Well. Rules state that have you to keep redoing the intro battle until survivors triumph!
We'll do a little rotation between hunts. I'll step in for one character. I know we had a couple reserves if they wanted to step in for a battle. @el fantastico@El Skid
The reactions were a surprise, and those knocked you out of a position you were never really able to recover from. I think you had only 2 or 3 turns where more than one or two survivors were able to attack.
I don't think it's terribly important to save the rocks. You sacrifice 1 accuracy and 1 strength for a guaranteed crit from anywhere, and then after that you fists & tooth gives you +1 to crit. I would probably throw mine the instant I got a heavy injury or had a decent chance of knocking an advanced AI card out of the deck. I'd only hold on to it if I knew all the advanced cards were out, or a trap hit location was due.
It's so nice to see this going again, especially now with Tabletop Simulator able to handle the map and cards. Trying to run the forums first game of it entirely manually via decks of card at my desk at the office facilitated by layers in GIMP sure did make things interesting. Here's hoping this new round goes better now that Geth's blood lust has been satiated.
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Wow that's brutal. I'd say in D&D this is roll characters, get backgrounds now go hunt for food, oh look its the Tarrasque. Except D&D monsters don't get reaction attacks.
I'm in for revenge, but I'm fine stepping aside for other people as well. Doubtless we don't need more of my luck.
Figure I'd ask now, because I've been trying to find an answer, but can't.
When you get Geth to roll, I see a lot of roll #d#t#... what's the t for?
The target number you need to roll equal to or higher in order to hit. Instead of having to read every die roll result, it will just show the total number of "hits" in bold on the left side. Very useful when you only care about hits and not specific numbers (why it's never used for rolling the human hit location die or severe injury table).
One thing I haven't figured out is how to use 't' with plus or minus modifiers, like
Okay, so 2nd attempt will be myself, El Fantastico, El Skid, and Phyphor figuring that he bought it first and got to play the least.
In the future, we can have a rotating player thing going since you won't be sending out the same characters on every hunt. Injuries may force you to sit out a turn, or even retire from hunting. You can also only go on so many hunts because experience also acts as age where you're forced to retire from hunting at old age. As an incentive to be bold and not CYOA, rotation priority will be given to players who died first after all non-players have gotten a slot, just like what happened to Phyphor.
I will be Nolan, male. (after the Christopher Nolan movie Memento which is how this story starts out)
Try not to stand in a straight line from it. It has at least double your mobility so it doesn't matter so much as long as you aren't in a straight line from it.
I've been inspired to drag my copy out to try on a new group next week.
Fingers crossed we do a little better than this...
This outdoes even Cthulhu Wars for "holy shit this game desperately needs a cheaper, miniature-less version".
And even then, the $400 cost is a bit puzzling. I'm looking through a friend of a friend's copy now. It's the 4 survivors, then about 6 monster minis measuring from the size of the lion to maybe a greater chaos daemon from warhammer. The rulebook and the (very) basic board is everything that comes in the box. It's a super stretch to say the board, book, and survivors cost $100, so even at $300 for the 6 bigger minis (2 of which aren't very big) is pretty crazy. Especially when you consider that Cthulhu Wars had a LOT more minis with 4 that were a LOT bigger and still cost half as much.
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Back-seat driving here: Throw the rock to get rid of Roar in the deck and hope one of you can score a final hit before you both become cat food?
Steam: TheArcadeBear
0 -> light injury -> heavy injury
knocked down
Vance & intestines limps forward 1.
Monster Turn
Terrifying Roar
geth roll 1d10t2 for Vance
geth roll 1d10t2 for Flonne
Vance
1 -> 0
Basic Action
target: Flonne (+1 insanity)
geth roll 2d10t2
0 -> light injury -> heavy injury
Body
Severe injury
geth roll 1d10
Bleeding: gain 2 bleeding tokens
Flonne finally collapses and bleeds out
Better plan: let the lion eat you and start over.
