I worry this’ll put too fast of a timer on the game.

As soon as a single favor from the king, military item, or loyalty from a vassal item 4/5 ribbons will already be “in play”, and someone will already have two of them. So then as long as the 5th ribbon goes to someone else… its already game over.

Ribbons haven’t been connected to any kind of victory condition yet, you just become “the Champion”.

This will get them out there fast, but it’ll immediately slow down once the requirement for “most X” becomes greater than one.

because of game design interests, I’m aiming for having the auctions fuel sub-games.

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good point for some reason I just assumed being The Champion meant you won

I’m still a bit on the fence. Its weird to me that the 4/5 ribbons are connected to the same type of gameplay. I’d rather just go all in on tying ribbons to items (and swap the last ribbon with Romance items) or have only one be for collecting items and the other three be for other stuff.

I was thinking of Auctions being the core of the game, and this just adding a layer of decisions to that when a new Item comes up: if a +1 Power Military Item is dealt and Robespierre already has the Ribbon of the Sword with 1 Military, do I bid more to draw level, does he bid more to keep his Ribbon safe, etc.

Having some Item types matter for Ribbons and some not seems more interesting than a straight one-for-one, I think.