1. Treasure
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The magical elixir is just a bland slate. Something I can use in any quest for any reason I feel fit. The potion hazard was my first attempt to bring some meaning to mind points in the base game.
2. Equipment
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It was very hard to add meaningful armor and weapons without going overpowered. You only have 1 to 2 defense to work with for armor and well, they are of course both done ingame. The dragonscale is basically Scale Armor but with movement bonus (usually +2 unless the hero may roll another amount of dice for some reason). The flail is a small bit more expensive than the Shortsword but gives +1 combat dice vs undead (because of its bone crushing nature).
The leather armor set was a really tough one to balance. I really liked the concept of a set. In this case I looked at the picture I had and figured this could be both 1 dice for the leather armor and 1 for the bracer. The set + shield + helmet = 4 without movement penalty for a total cost of 1275g. The plate + shield + helmet costs 1125g. You are basically paying 125g for not having the movement penalty.
The reinforced dagger is just a dagger you may throw three times instead of once with a little reduction in price (over 3 separate daggers).
The sling is a budget friendly crossbow.... maybe 200 is too much for 1 dice (compared to 350 crossbow for 3) ?
The summon skeletons spell is another attempt to make mind points more interesting. Once bought by a spell caster, it is permanently added to his spell book (so stays between quests). Wanted to give the wizard something more to shoot for...
The whip introduces a new mechanic that allows the hero to attack monsters x squares away instead of either adjacent or ranged. 3 squares felt okay to me (for realism). Also added the bonus that you may climb out of a shallow pit immediately instead of having to wait one turn (acts as a rope). Not sure on the balance of this one..
3. Heroes
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Most of my new heroes are based on heroes other people created. I did tweak them here and there. For example, I gave the Assassin +3 on the red die roll and 3 daggers to start with (1 to fight and 2 to throw).
Gave the paladin a -2 on movement, this is thinking about it (while writing this, an error).. I will remove the penalty. The reason behind this was that paladins usually wear heavy armor weighing them down. But this doesn't gel with the fact that plate already comes with a -2.. that would make -4 and wouldn't make any sense.. I did give them a +1 attack vs undead as I feel that fits the lore of the holy knight.
4. Spell
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The divine spells are straight from the source, didn't tinker with these except some wording changes. The runes (for the Rune Priest) I changed a little more but kept the original spirit.
5. Condition
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This was an idea of mine to add condition cards.. I was thinking of things like "poisoned", "starving", "disorientated", "paralyzed".. pretty much anything that alters the stats or mechanics of a hero. These could be the result of actions or for example room or even board wide. I didn't find artwork for my other ideas so for now only have one, mind cloud. Once more mind points come into play as the clearer the mind, the more it can resist the cloud (or at least that's my thinking here).
6. NPC
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Cards for the npc's from the original quest. The artwork was taken from Odanan who did something similar. I changed the layout by using the hero style of cards for the npc's instead of regular cards (like treasure or spells etc).
And that's it
I have so many more ideas but for a first batch I thought this would do. I will probably make another batch once I find more suitable artwork. Please let me know if I missed the mark somewhere or something is over/underpowered.. costs too much (or too little)... or any suggestions you might have. Thanks a bunch!
