Card Game: Wounding yourself is treasonous?

[shnar]

If you play a card that wounds yourself and you're not a Traitor yet, is that Treasonous? (Some missions require that you receive at least one wound, so this happens at times)

Example: The end is near, and the TB needs 1 wound. Time to use that Laser Pistol on himself. Oh, but he's not yet a Traitor, so that gives him 1 Wound token and 2 Traitor tokens. Ouch, those 2 Traitor tokens made him a Mutant Commie Traitor, and the mission ended! In the Internal Investigation, the Computer had the TB executed, as was befitting him.

-shnar

 

[PaulB]

This is my interpretation:

Hurt Me

Paul

 

[MarkIV]

Ultimately you must look at it through the optical sensors of the Computer. Wounding non-traitors is Treason, so if you shoot yourself when you are not a Traitor you are damaging valuable Computer property and you receive Treason tokens.

 

[shnar]

Yeah, thinking more about it, shooting yourself is treasonous sounds very Paranoia, so that's how we decided to play it.

-shnar

 

[PaulB]

So, the answer is either follow the rules as they stand (i.e. hurting yourself isn't treasonous, because the rules say you only get Treason tokens for damaging others) or make up a house rule and make all damage to property of The Computer a treasonous act.

Paul