The Book of Armadillo

[Zakizzryn]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

I was thinking Luke Cage’s Impenetrable Skin.

Also a good idea.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Diggin this dude, Underground Movement sounds dope.

I think Impenetrable Skin would be perfect here, yeah.

[Tornado]

IS with 4 Defense is a bit sketchy. Pretty easy to blank out.
Looks a little soft for 200.

[fret_gurglo]

IS with 5 Defense sounds pretty good for 200. Looking good here

[Zakizzryn]

I have replaced his last ability with Impenetrable Skin and bumped his Defense up by 1.
Also removed the line of text "When Armadillo starts his Underground Movement, he will take any leaving engagement attacks." from the first ability as per a couple of suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback so far! Let's keep it up!!
This has been really exciting, happy to be part of the design process again haha.

[Zakizzryn]

Posted some comic art for the character as well as a couple miniature photos I found in the Mini Photo Depository that was submitted by Ronin

[IAmBatman]

Did you want "above" instead of "of" here?

UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
Instead of moving normally with Armadillo, you may immediately place him on any Land Space that is within 4 spaces of Armadillo and is no higher than 1 level of Armadillo's height or 3 levels below Armadillo's base.

In practice I wonder how often he'll really end up using Underground Movement rather than his normal move? I'm sure there are a few maps where there's a point or two of enough elevation change for it to matter, but not a ton of the competitive ones. Mountain Spring is probably a good one for testing?

[tcglkn]

UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
Instead of moving normally with Armadillo, you may immediately place him on any Land Space that is within 4 spaces of Armadillo and is no higher than 1 level of Armadillo's height or 3 levels below Armadillo's base. After placing Armadillo this way, roll one unblockable attack die against all adjacent figures and subtract 2 from his attack for the rest of the turn.

If we're worried it won't get used enough, I think this line is a pretty reasonable inclusion.

[IAmBatman]

I think I’d want to see a title change at that point to get the idea of an ambush or assault across more. Definitely gives it more utility.

[tcglkn]

It's not really an ambush since he loses attack, just represents the dirt and rocks flying around as he bursts out of the ground.

[IAmBatman]

Sure. Those title suggestions weren’t spot on. I think movement is a bit generic for that springing out a spraying around harmful debris effect, though. So there’s a good word choice to be had somewhere, IMO.

[Zakizzryn]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

If we're worried it won't get used enough, I think this line is a pretty reasonable inclusion.

I like it. Feel its inclusion would definitely get the ability used more.

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I think movement is a bit generic for that springing out a spraying around harmful debris effect, though. So there’s a good word choice to be had somewhere, IMO.

True, but generic ain't so bad. Makes it easy to reuse I suppose for later designs. I say keep it for now and possibly swap it out if something better comes up later.