Ever since I first played against Kaargra, I've wanted to use the title deck in games against other villains.
My idea is to take the Title deck, Crowd's Favor, and Bloodsworn Collesium and play them as a fourth deck against other villains. The titles would play as normal, and you'd collect favor as normal, but instead of 20 favor being an alternate win/lose condition, increasing favor would just be generally beneficial. My current idea is that every 10 favor would grant whichever side has the favor a global +1 to damage.
Thematically, Kaargra has replaced her regular gladiators with a special contest: the heroes versus whichever villain you're fighting.
What do you think?
I'm not sure it would really work well with the damage mod. Seems like something that would snowball extremely quickly. Having the titles works out well enough, I think, although there are many villains who would never benefit from them, or at least only very few of them. Voss comes to mind.
I definitely like the titles, but I don't think the favor should be implemented.
If you have opaque sleexes you can create an arena environment deck pretty easily.
Titles + Fickle Fans + Bloodsworn Judgement + arena card.
Favor works as such:
End of the Round (Between Env. and Villain turn)
1. If Heroes have more favor than villains you can destroy one title card in play.
2. If Villains have more favor than heroes take the oldest title card in play and put it under the Villain target with the fewest titles (high->low HP).
3. If Favor is even, nothing happens.
Then I add a rule I house rule into arena games anyway:
Anytime there are more than (H) titles in the title area take the titles that have been there the longest and put them under the deck until there are only (H) Titles in play.
If you don't sleeve you can run a variant where you play the deck face up so you don't see the backs, you play a card by moving the top card off the top of the deck, and the top card of the deck is always in play.
(This is because Fickle Fans and Bloodsworn Judgement have different backs and will be easy picking for deck control)
I'm sure there's some way to customize a favor stipulation for each villian. For instance, you wouldn't use the same favor rules against the Matriarch, unless you want her difficulty to be 1. But I would REALLY like it to be possible.
But every time you destroyed a fowl and gained a favor she would deal 2 damage and gain one as well, but yeah it isn't well balanced for every villain.
That could be a nice project to work on.
Okay, let's say she has four fowl. You kill four of them, netting four favor. She backlashes four times, dealing four instances of 2 damage. She only gets one favor this way, but only assuming she hits more than one hero, per ROUND. It would end very quickly for Lillian.
If favor is involved, I would probably make it so when hereos get a multiple of 20 then they each put the top card of their deck into play or into their hands, and when the villain get a multiple of 20 then put the top card of the highest HP villain’s deck and the top card of the environment deck into play. Also, for balance purposes, if favor is reduced below a milestone that was already hit, the reward is not given again when it goes back up.
I also wanted to note that some existing villain + environment combinations are already rather unbalanced. I tried Akashbuta on Final Wasteland once… not planning to do that again. My point is that it doesn’t have to be balanced for all villains to be usable.
I definately want some sort of reward for favor. What kind of collosseum would it be without the adoring fans?
I expect that adding the collosseum will make some villains easier, while others will become harder. That's not a bad thing, it just makes them different.
I expect Matriarch would be much easier, but on the other hand, Iron Legacy would probably become much harder. Every villain would be different.