[Poll] Morcar vs Zargon : fight !

[knightkrawler]

by the way, Micky, I blatantly stole that 3 (current) MP threshold idea and reworded my scroll icon key entry. Thanks for that.

It works much better with the Euro talisman of lore, it raises MP by two so you can set the threshold to 4MP and the barbarian and dwarf can't cast spells without it but can with it.

That's the goal for the Barbarian.
Seeing as my quest books will be more reliant on mind point loss, as are some of my spells and effects, and the ruling that you need 3 current MP to use a scroll,
plus that I'll rewrite scrolls how I see fit, I'll aim for the non-spellcaster classes to want scrolls and use them.
Or they'll be very quest-objective-based so that even a spellcaster will need them. (2nd Pass-Through-Rock to get in and out of a room to retrieve something, for example.)
As my wizard is buffed up to 12 spells and 2 attack dice max, most scrolls will have limited avail for them.

I like that you can actually have the cards of what you've got but the downside is you can only have one per card.

MY equipment deck is written with a vengeance. There'll be 6 dagger cards, 3 shortswords, 2 crossbow...
Everything will be printed in a number representing either a maximum of availability
or limited to a number that can be used, as in the Marauder (my Barbarian) cannot use a crossbow, plus the wizard can't, so there's two.

[Gold Bearer]

As my wizard is buffed up to 12 spells and 2 attack dice max, most scrolls will have limited avail for them.

What extra spells are you using, WoM? I don't remember seeing you post any custom spells.

[knightkrawler]

As my wizard is buffed up to 12 spells and 2 attack dice max, most scrolls will have limited avail for them.

What extra spells are you using, WoM? I don't remember seeing you post any custom spells.

Less newly written than revised, acoomodated to my rulebook and my icon system, and combined into different spell decks.
The Spellcaster player can choose between Elementalist and Guildwizard.
Both of them have a deck of 16 spells, 8 of which they must discard before any given quest.
Plus, there's a third deck of 8 basic cards where they can choose another 4 from. (The Adept player/Purifier or Pathfinder) can also choose one from the remaining plus has their own set of 6 (discarding 3 before each quest).
Thus, there's doubles (Ball of Flame, Healing Water etc.).
There's also overlappings between the decks.

I'll post my complete rule/quest/cards monstrosity when everything seems to be done to me.

[MadMickyG]

That's the issue KK, it never feels fully done.
There's always something to improve on, or adjust.

[The Admiral]

Healing Potions on death - I like it, and it was the same in the UK version. "Any time" means just that.

No it wasn't. Any time obviously means any time that you're alive. If not you could use one five quests after you died. How can you drink something when you're dead? It's more complicated and it doesn't add anything to the game, it just makes it even harder for the EWP. I think if you could use them after death it would have specifically stated that.

That's how we played it when we started on the UK version back in 1990? You took the potion at the instant you hit 0 BP's and before anything else was done. Once the game moved on you were dead, and as you say, you can't do anything when your dead. The US version just sort of confirmed it with clearer rules. The UK rules were just not as tight.

[Gold Bearer]

I see that as one of the US rule changes, not a clarification. There's nothing in original rules about being able to drink a potion after death. It says at any time but that obviously doesn't include after death and it says a character dies when they reach 0BP.

[knightkrawler]

I think this "any time" is a glitch, as GB says.
There are glitches in this game, you know.

[knightkrawler]

That's the issue KK, it never feels fully done.
There's always something to improve on, or adjust.

I'm close, however.
Basic Photoshop non-inabilities are building towards ground level,
and I'm writing the last cards as I go.

The rulebook is done and eager for feedback, the appendices as well, printable files compiled...

[MadMickyG]

If you need some assistance, I dabble quite well in Photoshop.

[knightkrawler]

I'll get back to you if the need arises. Thanks for the offer, in any case.
Right now, my biggest problem is finding source art in the first place...
I have an artist friend who might be very well my last hope.