Death on the Wing Question

By Dawn Avenger, in Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Hello. Question: If all spaces adjacent to the hero is occupied, he start his turn and faint by poison (he was with 1 health and miss the test), the Overlords win? And if a hero is fainted, dont want stand up, and he is surrounded, at the end of heroes turns, Overlord wins too? (Sorry my english…)

Your English is fine.

When you read the Quest rules it will show you the conditions for victory. Even if the players are all knocked out (which I have to say is pretty unlucky dice rolling) they should try to stand up. The OL might still have objectives he needs to complete. Also, someone correct me on this because I'm not sure, when you're knocked out, don't you lose all conditions?

In any case, no the heroes don't lose, but it's not going to be easy to recover.

But this is the objective in Death on the Wing: The Overlord wins if there are no empty adjacent spaces to the hero in the Canyon (and if all objective tokens are on the map). The hero died by poison in his turn in the canyon and there are no empty adjacent spaces to him. Overlord win this way or the hero must be alive?

The rules state that if a hero is knocked out durring his activation his turn immediatly ends.

The Rule for the scenario state clearly that if at the end of a Heroes turn he is still "surrounded", the Overlord wins.

So, if that happens, the OL wins. To avoid this, other players should try either to heal the almost dead player before he activates or clear a adjacent space from him before he activates.

G.Prep said:

The rules state that if a hero is knocked out durring his activation his turn immediatly ends.

The Rule for the scenario state clearly that if at the end of a Heroes turn he is still "surrounded", the Overlord wins.

So, if that happens, the OL wins. To avoid this, other players should try either to heal the almost dead player before he activates or clear a adjacent space from him before he activates.

Technically though, when a hero is knocked out, his figure is removed from the board and replaced with a hero marker. That begs the question as to whether or not the hero is considered in that square still. If there were the case, not saying that it is, just looking at all possibilities, but if that is the case, then the OL would not win.

That said, it would make sense though to rule as if the hero were still on that board, but not everything in this game makes sense (ahem, LOS, ahem).

OL also wins (IIRC) if all the Objective (boulder) tokens are in play, so it's not like that one knocked out hero token by itself will prevent a win.