Re: [spoon-discuss] Tunnelers Change

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>>> Oops. I guess I'm sending out another message before doing all my
>>>>>> work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest that in the rules to Tunnelers, in the description of
>>>>>> what happens when a mole kills another, it is added that "The
>>>>>> killing Mole may choose any of eir max stats and increase it by
>>>>>> one."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sort of as an incentive to go out and do things rather than hiding
>>>>>> in a corner discarding cards, praying for a foursome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Biggest problem I have with this is that there's some "rich get
>>>>> richer" to it.  The victor already has an advantage in that e has
>>>>> more time than the victim; the victim has to claw eir way back from
>>>>> whatever godfersaken corner I stick em in.  That's time in which the
>>>>> victor can collect cards and beef emself up.  And while I'm not 
>>>>> going
>>>>> to comment on the observed strategies of players in the game, I will
>>>>> say that the fact that we've actually had a killing indicates it's
>>>>> not all hiding in a corner.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone wanna pick a side here?
>>>>>
>>>> -I'm gonna side with Wonko. Of course the rich should get richer. 
>>>> It's
>>>> like gaining experience in one of them big online RPGs. You get a few
>>>> kills, you get better. So the incentive is to play smart and win, not
>>>> to sit on your ass in a corner. What if the rewards for taking down 
>>>> an
>>>> enemy grew as the number of kills they'd scored grew? That way 
>>>> there's
>>>> incentive to band with other weak moles to take down the Goliath
>>>> that's causing everyone problems.-
>>>
>>> Okay...but I'm inclined to suggest that it, yes, be an increase to a 
>>> max stat, but card
>>> play (as in, however many two-card plays) is needed to bring the 
>>> actual stat up to
>>> that level, especially in the case of health.  Otherwise, the 
>>> aforementioned Goliath
>>> will just become more invulnerable in the heat of battle, so ganging 
>>> up on it wouldn't
>>> work.
>>>
>> -Goliath only has five cards. Two moles should be able to beat almost 
>> any third mole into submission, although one may die in the process.-
>
>Twelve moles all with Attack:1 have no chance against Goliath with 
>Defense:3, since even if they hit em, e just sort of shrugs it off with 
>a kind of 'ping' noise, like a shellfish bouncing off an ice sculpture 
>swan.
>
-Ice sculpture swans are more fragile than I think you realize. Depending on what kind of shellfish it is, and how it was cooked, you might hear a "pingcrackSMASHtinkletinkle" noise. How does that fit into your analogy?-

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