Design Journey

Wed Oct 12 – Creating Assistant Cards

Now that we have Player Cards to represent our boutique puppeteer firms, I started thinking about an option to hire assistants.  This was in the Parking Lot as a possible future expansion.  The more I thought about adding some minor ability, the more I liked the concept.  You tap your assistant to use their ability, which will untap in the Refresh Phase, so these powers can only be used once per Year.  I drafted a dozen Assistant Cards that can join your firm, and a mechanic to pick from 3 revealed cards.  Now you can look for synergies to go strong with your chosen strategy,  or provide balance in an area you may be weak.  In future turns, if a more useful ability is revealed, maybe you can fire the assistant you have and choose a new one.  Another suggestion from Braden was to add another Leadership track on the Player Card, along with a Job to improve it, leading to an option to have more assistants.  I’ll have to get some feedback on these ideas from the next round of playtesting.