
08: Designing Tharsis with Zach Gage
The Secret Lives of Games
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The Dice Structure in Tharsis
The dice structure in Tharsis was to make it so that you would start every turn with a plan. And if you, you have four characters, so if you rolled well with your first character, then you'd be like, all right, this plan is going good. Then you go to your second character and maybe you don't roll quite as well. And then suddenly you're like, OK, well, that didn't really work out. So now I need to rethink the rest of my turn. Whatever you rethink, your second plan is never going to be as good as your first plan.
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