I'm playing Lem and Valeros. I think I'll take Item for the card feat. There have been a few times I wish I had space for another item, some regrets about having to ditch items after rebuilding decks. Valeros is currently carrying a Crown of Charisma and Spyglass. Some Masterwork Tools wouldn't go astray.
Lem certainly can cycle through his deck quickly. And he has been feeling a little less squishy since Valeros gives him his best suit of armour at the start of each scenario (as soon as possible anyway). Valeros can certainly afford it as he rarely takes damage with his heavy-hitting, weapon-recharging smashy, smashy. I find Valeros needs to play out the Discard option on his weapon so that he cycles through his deck. Otherwise he ends up with 4 weapons in hand and nothing much else that he can do.
|
During the playtest, my group came to the conclusion that unless there is a specific need being met, you should always choose blessings & allies for additional card feats while they are still options.
Why?
Because additional explorations per turn help you win all the time, versus other cards that help you in specific situations.
In a large group (4+ players), this is good advice. With lower numbers, you don't need to explore as often to win.
In a large group (4+ players), this is good advice. With lower numbers, you don't need to explore as often to win.During the playtest, my group came to the conclusion that unless there is a specific need being met, you should always choose blessings & allies for additional card feats while they are still options.
Why?
Because additional explorations per turn help you win all the time, versus other cards that help you in specific situations.
While you're absolutely right, its still a good idea to explore more often if able, generally. When playing solo, for example, you can usually encounter every card in every location deck without the blessings running out, but there may be hazards, like certain barriers or location closing restrictions, that require you to attempt the check several times to succeed. As such, having an extra blessing or ally around to speed up the process is still a great idea.
One must also be careful not to dilute the important cards of the deck too much as well, just as in a deck building game. If your Valeros ends up with 5 weapons in a 20 card deck, he will play quite a bit differently than with 5 weapons in a 15 card deck.
Some things to consider.
As you adds allies and blessings, you will see your weapons less often and won't be able to depend on the recharge ability to boost you in combat. If you buff with blessings you'll be bleeding out more, but I suppose that's OK with Lini. I would upgrade blessings before allies, they're more universally useful.
Combat challenges automatically levels up by at least +1 per adventure and then scale up quickly from AP 3.
To me, I want characters to be good at their niche roles. If you can't do that what's the point? I've seen Amiri upgrade everything but STR and by AP 3 she loses a lot of combats. If you have a combat character that is no longer good at combat, it's a problem. IMHO.