New Virtue: Captain

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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Yusei » Thu May 15, 2014 12:54 pm

I never noticed you're not allowed to have more than one fellowship focus. That's interesting, because my players all have each other as FF, and it seemed to be an overly powerful source of Hope.

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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Hermes Serpent » Thu May 15, 2014 1:12 pm

So every one of your players has all the others as a Focus?
I can see where the text as written doesn't explicitly state you can only have a single other hero as a Focus, merely implying that.
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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Yusei » Thu May 15, 2014 1:16 pm

Yep, they all have three fellowship focuses. Reading the text more carefully, it's clear that they're not supposed to.

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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Hermes Serpent » Thu May 15, 2014 1:57 pm

Another one of those written English statements where the intent is not written clearly but nuanced :-)
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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Rocmistro » Thu May 15, 2014 2:00 pm

Hehe. Yeah I think that would be a problem. There would be pretty much no instance where you couldn't immediately get back hope.

And no, I did not realize that there was a new calling called "Captain" coming out, but I think that's awesome!

Perhaps the Virtue would be better called "Faithful", or perhaps "Shepherd", "Bonded", "Great Friend", "Great Love", "Loyal". I think there are many names that could work.

In the end, I would actually prefer it be a generic virtue, so anyone could take it. Mostly because i would not want to unbalance any specific Culture by giving them another Virtue that others could not take.
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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by Glorelendil » Thu May 15, 2014 2:38 pm

"Bromancer"

The adversary special ability would be "Necbromancer"

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Re: New Virtue: Captain

Post by aramis » Fri May 16, 2014 8:35 pm

Hermes Serpent wrote:Another one of those written English statements where the intent is not written clearly but nuanced :-)
It was crystal clear to me on the first read - but then, I speak English as my primary language.

You do have to read through the column break, tho - the explicit one other...
AB 81 RtCol wrote:Every player is free to indicate one companion of his choice as his focus.
I've also allowed players to pick NPC's as Fellowship foci when the mission is to protect them; this violates that same paragraph.

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