Once a Law is passed it will impact the hearts and minds of the citizens. There are no meaningful choices without consequences! The Laws ensure that your people adapt, before they perish in this frozen world. Not enough workforce? Your Engineers pick resources instead of working on a new technological project? Maybe it is time to introduce the Child Labor law and let the youngest ones perform lighter jobs? To sum up the Laws allow you to solve some of the most pressing issues you might face as the leaders of the last city on Earth, they (often) force your citizens out of their old world comfort zone, ensuring the change in their mindsets (which might prove too much for those born in the Victorian times, still remembering how it used to be). In terms of the game’s mechanics it means that they break the rules! The Remove snow action causes citizens to fall prey to sickness each time? With Heated Meals Law it won’t be a problem anymore (if you can provide the additional food required 😉).
So why exactly do we need the Laws? They introduce various and vast effects for the entire society. The additional (randomly drawn) Laws are not contradictory which gives you more flexibility in choosing the direction for your city’s future. Should you choose the Faith path (theocracy) the path of the Order (totalitarian system) will not be possible. So for example if you decide to pass the Law that forces children to work they won’t have enough time and energy to gain education. What is more the core Laws come in pairs – one Law from a pair contradicts the other. This solution ensures that the core Laws that influence such essential aspects of the lives of your citizens as policy towards children, policy on nutrition, policy on housing and choosing a path of either Faith or Order are always present and the remaining ones rotate from one playthrough to another. You will be choosing from a set of 12, where 8 cards are always the same (core Laws) and 4 are randomly drawn from the Laws deck (where at this moment we have 8 different Law cards). This is exactly the way it works in this tabletop adaptation! The three main aspects of Laws: choice, effectiveness and morality.ĭuring a playthrough you can pass up to 4 Laws.
Establishing a Law will have far reaching consequences that can recur throughout your entire game. The Laws also create the ripple effect for the moral aspect of the people.
The Laws work on several layers – they are practical in the way they directly influence the efficiency of work, food production and consumption, health care, etc. We couldn’t imagine the tabletop adaptation without it! This neat mechanic determines your strategy for your entire playthrough, creating both material and ethical foundations of your society.
The Laws mechanics is one the most interesting systems in the digital Frostpunk. The mat will also be available in the Pledge Manager however adding it your pledge now will greatly contribute to unlocking some of the financial Stretch Goals we now have (the cardboard, glorious thick cardboard! 😉) for the entire game! You Make the Laws! 10-20 Euro ($12-23USD) the price depends on your location and the fact that it needs to be packed separately in an oversized parcel (it cannot be folded due to its thickness and how rubbery the material used is). Then click on the Add-ons tab and simply choose to add it to your pledge.
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