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schadd

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a different and low-octane masquerade
« on: October 02, 2016, 10:37:04 pm »
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$3 action

+2 cards

each player may pass a card to their left.
you may trash a card from your hand.

it generally eliminates having to pass good cards, which maybe people liked (intrigue had a sub-theme of losing your good cards in swindler, saboteur, masq, and sort of mining village and minion). both players are still incentivized to pass something, and if you don't have something bad to pass it still sucks (you get junked) but there isn't the scenario where everyone feels weird about trashing everything, and it's less devastating with discard attacks.
  it also fixes the pin with less words.
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2016, 11:41:07 pm »
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What if you are forced to pass something?
Possession
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2016, 12:21:02 am »
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What if you are forced to pass something?
Possession
Solution: kill possesion
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2016, 09:11:54 am »
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I love this card.
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2016, 11:13:27 am »
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Masquerade is fun precisely because its very presence forces you to be careful about not trashing too much. This defanged version would take all the fun out of the card.
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2016, 11:29:01 am »
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It seems like this would be really difficult to play in-person. Assuming that the decision of whether or not to pass is made simultaneously, how to you manage that? You'd have to do something like write down your decision secretly on paper, and then have everyone reveal at the same time.

Or, more elegant, you just need a special card that each player has. Like a blank. When this card is played, everyone adds a blank to their hand. If they don't want to pass anything, they pass the blank. After that, everyone puts their blanks aside again.
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Re: a different and low-octane masquerade
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2016, 01:40:12 pm »
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Masquerade is fun precisely because its very presence forces you to be careful about not trashing too much. This defanged version would take all the fun out of the card.

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