Ye Olde Inn

I've been reading through the forum over the last week, and this thread: http://forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1555 has inspired me to work on some of my old cards. They are really showing their age!

These are some Cleric spell cards that I made but never published. Here is a bit of info on them:

1) I've always thought that Mind Points were not utilized properly in HQ. So these use Mind Points to defend against the spells.
2) I didn't write this on the card, but my house rule was if a creature starts with 0 mind points then a spell that uses mind points to defend can't be cast on it - it is immune. Use the rule or not... up to you.
3) The rules specifically say that to cast a spell the target must be visible. I didn't bother writing 'that you can see' on most of the cards because of this rule. I did specify things like 'in the same room or corridor', meaning hat the Cleric can cast these spells on Heroes/monsters, even if he can't see them.

I've got another set I'd like to do next (Druid spells), then I'd like to start redoing my older ones.

Here is the back for the Cleric Spells:



and the first two spells:





Note: updated the cards on January 21, 2015 to fix the graphics and typographical errors

Here are the next batch:

And the next ones:

And here is the last of the set. Any comments, corrections, etc? They have not been playtested whatsoever, so I'd appreciate anything you have to add.

I think they look great and I really like the card back. The only one I can see that might be too powerful is the Healing Aura, but I don't have any way to play test it any time soon. Is there a character card to go with these?

StratosVX wrote:I think they look great and I really like the card back. The only one I can see that might be too powerful is the Healing Aura, but I don't have any way to play test it any time soon.

The way I had it set up originally, "back in the day", was that the first three spells were the basic ones that the character had. After that the character had to buy the spells, and as they were bought the monsters became more powerful as well, so it was a trade-off.

StratosVX wrote:I think they look great and I really like the card back. The only one I can see that might be too powerful is the Healing Aura, but I don't have any way to play test it any time soon. Is there a character card to go with these?

I do, but they were very house rules-ish. I've been going over my notes and updating some of the rules, so I may post them sometime.

arkcaver wrote:

StratosVX wrote:I think they look great and I really like the card back. The only one I can see that might be too powerful is the Healing Aura, but I don't have any way to play test it any time soon.

The way I had it set up originally, "back in the day", was that the first three spells were the basic ones that the character had. After that the character had to buy the spells, and as they were bought the monsters became more powerful as well, so it was a trade-off.

Ahh. Well if that was one of the later or more expensive spells then I could see it.

The card back just says "Behold my chest of light!" to me.

How many Mind points does your cleric have, because if it is more than 2 then many of those seem a lot more powerful than the standard wizard spells, able to kill and heal so much more.

cornixt wrote:The card back just says "Behold my chest of light!" to me.

I thought the same thing as well! I'm sure it will bring some jokes to the table when we play!

cornixt wrote:How many Mind points does your cleric have, because if it is more than 2 then many of those seem a lot more powerful than the standard wizard spells, able to kill and heal so much more.

Depends on the race. Elves start with 6, Dwarves have 2, Halflings and Humans have 4.

It was probably 15 years ago that I created these, and I don't think I ever really played the character (if I did I don't remember anything about it). They do look fairly powerful, so I will probably tweak them as we begin playing.

Love them except the resurrection one.
Too powerful.

If I was to keep it, I would reword it so that the Hero revived is reduced one permanent Body Point that may never be recovered and casting this spell also drains all energy from the Cleric and he may not cast spells for the rest of the Dungeon.