Penny Arcade

Dog · January 2020

Penny Arcade - Comic - Chrono-Coils

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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rahkeesh2000 · January 2020

Turns out Gabe was the real cheater all along.

Jgr9 · January 2020

lol I had this moment a Christmas, but either way, I still would have lost badly anyways.

Regularjoe · January 2020

Someone once pulled the whole "hurr durr, no rewinds" on me during a magic game when I ended my turn too quickly.

I, being a rules lawyer and a bastard, proceeded to declare every time I passed priority for the rest of that game.

Drascin · January 2020

Regularjoe wrote: »

Someone once pulled the whole "hurr durr, no rewinds" on me during a magic game when I ended my turn too quickly.

I, being a rules lawyer and a bastard, proceeded to declare every time I passed priority for the rest of that game.

Honestly, if someone is pulling that kind of stuff on a casual game, that's exactly what they deserve.

kurokotetsu · January 2020

Well I have bwen very quiet for a long while, but I wamted to see. Am I the only ome seeing a Dan Abnett quote from Prospero Burns in Tycho's post about Warmachine?

Tofystedeth · January 2020

I generally don't like people going back in time, but for stuff where it's just assumed you're always doing it unless otherwise stated it's fine. Like if you spend 3 turns in a row declaring that you're prepping your counter attack, and you forget on a time someone actually would have triggered it and no action you did remember would have prevented it? Yeah, absolutely retcon it.

joshofalltrades · January 2020

Games are supposed to be fun

If somebody really meant to do a thing, let them do the thing!

Nobody wants to play with someone who uses the rules to gain advantages on technicalities

Tofystedeth · January 2020

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Games are supposed to be fun

If somebody really meant to do a thing, let them do the thing!

Nobody wants to play with someone who uses the rules to gain advantages on technicalities

Yeah but what's fun for one person can be anti-fun for your opponent. You have to strike a balance between making up forgotten but common moves, and just letting them undo a bad decision.

Commander Zoom · January 2020

That was a quality first post.
EDIT: aaaand it's gone.

kurokotetsu · January 2020

Seems I am crazy after all.

Grendus · January 2020

It really depends on how serious the game is. If it's in a tournament then you follow the letter of the rules, because the outcome has actual consequences. If it's just a friendly game, you go by what people intended within the framework of the rules. If they forgot to do something last turn and they mention it before it becomes important (I.E. you can't say "I meant to use my smoke grenade" after your opponent shoots you, but you could if you realized while they were still planning their moves), it's usually good form to just run with it.

But then, sounds like the Penny Arcade team may be a bit more hardcore than your average FLGS table, so tourney rules may apply.

Tofystedeth · January 2020

Grendus wrote: »

It really depends on how serious the game is. If it's in a tournament then you follow the letter of the rules, because the outcome has actual consequences. If it's just a friendly game, you go by what people intended within the framework of the rules. If they forgot to do something last turn and they mention it before it becomes important (I.E. you can't say "I meant to use my smoke grenade" after your opponent shoots you, but you could if you realized while they were still planning their moves), it's usually good form to just run with it.

But then, sounds like the Penny Arcade team may be a bit more hardcore than your average FLGS table, so tourney rules may apply.

But also, humorous context. They generally always have someone taking a competitive game way too seriously (see: Pokémon trainer Gabe) and one of the players in this particular game is like 12.

LaughingLord · January 2020

I am Obvo an impartial observer here, but I can't help but notice poor innocent lovable Kiko is drawn almost trollishly.

dennis · January 2020

LaughingLord wrote: »

I am Obvo an impartial observer here, but I can't help but notice poor innocent lovable Kiko is drawn almost trollishly.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2019/12/30/dust

Zomro · January 2020

Back when I played a lot of Warhammer 40k, these sorts of situations came up all the time, in both casual and more competitive settings (FLGS league or tournament). I've always considered myself a nice person, and I'm also not that competitive, so I usually let my opponents go back and do something they forgot if it they caught it quickly enough. If they ended a shooting phase and forgot to fire their Predator or something, I'd be fine with it, but not if we were ending the CC phase, for example. There's winning a game based on an opponent's strategic error, and then there's winning because they just plain forgot a rule or something like that. Ultimately, it made my games more pleasant. And I generally tended to have pretty decent sportsmanship scores, even if I didn't win a lot of games. Though I doubt I'd have won any more games if I'd been a stickler on those things, I enjoyed 40k even if I wasn't particularly good at it.

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