Airport Insecurity version 2

I'll give it a try. I'll get my gaming group together sometime this week. It could take a while before I get a response to you, so I'll just PM you when I'm done. Is that ok, Donut?

I was planning on reading your rules, unfortunately I have no idea what program you used to write them in?!

".odt": What is that?

I would figure that you should put a more common format like ".doc" (Microsoft Word) or ".pdf" (Adobe Acrobat).

Had a read-through and have a couple questions.

- You mention a few times that the players must "roll" but you don't mention any dice in your components list. I assume it's 1d6 at this point, right? Is there a way to modify the die used to determine success?
- Along those same lines, it's a shame to see that a player depends on good die rolls in order to gain something (luggage) to affect another player. Can you think of some way players may be able to interact with one another even if their luggage cards (or lack thereof) won't allow them to do so? The fact that there's a penalty to victory points for using luggage against other players will discourage unlucky players from trying to hold back the leader.
- I like the action point system as a way to allow players to manage poor rolls. Is there a luggage card you could develop that allows players to manipulate the available action tokens? Also, since there's up to four players in the game, might it be prudent to include 16 of them? Maybe order of play prevents both boarding passengers from having two action tokens each, even for a moment or two. I wasn't exactly clear on that.
- If you wanted to expand this idea, perhaps think about airline reputation, budget, and other longitudinal factors that keep an airline safe and/or in business. If you want to keep it light, that's fine, but there's a multitude of directions you can traverse should you want to elaborate this game.

Also, OpenOffice FOR THE WIN. :D

Airport Insecurity seems to be a very light, humorous game that pokes fun at nearly everything about air travel these days in the 'States, while not necessarily being offensive to anyone. Best of success to you on this game, donut! :)

Ah! I thought the action cards were part of the Luggage players would pick up from passengers. I guess I missed something else.

As for modifying the die, I meant perhaps the number of sides. If you typically roll a d6, what about a d8 or d10? What about 2d4? Just a thought. Maybe it came to mind since I didn't know which kind of dice you were referring to in your instructions.

PS: you can also use OpenOffice to make PDF files, which can be read on pretty much any computer these days.

do you have some sample luggage cards...i cant imagine what they will do once in hand

Read through the rules, and the cards...I don't mean to sound harsh, but the game doesnt seem very fun. I don;t see how any of my actions change much about the play. It really seems to boil down to the randomness of the dice and the randomness of the draws you get.

How does a player's actions influence his ability to win the game? Am I missing something?

I do love the theme of the game though...airport security is totally unique AFAIK

I'd have to play it to be sure, and I don't mean to come off a crass, but it seems like there are no meaningful decisions to make. A core component of games is feeling like there is progress, and I'm not sure I see how to make my progress better than someone else's progress.

Something of note: The Pathfinder adventure card game uses a similar mechanic where you have cards that you have to try and acquire or defeat with a dice roll, and it has ways of adding more dice to your pool as well as changing the die type (d4, d6,d10...etc).

Just some things to think about. If i could influence my die rolls somehow...or if there were passangers that were BAD to gain thier luggage (like loosing thier luggage or something?....Important people like celebrities...etc)
that might help

what about a dice pool mechanic, where you roll more D6's and you only have to beat the number on one of the dice...

Why not for victory have points based on how many people get on the plane with contraband.

you lose points for each contraband Item that makes it through without you detecting it?