Comments on: Pacing and Endgame http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/2008/09/08/pacing-and-endgame/ The developer's blog for Bully Pulpit Games Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/2008/09/08/pacing-and-endgame/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Jason Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:08:53 +0000 http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/?p=261#comment-897 Oh, and the event cards are discarded and only viewed by dead players, so the game cannot end until somebody dies. It's possible the first person will die and shout "sails on the horizon!" but that is unlikely. We had a playtest where nobody got very degenerate and there were no interventions, which is sub-optimal. It's a fine tuning thing. Oh, and the event cards are discarded and only viewed by dead players, so the game cannot end until somebody dies. It’s possible the first person will die and shout “sails on the horizon!” but that is unlikely. We had a playtest where nobody got very degenerate and there were no interventions, which is sub-optimal. It’s a fine tuning thing.

]]> By: Jason http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/2008/09/08/pacing-and-endgame/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Jason Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:14:58 +0000 http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/?p=261#comment-896 Hi Brian, They do get to do that. The event cards vary in severity, and the procedure is: someone chooses an event card, then each player of a dead castaway also chooses one. The dead guys look them over and pick the one they want. So they can choose a really harsh card (which speeds up endgame) or a mild one (which drags endgame out), within the bounds of the random draws. There's a bit of competition there as well, because if everybody dies, the *first* Castaway who died wins the game. So the dead will be picking favorites or gunning for everybody. Hi Brian,

They do get to do that. The event cards vary in severity, and the procedure is: someone chooses an event card, then each player of a dead castaway also chooses one. The dead guys look them over and pick the one they want. So they can choose a really harsh card (which speeds up endgame) or a mild one (which drags endgame out), within the bounds of the random draws. There’s a bit of competition there as well, because if everybody dies, the *first* Castaway who died wins the game. So the dead will be picking favorites or gunning for everybody.

]]> By: Brian Bird http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/2008/09/08/pacing-and-endgame/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Brian Bird Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:08:26 +0000 http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/fairplay/?p=261#comment-895 Jason, I would have the dead players take an active role as the dead or the forces of death to thwart the alive players and lead them to failure. Jason, I would have the dead players take an active role as the dead or the forces of death to thwart the alive players and lead them to failure.

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