Agora Turn Guide
Early playtest feedback has been giving me a lot of good stuff to consider and mull over. One thing that I’ve been hearing a few times over, though, is a desire for a one-page cheat sheet for play procedures, which I can totally understand. Agora is a complex game, and the big picture of the beast would be a handy thing to have.
I took the six core procedures that players will encounter in a given turn and wrote quick bullet-point summaries of them. Then, with a little ghetto-hypertexting via text color, I came up with the following Agora Turn Guide:
At some point I’ll make an Incident Guide that handles Creating Incidents, Audience options, Burnout, and Fallout — but it’s my impression those aren’t critical right now, whereas the turn flow certainly is. The Turn Guide is in the playtest package, as well.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I am so damned happy that you have “sell the other player’s action” in the doc.
June 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Dude, it’s going in the book. “What happens after a failed counter” has been a hole in the design for a while. Selling the first player’s action is exactly what needs to go in there.