[ACG] [CaG] Season of the Righteous by redeux (Inactive)

Game Master redeux

Good call I will take the scale of disguise I/o scale of weaponry

I will start in the cavern as the close check is don't roll a 1 (at least until I start using mythic charges

(also the left hand column of my deck handler appear to have developed some blind spots had an awful draw and certain typed in cards were not being spotted by the draw next card feature)

The remember kill a monster examine next card is a power I keep forgetting

May help having 2/3 Mummys mask base set games on hold

Same cohorts as before?

Correct :)

There are only boons left at the Marketplace (2 Weapons, 1 Spell, 1 Item, 2 Allies), and being greedy worked out last scenario. Plus the scenario rule means that can explore through boons twice as quickly.
On the other hand, we have to close all locations this scenario, so time might be tighter.

Any opinions on whether I close the Marketplace or leave it open?

With how fast we burn through locations due to the examine rule leaving it open doesn't sound too troublesome in fact it might be needed to actually get some decent boons.

Oops, I just realized I missed the second half of the scenario rule. Nevermind- have to redo part of my turn.

With how fast we burn through locations due to the examine rule leaving it open doesn't sound too troublesome in fact it might be needed to actually get some decent boons.

Yup. And for everyone- just remember you don't have to try to acquire a boon. If you find a basic item then maybe it's best to not attempt to acquire it so you don't banish a AD3 boon. Just one thing to consider.

Heads up: the Corrupted Crusaders barrier that Amaryllis scouted at the Great Hall requires everyone at that location to summon a henchman, which would trigger the location power and make everyone there also need to summon the servitor demon. So we do not want to double up at the Great Hall!

Ah bugger. Sorry I forgot about the scenario rules.

I'm really only interested in the Spell 2.
Also in case it matters, note that Ally 1 Chief Sull was banished.

1-3B reward: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Nope

boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 2

I think the spell 2 would help Amaryllis or Nyctessa more than it would help Uliah, so instead I'm going to grab an Item B and swap out my Blood Periapt to replace with War Drum:

For the power feat, I'll grab the "(or an ally)" option for my power that allows me to reveal Ally cards to add 1d4+1 to my combat check.

Finally, boon?

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 7

No boon.

Also, I'll give priority to Nyctessa if she'd rather have the Spell 2. Mine is a little tame (Mirror Image -> Safe Harbor)

I will take a Hand Size 7 for my power.

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Weapon 3

You may recharge a card that has the Divine trait to add 1d8 and the Fire ( [X3 ] or Acid or Poison) trait to your combat check.

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 17

will keep soulshear but swapping out bastard sword +1 replacing weapon with the upgrade disrupting rapier +1

The spell 2 would give me a few choices for a stronger spell. A 1d6 and ignore AYA to a 2d8 and ignore AYA.

Tentative 1-3B summary
Ramexes/Merisial - Weapon 3, "and the Fire ( [X3 ] or Acid or Poison) trait to your combat check. "
Nyctessa/Agent Eclipse - Spell 2, Hand size+1
Amaryllis/EmpTyger - ??, ??
Uliah/Akaitora - Item B, "(or an ally)"
Loot: Fiendsplitter

Lots of tough locations on this mission. Any thoughts on the Cohorts? Same configuration? Or does Ramexes want to use Captain Oparal this time around?

If you find a barrier henchman with the start of turn examination, note that Amaryllis's Boots of Elvenkind can autosucceed on the Stealth check, and Nyctessa has mythic Knowledge.
Although some locations may be harder for us to meet closing requirements.

I'm wondering if we use start of turn explores to shift monsters away from the abbatoir until we find the henchman. Ramexes may well take the black robe this time

Will start at the sanctum if I draw the black robe I will stay there otherwise I will head for thte cathedral of chaos

If we do find weapons it may be best they get sent to the cathedral Hmm scenario rules are going to mess with our heads a bit on this one I think

If a lot of monsters are going to get shuffled my way I might actually take Orporal

Good idea! Do we want to designate 1 location to be where we shift monsters away to?

