I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time rather drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic came from my blog.

Somebody asked me, how do we decide when we repeat mechanics versus when we tweak mechanics?

So that is today's topic.

So mostly the idea is like we like to think

of mechanics as a resource. I often talk about the metaphor of their tools in our toolbox.

And so the idea is if we can use a mechanic, we will. You know, if a set needs something,

there's no need to necessarily reinvent the wheel.

If something will work that already exists, why not use that thing?

But there are reasons why we will tweak things.

So that is sort of the topic du jour.

Okay, first and foremost, maybe the thing that we did, there is something problematic

with it. So the first problem I will bring up is what I will say is it's unintuitive,

meaning we had a mechanic, it did something, and then people didn't, they just did not play it correctly.

And then once again, not really a fault of the player.

There's something about the mechanics that kind of just fought expectation.

My example here will be fading.

So if fading first showed up, I believe, in Nemesis.

And the way that fading worked is you came with a certain

number of counters, fading counters, and then each turn, you would remove a fading counter, each

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