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Bombadilillo posted:It matters for their movement, they should be trying to get into a position where they can attack multiple people. Small clarification, monsters will move into a position where they can hit multiple targets while still attacking their focus. If the choice is between hitting multiple targets (but not the focus) and only hitting the focus, they'll go for the single hit on their focus.
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food court bailiff posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure shields stack. The weird part of Living Bones is that they target multiple characters every time they attack even though they're melee - unless I'm totally misinterpreting that? I don't think it would matter much to what we've played so far, we usually just play keep away with the bastards. Check the art on the Living Bones. He's got multiple arms he swings at everyone 
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Kiranamos posted:Check the art on the Living Bones. He's got multiple arms he swings at everyone Wait whaaa... The things I've missed.
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Kiranamos posted:Check the art on the Living Bones. He's got multiple arms he swings at everyone Holy poo poo we have to go get the stupid card out now so we can look at it.
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Dec 15, 2017 03:29
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I’ve forgotten the losing cards to mitigate attacks rule so many times already when it’s pretty obvious it exists because you’d randomly get one shot by an elite crit if you couldn’t.
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Dec 15, 2017 07:54
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Could someone detail exactly how traps work for me? My group's Tinkerer keeps putting them down and I'm aware those cards aren't very good but I still feel like I'm doing them wrong. Can you put traps in chokepoints? They don't actually block it off but I'm not sure. Related, are there any circumstances where a monster will walk onto a trap?
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Countblanc posted:Could someone detail exactly how traps work for me? My group's Tinkerer keeps putting them down and I'm aware those cards aren't very good but I still feel like I'm doing them wrong. Traps do a thing when someone moves (or is moved) onto them. The thing might be automatic damage, or a status, or both. Monsters treat traps as obstacles when calculating their focus and pathways, then recalculate as if the traps didn't exist if that causes no other path to exist (and will presumably move over the trap and take the effect).
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Dec 15, 2017 08:11
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My group of three retired two classes last session. We played a couple of two player scenarios with the new classes today, and nearly got stomped in both due to a complete inability to deal with shields. As it happened we had the same four-shield elite in the first room of one scenario and the last room of the other, and the only chance we had of dealing with him between us was a single wounding card. We beat the second scenario with my friend exhausted and me at 1 hp with no cards left, after wounding the thing and frantically running away until it bled to death. Coming from cragheart it is very distressing, suddenly needing to worry about high shield low health enemies. Fortunately the third player is a bit better at dealing with them so it should be a bit smoother when we have three again. Until he retires, at least...
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Dec 15, 2017 08:30
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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silvergoose posted:Holy poo poo we have to go get the stupid card out now so we can look at it. All enemy art is on the developer's website. Spoilers, ovbiously. http://www.cephalofair.com/gloomhaven-monster-spoilers The skeleton is not a spoiler, so here we go;  It makes no sense how that second arm attaches somewhere above elbow, but I don't think animated multi-limbed skeletons need to be all that realistic.
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misguided rage posted:My group of three retired two classes last session. We played a couple of two player scenarios with the new classes today, and nearly got stomped in both due to a complete inability to deal with shields. As it happened we had the same four-shield elite in the first room of one scenario and the last room of the other, and the only chance we had of dealing with him between us was a single wounding card. We beat the second scenario with my friend exhausted and me at 1 hp with no cards left, after wounding the thing and frantically running away until it bled to death. Worth noting, you can also use traps (with pushes, if necessary) and Retaliate damage to deal with high-Shield enemies. Assuming you don't have any Pierce attacks available.
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Jabor posted:Worth noting, you can also use traps (with pushes, if necessary) and Retaliate damage to deal with high-Shield enemies. Assuming you don't have any Pierce attacks available. Unless they're high shield enemies with Flying.
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I played the first of the kickstarter scenarios on TT Sim yesterday with a buddy. It was a lot of fun if a bit annoying at points, hopefully the later scenarios aren't like that one, which is just a giant room with monsters punching each other, because it made every turn take forever, and while we started off feeling like we couldn't win once we started getting into how the game played we got a lot more confident and won the scenario pretty easily. We made a few rules mistakes I can tell just from reading this thread which we'll try to remember when we do Scenario 2. Cragheart is love, though I didn't realize how he seems to be more of a ranged dude then maybe a frontline person, he's a lot of fun to play. I didn't use his Spare Ammunition card though which was bad of me since it meant I lost like 4 EXP.
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Holy hell we just got absolutely wrecked in Scenario 2. I don't know if we were just exceptionally unlucky or what, but between the 3 curse cards everybody gets just for showing up, and Captain Summons poo poo Or Opens Doors Every Friggin' Turn we just got completely overwhelmed.
