[CAG][ACG] BR Akaitora Season of the Righteous (Inactive)

Game Master Akaitora

Fine by me.

Ukuja - Elinnea wrote:

I don't really see how it would be different than discussing on here, but I do have Google hangouts so if everyone wants to use that then I'm fine with it.

Asking to use anothers blessings, letting people know that they have a specific fight, temp close, that sort of thing.

I mean, you can also do those things here. I guess the difference is that you have the ability to turn on notifications so maybe someone will notice sooner if they're not checking the forum?

Anyway it sounds like we're all fine with it. :)

Someone go ahead and set it up. My email is rockcreekfarmwebmaster@gmail.com

Question about Faxon:

Does his "while you act" power apply to temp closing other locations? I believe that happens before you act, does it not?

As far as I know, temporary close checks happen before the player encountering the Villain acts, so I don't think Faxon's power applies to temp close checks.

TColMaster, in the future please check with the player before rolling for them and/or using their powers. It would be very understandable if some people didn't like someone else deciding how their character reacts.

Especially now that we have a direct communication channel, please check next time.

REWARD

Each player chooses weapon, spell, or item, then draws a card of that type from the box

This means that you can choose a type of card your character can gain (so either B or 1) from your class deck and add it to your deck! It's a great reward, and trust me, you'll need it!

That would be a great reward, but unfortunately I'm about 99% sure that's not what that means. It means that we each get to name a boon (of one of those three types) and then you'll draw those cards and add them to our "Acquired cards" list, so that we have extra choices. For example, since we didn't acquire a single spell or item, we could end up selecting 3 spells and 2 items, and then you'd draw that many of each and add them in (and we'd cross our fingers for as many AD1 cards as possible). Then we still make our deck upgrade choices as usual (only 1 upgrade per person, since it doesn't say otherwise) we just have a slightly larger pool from which to select our upgrades.

Sadly, Aric is right.

I select spell.

TColMaster, in the future please check with the player before rolling for them and/or using their powers. It would be very understandable if some people didn't like someone else deciding how their character reacts.

Especially now that we have a direct communication channel, please check next time.

I'm surprised that you are worried about someone doing a dice check that didn't affect anything.

Instead you should have been chastising Aric - Maelwys for using peoples Blessing's without asking.

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REWARD

Each player chooses weapon, spell, or item, then draws a card of that type from the box

This means that you can choose a type of card your character can gain (so either B or 1) from your class deck and add it to your deck! It's a great reward, and trust me, you'll need it!

That would be a great reward, but unfortunately I'm about 99% sure that's not what that means. It means that we each get to name a boon (of one of those three types) and then you'll draw those cards and add them to our "Acquired cards" list, so that we have extra choices. For example, since we didn't acquire a single spell or item, we could end up selecting 3 spells and 2 items, and then you'd draw that many of each and add them in (and we'd cross our fingers for as many AD1 cards as possible). Then we still make our deck upgrade choices as usual (only 1 upgrade per person, since it doesn't say otherwise) we just have a slightly larger pool from which to select our upgrades.

That would be correct, although I am used to seeing it done with the players class deck box and not the BR box.

The organized play guide specifies that for rewards, "the box" refers to players' class deck boxes, and has the rules for drawing a random card from it. See also this thread.

Yes, Redeux also pointed me to this thread. I believe it's safe to say you can get an extra random card of a type you choose from your deck as your reward and then we can do deck upgrades.

Oh, then I don't pick spell as I thought it would benefit others.

Apparently, I'm one of a lot of people who have been doing the random draw rules wrong.

Random Item from class deck: 1d19 ⇒ 11

So I draw Noxious Bomb. What do I do now? What does this entitle me to?

So if I want to pick a spell, I draw randomly from my box...

1d5 ⇒ 5 > Charm Animal (Spell 1)

That would definitely be a better spell than Call Animal. So I could take that as my upgrade - is that how it works?

LucianC and Ukuja, you get to keep the cards you drew if you want to. You can then choose and roll for a deck upgrade from the list of cards that you acquired.

Also, for those of you completing this scenario as the first scenario of your tier, you get a skill feat, so please lt me know what you are grabbing.

Ok, then my preferences for the regular upgrade:

1. Ally 1 1d1000 ⇒ 683
2. Weapon 1 1d1000 ⇒ 847
3. Blessing B 1d1000 ⇒ 838

I'm going to take Dexterity +1 for my skill feat.

So I'll take the Spyglass.
My Skill feats will be Charisma and Dexterity.

Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 542
Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 873
Weapon B: 1d1000 ⇒ 777

Convention Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 407
Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 408
Blessing B: 1d1000 ⇒ 964

Skill=DEX +1

Adding in Ultimate Magic to my deck box. Choosing SPELL upgrade.

Bloodscent
Fireblade
Detect Magic
Cure
Hide from Animals
Oozikinesis
Charm Animal
Fiery Glare
Rain of Frogs
Remove Curse
Acid Splash
Burning Snot
Cure
Steal Book
Prophesize
Mind THrust
Fire Snake
Bit of LUck
Clinging Venom
Electrified Web
Phantom Shield
Candlelight
Skitter
Life Drain
Locate Object
Pyro Blast
Sphere of Fire
Warding

RNG: 1d28 ⇒ 23

Skitter - Spell B - NOT adding to deck.

