THE CRYPT OF PERPETUAL DARKNESS discussion

[Kurgan]

Not to get too far off topic but first light dice are probably red with white dice, but what if they were store coded... blue dice with yellow pips at Walmart... green with silver pips for Barnes & Noble... gold with black pips for Best Buy... orange with white pips at Home Depot... red with yellow pips at McDonalds... ?

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[Gufius]

Heyy does anybody have the (german) pdf of the questbook? The one i got from hasbro cant be opened for some reason... :')

[Kurgan]

You could try downloading it again, I've heard of some issues like that. What PDF reader are you using? (I use FoxIt, rather than Adobe Acrobat).

[Vorimir]

Finally got it, Amazon Spain put in a 20% discount, I had some extra discount copuons on the store and pulled the trigger. I think this is still not woth the 27 euros I´ve paid but at least is not as bad.

[The Admiral]

I see that the escape spell locations are marked in the new quest book. I was looking for an X, but it is a strange little icon that is referenced off to the side of the quest map. I cannot see why the Swamp Hag would waste her time playing the spell? It looks nice and safe until you realise that the room she goes to will have been cleared of any monsters already and her new location will be as near to the Heroes as she started. Sure, she can then run off, but with movement 4 she won't get far.

I like that she appears between 2 monsters, just not that they'll be dead and she is still on the board and very near the heroes. I'll stick with my original idea and put her in room D or the exit room. This way she'll actually disappear and the heroes will have the fun and anticipation of hunting her down and having a final battle with her.

[wallydubbs]

Yeah, 8 noticed that too. It's like they thoughtlessly put the Escape reappear spot in some random room.

They did this in Wizards of Morcar too with the High Mage and a teleport trap. The high Me age appears 2 rooms back. I was thinking of not activating the Golem until Zanrath appears in that room. There's also a random teleport trap in one of the rooms that sends the hero back 2 or 3 rooms. It used to send the hero back to the beginning of the quest, that would've worked better.

[Daedalus]

It seems to me that Joe might have been thinking about D&D tactics. I recall one of his characters in a D&D podcast using Fey Step to "escape" off a careening hell-bike onto the back of a hell-bus, only about 20 feet away. Granted, the Escape location on the board is relative weaksauce for HQ play if you place the figure immediately, though this isn't necessary.

The Escape spell moves the spellcaster to a secret location on the gameboard, so the swamp hag's figure might be held in reserve until a Hero has line of sight to her. A Hero can only see her using the normal exploration rules, though she may also be immediately visible to a Hero already located in certain squares. Once visible, she has line of sight to that Hero and possibly enough space to safely cast a spell without retaliation. If no Heroes can see her, other good ideas already mentioned can be implemented by a creative Zargon: she can either safely escape to the entrance to fight another day or else shadow the Heroes until the right opportunity arises, appearing from behind and rejoin the fray for a last-ditch effort in room D.

[Vorimir]

As writen, the dwarven dragonspear is quite broken. 4 dice, diagonal attack, +1 against dragons and one handed. Strongest weapon in the game.

[wallydubbs]

As writen, the dwarven dragonspear is quite broken. 4 dice, diagonal attack, +1 against dragons and one handed. Strongest weapon in the game.

Actually, it's 3 attack dice, +1 when fighting a Dragon. The weapon does not specify if it is 2 handed or can be used with a shield. Zargon would need to make a decision on that. If there was a normal spear in the armory for a base spear I'd feel better about it. If I remember correctly there was a spear in the original European edition, which gave 2 attack dice, diagonal and could be thrown... The concept of 1 handed/2 handed wasn't a thing to be specified. The Battle Axe was the only weapon specified that it couldn't be coupled with a shield.
Otherwise the only other spear we have in the game is the Ice Queen's Spear artifact from Into the North Lands. This doesn't specify if it's 1 or 2 handed and says nothing in regards to a shield. It's a standard 2 attack, but +1 against Polar Warbears... there's nothing that this can do that a Longsword can't, so it's a pointless artifact. But back to the point of the spear, it does allow diagonal attacks like the Dragon Spear. Naturally, however, no weapon says that it can go with a shield, only the weapons that don't are specified. So by this logic, yes, the Dragon Spear and Ice Queen's Spear should be able to combine with a shield.
I would agree that it's overpowered if it were 4 attack dice. The Dragon Spear is the same as a Longsword, but only grants +1 against Dragons. Standard artifact in my opinion.