Palatinus' OverPower Forum

I've been wondering for awhile now what everyone's preferences are when it comes to the rules for your personal games. I know some people love the additional rules and some people prefer the standard set. I tend to get annoyed with all of the additional rules out there, I know they help to define things that need defining, but I don't feel like it is always laid out or even set up as good as it could be for everyone. For instance I asked a Beyonder Activator question in these forums the other day becuase I could not find a rule stating the response I was looking for and low and behold the answer was in a Legion tournament guide - I mean seriously? I've seen the guide pics and pdfs but I've never set down and read one but apparently I have to start printing it off and taking it with me whenever I play a game  :P

Personally I play by the standard rules with some errata and a side of house rules (i.e. Beta counts as Thor for activator purposes).

Just curious on what you guys all think.

Thanks for the feedback.

I am well versed in the official rules, in as much as anyone can be given the inconsistencies. ;)

But I have a set of house rules I developed that I prefer to play, when I find others who are also familiar with them, that is.

-BBH

Well for years my friend and I played completely incorrectly. I guess technically that's house rules, but it was pretty bad.

Now that we've sorted that out, it's mainly standard rules. I have a lot more cards than he does, so I've adopted a few of the modifications (Draw 3 being OPD for example) so I can't completely exploit things, but other than that it's right out of the rulebook.

If you want to play by the rules, you MUST follow the rulebook, check the special's guide and the list of erratas. That's the only way you will find "universal acceptance", since those are the official rules.

Marvels is not "officially official"(!), since it only exists as a card list that was disclosed back in the time and its exclusive specials don't have official clarifications or any infamous meta rules. Most people accepts those cards, since they recognize them as "semi-oficial" and also because most of the players are familiar with them.

The problem with homemades and with any house rules is that, since they are not official, someone can always argue that he doesn't agree with them and that the homemaker or the "house ruler"(!) don't have authority to state rules.

The only way I see for spreading homemades or house rules outside a small playing group is making them available through an online program. There will always be people who won't agree with this online "homemade version", but those won't register for playing. Otherwise, I guess many people would give it a try.

When I play live with my brothers/friends/cousins (it's been awhile, but I once got 8 of us together at once!!) we use the standard rules/ errata/ meta/ etc (official stuff), with just a couple house rules that carried over from when we played by our "interpretation" of things, lol

a) if you draw a duplicate Power Card, you can place the dup to your Reserve (if grid-legal). I thought that was official, back in the day, since I was planning to place and placed cards to the Reserve aren't part of your hand for the purposes of duplicates - but I didn't realize that's only after the discard phase.

b) multipower attacks are never declared, and can therefore be defended by any of the "avoid [power type]" cards. This one is because we didn't know you even could declare to pierce these defenses, and when I brought it up we all agreed on the more defense-friendly, gentlemen's agreement to not declare (still have to remember to do so when I play OPO  ;D)

c) we draw to replace all "AJ" coded specials. this was to make Batman, Nightwing, and Spider-man more usable.

Otherwise, it's pretty straight legit-style. I keep trying to get them to go with me on the DoW/Power Leech thing, to no avail  :(

For us it depends on if we are playing overpower: marvels, or overpower: "unlimited" as we call it.  8)

If using the marvels its the rulebook and metas and all. If its "unlimited" we use various homemades and some house rules we like from various sources.

Quote from: ncannelora on April 12, 2012, 12:51:05 AM
b) multipower attacks are never declared, and can therefore be defended by any of the "avoid [power type]" cards. This one is because we didn't know you even could declare to pierce these defenses, and when I brought it up we all agreed on the more defense-friendly, gentlemen's agreement to not declare (still have to remember to do so when I play OPO  ;D)

That is how we use to play them "back in the day" until we found out otherwise. I actually like that better as the flexibility for spectrum KO of those cards once they hit is so good, but it is what it is...

I've also considered making all the 'avoid x power type' specials say 'avoid an attack with x icon' making them infinitely more useful.  ;)

Quote from: Nostalgic on April 12, 2012, 04:01:47 PM
I've also considered making all the 'avoid x power type' specials say 'avoid an attack with x icon' making them infinitely more useful.  ;)

I've tried that before....it does work but depending on how your deck is set it makes things a little bit easier than it should be  :P

When I play against my brother and cousin, since I usually only come home for meetup/tournaments, we play with the Legion rules so we don't have to play each other at the meetup.