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'If it's ambiguous, you get to pick' is a simple rule that adjudicates quickly at the table. The answer to me is the intersection with the rule about how you resolve ambiguity for advantage/disadvantage. Yeah, Rules As Written can feel bad when you have advantage and flip a rolling modifier and miss, and it feels like cheating when you have disadvantage and flip rolling modifier and 2x, but from a game design standpoint I can understand why Isaac went with that system instead of 'draw one entire stack, then draw a second stack, take the better/worse result'.

You could house rule it as 'draw two stacks, be honest about which stack is better/worse' but be prepared to have debates about whether +2 immobilize is better or worse than +1 poison+disarm, etc. That would come up much more often than the current situations of disadvantage->crit or advantage->miss. However, if you are drawing two entire stacks of cards, it would be quite possible for, say, a Scoundrel to draw a pile of +5 vs a pile of +1 poison.

There's one early scenario with a winding path through bookcases that was made SIGNIFICANTLY easier by the Cragheart plowing a more direct shortcut.īackup Ammunition is the key card for not hating Cragheart, but obstacle control is clutch as well. Our Cragheart player made it his job to shove enemies through as many obstacles as possible. I found focusing on creating and destroying rocks (and the awesome Dirtnado) to be the way to go. I started with Cragheart and had similar experiences early on. And to top it off, Cragheart's initiatives seem to be uniformly slow, so even if the enemies are lined up for him to make a good move, by the time his turn rolls around the rest of the party and/or the monsters themselves have ruined it. The rest of Cragheart's cards seem to require jumping through even more hoops than that, to get an attack that's 'sort of ok'.

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Cragheart was just kind of.there? Meteor is ok at throwing down non-attack damage, but it's tricky to set up, especially in 4p games where every room is constantly jam-packed full of enemies (or loot tokens, if the rest of us went first and killed them already). Music Note did very consistently good Music Note stuff. The Lightning Bolt had two or three fairly ridiculous turns. As Angry Face, I can think of three ridiculous turns I had. He didn't say anything last night, but I think I could hear a mixture of pain and boredom in his voice. He had mentioned on a previous night that he felt like the character wasn't very good. Considering recommending the shoes that let you tweak initiative, that seems like that might help a little. And to top it off, Cragheart's initiatives seem to be uniformly slow, so even if the enemies are lined up for him to make a good move, by the time his turn rolls around the rest of the party and/or the monsters themselves have ruined it.Īnyone have especially good experiences with ol' Craggy? Trying to figure out if there's anything to be done. Cragheart was just kind of.there? Dropping three rocks at range is ok at throwing down non-attack damage, but it's tricky to set up, especially in 4p games where every room is constantly jam-packed full of enemies (or loot tokens, if the rest of us went first and killed them already).

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