The Book of Long Halloween

[IAmBatman]

The Book of Long Halloween

C3G DC WAVE 51
LIGHTING UP THE NEW YEAR


Front PDF


Back PDF


Marker PDF

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Story Bio - Early in Batman's career, a mysterious killer (or was it killers?) who only struck on holidays threatened to tear Gotham City apart.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Story Card: This card requires the Story Card rules.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Synergy:

• This Story requires at least two Heroes in your army that are Misfits, as well as Calendar Man.

-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: (IAmBatman)
• Second playtest: (Ericth74)
• Third playtest: (TheJayTrain)
• Fourth playtest: (Dr. Jekyll)
• Art by Dr. Jekyll

[IAmBatman]

NAME = HOLIDAY: LONG HALLOWEEN

POINTS = 80

STORY PROLOGUE =
- A figure named Calendar Man and at least two other Unique Heroes that are Misfits must be in your army.
- No other Holiday Story Card may be in your army.

STORY SETUP =
At the start of the game, place one orange Holiday Marker on this card, then choose two Unique Heroes in your army that are Misfits. Calendar Man cannot be chosen. Secretly write down each chosen Misfit's name. Each chosen Misfit is considered to be a Killer.

STORY RULES =

HOLIDAY KILLINGS
Before placing Order Markers each round, if your Holiday Marker is on this card, you must place it on the Army Card of an opponent’s Unique Hero, if possible. Any figure with your Holiday Marker on its card subtracts 2 from its Defense number when attacked by a Misfit you control. If an unrevealed Killer you control attacks a figure with a Holiday Marker on its card and inflicts one or more wounds, you may reveal it as a Killer and inflict one additional wound on the defending figure. If a figure with your Holiday Marker on its card is destroyed, return that marker to this card.

A MURDERER'S MIND
While Calendar Man is on his Army Card and is not destroyed, you may only place Order Markers on the Army Cards of Calendar Man or Misfits you control. While you control one or more unrevealed Killers, you may not place Calendar Man on the battlefield.

CASE CLOSED
When a Misfit you control is destroyed, you must reveal if it was a Killer. When your last Killer is revealed, remove this card from the game.

[IAmBatman]

[fret_gurglo]

Love it. Looks like a blast.

[IAmBatman]

Here's hoping! No clue how to cost this, lol.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Could the defense subtraction thing be limited to only working against Misfit attacks?

Idk, I feel like we've had a bit too many generic defense subtraction powers and I worry that could start to stack in weird ways. Not pointing fingers or anything, I've done my fair share of those too.

And like.. thematically there doesn't seem to be a need/ want here for this to be juicing up Godzilla or whoever because you filled in some points with Misfits?

Though I guess the OM restriction thing in the second power is an attempt at essentially making the defense subtraction Misfits only? But like, that just feels like it encourages people to cheese it. Like bringing in Hawkeye, or VDOs, or whatever. Or using this in a team game to boost your buddy's Superman, or just in a multiplayer game as political tool.



Also you probably want "opponent's Unique Hero" for the marker placement thing? Or "Unique or Event" if you want to Holiday Kill Beyonder or whoever. But nuking the defense of every copy of a Common Hero in a dude's army seems a bit too swingy / I'm assuming thematically you want a single target and not a group.

[Karat]

Missing an s. Seems interesting overall though.

A MUDERER'S MIND
While Calendar Man is on his Army Card and is not destroyed, you may only place Order Markers on the Army Cards of Calendar Man or Misfits you control. While you control one or more Killers, you may not place Calendar Man on the battlefield.

[MrNobody]

Yeah, I might honestly cut the OM bit of Murderer’s Mind and add a condition to the defense subtraction. Not sure that “you can’t place OMs here” powers don’t interact funky with thinns like Vulcan.

[IAmBatman]

Hawkeye needs an OM on his card to do his trick, but thematically I’m totally on board with restricting the marker to Unique Heroes and making it only work against Misfit attacks.

Edit: fair point on Vulcan (who is terrible).

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Hawkeye like powers then.

I assume with Vulcan you just wouldn't have to move the markers to him with Power Mad. Just as general 'you can't do this' trumping 'you must do this' thing.

[IAmBatman]

Hmm strong argument for keeping the OM language there on account of F Vulcan.

[MrNobody]

Valid take.