[Spoon-business] keep your cards

[Bill Adlam <sagitta_elegans@xxxxxxxxx>]

The current cardset tends to encourage players to play their cards
quickly instead of holding on to them.  To partially balance this, I
propose the following:

{{
_Close_To_Your_Chest_

Create the card:

{{
_Investment_

Image: an abacus in the foreground with stacks of gold coins behind.

While Investment is in your hand, if you draw a card as an action, gain
one point for every card in your hand, including Investment, before you
drew.  This does not apply if you draw a card automatically, or
receive/steal one from another player.  Multiple Investments are
cumulative.

If you play any card, discard Investment.
}}

Add four Investments to the deck.

{{
_Tax_The_Poor_

Image: a medieval bailiff extorting the last penny from an elderly
widow.

Every player is assessed for tax in one of the following categories, in
decreasing order of priority:

1. Any player not playing cards is exempt.  [[In case it later becomes
possible to opt out.]]
2. You are exempt.  [[You've just given a card to the deck.]]
3. Any player with more than one card in eir hand is exempt.
4. Any player with only one card discards it immediately (it is
automatically returned to the deck and e may not play it).
5. Any player with no cards but a positive score, loses ten points, or
all eir points if e has less than ten.
6. Any player with no cards or points receives a Kick In The Ass, and
gains the attribute "Sore and Disaffected" for the rest of the nweek
(if e does not have it aready).  No Player is considered to have
inflicted this cruel blow.  [[Now we see the violence inherent in the
system.]]
}}

Add two Tax The Poors to the deck.
}}

Sagitta


	
	
		
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