Technical Debt
2 GOODIES · +1 LVL
We'll pay it back next sprint. (An ancestral lie.)
SIDE EFFECT Refactor "later": a piece of gear is collateral.
Compound interest. In bugs. With overdraft fees.
BUG
Technical Debt
Bug · play it on your turn
The bug's story points9 SP
Compound interest. In bugs. With overdraft fees.
We'll pay it back next sprint. (An ancestral lie.)
DomainSlimePileTicketsLoot2 goodies · +1 level
- 01When
Drawn face up → the debug starts at once. From your hand: you can play it on your turn.
- 02Story points
9 SP. Your velocity must be strictly higher. A tie means the bug wins.
- 03Win
2 goodies and +1 level. A pair takes 1 goodie, you take the rest and the levels.
- 04Reassign
Roll 1–6, you need 5 or more (shifted by your gear / role / profile, minimum 2). Refused = the ticket comes back to you and you take the hit.
SIDE EFFECTRefactor "later": a piece of gear is collateral.
What it's really about
The situation
We will pay it back next sprint. It says so in last sprint's notes, and the one before, and the one before that. The lie is ancestral and nobody corrects it, because correcting it would take a sprint.
Why those numbers
Nine story points with no conditional bonus at all: debt plays no favourites. It takes a piece of gear on its way out, which is exactly its method in real life.
How to play it
The most honest bug in the deck: no trap, just a number. Nine means level 5 with four points of gear — or a pair.
Bugs
What you pull from the Tickets pile. Your velocity has to land strictly above their story points — and your friends will inflate them.
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