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What are some of the strange things that you guys only do at your FLGS? At mine whenever a player loses a game to a store employee they have a picture taken of the loser saluting.

We disembowel goats before the battle and use its innards to see who the Gods favor.




In all seriousness we don't do anything abnormal.

Tea-break?

Oh! oh! just remembered - keeping track of the number and quality of unintended sexual innuendo's by certain people during D&D.

Knife Fighting to be the captain during Rogue Trader

Really, no weird rules. A few groups I have been in for D&D and such have had rules to them, but it was mostly houserules.

a store I used to play adopted a house rule that when you lost a game in any sort of campaign or event (ie not a pickup game), you presented your opponent with a head from your army painted your army's colors.

Everyone had tonnes of spare bits heads, and it only took a few minutes to paint a few of them up really quick. Before a tragic hot water heater explosion wiped out a good chunk of my DA, I had a LR with about 15 various heads hanging from the sides with tiny jewelry sized chain from a local hardware store.

Oddly, no one could ever recall how or when it got started. I was there to watch it go from "kind of expected" to "before the game, each player presents their painted head, the winner takes both"

There is nothing special as far as I know.

The loser buys the drinks. Not unusual, but it is done without fail. Every game. These two drinks could be pints, coffee, soft drinks or even water. Loser buys drinks.

Swastakowey wrote:We disembowel goats before the battle and use its innards to see who the Gods favor.




In all seriousness we don't do anything abnormal.

Oh, I'm glad it's not just us that does that!
We also tend to summon the embodiment of Slaanesh, Khorne, Nurgle, or Tzeench if it's their month.

I can't think of anything we do, really. The closest thing is if you play on the tutorial boards you have to reset them, I guess.

TheManWithNoPlan wrote:The loser buys the drinks. Not unusual, but it is done without fail. Every game. These two drinks could be pints, coffee, soft drinks or even water. Loser buys drinks.

Does the winner get to choose their drink?

 pwntallica wrote:
a store I used to play adopted a house rule that when you lost a game in any sort of campaign or event (ie not a pickup game), you presented your opponent with a head from your army painted your army's colors.

Everyone had tonnes of spare bits heads, and it only took a few minutes to paint a few of them up really quick. Before a tragic hot water heater explosion wiped out a good chunk of my DA, I had a LR with about 15 various heads hanging from the sides with tiny jewelry sized chain from a local hardware store.

Oddly, no one could ever recall how or when it got started. I was there to watch it go from "kind of expected" to "before the game, each player presents their painted head, the winner takes both"

I really dig that house rule. Fun, flavorful, and overall inexpensive. I think im going to try incorporating that in the FLGS I play at.

We do winner buys drinks, so that everyone gets to feel great!

Not really a house rule, but The Overlords in London produced a fantastic personalised set of Maelstrom Objective cards for one of their events last year.

The Overlords play in a Scout hut. Card 66 requires the player to bow down and worship the beaver on the wall, in full view of the rest of the tournament. +1 VP.

The youngest person has to go buy beer for the employees.

Think the only "ritual" that I was ever a part of was bit of RP trash talk before game, always gave bit of character to the battles.

I REALLY like that trophy head idea, it would be awesome to see vets with racks or strings of defeated foes.

A few years back in my FLGS, ANY time an ork player wanted to activate their waaagh, they had to bellow the word themselves as loud as they could regardless of age/gender/newbieness. Many found it a tad embarrassing.

My local group likes to narrate in exacting detail every action their Warlord makes, successful or not.

For a while, anytime someone uttered the word 'watchtower' at my local GW, everyone in the room would suddenly roar out "WATCHTOWER!!"

 Furyou Miko wrote:
For a while, anytime someone uttered the word 'watchtower' at my local GW, everyone in the room would suddenly roar out "WATCHTOWER!!"

But why?

I could never determine - I wasn't present for the origin, and everyone always answered 'you had to be there' when I asked for explanations.

We have some guys that keep their "lucky body oils" by avoiding showers.

Relapse wrote:
We have some guys that keep their "lucky body oils" by avoiding showers.

I find that keeping a few "hygiene gift baskets" for those folks in my car tends to take care of this problem through social shame.

 Ustis wrote:
A few years back in my FLGS, ANY time an ork player wanted to activate their waaagh, they had to bellow the word themselves as loud as they could regardless of age/gender/newbieness. Many found it a tad embarrassing.

I still do this with my Orks whenever possible. I'm fairly well known at my LGS, and me and my friends are pretty much the only 40k players who go there to play, so whenever it happens all the WarmaHordes players give me the most confused looks. I still have never told them why I do it.

The games here are caped at one hour. If someone is done with the gamer sooner, the winner gets the table and can do with the left over time what ever he wants.

We have a general rule that in the case of a draw, the better painted army wins. It discourages playing with bare minis. (I'm conflicted on this one, because I refuse to field unpainted models, yet losing to professionally painted armies piss me off.)

Another one is any dice that hit the floor count as auto-failed rolls. It discourages wild flinging of dice. (This one was mine, I pushed for it, because I got tired of waiting for people to pick their dice off the floor and get a free re-roll.)

When rolling off the start, ties go to the younger player. (This comes from quite a few board games we like to play, and just seem to workout better, especially if you've ever watched two guys roll the same number eight times in the roll, like my younger brother and I do about twice a week.)

SJ

We always meet up post game to complain about how OP Space Marines are and how annoying the IoM bias is on the internet.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
The youngest person has to go buy beer for the employees.

We make the youngest guy buy hotdogs around the corner. Then again the hot dog girls are about 22 and fond of low cut tank tops, so he never seems to complain.

Years ago we had a total TFG who only came by to troll players with his cheat lists. After he lost to a superior opponent, he refused to shake the guys' hand. He immediately got tossed out, and it's been our ritual to always shake hands after every match in every game system after that, no matter what.

It's not exactly a ritual, but it always happens. Every time we have a tie at the end of a tournament for 2nd or 3rd, someone immediately calls for a knife fight in the parking lot. One time the tie was between a scrawny lil out of towner college kid and my 6'4" 380lbs "little" brother. The lil guy was smiling until my brother started stretching out and popping knuckles, then he looked terrified.