DARK COMPANY REWRITING

[Sjeng]

This inspires me to try and make a photoshopped board of 4 different colour schemes. Now it truly looks like 4 identical boards with all the rooms having the exact same tiles. Making different tiles in rooms is not hard at all... Trouble is: time shortage

[polymathis]

This inspires me to try and make a photoshopped board of 4 different colour schemes. Now it truly looks like 4 identical boards with all the rooms having the exact same tiles. Making different tiles in rooms is not hard at all... Trouble is: time shortage

That's our problem too! I'd love to replace our rush-job board with a proper work of art if any one is feeling up to it...

[wallydubbs]

I kinda like the idea of rewriting it in Quest Book form. Though I'm aware that this super, like Keller's Keep, but some of these would be so short it wouldn't even constitute as a quest.
A mega quest does make sense, however and I believe the instructions allow the heroes 7 Potions of Healing each. I'd probably change that to 4 Potions of Healing and 3 Elixirs of Life (which would make up for small rolls). As this super quest is reported to be much more difficult, especially playing with American Body Points for the monsters, I'd also propose doing away with the 1 Black Sheild blocks all hits rule and just giving the Dark Company the same stats as the mercenaries. I think this would balance the game a bit more (I'll have to test play it to be sure) and maybe come up with a few extra treasure perks along the way.
There's much treasure that can be found along the way and the Ring of Brilliance is a great reward that I think needs to be carried over to the much harder quests (Frozen Horror and Mage of the Mirror). So it makes it seem like a great waste if people play this as the final quest.

[Jabie]

Vaguely thinking about rewriting this myself. My thoughts are:

[*]13 Maps with colour/shape coded key cards.
[*] Each map has a random table to determine the kind of Dark Warriors you encounter. They get harder the more you progress.
[*] When you open a new section, you can enter in from any key colour you currently have (no back-tracking needed)
[*] No healing between levels, but each key collected means +1 Body / Mind heal for the party and every 3 keys allows the reclamation of one spell.
[*] No Black Shield Dark Warrior nonsense. Doomguard has stats as given in RotWL. Other Dark Warriors have same stats as US (i.e., 2 Body, not 1)