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The next two questions are short answers, which means I’ll actually be up to date on the meme again.
24. Favorite House Rule
The only house rule that I have these days is that anyone who quotes Monty Python out of context loses Yum Yums. We’ve all seen it, and you’re no John Cleese.
Long, long ago some of the groups I gamed with used the Central Casting books to roll up backgrounds for our characters in a lot of games. Sometimes they resulted in characters who were unplayably “interesting,” but usually they added a few neat twists.
25. Favorite Revolutionary Game Mechanic
I’m not sure that I’d classify any game mechanic as “revolutionary.” Most of the mechanics that thought they were revolutionary never really caught on and most of the mechanical concepts that have stuck around were the result of a steady process of incremental improvement. The only thing that might qualify is the introduction of bennie points, but even that was basically an afterthought at first and only changed how games are play after years of improvement on the idea.
Since it’s kind of related, I will mention the best game mechanic I’ve seen recently. It’s for the Zombie Survival board game. The inside of the box top has a picture of a zombie with a circle around its head. When you attack a zombie, you roll a certain number of dice (based on what weapon you’re carrying) in the box top. If any of them land in the circle you get a head shot. Unfortunately, the rest of the game is tedious resource management and severely broken in places, but the zombie killing mechanic is neat.
