[ACG] [Retrocon] Cosmic Captive - EmpTyger (Inactive)

Game Master EmpTyger

Welcome! This is a discussion thread for my Retrocon Cosmic Captive table.
I'm still getting set up, but feel free to post here in the meantime.

Please don't hesitate to ask any questions at any time.
Hoping for a fun game for everyone!

Hi everyone!

Greetings everyone. At this point, I'm going to plan on using Arabundi who is a T2 Ranger. It may possibly change, but that's the plan for now.

Hi Everyone!

I'm still not sure who I'll play. I've got Darago (T3 Wizard) and Erasmus (T2 Medium) that are currently at tables that might go on hiatus to accommodate this.

Otherwise, I might start Yoon (Kineticist) or Aric/The Red Raven (Vigilante)

Hi!

I'll be playing Koren, who is a T2 paladin, though if he doesn't fit I have other choices from the goblins burn deck!

Happy New Year! Some pregame instructions. Don’t hesitate to ask with any questions!

Character Selection
Please finalize your character choice as soon as possible. If you haven’t already, include a link to the deck handler in your profile.

Have you used this character before?

• Yes, online: Provide a link to your current table. (Note that you’ll have to pause any other game once the Cosmic Captive event starts in 2 weeks.)
  
• Yes, offline: Provide a copy of your chronicle sheet. (I'll provide an email address via private message you can send to if necessary.)
  
• No: Provide verification of deck ownership. (I'll provide an email address via private message you can send to if necessary.)

Tier Advancement
Each player needs to decide whether to play their character for tier advancement in this event.

Tier advancement:

• Earn scenario and adventure rewards.
  
• Earn upgrades.
  
• Earn feats after the 1st/2nd/4th scenario.
  
• Increase a tier after 4-6 scenarios.
  No tier advancement:
  
• Earn scenario and adventure rewards.
  
• Earn upgrades.
  
• (No feats, no tier progress.)

Party Communication
Some parties like to strategize via google hangouts; some parties just use it to alert when someone’s turn is up. Others parties prefer to communicate entirely via the discussion tab. It’s up to you!
Using a google hangout is completely optional. Please send me a Private Message indicating whether or not this is something you would be interested in; and if it is, please also include the e-mail address you wish to use. This is entirely voluntary, and the decision is anonymous. If anyone, for any reason, would rather not use google hangout, I will not set it up.

Posting Expectations
Please indicate what time zone you are in.
Because of the multi-table nature of this event, please try to take your turn within 24 hours. Obviously, let real-life take priority, but out of courtesy to the other players, try to let us know if something does come up. If necessary, I or another player you designate can take your turn for you, so feel free to leave instructions if you anticipate not be able to post in a timely fashion.
Use a posting style that works best for you, with as much or as little flavor as you feel comfortable with. It’s your game! The one thing that I would request is that you label your dice rolls with at least the difficulty and type of check.

This is the character I plan to use, with the Hunter deck plus Ultimate Wilderness. I have played him before online, in this game here. We stopped after the first adventure so he's free. My deck handler is linked, and I also have all his details in the alias.

I will play this special for no tier advancement (hoping optimistically that I can get back to play the rest of Season of the Righteous sometime).

I am in the US Central time zone CST.

I think I'll actually be starting a new Aric/TRR, using only Ultimate Intrigue for now. He'll be brand new, so I'll send you product verification.

I'll be playing with Tier Advancement.

I'm in the US Pacific Time Zone.

Alright so, I'm not taking tier advancements here.

I'll be playing Koren. His deck handler is here.

I live in California, so I'm PST. My sleeping schedule however tends to be weird as I'm in college with night classes + I'm a vet tech intern so I do ranch calls in the morning sometimes. So my hours tend to be varied.

Scenario intro is up. Choose your starting location, then draw your opening hand.
Also, let me know what you want to do for turn order. Currently it's in order of timezone. But if you'd like to change it to a specific order, or would rather randomize, let me know that too.
Gameplay will start tomorrow!

I'd prefer not to be first, if possible, so I can display my cohorts before the start of my first turn. I'm planning for the poor ankylosaur to be my lightning rod.

