 aren't you?
Satans..... hints.....