by entwife
Wiet wrote:
Cardbacks in the Event deck give away info
Situation: After a couple of actions, some cards from the Adventure decks have been shuffled into the Event deck. Since the cardbacks of the three Adventure decks are all different, and also differ from the regular Events, you can know a round before it happens that an Adventure card is coming. Say for instance you only shuffled in one Exploration Adventure card, you even know exactly which card is on top of the deck.
Questions:
- You already know which cards will eventually return of course (since you read them before you shuffle them in), but is knowing which card is on top of the Event deck a problem? Knowledge about the upcoming Event will surely influence decision making in the prior round. Is this an intended mechanism?
This is an interesting point. I'm not sure I'd like having the absolute knowledge that the next card to be turned over would be a tiger (or whatever else) - I think that would interfere with the sense of a story unfolding. It's one thing to know there's a tiger threat but quite another to know the exact moment of his attack ahead of time.
If this is the way it is intended to be played I wonder if it would cause a problem to house rule that before every event card draw one reshuffles the deck (or is that rule already there?) Alternatively cards could be blindly drawn from a bag in order to maintain the element of surprise.