I got an email about an upcoming subscription that I don't have. Was this email sent in error?
Same here, never been a minis subscriber ever!
Search Posts
Thanks for pointing that out, I missed that. So you may banish any boons you encounter rather than acquiring them. That still doesn't answer my main question however. Specifically with Blessing of the Gods, I see practically no reason why you wouldn't want to acquire it during the game, so it would feel a little frustrating if you encounter it and even though it would be good for you during that scenario to acquire it, you shouldn't because it won't improve the blessing pool in the long run.
First of all I want to say I love this game, and I played through the Burnt Offerings adventure multiple times and finally got The Skinsaw Murders yesterday, already playing 4 out of 5 scenarios of it last night, and I'm eagerly awaiting more of it. Kudos to the team! In my eagerness for future adventures I got to thinking about how the card pool is going to improve as per the Rise of the Runelords adventure path rules regarding banishing cards with the Basic (and later, Elite) trait. I know it isn't relevant yet, because the Hook Mountain Massacre isn't out yet, but in thinking ahead, I'm a little unclear about a few details. As currently written, the bane card pool is going to steadily improve (i.e. get harder), because all you generally do with banes is banishing them, which then removes the Basic (and later Elite) ones from the card pool. The boon card pool, on the other hand, looks to improve much more slowly, because banishing boons is actually not that simple. As I see it, the main two ways in which you can banish a boon is either if you fail to acquire it, or if you close a location deck that still includes some boons. There are some cards that get banished on use, but that's not the norm, and there's some other card effects (like the When Closing effect on some locations) that banish boons, but also not something that happens too often. I read up on rebuilding the deck between scenarios, and the rulebook says "If you have cards left over after rebuilding all of the surviving characters’ decks, put them back in the box." Now my questions are as follows: Should this read "banish" instead of "put back in the box"? That way you could get rid of unwanted Basic boons even though you'll be acquiring them quite often during the game, since many of them are easy to acquire, and you'll often have many of them left over after rebuilding your decks. If the answer to this is "no, they should be put back in the box, and you won't get rid of Basic boons that way", that opens up two further questions: When I encounter a boon, do I HAVE to attempt the check to acquire it, or can I simply choose to fail it, if I would rather banish that boon to get rid of it from the card pool? If I do have to attempt the check, do I have to acquire the card when I succeed on the check (or when there is no check at all), even if I would rather banish it to improve the card pool for future scenarios? If all of these are used as currently written in the rules, the card pool for banes will improve much faster than for boons, and some cards specificially, for example Blessing of the Gods, are going to be quite hard to get rid of. Hoping for some insight on this matter so I can put my mind to rest and also so I know for sure how things are supposed to work once The Hook Mountain Massacre comes out!
Non-UPS shipments, including all overseas orders, should begin to show as completed on the website within the next few hours. Thanks, I thought it might be something like that, but it's good to actually hear a confirmation. It's not that much of a hurry for me anyways, just wanted to know. Thanks again, Nightsong
I pre-ordered mine on July 17th and it's still showing "Awaiting Shipment" as well. I live in Vienna (Austria), and unfortunately can't get it locally at the moment... when'll you ship my copy? |