Welcome one and all!
I've been having fun playing Ukuja in S&S so decided to play him in the special. We will have some issues with healing early on especially with goblins blowing up or burning things. But Poog can put a Cure in their deck to use in an emergency or to pass off to Ukuja to use. And Ukuja gets access to a couple of healing cards at tier 2.
If you haven't played Skull & Shackles here are a few things to remember.
If our boat isn't docked then you are always on a boat on your turn. And if it isn't damaged or docked you can bring anyone with you when you move.
3 skills come up a lot in the S&S set. Survival, Fortitude, Knowledge.
And depending on what boat we get Craft could be useful.
I'll get my deck handler up well before we start but this will probably be my starting deck.
Hunter + UW
1. Terbutje
2. Terbutje
3. Hatchet
4. Light Crossbow
5. Cure
6. Call Animal
7. Cloud Puff
8. Frilled Lizard
9. Dwarf Caiman
10. Crow
11. Dog
12. Blessing of the Elements
13. Blessing of the Green Faith
14. Blessing of the Green Faith
15. Blessing of the Elements
Weapon B and Ally 1 are priority upgrades for me.
Hi everyone. Many thanks to Nathan for hosting.
I wasn't going to put a Cure in my deck right away (only 3 spells to start, and Poog is a fire specialist), but I'm happy to discuss. However, people who bless Poog are healed one card, and my first power feat will make that 2 cards. And like Ukuja I'll get a healing item in AD2.
With all of the rechargeable blessings at the table (Green Faith, Quartermaster), I should be able to indirectly heal a decent amount. I also have an item that lets me heal myself (sorta) - puts 1d4+1 discarded cards into my hand.
I'm running some of the same cards as Ukuja, as we're both using Ult Wilderness. I also get 1d6 bonuses vs. animals, which will help.
My long-term plan (AD2) is to keep adding spell feats and end up with 2 Cauterize spells (one from Goblins Burn, one from Ult Wilderness), which double as both healing and combat spells. Note: Nok-Nok can recharge cards to absorb any of my collateral fire damage. :)
I've played the first half of Tapestry's Tides in my "real life" group. I'll try not to spoil any surprises. :) But yeah, Survival, Con, and Fort are important.
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Fun thing. Until it gets erattad Cauterize doesn't heal random cards. So you can pick what you heal.
Looking at your power you might want to pass your blessings of the green faith to other characters when you get the opportunity. Not only does it potentially give you access to more blessings you can use but it overall increases party healing.
I was thinking something similar. I just don't want to whittle my deck down too much. A dead Poog is an unhappy Poog. :) Though if I get blessings (or other stuff) in return it all evens out.
By the way, my early upgrades will focus on blessings, weapons, and spells - though I'll be keeping my rechargeable blessings as long as possible. My early blessing upgrades are Lamashtu 1 (B), Lamashtu 2 (B), and Milani (1). No access to an Abadar, unfortunately. We'll see plenty of barriers in any S&S set.
I'm wanting
Wendifisa Spear (weapon B) Use Survival +1d12 +1 for combat
Fire Gecko (Ally 1) Reveal to add 1d4 and the fire trait to my combat checks
I of course get Milani at 1 as well. The Hunter deck offers
Underwater Crossbow (Weapon 1) Ranged +1d8 add 1d8 vs aquatic
Nothing else that great at tier 1. Raven is a good upgrade to Crow but not a priority.
Actually I just realized. Once you get Fire Gecko into your deck Blessing of the Elements gets better.
I might just keep my 4 starting blessings. Call Animal let's me shuffle my deck, You using my blessings or the Blessing of the Quartermaster will both keep the party healthy and give you a good chance at passing any check, And I can cast Cure on you as needed.
If Amaryllis adds Ultimate Magic at some point we would add Blessing of the Gods to the mix.
I'm looking forward to this.
I'm running Blessing of the Elements as well. Should be very handy.
Since I banish all animals upon use (pretty much), Fire Gecko is less interesting for me. :) I won't be using the animal spells from UW for the same reason. Too bad, because the Bull one looks pretty solid.
