16 hours ago, Skulmaster said:Hmm this means you would always need to trace 4 spaces, would it be more interesting to write it as "up to 4 spaces"?
That's not necessary, it's written same way as Fire Breath and same rules applies. From CRRG: " The same space may be counted twice, however each figure can be affected only once by Fire Breath. "
16 hours ago, Skulmaster said:I understand it is gamebreaking on already Immobilized (named) monsters, but removing the Immobilized condition at start of turn is kinda strange eh... interaction. Can't think of anything more befitting though.
I agree, but it was easiest and simplest balance change without bending rules.
16 hours ago, Skulmaster said:Have you considered inflicting the Burning condition or somekind of Aura/Fire Wall instead of playing around with lava mechanics? I like the conjuring up a barrier idea, it's just the lava mechanic that's a bit fiddly.
Making some kind of Fire wall was goal here, but since there is little design space, it felt easiest to just turn terrain into lava - existing thing in the core game. In my opinion, it's more original and interesting then just deal damage or add condition in some way. My main goal here is bring something interesting / fun / "new" to the game.
Sadly it's still wall of text and yes, Lava spaces are bit weird.
6 hours ago, ssorgatem said:Not monsters, but some heroes/classes do.
So, if you have a Massive monster, and the lava path covers 3 spaces under it... which one space does it "enter"? The first one? The last one? The one the hero chooses? The one the overlor chooses?
Also, if it enters that space, per the rules, it would be able to re-expand again, possibly changing which spaces it occupies; just like what happens when a big monster is moved by a hero effect/ability, only this time it's moved to the lava space.
You are right and it's not easy to get rid of these not intended interactions.
Let's get rid of the " counts as entering that space " and keep it same way as Broodwalkers works.
I will think if there is a way to fit into Heroic text additional sentence like "
Each Figure on them
[transformed spaces]
immediately suffers 1 Heart for each occupied transformed space.
".
EDIT: To get some additional text space, we could get rid of "Fire breath" description and just make it something like: "
Until the start of your next turn, turn up to 4 normal spaces within 3 spaces of you into Lava spaces.
"