cosined |
With regards to the Power: When you would discard a weapon (■ or armor) for its power, you may recharge it instead.
I'm annoyed how useless that power is for something that appears on your base character card. Alone, it would only work with two AD6 class deck cards. Otherwise, I believe you'd be able to use it with another power on her Blacksmith role card ("■ When you would bury...") to recharge instead of burying an armor.
Either way, the earliest you'd get to utilize that feat consistently would be in AD4. Sure you could maybe use it with Armors from Location Decks in-game, but you can't keep those cards so the feat is extremely situational for a base power feat.
/rant
cosined |
That actually is stronger than a base fighter's power.
If you discard a long sword for the extra d6 then you get to recharge it. Some armors also let you discard if proficient, so they would allow you to recharge.
Yah I guess I wasn't too clear about my issue. Its specifically with the Armor aspect (hence the checked feat, but in hindsight I was horribly unclear).
The weapon aspect is clear to me, and quite lovely.
Hawkmoon269 |
Here are the armors in the class deck and whether they can be discarded as part of their power:
Buckler, No
Chain Mail, No
Chain Mail, No
Demon Armor, Yes (Discard this card to add 1d4+1 and the Fire and Magic traits to your combat check.) Deck 6
Elven Breastplate, No
Fortified Breastplate, No
Hide Armor of Fire Resistance, No
Leather Armor, No
Lesser Bolstering Armor, No
Magic Full Plate, No
Magic Wooden Armor, No
Spiny Shield, Yes (Discard this card to add 1d4 and the Ranged and Magic traits to your combat check.) Deck 3
Stanching Buckler, No.
Winged Shield, Yes (Discard this card to move to another location at the end of your turn.) Deck 5
So, this power is going to interact with 3 of the cards in the class deck. Not a lot, but looking at them, maybe the best 3 armors in there. Yes, they don't appear until decks 3, 5, and 6. That part does seem a bit odd. But Spiny Shield alone might almost make this feat worth it.
Dave Riley |
For my money, the Winged Shield is a real winner. You can recharge it to move, and if you're not in a scenario where end-of-turn moves are a premium, you can just recharge it out of your hand. It never clogs you up.
Otherwise the power is pretty weak, yeah. However, if I'm not wrong: doesn't Vika eventually get a power that lets her discard armor instead of burying it? So she can move from bury > discard > recharge. Or am I thinking of someone else? Or is this in conflict with some other rule, like how the Farmhouse still makes Lini bury animals?
cosined |
However, if I'm not wrong: doesn't Vika eventually get a power that lets her discard armor instead of burying it? So she can move from bury > discard > recharge. Or am I thinking of someone else? Or is this in conflict with some other rule, like how the Farmhouse still makes Lini bury animals?
Between two powers, I believe this does happen, but not until AD3's role card reward (typically).
zeroth_hour |
Farmhouse makes Lini bury animals because the wording on Farmhouse is a replacement effect and replacements cause the other action to not exist. So if Lini discards an ally at the Farmhouse, she instead buries it and her power never triggers.
Vika's character power is the same way - she replaces the discard with a recharge, and for her role power she replaces the bury with a discard (and she can order the two such that she replaces the bury with a recharge). It's just that for the base power the card has to be discarded or buried as part of its power. (The bury power has no such limitation).
Actually, those powers are just inconsistently worded in general. I'm bothered because there is a gameplay difference because of the wording.
eg:
RotR Harsk Sniper role - When you play a weapon with the Ranged trait, you may recharge it instead of discarding it.
RotR Valeros base role - When you play a weapon, you may recharge it instead of discarding it.
CD Valeros base role - When you would discard a weapon for its power, you may recharge it (□ or shuffle it into your deck) instead.
WotR Harsk base role - When you would bury or discard a weapon that has the Ranged trait for its power, you may recharge it instead.
WotR Imrijka Cold Iron Warden role - When you play a blessing that has the Basic trait on any check to defeat a bane, you may recharge it (□ or put it on top of your deck) instead of discarding it.
WotR Kyra Dawnflower's Flare role - When you play a blessing on your check to defeat a bane that has the Demon or Undead trait, you may recharge that blessing.