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The night my Catan group fell apart over a misread rule
Was at a friend's house in Austin last month when someone realized we'd been playing the robber wrong for years, and half the group wanted to keep the old way while the other half insisted on switching mid-game. Ended with two people packing up and leaving. When do you stick with house rules for harmony versus forcing the official ones?
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quinnbailey17d ago
You stick with the official rules. House rules are fine for casual play but if someone wants to enforce the real game, you go with that. The people who walked out weren't interested in playing right, they just wanted their crutch rule to keep winning. That's on them, not the person who pointed out the mistake.
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cooper.max17d ago
Three games into a Monopoly session last month, a buddy tried to argue free parking collects taxes. The rulebook says nothing about that. It's printed right there on page 6. People get so used to their own version they forget what's real. @quinnbailey has a point about sticking with the official rules, but I think it's more about knowing what you're agreeing to before you sit down. If everyone at the table wants house rules, fine. But nobody should get surprised when someone calls it out halfway through. The group that walked probably just wanted to keep stacking money for no reason.
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