Re: Stances?

Posted by uncle phil on Aug 12, 2011; 10:33am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Stances-tp6676265p6679914.html

Stance is the wrong term on several levels. Given that you involve younger people in your games it is perhaps important that playing has a positive effect on their vocabulary. Move or Maneuver is probably the term that you are looking for and has the advantage that it will be equated with terms such as "finishing move" from games such as Mortal Kombat.

Wrt to games mechanics, I wasn't going to propose that cards necessarily be one use. Either the card could be "regenerated" or its use based on some form of dice/ability roll. For example, something like a leg sweep might work in a fight, but would not be possible everytime since it would depend on the target's leg placement, relative sizes and even if the target has legs. Likewise, while it might work once in a fight, other combatants in the room would doubtless be expecting such a move once it has been used.