Someone just pointed out that the Season 2 Adventure 3 award is no longer - "receive a role card and gain a power feat". How is this going to work out?
Alahazra's power to discard a card off the top of her deck to use use her divine skill for combat does not have the clause "This counts as playing a spell". Is this intended?
There is a location that says "When you encounter a monster, add a monster to to the top of a random open location." I think it is the warrens. Anyway, if someone encounters a monster and evades it.Does it still count as being encountered?
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The scenarios for season two have strangely worded rewards. What exactly does it mean for:
1. The party draws one of each type of boon other than loot from the game box. (I feel this one is strait forward, just making sure)
2. Each character chooses a type of boon other than loot and draws a card of that type from the game box.
3. Each Character chooses a weapon, Spell, or Item , then draws a card of that type from the game box.
4. Each Character chooses armor, ally, or blessing, then draws a card of that type from the game box.
5. Each character chooses a blessing with an adventure deck number of 1 from the game box. Adventure Card guild characters may gain that card as a bonus deck upgrade.
6. Each character chooses a blessing that has an adventure deck number of 2 or lower and may gain that card as a bonus upgrade.
7. Each character draws an ally with an adventure deck number of 1 or 2 from the game box.
8. Each character chooses weapon, spell or item, and adds a card of that type from the game box to the cards acquired during this scenario. Adventure Card Guild characters may choose a bonus deck upgrade.
So my question is, when it tells you to draw from the box. Is this random? Do you get this card as a bonus upgrade? I thought you did until I read #5 and #8. Why does #5 tell you to choose it from the "game" box? Wouldn't this just be select it from the box? or word it like #6? or 5 and 8 the only ones that allow for two upgrades?
I'll try to answer as many as I can.
Adventure 3 reward: probably an oversight. It was massively unpopular when they delayed handing out a role card previously, and there is no mention in the Guide about automatically getting your role card (except if you start a new character in AD4 or later in which case you start with a role card but no feats).
"When you encounter" effects happen before any evasion effects are processed, so yes that would apply.
When told to draw from the box, it is random. When told to choose from the box, you get to pick. These cards are all put in the standard upgrade pool along with the cards acquired during the scenario unless specified otherwise by the reward (5 and 6 specify otherwise, for instance).
5, 6, and 8 allow for bonus upgrades; for 5 and 6 it is effectively the same as drawing those cards from your class deck box instead (the upgrade has to be the card you chose). For 8, you add extra cards to the pool and then get to choose 2 cards from the expanded pool, no matter if they came from the scenario or the reward.
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"When you encounter" effects happen before any evasion effects are processed, so yes that would apply....
I would encourage to check this answer we had from Vic on the generic question about when does an encounter start. It seems (great job Vic as always) they will clarify a bit the "encountering" vocabulary with MM (especially as they mess around with scouting).
Point is that there is potentially a number of "steps" between the time a character decides to explore and the time the "resolve the encounter" starts.
- things may happen before you flip the card
- things may then happen before you decide to temporay close
- things may then happen before you decide to evade
- and things may then happen before you get to resolve
The final "Resolve" part is now pretty clear (and starts with "before you act" stuff), but the "Before you encounter" is still a little unclear because it refers to somewhere in the middle of all the previous "steps".
Thus waiting for the outcome of the current discussions.
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"When you encounter" effects happen before any evasion effects are processed, so yes that would apply....
I would encourage to check this answer we had from Vic on the generic question about when does an encounter start. It seems (great job Vic as always) they will clarify a bit the "encountering" vocabulary with MM (especially as they mess around with scouting).
Point is that there is potentially a number of "steps" between the time a character decides to explore and the time the "resolve the encounter" starts.
- things may happen before you flip the card
- things may then happen before you decide to temporay close
- things may then happen before you decide to evade
- and things may then happen before you get to resolve
The final "Resolve" part is now pretty clear (and starts with "before you act" stuff), but the "Before you encounter" is still a little unclear because it refers to somewhere in the middle of all the previous "steps".
Thus waiting for the outcome of the current discussions.
How is this post at all relevant to the question posed? "When you encounter" is a normal step of the encounter (indeed, the first step of an encounter) that happens before "Apply any evasion effects." There is absolutely no ambiguity with the rulebook in regards to such effects.
Hi skizzerz. I did not at all argue with your very valid answer to the question asked.
I just took the opportunity to build on what was said to point on the fact that a larger discussion was happening.
But that doesn't change at all the validity of your answer.
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Pretty sure the intent was for the role card to sneak into the rules document (If you're playing AD4+...)
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Season of the Shackles Adventure 3 is also missing the role card info, FWIW.
The reward for Adventure 3: Each character chooses a type of boon other than loot, then draws a card of that type that has an adventure deck number of 3 from the box. Adventure Card Guild characters may treat this card as an additional deck upgrade. Each character chooses a role card and gains a power feat.
That's the latest version of the file.
To note, it's only the display that loses specificity; the actual date is still present--if you look at the HTML source, the full date is present in an attribute. I was making use of that to write a Chrome extension a while back to make it easier to manage the downloads page but never got around to finishing it. The only feature it had was highlighting the "Last Downloaded" date in red if it was either "never" or if last downloaded was less recent than last updated.
What about a Greasemonkey script (although that's Firefox specific I think)?
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FWIW: as of this post it seems to cut off full dates around the beginning of May in all three columns for me.
My suggestion (such as it is) for a minimal amount of change would be to use your short date form ("Sat, May 21, 2016") as the title attribute for all dates in the three columns.
Otherwise, it's off to userscripts. I'm not running any on this site at the moment (I do have some custom styling to do things like make links visible here in the forums) but it shouldn't be too hard to patch out the simplified dates given the site's use of <time> elements.
Addition: Oh, and if it's not obvious (Internet and all) I'm not annoyed anymore and was mostly annoyed with myself for not making sure I was on the latest files. It doesn't help when you have hundreds of PDFs from a wide variety of sources in your downloads (charity drives, bundles, long-time subscriber to multiple lines, and so on) clogging up the works. Should probably download all those things sometime. :)
I'll add one more suggestion though: let us pick relative/simplified or full date specifications. You don't have to go all the way to entering formatting codes (though I'm sure some of the folks on the site would like year-first) but a choice to override simplified terms would be nice. That is a style change I use over on the Gen Con Forums: they include both in the HTML and hide the one they don't want to show, so I just flip it back.
If you do review the way dates are displayed in the download page, may I humbly suggest to use something really meaningful like : "Sat, May 6, 2016"
For us non north americans if you just put 05/06/2016, we will keep on wondering if it's May 6th or 5th of June.
Just an idea...
It's always fun (or maybe it's just me being a geek working in software development) how Web sites handle time zones and local time. For example, if Vic adds something in the FAQ today (June 8th here in France, but June 7th end of day PST), it will be shown as "today" from a browser here in France. Tomorrow it will show as "yesterday", and then will jump back at June 7th on the day after.
And if the FAQ is updated twice in 48 hours it starts to be really fun :-).