Welcome back to Mechanic Monday! Been a minute hasn't it? Remember when I did one of these a week for a year? 2020 was such a productive time! Totally worth the complete decay of my sense of self! Today I’m going to go about things a little backwards. Normally I start with the mechanical kernel, mock up how it would look in a hypothetical game, and then do a little theorycrafting around it. This time, I uh already have a v1.0 prototype. So let's start there. Gradually Shorter Engines In Paper Moth Dynasty, you play a young Monarch, with nine Role cards flipped to either their Sun or Moon side. In the first round you will place 7 of the 9 available cards in your Court tableau, then Exile a card and play the next round with one fewer card to draw and one fewer to play, then do the same again before the third and final round. You will therefore place 7 cards in the first round, 6 in the second, and 5 in the third round. So engine builders (and th...