More data on card plays
Basically, what I want as the narrator is to be able to tell how many cards a particular person has played in the scene, or what specific cards have been played on a given obstacle or person card. I find myself wanting that information frequently so that I can give prompts and help to people who are unsure of what to do, but having to do a bunch of math to figure it out.
The Activity Summary now lists how many cards each player has played in a given scene and how far along each challenge is and how it is trending (Weak/Strong/Neutral).
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David Reed commented
In addition to allowing the cast to float the way Commentary does, please add a 3-box indicator to the right of each Cast card indicating the kind of card(s) that each has played so far in the scene. They're only allowed 3 anyway, so showing empty boxes or the icons for each type of card would be grand!
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C David Dent commented
In RE To Heather's comment, the Obstacle Block changes color based on the current trend of the aggregate cards played. I'd rather see it as a multi-colored block of green, orange and grey until it is completed...then it becomes the color of the outcome. It would make it much easier to determine what to play on it to bring it into the result I want (or can achieve)
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C David Dent commented
Well you can figure it out by going through a scene and counting them. But there is no "summary" with an explicit count of what people have both played or have left to play in a scene.
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Zachary Kline commented
I was surprised not to see this already, I would have expected card plays to be transparent.
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Heather commented
I'm in a large game (11 players) and this is definitely needed! As a player it would also be handy to be able to click on the list of characters on the left in a scene and see at least how many cards they've played on which challenges - the specific cards played would be even better.
Likewise, when looking at an obstacle that's still unfinished it would be nice to see who has played what cards on it. Even when it says "heading for a strong/weak outcome", if it's only heading that way by a majority of one, playing one of the opposite type can put it back to uncertain. It would definitely be handy to know at a glance whether it's got 2 strong and one neutral on it already, or whatever, without having to scroll through dozens of posts to find the cards that have been played.
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C David Dent commented
I'd like to see in the cast list "X Cards left to play"
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C David Dent commented
In a very large cast this would be invaluable to seeing who has cards left to play.