Other than that I'm ok with any order.

I don't have a major preference for turn order- so place me wherever is convenient.

Is it too late for me to switch to playing for tier advancement? Upon reconsidering I would rather do that for this special. If I can't it's not a big deal though.

Sure, that's fine.

Congratulations!

Each character needs to choose weapon or spell for the extra acquired card. Let me know this ASAP so that everyone knows what upgrades are available.
Also, everyone needs to decide whether to choose the Water or the Fire scenarios. (Note that you'll play the other scenarios afterwards provided that there's time before the next phase begins, which is tentatively scheduled for around 2/9.) Let me know your preference ASAP so I can get the next scenario set up for you.

Also start thinking about upgrades and feats.

Weapon card please!

No preference on next scenario.

Weapon for me too please!

I also dont a preference for the next scenario

I choose weapon for my extra card. I also don't have any preference between Water or Fire. (If none of us do, should we leave it up to the dice roller?)

I second leaving it to the dice roller.

EmpTyger can roll for us, and set it up before we know the result even :)

It sounds like a lot of us will be wanting weapons... My preferred upgrades, starting with the most desirable:

Weapon 2: 1d1000 ⇒ 116
Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 752
Blessing B: 1d1000 ⇒ 371

I will be taking Wisdom +1 for my skill feat.

Weapon 2: 1d1000 ⇒ 956
Blessing B: 1d1000 ⇒ 461

I'll take a Blessing B as either my second upgrade, or my only upgrade depending on whether I get the weapon 2.

In addition to finalizing feats and upgrades, please choose starting locations and draw opening hands.
Let me know if you want any changes to the turn order; otherwise we'll continue with Arabundi.

I'll be picking spell, and a blessing B if there are no weapon 1's left over.

Preferred Upgrades:

Upgrade 1: Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 376, Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 849
Upgrade 2: Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 110, Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 255

Skill Feats:
Aric: Charisma
TRR: Dexterity

Arabundi: Weapon 2, Blessing B
Aric/TRR: Weapon 1, Ally 1
Koren: Weapon 1, Spell B or Blessing B
Ukuja: Weapon 1, Weapon 1 or Blessing B

How does that look for upgrades? We have four Weapon 1s in total so we each can get a weapon, and there's one left over. I could use two weapon upgrades, but if anyone else wants it we can roll off again.

I'll be swapping out my terbutje for a Stone Axe +1, and if I get the second Weapon 1 then also my light crossbow for a Demonbane Light Crossbow +1.

I'll take a blessing B! I'll update my deck handler asap, and I'm all good to go.

Question: Do the cards we removed from the box still count as acquired at the end of the scenario?

I’ll confirm when I have the pdf in front of me. But from memory, I believe they do not.

I just realized that the Cargo Hold doesn't interact well with the scenario rule. Only cards from location decks can be put into the pile, so the alternate boons drawn from the box shouldn't be eligible.
I'm not going to try to retroactively correct what's already happened, but do note this going forward.

Choose your upgrade and feat (if applicable). You also get to pre-select a bonus upgrade that you'll get at the next scenario.
Also, since we've played 2 scenarios, roll d20 for the bonus reward chance!
Then pick starting locations and draw opening hands for the next scenario.

8-00A/8-00C1 reward: 1d20 ⇒ 15
Nope

Yay power feat! I will be taking when I discard an animal: ([X] or to add 1d4 plus the discarded card's adventure deck number to your combat check).

For my pre-selected bonus upgrade I'll choose an Ally 2 (Hatchetbird).

For this scenario's deck upgrade, I'd prefer (starting with my favorite):

Item 2: 1d1000 ⇒ 666 (I would actually use this to get an Item 1, so if somebody could really use the Item 2 I don't mind if you take precedence.)
Blessing B: 1d1000 ⇒ 797
Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 991

Power Feat: Both Aric and TRR are taking the Quick Change Power (([ ] or when you examine a card in a location deck), you may replace your character and token with)

Pre-Selected Bonus Upgrade: Weapon 1 (Captain's Cutlass)

Bonus Reward: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Deck Upgrades: In order of preference

Item B: 1d1000 ⇒ 205
Item 2 (Actually taking an Item 1, so anyone that wants it for an actual Item 2 takes precedence: 1d1000 ⇒ 579
Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 454

Eyy, Item 1 buddies!

