Carl Forhan's Rogue vs Original Heroes

[Gold Bearer]

I like it a lot. I'll try out Carl's, yours, and Sotiris' assassin some more this weekend.

Fine, completely ignore mine.

[Sotiris]

I like it!!!! Sotiris does short blades mean he can use a short sword?

Yeap! Use this version if you found the previous hard.

[Jazzdrummer]

Okay I played Carl Forhan's rogue in game this past weekend. I think it was adventure 7 I believe. The only changes I made to him was if he flanked an enemy with another hero he could roll an additional 1 . Overall he did great. What's funny is his trap disarming skills are fantastic but he failed every single attempt during the adventure...lol. Flanking was tough at times to pull off. But he did get several opportunities to do it and scored a few important kills. His weak health of 5 is a pretty big weakness though so I had to be careful with him. All in all I think he's very balanced compared to the others. I thought he would be overpowered. But the low health and item restrictions more than make up for that. I'll be posting a short review on Malcadon's rogue and Sotiris's updated assassin soon. Goblin-Bearer I didn't forget about you either... . I'm not really using ranks or levels in my games. So would your versions be different if that's the case?

[Gold Bearer]

Goblin-Bearer I didn't forget about you either... . I'm not really using ranks or levels in my games. So would your versions be different if that's the case?

Bearer? I collect goblins as I go through the quest and carry them round the dungeon. Bearer!

Without using leveling up you'd just ignore those rules and use the base version. The base versions of all my characters are designed to be ballanced with the original heroes. I think the assassin might be a tad overpowered though. If you think so too you could change his dodging ability so that it works on a black shield instead of a white one.

Edit: Another way of doing it if you don't want that type of character progression is to use hero specific artifacts to include the advanced ablilities.