BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Doesn’t this basically just directly support a pooling victory? It’s an action that outright says “I’m giving up my chances of victory entirely in order to help another player”.

I generally hate the idea of “largest pool wins”, but this seems to be actively encouraging it. Note that in dynasties which are all about pooling – as this one looks like it’s starting to become – the actual gameplay becomes mostly irrelevant, because being able to recruit more players is a much bigger consideration than anything related to the current state of the game. The harder pooling is, the more important each player’s individual gamestate becomes, and I think having gameplay that actually matters is good for the game (especially in this dynasty, which has fairly engaging gameplay and, until recently, has been mostly about the Crypt map rather than the social aspects).

Another point worth noting: Treacherous is almost 100% redundant with these numbers to simply giving Nosturi a “collapse a Sepulchre” action with a cost of 5. It costs 2 to make a Denizen Treacherous, but you could also just summon a 0/0 Treacherous Denizen for 2 in the Sepulchre you want to collapse, and there’s no ability to reuse a Denizen for this purpose because it won’t survive the Sepulchre collapse. So other than corner cases involving avoiding becoming Bloodthirsty when you want to collapse a Sepulchre but not right now, there’s no reason to add Treacherous to a Denizen rather than just creating a new one.

Also, , for reasons I don’t think it would benefit me to explain.

SK

ais has pointed out privately that you could put cheap weak denizens in the same room as the stair muncher and your own temporary sigil to effectively generate infinite puissance (or at least generate as fast as you spend). He has voted for as he wants to exploit the bug. After some thought I’ve decided that I’m not willing to put it on the books. Will likely not repropose unless there’s a surge of interest.

would that work?

it costs 1 to run the action. so you could certainly spam a lot with this, but can’t go infinite. could fix it just by making nutritious costing 1

Stair muncher creaming something in a sigil earns the owner of that sigil 9

Generating a cheap 0/0 denizen, putting it in stair muncher’s room, putting a temp sigil down and having it attack stair muncher is less than 9

So doing that over and over will generate infinite puissance over time

no it doesn’t. The bloodsoaked trait is “When the Crypt Settles, if Richardo von Nestor became Lightly Wounded or Grievously Injured upon Encountering this Denizen in this Enter the Crypt action, all Vampire Lords with Sigils in the room where the Encounter took place gain Puissance equal to the Energy lost by Richardo von Nestor as a result of the Encounter”

this would not happen during an enter the crypt action, so the settling never would occur and bloodsoaked wouldn’t generate any puissance.

Oh! Good

Shame I already self-killed it!

I mean a player going “I like this but it wouldn’t benefit me to explain why” probably would’ve been enough to get everyone to vote against this without the self kill anyways =D