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food court bailiff posted:Holy hell we just got absolutely wrecked in Scenario 2. I don't know if we were just exceptionally unlucky or what, but between the 3 curse cards everybody gets just for showing up, and Captain Summons poo poo Or Opens Doors Every Friggin' Turn we just got completely overwhelmed. It's pretty neat and I hope the design stays fresh where you can fill in the narrative with the mechanics, but it does seem pretty swingy. We managed to win only because he got stuck on door 4 and kept drawing Living Bones instead, but he could never legally summon more than one after we ended up blocking him in with corpses behind him and all of us in melee range + one LB. We got like 3 2x hits on him as well which is kind of crazy, and I don't think we would have won otherwise. If you get unlucky with the monster ability draws, it seems you'd get overwhelmed and die much too easily.
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Dec 15, 2017 20:23
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Stallion Cabana posted:I played the first of the kickstarter scenarios on TT Sim yesterday with a buddy. No no, me and my brother 2-manned all but the last one of the TTS kickstarter ones and you don't have to worry about them all being the same. I'm not entirely convinced you can beat the 9th one with 2 people without getting exceptionally lucky though. I can comment on that if you want but, spoilers. The scenarios are mostly all very different and have different objectives. For a bonus, if you look at the kickstarter blog you can see what choices were made between each scenario by the community. Not really a spoiler: The first TTS one can actually be tricky, since you have to get the last hit on a number of them and so at a certain point you have to keep the enemies from killing each other or beat them to the punch. For the second TTS scenario Make sure one of you uses a loot power to suck up all the bombs ASAP, and don't be afraid to use a couple to tag annoying enemies from a distance. In the second room, our cragheart just smashed the table and we were able to run past a bunch of those cannons. Hunting all those down will exhaust you pretty quick.
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food court bailiff posted:Holy hell we just got absolutely wrecked in Scenario 2. I don't know if we were just exceptionally unlucky or what, but between the 3 curse cards everybody gets just for showing up, and Captain Summons poo poo Or Opens Doors Every Friggin' Turn we just got completely overwhelmed. I'm pretty sure everyone gets wrecked on their first attempt of that scenario, but now you know what you should focus on next time!
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We did good on our first try of scenario 2. We killed the Bandit Commander before he could open the 3rd door.
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My group probably got phenomenally lucky, but we actually cleaned up Scenario 2 quite easily, especially compared to Scenarios 1 and 3, and even had time to leisurely stroll over and loot the treasure without running any notable risk. Basically the boss almost immediately opened all four doors, meaning the last two were completely devoid of enemies, and we were able to get a poison on him early so he just ended up eating a lot of damage and dying before doing anything noteworthy. I think he only actually attacked us twice, and once he was across the room and couldn't hit anyone. Meanwhile the corpses barely moved out of their rooms so we weren't ever taking enough damage to sacrifice cards. And regarding that treasure, our Brute was fortunate enough to loot it and dang that is a Good Treasure.
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Countblanc posted:My group probably got phenomenally lucky, but we actually cleaned up Scenario 2 quite easily, especially compared to Scenarios 1 and 3, and even had time to leisurely stroll over and loot the treasure without running any notable risk. Basically the boss almost immediately opened all four doors, meaning the last two were completely devoid of enemies, and we were able to get a poison on him early so he just ended up eating a lot of damage and dying before doing anything noteworthy. I think he only actually attacked us twice, and once he was across the room and couldn't hit anyone. Meanwhile the corpses barely moved out of their rooms so we weren't ever taking enough damage to sacrifice cards. And regarding that treasure, our Brute was fortunate enough to loot it and dang that is a Good Treasure. Yeah, my group had it play out mostly as intended, but a buddy of mine just got to it the other day and kept drawing the summon living bones/reshuffle card over and over, and ended the scenario after a massive slog with not a single door ending up open. They're gonna replay to get the treasure, probably.
