I've noticed when playing Pulp Alley with Elder Son, we often find ourselves making decisions or waiving certain rules because the story is getting interesting and we don't want to spoil it. Are we alone in this?
Your way is the right way.
I once heard an umpire respond to a players objection by saying, ' I know it's
stupid, but that is what the rule says' WRONG WAY !!!!
On another occasion a player bragged that to persuade his allied Cossacks to
attack the enemy he fired on them with his OWN artillery, as the reaction test
added 2 'if fired upon by artillery. If I had been umpiring I would have agreed
that the Cossacks launch an attack, but at HIS artillery (well they were the ones
firing at the poor Cossacks.

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