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[cliffwiggs]

I don't want to get too deep into Formal Language Theory here (Yeah Geeks!)

Anyway, last night while sitting in the dark waiting for my 2 yeard old to fall asleep I was thinking about the various types of events we play and that they could be described as a formal language (or a set of options). Pat's No-Cav event also made me think along these lines. What would a no-save event be like...

Here was my starting list of all the attributes you would need to have a fully customizable game declared in a consistent format. It consists of several parts which have options. I'll use a modified form of a context-free grammar to describe it.

Naturally you could make some games so restrictive they don't make sense or you couldn't build a legal army for them anyway.

GAME:= ARMYSIZE + DIVERSITY + RACE + RARITY + TYPES + SETS

ARMYSIZE:= 18 | 24 | 36 | 60 | anynumber

DIVERSITY:= SINGLERACE | MULTIRACE

RACE:= ANY | NATURE | DEATH | CONTAINSELEMENT

(Restrict by)RARITY:= COMMON + UNCOMMON + RARE + MONSTER/ELDARIM

COMMON:= NUMBERMIN (no less than) | NUMBERMAX (no more than) | UNIQUERESTRICTION | COMMON + COMMON (reflexive to allow for multiple choices)

UNCOMMON:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | UNIQUERESTRICTION |UNCOMMON + UNCOMMON

RARE:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | UNIQUERESTRICTION |RARE + RARE

MONSTER/ELDARIM:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | UNIQUERESTRICTION |MONSTER/ELDARIM + MONSTER/ELDARIM

(Restrict by)TYPES:= MAGIC + MANEUVER + MELEE + MISSILE + SAVE

For this section extend the concept of magic restriction to any result type: (we can't do exceptions like the vampire under this generic rule. If you don't like it, deal with it)

"Componets with at least one XXX icon have an XXX point value equal to their health. Monsters and artifaces are covered under the following special rule. Each face with a normal XXX icon counts as one point and each potentially XXX-generating SAI counts as two points. The XXX point value of a monster or artiface is the sum of these values, up to a total of four points."

MAGIC:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | NUMBEREXACT (we know the size of the Army above, so percentages can be explicitly defined here)

MANEUVER:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | NUMBEREXACT

MELEE:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | NUMBEREXACT

MISSILE:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | NUMBEREXACT

SAVE:= NUMBERMIN | NUMBERMAX | NUMBEREXACT (in this format, suddenly the coralelves become strong)

(Restrict by)SETS:= STARTER | RACES | ELEMENT | MAGESTORM | PROMOTIONAL


I know its techincal, but did I forget or mess anything up? We can define all our existing events (even novelty events) via this right? Except for something like Misfit monsters, but thats too specific for something this generic.
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[goldbh]

Phew Cliff, I'm glad you kept it Informal.....
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