Mmm. This is seriously not at the point where we're tinkering with exact phrasing.
@Polyducks There's no point in copy-editing something that may still change drastically and waste all the effort of fine-tuning the specific words being used.
If there are two players, would they be able to switch who goes first? What if the second player fills his sheet and the first needs to take the patient
But getting those last OPERATION successes will be hard, meaning WRESTLING has more chances for failure as the likelihood of each roll failing decreases.
But generally speaking the last surgadores in the round will wind up with the fastest coloured masks early in the game, meaning they're good at defence later in the game.
I started with the narrative win/lose conditions (You stabilise the patient before DEATH breaks through; you fail to hold back DEATH before the patient is stabilised) and worked back from that.
A serious treatment of this game would include research into luchadores and La Santa Muerte, which would yield vocabulary as well as interesting nuance.
@nitsua60 It's not all bad. The rest of the department spend their time building fantasy football teams. I don't see how this is that different (except with surgery and luchadores)
parejas increibles: ("incredible pairings") when an unlikely pair of 'dores wrestle as a team. Such as two orthopedic hand-specialists sharing the same table...?
"parejas increibles highlight the conflict between a 'dore's desire to win and his contempt for his partner."
@BESW Summary of our two-player test: We got one colour each before death passed my four-dice move.
Here's a pastebin of the game:
http://pastebin.com/KFqqwEQ3
It was fun being really over blown and ridiculous, but I think we need more players. I definitely saw the mechanics working to get the game harder as we went through. We worked on the idea that assets weren't used up when used against death - which means we could use them again and again until they were used up in surgery. I liked how that worked because we'd have to save our best moves for the end.
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brings a group of potential players together
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turns out all of them have polar opposite preferences on games
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(Which is weird, because there's common ground in all their RP, but.....)
Then it's definitely a portal to hell, manned by a round-the-clock divine protectors, into which is thrust a heat exchanger such that stars have on-tap instant water at the temperature they require for their baths.
