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Chelmite (2016-07-15 20:14:03): Re: the use of "only" in Troubles.
The reason I brought up the use of "only" was that the sentence means entirely different things, depending on where the word "only" is used. I made my best guess as to where it should go, which, apparently, was not what you intended.
My father-in-law, an English professor, taught me:
If you add "only" to "She kissed him on the lips.", it can mean entirely different things, depending on where it is added to the sentence:
Sentence Meaning of "only"
a. Only she kissed him on the lips. She and no one else
b. She only kissed him on the lips. She didn't do anything else with his lips.
c. She kissed only him on the lips. She didn't kiss anyone else on the lips.
d. She kissed him only on the lips. Not below or next to the lips
e. She kissed him on only the lips. She didn't kiss him anywhere else.
f. She kissed him on the lips only. Ambiguous--the meaning could be any of a-e, depending on vocal stress
In "Troubles", "only" is before the verb "use", which would mean "the verb 'use'" and no other verb, such as "eat" or "discard" can be performed by the Heroes. I don't think that's what you mean. I think something else is being restricted by "only". The most likely things are "cubes" (and nothing else) and "combat" (and no other phase/action that 'combat' falls into).
Michele Q (2016-07-15 14:48:29): ty for the corrections. Voilà the new Hero cards texts: (old file here)
adv???? (2016-07-14 23:18:58): Pyramid Face – If Pyramid Face is hit, move him to the lead player’s current room. If it is not possible to place Pyramid Face in the same room as the lead player or if Pyramid Face is already in the same room, move Pyramid Face to the next counter-clockwise player’s room where he can be placed.
The Thing – Where does the face-down wound card come from? The deck, one the player has already taken? What is meant by Let this card face-up – Leave this card face up? Does the player keep this card as a wound?
Searcher – The Searcher has a value of +3 instead of +2 when calculating resources obtained from searches.
Explosive Expert – The Explosive Expert may: use 1 action cube to place their explosive token(s) in an adjacent and connected room, use 2 action cubes to stop explosives from exploding in any room.
Also I would use the word "use" or "spend" consistently throughout the cards and rules manual depending on your preference.
adv???? (2016-07-14 23:17:59): Some quick edits:
Sniper – The Sniper may spend…
Sapper – The Sapper may: use 1 action cube to ignore a wound caused by a trap, use 3 action cubes to remove an adjacent trap by flipping the room card.
Hacker – The Hacker may draw 4 additional room cards when they are replacing room cards in their display. Reshuffle any cards that exceed the display limit with the room deck.
Tank – “subsequent” can imply any roll after, “next” implies the very next roll. Use whichever term is appropriate for the card. If using subsequent use “any subsequent”.
Cheater – The Cheater may use 1 action cube to remove any 2 cubes from the board and place the cubes in their respective reserve.
Kung fu Master – The Kung fu Master may spend 1 action cube before rolling for a non-ranged attack to change the result of one negative cube to a positive cube. The opponent will counter-attack even if they die from Kung fu Master’s attack.
C1P8 – C1P8 may: use 1 action cube to open or close any door, use 2 action cubes to place an open or closed door from the players stock in any room.
Imitator – Draw 8-X random skill cards, where X is twice the number of heroes. The Imitator may use any of these skills or the skills of another player by paying twice the cost; the Imitator may not use any skills without a cost.
Diavolo – Maybe include what flee in terror requires mechanically.
Michele Q (2016-07-14 13:47:08): And the Hero cards texts: (old file was here)
Michele Q (2016-07-14 13:43:07): I made some corrections:
Event cards: (here was the old file) Boss cards: (old file here)
Bla???? (2016-07-14 11:33:01): I agree with the latest comments by kaelung
kae???? (2016-07-14 11:15:12): - Energy sucker : "characters" should be replaced with "Heroes"
- Bosses in general : some bosses still have "this Boss" used in the card text while others have their name instead (eg the Caller), I still think it should be only one or the other, like Blackyed suggested earlier.
@advdino :
Agree with everything.
@Steve :
- Rancore : "this" or "his", as long as the two are the same. I personally prefer "his".
- Troubles : no, the text is OK as it is, "may use cubes in only combat" would mean something else entirely. Basically, players only roll action cubes and bullets during combat, no 4-leaf clovers, books, etc.
Agree with the rest. It's true that capitalization is used very generously :), might need to define exactly which game terms require a capital letter and keep it the same way across all cards and in the rulebook.
adv???? (2016-07-13 23:53:00): @steve
You missed me - I think heroes' attack is proper since multiple heroes may attack the boss however if that is the case the a should be dropped so it reads "against heroes' attacks"
Contagion! - I think the use of a colon, semi-colon vs two sentences is up to personal preference in this case.
Chelmite (2016-07-13 23:37:10):
- The word Boss is used on the Boss cards. (Seems appropriate, so far.) In many video games, "Boss" refers to the most difficult individual of a set of enemies. Is that how "Boss" is being used here, or is this set of cards really a collection of foes, enemies, antagonists, adversaries, attackers, etc?
Chelmite (2016-07-13 23:31:22): "Real time", when used as an adjective, should be hyphenated: e.g., "Real-time phase"
- You Missed Me: "a Heroes' attacks." -> "a Hero's attacks."
- Rancore: "enter this room" ... "in his room" should both be "this".
- Wasps'Nest: Needs a space before "Nest".
- Troubles: "may only use cubes in combat" -> "may use cubes in only
combat.". "(all other...are unavailable)." -> "(All other...are
unavailable.)"
- Awake: This is the only description that is in the passive tense. Change
to "Stand up all laid-down creatures and move them up to 4 rooms towards
the nearest Hero. (Creatures stop if they enter the a room containing a
Hero.)"
- Contagion!: Break into two sentences.
- No way: "Place there a cube to remind that." -> "Place a cube there as a reminder."
There seems to be inconsistent use of capitalization of words.
- Titles: All words in the titles should have a leading capital letter. (Currently, this is done on some, but not all, cards.)
- The following words are capitalized (besides the names of bosses): Advantage, Barriers, Boss, Doors, Hero, Leader, Room, Starting, Successes. Why?
- The following words seem like they could be capitalized, but I'm not sure why some words are special enough to be capitalized for this game. "characters" and "creatures" might need to be capitalized, e.g., if the capitalized words are classes of objects, and you want to distinguish classes in your sentences.
adv???? (2016-07-13 23:23:34): Some edits I would suggest:
Skipped stitches: "Stitches" -> "stitches"
No way: "...move. Place there a cube to remind that" -> "...move; place a cube as a reminder."
I'm a creature: "...the shortest way" -> "...the shortest route."
Bad contact: "... blow up..." -> "...explode..." (Explode is the term you use in the the boss cards and game manual, so it would be more streamlined to use that term consistently, but I am nit picking here.)
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