Heroscape Party Fouls

There have been numerous threads discussing the fair play and honesty components of Scape. We all remember the devolution and brain-cell loss associated with the Stinger Denial thread, or the events which lead to the creation of the Dice Rolling Magna Carta.

I originally posted this as a thread in the General section of the forum. Folks had some really brilliant submissions! It is important to note that these rules have nothing to do with actual mechanics of the game itself! Only what goes beyond the hexes. The only other rule was that the party foul has to have actually happened in the submitter's presence. So here they are in no particular order:

Heroscape Party Foul #1: Kicking the table and knocking over everything.

Heroscape Party Foul #2: Taking the book or holder of the unit cards onto the toilet with you in order to select your army. In fact, never mix Heroscape with bodily fluids of any kind.

Heroscape Party Foul #3: Bringing a child under the age of 8 to the Heroscape party and insisting that he play with the advanced rules... on my team.

Party Foul #4: Spilling of the beverages on the map and/or army cards, using army cards as coasters, or using the same hand for greasy snacks and cards/dice/figures. Blending refreshments with Heroscape in any way is to be avoided.

Party Foul #5: Using the "I have to call my [wife/friend/whomever]" stall tactic. No co-opting other people's brainpower unless they're playing on your team.

Party Foul #6: Playing Heroscape at the same time as another game. In fact, don't be playing anything else simultaneously unless everyone else playing Heroscape is too.

Party Foul #7: YELLING AND SCREAMING OVER LITTLE THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER. IT'S JUST A BOARD GAME!!

Party Foul #8: Blaming it all on the dice.

Party Foul #9: Being distracting or immature when you are the first to lose a game of more than two people.

Party Foul #10: Declaring before the game how awful you are at it and how the dice hate you. No one likes a Heroscape Hustler.

#11: Always playing with the same figures.

#12: Asking to go just a few points beyond the agreed limit.

#13: Using your cute children/siblings to cheat for you.

#14: Pouting after losing a game and refuse to talk about the game. Be open and frank about how bad you were.

#15: It bears repeating that this is just a game. Actual violence involving the figures or the players is to be avoided.

#16: Letting the 'new guy' build the map, especially if they could care less for aesthetics, mixing all the terrain types in a haphazard manner that makes no sense.

#17: Playing the game with sound effects. The designers did not include sound effects with the game because it doesn't need them. If you need sound effects, that's what video games are for.

#18: Leaving the room and communicating your strategy and intentions from another room for another player to do for you.

#19: Shaking the dice so long that you raise their temperature by 10 degrees. It wears off the symbols and is annoying. Just shake a couple of times and ROLL already!

#20: Suggesting ways that you could improve the rules or design of the game either by your own creative wit or using the rules of some other game. If you like that game so much, go play it.

#21: Coming to a Heroscape gameday or event without taking the time to practice proper hygiene. It is YOU who created the stereotype that causes us not to bring up Scape around our non-gamer friends.

#22: Playing competitive tournament armies during casual games, especially against people who don't play in competitive tournaments. Way to dishearten and emasculate a potential Scaper, you insecure nerd.

#23: Not reading the Dice Rolling Magna Carta.

#24: Complaining that I don't own all the figures you want to play with. If you like them so much, buy them yourself!

#25: Quitting the game when you start to lose. It's a game of chance. Anything can happen. Stop being a whiny little brat and take your whipping like a man!