You know that sinking feeling you get when you are in the middle of the game and you’re looking through the rulebook trying to figure out if you can do the thing you want to on your next turn, and you suddenly realize that the whole session you and your fellow players have been omitting or screwing up a crucial rule that potentially changes the whole game? Your words catch in your throat as you are about to speak up and inform the table, you flip through the pages again in the hopes that your original read was actually true but to no avail…
You have been playing this game all wrong.
Now, reactions may vary as you break the news to your friends. Invariably there will be one player who was impacted the most by the error, and another who wasn’t impacted at all. The scale of the error is key- minor mistakes can easily be waved away, while big ones can totally change the whole game. No matter what, it is never fun to find out that you haven’t been playing the game you were supposed to be playing, but sometimes you can recover and continue. Here are a few tips to get your game going again:
