I would like to discuss RISK

[jonesthecurl]

I like the idea, but now my mind is playing with it...Northern Europe, Schnapps...Southern Europe Metaxa, East Africa that horrid coffee liqueur, hmm...

[pimpdave]

That other guy is wrong.

Why so serious?



(Honestly though... avoiding territories to not take shots?? What kind of men are you?)

Um, why didn't you recognize that I was kidding? The "Official Rules that I made up" bit didn't clue you in? Guess it was just over your head.

Also, you apparently don't get the reasoning. For example, if Indonesia or Siam were a shot taking tert (terts that change hands pretty frequently in a game) it would get whoever goes for Australia hammered within a few rounds, and could easily lead to dangerous levels of alcohol. Worst case would be alcohol poisoning/death, but at the very least, we noticed that the more hammered people got, the more likely they were to lose the game entirely.

It's fun to have a buzz, but not fun to be sick. Plus, it interrupts the game play when you have to wait for someone to go "boot and rally".

So there was legitimate, not to mention game tested, reasoning behind it. Because people would just avoid certain terts after awhile, and that would give undue advantage to whatever player already held that tert. So, make the drinking terts those that one can pass on by.

It also added a dynamic of strategy. Leave only 1 army behind in a drinking tert, if you hold it, to bait another player into taking it, etc.

Come on now, you're a Captain. I'm sure you could figure this all out on your own.

[pimpdave]

I like the idea, but now my mind is playing with it...Northern Europe, Schnapps...Southern Europe Metaxa, East Africa that horrid coffee liqueur, hmm...

Yeah, that would work, but if you add more terts to be "drinkers", you'd have to change the rule about taking as many shots as dice rolled. The way we had it set up, people weren't really going to be taking more than 6 shots an hour, which in itself is already pushing the limit of safe drinking.

If it was shots of beer, that'd be a completely different story.

[jonesthecurl]

well, you'd probably have a good choice of beers, Though which one you'd choose to represent the whole of GB would be hard. Obviously you'd need one which (a) everyone knows and (b) everyone can get hold of. Guinness? Newcastle Brown?
World 2.1 would take a while to put together.