Hi guys,

You've been so helpful so far so I'm back with another question. I probably misread something or just didn't read the rules close enough but I have a clarification needed about movement. Can a hero who has say 5 movement points, move 3, then attack, then resume the move action prior and finish the last 2 steps?

Or does a hero who declares a move action have to use up all or some of the movement, then proceed to the next action which can also be to move up to their full speed.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

Yes he can, see paragraph 3 under 'Move' in the rulebook page 8

Thanks Atom!

We argued that it seemed too powerful causing hit and run like scenarios with melee heroes that would put melee monsters at a large disadvantage but I suppose if heroes can do it, monsters can too!

Yes, monsters can also do the same, and large monsters expand from their shrinked size when they do. But I'm going to leave the explaining (if needed) of that mechanic to somebody who can probably explain it better *cough* Zaltyre *cough*

Haha cool, well we've been playing wrong for all of Act 1 then but at least it wasn't really unfair for either side because we applied the rule to both the OL and the player. This will make Act 2 very interesting now that we are playing with correct movement!

Thanks for the help!

And spending fatigue to gain movement points is NOT an action, so you can gain movement points, use them to move, then attack twice and use up the rest of your fatigue earned movement points to move away.

The elven boots also help in this regard.

Large monsters are a touch confusing. When a large monster moves, the first step is choosing one of the spaces he is currently occupying and 'shrinking' the entire monster down to that space (this can be any space of his.)

While moving, the monster mostly acts just like a 1x1 figure, except it can walk through pits without really any problems (more on that later.)

If a large monster is intrrupted while moving either by performing another action or by a hero using some ability like Guard or Nimble, after that thing has been declared, the large monster must 'expand' back to its full size. This is the opposite of shrinking, except the monster can expand in any way- there are no rules about it being the same space you shrunk to- all that matters is that after expanding the monster still sits on the 1x1 space. If he cannot expand, he cannot stop (or be stopped by an ability.)

The large monster can only interrupt his movement to perform an ability that would be valid from his 1x1 space. That is, if a shadow dragon wants to attack, his 1x1 space must be adjacent for him to declare the attack.

Once he expands, he could measure range/LOS from any of his spaces (that part is mostly only important to large ranged monsters.)

Pits- large monsters don't give a second thought to pits unless their movement is interrupted (that is, they have expanded) AND every space of theirs is a pit. Otherwise, they can walk through pits all day long, no trouble.

Last point- when a monster expands, it isn't entering any new spaces. The only spaces a large monster enters are the ones his shrunken 1x1 space lands in.

That Brings up an interesting question. Suppose that a large Monster is moving and a hero decides to interrupt it on a space it moved into. However, it can't expand it's base because of figures and objects. What then?

Didn't Zaltyre mention that a few posts back? If he can't expand he can't be stopped.