by Robin
bleached_lizard wrote:
When you say "other board game communities", which are you talking about? Eurogamers?
I don't see RuneAge, Thunderstone, Starcraft gamers create house rules a lot.
In Advanced Squad Leader, house rules are massively rejected (as there are tourneys, where players must follow the rulebook).
I presume that you are more acquainted to the RPG community, where things are much more relativized - not a negative thing, IMO, but a distinctive cultural trait.
Among boardgames, I have seen some house ruling, such as introducing a die combat system in DQ.
My gaming background - which is mostly ASL and other wargames where "tinkering" with the system is a bad idea - has to do with my reluctance about house rules.
The fact that DJIDv2 is so recent leads me, too, to be cautious about house rules which try to "fix" a system that people haven't had the opportunity to test in depth.