The Book of Crossbones

[Ronin]

Factoring in attack boosters? Down that road lies madness. Just use the numbers on the card.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Yes, I understand it was intentional and I like that choice. Just saw some things said that led me to believe some thought he would be getting double Brutality attacks which isn’t true.

I’m honestly fine with him being an okay pairing with Cap, because I kind of like heroes and their thematic villains being decent pairs with one another. But I don’t love it getting in the way of who should really be pairing with. (Red Skull, Hydra, a potential Sin design)

I highly doubt that'll be the case. Two ranged attacks is better than one melee attack -1 defence, most of the time. OM managers are pretty much a necessity for this guy.
Captain America + Ms. Marvel or Wasp (vII) could work, but Red Skull and the Zemos I expect'll be his go-tos.

[Lord Pyre]

I'm not sure a potential -1D is worthy enough to build an army around. Sure he'd be good with Cap and StarLord, but anyone is. I'm fine either way here. Number for simplicity, or dice rolled for theme. Doesn't matter to me.

[Lazy Orang]

Dice rolled at least gives him a chance of affecting a decent-ish number of characters if he can claim height. It almost becomes Kneel Before Zod-lite. I like that.
I'm definitely in favour of that direction.

[japes]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Yes, I understand it was intentional and I like that choice. Just saw some things said that led me to believe some thought he would be getting double Brutality attacks which isn’t true.

We are on the same page here.

Originally Posted by MrNobody

I’m honestly fine with him being an okay pairing with Cap, because I kind of like heroes and their thematic villains being decent pairs with one another. But I don’t love it getting in the way of who should really be pairing with. (Red Skull, Hydra, a potential Sin design)

I agree with you mostly here. For me though it's more, I don't mind it being a cool side effect that just happens while making a thematic fit. I just don't like it to be intentional.

Originally Posted by Ronin

Factoring in attack boosters? Down that road lies madness. Just use the numbers on the card.

That's my position. We have plenty of discussions about similar issues, yet here we are intentionally adding in another one. Though, Yes, I agree this is a lesser issue...NOW. but later may be a different story.

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

Dice rolled at least gives him a chance of affecting a decent-ish number of characters if he can claim height. It almost becomes Kneel Before Zod-lite. I like that.
I'm definitely in favour of that direction.

nearly a third of our designs is not a decent'ish enough number? He's a well trained human not a Mutate/Mutant/Metahuman or any other powered being. That feels about right to me. He shouldn't be putting a smack down to a lot of powered beings.

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by japes

We are on the same page here.

I agree with you mostly here. For me though it's more, I don't mind it being a cool side effect that just happens while making a thematic fit. I just don't like it to be intentional.

That's my position. We have plenty of discussions about similar issues, yet here we are intentionally adding in another one. Though, Yes, I agree this is a lesser issue...NOW. but later may be a different story.

nearly a third of our designs is not a decent'ish enough number? He's a well trained human not a Mutate/Mutant/Metahuman or any other powered being. That feels about right to me. He shouldn't be putting a smack down to a lot of powered beings.

[Matt Helm]

As far as wording goes, forgive me if there is a C3G precedent that I’m ignorant of, but should Brutality reference the “attack value on the card”.

BRUTALITY
When attacking an adjacent figure with Crossbones, if the attack value on this card is the same or higher than that on the card of the defending figure, the defending figure subtracts 1 from its Defense.

Otherwise height, glyphs or special power bonuses could give him a much higher “attack” than many defending cards. Unless of course that’s the intent.

[IAmBatman]

There's somewhat of a debate between going with the attack number (i.e. what's printed on the card) and the number of attack dice they're rolling. I believe the LD here is leaning towards the former.

Had to double check myself on whether "attack value" or "attack number" is official (I've always used "number" and seen it used in C3G) and Finn came to my rescue

[Matt Helm]

Nice. I guess you can go either way.



I do think your safer referencing “... on this card...” no matter which way you go.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah I think I probably stopped paying attention to “official” language right after the first DnD wave or so.

[Matt Helm]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Yeah I think I probably stopped paying attention to “official” language right after the first DnD wave or so.

I completely understand.

[japes]

Originally Posted by Matt Helm

I do think your safer referencing “... on this card...”

As the original drafted here I agree and don’t think height and attack boosters should help here.