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I suspect next year the number of new things will decrease and the existing items will begin to have levels added to them (similar to dog training).
Kelly wrote: "I suspect next year the number of new things will decrease and the existing items will begin to have levels added to them (similar to dog training)."The fact that I get to continue this adventure into the next year is the main reason I decided to take the plunge. :)
Kelly wrote: "I suspect next year the number of new things will decrease and the existing items will begin to have levels added to them (similar to dog training)."Ooh, I like the sound of this!
Me too! Of course I'll probably have to go back and build that pesky house I guess... Hehe
RebeccaS - congrats on SnoopyDaphne - congrats on all your pets and house
Reva wrote: "When will the scrounger list for November be coming out?"It wasn't really in the plans to have one of those on a monthly basis. I do plan to do more but they'll be on a more varying time frame. I tried to provide other methods of getting potions like the new trolls and the buy using gold.
Kelly wrote: "Reva wrote: "When will the scrounger list for November be coming out?"It wasn't really in the plans to have one of those on a monthly basis. I do plan to do more but they'll be on a more varying ..."
Buy using gold?
Reva wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Reva wrote: "When will the scrounger list for November be coming out?"It wasn't really in the plans to have one of those on a monthly basis. I do plan to do more but they'll be on a..."
From Jack and Jill's
Too bad attacking the Queens uses all 10 Potion Tokens. :-(
Reva wrote: "Too bad attacking the Queens uses all 10 Potion Tokens. :-(":P That's what you get for killing my creations a day after they come out!
Must make harder monsters...
There probably will be some type of Christmas Party thrown by Queen Skye that requires supplies. You know how these royals get...
Kelly wrote: "Reva wrote: "Too bad attacking the Queens uses all 10 Potion Tokens. :-(":P That's what you get for killing my creations a day after they come out!
Must make harder monsters..."
Sorry I can't help it. Just waiting I til Friday to catch the boost to HP from some attacks and get the benefits from the Sunday stuff
Future suggestion: something to let us use the rug more than once in a battle.
Super cute puppies Daphne & Rebecca!! Congrats :)
Quick question:The books used for the classified ads are only used for those right? I assume they can't be used for both quests AND for the classified. I know that each book can only be used once for quests, so I figure that's the same for the classified right? Once used for a classified ad they can't be used for a quest book and the other way around, right?
If this is horribly obvious and already been answered, I apologize - coming in late has left me trying to catch up with all the rules and such. :)
Daphne wrote: The books used for the classified ads are only used for those right? I assume they can't be used for both quests AND for the classified. "Yep. You can use it only once.
About the Queens: If I use a minor poison, does it affect all four queens or do I have to pick just one? (It would mean that to poison them all we'd need 4 minor poison potions).
Zuzana wrote: "About the Queens: If I use a minor poison, does it affect all four queens or do I have to pick just one? (It would mean that to poison them all we'd need 4 minor poison potions)."I treated them like the Swarm and only used 1.
Hmm... The description says "Poisons the monster causing 2 amount of additional damage at the beginning of the turn." and monster is singular so I'd probably do each queen independently.
This is a very expensive monster to kill.
Reva wrote: "This is a very expensive monster to kill."I gave you potion tokens! Pfft. Sure, sure, focus on the hard part not all the lovely gifts *mutters to herself*
About the Swarm: I plan to use a minor poison at the beginning of the battle where there is only the Queen, so I thought that it's obvious that only the Queen is poisoned and the potion has no effect on the drones that are called to the battle later. But now that Reva mentioned it I wonder.I have another question about attacking the Swarm or the queens: every turn you have to choose which monster of the pack you attack. What if you have a queen of hearts with only 5 hp, and lets say a queen of spades with 30 hp. Your ap is 20. If you attack the queen of hearts, she's dead but what happens with the rest of your ap, 15 here, do they apply against the queen of spades, i.e. she has 30-15=15 hp now, or they don't apply at all and i have to attack her in the next round where she has all of her 30 hp?
Zuzana wrote: "About the Swarm: I plan to use a minor poison at the beginning of the battle where there is only the Queen, so I thought that it's obvious that only the Queen is poisoned and the potion has no effe..."Your question is confusing. The only thing that changes your attack points from strike 1 would be the loss of cat. If you're using the growing strength potion it would change from +1 in strike 1 to + 2 in strike 2.
Other changes occur when you reduce say, 100 HP WITH YOUR ATTACK.
What does reduce is Your Hero's Health by the combined attack of the queens. 50 or 50/2 = 25 (with Shied Potion). The only time the Queen's attack reduces is when you kill off a queen.
You can only attack 1 Queen at a time.
You can only use the rug once.
In that case, your attack of 20 is the same against EACH creature.
Kelly wrote: "Reva wrote: "This is a very expensive monster to kill."I gave you potion tokens! Pfft. Sure, sure, focus on the hard part not all the lovely gifts *mutters to herself*"
And we thank you very much for your generosity.
However, all 10 of the potion tokens are needed to defeat the queen. So they don't last very long :-(
For essential oils.....do we need to include "oil" in it? For example, do we need to spell out "citron oil" or just "citron"? Same goes for finding the word in the text and title.Also must they all be different oils for each task? Or could we use bay oil on a cover AND spell it out?
