I was wondering if anyone knows if the Heroes actually get to use The Touch of Death Relic once they find it in "The Trapped Ruins" Quest 8 from the original game. To me it seems kind of pointless to finish the quest if they can use it because it would make it so easy to kill Ghira with its special ability. If anyone has any input on this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

HighRoller802 said:

Since they are allowed to use any other Relics they come across there is no reason once they find it and put it together that they couldn't use it. In fact from everything I can tell it is the one time they get to use it at all in the original quests (I'm pretty sure it wasn't included in any of the expansion quests). From the looks of the setup they would have to clear both rooms where the parts are contained as well as both rooms where the keys are placed before they could put both parts together and make it whole. Usually if the hero group has made it to the final boss of a level, the OL has pretty much lost the actual fight. Your best bet is to kill their collection of Conquest Tokens before the final battle. Nothing in this quest description or the rules says they can't, even if it seems overpowered. I've had bosses die as soon as the door to their area was opened just because he was within LoS of a series of Battle attacks from Ranged and Magic (not many bosses can survive three ranged/magic battle attacks in a row).

There are several points where the Hero group will seem seriously overpowered compared to what they are facing, even with its special ability, Touch of Death isn't too much more powerful than alot of the Gold items.

The Touch of Death is not quite as strong against the boss as you might imagine, because she's got Fear 2 . Even with 5 black dice, your odds of rolling 5 surges (and no X) are only about 2/3, and that drops to around 15% if the overlord dodges.

Four heroes passing the relic around in a circle and all using battle actions still shouldn't have any trouble killing the boss in a round...but then, four heroes battling shouldn't have any trouble killing her without using a relic, either.

Thanks for the answers that actually helps a lot.