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[IAmBatman]

And Ninja of the Northern Wind.

[brandonwiker]

Ok, looking at it that way makes sense, thanks guys.

[heroscaper2010]

When a flying figure lands on heavy snow, does it count as 2 spaces?

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by heroscaper2010

When a flying figure lands on heavy snow, does it count as 2 spaces?

Yes. Granite Guardians also can't use their Gain High Ground power onto Heavy Snow.

~Dysole, informationally

[Scytale]

Originally Posted by Dysole

Yes. Granite Guardians also can't use their Gain High Ground power onto Heavy Snow.

~Dysole, informationally

You sure about that? Gain High Ground explicitly bypasses movement costs.

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by Scytale

You sure about that? Gain High Ground explicitly bypasses movement costs.

It says that the space can be up to 4 levels higher. It says it's one space though. Thaelenk rulebook says movement onto a hex counts it as 2 spaces.

~Dysole, calling it like she sees it

[Scytale]

Originally Posted by Dysole

It says that the space can be up to 4 levels higher. It says it's one space though. Thaelenk rulebook says movement onto a hex counts it as 2 spaces.

~Dysole, calling it like she sees it

It's not a normal movement of one space, it's a placement to a neighboring space that can be up to 4 levels higher. Like Grapple Gun. Placement powers aren't affected by Heavy Snow.

I can see your reading of it, though, as a space-by-space movement. I'm not sure I can fully justify it either way.

[Dysole]

But I mean Drake 2.0 explicitly says Grapple Gun has a move of 4 (while the other one uses wording like the GGs). Tul-Bak-Ra specifically says place. I don't see why this wouldn't be considered a movement power rather than a placement power.

~Dysole, not sure if the rules team is around to weigh in on this

[OEAO]

I’m pretty sure Dysole is right. Gain High Ground says they may move one space. It doesn’t say that they are placed. Therefore, the heavy snow/slippery ice’s rule that it is treated as two spaces for movement should preclude the GG from moving onto it with GHG.

[TREX]

Question here. Not pertaining to Heroscape Rules per say, but a question regarding the map building program "Virtualscape". Does anyone know what it would take for us to add additional terrain pieces into the program. It would be very awesome to be able to make 3d printed terrain pieces that can be added into the program and used in tournaments. This would open up possible terrain pack releases in the future and allow for the world of heroscape to have many more possibilities of official terrain. I would do it myself if I knew where to start. I don't have any experience in game coding.

EDIT: Also realized I can't download Virtualscape right now as well. It seems to have a broken link when trying to download to my laptop.

[IAmBatman]

Honestly I think we need a new answer to map building. Not sure how compatible Virtualscape really is anymore. You can definitely use TTS to build cool maps and add objects of all sorts, but providing map build instructions with them is tough.

As is on Virtualscape I'd probably just use some sort of colored dot and indicate in the build instructions that the dot is the site of whatever terrain thing.

[mac122]

Originally Posted by TREX

EDIT: Also realized I can't download Virtualscape right now as well. It seems to have a broken link when trying to download to my laptop.

See if this link works to get to the Virtualscape site.

Edit: I was able to download the Virtualscape zip file.