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Main New Rules As The Plot Demands Discussion
Looking through all of the YGO examples, almost all of them are not this trope. The only ones that are are Time Wizard and Maiku. Some of the examples are mentioning "real rules", while others are asking how you could do that without holograms. You couldn't - and who cares, because holograms are always used when these rules are used. Yes, even the Catapult Turtle/Castle thing is not this trope.
That being said, there are plenty of YGO examples of this trope - notably, when a card has its effect changed to match its real-world counterpart. Mirror Force used to also damage the opponent. Midway through the series, it stopped doing that to match the real card. That's this trope. Most of the YGO section is not.
Any objections to removing most of it and replacing it with appropriate examples?
(RFC) Games of the Discworld
Cripple Mr Onion (CMO) is a card game in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The rules are never listed, and the game is assumed to be common enough knowledge that anyone who plays cards at all knows how to play CMO. However, the game is a significant plot point in "Witches Abroad", and shows up insignificantly in a few other books (such as "Interesting Times", where it is played with tiles in a Japanese-themed empire, like mahjong). Does CMO qualify? It's difficult to find an example of two rules in direct contradiction with each other, which would prove that Pratchett is making up CMO as he goes along. It is, however, well within Pratchett's style and sense of humor to create a game in which the rules slowly evolve between players or in which
There are also chess-variants; one called "Thud", and one called "Stealth Chess". The rules for these are incomplete, but they don't show up often and, thus, rarely have an opportunity to gain new rules. A "Thud" match, however, plays a major role in the plot of the book of the same name.
The best example would be the unnamed game the Gods play with the fates of men. There are long scenes of gods rolling dice, making moves and other things game-related, and the rules again are never listed, but actions taken by the gods show them to either be incredibly complex, or made up on the spot. “Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.” —"Soul Music"
I'm an avid fan, having re-read the discworld books many times over, but there are many of them and I will need help if we're going to add this as an example on the main page.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Catapult Turtle affects the opponents hit points directly for half of the sacrificed monsters attack power.
And if I remember correctly, at the point of the battle that Yugi sacrifices Gaia the Dragon Champion his opponent had 1300 or less hit points, so Yugi would have won following the rules anyway.
Can someone PLEASE change the name back to "Screw The Rules, I Have Plot!"?
The new title is frustrating
Was the Catapult Turtle Gambit title created here on TV Tropes? Because LK's shop has a hoodie with the pic.
- Pokemon has several; the most notable are:
