Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man

[Arkham]

STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN



Card PDF

NAME = STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN

UNIQUENESS = EVENT HERO
SPECIES = DEMON
CLASS = TORMENTOR
PERSONALITY = SWEET

SIZE/HEIGHT = HUGE 18

LIFE = 45

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 2
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 0

POINTS = 1000

MONSTER WALK
Stay-Puft may move through all non-Huge figures and ignores a single elevation change of up to 10 levels when moving.

STICKY BUSINESS
After Stay-Puft's move action, you may choose any non-adjacent non-Huge figures he was adjacent to during this move and place them adjacent to him.

PUFFED-UP
For every 10 wounds, Stay-Puft has +1 Attack.

S'MORE PAIN
When Stay-Puft takes X wounds, roll that many combat dice and inflict 1 wound on a figure within X spaces for each blank.

FACTION =
PUBLISHER = COLUMBIA PICTURES
KEYWORDS = Food
SYMBOLS = HEAT WEAKNESS, SUPER STRENGTH

2023 CON Exclusives: "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!"

Resources and Rulings

• The suggested figure for this unit is a Kenner figure: The Real Ghostbusters Kenner Classics Retro Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
• See this card's wiki page for synergies and strategies!
• Base Clarification: Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is a double-based figure

Credits

• LDs: Arkham, IamBatman, Tornado, Yodaking
• Playtesters:
  • Arkham, IAmBatman, Tornado, Yodaking, SirGalahad, Karat, MrNobody, Arch-vile
• Card art: Arkham
• Comic creators: Dan Aykroyd and Bill Bryan

Updates

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[IAmBatman]

Thanks for grabbing this. It was on my "I'm going to get to this eventually if no one else on the team does first" list.

Wording looks good. I think he's *probably* OK in terms of balance. I think that we could be sure he wasn't OP with the Life drop, but wouldn't mind trying a test or two with him here to see if 50 Life is balanced with the Sticky Business change.

[Arch-vile]

Love this design, looks like so much fun. Heat Weakness and the Food keyword is hilarious.

Small wording update:

STICKY BUSINESS
After Stay-Puft's move action, you may choose any non-adjacent non-Huge figures he was adjacent to during this move and place them on spaces adjacent to him.

[IAmBatman]

Good catch

Fun part about Heat Weakness is that you sort of like him taking damage in bunches since it feeds "S'More Pain" so getting attacked by Heat Damage accomplishes that. But since you have soooo much life, the opponent is likely to want to use Heat Damage on you as well. It's a feel-good interaction both ways, IMO.

If we ever do Ghostbusters, makes me want their Proton Packs to do Heat Damage.

[Karat]

I don't love that double "non-" language in such close succession but don't have an immediate suggestion there.

I do think we could reorganize Puffed-Up and lose the comma though.

PUFFED-UP
Stay-Puft has +1 attack for every 10 wounds he has.

[Yodaking]

Very fun design to play! We ran one test with lots of DO's in play to see if he could build a wall around himself and thwart melee units. He ended up just dragging around items he could throw at the people shooting him. Then when he got shot, the S'more Pain power isn't optional so the flaming chucks of marshmallow were destroying the DO's.

[Arkham]

Just ran a few games.

Loss: Fighters beat Puft with Cap at 1 life remaining.

Win: Puft beat Godzilla with 13 life remaining.

Draw/Loss: Puft and Godzilla had a draw, unless S'more Pain doesn't work upon Stay-Puft's destruction, then Godzilla would have won with 1 life.

Loss: The Fan4 beat Puft with Thing with 3 life remaining, unless S'more Pain doesn't work upon Puft's destruction, then Thing won with 4 life remaining.

Feels pretty good to me. We can wait to see how he fares for others interested in trying him before finalizing.

[IAmBatman]

That Draw/Loss one would've been a Draw based on how we have timing working in the rulebook:

C11. After wounds are placed
Any abilities that trigger after Wound Markers are placed trigger now. Only then should a player compare a figure’s Wound Markers to its life.

[IAmBatman]

Results are looking good!

[Ericth74]

Does anyone have a picture of what its base looks like? Is it going to be a double peanut like Galactus? I suppose we will need a diagram in the description at some point.

[IAmBatman]

I'm 99% sure he's just a standard double base (two spaces).

[Ericth74]

Oh cool, that's easier to deal with.