Now, I am aware that these are long-standing issues of many years which were never addressed despite complaints (that I believe have been lodged here years ago).
However, since the announcement of the Reworks and Revamps, I believe that it is time that these issues should be highlighted again.
I am referring to the cards which are drawn when the Menaces are at specific (but otherwise relatively) low ranks, namely the following:
A Moment’s Peace:
Problem Statement: Currently, this card is rarer than the other cards. The card also only appears at Rank 3 of Nightmares; the other cards appear at Rank 2 of their respective Menaces.
Perhaps the disparity was due to past policies on making Nightmares the worst of the menaces, but I have the impression that the recent reworks and revamps to the social action suggest that these policies are no longer the case. (The Social Action to wipe Nightmares is in particular hella effective - far better than the worth-lacking previous option of spending Sudden Insights.)
Suggestion: The Card should be rendered as frequent as the others, and the drawing requirement should be lowered to rank 2 of Nightmares.
Benefits of Implementing Suggestion: Currently, for Persons of Some Importance, the only worthwhile method of lowering Nightmares when it is below rank 3 is to go to the Labyrinth of Tigers and gawp at the Somnolent Hyena. This would have been rendered less useful if there is a storylet to reliably (and profitably) raise Nightmares to rank 3 and thus enable the (awesomely good) new Social Actions, but there is not any storylet that can reliably do this. (Yes, I am aware of the Forgotten Quarter options - and their random Airs and outcomes.)
Reworking this card should provide a player with an opportunity to reduce Nightmares while it is at low levels, whenever the card is drawn.
A Restorative
(Link included for reader’s convenience at checking out the options in this card.)
Problem Statement: Of all the Menace-managing cards, this may well be the most useless, because of the lack of extra options for rank 0 to rank 5 of Counting the Days; personally, I only use this card to get rid of Unaccountably Peckish after consuming the Counterfeit Heads of the Baptist.
Even the extra options that are there have requirements; two of them are mutually exclusive to each other. One of them is quite expensive.
With the revamp of the Social Actions, it is easier to just raise Wounds to Rank 3 with gawping and then use the Social Actions with multiple characters. At its present state, this card is little more than a nuisance.
Suggestion: At least, please introduce an option for Rank 0 to Rank 5 of Counting the Days. The mutually exclusive options should have their requirements changed too (maybe even gate them behind specific Renown or Connection qualities, which would be more narratively appropriate).
Benefits of Implementing Suggestion: The card should become useful for reducing Wounds when it is under Rank 3 - and this card actually becomes useful.
Problem Statement: There is no extra option for Rank 10 to Rank 11 of Counting the Days. Sure, it’s just two ranks, but the CP bars for these ranks are … long.
Also, there is the matter of the option for Rank 0 to Rank 5. Personally, my characters have doles of Infernal Contracts to burn for this option of wiping out 6 CPs worth of Suspicion in a single action, and they have gained lots of Infernal Contracts from the profitable but not always available Suspicion-reducing storylet of Confound the Constables anyway. However, some players might be huffing over the cost of this option.
Suggestion: A new extra option for Rank 10 to Rank 11 of Counting the Days, please.
Benefits of Implemeting Suggestion: Ditto.
Last, and least…
Foreword: Now, this card may well have become more valuable just for the change in one of the options that grant a Favour: Hell ("More Scandal be damned! Let’s profit!"), but I am proceeding with the assumption that the player would actually want to use this card to reduce Scandal instead.
Problem Statement: There is not always an extra option available for every Counting the Days rank. Specifically, there is a gap between Rank 6 to Rank 9 of Counting the Days, which makes this card less useful when Counting the Days is in this range - assuming that the player wouldn’t want the Favour: Hell, of course.
Suggestion: Please introduce an option for Rank 6 to Rank 9 of Counting the Days.
Benefits of Implementing Suggestion: Ditto. But really, if you are clever, you would be taking the option that gives the Favour: Hell.
edited by Rostygold on 7/14/2017