We’re starting a new RTL campaign in a couple of weeks and the players want to take a look at the characters before we meet up to save time. We’ll be using all the expansions so a full list with character traits is needed – ideally with the images of each of the character cards.
Can anyone help?
Hello Mr Noodle
You could always create your own character at: http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/descent/descentmakehero.pdf
Yours
Mr Odber
Or they could just wait and instead of choosing a character they play the game as it should be and they are dealt 3 heroes at random and then choose one. Thus making the group have to choose and make the best group they can out of their choices? I think that is quick enough.
CanadianPittbull said:
Or they could just wait and instead of choosing a character they play the game as it should be and they are dealt 3 heroes at random and then choose one. Thus making the group have to choose and make the best group they can out of their choices? I think that is quick enough.
Allow me to repeat. You CAN NOT choose your hero for RTL. You are delt 3 randomly and have to pick from those.
granor said:
CanadianPittbull said:
Or they could just wait and instead of choosing a character they play the game as it should be and they are dealt 3 heroes at random and then choose one. Thus making the group have to choose and make the best group they can out of their choices? I think that is quick enough.
Allow me to repeat. You CAN NOT choose your hero for RTL. You are delt 3 randomly and have to pick from those.
Granor if you'll read what he said again...you are both saying the same thing.
I think its more fun to go straight random, not even picking from three.
But that's just me, not the rules.
I actually stole the character selection rules from Prophecy, giving the heroes a modocum of control over their characters:
Each player is dealth three cards. They pick one to keep, one to pass left and one to pass right.
They now have three cards. They pick one to keep, one to pass left and one to pass right.
They now have three cards. They pick one to keep and discard the rest.
They where not discussing their choices. This works out well.
Luftwaffe Flak said:
granor said:
CanadianPittbull said:
Or they could just wait and instead of choosing a character they play the game as it should be and they are dealt 3 heroes at random and then choose one. Thus making the group have to choose and make the best group they can out of their choices? I think that is quick enough.
Allow me to repeat. You CAN NOT choose your hero for RTL. You are delt 3 randomly and have to pick from those.
Granor if you'll read what he said again...you are both saying the same thing.
That is why I started with "allow me to repeat". I think people on this board can be confused by all the house rules given here. I feel allowing your players to pick the hero they start with is an unbalancing house rule. I do not think it is easy to see the implications of this house rule and it needs to be strongly advised against using it unless you really know the consequences. I felt this point was important enough to repeat.
granor said:
Allow me to repeat. You CAN NOT choose your hero for RTL. You are delt 3 randomly and have to pick from those.
Yes, otherwise the police will break down your door and arrest you.
Geez, let them play how they want. Anyhow, I think there was a play aid on boardgamegeek.com that had all the heroes other than ToI listed. You might want to check that out.
Here's a list of what character comes with which expansion:
Hope this helps.
The universalhead rules summary on boardgamegeek has a full list (minus the new tomb of ice heroes) with statistics and special abilities.
sputang said:
granor said:
Allow me to repeat. You CAN NOT choose your hero for RTL. You are delt 3 randomly and have to pick from those.
Yes, otherwise the police will break down your door and arrest you.
Geez, let them play how they want. Anyhow, I think there was a play aid on boardgamegeek.com that had all the heroes other than ToI listed. You might want to check that out.
Playing how one wants is fine and dandy but in the spirit of the game, having to randomly draw and select a hero from a choice of three is just as an important part of the game as any other.
Thanks for your input guys. Just to be clear: I understand the rules on this matter and we played according to the rules for the first campaign but I want to give the boys the chance to choose because they play with these characters over such a long period of time that I want them to enjoy it.
This might sound a bit thick but what is the “ universalhead rules summary”? I’ve used Boardgamegeek before but…
Noodle2977 said:
This might sound a bit thick but what is the “ universalhead rules summary”? I’ve used Boardgamegeek before but…
Head on over to: http://www.headlesshollow.com/freebies_games.html#des
Thanks for the link.