DFRPG momentarily on Board Game Breakfast

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by lachimba

I think that exception proves the rule and is otherwise irrelevant.

That was just last week... and not really an exception. We have to make rulings pretty often (roughly 1 in 3 or 4 games), not every time we play something, but the more complicated the rules base (I'm looking at you Star Wars X-Wing and Armada) the likely we'll find an edge case that's not well covered under the rules.


I'm actually kinda surprised we found one in our first play through of Star Trek Ascendancy, and we answered it in the exact same manner that the game designers FAQed.

I am sure I have made up rules for GURPS (and other RPGs). Thats not to say it doesn't have comprehensive rules

I can't actually remember the last time I had to make a ruling* over something that wasn't covered under GURPS rules. And I don't mean "I don't like this rules so I'm house ruling it", I mean "Huh. How do you do this under the rules, I can't find a way at all".


The simpler the board/card/ minis game, the less likely we find gaps in the rules.




* I make rules calls all the time, whether they are consistent with the rules or not is another matter.