Also, the new Fiendsplitter loot weapon can be discarded to try to shuffle a location. It might be worth using, if anyone has an extra weapon slot?

I'll grab the Fiendsplitter, subbing out my Dwarven Longhammer.

I don't understand how we are going to "shift monsters away from the abbatoir", can you elaborate?

The scenario rule: "At the start of your turn, you may examine the top card of any location deck; if it is not a barrier, you may put it on top of any location deck."

I see. I can also Augury for monster on turn 1 and put at least 2 of those monsters at the bottom of my starting location. If someone else goes before me, then make sure to move at least 1 of the monster to the Cathedral of Chaos so that I can put them all at the bottom of the location.

Since Amaryllis is going first, I think I can arrange that for Uliah ;)

ooh put the first two on the cathedral then the augury puts 3 at the bottom and shuffles the fourth. After that put further monsters on sanctum and Ramexes will keep fighting his way through until we draw a corrupted card and keep abadar and find traps handy for henchmen

Hello! Welcome to Play By Post Gameday VII. As part of the festivities for this event, we have a few rewards you can win. After your table completes a scenario, win or lose, each participant (player and/or box runner) rolls 1d20. If your result is 1 or 20, you win. Select your reward from the list below and inform your Box Runner of your choice. We’ll make sure you get the reward sent to you.

Remember, Session 1 runs from August 13th, 2018-September 30, 2018. Your table must complete the scenario between those dates to roll for a reward. During Session II (October 1-November 12th) we’ll be running the multiple table interactive special Assault on Absalom.

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Have fun!

Gameday VII Adventure Card Game Rewards
Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #1
Unconventional Firepower: You may add one weapon that has the Firearm trait and one item that has the Ammunition trait from the Gunslinger Class Deck to your box. These cards must have an adventure deck number equal to or lower than your current tier. Each time you advance a tier, you may exchange one of these cards with another card of the same type from the Gunslinger Class Deck, following the same restrictions.

Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #2
Burgeoning Captain: At the beginning of a scenario that uses the Skull & Shackles Base Set, you may cross out this reward to gain the skill Survival: Wisdom +2 on your checks attempted while you are on a ship and on your checks attempted against a ship until the end of the scenario.

Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #3
Sea Legs: When you would fail a combat check against a bane that has the Aquatic trait, you may cross out this reward to reroll the dice and add 1d6; take the new result.

Boon? 1-3C: 1d20 ⇒ 7

also if anyone needs a refresher on abyssal rift, here's a post i made previously to discuss it.

For deck upgrade, I will just grab one of the Spell Bs and replace Divine Favor in my deck with Detect Evil.

Here comes the boon roll:
Boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Nope.

Ramese will take weapon 2 upgrade (flaming scimitar)

I will keep the black robe but for now I will pass on the soulshear
(I may take weapon as my card feat and hope to gain an armour upgrade)

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Forfeiting the upgrade.

Hmhmhm. Too many loot items, too few item slots.
I definitely want Boots of Elvenkind for the henchman.
Crown of Charisma seems worth holding onto for a villain.
Banner of Valor for Eagle Rock, among other uses.
I guess I'll take Spherewalker Staff over Sacred Prism?
(Fortunately I get another Item slot after this scenario.)

I'm presuming I'll be keeping Radovan again.

1-3D reward: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Nope

Boon Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 9

I would like the Item 1 for Binder's Tome instead of Thieves' Tools.

Reveal for 1d4 and Mental for anyone's combat or Charisma check at my location.