Zuzana wrote: "About the Swarm: I plan to use a minor poison at the beginning of the battle where there is only the Queen, so I thought that it's obvious that only the Queen is poisoned and the potion has no effect on the drones that are called to the battle later. But now that Reva mentioned it I wonder.I have another question about attacking the Swarm or the queens: every turn you have to choose which monster of the pack you attack. What if you have a queen of hearts with only 5 hp, and lets say a queen of spades with 30 hp. Your ap is 20. If you attack the queen of hearts, she's dead but what happens with the rest of your ap, 15 here, do they apply against the queen of spades, i.e. she has 30-15=15 hp now, or they don't apply at all and i have to attack her in the next round where she has all of her 30 hp? "
I would have the same opinion about the swarm for the poison potion. I looked back and couldn't see any place where I contradicted that statement :P but let me know if I did say something contrary.
Any leftover attack on the attack where a queen dies is lost. So if a queen has 5 attack points left it takes your whole swing of 20 attack points to finish her off. You can't use the remaining 15 on another queen.
Does that answer the question?
Reva wrote: "And we thank you very much for your generosity. However, all 10 of the potion tokens are needed to defeat the queen. So they don't last very long :-( "
Hehe. We have plans for next month forming already :P No fears.
RebeccaS wrote: "For essential oils.....do we need to include "oil" in it? For example, do we need to spell out "citron oil" or just "citron"? Same goes for finding the word in the text and title.Also must they a..."
Must be different oils but you don't need to include oil in the text or the word found in the book/title. (e.g. "She ran around the rosemary bush" would work for rosemary.)
Reva I don't think you understand what I'm asking. I'm sure it's my fault. I'm on my phone now and I can't elaborate until tomorrow.In any case I presented two options how the attack (without the area of attack) could go. Personally I believe that the second option, the one less favourable to heroes, is the right one.
Anyway, Kelly might read my question and decipher what I meant. If not I'll explain in detail tomorrow.
EDIT: I missed Kelly's answer. She DID understand what I meant. :-) Thanks, Kelly. And. BTW you're not contradicting yourself, the fact is nobody asked about the minor poison effect on "pack monsters" before today.
Reva, poison is a potion. So per rules it takes effect at the beginning of the round. In case of the minor poison potion it's at the beginning of every round after it was used first. To simplify things we count the poison as +2 to our attack power and it works fine if you BOTH use it at the beginning of the first round AND you attack a single animal.
Kelly confirmed that you can poison only one animal at time, if you attack a pack of monsters you can deduct those 2 extra points only from health of the poisoned monster.
Is it right, Kelly?
Yeah. I think we consider it as the monster is poisoned rather than it being a poisoned weapon. Which does lead to an interesting new potion that could be developed.
Or it could be another Bauble/add on to your weapon, that gives it a poison effect. :)
Alyssa wrote: "Or it could be another Bauble/add on to your weapon, that gives it a poison effect. :)"True. But I'd probably be mean and make a one bauble at a time rule ;)
I would be okay with that! You'd still need to use some strategy to decide which one is better to fight which monsters. As long as they weren't crazy hard to get each one quest-wise, I would still see it worth it to obtain a few and have options.
Alyssa wrote: "I would be okay with that! You'd still need to use some strategy to decide which one is better to fight which monsters. As long as they weren't crazy hard to get each one quest-wise, I would still..."
It would have to be an awesome bauble to top the Growth Weapon Enhancement bauble. It blows the minor poison potion out of the water.
This bauble is a game changer. Forget houses or rabbits or puppies, this should be your FIRST priority for both your weapons.
Reva wrote: "Alyssa wrote: "I would be okay with that! You'd still need to use some strategy to decide which one is better to fight which monsters. As long as they weren't crazy hard to get each one quest-wise..."
YEP! At first I thought it was a one-time use only thing...but it's not. It's amazing!
For "Read a book where something exists that no one believes in" can I use Library of Souls? There are peculiar children with special abilities that I think the "normals" don't believe.
Also, for "Read a book with something metallic on the cover" would the crown on the cover of
work?
Oh and would
work for "Read a book with a light or sun on the cover" since there is sunlight in the clouds?
Question on the Combat Certification for the dog as I'm almost finished. It says the dog will get +1 attack. When does that take effect? Is it just the first round or every time I attack?
Every round. Dog is a great pet to have, much better than the cat.
Sorry this is probably a stupid question but what would be included in "something gear driven"?
Clocks and watches are the obvious ones but some other types of machinery could be included or probably most of a steampunk universe.
I kept trying to think of vehicles that are gear-driven so that makes it much easier. Thank you Kelly!
http://www.thomasnet.com/about/gears-..."Today, gears are used on a daily basis. They are found nearly everywherein clocks, cars, odometers, scales, conveyor systems, meters and VCRs, just to name a few examples. Manufacturing companies rely on several various sizes of gears for production. Gears are also found in most mechanical devices."
Also bicycles :)
Kelly wrote: "http://www.thomasnet.com/about/gears-..."Today, gears are used on a daily basis. They are found nearly everywherein clocks, cars, odometers, scales, conveyor systems, meters and VCRs, ..."
I was over-thinking it, and doubting it. So much easier just to ask :) That opens up even more possibilities yay!
Just want to check my math comprehension. lol. Used x^y button on calculator.The Stand (1153 pages)
1153 page book -> 11 hundred pages -> 2^11 = 2048 leagues
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