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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours (theonion.com)

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Though this is satire, we've all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 hours ago

Way back in prehistory I played Car Wars when it first came out. (You know, before it became an unwieldy, badly-organized mess that rivalled even Star Fleet Battles for being impossible for normal folk to play.)

We missed one very key rule. The "damage" rating for weapons was a number of d6 to roll for damage. We played it as individual points.

Needless to say even the shortest auto duels were horrifically and painfully long to play out.