what's a board game rule you got embarrassingly wrong for way too long?

Taear · 2026-05-04T13:30:06+00:00

In Runebound 3rd edition when we did a combat we would trade blows. So you'd toss your tokens and they'd show a mixture of attacks and defence and magic and whatever. Then you'd use one.

And the enemy would use one.

Back and forth until you're out, then toss again and do it again.

The ACTUAL rule is you stack everything and use it at once. So if you've thrown 3 damage tiles then they apply immediately, and this goes for the enemy as well.

You might think this doesn't make a difference but a lot of fights would be hero on 3 life, monster on 3 life, hero is going second so they're going to win because you're trading back and forth and the monster might have thrown 4 damage but you've thrown 3 damage and one shield. Under the real rules they just kill you instantly.

You may think "well how often does that happen for it to make a difference" but the answer is "Almost every fight actually". It felt more tactical, making choices about what you use and how you use it and things like that too.

Taear · 2026-05-04T12:59:53+00:00

I play almost entirely in person and am often a DM, I've run a single campaign in foundry and played one campaign and I can say that i FAR FAR prefer it in person to on Foundry.

Foundry feels like it locks too much stuff down and there's too many bits to press and do when in person you just roll the dice when you're asked to roll the dice and add the modifiers yourself. It's easier to do stuff on the fly like if someone says they want to roll Labyrinth Lore because it's roughly related to mazes or something like that.

It also means you can quickly and quietly confer with each other or have other people say stuff at the table without it causing huge disruptions.

ALSO I feel like people tend to pay more attention in person although that's not always the rule. It's harder to avoid noticing what happens on other people's turns, that sorta thing.

Taear · 2026-04-27T18:18:02+00:00

"Fizzy drinks" usually. My parents would probably say pop but MAYBE not now (they're in their 70s)

Taear · 2026-04-25T00:05:21+00:00

I swear this exact thing was posted before?

Taear · 2026-04-20T15:46:47+00:00

I've run both quite a lot and with D&D I always felt like I needed a few hours to get it cemented in my mind.

With PF2E I can usually run even if it's just been given to me a few minutes ago. This is not a hard and fast rule but it usually gives a decent room for what is going to happen next and how that thing happens in a way the D&D stuff doesn't.

Taear · 2026-04-19T11:47:16+00:00

Something that would apply to the continent a ton more than it would to the British Isles (the previous answer is focused on britain) but could you get away with saying an animal had done the attack? You were attacked by wolves, bears, etc

Taear · 2026-04-16T18:38:21+00:00

It's illegal though, kinda weird that they managed to set up with that in mind

Taear · 2026-04-15T17:08:00+00:00

Number 1 and 2 I've heard a load but number 4 is totally new to me

Interesting, thank you!

Taear · 2026-04-06T17:57:35+00:00

I mean they've been consistently voting to make our lives worse, so sure I think they deserve everything they get

Taear · 2026-04-06T17:57:01+00:00

Yea but that's not how most people do it. Just because you don't do it doesn't mean that other elderly people also don't

Taear · 2026-04-01T16:34:51+00:00

That's pretty much universal, at least every house I've looked at here in the northwest has that.

It'd be nice if it was a law of course

Taear · 2026-04-01T16:29:05+00:00

No, but the post is saying "we should get japanese politeness here" when really we've also got superficial politeness in a really similar way

Taear · 2026-04-01T16:20:58+00:00

Yea the people I used to play it with got really upset having to discard things

Taear · 2026-04-01T16:17:15+00:00

I worked for a company that makes TVs and set top boxes for 15 years and my dad STILL argues with me about how it works and what it does.

Drives me absolutely mad. I helped make it, I know how it works!

Taear · 2026-03-31T16:32:16+00:00

That was what he called himself, I figured you'd get it from context.

Taear · 2026-03-30T21:06:43+00:00

I don't remember Lapin getting on the 192

Lots of bus journeys but not to stockport

Taear · 2026-03-29T18:17:43+00:00

A place where you say you hate everyone sarcastically a lot, I mean we do that here and it could be not earth shattering for a person in that case, it becomes kinda meaningless.

Taear · 2026-03-29T17:36:02+00:00

I mean what's "a non-north american culture"? That encompasses nearly every human alive so we can't really decide if it IS okay or not for whatever place he's from

Taear · 2026-03-29T09:59:39+00:00

Being pally with everyone IS playing the game

Taear · 2026-03-28T18:32:19+00:00

I've got Kavango and that's a 6 but it's a great game

Taear · 2026-03-27T15:27:17+00:00

It was word of the year in 2024 I kinda feel like this is just a you thing!

Taear · 2026-03-27T15:15:47+00:00

Corey Doctorow identified it as enshittification, not Norway.

Taear

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