I would make the cost of Machination reflect the Darkness score of the feature being added, otherwise we’re going to get a lot of Grievously Injured knocking about. Also need to exclude glyphs.

It does; the cost is 6 plus the Darkness score.

It also excludes glyphs, because only Threats are allowed, not other sorts of Feature.

Those aren’t edits, they were in the original version of the proposal.

Oh, sorry, I missed those clearly.

adding features makes it too easy for vampire lords to block the exits to their Sepulchres

V expensive though Clucky? Like 7 per room side, and vulnerable to devastation at the same cost?

happy to tinker with prices further

devastation feels like a last resort play you’re probably better off just defending your own room given its just as cheap

the entire point of the blood thirsty rule to to prevent people from simply hording puissance. But this makes it probably optimal to just sit on a large stack of puissance, knowing its basically impossible for anyone to attack you because you can simply wall off your sepulchre and if someone does break a wall down you have 24 hours to get a wall back up so the only way you’re week is if multiple people attack you so you don’t have the resources to defend yourself

Having a Sepulchre gets you 1 Influence per run. Having a well-positioned Glyph can get you 10+ influence in a run. I don’t see defensive sepulchre play being viable and if it turns out to be then I’m happy to buff alternate strategies.

i think just slightly raising the cap on bloodthirstiness would be better; that way it’s a wider window & easier to avoid becoming bloodthirsty

(also, any proposal modifying this sentence should include in it the broken only-while-bloodthirsty power action a few sentences below it!)

My main concern is that right now, we’re about to get 6 features removed from the crypt because there are lots of people who can’t do anything else. As of the most recent journey, there were only 6 features in the crypt altogether.

Or in other words, this isn’t about advantaging players who become too Puissant – it’s about preventing their recovery mechanism damaging the game as a whole.

7 Puissance is a lot, and I don’t think stockpiling Puissance for defence purposes makes a whole lot of sense given that; you’ll run out way too quickly.

This does feel like it’d be shifting the gameplay into Bloodthirst, where rival factions will happily earn a load of Puissance and then throw it back and forth to build up and trash the same critical rooms.

I do trust Kevan’s experience when it comes to rival factions spending a lot of time warring over the same critical, fortified squares on a grid, though. Maybe there should be a limit on Bloodthirsty Machination though—Daily Action, or once-per-time-you-became-Bloodthirsty, or cost-increases-each-time, etc.

Oop, there’s no such thing as a Lair Action. CoV

cost increase could work. I just don’t think “let vampire lords setup walls to prevent anyone from getting into their Sepulchres” leads to interesting gameplay

COV

Lair Actions? 

(Lair Actions are Power Actions iirc.)