The distractions seem extremely powerful. Assuming all the burglars coordinate, they can easily cover half the turns with distractions one after another.

This could be offset by stating that Distractions in back-to-back Minutes cancel each other out, the thematic idea being that a Distraction followed immediately by another might redirect a Guard’s attention to both (“Something smells fishy here…”).

This may just be me having been out of the game for a long time, but are these intended to be public or private actions? I don’t see any way built in for it to be tracked that either of these actions have been taken unless they are to be privately communicated to Kevin for resolution during the break in. It seems like they *should* be privately communicated so that guards for the round can’t plan for a distraction, but then that creates weird scenarios among robbers using Create a Back door - if that’s public then guards can specifically plan around it, but if it’s private than robbers don’t know when other robbers create an additional ingress for the round. Additionally, if these are public actions it creates incentive for taking actions right before the break in action to minimize the response time that guards have which is against what Kevin said he wanted for the dynasty in that regard.

Virtual actions were made to simplify the language around private actions. You can find it in building blocks.

Ah thank you!

I have thought before that we should maybe just call these “private actions”.

yeah I don’t think this scales well, and runs the risk of getting the burglars a bunch of power in the first run through while the guards get nothing

Perhaps prepatory actions should be specific to the player enacting them?

If I may offer some self-promotion, it could tie in to the Skills and Flaws I proposed.

I’m thinking of voting to revise this, as the idea isn’t completely bad.

I think the idea is very interesting! Perhaps a limit on the total Distractions or Back Doors per Break In might help? Or requiring that two players must collaborate on a Preparation Action, which would also limit the total number?

; although I like the idea of Preparation Actions in principle, I’m with the other commenters on thinking these particular actions are way too powerful.

I think DoomedIdeas has the right idea in trying to reduce the number of times each action can occur - for a way to avoid it scaling with player count, maybe there could be a fixed number of Distractions and Back Doors per Break-In, with the targets voted on by the Burglars?

I like the overall concepts here, but I have concerns for balance on the gameplay side should this be enacted. I’d be in favor of something else along these lines that doesn’t represent such a lopsided power balance.

Editing my vote because I wasn’t aware originally of its use

As per my earlier comment.

Withdrawn for revision – people are right that this doesn’t scale to very large player counts (a situation that I wasn’t expecting to occur, but it looks like it might).