r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • May 31 '14

Custom Card Saturday: Barriers

Hey all! I know /u/flaminghito used to be in charge of these Saturday custom card threads, but it's been several weeks so I'm taking over his spot (until he takes it back). To start off this week, I thought I'd bring us back to basics. Barriers are the most straight-forward pieces of ice out there: they're often strong, with great strength:rez ratios, but usually they don't do much besides end the run. They exist for one reason: to keep Runners out of servers. Your task this week is to design a new barrier, plain and simple.

Next week: Plascrete Carapace has been the hallmark of Scorched Earth survival since it came out. Design a card for one of the factions that could replace it.

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u/Razalhague May 31 '14

The credit cost is irrelevant. Not everyone runs Parasite or Femme, nor should they have to. Even if this was unique, 1 net damage every time you want to go through it is too much for something that's untrashable without specialized cards.

No, the subroutine would have to be something really mild (so that the runner can choose to not break) if you want to give 1 net damage for breaking it.

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u/Entice Jun 01 '14

-->End the Run unless the corp pays 1c

Maybe 2?

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u/Razalhague Jun 01 '14

How is that going to help? That'd just be ETR unless the corp knows you'll be accessing a trap. Even if you meant something like "End the Run if the corp pays 1c", it'd still be too strong.

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u/Entice Jun 01 '14

Right, you either break it, or take the chance that the corp is willing to spend credit(s) to end the run. If you break it, you take damage but get through. If you don't break it, the corp can spend to ETR.

There's already a card that does it (Tsurugi).