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On Multiple Card Draws in a Single Encounter

posted by Michael at 09:35 PM, August 13, 2004 | Filed under : Rules & Rules Updates , Useful Player Knowledge | Comments and Followups

One of tonight’s post is the continuation of Jerod’s fight with a Triton in Llewella’s underwater timeshare condo. As part of that post we described how we draw cards and how we draw subsequent cards and how they affect a scene. If Jerod draws “The Smith, Reversed (Stab Your Cousin)”, we may find out how and if Tritons are related to Amberites.

In general with a fight like this, the first card draw affects the circumstances of the encounter more strongly than subsequent draws. It’s possible to overcome a bad initial draw, but from the card-draw side, future card draws are more focused on individual events within the larger circumstances rather than re-writing those circumstances.

This is the case for two reasons. The first is that we don’t want a fight to be a yo-yo affair that is resolved by vamping until the right card comes up. The second is that we’d like adversity to be overcome by brilliant tactical and strategic choices on the part of the players.

It’s actually a pretty good thing that Jerod’s encounter with the Triton is governed by “Winter, Reversed”, because Steve’s luck with drawing from the fortune deck has attached itself to Jerod. Tonight’s card is “The Defender, Reversed (Peril)”.

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