SANDWISHES

[ProfessorLizzard]

This is a silly idea I have been toying for a while. Sandwishes is a boardgame idea, to be built in tabletop simulator, which is about a conspiracy of chefs working in a Starway sandwich restaurant, trying to assemble a magically charged sandwich, which would summon a god, who in reward for the sandwich, would grant all of you one wish.

Besides the Flavour, things are still nebulous a bit. Mechanics that might be important, in no particular order?

• Avoid the patrolling magical FDA, stealthily
• Try to get the cards you need from the public market
• Go around on the map, trying to influence locations
• Using your influence, you can increase the size and quality of the market (better deck and more cards)
• Create magical sandwich combinations to cast spells
• Get the ultimate sandwich based on your god, and turn it in for the ULTIMATE REWARD, using a specific combination of the four main sandwich filling groups: MEAT, PLANT, CHEESE and SAUCE.
• Your god might get impatient as time passes
• Rival secret groups trying to steal/block ingredients
• The map is a static map probably, but i would like to avoid the FFG way of making a small deck for every city district.
  

Still, before finalizing any of these, i would like to ask a few questions from you. Do these elements mesh well with the blurb on top? Perhaps some of these should be dropped? What other mechanics could work well with this flavour?

[ProfessorLizzard]

Also, building the game from the ground up.

Current plan for first, really, really, bare bones iteration:

• Get 4 small decks with ~20 generic ingredients (meat, cheese, plant, sauce)
• Draw a "town" with nondescript streets and a building for each small ingredient
• Play the game by everyone having four actions to travel around, and use a building they are in which adds specific cards to the Market, facedown
• Everyone picks a card from the market at the end of the turn, and the selected cards go to the HQ, rest is discarded
• Put down a wizard FDA pawn and have it patrol someonehow
• End the game when the SANDWISH is made (1 meat, 1 cheese, 1 plant and 1 sauce has to be mixed)
  

[Palamedes]

Sounds interesting. Would it be a competitive game or would players be working together/in groups?

[ProfessorLizzard]

I am planning it as a cooperative game. Some say too many cooks spoil the broth, but in my opinion, you need to combine your forces to make a great sandwish.

[ProfessorLizzard]

HRRM, Hmmmm... I have been thinking about picking this up again, but I am trying to figure out if there is actually a merit to this idea, or if it would be better as a one-off joke.

Also maybe the Town should be modular, so no two games are the same?

[Palamedes]

I think it has some merit as an idea. Maybe have the map work like it does in Betrayal - aka you draw new streets/buildings/whatever randomly from a pile as you discover them?