1-3C summary
Ramexes/Merisial - Weapon 2
Nyctessa/Agent Eclipse - Item 1
Amaryllis/EmpTyger - n/a
Uliah/Akaitora - Spell B

I encourage everyone to look over THIS POST about how the Abyssal Rift works

Notably,

4. If you encounter the villain at the abyssal rift and all other locations are permanently closed or temp closed, the only way to win the game would be if the abyssal rift is already on the "always temp closed" side. If it is on the "always temp closed" side and you defeated the villain--you'd win. If it is on the "always open" side then the villain could escape to the abyssal plane and you'd have to try to encounter the villain again...when the location is "always temp closed"

This might be relevant after we defeat the first villain and then the second villain is needing to be both defeated+cornered.

So will bury frog when villain is encountered

Happy to take on one villain check recharging cure for acid and discarding rapier for 3d4

Hopefully amaryllis can throw some mythic counters my way by defeating the blood demon. Will also offer the blessing of Abadar on a check

If all goes right, I should be able to give out 4 mythic counters: (using Blessing of the Gods to copy Blessing of Ascension to gain an additional counter)

1 for recharging Good Omen after using to help Uliah tempclose Dark Forest
1 for Arcane check to use Swipe vs Blood Demon
1 for Combat vs Blood Demon
1 for recharging Swipe

So much marshaling!!

Here are my thoughts:

Amaryllis only has 1 attack spell in hand. Ramexes only has 1 weapon. So, whoever takes on the Blood Demon would be ill-equipped to handle 1 of the 2 villain checks.
So, I think one of us has to barehand the Blood Demon. And so then it's a question of which is better: Amaryllis's reroll or Ramexes's skill feats. I'll try to run the math. (With Amaryllis, there's also a 75% chance failing against the Blood Demon won't matter, because of Mirror Image.)
Then, Ramexes takes 1 villain check, and Amaryllis the other. (Again, would need to run math to see who should do which.)

Also, I'm *not* using Good Omen for the Dark Forest tempclose. With two chances, and now the Almanac, I'd rather save the card for a reroll.

What does everyone else think?

I forgot, post-mythic role WotR; math doesn't really matter any more.

Amaryllis vs Blood Demon, using Uliah's Blessing of Shax, 1 mythic counter, possible reroll: 91%. Including Mirror Image, 98% to succeed or take no damage.

Ramexes vs Blood Demon, using Uliah's Blessing of Shax, 1 mythic counter, recharge Cure, 1 mythic counter: 98%

Versus the villain:
Amaryllis has spell, -3 to difficulty, Apprentice, all remaining mythic counters. + blessing from Nyctessa: 99+%
Ramexes has weapon, Captain Oparal, all remaining mythic counters. + blessing from Nyctessa: 99+%

In conclusion, I don't think it significantly matters?

I'm going to sleep on it, so if anyone (especially Ramexes!) has any thoughts, please do speak up!
But I'm inclined to do Amaryllis unarmed Blood Demon -> pass counter to Ramexes Villain #1 -> pass counter to Amaryllis Villain #2, for slightly more optimal mythic counter distribution.

I'm interested in Spell 3 or Blessing B.

1-3D reward: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Nope

Haruspex for Ramexes

examine the next 2 cards

Card feat weapon

Role: Undead Master.
Power: When you defeat a monster and would banish it, you may draw in instead ([x] then you may shuffle into your deck a random card from your discard pile)
Card: Whichever loot I get (Ally/Blessing/Spell).

Ally 2: Bound Lantern Archon.
Blessing 3: Blessing of Qi Zhong.
Spell 3: Volcanic Storm.

Listed in priority.

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 16

Role: Divine Commander
Power: "When another character at your location attempts a check, you may display a blessing or ally to add its adventure deck number. Before you reset your hand, draw the displayed card."
Card Feat: Ally

Deck upgrade preferences:
Blessing 3
Ally 2
Spell 3

Restating everything in one place

Haruspex for Ramexes

When you defeat a monster, you may examine the top card (□ Now or top 2 cards) (□ tier 5 or 3 cards) of your (□ tier 6 or any) location deck (□tier 4 and put them back in any order).

