Certain cards such as the General Store leave cards behind when they're closed.
I've pondered a house rule that allows any characters at a location when it is permanently closed by defeating the villain, to choose one card from the remaining Location deck and recharge it.
I understand why the game is set up as it is, but it almost feels like a penalty to lose out on (say) a magic weapon or cool item because you defeated the villain before you had a chance to get it.
It's a random card game: I know. But the rule change is a small way to reward success within the confines of the existing location deck.
It makes you think about whether or not to close a location after defeating a henchman. If the. Blessing deck is tall enough we will debate going through all the cards rather than closing immediately. It depends on what we think is left in the deck
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It makes you think about whether or not to close a location after defeating a henchman. If the. Blessing deck is tall enough we will debate going through all the cards rather than closing immediately. It depends on what we think is left in the deck
Agreed. In a game with lots of players, you usually can't afford to leave the location open, unless your team has already closed a couple of others, so you just need to leave someone there to close it temporarily when the villain comes up. But when I play with a smaller number (solo, sometimes only 3 or 4 if the scenario's going well), we frequently leave "shopping" locations open, where we know the card types in that location deck includes card types we want to acquire.
I've pondered a house rule that allows any characters at a location when it is permanently closed by defeating the villain, to choose one card from the remaining Location deck and recharge it.
I too often look at these cards and curse at what's going back to the box, but I think an automatic acquire/recharge (especially by multiple characters) would be too much. That would be better (IMO) than most of the "acquire a card" scenario rewards. By this, I mean that choosing a card, even from a limited selection, is preferable to pulling a random card of a particular type out of from the box.
It also seems unfair to those who remain at other locations to temp-close them, or who lend their support from a distance. You also run into issues where there may not be enough boons to go around, so someone may get left out.
I do like the concept, but I might adopt a toned-down version: the character who actually defeated the villain picks a single boon from that location's deck, then attempts to acquire it normally.
Wait, do you banish the cards if you just beat a henchmen, and there's no villain? Last time I looked at it, I understood it to mean you banish all non villain cards if there is a villain in the deck, but if there is not one, you leave the deck alone. Did I just misunderstand?
Wanted to point out that I didn't notice the "game designer" after your name when I posted that so I feel like an idiot now for agreeing with what you obviously knew. LOL.
Well... at least you didn't disagree with him. :)
Whatevs.