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Countblanc posted:My group probably got phenomenally lucky, but we actually cleaned up Scenario 2 quite easily, especially compared to Scenarios 1 and 3, and even had time to leisurely stroll over and loot the treasure without running any notable risk. Basically the boss almost immediately opened all four doors, meaning the last two were completely devoid of enemies, and we were able to get a poison on him early so he just ended up eating a lot of damage and dying before doing anything noteworthy. I think he only actually attacked us twice, and once he was across the room and couldn't hit anyone. Meanwhile the corpses barely moved out of their rooms so we weren't ever taking enough damage to sacrifice cards. And regarding that treasure, our Brute was fortunate enough to loot it and dang that is a Good Treasure. We did that on purpose once he jumped away from us. We just hunkered down and tried not to kill anything til all doors were open. Then we murdered him
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Countblanc posted:My group probably got phenomenally lucky, but we actually cleaned up Scenario 2 quite easily, especially compared to Scenarios 1 and 3, and even had time to leisurely stroll over and loot the treasure without running any notable risk. Basically the boss almost immediately opened all four doors, meaning the last two were completely devoid of enemies, and we were able to get a poison on him early so he just ended up eating a lot of damage and dying before doing anything noteworthy. I think he only actually attacked us twice, and once he was across the room and couldn't hit anyone. Meanwhile the corpses barely moved out of their rooms so we weren't ever taking enough damage to sacrifice cards. And regarding that treasure, our Brute was fortunate enough to loot it and dang that is a Good Treasure. re treasure: wasn't it just 10 gold?
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I'm running through two different campaigns. In my second group we killed the boss in the second scenario so early that he didn't open any doors. We'd need to replay the scenario to get the chest.
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Hauki posted:Yeah my biggest issue with scenario 2 was all the drat curse cards. I swear my cragheart whiffed like 4 times in a row early on in that mission and I kept reshuffling them back in. Boss didn't do a whole lot to me other than run in circles though, and I was able to aoe down most of the mobs emerging from the other rooms pretty efficiently while working in some hits on the boss. When you draw a curse or a bless card you remove them from your deck immediately, they don't stay in the discard to be reshuffled back in.
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Hauki posted:re treasure: wasn't it just 10 gold? e: disregard Countblanc fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Countblanc posted:No, that was the quest reward. The treasure chest in the scenario contained a sword that turns your top-half generic 2-damage melee attack into a 4-damage melee attack. I don't think it did. Did you get the wrong number in the book?
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It definitely doesn't do that. It gives 10 gold.
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That spoiler item soundd really powerful. Like crazy for when you got it.
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:When you draw a curse or a bless card you remove them from your deck immediately, they don't stay in the discard to be reshuffled back in. Yeah, someone already mentioned that the other day, I just missed it the first time I ran that mission 
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Yeah I definitely did not get any powerful item from that scenario. I used the scenario app as well.
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I guess it's the nature of the numbers. If you look at 76 instead of 67 or something you can give yourself way end game content
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Ah well okay, good to know. Fortunately it only got used once in the next session and I'm not sure how big of a difference it made. Thanks. e: also I doubt it matters but I edited my post to prevent spoilers, sorry to anyone who got owned by my mistake Countblanc fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Welp, Gloomhaven has turned me full nerd. I thought the Brute would be the easiest since he's relatively larger, but he's easily the worst of my novice attempts.
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Those look awesome. My FLGS had the BT Gloomhaven organizer in stock so I grabbed it then ran to Home Depot for some Minwax Colonial Maple 223, got home all excited and are you kidding me I'm out of wood glue there is no way I'm going back out into that maelstrom of holiday retail hell e: wood glue found.
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I'm having problems winning the Gloomhaven organization meta-game. Can you guys recommend what Plano boxes you're using and how many I would need to organize monsters and tokens?
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I'm using four Plano 2-3600 boxes, and it works great. Ideally you'd use one 3650 half-height box for tokens you need to get at often, but I couldn't find one for a reasonable price, and the extra 3600 works well enough. Amazon link (this is a four-pack)
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Knucklebear posted:I'm having problems winning the Gloomhaven organization meta-game. I used this guide: 3 of this kind of plano, they come in a four pack or you can change it to buy them individually. One of these. This works great for me, everything fits inside the box, I don't use a separate thing for the map tiles. Just stuff them in. I changed the organization a bit because if you follow that guide exactly you'll end up with a couple empty compartments in the 3601, so I keep the character tokens in there.
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Knucklebear posted:I'm having problems winning the Gloomhaven organization meta-game. Ojetor posted:Reposting my cheap solution to organizing the game, for those who don't want to dump a cool hundred on fancy lasercut wood: If nothing else, do the enemy standee thing with the foam, it's great.
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WhiteHowler posted:I'm using four Plano 2-3600 boxes, and it works great. Ideally you'd use one 3650 half-height box for tokens you need to get at often, but I couldn't find one for a reasonable price, and the extra 3600 works well enough.
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We played like six hours of gloomhaven today and it ruled. I love this game.
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We played about 6 hours too....and finished just the very first scenario. Hopeful that we get much faster as we learn the rules.
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