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¿Question #1510?
Blackwind: Do you write new rules for your games? Do you playtest them?

ocdspectrum: No I play without any rules at all.
Herald Selenay: Yes and yes
mathmagician: I would love to do both. I've got an idea in the works
MisterCranky: I almost had an answer for this, but then I remembered I was running an automated script.
pooterbug: Sometimes to both.
WatchmanX2000: sometimes
indoubleyousee: no
Azog: I write new rules for my games, playtest them, and put them up on the 'Geek.
aleo09: nope
foxxdye: Yeah, but only when I'm trying to formulate a way for dumb sorority girls to get naked.
DHEK: Nope. I just play the games with the standard rules they come along with.
clandaith: Yes. No, well unless you count actually playing with them as a test. ;)
gf_ripper: Some times ya
Nimrod6: I've tried and Yes
Leo-T: yes
Ebon Wendigo: Yes
Greedo: Nope.
pitferret: No. If the games doesn't work well as is, there is always another game on the shelf.
ZiggyZambo: no
djflippy: Yes and yes.
bigbadsteve: once in a great while
MaksimSmelchak: Yes and yes.
vampywife: i've not gotten that far, but who knows what will happen in the future?
Cromaa: Sometimes. Yes.
Kubilai: No, I usually do not alter the rules of existing games. I naively believe that rules which managed to get published are better tested than any of my inventions will most likely ever be.
heli: http://spotlightongames.com/variant
Dorque: Yup. Yup.
mlanza: Tried once with Settlers, it sucked.
scribidinus: Yes and yes.
queequeg: nope
haraggan: Do you mean the games I own, or the ones I designed? The answer is "yes, and yes" for both
Loquutus: yes
flyinghogfish: And how...
jteslow: Occassionally if I think a bad game can be salvaged I will work on developing alternate rules, but it's often tough to get my group to play test a game that still leaves a bad taste in their mouths.
dietevil: No, if I don't like a game as is I don't play it.
modboy: no but my friends do
Bandit Ripshawd: Yup. Mostly solitaire variants, since I have no friends! :-)
javelin98: Yes, and yes.
jellospike: Often. don't playtest cause they're usualy little tweaks
GuyHill: yes. yes
Null Signature: Yes.
irratejon: Yes
CharlieWonka: Occasionally - and yes
arkibet: not really... but house rules do occur.
Lord_Prussian: I've only written/modified rules for Blood Bowl. I have playtested them.
AdamT: Nah, I can't even get the original rules down correctly.
mrbeankc: no
Sceadeau: Very rarely, and yes.
ThatFalafelGirl: we have some house rules, but not completely new rule sets usually.
Lucimara: No.
WasQ: yes, and some and very goods
snoozefest: no
darthcliff: No. No.
thoia: Yes. Yes.
djlg: No
ValJor: No. NA
2amp: yes, yes
jpact: No.
Wintergoblin: sometiems
Edbryan: no
Toxidyne: Sometimes, but only after the original rules prove to be flawed from a perspective of fun.
AlorielLelyn: I do occasionally write new rules for my games, yes. And I have playtested some of them.
kennyb: there is one game in my collection i have been thinking of rewriting the rules for
TiNYTimIDFluffYBunnY: occasionally and we playtest them.
Flyspeck23: Yes, and yes.
m_r_tyler: No.
Mike A: Sometimes. I don't think "play" and "test" belong together like that. Play is play.
[Deleted user]: Yes, Yes
chaddyboy_2000: No.
gnomehome: I usually play games as written.
CortexBomb: Nope
louiseh: No
jttm: Not really
Spielfreak: no
skelebone: Not yet, but I may in the future.
CDRodeffer: Yes and yes.
sos1: Yes, yes.
Blackwind: yes, sometimes