IMPACT! MINIATURES

mattwakeman · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 231

Was thinking about weather and its effects and that it should be quite subtle in comparison to the other game. In there it can be just too extreme and I would rather it is something that can be very slight. Something like in sunny weather you have to reroll one successful die (if you threw any that is) just to make it a little bit harder to do something rather than it being game changing. Will have to think about other effects but that is more the kind of thing that I would like to see.

Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

I agree.
After we play tested the cards, we tweaked a couple of them for the same reasons. We still haven't played a game where I would say the cards determined the winner (except for ties, of course). But we tweaked a couple just as both a precationary measure and to make them have less of an effect.
I'd hate to see weather effects added and undo that, because we really do like the cards around here. I am currently in the process of creating a PDF of slick professional looking cards to print out.
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Cephalopod · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject:

You know, in regards to the weather there is another option that doesn't involve adding new cards to the deck. Instead, make a card that has all of the results for each type of weather (with no weather events on most cards). Now, every time you draw a card your event will make sense with the current weather.

So you roll rainy weather, and you set your weather marker to "rain". Then every time you draw a card (That isn't a no unusual event card) you look for the entry marked with your weather on it.

So, you draw a card and get:

Sunny: Blinding sunlight, +1 successes needed on next pass attempt
Rain: Sudden downpour, +1 successes needed on next disengage
Snow: Gust of wind, +1 success needed on any catch challenge made this turn

You get the idea. Would that resolve the issue with changing up the deck? It also allows for more weather-specific events if desired.
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Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

The only problem I see with that is that you would need to create over 150 different cards for that.

And since I am actually literally in the middle of creating proper cards for Elfball as I write this, I'd prefer not to expand my work load!

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Cephalopod · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:17 am Post subject:

Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

Ah! That's a good idea!

Hmmn...
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Cephalopod · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:32 am Post subject:

Yeah, reading my first post I completely flummoxed it. Sorry about that, it is now edited to make sense...

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