I forgot the convention reward roll.

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Nope.

Power Feat: Add +4 to checks to acquire Divine Spells

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 6

I will stash an Item 2(Staff of Minor Healing) and not take any card upgrades.

Taking an Item 1 I will replace my Compass with Archer's Bracers.

For this scenario I'm actually going to bring the White Tiger cohort instead of Leryn, so I won't be able to do scouting like I have been. Instead it will let me move after I explore and don't encounter a monster, so I'll be able to avoid some of those dangerous start-of-turn locations. I'll also have the Pygmy Ankylosaur to help reduce a lot of damage.

Victory!

I will pull out the Ally 2 I stored away before, and replace my Stone Weasel with a Hatchetbird. For my regular upgrade I would prefer

Weapon 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 535
Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 962
Blessing B: 1d1000 ⇒ 954

I will take my Item 2 card from the previous scenario, but no new card upgrades from this scenario.

I'll take my Weapon 1 from last scenario.

I should be good to take the Ally B since neither Ukuja nor Arabundi and IIRC, Koren doesn't have Ally slots.

With a Weapon 1 I'll replace my Javelin with an Underwater Crossbow. (Hopefully I won't have the problem of being stuck without a weapon as frequently.)

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 8

My pre-selected bonus wold be a wep 2.

I'll take a spell 2 as my upgrade from the previous scenario.

PinesAwait unfortunately isn't going to be able to continue, so we'll be going down to 3. Thanks for playing! I'm really sorry it didn't work out. Please feel free to pop in to the thread whenever you want to say hi. I hope things get better for you soon!

Also, thanks to eddiephlash, Akaitora, and Yewstance for your help! You all are back at your original tables now.

Congratulations! In addition to everything else listed, you also get a d20 roll for completing 2 scenarios.
8-00C2/8-00D reward: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Nope.

Boon Me!: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Nope....

So for the Scenario Reward, say I choose Blessing. That means I take all the Blessings(B,1,2) out of my Class Deck and Ultimate deck and randomly choose one of those? And then I have to take that card as an additional choice if I want it, but I can't convert it to an equivalent level card.

Eg: Say I pull Blessing of the Gods (Blessing B) I can't convert that to a Blessing of Erastil(Blessing B), correct?

Yep, that's correct.

Convention reward?: 1d20 ⇒ 9

I'm going all in on the animals. My two card feats will be Spell and Ally.

I would like one of the allies for my regular deck upgrade.

Ally 2: 1d1000 ⇒ 205
Ally 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 256

For my random bonus upgrade, I'll pick a spell.

1d17 ⇒ 5

Aspect of the Falcon, Spell 1 from the Hunter deck. Sure, I'll gladly take that one.

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Card Feats: Blessing + Item

Card Upgrades: Item 1: 1d1000 ⇒ 205

Random Item: 1d9 ⇒ 6 Quick-Change Mask! Exactly the one I wanted!

Deck Repair: Fill in the empty Blessing slot with Blessing of Abadar (Non-Basic B, All the Basics are in my deck already)

I will not Tier Up.

So Aric and I can each take our top choice for the regular deck upgrade. With an Ally 2 I'll add a Thylacine to my deck.

I am going to tier up to 3.

Blessings:

Random Blessing: 1d18 ⇒ 15

Cayden Cailean. I'll pass.

I'll take the Spyglass and Erastil as my deck upgrades.

I'm putting together chronicle sheets.
Slight issue with Arabundi's reward: you can't take both Spyglass and Blessing of Erastil, since neither is the random bonus card, and neither is Basic.

Hopefully that helps?

Yeah, sorry I messed up on the Erastil because I'm not taking a blessing for anything. I was hoping my draw would be the Milani.

I'm taking a Spell and Item Card Feats.

The Spell will be Unerring Weapon from UC, which is basic so it's fine either way.

And we have 2 Basic items for upgrades from the scenario, so I can use my normal card upgrade as one of those to take the Spyglass right?