Community Prompts

[Shiftrex]

Well that's a nice surprise! Loving the idea here.

These two definitely seem like they'd make an iconic pair... nice survivability and mixture of the character's powers on this one.

[Myriadite]

It's glorious!

[Shiftrex]

Thank you all for participating in the first round of Community Prompts! So much creativity was shown and a great amount of responses.

With that, we are on to a new round for the next two weeks... so here is the new prompt:

Prompt for February 11th 2024

Theme: The prompt for this period is Elemental but don't limit yourself to the standard four (fire, water, earth, air)! You can take the Helenic angle, or you can look to other cultures for their ideas on elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water are the chinese zodiac elements for instance), or you can go to the periodic table if you're feeling extra science-y.

Big elementals, small elementals, elementals with names, creatures made of an element (VC's Phoenix comes to mind) or something that works with them. Let's see what your ideas are.

This prompt is due by: Midnight (Mountain Time) on February 24th 2024

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[kolakoski]

Well met!

Byakko, Baihu, White Tiger, Mini Monster Mayhem, Dynasty of the Wild

NAME = BAIHU
GENERAL = JANDAR
PLANET = EARTH
SPECIES = ELEMENTAL
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LEGEND
PERSONALITY = FEARLESS
SIZE/HEIGHT = HUGE 8

LIFE = 6
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 6
DEFENSE = 4
POINTS = 170

WOUNDED ROAR
When Baihu receives one or more wounds from a normal or special attack but is not destroyed, you must immediately roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 13 or higher, all figures within 2 spaces of Baihu receive 1 wound.

TITANIUM CLAW SWIPE SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 1, Attack 4
Choose a figure to attack. You may also choose up to two other figures adjacent to the targeted figure to be affected by Titanium Claw Swipe Special Attack. Roll attack dice once for all affected figures. Each figure rolls 2 fewer defense dice, and rolls them separately.

FLYING
When counting spaces for Baihu's movement, ignore elevations. Baihu may fly over water without stopping, pass over figures without becoming engaged, and fly over obstacles such as ruins. When Baihu starts to fly, if he is engaged he will take any leaving engagement attacks.

[Captain Stupendous]

Love this thread concept. Here's my take:

SHADOW ELEMENTAL
Vydar
Elemental/Common Hero/Construct/Medium/Mindless
L1 M6 R1 A3 D3

Spreading Shadow
At the start of the game, place 1 shadow tile on a Shadow Elemental army card for each Shadow Elemental in your army. After moving and before attacking with a Shadow Elemental, if that Shadow Elemental is on an empty land space, you may place a shadow tile from its Army Card onto the space it occupies if the shadow tile fits normally onto that space.

Shadow Mastery
While a Shadow Elemental is on a shadow space, add 1 to its Attack and Defense.

Phantom Walk
Shadow Elementals can move through all figures and are never attacked when leaving an engagement.

[Anitar]

The Dawn Raiders are the greatest cultural mixing pot in all of Valhalla. Techniques from disparate times or cultures are integrated together into something they never could have concocted alone. So, one enterprising raider wondered, what happens if you mix Torilian construct composition with the traditional elements of Earth's Far East? You get a wood elemental, of course. And what happens when you mix that wood elemental with the storage area that every ship needs?

POWDERKEG ELEMENTAL
Ullar

Life 1
Move 4
Range 1
Attack 3
Defense 2
40 points

Elemental
Common Hero
Pirate
Reckless
Small 3

BACKBLAST
When a Powderkeg Elemental is destroyed by wounds from an attack, inflict all excess wounds to one attacking figure.

BREACHING THROW SPECIAL ATTACK
Range Special. Lob 8. Attack 3.
Instead of attacking normally with a non-small figure that is adjacent to a Powderkeg Elemental you control, it may use Breaching Throw. Destroy that Powderkeg Elemental, then choose a figure to attack within 4 spaces of the attacking figure. No clear line of sight is needed. Any figures adjacent to the chosen figure are also affected by Breaching Throw. Roll attack dice once for all affected figures. Each figure rolls defense dice separately.

Barrel go BOOM! Whether you use them with other Elementals or with other Pirates, you have synergy options that will help these slow little blighters get into position, and bonding that can throw them around on a moment's notice. Kind of curious that Kurrok synergizes with Small Elementals, but we've never had any of those before, isn't it?


...And yes, it lacks the usual Construct immunities. Wood is organic.

[Vydar_XLIII]

Crystal Elemental by DevinZ3DPrinting on Etsy
Painted to match the Granite Guardians with purple Amethyst accents, similar to image in spoiler.

Spoiler Alert!

The only reason I'm not just using this mini, is becasue I don't think it would fit on a peanut base.

