by Aedon
So my lunch games group has been playing KOT a lot. One of the guys complains constantly that the game should be about attacking and the whole "victory points thing" is just a waste of time, so we have listened to him and have invented the Hulk Smash! variant. Don't worry, we still love the original game, but we have play-tested this new variant over 24 times and we love this one as well.KOT - Hulk Smash! Rules:
No more Victory Points at all. They are out of the game!
Any time you see a card that has a victory point, you read it as health. Lose a victory point, means lose a health. Gain a victory point, gain a health. Continue using all the cards in the deck as well as the Power-Up Expansion set.
When you enter Tokyo, you gain ONE HEALTH. If you start your turn in Tokyo, you get to attack all other monsters with ONE EXTRA ATTACK
Rolling the Dice: Since Victory points are omitted from the game, we still have to be able to utilize the numbers on the dice. Here is how you do it.
Resolving the numbers on the dice still works the same, you have to have three of a number to use them. In Hulk Smash you can use this number to add to either an Attack or a Heal. However, you must have a minimum of three of one numberPluseither an Attack OR a Heart in order to use the three numbers.
Examples
if you roll 3 3 2 1 H A, all you get is One Heart and One attack.
if you roll 3 3 3 H A E, you get to choose which one you want to add three to, either the Hearts or the Attacks and get one Energy.
If you roll 2 2 2 2 H E, you get 4 total hearts, one for the heart you rolled, 2 for the triple 2's and one more for the extra 2 that was rolled plus the one Energy.
If you roll 3 2 2 1 3 E, all you get is one Energy.
If you roll 3 3 3 E E 1, all you get is two Energy.
If you roll 3 3 3 A A H, you can choose to either get 5 Attacks and ONE heart OR 4 Hearts and two attacks.
If you are using the Power-Up Expansion, you still have to physically roll three hearts to Evolve. The numbers only add to the heart total.
Here is a link to a previous post with another variant we have played. http://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/13wk6f/just_got_...