[Torg] an idea about the Drama Deck(s)

[Kansas Jim]

Benn's posts about initiative and some of Phil's replies reminded me of
something I thought of last week while examining the Kingsport expansion
to the Arkham Horror boardgame.

(For those who don't know the game, info here:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ah_about.html )

A new rule they added in Kingsport is the Epic Battle cards which are
used if/when the investigators have to fight the Ancient One at the
end of the game. They're very much like Torg's Drama Deck; determining
initiative for the round, a bit of flavor text and the occasional
benefit or penalty. There's even a sort of Standard/Dramatic split
here though it's different colored cards (a green deck and a red deck)
rather than separate lines on each card.

And then there's the bit Phil's comments about adjusting initiative
for different realms reminded me about - there are also special cards
for each of the Ancient Ones with special benefits/penalties that are
appropriate to that particular Ancient One. It's kind of like the
realm-specific cards we saw in Infiniverse (Hero Fails, Quest, etc)
but here they're not shuffled into the regular deck, you only use the
specific Ancient One's cards when that Ancient One is the enemy
and there's more than one special card per Ancient One.

This all combined to give me an idea - instead of just a realm-specific
card or two per realm in a generic Drama Deck, what about realm-specific
Drama Decks? A Nile deck might be heavier on Hero and Action cards, the
initiative lines in Orrorsh might be skewed more in favor of the
villains in both Standard and Dramatic scenes, the Approved Actions
might be expanded to include things like Cast Spell in Aysle or Perform
Miracle in the Living Land, etc etc.

Of course it'd be a lot of work to produce something like that, but it
seems like it would be a way to further differentiate and define the
realms against each other.

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
Torg website: http://www.sdc.org/~ksjim/index.html