• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    I actually really like this as an idea. Has someone made a chess variant with PF2e-style action economy before?

    Personally I feel like any capturing move would be 2 actions, as would castling. Any other move is 1 action. Maybe capturing with king would be 1 action.

    I’m not sure how it would actually play out, but it could be interesting.

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      5 months ago

      Well the saying goes “if you aim for the king, you best not miss”. I think going for check or checkmate should be 3 actions, same with capturing with king. Mostly because the king would likely be in check in most situations where the king can capture

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        5 months ago

        Oh yeah, I like that.

        I’d say it should do away with checkmate and use a Drawback Chess–style system where you win by capturing the king. This would cost 3 actions. I think merely moving into check could cost 2.

        My original idea was that capturing with king would cost less than a normal capture because I wanted to buff the king’s ability to protect himself, and in particular I was worried about strategies that could force the opponent to spend 2 actions capturing your piece with their king. But making moving into check cost 2 actions and capturing the king cost 3 would completely negate the need for that.

        Moving into check with a capture would, obviously, cost 3 actions (1 for move, 1 extra for capturing, 1 extra for the check). And discovered checks would also cost 2 actions, with discovered check via a capture costing 3.