ROLLOVER Phase 8
Uses Excess In Next Challenge
You have the power to carry forward. When you win a challenge as a
main player where both sides played Attack Cards, you may add the
amount your total was in excess of your opponent's to your total in
your next challenge as main player.
History: Waste not, want not is the Rollover's motto.
FLARE
Phase 8
Wild: If your attack card is greater than your opponent's, you may add
the difference to your total in your next challenge as main player.
This Flare may only be zapped as it is played.
Super: If as main player you win a challenge because your opponent
played a Compromise, you may add your total from this challenge to
your next challenge. This Flare may only be zapped as it is played.
PULSAR
Phase 8
Con: Rollover may only hold onto excess challenge points and add them
to his challenges as offensive player. Excess points held before this
card is played may still be used. Excess points held when this card
is no longer in effect may be used normally.
Phase 9
Pro: If you lose the challenge as main player and both sides played
Attack Cards, you add the excess your opponent won by to your next
challenge as main player. This card may only be zapped as it is
played.
Eon/Avalon:
No Changes
Experience Rating: Advanced
Cosmic Monopoly
When your Monopoly token passes Free Parking due to rolling for
movement, even if you started on New York Avenue, note how many spaces
beyond it you moved. The next time your Monopoly token is within 12
spaces of Free Parking, instead of or in addition to rolling for
movement, you may add up to that number to land on Free Parking. This
ability then resets to zero. If you don't use this ability while
passing Free Parking the next time, you get a new total. If you land
on Free Parking by normal dice movement and not using this ability,
the value resets to 0 and you collect money from the Bank equal to the
money you get from Free Parking.
Commentary: This is a combat power created by Eric Clason and posted
to the newsgroup. Everything is his except the Pulsar Card, which is
mine. I clarified for the Flare it can only be zapped as it is played
as opposed to being zapped at the moment excess points are added in
the following challenge. Once the Flare is played and excess points
held, if not stopped at that moment, those excess points are added to
the next challenge no matter what. Only effects such as Witch or
Force could possibly alter it.
Anti-Matter and Loser are enemies of this power, but if Rollover does
win against them, the amount they won by is still an excess that is
then added to Rollover's next challenge as main player. However, if
that next challenge is also against Anti-Matter or Loser, then it
becomes difficult for Rollover to win.
The power does not specify what happens when the player loses his
power. The simplest solution is that the excess points are lost,
since they can only be applied to the next challenge. If Rollover is
zapped, them's the breaks. Rollover would also not be able to hold on
to excess points if he happens to win the challenge anyway. There is
also a problem if in the next challenge the opponent plays a
Compromise Card, or even Rollover plays one. Since Industrialist
specifies nothing happens to his stack when a Compromise Card is
played, there is precedent that Rollover could keep his excess points
for the next challenge both players reveal Attack Cards. However, the
intent of the power does seem to imply the excess is tied for the next
challenge specifically. Eric in his comments indicates that a player
revealing a Compromise Card will end the excess.
For metapowers using Rollover such as Insect and Plant, excess points
can still be held and are added to the metapower's next challenge for
which it uses Rollover, even if for the very next challenge Rollover
is not used. When Changeling switches with Rollover, the new
Rollover player gets and uses any current excess points held.
Commentary From Eric Clason: If the Rollover wins a challenge by a
large margin, the excess could roll through several subsequent
challenges that would otherwise be close. Of course this rolling
excess effect can be stopped by the use of a compromise (unless the
super flare is used).
Gerald Katz
Don't forget to tip the Butler!
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