How to get people to use your house rules…

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    I was a bit late to this party DK but I must say I’ve enjoyed this post a lot. I’ve also enjoyed discussing house rules with you quite a bit. Your dedication to the game especially regarding F2F gaming is a benefit to us all.


  • As a fan and designer of several variants myself, I concur wholeheartedly with the spirit and content of DK’s post.

    This was really well done. I would like to nominate it as a front-page article for A&A.org, so that it gets more exposure.

    Best regards,

    Christopher Yorke

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    @MrMalachiCrunch:

    I was going to be smug when I read the title and just suggest a loaded firearm up to the side of the head would work.  But then I read the posting….

    Well done!

    LMFAO!


  • I guess we could make that tip #13 “last resort” - lol


  • @Der:

    I guess we could make that tip #13 “last resort”

    Tip #14 could be: “If you have to resort to tip #13 to get people to use your house rules, it probably means that you forgot to apply the twelve previous tips.”


  • By the way, the Cliffside Bunker House Rules for G40 mentioned in this thread…

    http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=31434.0

    …are presented in a way that I find very useful.  For each rule, three elements are given:

    • HOUSE RULE (a statement of the rule itself)

    • REASON FOR THE RULE (the rationale for it)

    • PLAY TEST ANALYSIS (a post-game evaluation of how well the rule works)

    This is an excellent way to present house rules because it provides context and because it shows that the rule was actually tested and evaluated rather than just developed on a theoretical basis.  (An analogy would be the potential difference between how a new weapon looks on the drawing board and how it actually performs in combat.)  So an additional tip for DK’s list would be for house rules booklets to present their rules in the three-part format used by Young Grasshopper.  Let’s number that idea as (serious) tip #13, since my tip #14 above was made entirely in jest and since the earlier tip #13 which inspired it was presumably (hopefully?) meant to be taken in the same spirit.

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    Going along with YG and DK’s use of professional house rule materials, is there a tutorial on how to make some of these battle boards, charts, etc. ?

    I have a lot of ideas I’d like to share but presentation is the key.

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    @toblerone77:

    Going along with YG and DK’s use of professional house rule materials, is there a tutorial on how to make some of these battle boards, charts, etc. ?

    I have a lot of ideas I’d like to share but presentation is the key.

    Rather than us create a tutorial covering everything, why don’t you tell us some specifics of your ideas and then we can help you manifest the materials you might need to pull it off.

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    @Young:

    @toblerone77:

    Going along with YG and DK’s use of professional house rule materials, is there a tutorial on how to make some of these battle boards, charts, etc. ?

    I have a lot of ideas I’d like to share but presentation is the key.

    Rather than us create a tutorial covering everything, why don’t you tell us some specifics of your ideas and then we can help you manifest the materials you might need to pull it off.

    Well I want to create some custom tokens and charts and I was wondering how people create them to look almost OOB.

    I have jury-rigged some event cards and some convoy tokens with mouse paint. I’m sure there’s a better way though. I was just wondering if someone knew or suggest where to learn how to make some of the nice set-up and “cardboard type” components.

    A more spacific project I’d like to do is a battleboard that includes HBG or other custom units.
    One thing was the NO cards you made for the bunker YG. Also I noticed the manual DK created was that a regular office/document program? Or a more advanced program?

    I could draw some of these graphics and things by hand and maybe make some componets in the same manner but I would assume it would look a lot better and have a more professional look/feel using the computer.

    I hate to sound like a dinosaur but my computer skills are very Spartan.

    Thanks, Guys.


  • I use Microsoft Publisher to make everything. To make the cards, you can get the cardboard backing at any craft store. Print your material on regular printing paper and then glue the paper to the cardboard backing with spray adhesive. Then cut the cards out with a sharp utility knife and strait edge. Spray the cards with clear matte spraypaint to resist stains.

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    @Der:

    I use Microsoft Publisher to make everything. To make the cards, you can get the cardboard backing at any craft store. Print your material on regular printing paper and then glue the paper to the cardboard backing with spray adhesive. Then cut the cards out with a sharp utility knife and strait edge. Spray the cards with clear matte spraypaint to resist stains.

    Thanks Der Kuenstler!

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    As well, be sure to shop on HBG and/or FMG to make sure that you can’t buy some of your special tokens and/or units straight up. As for custom charts… the advice above is bang on, you can also play around in Exel if that comes easier to you… but publisher is best.

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    @Young:

    As well, be sure to shop on HBG and/or FMG to make sure that you can’t buy some of your special tokens and/or units straight up. As for custom charts… the advice above is bang on, you can also play around in Exel if that comes easier to you… but publisher is best.

    LOL Grasshopper! I only laugh because I spend a lot of money at HBG. I love thier stuff.

    I will take your advice in addition to Der Kuenstler’s on publisher. I have some ideas for tokens thst HBG doesn’t make. A long time ago I made and even posted a token you can place underneath a transport to note it had defensive armament.  They looked very “homemade” not terrible but not nice lol. I posted it for people to use but …ehh interest was not high so I took down the post.

    Anyway, thanks YG!

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    Bump. A lot of good stuff here.


  • Agreeing with most others here, this is one quality thread as I am fairly certain most {face-to-face} players have some of their house rules incorporated in one manner or another.

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    DK, I nominated your “how to get people to play your house rules” post as a feature article, and it is now up on the home page… check it out.


  • Cool - thank you YG!


  • So, I can’t see the images in the original post.  All I see are Photobucket meter images.  Apparently the download limit or bandwidth limit or something has been exceeded?  Or some other problem?  Anyone have an idea what the problem is?

    I’m curious as to what the Larry Harris quote is in one of the images.  Can someone share the quote?


  • @IronWill:

    So, I canÂ’t see the images in the original post.  All I see are Photobucket meter images.  Apparently the download limit or bandwidth limit or something has been exceeded?  Or some other problem?  Anyone have an idea what the problem is?

    IÂ’m curious as to what the Larry Harris quote is in one of the images.  Can someone share the quote?

    Photobucket screwed us all by starting to charge about $40 a month to post pictures on 3rd party sites - a service that has been free for years. It’s a shame but I’m not paying for that.

    Larry’s quote says something like “I must point out that I encourage the use and implementation of house rules”

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