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Re: The Pre-SoV Workshop
Hello. Ever since I read Estivara's card, I have wished that Utgar had a squad of Spiders to pair with her. The Class of Arachnomancer pushes this even further, providing a unique class for a future arachnid squad to reference. Once I saw the Xualtiaca Fire Ants, I realized that there's tons of small Halloween spider toys that could be used. This was years ago. Back in 2018 I came up with a design. I playtested it, but the figure I was planning to use increased in price to a point that I did not feel it was acceptable.
A couple days ago I though to check for a new figure to use. I found small black plastic spiders. I would like to know if this figure is acceptable to the SoV judges. It fits pretty well on a small D&D base The eagle eyed may have realized something pretty quickly. These are not tall figures. It is already a stretch for the Ants and Bees to be height 2. These guys would definitely be height 1. This means that the Spiders would not be engaged with, and therefore could not attack, or be attacked by, figures that were not on even ground, or lower. Here is the design: Quote:
The height issues are addressed by packaging and theming the climbing ability in a way that allows it to attack and be attacked as though they were a taller figure. My Custom Designs.
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Hmm
Should be "affected" in the first power.
I'm game for more spiders. It does strike me as a bit odd that Lloth who's basically a goddess of spiders would have little tiny spiders. I'm kinda on the fence about a power that feels like it's working around a mini limitation. ~Dysole, who needs to at least sleep on it My Twitch Channel where I play Scape and other things My YouTube Channel where the games get uploaded later Dysole's Draft Rankings Map Thread (Not responsible for psychic damage) Customs Battle Reports This sentence is seven words long. This sentence is not seven words long. |
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I have been trying to test the new version of Morag/Kafnirra out (not that too much has changed in actual mechanical terms with her), and one of the big things that comes up with the changes is that you can no longer have a different Human Champion as the MacDirk's Highland Champion and still have them bond with her.
Are there any issues with this tweaked version, which essentially does the same thing in most cases except still allows you to use her with MacDirks but also pair them with another Highland Champion? (I'm not sure if the wording on it should be something like "any MacDirk Warriors in your army" or "the MacDirk Warriors in your army") |
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I share Dysole's concern about Arachnid Spatulae 3. Maybe you could play into the idea of wall/ceiling-crawling and unusual angles of attack by making it change the Spiders effective height while also giving them some sort of benefit against figures adjacent to obstacles or higher elevations.
--------------- Sonya Esenwein provides precedent for a special power that checks for the existence of another unit within a player's army, so Morag's Highland Champion power could copy that terminology with the wording "at the start of the game, if you control MacDirk Warriors...". I don't think the second sentence of Highland Champion is strictly necessary, though. If the power's first sentence "activates" at the start of the game, the MacDirks should be able to select her because Highland Fury also activates during the game's setup. |
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I still feel like I'd have a hard time justifying her in a build when she has 2 base attack at 80 pts.
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As far as the ability that just makes them taller, if it would help, I could just put height of 2 on the card, and give them Climb x4. I went this route because they are visually shorter than the other shortest things, which arguably should have been height 1 as well. Sure, they are smaller, but are they really so small they look like they don't belong? So small they wouldn't be a threat? My Custom Designs.
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As for the rest of the design, they cannot be Predators thanks to Predator Bonding. Webbing doesn't really do much except against Disengage figures, and is a defender-type power on a unit that has no business being a defender. So almost not a power. Arachnid Movement Bonding being post-turn sucks given their speed and crappy defense. Most of all, though, despite the name and homeworld these don't feel "Lolth-y" to me. I like the updated Morag, except I don't much like the name. There's nothing actually wrong with it, I just don't like it. If it was some monster or creature I'd like it, maybe even for an evil demihuman, but for a Jandar archer hero I don't like it. |
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You're completely wrong about Webbing though. You're looking at it as though it's a single figure. It's a 4 figure squad. Just 2 of them, and the figure is effectively Cyberclawed. They were not given this to be defenders, they were given this because they are spiders, and giant spider webs would logically make it hard to move, and potentially prevent you from moving entirely. As for the Lolth-i-ness, I suppose that's fair. I made them with Estivara in mind, so I chose the name that fit her spider buffing power. For a more appropriate name that still fits with Toril, I'd probably go with "Giant Cave Spiders" or something similar. My Custom Designs.
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