i also am in the camp to get rid of this card, two days in a row players abusing that card, giving the same lame escuse that everybody does it.
Not everybody.
Not everybody.
A game is not real life. Unless the rule explicitly specifies it, no event in a game refers to the real life of the players. No event in a game refers to the preferences associated with the nickname on the BGA site. These preferences are moreover the characteristics of a fictional character, not necessarily those of a real person.
Have you not read this thread? It is absolutely against the rules. The card would be WAY too powerful if you could just decide anything when you play it.diamant wrote: ↑31 July 2021, 12:49A game is not real life. Unless the rule explicitly specifies it, no event in a game refers to the real life of the players. No event in a game refers to the preferences associated with the nickname on the BGA site. These preferences are moreover the characteristics of a fictional character, not necessarily those of a real person.
The Action card Today's Special allows the player playing the card to choose between 3 possibilities. As these possibilities are not related to any other event or game situation of the game, it follows that the player freely chooses between these 3 possibilities, in each game. It is just possible to wonder if the same player could decide on a different choice if he had to play the same card a second time during the same game.
When other players understand the rules better than you, you are not justified in calling them cheaters for that reason.
Cheating is giving you an advantage that other players don’t have access to. That’s not the case here.
I didn’t find anything which makes sense reading this thread. What do you think I would have missed?
That’s the kind of unfounded assertion that proves you don’t have any argument against my point of view.
I have little experience in this game, but I found that the Keeper the Brain was a little too powerful. Should we eliminate it too?
I guess if the intent had been to give the player the freedom to choose any of the 3 options each time the card is played, the text would have said something like "choose one of: (1) ... (2) ... (3) ...".
"The player who last visited an island goes first and play continues to the left." (Forbidden Island)Jellby wrote: ↑31 July 2021, 15:18I guess if the intent had been to give the player the freedom to choose any of the 3 options each time the card is played, the text would have said something like "choose one of: (1) ... (2) ... (3) ...".
(By the way, the card is also biased against people born on Feb. 29th )
That was my point above: If BGA changed the rules of Forbidden Island to make the first play random instead, they could also change the rules of this card to make it random instead. (It could even be a random choice at the beginning of the game, e.g. "Congratulations, today is Player A's birthday!" or "It's a special holiday today!", and make it stick for all players, the whole game.)