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Just because I like to document my character after the fact, here's a tread for it. Just finished up our run at Factions Favor. I played Radovan out of Tales, and was joined mostly by Talitha (Magus), Brielle (Barbarian) and at the start of the season Ukuja (Hunter).
Rodavan was interesting, loved all the allies, especially the early allies from Tales that allowed him to recharge their friends. I added Intrigue for the ultimate deck which paired really well. Overall I'll miss him, he definitely had an interesting shtick with the various demon forms although all the undead put a bit of a crimp in his gameplay. Still a lot of fun!
Character Name: Radovan
Role Card: Pitbound BodyGuard
Skill Feats: Strength+4, Dexterity+3, Wisdom+1
Power Feats: +6 hand size, 3 Devil froms, 1d6 to combat checks not having the 2-handed trait, add 1d12 if no weapon, Reduce damage to a character at your location, (by 2 if 4-7P), When a monster is undefeated by another character or when I defeat a monster display a monster next to a devil form.
Card Feats: Weapon+1, Item+1, Ally+3, Blessing+2
Weapons: Hrym, Sawtooth Saber+2, Shadowless Sword, Corrosive Backsword+4
Spells: Remove Curse(trader-subbed out Blessing of the Ancients each game)
Armors: Gravewatcher Chainmail
Items: Shadow Victim Ring, Ring of Regeneration, Boots of Teleportation, Deadened Shadows Cloak
Allies: Zae, Rodrick, Keren Rhinn, Vizier, Zealot, Heister, Thrune Agent
Blessings: Runewell's Echo, Blessing of Zon-Kuthon, Blessing of the Midnight Lord, Blessing of the Vaultmaster, Blessing of Anubis
And now onward to the next season!
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Congrats! Just FYI there is a 4-7P capstone that is in the process of getting put up on the store . So stay tuned for that if you haven't had the opportunity to play it yet.
Thanks! Yeah, we took on the Duel capstone and then circled back around for Deal after. Duel was definitely the harder of the two, but wow was the ?Duel reward good.
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Love playing Radovan. He's officially my favorite OP character, and can be pretty darn overpowered. I'm using him now in two different Seasons: Shackles (w/ Ultimate Intrigue) and Plundered Tombs (w/ Ultimate Combat). He's heavily focused on finesse melee weapons in both.
And the boons in the Tales and Intrigue decks are *so* strong. What finesse specialist doesn't want two Shadowless Swords?
I always choose the Sczarni King role, as I've never felt the need to use all 3 forms - and the extra 1d4 bonus to Finesse checks is huge. As is the ability to get a devil form display when someone fails to acquire a boon - which means Radovan gets a display either way when encountering a boon, as he either displays the boon that he just acquired or he gets a consolation display for failing to acquire.
In Shackles, I nearly always use Viridio + Quang forms, as there are only a few monsters immune to poison. Norge only comes out in scenarios that require Fortitude checks.
In Plundered Tombs, I always use Norge + Quang forms, as having fire immunity is nuts and there are far too many monsters with poison immunity. I'd do the same thing in Righteous and Factions' Favor.
Warning: With Tup in the party, Radovan can pass almost any check (and gets free Norge displays, to boot), as long as he has Quang displays handy and Tup is willing to recharge cards. A pretty unfair combo, in general.
Anyway, good choice. :) Radavan is as strong as any melee character currently in play, can evade banes at will, has solid stats nearly across the board, and gets huge bonuses to non-combat checks. That's a combination that can't be beat.
His only drawback (literally) is that his preferred card type is Ally, but that can be worked around pretty easily - given that he's also a beast at weaponless combat.
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Don't forget, in Seasons 3 and 4, that the Neferekhu Loot Ally allows Radovan to use his Melee skill + 1d8 in combat... without technically ever using a weapon. So his role that adds +1d6+1d12 (I think?) for fully weaponless combat is exceptional alongside it; and it plays into his preferred card type, to boot.
Plus, Neferekhu inherently adds the Undead trait to your combat checks, and there's a few ways to exploit that (both in terms of loot or just cards in various character/ultimate decks).
Plus, Neferekhu effectively triples his Wisdom and the noncombat Wisdom of everyone at his location (and Radovan is a strong team player with people by his side), and his Diplomacy skill means he's well-suited to overcoming its downside.
And yes, Radovan's pretty exploitable with a variety of means. Immunity to Fire and Poison (in fact, being rewarded for taking those types of damage) has a lot of interesting/powerful interactions with Goblins Fight, Goblins Burn and Hell's Vengeance 1 character decks, among others, so you'll often find teammates able to 'help' you by throwing down a Rain of Frogs or a Blessing of Mammon or something, whilst ignoring what are supposed to be downsides.