by divinentd
My girlfriend enjoys this game, but it just doesn't play well with 2; Tokyo isn't nearly scary enough. Looking over other variants here we felt they were too complicated. We didn't want to do any bookkeeping for phantom players, we just want Tokyo to be too deadly to stay in for long. Here's our version (played multiple times to fine-tune)1. Place a drone monster on each side of the board (Meka Dragon and Cyber Bunny look appropriate)
2. The drones each take a turn after the player to their right.
3. Drones (rolled by the player not in Tokyo) get a single re-roll, and always keep all claws.
4. Drones automatically cede Tokyo if attacked with any claws.
5. If a drone attacks from Tokyo each player takes damage. Drones never die.
We tried different number of re-rolls, but felt this best matched the danger level of staying Tokyo in a 4-6 player game, although that will vary by group.