Chez Geek. House rules at Novator. - You don't pick your own job from the deck, even face down. The Slack Attack expansion causes problems: either you are using a first printing, with the yellow-back jobs, or second printing with the lighter shade of purple. Actually this started when svanegmond was waiting for us to fiddle with our lunches and said "this game is a little more like real life: you don't pick your job, your job picks you." - When in doubt which numbers you need on a die roll, whichever are the higher numbers are the ones the player rolling wants to get. Calling people over is 3-6, getting rid of people is 4-6, and nookie is 0-5 - The Support Tech gets one extra free time (at work) that can be used for "Surf the Net," "Video Games" *or* "Net Nookie." - If you got zero slack for nookie, discard the nookie card. Just like real life, when it's so bad that you regret not watching teevee instead, you pretend it never happened (you still loose free time). - You don't need to roll to see if Mr. Reliable is home -- he's Mr. Reliable, of course he's availible to come over. He and Mr. Enthusiastic are the only humans you can invite without rolling a die. - Moochers (people) might not be too clear in the rules, so here goes: When someone plays an annoying moocher on you (like Hungry Girl, Clumsy Drunk or Choad Warrior), they eat/drink/smoke/revile something in your room right away. At the beginning of your turn, after you pick up cards but before they eat/drink/smoke something, you can roll to try to get them out of your room (4,5,6 is a success). If they stay, then they eat/drink/smoke something before your phoning people phase. - If someone plays TV to cancel an Activity, "Lost Remote" can cancel TV and let you keep the Activity. Something like "Laundry Day" or "Brain Fart" played to cancel the TV card also consumes the other Activity and you still loose 1 Free Time (you had tickets for the concert, but decided to stay home to watch the "Star Wreck / Zeno, Warrior Philosopher" crossover, but you spent the night channel surfing instead because you forgot which channel it's on. If you lost the remote, you would've given up on TV and gone to the concert). - You can't use TV to cancel Power Outage Nookie. I mean, why else do you think they're doin' the nasty? Can't watch KWF: Klingon Wrestling Federation. - Speaking of "Lost Remote," would you believe I really did loose it in the freezer one weekend? - RPGs are worth 1 die minus 2 Slack. To be clear, this can result sometimes in RPGs being worth -1 slack. If you've had to Dungeon Master for combat twinkies (aka munchkins), then you know that RPGs can be more trouble than they're worth sometimes. An issue of "Knights of the Dinner Table" will give you an idea. - Playing without dice: I gave a pack of Chez Geek to a friend for his birthday at a restaurant. So, naturally, we opened it up and started playing. Didn't take long to realize that neither of us were carrying dice (our D&D days being a cherished, but dim memory). We had pocket change, but you can't get the right probabilities for 1-6 from just flipping a coin. So we used a hybrid of roshambo and coins. For getting rid of people, flip a coin (heads they leave, tails they stay). Income and free time are the same (heads = high, tails = bottoms = low). For phoning People up, play Rock-Paper-Scissors with the person on your left. If you lose, the Person wasn't home. For Nookie and RPGs, play Jan-Ken-Pon with the person on your left, then flip a coin: If you won, heads = 6 and tails = 5; if you tied, heads = 4 and tails = 3; if you lost, heads = 2 and tails = 1. - Don't forget that if you have the Temp as your job, you can snatch anyone else's job if they loose theirs. Put the Temp card into the job pile instead of the other player's job, before anyone draws a new job card (now that there's an opening at the temp agency). - New card: Hardware Pimp (People, 1 Slack). +1 slack for Surf the Net, Video Games or Net Nookie(!) while he's in your room, but these activites are now +1 cost (gotta get the latest hardware). The Ubergeek still prevents you from playing Video Games or Surf The Net. Some flavour text: "...and the neat part is if the cooling fan ever breaks, the whole thing spontaneously combusts!" or "This video card has extra co-processors just for bum-wiggling." or "I overclocked my CPU because it was only going at the speed of light." These house rules are from before Block Party came out, so we'll certainly come up with more stuff. ---end