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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:40 pm |
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Thranduil wrote: Given 1 review in nearly 48 hours,
Evil Raiders
Event • Maneuver
This event’s twilight cost is -1 for each Warg you can spot.
Add for each minion you can spot.
Just at that moment the wolves trotted howling into the clearing.
H1 C 157
cool!
Wicked Deeds
Event • Shadow
Toil 2.
Spot an Warg and an Orc to discard a condition.
... all would have been killed except for the few the goblins kept from the wolves and carried back as prisoners to their caves.
H1 U 212
cut cost to 0 compare to dread and dispair
Shuddering Howl
Event • Skirmish
Make an Warg strength +1 for each twilight token you can spot (limit +4).
There were no wolves living near Mr. Baggins’ hole at home, but he knew that noise.
H1 U 195
cool!
Should next time be Trolls or Giants?
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Thranduil |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:19 pm |
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sickofpalantirs wrote: cut cost to 0 compare to dread and despair
Good point, but I’d rather not cut the cost. What if I made it 2 conditions, or a condition or possession?
Also, I feel honour-bound to inform you all that the giants probably aren’t that exciting, they’re just a beat-down. I had too many ’johnny’ strategies and I needed a ’timmy’, so I threw in the giants.
Oh, and in case you don’t know I’m referencing a Magic the Gathering article that said there were 3 types of players:
Timmy loves to feel things, so he likes huge creatures (in the Magic terminology) and causing direct damage and slaying as much as possible. Timmy strategies include most beat-down, and he loves Sauron and the huge orcs like the army of udun.
Johnny wants to express himself, so he thinks up crazy and convoluted combos to base his decks around. I’m a johnny player, which makes me a very johnny card designer, as my Eagles, for example, show. Johnny strategies are few and far between in LOTR, the main ones being stacking and tokens.
Spike just wants to win, so he uses efficient cards that are both powerful and cost effective. He’s the kind of person who loves to use his dark approach deck to mercilessly slay all who come before him.
It was a good article.
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:41 pm |
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make it 1-2 freeps cards except companion and it is good |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:49 pm |
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sickofpalantirs wrote: make it 1-2 freeps cards except companion and it is good
Then it could discard artifacts. Isn’t that your pet-hate?
I’ll change it to 2 conditions unless anyone objects.
Thanks, SoP.
And here’s a giant to keep you lot going:
• Thundering Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Fierce. Damage +1.
While at a mountain site, this minion is strength +3.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may exert a companion.
The lightning splinters on the peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go rolling and tumbling into every cave...
H1 R 202
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AgentDrake |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:35 pm |
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Thranduil wrote:
And here’s a giant to keep you lot going:
• Thundering Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 15
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Fierce. Damage +1.
Unless at a mountain site, this minion is strength -3.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may exert a companion.
The lightning splinters on the peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go rolling and tumbling into every cave...
H1 R 202
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Should probably be strength 12 and worded "While at a mountain site, this minion is strength +3." |
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lem0nhead |
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:27 am |
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Thranduil wrote:
• Thundering Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 15
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Fierce. Damage +1.
Unless at a mountain site, this minion is strength -3.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may exert a companion.
The lightning splinters on the peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go rolling and tumbling into every cave...
H1 R 202
Why not make not make him 12 strength and say while at a mountain site he is strength +3? Also say spot 2 orc minions as he’s very nasty.
Part from that fair enough, good card.
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:01 am |
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lem0nhead wrote: Thranduil wrote: • Thundering Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 15
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Fierce. Damage +1.
Unless at a mountain site, this minion is strength -3.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may exert a companion.
The lightning splinters on the peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go rolling and tumbling into every cave...
H1 R 202
Why not make not make him 12 strength and say while at a mountain site he is strength +3?.
