[Fluxx] Re: my blanxx I've made

[Frank F. Smith]

fluxxguy wrote:
>>> GOAL CARDS
>>> 1. EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH BEER: Beer replaces one of the two  
>>> choices on the current Goal card
>>> (Scott's note: Everyone loves this card.  It's not too powerful and  
>>> produces some interesting goals.  Everything IS better with beer.)
>>>     
>> It *sounds* too powerful. Most goals that require only one card are  
>> too powerful. How many games have ended swiftly because of "All you  
>> need is love?" This card is A LOT like "All you need is love." It  
>> basically removes, for ONE player, the need for a second card, and  
>> doesn't limit which other keeper is needed.
> Scott adds: It really isn't, because you do have to declare when you 
> play it which part of the goal you are replacing and you cover
> that half with the "Everything's better with beer" card.
>
> On the same subject, Frank writes:
> Also sounds to me like a Rule rather than a Goal. As a Goal, it needs an 
> extra piece of game mechanics. Does it modify only the Goal in play when 
> _it_ is played (and is discarded with that Goal as soon as another Goal 
> is played)? That would make it less powerful (because temporary). I 
> think the "Everything's better with beer" card in that case might not be 
> too powerful, but it might make the Beer keeper too powerful ...
>
>
> Scott adds: Yes, it modifies only the Goal in play and disappears into obscurity with the next goal played.
>   
Thanks for the clarification. (And I withdraw my comment about it 
sounding more like Rule than Goal; with the mechanics you've described, 
it fits better as a goal.) It sounds like an amusing card. Great for ad 
libbing the modified goal -- "Rocket Fuel!"

Frank