Slay the Spire
Paper Krane, Paper Phrog, Calipers, Odd Mushroom description change
I know what these do, but I still think the wording is confusing for these relics. The problem imo is the use of the word "rather". Below are some alternatives I think might be more intuitive.

Game: Enemies with Weak deal 50% less damage rather than 25%.
Proposed:
1. Enemies with Weak, instead of (or "rather than") dealing 25% less damage, now deal 50% less damage.
2. Enemies with Weak deal 50% less damage instead of 25%.
3. Enemies with Weak deal -25% less damage (-50% total).

Game: Enemies with Vulnerable take 75% more damage rather than 50%.
Proposed:
1. Enemies with Vulnerable, instead of (or "rather than") taking 50% more damage, now take 75% more damage.
2. Enemies with Vulnerable take 75% more damage instead of 50%.
3. Enemies with Vulnerable take +25% more damage (+75% total).

Game: When Vulnerable, take 25% more damage rather than 50%.
Proposed:
1. When you are Vulnerable, instead of taking 50% more damage, you now take 25% more damage.
2. When you are Vulnerable, take 25% more damage instead of 50%.

Game: At the start of your turn, lose 15 Block rather than all of your Block.
Proposed:
1. At the start of your turn, instead of (or "rather than") losing all your Block, you lose 15 Block.
2. At the start of your turn, if you have over 15 Block, you lose 15 Block.
Last edited by ♥♥♥♥ Goblin; Apr 7, 2018 @ 11:24pm
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Sinsling Apr 7, 2018 @ 11:27pm 
You would prefer to use complicated sentence structures over the simpler ones provided?
Originally posted by Sinsling:
You would prefer to use complicated sentence structures over the simpler ones provided?

I was leaning more towards clarity of the game mechanics effected, but after doing some googling, I found that the way the game is using "rather than" is wrong and that is why it sounded unclear to me.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/rather-than-vs-instead-of-82744.html#p1101889

"Rather than" should be replaced with "instead of" to be more clear as it is replacing the value and not comparing the values.

Last edited by ♥♥♥♥ Goblin; Apr 7, 2018 @ 11:36pm
Zu Apr 8, 2018 @ 1:23am 
So, how exactly were you confused? Did you assume that enemies could choose whether to follow the rules of the relic or what?
Sinsling Apr 8, 2018 @ 6:49am 
By definition, the word rather fits rather well;

2.
to a certain or significant extent or degree.
"she's been behaving rather strangely"
synonyms: quite, a bit, a little, fairly, slightly, somewhat, relatively, to some degree, comparatively; More
I think it makes less sense, but it's your game.
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Date Posted: Apr 7, 2018 @ 11:22pm
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