House Rules - Page 2

A Zarkin' Frood · 02-07-2010, 04:10 PM

Last Night my brother and I were reminiscing our glorious Yu-Gi-Oh playing days

Actually we rarely played the game strictly by the given rules. No, I mean, the game itself was played strictly by the book, but we enhanced the gameplay in a way, sort of inspired by that boxing with a bit of chess in between..

We called it Gamer-Yu-Gi-Oh.
This basically means after both of us had made their turns we played some video-game with quick, competitive gameplay, like say... a Beat 'em Up. In our case Mostly Soul Calibur II and III and later a bit of Guilty Gear. And the winner got some benefit for the next turn... like drawing an additional card, not having to draw a card, getting a small amount of Life Points, choosing who'd play their turn first (effectively allowing a player to have two turns in a row), look at a card of the opponent etc. Maybe combined with a dice roll, which we didn't do. But in retrospect that seems like a good idea.

A perfect victory gave special rewards, but I forgot which.
If I were to play the game like that now I'd remove the dice roll.

To balance things out, every time someone won a match in the videogame the winner got a handicap. Which, luckily, is a feature of most Beat Em Ups.
If someone got too much of a winning streak he had to change his character or even let the game pick one randomly.

Any funky house rules you play by for just about anything?
Or even cool combinations of two distinct games like this?

Impress me.

02-07-2010, 04:10 PM	#1
A Zarkin' Frood formerly known as Prince. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Right here, with you >:) Posts: 2,396	House Rules Last Night my brother and I were reminiscing our glorious Yu-Gi-Oh playing days Actually we rarely played the game strictly by the given rules. No, I mean, the game itself was played strictly by the book, but we enhanced the gameplay in a way, sort of inspired by that boxing with a bit of chess in between.. We called it Gamer-Yu-Gi-Oh. This basically means after both of us had made their turns we played some video-game with quick, competitive gameplay, like say... a Beat 'em Up. In our case Mostly Soul Calibur II and III and later a bit of Guilty Gear. And the winner got some benefit for the next turn... like drawing an additional card, not having to draw a card, getting a small amount of Life Points, choosing who'd play their turn first (effectively allowing a player to have two turns in a row), look at a card of the opponent etc. Maybe combined with a dice roll, which we didn't do. But in retrospect that seems like a good idea. A perfect victory gave special rewards, but I forgot which. If I were to play the game like that now I'd remove the dice roll. To balance things out, every time someone won a match in the videogame the winner got a handicap. Which, luckily, is a feature of most Beat Em Ups. If someone got too much of a winning streak he had to change his character or even let the game pick one randomly. Any funky house rules you play by for just about anything? Or even cool combinations of two distinct games like this? Impress me. __________________ >:( C-: