Re: House Rules
I also agree. I have played a LOT of games over the years including a lot of RPGs, board games, team games, mods of various games, and the one constant in all of these is that a LOT of emotional upset and arguments can be avoided by laying down ground rules ahead of time. Granted, you may lose players up front. That's worth it to me. By far. In my current PBEM, I'm playtesting. I purposely did not lay down any ground rules. People can do anything they want because I'm testing what the mod is capable of and what the balance issues are. If this were a game I was more emotionally invested in, I would probably have laid down some rules. Then again, maybe not -- I tend to be a pretty flexible person and like to be surprised by other peoples' ingenuity =)
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