Rules questions!

[emergencyoverride]

Hey bro just a few questions that came up last night.

1. Do you actually get anything for the greedy Dark Secret or is it just a mechanic to spend game turns. There didn't appear to be a way to check for actual treasure off the bodies so we figured that was the purpose of the Dark Secret, because if you dont do it you lose half of your VP at the end. So its just a GT sink. Great idea by the way!

2. Elves have Hide +1 listed. There is no hide on any of the materials so how is it accomplished or how do you check for it. Or is this something coming in a future expansion. (How many Action points does it take to hide etc.)

3.Just wanted to make sure that we were suppossed to be rolling for action points for the opponents as well. (We are)

4. If you are wounded (not walking wounded) and removed from play, if another character makes you drink a healing potion and it brings your hit points above 0 are you okay again without a medic check do to the magical nature of the potion, or do you still need a medic check to stabilize?

5. If a chance to use a dark secret never came up, (ex. Acquire a holy item from another character, but there are no Clerics in the party) are you still penalized the half VP at the end, or would you just redraw another Dark Secret at the start instead.

6. For the explosion trap, does it travel the damage number of squares in all directions with damage going down one in each square traveled or just the number of squares around the blast square for total damage. (ex. 12 damage, does it affect the 12 closest squares to the initiation point or does it travel 12 squares in every direction? 12,11,10,9 etc)(We rolled a big blast number last night!)

The game is a blast and my Wife and I love it! It was well worth the wait over the years and my Godson is ready to play it now as well. He loved Snowball wars and we still play it, and he loves Heroquest, (He calls it the Goblin game)and we play it weekly, so I know he'll love this.

We can't wait to put the other pieces together with the darkfast universe.(Older models, new scenario packs and other stuff from the kickstarter etc, but especially ducks!! Love the ducks. Old School Redbook Runequest lover here!)

Hope you start feeling well soon. I am almost over my bout with it and look forward to more games soon. I'll post some pics next time we play. (Next day or so.)

Thanks and have fun!
Michael
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[David Okum]

Great questions. Let me see if I can answer some of these:

Jan 5, 2015 14:25:16 GMT -5 emergencyoverride said:

Hey bro just a few questions that came up last night.

1. Do you actually get anything for the greedy Dark Secret or is it just a mechanic to spend game turns. There didn't appear to be a way to check for actual treasure off the bodies so we figured that was the purpose of the Dark Secret, because if you dont do it you lose half of your VP at the end. So its just a GT sink. Great idea by the way!

Greedy is like Hungry, it's a GT sink, slows you down, but it also can add to gameplay when the greedy character won't share or runs to get something before the others can get it. It can add some fun to the game.

2. Elves have Hide +1 listed. There is no hide on any of the materials so how is it accomplished or how do you check for it. Or is this something coming in a future expansion. (How many Action points does it take to hide etc.)

Usually we make an Ability Check and the total number is the difficulty needed for people to spot the hidden person (or notice them). It take one full action or GT to hide. You need a Talent like Ambush or Dive to do stuff AND hide in the same GT.

3.Just wanted to make sure that we were suppossed to be rolling for action points for the opponents as well. (We are)

We roll once for all the opponents and apply that number to all of them. It takes to long to roll for each.

4. If you are wounded (not walking wounded) and removed from play, if another character makes you drink a healing potion and it brings your hit points above 0 are you okay again without a medic check do to the magical nature of the potion, or do you still need a medic check to stabilize?

Yep, you are just out of it so that would bring you back. The magic would wake you up.

5. If a chance to use a dark secret never came up, (ex. Acquire a holy item from another character, but there are no Clerics in the party) are you still penalized the half VP at the end, or would you just redraw another Dark Secret at the start instead.

It's the way it is. You would not have achieved your 'real' goal for the adventure so half VP for you. Don't forget that holy items can be found as treasure and gear. And you COULD just ask for it from the other player, not just have to bash and take.

6. For the explosion trap, does it travel the damage number of squares in all directions with damage going down one in each square traveled or just the number of squares around the blast square for total damage. (ex. 12 damage, does it affect the 12 closest squares to the initiation point or does it travel 12 squares in every direction? 12,11,10,9 etc)(We rolled a big blast number last night!)

Yep, drop the damage down per square. Wow, that's a big bang! Sounds fun though.

The game is a blast and my Wife and I love it! It was well worth the wait over the years and my Godson is ready to play it now as well. He loved Snowball wars and we still play it, and he loves Heroquest, (He calls it the Goblin game)and we play it weekly, so I know he'll love this.

We can't wait to put the other pieces together with the darkfast universe.(Older models, new scenario packs and other stuff from the kickstarter etc, but especially ducks!! Love the ducks. Old School Redbook Runequest lover here!)

Hope you start feeling well soon. I am almost over my bout with it and look forward to more games soon. I'll post some pics next time we play. (Next day or so.)

Thanks and have fun!
Michael
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I'm loving hearing how people are playing this and enjoying the game. I find the rules are fast and fun. I even used them for a Wes Anderson game I ran last night.

[emergencyoverride]

Sweet! This'll help a ton.

Yeah the explosion was huge. Funny how that works sometimes. Seemed like we were rolling low for us and high for the baddies, but that's how it goes. Next time it'll be the opposite! Thanks for the help.

Wes Anderson, NICE!