The Spellbook of Flesh to Stone

[IAmBatman]

Karat does give me an idea:

PETRIFY
UNIQUE SPELL
90 Points

Start the game with 6 grey Stone Markers on this card. After revealing an Order Marker on this figure's card, instead of taking a turn, roll the 20-sided die once for each figure within 3 clear sight spaces of this figure that is not an Event Hero and does not have the Blind Warrior Special Power. If you roll 11 or higher, and the figure is a Unique Hero, place a Stone Marker on its card. If the figure is not a Unique Hero, destroy it. A figure with a Stone Marker on its card cannot move, make attacks or leaving engagement attacks, or use any special powers on its Army Card, and adds 1 die to its defense. At the end of each round, remove all Stone Markers placed by this spell from the game.

[Karat]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

The first one's a definite no - that feels all sorts of wrong.
Gaze of Petrification is also wrong. It wasn't a gaze in the Gargoyles stories this is primarily based on.

However it is sight based...not sure how else to accurately portray that to the end user

[quozl]

That's closer but still too long. Crimson Bands is about 4 1/4 lines long. Bats' version is 4 3/4 lines long.

[MrNobody]

Can we cut the first sentence (about the Stone Markers)?

[Tornado]

Could you drop the OM reveal? You are already giving up a turn.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Can we cut the first sentence (about the Stone Markers)?

Yes, we should be able to.

Originally Posted by Tornado

Could you drop the OM reveal? You are already giving up a turn.

No, that's a balancing factor.

[Karat]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Could you drop the OM reveal? You are already giving up a turn.

That's a good idea. Also we may want to increase the size of special power language slightly I'm also cutting some of Bats' language as it is still clear and saves space. Giving us:

PETRIFY
UNIQUE SPELL
90 Points

Start the game with 6 grey Stone Markers on this card. Instead of taking a turn normally with this figure, roll the 20-sided die once for all figures within 3 clear sight spaces of this figure that is not an Event Hero and does not have the Blind Warrior Special Power. If you roll 11 or higher, and the figure is a Unique Hero, place a Stone Marker on its card, otherwise destroy it. A figure with a Stone Marker on its card cannot move, make attacks or leaving engagement attacks, or use any special powers on any Army Card or glyph, and adds 1 die to its defense. At the end of each round, remove all Stone Markers placed by this spell from the game.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Karat

That's a good idea. Also we may want to increase the size of special power language slightly I'm also cutting some of Bats' language as it is still clear and saves space. Giving us:

PETRIFY
UNIQUE SPELL
90 Points

Start the game with 6 grey Stone Markers on this card. Instead of taking a turn normally with this figure, roll the 20-sided die once for all figures within 3 clear sight spaces of this figure that is not an Event Hero and does not have the Blind Warrior Special Power. If you roll 11 or higher, and the figure is a Unique Hero, place a Stone Marker on its card, otherwise destroy it. A figure with a Stone Marker on its card cannot move, make attacks or leaving engagement attacks, or use any special powers on any Army Card or glyph, and adds 1 die to its defense. At the end of each round, remove all Stone Markers placed by this spell from the game.

We literally just had a conversation about how much of a big deal this spell is and how the OM reveal language was needed to prevent using it on bonding turns.

[Karat]

Then maybe we need to reinvent how it works as it is clearly too much text and we cannot cut anything else while maintaining integrity

[Lazy Orang]

What about cutting what Odysseus suggestion? That doesn't change how it works.

[Karat]

I don't think you can. It does change how it works. It introduces a memory factor and/or makes it so that you can continuously use it (if we still use markers), plus it would likely need a once per game modifier at that point which changes how it is played.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Karat

I don't think you can. It does change how it works. It introduces a memory factor and/or makes it so that you can continuously use it (if we still use markers), plus it would likely need a once per game modifier at that point which changes how it is played.

Continuously use it? Once per game modifier? Chap, it's a spell. A Unique Spell. Reread the spell rules.
Spells are cast once and they're gone. The only thing it changes is whether you can effectively cast it again if some way to return played spells to your hand emerges, which doesn't presently exist.