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Vance limps forward.
Roar
geth roll 1d10t2
Vance & intestines limps forward 1.
Monster Turn
Terrifying Roar
geth roll 1d10t2
Lion moves 5 towards.
Lance limps
Roar
geth roll 1d10t2
Lance limps
geth roll 1d10t2 for roar
geth roll 2d10t2
head
heavy injury -> severe injury
Body
Severe injury
geth roll 1d10 for body
and Vance collapses
We'll do a little rotation between hunts. I'll step in for one character. I know we had a couple reserves if they wanted to step in for a battle.
@el fantastico @El Skid
Blame Geth.
EDIT: I'm in.
I'm going to do something I never do, but I hope it brings us luck, and if we make it to the Settlement phase, we're might need this.
Usagi / Female
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Penny Arcade Rockstar Social Club / This is why I despise cyclists
The reactions were a surprise, and those knocked you out of a position you were never really able to recover from. I think you had only 2 or 3 turns where more than one or two survivors were able to attack.
I don't think it's terribly important to save the rocks. You sacrifice 1 accuracy and 1 strength for a guaranteed crit from anywhere, and then after that you fists & tooth gives you +1 to crit. I would probably throw mine the instant I got a heavy injury or had a decent chance of knocking an advanced AI card out of the deck. I'd only hold on to it if I knew all the advanced cards were out, or a trap hit location was due.
Fingers crossed we do a little better than this...
This outdoes even Cthulhu Wars for "holy shit this game desperately needs a cheaper, miniature-less version".
I'm in for revenge, but I'm fine stepping aside for other people as well. Doubtless we don't need more of my luck.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
When you get Geth to roll, I see a lot of roll #d#t#... what's the t for?
Steam: TheArcadeBear
here
Penny Arcade Rockstar Social Club / This is why I despise cyclists
The target number you need to roll equal to or higher in order to hit. Instead of having to read every die roll result, it will just show the total number of "hits" in bold on the left side. Very useful when you only care about hits and not specific numbers (why it's never used for rolling the human hit location die or severe injury table).
One thing I haven't figured out is how to use 't' with plus or minus modifiers, like
geth roll 1d10+1t2
In the future, we can have a rotating player thing going since you won't be sending out the same characters on every hunt. Injuries may force you to sit out a turn, or even retire from hunting. You can also only go on so many hunts because experience also acts as age where you're forced to retire from hunting at old age. As an incentive to be bold and not CYOA, rotation priority will be given to players who died first after all non-players have gotten a slot, just like what happened to Phyphor.
I will be Nolan, male. (after the Christopher Nolan movie Memento which is how this story starts out)
@Phyphor @El Fantastico @El Skid to come up with their name, sex, and position exactly 6 spaces from the lion.
I'll start the new game and just use your color as your name until you post one.
Hmmmmmm
For position, I'll stand within 6 squares in the Lion's peripheral vision, so the rest of the gang can try to score back attacks.
"Here, kitty, kitty!"
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Try not to stand in a straight line from it. It has at least double your mobility so it doesn't matter so much as long as you aren't in a straight line from it.
And even then, the $400 cost is a bit puzzling. I'm looking through a friend of a friend's copy now. It's the 4 survivors, then about 6 monster minis measuring from the size of the lion to maybe a greater chaos daemon from warhammer. The rulebook and the (very) basic board is everything that comes in the box. It's a super stretch to say the board, book, and survivors cost $100, so even at $300 for the 6 bigger minis (2 of which aren't very big) is pretty crazy. Especially when you consider that Cthulhu Wars had a LOT more minis with 4 that were a LOT bigger and still cost half as much.
Nolan MrBody
Usagi El Fantastico
Freya El Skid
Badrolls Azith28
@azith28 to choose start for BadRolls
I figure we focus on trying to keep it so if the lion does a full move forward suddenly, he does it into a table edge so we can catch it.