The Book of Jackal

[A3n]

Yea

[Karat]

Down to @quozl or 24 hours.

[quozl]

Yea

[Karat]

This passes. Looking forward to seeing this one get finished up, it's been a long process but I think we got him balanced and fun to play.

How does this look for a bio?

Miles Warren was a professor at Empire State University. He was born into a family that had a special love for science. His brother was a teacher of Peter Parker’s, but Miles wanted to be more than “just” a teacher. After he got his Ph.D. in biochemistry he joined the High Evolutionary so he could experiment and learn from him. He tried turning animals into humans, but most of his subjects never lost their animal appearance. He developed a fondness for Gwen Stacy, who was a student of his. After Gwen was killed by the Green Goblin, Miles blamed Spider-Man for her death. This led Miles to put Jackal DNA into his body becoming the Jackal. Jackal is responsible for the creation of Carrion, as well as several Spider-Man clones (Scarlet Spider, Kaine, Jack, Guardian, and Spidercide).

[SirGalahad]

Minor edits:

EXPERIMENTAL CLONING 15
At the start of the game, you may choose a Unique Human, Mutate, or Clone Hero on the battlefield to be Jackal's Experiment. Before placing Order Markers for any each round, if Jackal's Experiment is destroyed, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 15 or higher, remove all Wound Markers from the Experiment’s Army Card and place the chosen Hero on any empty space adjacent to Jackal. You now control the chosen Hero, and it has the species of Clone instead of what is listed on its card.

DRUG-TIPPED CLAWS
After attacking an adjacent figure with Jackal's normal attack, if the defending figure received one or more wounds but was not destroyed, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 12 or higher, remove one Order Marker at random from the defending figure's card. Androids, Constructs, and Destructible Objects are not affected by Drug-Tipped Claws.

CELLULAR DEGENERATION
For the entire game, After taking a turn with Jackal's Experiment, place one Wound Marker on its card. and you mustAt the end of each round, place one Wound Marker on Jackal's Experiment's card. at the end of each round.

I considered combining both triggers for placing a wound marker into a single sentence, but wasn't convinced people wouldn't get confused.

This is what it would sound like:

After taking a turn with Jackal's Experiment and at the end of each round, place one Wound Marker on its card.

[johnny139]

I think we added in the "for the entire game" bit to specify that it continues after Jackal has been destroyed. Is that necessary (or is there a better way to do that)?

[SirGalahad]

If that's the intent,

For the entire game, after taking a turn with Jackal's Experiment and at the end of each round, place one Wound Marker on its card.

[Karat]

Also, the wording for Experimental Cloning is copied almost verbatim from Arnim Zola.

[SirGalahad]

Looking back at Arnim Zola, I would change the "for any" to "each" there as well.

And just to be clear--the intent is for the Experiment to be able to come back more than once per game, correct? Because that restriction is not copied from Arnim Zola.

[Karat]

Correct. That's where we deviated, well that and the choosing a Unique Human Mutate ir Clone Hero at the start of the game to try and clone. Arnim just says you mat only clone 1 Unique Hero per game.

I agree that each sounds better, I just figured I'd bring up that that power was based closely off of Arnim Zola's Cloning power.

[Karat]

Originally Posted by SirGalahad

If that's the intent,

For the entire game, after taking a turn with Jackal's Experiment and at the end of each round, place one Wound Marker on its card.

For the record, this seems clear enough to me.

[Karat]

So is this what I should update the SP with? (This is SirG's edits made into paste-able form.)

EXPERIMENTAL CLONING 15
At the start of the game, you may choose a Unique Human, Mutate, or Clone Hero on the battlefield to be Jackal's Experiment. Before placing Order Markers each round, if Jackal's Experiment is destroyed, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 15 or higher, remove all Wound Markers from the Experiment’s Army Card and place the chosen Hero on any empty space adjacent to Jackal. You now control the chosen Hero, and it has the species of Clone instead of what is listed on its card.

DRUG-TIPPED CLAWS
After attacking an adjacent figure with Jackal's normal attack, if the defending figure received one or more wounds but was not destroyed, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 12 or higher, remove one Order Marker at random from the defending figure's card. Androids, Constructs, and Destructible Objects are not affected by Drug-Tipped Claws.

CELLULAR DEGENERATION
For the entire game, after taking a turn with Jackal's Experiment and at the end of each round, place one Wound Marker on its card.