NickName wrote:
A few comments:
I find characters with built-in disadvantages interesting, not "stupid" from the gameplay perspective.
If you're going to ignore the gameplay perspective, and go for the "fluff" consideration it's sort of jumping to conclusions to assume Cade when adjacent is pulling out his lightsaber and ignoring whatever causes his Splash 10 without really making an effort to figure out who the character is, and why he's represented/abstracted the way he is in the game.
I think it's a bit unrealistic to expect a casual SWM player, especially one who only does it because it's the hobby of his or her significant other, to want to go out of their way to learn all the background. Besides, I own and have read all of the Legacy comic issues, and I couldn't explain it to her in some "abstract" concept.
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And a longshot... Is it possible there's a self-serving element here? In the description, it sounds as if she wasn't aware of this pre-game, as if she's reading the card after making the tactical mistake of letting Cade get based.
I don't know what you mean when you say "let" Cade get based. It's not something you can just avoid. Characters get based all the time; it's part of the game.
To answer your question though, the short answer is no, she probably didn't read the card from the brand new set very carefully before we started playing. The full answer is completely comical to me but I doubt it would translate well in a post. You would just have to know me and my wife, and how we interact as a couple, to appreciate the full humor.
(Imagine Frank and Marie Barone though not that extreme.)
(The "self-serving element" phrase is what I'm referring to, sort of - she bends the rules when we play one of "my" games.)
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...but I see that kind of thing a lot in competetive situations. (ie, was there also a complaint about having too many attacks while adjacent because Cade is having to holster his guns while using his saber? It seems unlikely, but it's equally "stupid" from a fluff perspective.)
Well logic isn't the strong-suit of SWM.