The Book of Galactus

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

The Herald power looks perfect only it should say "When Galactus is placed with Herald of Galactus..."

I really like the second version of the Devourer of Worlds powers. I can already see a fun scenario using a couple of Lava sets or a lava map under a normal urban map and not letting Galactus remove the lava. As he exposes the core of the earth, it gets more dangerous for the Heroes to fight him.

Good catch! I'll update that now, thanks.

And cool idea for a scenario!

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Griffin

Bats, I didn't know you and tickle were talking about a tier that let him remove potentially more terrain. I actually do like that better.

Originally Posted by tcglkn

I know I am totally spitballing here but it could go something like this:
1-4, receives one wound.
5-10, remove one terrain piece.
11-17, remove two terrain pieces, if possible.
18 or higher, remove 3 terrain pieces, if possible.

Reading is fundamental. I do like the higher reward on the third tier than I put and the lower chance of taking a wound. This guy is an Event Hero after all.

[IAmBatman]

Exactly! That's what I figured when I put together the numbers.

[tcglkn]

The only thing I might tweak there is make the two terrain piece tier slightly larger and the 1 terrain piece tier slightly smaller. 2-7 is one terrain piece and 8-17 is two terrain pieces.

This will make the power more consistant and will make him easier to cost.

[tcglkn]

HERALD OF GALACTUS
At the start of the game, you may choose one Unique Hero on the battlefield to be Galactus' Herald. Before taking a turn with Galactus, you may take temporary control of his chosen Herald and immediately take a turn with it. At the end of that turn, control of the Herald returns to the player who previously controlled it. After taking a turn with Galactus' Herald, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll an 8 or higher, place Galactus adjacent to his Herald. When Galactus is placed with Herald of Galactus, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Galactus may not be moved by any other special power on any Army Card or glyph.

DEVOURER OR WORLDS
After taking a turn with Galactus, you must roll the 20-sided die. If you roll:
· 1, Galactus receives one wound;
· 2-10, choose any one unoccupied terrain piece, glyph, destructible object, or obstacle such as a ruin on the battlefield;
· 11-16, choose any two unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles such as ruins on the battlefield; or
· 17 or higher, choose any four unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles such as ruins on the battlefield.
Immediately remove the chosen pieces from the battlefield, if possible. If all terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, and obstacles on the battlefield are occupied, Galactus may choose occupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles instead, and destroy any figures occupying them.

I just put these two powers on a card to test this amount of text and this text exceeded the maximum amount of text at the minimum size so unless we can cut some text here, the tiered option won't work. It is only hanging over the Super Strength symbol by one line. The words "any figures occupying them" are the only ones on that last line that runs over the Super Strength symbol. I'm no wizard at cutting text in powers but I feel like if we were able to word it in a way that didn't require us to state "terrain piece, glyph, destructible object, or obstacles such as ruins" in each bullet, that would save a good bit of text. Is the "such as ruins" part even necessary, if we just cut that from each reference, I think we would save enough text.

Any help on cutting down the power text here would be great. We have to do at least a little bit to make it fit, but the more text we can cut, the larger the text can be on the card. I have no problem cramming as much onto this card as possible since both powers are very intuitive once you use them and this is GALACTUS, but if the text isn't needed, or can be worded better to say the same thing in fewer words, there is no reason not to.

(I also fixed the punctuation of the listed bullets, adding commas after the rolls and putting semicolons at the end of the lines like our aesthetic is.)

[IAmBatman]

Thanks - can you try this? (updated D20 numbers also):

HERALD OF GALACTUS
At the start of the game, you may choose one Unique Hero on the battlefield to be Galactus' Herald. Before taking a turn with Galactus, you may take temporary control of his chosen Herald and immediately take a turn with it. At the end of that turn, control of the Herald returns to the player who previously controlled it. After taking a turn with Galactus' Herald, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll an 8 or higher, place Galactus adjacent to his Herald. When Galactus is placed with Herald of Galactus, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Galactus may not be moved by any other special power on any Army Card or glyph.

DEVOURER OR WORLDS
After taking a turn with Galactus, you must roll the 20-sided die. If you roll:
· 1, Galactus receives one wound;
· 2-7, choose any one unoccupied terrain piece, glyph, destructible object, or obstacle such as a ruin on the battlefield;
· 8-17, choose any two unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles; or
· 18 or higher, choose any four unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles.
Immediately remove the chosen pieces from the battlefield, if possible. If all terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, and obstacles on the battlefield are occupied, Galactus may choose occupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles instead, and destroy any figures occupying them.

[tcglkn]

Didn't help. There are lines with one word each on them now so that didn't reduce the number of rows any.

If you remove the wound tier (which really isn't gonna trigger enough to be worth having) and just make the 1 terrain piece tier 1-7, it fits at the minimum text size cause that gets rid of a whole line.

[IAmBatman]

Hmm ... I really like the wound, though. I'd almost rather go wound, 2 pieces, 4 pieces and maybe increase the chances of a wound slightly.

[IAmBatman]

How's this look:

HERALD OF GALACTUS
At the start of the game, you may choose one Unique Hero on the battlefield to be Galactus' Herald. Before taking a turn with Galactus, you may take temporary control of his chosen Herald and immediately take a turn with it. At the end of that turn, control of the Herald returns to the player who previously controlled it. After taking a turn with Galactus' Herald, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll an 8 or higher, place Galactus adjacent to his Herald. When Galactus is placed with Herald of Galactus, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Galactus may not be moved by any other special power on any Army Card or glyph.

DEVOURER OR WORLDS
After taking a turn with Galactus, you must roll the 20-sided die. If you roll:
· 1-2, Galactus receives one wound;
· 3-15, choose any two unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles such as a ruin on the battlefield;
· 16 or higher, choose any four unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles.
Immediately remove the chosen pieces from the battlefield, if possible. If all terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, and obstacles on the battlefield are occupied, Galactus may choose occupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles instead, and destroy any figures occupying them.

[tcglkn]

That looks really good! Fits well and I was able to increase the text size from 5.8 to 6. Which makes a surprisingly big difference.

[IAmBatman]

Awesome. Well I'm definitely planning to go with that at the moment, then!

[tcglkn]

Just not having three bullets that said "choose X unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles such as a ruin" made a huge difference.

Do we even need the "on the battlefield" part on the second bullet? Where else would you choose unoccupied terrain pieces, glyphs, destructible objects, or obstacles such as a ruin to remove them from the battlefield?