Re: [spoon-discuss] Tunnelers Change

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 10:45 AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > > > > 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.

--
Wonko

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