or when people make fan cards that do almost nothing unless there's an attack available, etc.
Feeling maybe a little seen here.
I'm revising
my entry this week
Now it doesn't have to be a dead card unless you let it. (edit: this is withdrawn)
Doppelganger • $4@3 • Action - Attack
Play an Attack from your hand twice. If it cost:
$5 or more: Each player with four or more cards in hand discards a card
$3 or less: Each player gains a copper to the top of their deck.
Otherwise: +$1, Each other player takes their -$1 Token
This might be under/overpowered, depending on the kingdom. I've got a couple other ideas I'm working on also but I like the weird niche this is working on.
Also would the otherwise clause here still happen if you failed to play an action? I tried to word it so it would.
That is how it reads to me. If it didn't have that clause, I don't think it would be an Attack card, per se.
moot point since this is edited out, but an attack doesn't have to "attack" to be an attack - check out Minion.
Tired of people beating you to the City split or snatching all the Nobles? Take the Back road.
Feel free to help with the wording.
A concern with this would be, you've got a six player game, you have a round of turns where everyone plays one or more Back Roads - how do you track it?
You may want to consider introducing a "back road" adventures style token of some kind and give each player ... idk, three of them? two? two seems flexible/pragmatic, one simplifies it a bunch - and then have these place/move Back Road tokens - that way no one can lock out more than N piles at once, and while a whole board Action standstill is possible, it's way less likely.
Also can my Back Road block your Back Road? you can fix that with the token-based design - Make it only placeable on a pile that doesn't have a Back Road token on it.
Something like
Place your Back Road token on an Action supply pile that does not have a Back Road token on it. (Players may not buy cards from a pile that has another player's Back Road token on it). Until the end of your next turn, whenever you buy a card from a Supply Pile that has your Back Road token on it, gain a copy of it. When you discard this, remove one of your Back Road tokens.