• Rules update 2014 (category Game Design)
    well as having their resource enchanted. This was always the design intention for the game, but there was a mistake in the way the rules were written down
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  • from the surrounding marshes - but all the signs indicate that this is by design rather than as a consequence of any architectural failure. There are also
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  • round a camp would serve to protect against. This set-up is part of the game design, intended to make Anvil as open as possible to encourage interaction and
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  • Setting a test (category Game Design) (section Design)
    creating a challenge for another player you have a massive impact on their game - if PD created that challenge for that player we'd call it "plot". Creating
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  • Dawn monarchy update (category Game Design)
    effective than it would otherwise have been. This directly flows from core game design elements that decisions are expensive and difficult to reverse. The Assembly
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  • claim that they can roleplay that they are helping is not justifiable in a game that places such a strong emphasis on reflecting players' actions in the
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  • effort to learn to tell them apart. This is a deliberate part of the game design - it's a feature, not a bug. Under normal circumstances you can hear an
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  • and respected across Wintermark then you have to use the mechanisms of the game to create an Imperial title. Every Imperial title goes on the wiki, so everyone
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  • Rules update 2020 (category Game Design)
    Every year we carry out a review of some part of the game looking to see what we improve. This year our focus has been on updating some parts of the rules
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  • Rules update 2018 (category Game Design)
    reasons of out-of-character game design criteria - it is an out-of-character decision taken by the Empire game team to improve the game. We consulted extensively
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  • Conjunctions (category Game Design)
    details of the Sentinel Gate. Sentinel Gate design - a longer explanation of some of the out-of-character design philosophy for the Gate. Anomalous conjunctions
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  • Sentinel Gate design (category Game Design) (section Core Design Criteria)
    Sentinel Gate is an essential part of the Empire game design - it allows us to combine a political game centred on Anvil with battles against the Empire's
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  • interesting game in the field. As a purely out-of-character construction, the thing doesn't allow for or create much game in my view as a game designer (players
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  • contrary to the game design. We've presented the update here as part of a wind of fortune, but we want to be clear that this is a game update that we've
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  • Remote Navarr (category Game Design)
    the beaten track it rarely sees many visitors. The Starks of Winterfell in Game of Thrones are like an isolated Steading... they rarely visit Kings Landing
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  • Abstraction (category Game Design)
    come from the simplicity that they ensure. The game design strives to ensure that the complexity of the game is in the field - in the interactions between
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  • Secrecy (category Game Design) (section An Inclusive Game)
    meetings in the game. All of these decisions are deliberately taken to make the game as accessible as possible for new players. Setting the game up in this
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  • The content on this page may be out of date. See Game Design: Spoils of War for more information When the Empire captures a territory from the barbarians
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  • Rules update 2015 (category Game Design)
    perform it or if the target clearly fails to take the effect. The original game design deliberately set out to make warriors more powerful than wizards on the
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  • crudely mechanical - with the result that it was easy for a few players to game the system and circumvent this key element. The mechanism suggested in the
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