The Book of Outer Space Terrain Rules

[IAmBatman]

OK, just need a vote from A3n and I can start formally testing.

I think I'll play two or three games with just a blank space mat, then two or three with it sparsely populated by fixed terrain here and there (like a destroyed planet or a satellite or something), and then do a couple on a map that's mostly fixed terrains with some outer space gulfs here and there.

[Tornado]

Changing my vote to Abstain.

[IAmBatman]

Ok. Putting the thread on hold until I can get the full group on board. Not a big enough group to push things through if there isn’t interest.

[IAmBatman]

I'll wait to hear from A3n, but if I can't get full group support on this, I think it makes sense to move it In Sanctum and try it there (as the other option would be scrapping it).

[A3n]

I am happy with this approach. Yea

[Tornado]

Yea

[IAmBatman]

This passes. Thanks, all. I'll try to rediscover my enthusiasm here after I get through the next couple of unit tests I'm committed to.

[IAmBatman]

Debating what, if any, immunities should be added onto Exposure Damage. Technically about half of characters in comics should probably be immune, but the same is true with lava, and the game choose to go with simplicity/balanced mechanics over "complete thematic correctness" there.

Like should Hulk ever worry about lava? No. Does he? Yes. So the same with him or Kryptonians or Green Lanterns and Exposure Damage, IMO.

But thought I should open it up for thoughts.

One of my concerns about just eliminating it for, say, figures with SS, is that someone like Silver Surfer would/could just kite non-SS armies forever until they die on some maps. But that might be overblown/it might be unrealistic to try to balance maps that are just Cosmos spaces and nothing else.

I'm thinking at the very least that DOs should be immune so that a spaceship or the TARDIS doesn't have to waste text specifying that it's immune.

[IAmBatman]

Reflecting on it, I think I want at least Constructs, Destructible Objects, and Event Heroes to be immune to Exposure Damage. I think those are all pretty clean thematically.

Androids and Cybertronians are debatable, I think, and I'd go with both or neither. It might be simpler to go with neither. Cybertronians should thematically be completely immune, but so should Kryptonians? And almost every Cybertronian has Super Strength, which helps.

[Yodaking]

I think SS is a good dividing line.

[A3n]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Reflecting on it, I think I want at least Constructs, Destructible Objects, and Event Heroes to be immune to Exposure Damage. I think those are all pretty clean thematically.

Agree & support.

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Androids and Cybertronians are debatable, I think, and I'd go with both or neither. It might be simpler to go with neither. Cybertronians should thematically be completely immune, but so should Kryptonians? And almost every Cybertronian has Super Strength, which helps.

I think keep the rest as is for simplicity sake.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I've been hearing cases from MrNobody and Soundwarp on Discord and based on that and y'all's input, I think that's the point I arrived on. Appreciate the feedback.