Towards, away from, directly, and intercept

[Mike]

Wow. So many cards and actions rely on very specifically defining these terms.

We have regular kicks and throws that travel one, two, or three hexes. We have a curse that flings the ball five hexes and is interceptable.

So we need a way to easily and quickly define which hexes are in the ball's flight path and which are adjacent to that for interception purposes. Hopefully without having to lay down a ruler each time.

Also, when any card or rule says "toward" or "away from", especially when preceded by "directly", we need to know what's allowed. Because if I have to move directly towards something that is 6 hexes away, but not along a straight line of hexes, there are like 20 different paths that I could take that are all slightly different but all meet some definition of "directly towards" on a hex by hex basis. And which path you choose can make a huge difference in hex cost and other obstacles.

I've drawn up a bunch of diagrams. I'll try to make them coherent and share more thoughts.

[FlameBlade]

This kinda makes me want to run a script on the cards to find all common terminologies, and uncommon terminologies. Just to see if we could streamline and create glossary.

[Mike]

Right?

[Eliahad]

You're both awesome! Rip it apart! Rip it apart! (Please?)

[FlameBlade]

I made zero effort to really zoom in, so I figure this might be a good start to see if there are anything you might be missing. I lower-cases the whole thing, but I made zero effort to distinguish "hex" from "hexes"

Anyway! there you go!

the 215
to 162
hex 157
hero 137
in 133
1 130
[unnamed] 124
terrain 122
a 121
move 106
of 101
your 97
direct 96
any 89
from 77
2 75
target 74
adjacent 72
you 66
may 65
hexes 64
this 62
ap 59
if 59
blessing 57
discard 54
hex. 49
that 49
godball 48
is 47
and 45
on 44
token 44
card 42
an 41
cost 40
/or/ 40
action 37
their 36
direction. 35
up 35
hera 35
curse 34
after 33
not 33
aphrodite 33
or 32
place 32
reaction 32
pillar 32
athena 31
away 31
defend 31
3 31
poseidon 31
hermes 31
zeus 31
- 30
pay 29
with 29
one 29
2ap 27
legend 27
remove 27
god 26
be 25
are 25
throw 25
as 25
water 25
heroes 24
shove 23
all 23
it 23
you. 22
unoccupied 21
they 21
must 20
for 19
cancel 19
hero. 19
take 18
use. 18
create 18
opponent 17
by 17
at 17
tokens 17
sprint 16
play 16
board 16
turn. 15
turn 15
0ap 15
uncontrolled 15
each 15
knocked 15
"place 15
heaven 15
1ap 13
successful 13
hexes. 13
card. 13
choice 13
control 13
ball 13
mountain 13
grab 12
only 12
do 12
down 12
against 12
terrain. 12
no 12
cannot 11
immediately 11
choose 11
other 11
golden 11
kick 10
"if 10
ap. 10
also 10
god's 10
discards 10
next 9
hex." 9
spend 9
rest 9
add 9
away. 9
then 9
use 8
down. 8
targeting 8
knockdown 8
can 8
power 8
hand. 8
intercept 8
direction 8
force 7
grabbed 7
another 7
moved 7
additional 7
same 7
4 7
pool. 7
godball: 7
look 7
those 7
sheep 7
has 6
into 6
ignore 6
cost. 6
action. 6
end 6
but 6
ambrosia 6
randomly 6
+ 6
fleece 6
board. 6
bull 6
contiguous 6
more 6
0 6
have 6
fumble 5
cards 5
within 5
them 5
palladion 5
through 5
two 5
chariot 5
does 5
aphrodite's 5
apple 5
storm 5

[Mike]

Dammit man... I'm supposed to be getting to sleep now.

All I did was compress your data a little bit, combining different forms of the same word, removing punctuation, etc. I left in punctuation for /or/ and [unnamed], because those specific punctuations carry specific meaning within our card set.

hex/hexes 292
the 215
you/your 185
hero/heroes 180
a/an 162
to 162
terrain 134
in 133
[unnamed] 124
ap 124
move/moved 113
of 101
are/is/be 97
direct 96
any 89
target/targeting 82
from 77
adjacent 72
if 69
may 65
discard/discards 64
this 62
token/tokens 61
card/cards 60
blessing 57
godball 55
that 49
place 47
cost 46
and 45
on 44
action 43
direction 43
them/their 41
/or/ 40
away 40
aphrodite/aphrodite's 38
god/god's 36
hera 35
up 35
curse 34
after 33
not 33
or 32
pillar 32
reaction 32
athena 31
defend 31
hermes 31
poseidon 31
zeus 31
turn 30
one 29
pay 29
with 29
legend 27
remove 27
use 26
as 25
throw 25
water 25
all 23
it 23
shove 23
board 22
they 21
unoccupied 21
down 20
must 20
cancel 19
for 19
grab/grabbed 19
create 18
take 18
at 17
by 17
do/does 17
opponent 17
play 16
sprint 16
each 15
heaven 15
knocked 15
uncontrolled 15
ball 13
choice 13
control 13
mountain 13
successful 13
against 12
has/have 12
no 12
only 12
cannot 11
choose 11
golden 11
immediately 11
other 11
also 10
kick 10
add 9
next 9
rest 9
spend 9
then 9
can 8
hand 8
intercept 8
knockdown 8
power 8
additional 7
another 7
force 7
look 7
pool 7
same 7
sheep 7
those 7
ambrosia 6
bull 6
but 6
contiguous 6
end 6
fleece 6
ignore 6
into 6
more 6
randomly 6
apple 5
chariot 5
fumble 5
palladion 5
storm 5
through 5
two 5
within 5

Roughly 5000 total words with a vocabulary of 136 individual words. Thank you, Flame, but I'm going to be obsessing over this now. I should just go back to my hex maps.

[Eliahad]

Something funky is up...Galatea is missing. Not that her name was used a lot, but she should be on the list. Are there other words that got omitted? Just making sure that we got everything.

[Mike]

Maybe Flame only got words with 5 or more incidents.

[FlameBlade]

Yeah. Galatea had count of 4. Those with fewer appearances...needs more manual work to dig out.

Might give this another shot tonight.