ANCIENT AMETHYST
Aquilla / Valhalla / Elementar / Unique Hero / Monarch / Dauntless / Huge 8
Life 4 / Move 4 / Range 1 / Attack 5 / Defense 7 / Points 150

ERUPTING CRYSTALS SPECIAL ATTACK
Range Special. Attack 3.
Ancient Amethyst cannot attack with Erupting Crystals Special Attack if there are no Amethyst Crystal destructible objects on their Army Card. Choose a space within 5 clear sight spaces of Ancient Amethyst, or a space adjacent to any Amethyst Crystal. Attack the figure in that space. After the attack, if the chosen space is empty, you must place an Amethyst Crystal destructible object from this Army Card in that space. When Ancient Amethyst attacks with their Erupting Crystals Special Attack, they may attack 2 additional times. They cannot choose the same space more than once.

KNOCKBACK 14 (from Shurrak)
When a small or medium figure rolls defense dice and is not destroyed by a normal or special attack by Ancient Amethyst immediately roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 14 or higher, you may Knockback the figure by placing it on any empty space within 3 clear sight spaces of Ancient Amethyst. The space must be on the same level as or lower than its current location. A figure moved by Knockback never takes any leaving engagement attacks. A non-flying figure moved lower by Knockback can receive any falling damage that may apply.

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Wall of Ice by Reaper Miniatures
Painted light purple to match amethyst accents on Ancient Amethyst.

AMETHYST CRYSTAL
Destructible Object / Medium 5
Life 1 / Defense 3 / Points 10

DORMANT CRYSTAL
Amethyst Crystals do not start the game on the battlefield, instead place them on the Ancient Amethyst's Army Card. When an Amethyst Crystal is destroyed, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll an 11 or higher, place it back on the Ancient Amethyst's Army Card.

SHARDS (from Lilja)
If an Amethyst Crystal is attacked with a normal attack and receives enough wounds to be destroyed, you must roll 1 attack die, one at a time, for each figure adjacent to it. If you roll a skull, inflict one wound on that figure. Figures affected by Shards cannot roll any defense dice. After using Shards, remove the Amethyst Crystal from the battlefield.

[kolakoski]

Well met!

Originally Posted by Vydar_XLIII

DORMANT CRYSTAL
Amethyst Crystals do not start the game on the battlefield, instead place them on the Ancient Amethyst's Army Card. When an Amethyst Crystal is destroyed, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll an 11 or higher, place it back on the Ancient Amethyst's Army Card.

How many do you start with?

[Vydar_XLIII]

Originally Posted by kolakoski

Well met!

How many do you start with?

They're 10 points each. So, as many as you want in your army.

[Sir Heroscape]

Originally Posted by Vydar_XLIII

Crystal Elemental by DevinZ3DPrinting on Etsy
Painted to match the Granite Guardians with purple Amethyst accents, similar to image in spoiler.

Spoiler Alert!

The only reason I'm not just using this mini, is becasue I don't think it would fit on a peanut base.

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Wall of Ice by Reaper Miniatures
Painted light purple to match amethyst accents on Ancient Amethyst.

This is actually kind of amazing....like, I wanna buy the minis for this just because of how cool this design is!

[SkyWhale]

Spoiler Alert!

Wanted to keep this one simple, but that power ended up needing to be quite wordy!

Thanks to Vydar for helping to shorten Thunderclap!




Think a speedster glass cannon with a special attack could be an interesting dynamic in a Kurrok build. Thunderclap could be quite strong if it weren't for the abysmal survivability.

[Shiftrex]

Have been busy for a second but WOW oh WOW Heroscapers you do not dissappoint!

- Baihu is a cool miniature and has some interesting things going on. I just glanced briefly at what the mythical creature is supposed to be. I'm wondering if the first power would benefit from a name change or some sort of descriptive adjective to the roar to connect it more with an elemental theme.

- Powderkeg elemental is just plain wicked I love it. I'm wondering if backblast needs to trigger on adjacent figures? The theme is definitely present, I'm just not sure if Syvarrius should get exploded from 9 spaces away lol. Super creative mechanics and again, love this miniature. Well done.

- Ancient Amethyst, some really fun stuff happening. This is one of those designs that feels like it wants a cycle... like a few big elementals in its' price range that have some adjacent designs. Definitely appreciate how it is classified as a monarch, opens up some cool stuff potentially and doesn't let talingual just consider it an auto-include. Fun concepts all around. Neat use of additional drafting mechanics to bolster a design.

- Oof big theme miss... this is a lightning elemental, not a thunder elemental j/k. Really interesting, small (pricewise) elemental here. Very dangerous to your own army but the concept is so cool. Love the potential this has... curious though. It is intentional that it hits the whole board except for those things that are close to it? Or was the intention to have it it attack things 4 spaces or closer? Eitherway, looks like a piece that would be fun to puzzle out the best way to use.