3 player melee - recommended changes?

By Dice lord, in General Discussion

Are there any recommended changes to the melee rules for 3 players; have heard that taking out certain roles or removing the support rule make for a better game?

Cheers

Yes! Three-player melee is vastly, vastly improved by doing the following two things:

  • Remove the Crown Regent title from the game
  • Ignore supports - anyone can attack anyone else

This prevents tables where you don't have any choice about who you can attack, which both is boring and leads to skewed table balance.

That said, playing with four players is always superior when possible!

Yes. The Council of Stahleck (the largest fan-run AGOT tournament in the world) came up with the idea of excluding Crown Regent altogether and ignoring support.

11 minutes ago, Kakita Shiro said:

Yes. The Council of Stahleck (the largest fan-run AGOT tournament in the world) came up with the idea of excluding Crown Regent altogether and ignoring support.

Not just fan-run, it's the largest AGoT tournament in the world, by quite a margin (more than Worlds and EC combined). And you still remove one of the remaining 5 at random each round.