[INWO-list] Overpriced Assassins?

[Darrin Bright]

I think the designers were still feeling a little burned on the whole
"Reload" issue, although it's been pointed out that the "fix" for the
Reloads were probably a little too harsh... very very few people play with
Reloads now.

Assassins introduced the Zap, Freeze, and Paralyze cards, but they did get
stuck on the cost... and an Illuminati action is just too costly to waste on
most of those plots. From a design standpoint, instead of 10+ plots to
Freeze/Paralyze/Zap every single alignment or attribute, it might have been
more useful to do a single "Choose attribute X" Freeze/Paralyze/Zap, but
then you can't do as many jokes.

How about a new metarule: Your first Zap, Freeze, or Paralyze plot on your
own turn is *free*. Playing any after that incurs the normal cost.

Hmm.  Probably not a good idea, because it's still too darned expensive to
get rid of them.

I wonder... the "Truth" cards from BFD (which I may be totally
misremembering) were maybe slightly similar in concept to
Zaps/Freezes/Paralyzes (although generally good rather than bad). I don't
recall what mechanic or cost was used to put them in play, though. I wonder
if a similar mechanic could be uses for some of the Assassins plots. Or did
those require Illumati tokens too?

More like a project for INWO 3.5.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: inwo-list-bounces at sjgames.com
> [mailto:inwo-list-bounces at sjgames.com]On Behalf Of martin laerkes
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:23 AM
> To: inwo-list at sjgames.com
> Subject: [INWO-list] Overpriced Assassins?
>
>
> Hi all,
> browsing through my assassins cards, it hit me: the majority of the plots
> are overpriced.
> The entire set feels like the cards were percieved to be stronger
> than they
> are (except, ofcourse, for the 5(?) broken cards).
> Quite a few of the groups are no good (ever seen Shock Jocks in a
> deck?) -
> but especially the plots seem overpriced.
> It may be that some of the plots can be tuned into awesome decks, and to
> keep this in check plot cost had to be high. But the result is
> that a large
> chunk of the assassins plots never see casual play.
>
> Just a stray thought.
> Comments?
> Martin
>
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