Nok-Nok is really strong in any Shackles campaign, because there are so many high-barrier locations. Plus, if desperate, he can use my "healing" item (Dogfinder) - because he's a Goblin.
Fire Gecko just reveals to add 1d4 and fire to your combat check. Just sits in your hand being awesome unless it gets discarded as damage.
I agree that Gecko is generally awesome. Just not for Poog. :)
He banishes all cards w/ animal trait when they are revealed/discarded/buried/recharged. Otherwise the Gecko would be a top choice.
I see. Goblins must really hate animals.
While I think Ukuja is objectively better overall, I'd rather play Korundo in this. Makes more sense then starting a new Hunter. Korundo is the same decks but tier 2.
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Hi All
First time playing Nok-Nok
Likely to go Strength / Finessee weapons route as they are stronger cards than the Knives in GF & UE
I have played all of the box sets and in another Season of the Tapestry Tide table at AD5 with a Grazzle
Super keen to see how Nok-Nok plays
I generally try to be self sufficient so happy to run without cures to start with and see how we go
So we have a party that loves animals (or to cook them anyway :-) )
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I played Nok-Nok through a full Season of the Shackles. One quick spoilery comment.
** spoiler omitted **
As usual, feel free to ignore everything I say. It's your dude and you should build him however you like. :)
Thanks! I was leaning that way anyway.
Also thinking going straight Str increase as the Finessee weapons are all Str based and better powers than the knives.How did you build?
Also thinking going straight Str increase as the Finessee weapons are all Str based and better powers than the knives. How did you build?
I did exactly the same, though I used Ultimate Combat - just because it was handy at the time. UE seems pretty strong.
I'll note that Intrigue has a solid set of Finesse and Stealth stuff as well.
Yeah, Intrigue is flat-out amazing. However, I used it with both Radovan and Zelhara, so I've been branching out to try other Ultimates.
In my face-to-face Tapestry's Tides, I'm running Gronk + UE. Great cards, and (at Tier 4) he's now pretty much unkillable.
Wilderness is the only one I haven't tried yet - hence Poog. :)
I love Blessing of the Quartermaster and Blessing of the Green Faith. And of course Poog's power to heal us when he uses our blessing makes the BitQ even better.
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Hhmmmm
Having some tough thoughts as whether to go with UE or UI for Nok-Nok
UE has much stronger
* Items inc Ring of Regeneration, Staff of Minor healing, Sacred Candle, Wayfinder
* Blessing of Quarter master for recharge on non combat,
* Dex based knives
Would allow a Dex based build with great self sufficiency and some good team support cards
UI has
* Way stronger / more versitile Str based finessee weapons
* Less self healing
* Does have some useful blessings e.g. Maat, Abadar, Asmodeous
Would allow a stronger fighting build, but less well rounded and more selfish play style
Any thoughts / feedback from the team?
Personally I favor team support. And while BoAbadar is great BotQM is nearly as good as most other blessings and is nearly as versatile. I have 2 hunters and never plan to cut Blessing of the Green Faith.
Note you can pass Ring of Regeneration to the party healer to keep the healing flowing.
On the other hand, knives suck for weapons even with your bonus. And Nok-Nok is primarily a combat character.
As much as it pains me to say it, I think the best long term option for you is UI.
I'm not too worried about the order I get these in but here are all of the card upgrades I'm looking for.
Raven Ally 1 (Recharge this card to add 1d10 to your check to acquire a weapon, an armor, or an item. Or discard to explore.)
Not actually sure if I want to replace Crow or Fox.
Fox recharges to add 1d4 to to any intelligence or Wisdom check which will come up a lot. But it is only a d4.
Crow is the same as Raven but 1d6 instead of 1d10.
Bloodscent spell B (Discard this card to add 1d10 to your Knowledge, Perception, or Survival check; if you succeed at the check, you may examine the top cards of any location deck.)
Not sure if 1d4 +1d10 will make many of the needed knowledge checks but the bonus to Survival will be relevant often. I like my current spells so this will be added once I get another card feat.
Wintervine Item 1 Plant (On a character at your location's Perception or Survival check, bury or banish this card to add 1 die. After the check, you may succeed at a Craft 6 or Survival 5 check to recharge this card instead.)
