A great night!

I know it might be jumping the gun a little to get into RtL so soon, but my players and I had a collective blast! Only got through the first dungeon encounter, due to unusual time restraints, but a great start.

Due to a random draw, I'm play the Beast Master, and good old Alfric Farrow has gone to seige... Vynelvale? Creators of textiles the world over, apparently.

Anyway! Come third level, the heroes bottled out after I smashed three of their party, bringing my total hero kills to four. That, coupled with a deck reload, shifted me to 16 Conquest. Though unfortunately, I drew some fairly portal heavy dungeon cards, so their conquest rose swiftly to 20, but decided not to take on the summoned Master Demon in level 13.

Some questions have arissen, however!

1) Can the heroes spend fatigue to upgrade their current power dice to silver? I was in a rush due to the time constraints and couldn't find the relevant info.

2) When the heroes flee the Dungeon, do they return to Tamaril, or appear outside the newly explored dungeon location?

3) Can anyone recommend a conveniant system to store all those damned fiddly tokens and peices?

I'm sure there's more than that, but that's all my tired mind can remember for now Cheers! - Chrome

I bought some plastic fishing boxes from walmart that I store the pieces in. Each has it's own area.

Ahah! A great idea there. Sadly I'm in the UK, so no Walmart... but I'm sure I can find a tackle shop around here somewhere

Chromatism said:

1) Yes. RtL pg 24

While playing out an encounter or dungeon level – or in similar circumstances throughout the Advanced Campaign – in addition to spending 1 fatigue to add a black power die to an attack, a hero can spend 1 fatigue to upgrade a black power die to a silver power die, or a silver power die to a gold power die. A hero can do this as often as he likes, as long as a given power die is upgraded before being rolled.

Some people are confused by the upgrading limits on Pg 23, but these refer to upgrading Traits (ie permanent upgrades) rather than upgrading Power Dice (ie temporary upgrades).

2) Tamalir. RtL pg 18

To do this, they must simply all return to Tamalir at the same time (via glyphs of transport – see “Using Buildings” on page 21) and announce that they’re fleeing the dungeon. ... and the party marker is moved to the Tamalir space on the Terrinoth map.

When the party completes the third level (and one or more of the heroes exits through the portal) then they have a choice where they appear back on teh mapboard - Tamalir or the dungeon location (see slightly higher up on pg 18).

3) pretty much any cheap little container designed for fishermen, storing screws/nails etc or other similar things (locally we have a dentist who uses the little boxes that dental drill bits come in) can be used. Often you will need several small boxes, so a wise idea is to carefully group things into the different boxes by usage. Eg, dungeon/encounter stuff (coinpiles, treasure chests, glyphs, coins, wound and fatigue tokens in Box A. Obstacles and Props in Box B. Campaign markers and OL stuff (Lts, threat tokens, hero upgrade tokens) in Box C etc etc.

Chromatism said:

1) Heroes can spend 1 fatigue to upgrade a black die to a silver die or 2 fatigue to upgrade a black die to a gold die. They can also spend 2 fatigue to roll an additional silver die or 3 fatigue for an additional gold die, with the limitation that a hero can only use 5 power dice total in one attack.

2) p. 18 of the RtL rulebook says they are moved to Tamalir if they flee the dungeon. They have to leave the dungeon via the glyphs anyways, so it makes sense.

3) Already covered, but tackle boxes or anything else compartmentalized would be useful.

Chromatism said:

1) yes, each fatique can buy one power enhancement, adding a die cost a power enhancement, making a die the next color higher (blasck to silver, silver to gold) cost a power enhancement. So if you spend 3 fatigue you can add a die, then turn that die to silver, then turn that silver die to gold. For instance my guys (I'm the overlord) drank a power potion (gives 5 upgrades) turned there BBB dice to GGS die then added 4 fatigue to make it GGGG to take out my first leutenint.

2) If they flee then end up back in Tamaril, if they complete the dungeon they can choose to come back to the spot the dungeon is on or go back to Tamaril.

3) Beyond the tackle I suggested earlier, the ones I bought are also very similer to plastic craft boxes with rectangle and square areas in it. (I have 4 to store all the parts, two of a larger size and 2 of a smaller size, which all four fit in the original box. I then store all the figure in one expansion box, and all the map pieces in a different expansion boxes, and the RTL save boxes are stored in the RTL box.)

One advantage of getting craft boxes instead of tackleboxes is that:

a) I find that tackleboxes tend to have poor access to the lower compartments,

b) Many of the crafty ones have adjustable compartments, so you can customize your container to the tokens you're storing, and

c) Most craft boxes are clear, so you can see at a glance what's in them.

The only downside is that some of them have a very narrow gap between the top of the compartments and the lid (too narrow for Descent tokens to migrate between compartments, but I've had problems in other games)

Many thanks for all the replies! I really appreciate that.

And craft boxes you say? I'll certainly look in to it. Cheers for the quick responses!

Chromatism said:

Ziploc bags, available at Office shops. I have hundreds of them at home

If you live anywhere Somerset / Devon way, pop by and you can have a few

The only problem with ziplocs is that when you get past 5-6 of them, they start to become a beast to keep organized! I DO use ziplocs for the larger counters/tiles (the ice tiles from ToI are in one, the corruption tiles are in another, and so on)

I've actually been tinkering around with cardboard, trying to come up with a way to store the monsters and dungeon tiles so they're organized and accessable. I find the most time wasted in setup (or during the game if you're overanxious to play) is in organizing the monsters and tiles so you can find them when you need them! I'll have to post photos at some point to show what I have in mind.

Chromatism said:

I use a Plano 7592 tackle box.

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_15900?cmCat=CROSSSELL_PRODUCT&cmid=PP_P2_1

It has four slide out containers, a storage area on top and some in lid storage. I have every expansion and the trays hold all of the counters and one space figures. The larger figs go in the storage area on top and the dice go in the easy access area in the lid.