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Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by pmagnus

TheBoardGameFamily wrote:


So do you play with your Monster board face up or down?


I have always played with it as public information, and I suspect that's the intention. But a common house rule in many games is to make something private or public that's usually otherwise.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by Kalidor

We play it all as public. And while I understand playing otherwise could add some change in experience, I agree with the previous poster...it seems against the spirit of this game...

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by ohbalto

We will discuss who's where in terms of health and vp when we play. People min/maxing King of Tokyo should probably be playing something else.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by ghopper21

ohbalto wrote:

We will discuss who's where in terms of health and vp when we play.


The two times I played, table talk about who was up or down or whatever was very much part of the fun.

P.S. Finally am going to get a copy of the repring delivered this week. Hurray!

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by genesyx

agree with playing face up.

Mechanically, playing it facedown would hide vital information such as VP and health, and may result in the anti-climatic endings.

" * flips up his board* owh btw guys, i won this round "

as for the "spirit of the game", IMO KoT is suppose to be a light game,where people trash talk,negotiate, gang up on the leader and try to squeeze a win out. What's the fun of the game if player just hides vital info and take away part of that fun? :(

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Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by ukraineboo

genesyx wrote:

agree with playing face up.

Mechanically, playing it facedown would hide vital information such as VP and health, and may result in the anti-climatic endings.

" * flips up his board* owh btw guys, i won this round "

as for the "spirit of the game", IMO KoT is suppose to be a light game,where people trash talk,negotiate, gang up on the leader and try to squeeze a win out. What's the fun of the game if player just hides vital info and take away part of that fun? :(


Agreed. King of Tokyo is not a game of strategy or tactics to be won. It is a game of fire breathing with a second head and poison spit.

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Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by MajMalfunction10

SixtyWATZ wrote:

Your two friends really like winning


Or maybe having the option to be less than honest?

Not to mention, it takes all the tension, excitement, and drama out of the game.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Sleeved Card Storage Solution

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by Twitch_City

Another thumbs up! This was simple, elegant, and completely functional. My copy arrived today and, after incorporating the promo cards, this was the first thing I did.

Thanks for the tip!

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Do you play with Monster Board face up or down?

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by world eater

ukraineboo wrote:

genesyx wrote:

agree with playing face up.

Mechanically, playing it facedown would hide vital information such as VP and health, and may result in the anti-climatic endings.

" * flips up his board* owh btw guys, i won this round "

as for the "spirit of the game", IMO KoT is suppose to be a light game,where people trash talk,negotiate, gang up on the leader and try to squeeze a win out. What's the fun of the game if player just hides vital info and take away part of that fun? :(


Agreed. King of Tokyo is not a game of strategy or tactics to be won. It is a game of fire breathing with a second head and poison spit.


Ya, there is a fundamental problem with playing face down. The whole game is based on tactical decisions dependent on other player's VP and Hearts. If you hide them you make irrelevant decisions based on nothing or guesses and have eliminated the only thing about the game that made it a game.

This is game breaking, not a good variant IMO.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Variants:: Re: Resurrection variant

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by Neo42

I haven't played yet but I am curious about the elimination aspect of the game. My initial theory was that you could come back in with half your VP. But reading this thread I wonder if the elimination should stay as is or at least delayed as you suggest.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Accompanying booklet with this game

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by PandaEskimo

The first point is rather interesting. The inside / outside rule is a Europe / US difference. See here, http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/quotation_(speech)_ma.... The European method seems to make much more sense since it follows how you are logically structuring the sentence.

For example,

The post said, "gotta".

The period is not part of the quoted word / phrase, it's part of the sentence. The reason for having the period before the quotation marks was a result of typewriter limitations. Punctuation guidelines change with technology.

Quotation marks, dashes, and spaces after sentences are other punctuation changes that occurred with typewriters and computers.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Heal Before Being Forced Into Tokyo?

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by Twitch_City

I feel like the resolution happens in what ever order the current player wants it to (so it is possible to gain energy, attack, and then heal). However, I feel like if there is an attack and the other player forces you into Tokyo, then your hearts become null since they should/could have been used before the attack. It is the entering of Tokyo that makes hearts useless.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Heal Before Being Forced Into Tokyo?

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by Tchan

There's no order in resolving the dices, they comin' in "one package".

You resolve the bunch of dices and everything apply cause when you roll them you are outside tokyo... you move to tokyo if the KoT want to, not already in.

So you get your hearths for sure.

That's how i see it.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Heal Before Being Forced Into Tokyo?

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by Sphere

falluper wrote:

I find it hard to imagine that the designer's intent was that you have to resolve the dice in a particular order. After all, nowhere in the rules does it say this. And it would make hearts totally useless if you happen to roll a claw on your last roll. IMHO, you can resolve the dice in any order you want. Anything else is a house rule.

I agree, and disagree with the notion that a fixed order would add strategy.

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Heal Before Being Forced Into Tokyo?

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by Tchan

Sphere wrote:

falluper wrote:

I find it hard to imagine that the designer's intent was that you have to resolve the dice in a particular order. After all, nowhere in the rules does it say this. And it would make hearts totally useless if you happen to roll a claw on your last roll. IMHO, you can resolve the dice in any order you want. Anything else is a house rule.

I agree, and disagree with the notion that a fixed order would add strategy.


Not sure if it will add an interesting strategy.

For example:

It's your turn to roll the dices, only 2 hearth left, 7 VP. In fear of being switched to Tokyo you try to roll your hearths, it's your survival strategy for now.

- first roll: yeah!! 2 hearths, i put them aside.
- second roll: want more... yeah! another hearth and two claw
- i don't want that 2 claws so i do my 3rd and roll 1-2-claw

So my strategy is to maximize my hearths, doing well for 3 hearths, but that one claw stopped me from being healed???... hmmm not sure.

Next time i'll play i'll think about what interesting layer it may add, but i have some doubt that's a needed layer, will see... maybe i'll enjoy :-)

Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: Heal Before Being Forced Into Tokyo?

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by Tchan

... and thinking more about it.

If we put an order on the dices resolving and the attacks come before hearths. It can become a game where no one can heal if they roll a claw and each time they are being putted in Tokyo cause the King don't want you to heal... till everyone dies one by one from their wounds cause no one let them heal.

From that point, if there's is an order, i'll try to roll a lot of claws to wound the King of tokyo so he leave tokyo.
If he roll only claw and some hearths on his next roll to bad he can't heal???.. and going again in Tokyo can't also heal... so maybe he'll never heal...???
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