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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Idea for an expansion with RNG?
« on: May 16, 2024, 11:08:22 am »
I think the issue with your die rolls is less the randomness, but more that some outcomes are always worse than others. You design ethos seems to be "low numbers are bad, high numbers are good". This is a mistake, I feel.
Consider Boons. It would not have been hard to implement those as a D12, where each side has a symbol, and you roll it to tell you what Boon you get. I think you should strive for something similar, but simplified: A die where each side just gives a single thing that can be easily expressed in a pictogram. So like "+$1, trash a card, gain a Horse" etc. Then design the expansion around that die.
Consider Boons. It would not have been hard to implement those as a D12, where each side has a symbol, and you roll it to tell you what Boon you get. I think you should strive for something similar, but simplified: A die where each side just gives a single thing that can be easily expressed in a pictogram. So like "+$1, trash a card, gain a Horse" etc. Then design the expansion around that die.