tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post3211429380389535135..comments2023-05-27T11:14:02.426-04:00Comments on Some Space to Think: Leverage Magic; What Not To DoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216103531396452644noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-6161932625534059152010-12-13T14:48:09.698-05:002010-12-13T14:48:09.698-05:00@George Precisely, The Button Men dice tricks are ...@George Precisely, The Button Men dice tricks are tons of fun, for Button Men. Just because you can put chocolate on steak doesn't mean you _should_.<br /><br />@Cam true, And I'm OK exempting talents from this broader thinking - They are explicitly rules anomalies, and even so, even the tricky ones tend to introduce specific opportunities to react to or take advantage of, rather than introducing paralyzing choices.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14216103531396452644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-82770048169249148632010-12-13T14:16:15.947-05:002010-12-13T14:16:15.947-05:00There are actually a few reroll and dice-messing t...There are actually a few reroll and dice-messing tricks in the game found in the Talents. The assumption, I think, is that the player who has those Talents is going to spend a good bit of his brainspace on looking for opportunities to use those, and so I am much less worried about that than I am having special dice tricks be a part of the whole game, post-roll.Cam_Bankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16162534181760938499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-35260865987172883232010-12-13T11:45:35.686-05:002010-12-13T11:45:35.686-05:00Yeah, is here is pointing to something simple and ...Yeah, is here is pointing to something simple and yet profound. When you're building a boardgame, where the interest is exactly in these kinds of tactical tricks and manipulating things to win, you want all those kinds of dice and options in your game. And I suppose the more tilted towards the gamist end of the spectrum (whichever definition of the spectrum you're using) your group is, the more you want those things in the mix. But if you're interested mostly in the fiction, then you want the tactical decisions during actual play to be simple and get out of the way of the fiction.George Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08672530406573621625noreply@blogger.com