| From: | Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Corporate Challenges (was Re: Suggestions for 2nd Edition) |
| Date: | Fri, 15 May 1998 17:33:26 -0700 |
>
> the <foo> rule is my problem.... Say a card (It'll never be designed I hope)
> Ex-Lone Star whatever - will it be a Lone Star card??? the <foo> rule
> promotes the use of common sense over cold logic making more rules fuzzy. I
> don't see any problems with the <foo> rule in the next year or two (Yes,
> SRTCG will last longer than that!! Yah!!) but if SRTCG ever prints say a
> 2000+ card these rules will return to haunt you....
I understand what you're saying, and I actually agree with you. Still, you
need the <foo> clause to maintain backwards compatability for cards you hadn't
thought of before.
To try and keyword every possibility would mean either:
A. Expansions could only introduce new ideas for themselves and future
releases. IOW if cards like Lone Star HQ required a keyword for their effect,
like one affecting Challenge (Lone Star) or Elf Lone Star Runner cards, they
wouldn't be able to touch anything in the Limited Edition. That's extremely
limiting and would be even worse for such a card in the 4th, 5th or 6th
expansion.
B. You'd have to introduce at least one of each kind of keyword you think
you'll use in your first printing of the game. So they'd have had to get in
Awakened, Personnel, Corporate, Electric, Street, Elf, Ork, Troll, Dwarf,
Runner, Gear, Magic, Matrix, Weapon, ... plus anything else they could foresee
using in the future: insect, toxic, immortal, great form, military, astral,
... Otherwise they wouldn't be able to include due to limitation strictures
and only forward compatability or support.
Also, keep in mind Runner archetpye keywords are technically in the card title
(rigger, street sam, mage, shaman, decker, mercenary, ...). A
location/objective/challenge referring to a decker, for example, is pointing
to card tile (Ice Queen * Decker) and not the cards actual keyword line (Elf
Runner). Their decription keyword line merely carries race and runner
designation (elf runner, dwarf runner, troll prime runner, etc. Thus I would
say keyword is valid for card title and description line.
> BTW.... Lone Star is a Corp while we are using common sense......
True, but even further common sense in SRTCG would dictate that only the RPG
veterans will know that. Corporate in the SRTCG seems to currently apply only
to the Big Eight. Lone Star has it's own designation and keyword.
-== Loki ==-
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