Luke Peterschmidt | Dave Williams | Jeff Alexander | Mindy Sherwood-Lewis
Ed Bolme | Ree Soesbee | Raymond Lau | Marcelo Figueroa
Dave Schwimmer | Ryan Dancey | George Sundborg | John Wick
Zen Faulkes | Andrew Heckt
(Message davew:1449)
Subj: Re: [L5RINFO] Rules for 6 June 2000
From: David Williams <l5r@TSTONRAMP.COM>

  To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:52:11 PDT
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>  > Any other nominees?
>
>    Designer Wins. Who wants to look at a bunch of game geeks? ;)

Ouch!

>    And while I'm here, I'm going to ask all list members nicely:
>
>    Please, stop with "Zensei" already. I prefer Zen.

Noted!

>  > If an action targets one of the followers in the unit, can it be
>  > canceled using [Isawa's] Helm?
>
>    Yes. You can't say which follower without specifying which unit, too.
>But this one's tricky, and I couldn't think of or find a precedent for
>followers. Mayhap Dave will speak up.

I disagree. Unit = Personality (*possibly* with followers). I don't
think targeting a follower targets the unit.

>    I've given more more thought to the issue of "changing costs," and
>this is what I'm currently thinking:
>
>    Anything that allows you to put a card into play for something
>besides the cost described on the card itself (gold coin *OR TRAIT*) is
>changing the cost.

I like it. Doesn't help with variable cost cards (sigh) - I think the
definition for variables is that as soon as you decide on a cost,
that any change after that is a "change".


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David Williams
l5r@tstonramp.com
Lead Designer - Legend of the Five Rings CCG, Deadlands CCG
Alderac Entertainment Group

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