BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

So in essence you’re combining the two actions?

This makes both actions random, which makes them a lot weaker. I think that’s a good thing.

i strongly agree with ais– i think this is a good fix for The Devastation Problem, and the randomness hampering its ability to be used tactically cements bloodthirstiness as something that should Actually Be Avoided! this is v far upstream so i’ll wait to vote on it til later but i’ll certainly be supporting it :o

What happens if you randomly choose a feature that the second room already has? Is the entire atomic action stalled?

I think it just gets it twice; I don’t think there’s anything preventing any room from having the same feature twice under any circumstances.

Vampire Lords / Lair Actions: “A Room may not have more than one copy of a Feature.”

Ah.

Well, as written, because it’s atomic it just bounces - “if a Vampire Lord arrives at a step in an Atomic Action and they cannot perform that step, they undo all the steps they have performed of that Action and are considered never to have performed that Action” - and then if they want to they can try again. Probably worth tidying up a little though.

then, since that’s not that bad

Because I like Bloodthirsty Machination.

I’d rather weaken the actions in a non-random way (maybe only the cheapest Features on the board can be destroyed, and only +1 cost ones added), just to avoid an endgame where someone has to blow on the dice before rolling them.