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Hot take: Most people dont understand turn order in cooperative games
I was at a game night last week and watched a group reset a campaign scenario 3 times because they kept arguing about when the boss gets to act. The rulebook on the table clearly said it triggers at the start of the round not after each player goes. Why is it so hard for folks to just read the sequence once before playing?
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reese_thompson744mo ago
Man oh man, I feel this in my bones. I once sat through a three hour game of Dead of Winter where we spent 45 minutes debating if the zombie horde moves before or after the noise die is rolled. I literally printed the flowchart from the rulebook and taped it to the table for round two. So yeah, I'm the guy who resets because I couldn't figure out if my turn was before or after the monster's special ability. Your mileage may vary but I'm pretty sure turn order is the real boss in every cooperative game.
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nelson.gavin4mo ago
Ain't that the truth though? I've watched more than one game night fall apart because people can't agree on whether the "end of round" cleanup happens before or after the last player's turn. Spent a whole session of Betrayal at House on the Hill just trying to figure out if the haunt roll happens at the start of your turn or the end of it, felt like we needed a referee.
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nancy_green3mo ago
Is it just me or does every game night eventually turn into a debate about what the rules actually say? We had this whole mess with Betrayal too, but it was about whether the haunt roll is a free action or if it takes up your whole turn. Someone printed out the rulebook page and highlighted the sentence, and we still argued for twenty minutes because the wording was so vague. Ended up just house-ruling it and moving on, but the mood was shot for the rest of the night.
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