I will not take the card reward. Does that mean if I should ever happen to play and beat this one I can take the reward next time? You'd check "Take Reward" no, right?

I will add Strength +1.

I choose either of the Weapon 1s we acquired.

Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 808
Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 94

If I miss both, I'll take another quick look, but nothing else is jumping out at me.

Looks like I got a Weapon-1. Or did I? This system confuses me.

Assuming I did, I will remove Longspear and replace it with Ranseur of the Gargoyle.

My skill feat goes to Strength.

Yes, you did. You don't generally need to roll twice for two different Weapon 1s, you'd just roll once and in this case the top two scores would each get one.

So it looks like Ukuja gets the Ally1, Brienne and Aric get the Weapons1, and Mogmurxh gets the BlessingB.

Added Blessing of the Spellbound.

Hand drawn, ready for -1b.

Hand: Frilled Lizard, Potion of Beast Skin, Amfibier, Blessing of the Spellbound, Potion of Fortitude, Blessing of the Gobs 2,

Displayed:
Deck: 9 Discard: 0 Buried: 0
Notes:
Sideboard cards:

Elinnea and LucianC, have you guys rolled for your convention boons? If so, each one of you go ahead and roll 1d20 please.

I'm preparing the next scenario and will be posting it shortly.

I will not take the card reward. Does that mean if I should ever happen to play and beat this one I can take the reward next time? You'd check "Take Reward" no, right?

Nope. Drawing the card constitutes the reward, regardless of whether you decide to put it in your deck or not. I have verified this with cartmanbeck in any case, to be sure and he confirmed it.

Convention reward?: 1d20 ⇒ 3

boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 9

FYI, I won't be able to post until this evening.

Understood. Thanks for letting us know.

If anyone here wants to add resources to my roll to close, I'll give you an hour.

I have about an average chance, plus a possible reroll. So I'm ok trying it myself, but if we lose a Blessing gets shuffled from the Blessing deck into the location.

I'm more worried about the August 12 deadline than I am about running out of blessing deck. So not closing a location for the sake of loot is troubling to me. If the others agree with you, then I don't strongly object.

Assault on Absalom has been moved to later in the year. The August 12 deadline is no more.

I can attempt the close if that’s what we want. Depending on the weapon it could be difficult for me to succeed anyway.

I say give it a try, but don't spend resources on the check.

Ok I'll at least take a look at the summoned weapon.

For fighting the villain, we have no arcane ability so it’ll be combat, which probably several of us would be able to manage. I guess the real question is who could fight a random monster and then either acquire a random ally or a random weapon for the temp close.

Ukuja would be OK if it happens to be an animal or a ranged weapon, but would have a hard time if it requires melee or charisma. It seems like Aric would be best for the ally, but would he be ok against a monster without the Red Raven form?

We also have no blessings among us right now, so that’s not great. I have a few in my deck still so I might be able to draw one or two. We also know there’s one on top of the villain. If whoever goes there can acquire it, they should probably keep it instead of using it to explore again.

I have a compass, so movement outside an encounter is possible.

I can probably knock out a Combat 15 with little difficulty. I also have decent Charisma to hopefully acquire an ally. So we have options.

Yeah, I should be able to do the combat and then close. If nothing else, it doesn't say I need to win the combat, only that I can't evade. And I've got an armor displayed, so even if I lose I'll just bury the armor to absorb the damage, and then acquire the ally.

Oh that's true. It looks like Aric is the most injured at the moment, so for this turn I'll go there to heal and see if I can get that blessing. I can also bury the cohort for one more heal if anybody still needs it. I'll assume we're moving towards trying to end the game now.

Are we ready to trigger the villain?

I think we are. Go for it! One of the two people at the other locations can use my extra 1d4 for their monster fight.

I'm up for another game.

I'll keep going as long as you guys want to keep playing.

Everyone can roll another 1d20. You will get a convention boon if you get either a 1 or a 20.

Convention Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 363

Power Feats: (or when you examine a card in a location deck) x2

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 644

Convention boon: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Weapon B: 1d1000 ⇒ 182

For power feat, I'll take [X] At the end of your turn, you may recharge a random card that has the Animal trait from your discard pile.

I'm up for another game as well. Being an uncharismatic fellow, I'm not very interested in the scale of disguise.

Boon d20: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Since no one has expressed an interest in it, I will take the Item B. I will replace my Caltrop Bead with a Staff of Minor Healing.

For my Power Feat, I'm upgrading to d12 when I use Tools or Objects in combat.

Mog's power upgrade:

<Power 1>You may discard a card to add 1d6 [ ]+1 and the fire trait to a combat check by a character at your location: if the discarded card has the Alchemical ([X] or Attack or Poison) trait, add 1d6.

Cool, it looks like everybody gets their first choice!

And I'd take the Scale if nobody else wanted it (since I have, at least between my two personae, both Stealth and Diplomacy), but I'll happily let somebody else have it if anybody feels strongly about it.

I'll keep going as long as you guys want to keep playing.

Go ahead and drop Mogmurch from the group. I appreciate the group and playing, but the truth is, now that I understand how Mogmurch plays, his deck is setup completely wrong and I am fairly ineffectual at playing, scrambling and scraping things together just to pass a check or two. IE the lack of damage spells for offense and other alchemical cards that more effectively make use of his powers and abilities.

Thanks again, and good luck to you all!