Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Proposal: More Traits & Death Fix v4

Vetoed.—Axeling

Adminned at 26 Apr 2007 15:27:25 UTC

Add the following to the list of Inactive Traits:

Savage Fangs
Cost: 30 DNA Points, 2 Complexity
Requirements: Facial Features 4
Effect: A Lifeform with this trait gains 1 on it’s Fight roll when Hunting. Also, if it’s Hunt is successful, the hunting creature gains an additional 5 DNA points.

Telepathy
Cost: 60 DNA Points, 3 Complexity
Requirements: Brain Size 4
Effect: Often, a Lifeform with this trait may reduce the energy of another Lifeform by 1. This may cause that Lifeform’s energy value to be set to a negative number.

Symbiosis
Cost: 45 DNA Points, 3 Complexity
Requirements: Body Mass 4
Effect: A Lifeform with this trait may spend 1 energy to reduce their Nourishment by a certain amount to increase another Lifeform’s Nourishment by the same amount.

Extensible Tongue
Cost: 70 DNA Points, 2 Complexity
Requirements: Facial Features 2, Appendages 4
Effect: This creature gains an additional 1 Nourishment on a successful Forage attempt.

Steam Bladder
Cost: 60 DNA Points, 3 Complexity
Requirements: Unique Ability 4
Effect: Whenever a Lifeform sucessfully hunts this Lifeform, that Lifeform loses 2 Nourishment.

In the rule Death change:

A Lifeform may change their status from Dead to Alive by doing the following:

to

A Lifeform may change their status from Dead to Alive by paying 100 DNA Points and doing the following:

Also, append to the end of the rule Death:

A Lifeform whose Status is Dead may not take any Gameplay Actions

Comments

Clucky: he/him

25-04-2007 19:23:39 UTC

veto

Symbiosis needs an often. Way too easy for two people to join up and kill someone.