The Book of Biollante

[Tornado]

Two attacks.
Would it be too cheesy to reduce the attack power if the target is 7+ hexes away?

You may want to try to run her with something that can place or remove tiles?

[tcglkn]

I do think using the Animated Vines as an extension of her is a good way to bypass Intangible figures. And increase her range in a significant way.

[Tornado]

The problem with that is you can take out the vines first and neutralize her.
Unless you have a mechanic to get around that.
Seems easier to just give her crazy range.

[tcglkn]

You obviously let her spawn them repeatedly. You just use that card as an extension of her.

[IAmBatman]

Anything using the Animated Vines would have to jump through a ton of hoops because their attack of 1 accomplishes nothing in terms of giving Biollante more of a toolbox and it doesn't make thematic sense for Biollante to have Plant Animation. So I'd pretty much have to write a power that completely ignores anything the Animated Vines bring to the table other than their sculpt, at which point the sculpt is just extra mechanical baggage. I think it's better to abstract the vines.

I think the path forward is probably more like this: Regular range back down to 6. Then alter the approach to Grasping Plant Tendrils to be more like this.

GRASPING PLANT TENDRILS
Instead of moving Biollante normally, you may choose up to X enemy figures within 12 spaces of Biollante, where X is the number of Spore Markers on this card. Roll an unblockable attack die against each enemy figure. If you inflict a wound, place a Spore Marker from this card onto that figure's Army Card. An enemy figure with your Spore Marker on its card cannot move normally. At the end of the round, return any Spore Markers placed this way to this card.

[Lord Pyre]

That's super cool, just not sure I'd want to risk losing a spore marker and a potential big heal to stop one figure's movement. Maybe make the placement a "may," then you have the choice?

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I think you're right. Also, I think we've reached too high a level of complexity/text at this point. I have a streamlined version I'm mulling over that I'll try to post soon.

[IAmBatman]

OK, I think the way to go is to lean into her being hard to kill, but keep her actual attack fairly tame until you get to Corrosive Spray time. I added another marker and made her main early offensive weapon the vines. I took out the triple attack. I also changed the range and attack on the special attack to make the numbers a bit easier to remember. Everything is factors of 3, now.

NAME = BIOLLANTE
SPECIES = KAIJU
UNIQUENESS = EVENT HERO
CLASS = DESTROYER
PERSONALITY = WILD
SIZE = HUGE 13

LIFE 6

MOVE 6
RANGE 6
ATTACK 6
DEFENSE 6
POINTS=1000

SPORE REGENERATION
Start the game with 3 yellow Spore Markers on this card. If Biollante would receive any number of wounds and be destroyed, you may instead remove a Spore Marker from this card, ignore those wounds, and remove all Wound Markers from this card.

GRASPING PLANT TENDRILS
At the start of each player’s turn, you may choose up to 3 figures within 12 spaces of Biollante. Roll one unblockable attack die against each chosen figure. If a figure receives a wound this way, it may not move until the start of the next player’s turn.

CORROSIVE SPRAY SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 9. Attack 9.
Biollante may only use this special attack if there are no Spore Markers on this card. If the defending figure receives one or more wounds from this attack, that figure is not considered to have clear sight on any other figures for the remainder of this round.

SUPER STRENGTH

Obviously I'll adjust and tweak and hone things in to get to 1000. If the movement denial is too much, I'll just take that out and leave the power as straight up wounding.

[Tornado]

Cool

[Lord Pyre]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

OK, I think the way to go is to lean into his being hard to kill...

I like it! Streamlined, I get the intent of the full design here, and looks effective. The movement stopping might be a bit overbearing, but it's definitely worth testing out.

[IAmBatman]

Ugh, it's like a tick or something.

[Spidey'tilIDie]

LOL, that whole paragraph is full of him and his, not just the one sentence LP quoted.