This was a great article. My favorite design article thus far. Very interesting reading about the process which brought Concealed to life.

yup. very informative and fun read. Like the semi-spoiler of how Negative Zone and Asgard peeps may be concealed.

KITTY!

lol

That was so funny.

nice article. it's nice to know what goes on in the heads of the Vs ppl.

"The primary weakness of evasion (at least in my opinion—this was hotly debated) is that it compresses a fairly complex payment power into a keyword. (Of course, this issue bleeds into the topic of reminder text—you know, the little parenthetical text that clears up possible rules questions or explains what a keyword means. I’ll go into keywords and reminder text at a future time.)"


One of my largest problems with teaching VS to new players is the lack of reminder text on the cards. I remember when I bought my first few Web of Spider-Man boosters just as I was getting into the game. I'd thrown some WOS cards into the starter set and my friends and I had to stop in the middle of the game ... it took us half an hour to find out what Evasion was.

And while I now have UDE bookmarked, this probably happens to other newer players as well. How many question threads have we seen on this site about Cosmic? About the Hidden Area? We may be able to answer these quickly, but many casual players cannot. And it makes the game less accessible.

With that said, the above quote from the article actually relieved me a bit. The designers do, in fact, realize the troubles with a lack of reminder text and are attempting to balance the issue.

And that makes me feel great about the future of this game.