Reply To: Hobby weekender 17/05/19 – A good tone, tone deaf, dark tone? AtmosFearic!

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(1) When have you played a game where a game mechanic has enhanced the gaming experience overall in regard to creating an atmosphere, tone, emotional response or anything that you feel encompasses the spirit of the question? Be it board game, role play game, or anything that fits into our collective wheelhouses?

Good old Atmosphere. True classic. Interactions with the Gatekeeper etc were way ahead of their time and the sense of panic as the time runs out is great.

(2) When has such a game failed to do so, in your experience, with an overall contrived result? As in, when has a game made a deliberate, clear attempt to reflect a setting, license or feel and resoundingly failed to do so due to ineffective or misplaced design?

I’ve played plenty of computer games where this was the case but I’m not going to worry back to remembering which. In some ways Oldhammer is the one I think of. Lots of each person is really ten etc yet it didn’t apply to everyone and everything. Then slowly conga lines and clipping broke immersion through rules technicalities.

(3) When have you implemented a house rule to a game to enhance it for whatever reason? Why did you do so, did it work and how do you feel about this in general?

House rules are great until you forget they don’t occur in pick up games. Can get awkward. My favourite house rule is a blanket ban on buying properties on the first lap in Monopoly.

The Cryptek Oberyang finished his calculations and passed them on to Nemessor Prantek.

Following the trajectory the Necron fleet manouvered its way through the galaxy at optimum speed. Ultima Maximus had been identified and the Necron Strike Fleet had been sent to finally eridicate the ancient enemy.

Satisfied his allies were proceeding as expected Oberyang transformed into his Doom scythe configuration and prepared to join the attack.

I pledge to start painting Lobster Johnson and his mini bust, he’s usually shown in mono chrome so research into painting him has been worthy of a BPRD case.