When you make a check, you first define a skill you will use for the check. Lets say Valeros is making a Melee check. His Melee is Strength + 3 and his Strength is a d10, so he'd be rolling 1d10 + 3.
Playing a blessing to add a die to the check would let him roll 2d10 + 3. (Two 10 sided dice and add 3 to the final result.) Playing a blessing to add 2 dice to the check would let him roll 3d10 + 3. (Three 10 sided dice and add 3 to the final result.)
So they literally add another die (or 2) to the check you are rolling. If you don't have that many copies of the necessary die, just roll it multiple times and keep track of the total.
I'm curious though at your use of the word "opponent". Did you just mean your opponent in the debate about blessings? The game itself is cooperative, so the only opponents are the cards.
For something like the blessing of Lamashtu, you need to decide which ability you're using - you can discard it from your hand to add one die (of whatever type is already being used) to any check, OR, you can bury it to add 2 dice (again, relevant type) to the check to defeat a monster
He rolls the d10 3 times (or if you buy extra dice he can roll 3 different d10s at the same time). I think lots of people buy extra dice since the game only comes with 1 of each of the dice.
Lets do this as an example.
Valeros is going to attempt a combat check to defeat a monster. He plays a weapon that says "For your combat check reveal this card to roll your strength or melee die + 1d8." He also plays a Blessing of Lamashtu, choosing its "Bury this card to add 2 dice to a check to defeat a monster" power since he is trying to defeat a monster. He puts the Blessing of Lamashtu under his character card since he has to bury it. So, Valeros will need to roll 3d10 + 1d8 +3. So he needs to roll a d10 3 times, a d8 1 time and add 3 to the result.
So from his rolls:
d10 = 2
d10 = 3
d10 = 8
d8 = 4
That adds up to 17. He adds the +3 from his Melee to that for a grand total of 20.
Does that make it clear?
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Hawkmoon: You are a saint among sinners for the amount of help you provide in these boards.
No offense to all the other sinners in these threads. ;)
I'll amend that slightly, he is a SAVIOR among SINNERS... we gotta get the deck 5 plug in there properly!
Tee-hee!
According to Amazon, my deck will arrive May 8-10. Couple more weeks before I can join the sinners.
And in the immortal words of Billy Joel:
"I'd rather laugh with sinners than cry with the saints... Sinners are much more fun... and ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!"
I have to jump in and nitpick something.
card's
The apostrophe does not indicate plurality. It indicates possessiveness. Please stop using it incorrectly.
One card, two cards.
Mike owns a bike, it is Mike's Bike.
The problem is that incorrect use of punctuation is a problem with native speakers. There's a reason this book exists.
The problem is that incorrect use of punctuation is a problem with native speakers. There's a reason this book exists.
Actually, native speakers tend to have it fine when errors are made as native speakers can read typos and 'implied' meanings when misspelled words are used.
Like in the thread title, I assume the poster actually meant to type:
"How Do I Use (the) Blessing Card's (Powers) and How Does It Work?"
Since "it" is one, so "Card's Powers" makes more sense than multiple "Cards" when you take into account the rest of the statement, even though it'd be missing the 'the'.
It's those non-native speakers/readers that have to use translation software that tend to have the real issues, as many automatic translators can't deal with typos or misspellings.
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All that being said, it's actually punctuation issues and word usage that make some of the rules for PACG hard to follow for some people.