Compass is good but Survival is my combat skill so more = better.
Blessing of Milani (Discard this card to add 2 dice to any non-combat Dexterity or Wisdom check.)
Helps the rest of the party make some of those Survival checks. Will probably replace a Blessing of the Elements.
Arboreal Armor Armor 2 (Reveal this card to reduce Combat damage dealt to you by 1, or by 2 if the check has the Swashbuckling trait. Or recharges to prevent all damage from any source other then Fire.)
Armor is unexciting but it is better then my current armor.
Dwarf Caiman? Ally basic (Reveal this card to add 1d6 to your Stealth or Fortitude check. Discard this card to explore your location.)
Leryn is awesome. Bur Constitution/Fortitude checks come up a fair amount in S&S so it is tempting to pick Python instead to gain that Fortitude +2 skill. An extra 1d6 +2 might be worth the loss of Leryn.
Btw. Since I now have both of my hand size feats "Add 1d4 to your check that invokes the Animal trait." will be my default free feat unless I specify otherwise.
Do you mean that you've already completed game #2 of Tier 2?
That may put you too far ahead in terms of tiers. If I understand you correctly, you'll be forced to tier up after scenario #4 of AD1 in Tapestry's Tides, and then you'll have to sit out scenario #5 of AD1 (because you'll be at Tier 3).
Afaik all of these scenarios will be at tier 2. So I should be fine at tier 3 for all of them.
Yeah, this is a season, not a Special
Oh! I was thinking this was an ACG special using the S&S set.
My apologies. I'm already in too many full seasons. I don't really want to add another until the Core set comes out. I'll bow out and let someone else take my place.
@Nathan - At the moment we have 3 party members. Do you think that we'll be redistributed if we don't get 4 people? Just curious.
(If we end up moving forward with 3, I might rethink my character choice. No idea what I'd change to, though.)
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The other tables have 4 or 5 and not enough 4s to find homes for everyone. I'll throw a couple of recruitment posts out and see if we get a bite!
Great, thanks.
*bite*
Do you want a Reiko (Tier 1.4) with OA2, a Flenta (Tier 1.5) with UC, or a Lesath (Tier 2.1) with UE?
Or, I could do a virginal (Tier 1.0) Varian Jeggare.
I will also take no offence if you’d like to go with 3 players.
Good to see you. Having 4 players would be great.
This is a campaign rather than a special, so I imagine that most people are starting fresh at tier 1.0. So Varian might be a good choice, but whatever floats your boat.
...I see what you did there.
Awesome! I was interested in seeing him play at some point. I thought the design was interesting!
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Alright, so I think I've got him sorted save for one thing.
I won an 'Amateur Swashbuckler' boon in the last convention. I had wanted to apply it to my character that I used in that adventure, but I never did actually use it.
Since I didn't use it (and didn't get the physical boon until after the convention ended), I'm hoping that I could apply it to Count Varian instead of my previous character. I think it would be very useful for this season.
I of course will defer to your judgment, BR. It doesn't change the fact that Varian Jeggare is coming to play.
I approve of the transference of boon for Varian to have Amateur Swashbuckler.
I'm still looking for IraKroll to check in. I just sent him a PM.
Beyond that, Outpost starts next week! And we have a few items to take care of.
1) If you haven't verified your deck(s) for online play, you need to send an email with a photo of one of the token cards from each to morkxii (at) orgplayonline.com [change the (at) to an @, of course]
2) I can set up a Google Hangout for chat if you want to, or we can stick to the discussion thread. I'm fine with either way so let me know what you prefer.
3) Does anyone have a preferred play order, either in terms of character abilities or time zones? If two of you live on the other side of the world from everyone else, for example, you probably should take your turns next to each other in the order.
I'm east coast. Hangouts would be great.
If you haven't verified your deck(s) for online play, you need to send an email with a photo...
Photo sent of decks, playing mat. Thanks for the reminder. I own other mats if anyone needs a virtual mat.
Thanks everybody. I’m holding off until I hear from IraKroll. Regardless, I’ll post setup stuff by Monday night.