HEROQUEST - COMPANION APP discussion

[SirRick]

How is the item stolen by the gremlin determined? Do you as the player pick? Normally Zargon would choose the item, but the app does not keep track of character inventory. I’m curious how the App handles this.

[Naniyue]

It just asks if there is something to steal. If you kill the gremlin, it simply prompts you that you have your item back.

[SirRick]

I finished PoT today, completing quests 12 and 13 in one go. Nothing strange happened that was app related. Any other comments about these last two quests in the PoT thread. In the last quest it was nice the app kept track of rolling the red die each time you hit a monster to see what happens. Having to do this yourself when playing solo would be annoying and time consuming.

Having finally finished PoT, I must now mentally prepare myself for The Frozen Horror. I now have a total of 106 Healing Potions (from the treasure deck) in addition to numerous other forms of healing such as Minor Healing Potions, and spell scrolls. With the Rings of Fortitude acquired from finishing this pack, my characters are as ready as they are going to be for the next step.

I might try playing Knight Fall, or the Forsaken Tunnels of Xor-Xel with the B Team. I know I finished KK awhile ago, but when attempting to play the Xor-Xel quest, the app would just freeze up, so I skipped it. Maybe with the last update fixed this issue, so if I can play it retroactively, I will.

I was really hoping The Spirit Queen’s Torment would be available by now. I was planning to send the B Team through that book. Eventually it will happen. For now the main group will continue on with the quests that are currently available.

[Naniyue]

Truly, definitely, good luck and great fortune with The Frozen Horror! With so many healing potions, your approach has prepared you well! Though I will say, follow some house rules for the crevasses!

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

106 healing potions?
You know you're not supposed to place them back in the deck when you find them, don't you?
Only place them back at the end of the Quest.

[Kurgan]

Maybe using the 1st edition Treasure deck rules?

Then again you can also BUY healing potions, but that many would have cost a king's ransom!

[SirRick]

You guys seriously think I don’t know how to play this game? I’m not sure if these are serious responses. Finding roughly 2 or 3 healing potions per quest is pretty average. I return the good cards back to the deck after the quest is over, of course. Do the math, it checks out.

Edited: I think I understand the cause of the confusion. I have been playing all the quests since the beginning, and have hoarded all those healing potions. GS, New Beginnings, KK, RotWL, and PoT so far if that helps.

[Naniyue]

That potion amount makes sense to me! With luck and lots of quests, it is possible. I think that part of my problem was playing TFH too soon! I did hoard potions, but if I had played the quests in the order you did, I probably would have won!

[Aki]

If you never change the party and you don't played MoM/RotDM it's quite possible, but is not little boring?
To mitigate this I always change one Hero or two in the party and use the "Hardcore group" only for MoM and FH

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

I thought there was only two HP in the deck, so finding both of them EVERY quest is distinctly unaverage to me, unless you are using the rule of being able to search with each hero in each room, which personally I think is a ridiculous rule.