New HQ Equipment Cards

[arntisdale]

I've updated all of the card images.
All the images should now be fairly consistent. (see link in 1st post)
I've gone to NA-style with no borders.
Please check it out at let me know what you think!

[Gold Bearer]

Nice cards. Ensorcelled, never heard that word before.

The Skullcleaver is a bit ambiguous, what if you attack and different target on your next turn then go back to the first target the turn after? Personally I'd just have it being able to reroll one dice all the time.

I like the Chaotic Sword but I think it would be neater if rolling a 1 meant attacking with one dice. It would still average 3.5 dice so would still be better than any standard one handed weapon. You don't like that you have to roll one attack dice? Well tough titties, that's what you get for using a sword that's chaotic!

The Potion Of Counterattack could probably use a slight rewording. From now on and for the next three turns is almost a contradiction, the from now on part isn't needed. I take it when you say 'parry' you mean the attacker rolls at least one skull but you don't get wounded? That needs to be clearer because it could mean whenever you don't take damage from an attack or whenever you roll at least one white shield even if you do take damage. It could also do when a nicer sounding name in my opinion, if not Counter-Attack isn't one word.

The Wand Of Galimatis has an effect when you first find it which is a little odd. I'd write that part in the quest notes where it's found because it's not really part of the item, at least not a lasting part. I'd spell out two extra mind points instead of using '2', 2 looks wrong I think. That works for dice rolls, as in on the roll of a 1 or 2, but not if it's descriptive of the number of something.

Does casting Tempest use your action?

Some of these might seem slightly picky but you should make the most of that awesome and completely official looking artwork.

The Wand Of Galimatis has an effect when you first find it which is a little odd. I'd write that part in the quest notes where it's found because it's not really part of the item, at least not a lasting part. I'd spell out two extra mind points instead of using '2', 2 looks wong I think. That works for dice rolls, as in on the roll of a 1 or 2, but not if it's descriptive of the number of something.

Does casting Tempest use your action?

Some of these might seem slightly picky but you should make the most of that awesome and completely official looking artwork.

[lestodante]

Ensorcelled, never heard that word before.
Ask to Pancho!!! He took this one from the Tyrant's Tomb book by Dave Morris.

The Skullcleaver is a bit ambiguous, what if you attack and different target on your next turn then go back to the first target the turn after? Personally I'd just have it being able to reroll one dice all the time.
No, it allows a re-roll only the first time you attack a new monster (but again, ask to Pancho);

I like the Chaotic Sword but I think it would be neater if rolling a 1 meant attacking with one dice. It would still average 3.5 dice so would still be better than any standard one handed weapon. You don't like that you have to roll one attack dice? Well tough titties, that's what you get for using a sword that's chaotic!
I totally agree with you, I also liked the 1 die attack but this is what was written in the original Brazilian quest. You may adjust any rule you prefer.

The Potion Of Counterattack could probably use a slight rewording. From now on and for the next three turns is almost a contradiction, the from now on part isn't needed. I take it when you say 'parry' you mean the attacker rolls at least one skull but you don't get wounded? That needs to be clearer because it could mean whenever you don't take damage from an attack or whenever you roll at least one white shield even if you do take damage. It could also do when a nicer sounding name in my opinion, if not Counter-Attack isn't one word.
Yes, it means when you don't get a wound.

The Wand Of Galimatis has an effect when you first find it which is a little odd. I'd write that part in the quest notes where it's found because it's not really part of the item, at least not a lasting part. I'd spell out two extra mind points instead of using '2', 2 looks wrong I think. That works for dice rolls, as in on the roll of a 1 or 2, but not if it's descriptive of the number of something.
Again, ask to Pancho!

Does casting Tempest use your action?
Yes, you can attack or cast Tempest. So it's an action.

Some of these might seem slightly picky but you should make the most of that awesome and completely official looking artwork.
What do you mean with "slightly picky"?

[Gold Bearer]

What do you mean with "slightly picky"?

That I was probably being overly critical. I don't mind a bit of complexity but I like clean, tidy and unambiguous rules.

[Pancho]

Ensorcelled is when an ordinary object (or person) has sorcery done upon it, and it then becomes magical.
If I remember correctly I added that word myself, I don’t think it came from description in the Heroquest novel. But it works quite well in this instance because Dave Morris uses a lot of other archaic phrases in the books, which I have used in the quest pack. Feel free to change it though.

Skullcleaver you could add that it’s when you attack a “new” opponent.

I agree that for the Wand of Galimatias the bit about it returning all lost spells would be better off in the quest notes. Somebody else said that over on the thread, but it must have been forgotten. I also agree that “two” would be better than 2.

[slev]

Mind if I steal some of these images for my projects please?

[lestodante]

Mind if I steal some of these images for my projects please?

All the cards above will be released with The Tyrant's Tomb quest pack very soon.
Of course, anyone can download and modify as they prefer.
PS: I guess you are using the QUOTE option in the wrong way...

OK, I can change 2 with two. But I think it is more correct to use a number instead of a word when you are referring to a score (at least in Italian grammatic it is so).
EDIT: Well, just checked and all the English cards are using words, while the Italian, French, and Spanish cards use numbers. NICE FIND!
The German version uses both numbers and words, depending by the cards.

[Anderas]

Mind if I steal some of these images for my projects please?

All the cards above will be released with The Tyrant's Tomb quest pack very soon.
Of course, anyone can download and modify as they prefer.
PS: I guess you are using the QUOTE option in the wrong way...

OK, I can change 2 with two. But I think it is more correct to use a number instead of a word when you are referring to a score (at least in Italian grammatic it is so).
EDIT: Well, just checked and all the English cards are using words, while the Italian, French, and Spanish cards use numbers. NICE FIND!
The German version uses both numbers and words, depending by the cards.

Depending by the numbers.

Normally we use words until 12, above we use numbers. This is because our language is so fraggled up that you can't understand the numbers properly when written. For 35 we say 5-and-30. For 1234 we speak 1-thousand-2-hundred-4-and-30. For 13 we speak 3-10.

So you hear all the numbers above 12 the wrong way around leading to crazy errors all the time... but I digress

[slev]

PS: I guess you are using the QUOTE option in the wrong way...

Don't know how I managed that one!

[Gold Bearer]

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You're still here then. That's wonderful.