I feel like the penalties here don’t quite feel like they’d ever be worth it. Moving to an obelisk already takes 1-2 energy, then fishing would take a further 8 energy on average.

In comparison, the ocean gives 2 fewer fish on average for 5-7 less energy expended (depending on movement costs).

My worry here is that if you don’t allow a Rest, a Fishing Contestant could easily get into a situation where it’s impossible to get out of the Madness because they’d have no way to gain Energy, e.g. they have 3 Madness and only 2 Energy.

If you can provide an alternative solution for the example above, I’d be ok with this, but otherwise, I’m going to have to vote against.

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I’d be interested in adjusting the Madness mechanic so that we can hand it out more freely without debilitating everyone. Haven’t thought of a good way yet though.

One quick way would be to make the effect of Madness only occur after a certain amount, e.g. “if a Fishing Contestant’s Madness is 5 or more, they may only Rest or pay Energy to remove an equal amount of Madness”

Then it wouldn’t be immediately debilitating and players could accumulate a little Madness as long as they didn’t let it get out of hand.