A new fan mechanism idea:
Trefoils - symbols of three interrelated things.
Trefoils are like Landmarks and they refer to Action cards from 3 Supply piles, randomly selected each game.
Setup: In games using a Trefoil, put trefoil tokens on 3 randomly selected Action Supply piles. (These piles should be selected after any extra piles such as Bane or Ruins have been added to the Supply.)
Do not use more than one Trefoil per game.
Terminology that may be useful for Trefoils to refer to:
- "trefoil pile" - an Action Supply pile with a trefoil token on it.
- "Trefoil card" - any card from a trefoil pile.
- "complete set of Trefoil cards" - three Trefoil cards, one from each trefoil pile.
Note that if a trefoil pile is a split pile, all cards from that pile are Trefoil cards; we should not assume that all Trefoil cards are Action cards.
The colour scheme for Trefoils is pale yellow - R:2 G:1.6 B:1.1
Suggested naming for Trefoils is things that come in threes, or things with three components.
A couple of examples:
Musketeers
When you play a Trefoil card, first each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards a Trefoil card (or reveals a hand without any).
Three-Legged Race
Trefoil
When you discard a complete set of Trefoil cards from play, take 2VP from here.
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Setup: Put 6VP here per player.
I'll leave it at just those two examples for now, because I'm using this for Fan Mechanics contest week #37. After that is done, let's add more here. In the meantime, I'd welcome any comments or feedback on this mechanism.
EDIT 13th May: Changed Three-Legged Race (previously you discarded from your hand, which is like Arena but much worse, and I didn't have any limit on the number of times you could get +2VP that way).