Ok played the wife at a few test games, painted all the figures, then had 2 guests round to play this weekend...they are interested in the game themselves.

Anyway, set it all up, played the first Mission and I as the OL won.

Only afterwards when I was going over stuff in my head did I realise that I had given the players their Basic Gear...but hadnt given them their Basic free starter skill!!! anyways, told them all about it and apologised...got called a cheat by my niece!!

Anyway, seems everything is good, they are going to buy Descent so I didnt put them off too much thankfully

In your experienced opinions, how much difference would the basic starter skills have made for the players? Just interested myself.

I clicked on this thread expecting something else 8)

Depends on the classes. A berserker won't miss his starting skill much. A disciple really will.

14 minutes ago, Zaltyre said:

Depends on the classes. A berserker won't miss his starting skill much. A disciple really will.

Had the following-

Disciple, knight and Wildlander

Rules quesry too. Lets take the Knights Skill card ' Exhaust this card during your turn and choose yourself or an adjacent hero. Roll 1 red power die. The chosen hero recovers equal to the rolled.'

Does that take one of the actions to use?

3 hours ago, VAYASAN said:

Had the following-

Disciple, knight and Wildlander

Rules quesry too. Lets take the Knights Skill card ' Exhaust this card during your turn and choose yourself or an adjacent hero. Roll 1 red power die. The chosen hero recovers equal to the rolled.'

Does that take one of the actions to use?

No, the disciple using prayer of healing does not cost an action.

Actions are denoted on skill an monster cards by either the "action arrow" (look at the berserker card "rage") or by the phrase "as an action". Abilities which don't have either of these indicators are not actions. They usually still have another cost associated with them, such as fatigue or exhausting a card.