My thoughts almost exactly. It looks clumsy writing it the way you did; having him be 12 strength and +3 at a mountain looks a lot better. But a pretty good minion, overall. I think, instead of adding any spotting requirement, I’d up his cost to . He isn’t really "allied" with Orcs or anyone else, so he deserves to be a rare, powerful splash minion like The Balrog, in my opinion. If you want, you could simply require spotting another minion for either his strength boost or his skirmish winning ability to work, but I don’t think even that would be necessary. |
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:59 am |
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DáinIronfoot wrote: [My thoughts almost exactly. It looks clumsy writing it the way you did; having him be 12 strength and +3 at a mountain looks a lot better. But a pretty good minion, overall. I think, instead of adding any spotting requirement, I’d up his cost to . He isn’t really "allied" with Orcs or anyone else, so he deserves to be a rare, powerful splash minion like The Balrog, in my opinion. If you want, you could simply require spotting another minion for either his strength boost or his skirmish winning ability to work, but I don’t think even that would be necessary.
I like that. Changed it on both counts. Thanks guys. to all when I can.
For other giants, however, I want them to spot an minion as firstly they could spot other giants, and secondly they live with the Orcs in the Misty Mountains although they’re not allied (and there aren’t enough giants to make a deck out of on their own).
Terrible Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Fierce. Damage +1.
To play, spot an minion.
While at a mountain site, this minion gains Terror 1 (each time this character is assigned to skirmish an opponent’s character, you may make them exert 1 of their characters).
More terrible still are thunder and lightning in the mountains at night, when storms come up from East and West and make war.
H1 C 199
Mountain Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Fierce.
To play, spot a Giant (or 2 minions).
The current site is a mountain.
’If we don’t get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.’
H1 U 191
Stone-Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Damage +1. Archer.
To play, spot an minion.
At a mountain site, this minion’s twilight cost is -2.
... the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game.
H1 R 196
Those are all the giants, next time will be some support cards.
Do you think they still need the spotting requirement?
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:50 am |
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Thranduil wrote: For other giants, however, I want them to spot an minion as firstly they could spot other giants, and secondly they live with the Orcs in the Misty Mountains although they’re not allied (and there aren’t enough giants to make a deck out of on their own).
Fair enough.
Thranduil wrote: Terrible Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Fierce. Damage +1.
While at a mountain site, this minion gains Terror 1 (each time this character is assigned to skirmish an opponent’s character, you may make them exert 1 of their characters).
More terrible still are thunder and lightning in the mountains at night, when storms come up from East and West and make war.
H1 C 199
Keywords before playing requirements, always. I’d almost forgotten about terror...certainly fits well here.
Thranduil wrote: Mountain Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Fierce.
The current site is a mountain.
’If we don’t get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.’
H1 U 191
Same note about the keyword. Nice ability. Perhaps the spotting requirement should be more specific: "To play, spot a Giant (or 3 minions).
Thranduil wrote: Stone-Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
To play, spot an minion.
Damage +1. Archer.
At a mountain site, this minion’s twilight cost is -2.
... the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game.
H1 R 196
I think the archer should be conditional: only if he’s at a mountain (and perhaps underground) site. Good, though. |
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:25 pm |
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you were right discarding artifacts is a terrible thing to do
Thranduil wrote: .
Terrible Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Fierce. Damage +1.
To play, spot an minion.
While at a mountain site, this minion gains Terror 1 (each time this character is assigned to skirmish an opponent’s character, you may make them exert 1 of their characters).
More terrible still are thunder and lightning in the mountains at night, when storms come up from East and West and make war.
H1 C 199
cool! BUT cut cost to 7
Mountain Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Fierce.
To play, spot a Giant (or 2 minions).
The current site is a mountain.
’If we don’t get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.’
H1 U 191
nice!
Stone-Giant
Minion • Giant
Str: 13
Vit: 4
Sit: 5
Damage +1. Archer.
To play, spot an minion.
At a mountain site, this minion’s twilight cost is -2.
... the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game.
H1 R 196
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