My bro and I just finished a game of Descent and had several odd things happen. I am sure to some of you these things have taken place before. I was playing th OL and my bro had 4 heroes. The game was going greatly in his favor, I don't remember the quest name but it was the one with the 3 ice dragons for the Tomb of ice, well my brother had the shadow step familiar (don't remember what its called). Neither of us had used it before but saw its potential. It was down to the last big fight with the to main dragons and I was excited to get a chance to do my bro in I swallowed his hero with the familiar> I was all excited because if this hero died then on the next turn I would go through the deck and win. But on his turn he popped out the hero and put the familiar in its belly. I was stunned I jumped for the rules and found nothing to say it couldn't happen! We both laughed about it. Well, he pulled his heroes into town except for that one hero. he healed himself up ran in and put 2 webs on the dragon and would back up. The poor thing ended up with a total of 8 web tokens. then my brother got cocky ran his heroes in from town did some damage and put 3 more webs on it. When it came to my turn I rolled for surges and BOOM! I rolled 11 surges!!!! We both freaked out! He started yelling BS!!! the Ice Dragon ran up into range swallowed his big bad yeti looking guy and won the game! I am still in awe about the 11 surge roll. But I felt a little justice because that **** familiar trick which was awesome.

So does anyone else have some craziness happen to them i the game?

honKYkat73 said:

Well first, you should have won the game much earlier. You can't use Shadow Soul to switch out of the stomach tile. From the FAQ (which if you haven't, you should read).

Q: Can a hero use the swap ability of his Shadow Soul familiar while he is in the Stomach tile? Subsequently, if the Shadow Soul ends up in the stomach tile, may another hero be swallowed?
A: No.

It wouldn't be the first time I've seen insane dice rolls, both good and bad.

For some reason, in my group, Web is practically useless. Easy more than 50% of the time someone gets a web, they break out on the first opportunity, and virtually every other time, the second shot does it. However, in one game, my character got webbed (just one token) and I failed to break out of it for 17 turns. And since we were plaing with our own version of the base game's "campaign", it was early in the quest, and I was playing the guy who can't wear armor but has 2+x natural armor, where X is his Melee dice (x = 4 in this case, I think) while everyone still had shop weapons, the party decided he wasn't even worth trying to spend turns on killing with their own attacks.

Well first, you should have won the game much earlier. You can't use Shadow Soul to switch out of the stomach tile. From the FAQ (which if you haven't, you should read).

Q: Can a hero use the swap ability of his Shadow Soul familiar while he is in the Stomach tile? Subsequently, if the Shadow Soul ends up in the stomach tile, may another hero be swallowed?
A: No.

Well its good to know now. I didn't think about looking in the faq do to the excitement of the game. Normally look stuff up after the game.

Now I have a question about something else that happened in a previous game. The OL wanted to use dark charm on a hero that was using a rune that had breath and wanted him to attack himself, how does that work?

honKYkat73 said:

FAQ pg1
Blast and Breath
These abilities are not mandatory. If not used, the attack is treated as a normal ranged or magical attack.

He can't target himself with the breath template due to the way the template must be placed, but he can elect not to use the breath ability and hit himself with an identical but non-breath magic attack