{"id":2009,"date":"2008-11-26T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2008-11-26T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T07:25:26","slug":"worst-rule-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Worst Rule Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"?p=792\">made it clear<\/a> which rule I think is the most annoying in tabletop gaming. (Aside from the rules preventing me from hitting other people at the table.) But I haven&#8217;t played that many game systems, and I have never sampled the gaming systems of yesteryear.  Certainly there are worse out there.  <\/p>\n<p>Topic for discussion:  The worst rule you&#8217;ve ever encountered.  Perhaps it breaks immersion.  Or starts fights.  Or unbalances the game.  Or leads to excessive paperwork.  Or it&#8217;s just, you know, <em>stupid<\/em>.  Please identify the worst rule &#8220;ever&#8221;, and why it ruins the fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very interested to hear the responses.  Yes, I&#8217;m sure this is a terrific idea for a discussion and won&#8217;t lead to any flame wars or rancorous debate.  I mean, this is the internet, and everyone is so nice here, right?<\/p>\n<p>If you need me, I&#8217;ll be in my bunker until this thread blows over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already made it clear which rule I think is the most annoying in tabletop gaming. (Aside from the rules preventing me from hitting other people at the table.) But I haven&#8217;t played that many game systems, and I have never sampled the gaming systems of yesteryear. Certainly there are worse out there. Topic for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabletop-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}