additionally, I think you should put in a percent checker, so that if you use a 30% effective effect two times and it fails then the third time it will work and if you do the same and it works two times in a row then it should fail the third time. This should only apply if a player is using the same move repetivly (as in multiple times consecutively). This will (hopefully) eliminate the uproar over Higashi's unbalancedness, as well as prevent future problems.
some ideas for single player:
have the computer know which cards prefer which range.
Don't have intercepts be completely random, have the computer only intercept when player health and energy is below half or something
Don't have enemy attacks be random; have the enemy at least do the attack that does the most damage over an attack that does almost nothing when it has full energy.
Maybe put in a survival mode of your 5 card deck against a continous stream of charachters.
One last comment for today: The single player game really need to be revamped. At the moment they kinda suck (at least when compared to the awesomness of multiplayer)
If you kill two people withZina in two consecutive turns you only get one buff. The second buff doesn't even replace the first one. I think you should get two buffs if you can do that.
@Maxro that is true but the card is still imbalanced. The requirement that only certain charachters can use it it nowhere near as much a setback as the extra damage is a boost.
items should work even if you die: if you have healing salve and are reduced to exactly 0hp you either need to be raised back up to 3hp or there needs to be much clearer rules about item effects. Actually, you just need clearer rules and more standard rules in general for items. Especially it cases when both players are useing items and atacks that have buffs and debuffs, there is a lot of ambiguity.
Higashi as writen is not over powered but his open palm attack stuns WAY more than 30% of the time. 30% would be the same as spiked boots (Ambrosia thorn)
I have the same problem as Bobbobfish.
In responce to Moose111:
I agree in the specific case you mentioned but I think that "deals +1 damage per opponents points of dark resistance" X2 should be +2 points per point of dark resistance.
If you kill an opponent while you have gem of souls and the opponent is the same card as you you don't gain their innate ability. You should be able to get double inate ability like this.
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