Parley Cards

[knightkrawler]

And appropriate Chalk card back art, no less.

[GimmeYerGold]

I found that li'l fella searching "gary chalk" on tumblr and pinterest!

[Spookyhappyfun]

This idea is amazing! You've done it again! Only, several years ago!

I'll be printing these out to use for sure.

[Gold Bearer]

I've never come across this thread before, nice.

[Kurgan]

Just when I thought I'd printed all the cards I wanted, there are more. Great ideas!

A question though, how were these intended to be used? You mean on a turn when a Hero enters a room or corridor that has only one (non-special, non-Gargoyle) monster, he just states they want to parley with the monster and draws a card as his action?

Or is there a more complicated mechanic to whether it can be used?

I found this, what do you think? I like the "simplified" but what is your idea?

Lone Monster Parley attempts:
When a hero or group of heroes is in a room with only one monster/enemy, in place of their action phase, a hero may attempt to parley with the enemy. The hero may choose whether to attempt to parley via intimidation (roll the number of combat dice usable when attacking) or through charisma (roll the number of dice equal to their number of charisma points). They must attain the required number of successes (skulls ) to successfully parley with the enemy, at which time they will draw the top card of the Lone Monster deck. The required number of successes for each enemy and each method of parley attempt is determined in the monster book or by the evil wizard prior to the attempt.

Lone Monster Parley attempts alternate simplified rule:
When alone with an enemy, in place of a hero's action phase, they may draw one card from the Lone monster deck.

[Kurgan]

I forgot to put this in the rules when I printed my cards, so what are people's opinions...?

Should the "Lone Monster" deck for parleying be like the Treasure cards, wherein once discovered, the "good" cards are discarded (write it down on your sheet, don't keep the card, it can be shuffled back in next quest) and the "bad" cards either go to the bottom of the deck or get shuffled back into the stack?

It all started when I added the "Boots of Speed" (+2 to movement from Legacy of Sorasil, in place of either version of Rabbit Boots, as a permanent item) to it for fun. I was really proud of that decision, then then I was thinking more about it...

I think the original intention was to have this be a "secondary treasure deck" of sorts, so I could see that making sense. But I realized one Hero is going to find the Boots of Speed and then nobody else can ever get it (OR potentially they could all get boots of speed every quest (only one pair of boots can be worn at a time, of course), and is there no option to sell it back? you can only wear one pair, right? etc).

I don't want to make it overly complicated. I just see it as a risky, but interesting gambit when you run across a single monster. Most of the time you'll get attacked or just have to fight him anyway, but once in awhile you might get a cool bonus, and I like that idea. Not all of Zargon's minions are diehard loyal cultists, some of them can be bribed or frightened off (at least for the moment)...

[tallyho]

Lone monster deck. This is sounds like a great idea. But i cant find the cards anywhere. Help

[Kurgan]

Looks like the author took them down... for now?

[GimmeYerGold]

Apologies for the broken link! All current Parley (Lone Monster) cards are compiled into this link (EVERYTHING I made is here, it's 1 GB!) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zGYN2GANKiS0ZEQk1oam9VV2c/view?usp=sharing

[Kurgan]

Awesome. I thought maybe you were revising them or something. Thanks for sharing!