In my home, we solely ever play with a d12. We mix it with plenty of completely different home guidelines. I do not like sleeping on the sofa, so my home would not use the robber. As an alternative on a 7, you merely seize anybody card from the financial institution. You need to use it for a robber if you wish to although, for positive. However as soon as we began with the d12, we by no means went again to 2d6.
On a 1, you get a improvement card. Why? As a result of we want one thing cool for the 1, and improvement playing cards did not see as a lot play in our model. This additionally signifies that you get an additional card of some sort on precisely 1/sixth of the rolls, which is similar probability of rolling a 7 with 2d6. What you do with 1 and seven is as much as you. I like to recommend experimenting, as there’s numerous design house accessible.
We all the time play with the ‘roll once more on doubles’ home rule. (Or is it an official rule? I neglect, they’re all such a blur!) With a d12 there aren’t any doubles, after all, so we use the two and 12 for doubles. This once more makes for 1/sixth of the rolls being doubles, the identical with 2d6. This modifications technique barely, as stacking on 2 and 12 can provide you huge chain-rolls. In fact, you stand the identical probability to have a drought for some time any time you stack numbers, so it balances it out.
The plain massive change is that there is much less curiosity in 5,6,8,9. It means that you can stability your picks based mostly on what you want, not simply what the numbers are. It additionally reduces crowding across the 6 and eight (and to a lesser extent 5 and 9, as anticipated). Due to the decrease crowding, there’s extra room to develop uninterrupted. This results in video games with longer roads and quicker expansions (made even quicker by having equally good selections on no matter assets you want), and in the end quicker video games. This wasn’t deliberate after we began doing it, it simply occurred that manner.
