SoB - spawning monsters on islands

By Oor-tael, in Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Hello, everyone.

I've got a question about spawning monsters on island levels :

Can the OL spawn his monsters ON the trees ?

- If he can, it is based on the idea that figures inside trees get shadowcloak and are "invisible" to non-adjacent figures. So he can spawn on ANY tree provided no hero is adjacent to that tree (but if the hero is two spaces away from the tree, you can spawn on it). We used that understanding of the rules last time, and it was quite hard to handle for the heroes.

- If he can only spawn behind the trees, then how does he spawn large creatures ? Sounds difficult.

Thanks for your answers.

Spawning is not allowed on any obstacle (see basic rules), so placing a spawned monster on a tree space is not possible.

Note that Shadowcloak doesn´t make the monster "invisible", but merely unaffectable by non-adjacent attacks. The monster in the tree is still in LoS as normal.