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Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

Antfunk — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:22:52 +0000

Sweet! I just ordered book 3 from Amazon. I have book 1 as well but undecided whether to do that story as the book or the digital infinity version.

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Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

Da Boss — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:26:28 +0000

I divulged the info on spending magic in this interview:

http://gamebooknews.com/2017/11/01/interview-michael-j-wards-destinyquest-book-four/

Check it out if you haven't already, as it has lots of info on the upcoming Book Four (Kickstarter 10 January).

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Antfunk — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:44:48 +0000

Nice little spoiler there ;)! I REALLY like the idea of using core stats in combat to cast spells and such. Prior to your books, Steve Jackson's sorecery books were my favourite and I loved the spell book part that cost stamina to cast spells from!

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Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

Da Boss — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:47:03 +0000

Sorry Antfunk, my mistake on my earlier response. I was going off (hazy) memory rather than rechecking the encounter.

It is played as written.

Blast the bile is used instead of rolling for damage, to simply blast all the sap creatures in play (once their damage is getting too high)

Power pruning is the same as the above, but you are removing armour instead.

There is no spending of magic points. Sorry, my bad! (That is more of a Book Four mechanic )

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Antfunk — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:09:18 +0000

Yeah I let him keep the item. Seems it would have been kinder not to though! Yeah I really like the achievement side. It's going to drive me crazy though if/when I fail one as I want to not cheat the game! I killed it on the very last turn available!

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Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

T-man — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:31:24 +0000

Oh, I remember how tough it was beating the zombie horde in like five rounds without using abilities or backpack items. You get a really good item that you can equip or use it for something else.

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Antfunk — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:09:08 +0000

Yeah I agree it's missing something. As it stands what I have been doing on encounters that have these grey areas is trying to pick the hardest choice. What I did here was use 1 magic point for each of the 2 actions as I used them. When pushing damages through I used my brawn score. Managed to kill it without firing. This game feels a lot more balanced than what I got through in the first game book as I have not died yet. I'm not going to use the term easy as I feel that it rewards gear and item choice better to enable you to win easier. I even managed to 1 shot the first achievement challenge I came across which was the zombies and not cheating or anything like that. Loving it so far!

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T-man — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:04:07 +0000

You're right Antfunk, it never says you have to reduce your magic to do the non-damage causing action, either reduce your opponent's armor, or defeat the health-sapping saps. So I don't know why it says return your magic to normal. There will be future combats that reduce your brawn, magic or armor, then restore those at the end of combat like your health. I just interpreted as, it was a combat to test your worthiness as a mage, so you're definitely fighting with your magic instead of brawn. If you did reduce your magic, that would make the fight way too tough, since it's early in the book, and your max Health hasn't even been increased yet. I would say don't reduce your magic to do those actions, since you're passing up the chance to do damage.

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Antfunk — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:20:42 +0000

That doesn't make sense. There are 2 options. One to get rid of the sap and one to reduce it's armour by 4. Neither option tells you how much magic it uses. It just says you may use your magic. I beat the encounter and set a rule that every time I did one of those actions it reduced my maximum magic score by 1 point. I then used my brawn for damage score when not doing one of the above actions as instructed in the text.

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Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

Da Boss — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:10:10 +0000

In that combat you 'spend' your magic points to do extra damage.

At the end of the combat, you restore your magic.

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Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

Antfunk — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:57:38 +0000

It says at the end that if you win you can restore any lowered attributes such as magic. It does not tell you that blast the bike or power pruning causes your maximum magic to decrease though. It simply says you can do this instead of inflicting damage. Is using one of those actions meant to cause a permanent reduction to your magic score till the end of the fight?

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