Experimental Medicine

[MrNobody]

Experimental Medicine




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NAME = EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
TOKEN TYPE = ITEM

RISKY REMEDY
Before activating this figure, you may remove this item from the game to choose either this figure or an adjacent ally and roll a d20. On a 7 or lower, inflict 4 wounds on the chosen figure. On an 8+, heal the chosen figure 4 wounds. Inorganic figures are not affected by Risky Remedy.

PUBLISHER = C3G
KEYWORDS = Invention
RANK = 2
DROP NUMBER = 1

SPRING 2024 - ANNIVERSARY: Don't worry, that lab rat probably died from some other complication. Probably.

Resources and Rulings

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Credits

• Legacy design: Griffin
• Card art: japes

Updates

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[MrNobody]

I think I always misplayed this thing as destroying itself upon "injection." Repeatedly healing 4 wounds seems like a big deal?

Swapped the auto-destruction downside to 4 wounds, which feels like a cool mirror but I also think it's what we want to do with most auto-destruction stuff anyways.

[Arch-vile]

Great timing, we played this yesterday on TTS. Superman got lucky with it, Omni-Man not so much.

We all discussed then how it was weird it sticks around after being used. I think making it a one-time use makes sense both thematically and mechanically.

[japes]

Do we need some guidelines at least on Ranks?

Probably drops as well but drop of 1 for something like this seems like a default.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, drop of 1 seems like the right fit. Rank 2 also feels okay if we only have 3 ranks. It's certainly better than a rank 1, but the potential downside and the fact it's easy to knock out of your hands and into your opponents keeps it from being a rank 3.

Agree with the once per game limit. Love the blurb!

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by japes

Do we need some guidelines at least on Ranks?

Probably drops as well but drop of 1 for something like this seems like a default.

Yes.

I agree with making this single use.

Given how swingy it is and the huge downside potential, (even with the tweak), this is a Rank 1 to me.

I know I posted ideas for drop numbers somewhere, but basically it was like: held in hand is drop 1, worn on body is drop 2, something we for some reason want to make really hard to drop is drop 3.

[Spidey'tilIDie]

Could we switch the name of this to Compound V? It already fits what Compound V does in the comics and it feels cool to make it an actual comic book thing.

[MrNobody]

Is Compound V mostly used for healing?

[Spidey'tilIDie]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Is Compound V mostly used for healing?

Its mostly used to supe up supers, so insta-heal makes sense, but also can make normal people into a super too. Good point.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah I think that would miss out on some of the theme of Compound V.

[japes]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Yes.

I agree with making this single use.

Given how swingy it is and the huge downside potential, (even with the tweak), this is a Rank 1 to me.

I know I posted ideas for drop numbers somewhere, but basically it was like: held in hand is drop 1, worn on body is drop 2, something we for some reason want to make really hard to drop is drop 3.

Yeah I think for drop number we have a good basic outline. It’s the rank one that’s still abstract

[IAmBatman]

I think the rank has to be based on how competitive it is for the pools to be useful.