by cfmcdonald
clivej wrote:
Jlerpy wrote:
Yes, it gives new powers to factions, but you don't get to keep the same faction from game to game; it's one of the things that you pick at the start of a game [...] So if a faction turns out to be strong, it'll get picked quickly by someone
Is that actually fun, though? Starting the game with a faction everybody recognises is more/less powerful than the others?
I'd have expected people to see it as undersirable. Maybe to the extent that it put a brake on people doing things they knew would give any faction a significant edge or handicap?
Yes, it is actually fun. Every game starts with what amounts to a kind of auction for a wide variety of things. Sure you want the cool faction.. but you also really want that key starting location, and then again there's that other thing that would be nice. Having the factions be unbalanced actually makes this more fun.