Role Selection

Selecting the next action to do by choosing from a limit number of roles.

Some games do provide players with a common pool of possible actions from which each players can only choose one action per turn.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Puerto Rico

San Juan

Race for the Galaxy

Using the pattern

(see Functional Roles for roles that span more than one turn).

While Role Selection may only let the player that chose the role to perform the action, an option is to let all players perform the role but give

Increased Abilities or a Privileged Ability

No-Use Bonus

chooser's bonus

Relations

Functoinal Roles

Turn-Based Games Excluding Goals Token Placement Limited Set of Actions Freedom of Choice Competition Turn Taking

Can Be Modulated By

Increased Abilities No-Use Bonus, [Privileged Abilities]]

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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Acknowledgements

Karl Bergström