The Book of the Glyph of Ollie's Stupendous Chili

[johnny139]

"Unique Heroes other than Oliver Queen cannot equip this Glyph" would be the kind of tricky wording that lets Apocalypse grab it, if that's something we want.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I mean, unless you connect Ollie and Glyphs of Food somehow, that's just extra verbiage for no actual gameplay changes.

Well my thought would be any ‘evil chef’ character wouldn’t start with a glyph equipped but instead have a power more like:

ORDER UP!
At the start of the game, place 3 different Glyphs of Food power-side up into a Glyph Pool and set them aside. Before attacking with Evil Chef, you may choose an Glyph from Evil Chef’s Glyph Pool at random and place it power-side up on an empty space adjacent to Evil Chef.

So like they don’t equip glyphs themselves but set them up for others.. or in the case of the Chili just drop it like a mine.



Anyway, I’m fine with opening up the glyph by dropping the equip restriction, but I think I’d want to have the equipping character have a chance at wounds (unlesss they have the current string of immunities) for daring to hold such stupendous chili. Cause otherwise... it’s honestly a pretty good glyph and I don’t really want to see it be a mainstay pull for Apocalypse or something

[IAmBatman]

Seems like the chili should affect figures equipped with it as well as those who stop on it or next to someone adjacent to it. Then you could just let the immunities in the last line cover you.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Ok, what do y'all think of something like this as an updated take?

GLYPH OF FOOD: OLLIE'S STUPENDOUS CHILI
(SEARING AGONY)

EQUIPMENT GLYPH
When one of your figures stops here, moves adjacent to a figure equipped with this glyph, or ends their move equipped with this glyph, roll the 20-sided die. Subtract 3 from your roll if your figure has the Fire Weakness special power. If you roll a 6 or lower, your figure receives one wound. Oliver Queen, Bruce Wayne, and figures with the Lava Resistant special power are not effected by the Ollie's Stupendous Chili power.

[IAmBatman]

"affected" not "effected," but looks great otherwise!

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Coolio

If I ever get the power to travel through time (and space, people forget you need that since the Earth is constantly moving) the first thing I'd do is punch the face of whoever decided 'effected' and 'affected' were going to be a thing. From now on I'm just going to go with æffected.

[IAmBatman]

You sound disaffected.

[Tornado]

The time travel aspect is noted in Strontium Dog where Johnny Alpha uses time displacers to send people into space.
If I ever create the Fatties from Judge Dredd they will have to have a Food glyph devour power.
Should there be Android and Construct immunity?

[johnny139]

Not sure if the Fire Weakness stuff is really needed but I'm happy with that draft.

Originally Posted by Soundwarp SG-1

From now on I'm just going to go with æffected.

Interesting affectation.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

I guess Androids and Constructs could be immune? IDK, I feel like Red Tornado or Vision or whatnot would be æffected just cause it would be funny though.

I don't especially want to stack on a bunch of immunity stuff and whatnot (the fire stuff is already an add-on from the original draft) as that starts to lose the joke of the super specific Bats and GA immunity IMO.

Anyway, I feel like we can work out the nitty gritty of that stuff along the way, so I'm going to go ahead and propose we move to initial playtesting

[Ronin]

yea

I'm in favor of being able to trick robots into eating chili.

[johnny139]

Yea

I believe that if you put this awful thing into any sort of machine it would do some pretty serious damage.