The Book of Orange Lantern (Lex Luthor)

[A3n]

Originally Posted by johnny139

I'd definitely restrict it to normal attacks.

[SirGalahad]

Originally Posted by A3n

[quozl]

SirG, can you suggest a wording that would let him block any attack but only deflect normal attacks?

[quozl]

Does this work?

ORANGE SHIELD DEFLECTION
Anytime this Orange Lantern is attacked by an opponent's figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, instead of rolling defense dice normally, you may remove one Battery Marker from this card to ignore the attack. If it was a normal attack, you may choose a figure within 4 clear sight spaces to roll defense and take any resulting wounds from the attack instead.

[quozl]

Originally Posted by Porkins

Life seems a tad low for a 300 pointer, but looks fun. Orange Battery Deflection is a fun power, but deflecting an attack from an adjacent Hulk fist to a figure three spaces away seems weird.

Also, haven't you guys been using single quotes around the letter X? It seems like there were some card updates recently where the quotes were added. Or maybe they were removed, I can't recall now.

[IAmBatman]

Professor X is our precedent for X-Marker use. I believe his card has the quotes, but it's worth double checking.

[quozl]

In this case, it's not an X marker.

[IAmBatman]

Ah, OK. That's probably where Porkins is getting confused, then.

[SirGalahad]

Should Orange Shield Deflection be restricted to non-adjacent attacks? How do you deflect a punch 3 spaces away?

ORANGE SHIELD DEFLECTION
Anytime this Orange Lantern is attacked by an opponent's figure with a normal attack and at least 1 skull is rolled, instead of rolling defense dice normally, you may choose a figure within X number of clear sight spaces of this Orange Lantern, where X is equals the number of Battery Markers on this card and then remove one Battery Marker from this card. The chosen figure must roll defense and take any resulting wounds from the attack instead of this Orange Lantern.

Pasteability:

ORANGE SHIELD DEFLECTION
Anytime this Orange Lantern is attacked by an opponent's figure with a normal attack and at least 1 skull is rolled, instead of rolling defense dice normally, you may choose a figure within X clear sight spaces of this Orange Lantern, where X equals the number of Battery Markers on this card and remove one Battery Marker from this card. The chosen figure must roll defense and take any resulting wounds from the attack instead of this Orange Lantern.

[quozl]

Good point about adjacent figures. How about this?

ORANGE SHIELD DEFLECTION
Anytime this Orange Lantern is attacked by an opponent's figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, instead of rolling defense dice normally, you may remove one Battery Marker from this card to ignore the attack. If it was a normal attack from a non-adjacent figure, you may choose a figure within 4 clear sight spaces to roll defense and take any resulting wounds from the attack instead of this Orange Lantern.

[IAmBatman]

I kind of like how, in SirG's posted version, you're tempted to risk attacking him from range in order to get him to burn markers, thus lowering his stats.

[quozl]

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. The only differences I see between them is that SirG's version doesn't protect against special attacks and has a variable range on the deflection based on battery markers.