(kind of kicking myself that I hadn't already selected the 2 card option before we hit role cards but there you go. All the warsighted stuff seems to be win more stuff rather than stuff that actually helps)

Card feat is weapon

Upgrade will be Armour Crocodile skin armour (buckler i currently have doesnt work when I play soulshear

Will replace new weapon with Soulshear
and flame staff with the Black robe

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Forgot Boon Roll

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Nope!

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 20 Reward 1: unconventional firepower.

1-4D summary
Deck upgrade, Card feat, role card, power feat.

Ramexes/Merisial- Armor B, Weapon+1, Role: Haruspex , [x]top 2 cards

Nyctessa/Agent Eclipse- Ally 2, Ally+1, Role: Undead Master, [x] then you may shuffle into your deck a random card from your discard pile

Amaryllis/EmpTyger- Spell 3, Item+1, Role: Luckstealer, "[X] or discard a card from your hand"

Uliah/Akaitora- Blessing 3, Ally+1, Role: Divine Commander, [x]When another character at your location attempts a check,

(Redeem Black Robe)

Chronicle sheets:
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Amaryllis is interested in Transmogrify, but I feel like I've been hogging the Items Loot, so I'll defer to Nyctessa if she wants it.

Rules question for next scenario:
Do we get opportunity to close a location if we only empty 1 of its halves?
Do both halves of Grinder have the same faceup/facedown status? Or is it independent for each half?

I will choose Blessing as my reward. Let's see how I do.

Bonus blessing: 1d22 ⇒ 11

I'll grab it. Still better than a BotG.

For my skill feat, I will nab my final STR feat (+3).

For deck upgrades. I would really, really like to get that Ally 4. Regardless of which ally I choose, being able to give someone +4 to any check is pretty powerful (because of Uliah's power).

I will check-off one of my BR rewards to gain an extra deck upgrade for this mission, and would like to get one of the Spell 3, or a spell 4 if no one else wants it.

Rules question for next scenario:

Do we get opportunity to close a location if we only empty 1 of its halves?
Do both halves of Grinder have the same faceup/facedown status? Or is it independent for each half?

Scenario says to treat them as separate locations, so I think you'd still get to close if only 1 half is empty. Also Grinder location wouldn't share the same status so one location could be the "good" side while the other is the "bad" side.

Deck Upgrades: revised to include spell 3 from ramexes last turn
Type Adv_Deck_Num card
Weapon 3 Sawtooth Sabre +2

Spell B Fiery Glare
Spell 2 Heat Metal
Spell 3 Fire Shield
Spell 4 Divine Blaze
Spell 4 Terraform
Spell 4 Divine Blaze

Item 3 Spellbottle

Blessing B Blessing of Ascension
Blessing C Blessing of Ascension
Blessing B Blessing of Ascension
Blessing B Blessing of Ascension
Blessing B Blessing of Ascension
Blessing 2 Blessing of Nethys

Armor B Magic Half-Plate
Armor 2 Armor of the Pious
Armor 4 Black Dragonhide Breastplate

Ally 3 Thylacine
Ally 3 Jesker Helton
Ally 4 Pit Gladiator

Actually, I think I'm going to forfeit the bonus Blessing upgrade. I think I want to hold on to 1 Blessing of the Gods in order to reset mythic counters by copying a Blessing of Ascension. And I'd rather have more easily recharged blessings than an extra INT dice.

I'm drawing my opening hand as if Nyctessa is taking Transmogrify, but in case not, I'll be swapping Good Omen for it.
Amaryllis is going to start at a Harvester Pit, but will try to tackle Locust Shrine as soon as she finds her Boots of Elvenkind (and ideally Scrying).

1-4A summary
Ramexes/Merisial Cha+1, Spell 4
Nyctessa/Agent Eclipse Wis+1, Spell 4
Amaryllis/EmpTyger Con+1, Spell 4
Uliah/Akaitora STR+1, Ally 4, Armor 4

Blessings: 1d27 ⇒ 3 Blessing of Barbatos-B which I will pass on.