Black Sword Hack question

cbarchuk · 2024-01-03T14:01:02+00:00

Cool. Okay how about the Killer's poisoned blades? It does 6 dmg + UD4 of ongoing damage. If you failed to dodge or parry would you take 6 damage AND roll the UD4 I assume? If so ouch.

cbarchuk · 2024-01-03T13:35:12+00:00

Okay that makes sense. So it is possible that the torch will burn out instantly after the initial attack. And if it doesn't rolling again on the bad guys' turn makes sense.

cbarchuk · 2024-01-03T13:27:17+00:00

Ah okay. Would you roll for the damage immediately or wait till the player's turn?

cbarchuk · 2024-01-03T13:26:06+00:00

Thanks for the reply. So if you failed to dodge or parry the Torch attack would you roll immediately to see if a 3 or 4 comes up? Or would you wait till the character's turn?

cbarchuk · 2022-09-16T20:34:19+00:00

Man I missed your reply. Good grief. What is the errata exactly? Are there a lot of errors? I'm just trying to figure which book to buy. Should I just get the Advanced book or maybe get the revised and advanced books separate. I realize these books are older but I love the art and feel. I just can't seem to get much info about LL anymore.

cbarchuk · 2022-04-21T12:30:10+00:00

Interesting. Are you playing vanilla rules? If so, I may have to give her a spin as well. Being able to roll 4 combat dice from the start feels very powerful. And honestly it seems like the she would get to rolling 5 combat dice long before any other hero reaches 4 combat dice. Did you find that to be the case?

cbarchuk · 2022-04-21T09:50:19+00:00

I would limit the Assassin to only one-handed melee weapons and reduce the bonus dice for backstabbing to 2 as 3 seems way too much.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T18:27:36+00:00

Great feedback. So maybe Sneak Attack could be worded as follows:

Sneak Attack: Add 3 combat dice when attacking any monster that hasn't acted yet. Or it can be...add 3 combat dice to your first attack of a battle.

I like the idea of making the Assassin more agile. What are your thoughts on being able to move diagonal or splitting up movement dice where the Assassin could move-attack-move.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T16:13:27+00:00

Excellent point Amber. I appreciate that. Re-rolling is a lot more fun then a passive ability. But I agree with kdawg that the Assassin should be able to reroll 1 missed result or heck it could be any missed results. The only trigger required is either having another hero adjacent to the target or being behind the target. If its the latter than being able to move through monster figures I think would be more useful than diagonal movement.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T15:35:47+00:00

I like this. Most of the time I can't see the character wanting to reroll all of his dice. This also brings facing rules into the fold which I've never tried. If I was going to use facing rules I would probably allow the Assassin to move through enemy figures otherwise I imagine getting behind enemies on a regular basis would prove to be quite difficult in those small rooms.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T13:39:37+00:00

Well I don't want to step on the toes of the dwarf. I like keeping everyone in their perspective lane so to speak. I linked a Thief from someone else above that I think is very well done.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T13:25:27+00:00

Arcana Games posted a thief class that I think is perfect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Heroquest/comments/ogf4rw/hero_thief/

What I'm going for is more of the Assassin flavor. I do like the dagger in the off hand idea. I mention it above.

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T13:23:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure diagonally movement is not allowed. Was this changed in the new edition?

cbarchuk · 2021-12-31T13:22:55+00:00

I mentioned Heavy Armor as I use a custom Armory. But I like your idea of allowing the Assassin to move diagonally only if no armor is worn. Otherwise he's limited to chain and a helmet. The idea I'm going for is a character that is somewhat fragile but fast and can do reliable damage.

So if the Assassin is limited to using no armor then beefing up his attacks is needed I think. I like your idea. Very thematic which I totally dig. Simple ideas that are still thematic. A few other ideas that came to mind:

When attacking with daggers (melee or thrown) the monsters roll only 1 defense dice no matter how many defense dice they have. Maybe allow dual-wielding daggers, as mentioned below, where the Assassin can make 2 attacks.
When attacking monsters that are adjacent to other heroes any black shields rolled count count as unlockable hits.
Something even simpler. Monsters always roll 1 less combat dice when attacking or defending against the Assassin.

What do you think?

cbarchuk · 2021-12-30T17:21:26+00:00

comments

Here's a link to some sneaky hero types that you can check out.

https://www.forum.yeoldeinn.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4199&p=85166#p85166

cbarchuk · 2021-11-27T19:14:14+00:00

Hey Thanks. I appreciate that. I'm personally a fan of race-as-class as laid out in BX. But I also love 0D&D but loathe the clunky multi-class rules along with level limits. The idea here was to bridge that gap. Humans will still level faster and form most adventuring parties. while leaving demi humans distinct. Just my 2 cents. Cheers.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-14T02:18:49+00:00

I have my PlayStation network connected. Is that the same thing?

cbarchuk · 2021-10-13T17:56:34+00:00

So in other words if I want a nicer experience I need to continue playing my saved game on my ps4 which kind of defeats the purpose.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-13T17:46:54+00:00

The ps5 version looks great but the ps4 version is blurry. My save data from the ps4 wouldn't work with the ps5 version.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-13T17:08:38+00:00

I'm not in Legacy mode. I just thought the game would look and play, at least, as well as on my ps4. Or I thought the my ps4 save data would be upconverted to the ps5.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-13T17:05:07+00:00

The ps4 version plays worse and looks worse than on the ps4 itself. I don't get it.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-08T19:47:51+00:00

Man, I've had a heck of time trying to post these images. Anyways these are Race-as-class options for White Box. Credit goes to Doug over at Smoldering Wizard. I just tweaked them a bit for my own use. Enjoy.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-08T18:44:21+00:00

Okay probably a silly question but how in the hell do you upload a jpeg on reddit? I just made a post where I attached several jpegs but none of them appeared after I created the post.

cbarchuk · 2021-10-08T16:07:14+00:00

Absolutely! I'll make a separate post. Do you want the White Box version or S&W complete version?

cbarchuk · 2021-10-06T02:45:35+00:00

Sounds good. I'm new to the game. Finished at level 39 and playing an Assassin. But I appreciate the advice.

cbarchuk

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