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The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane)

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The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane)​


C3G DC PUBLIC EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION 9
THE FASCIST AND THE FURIOUS​

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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Blackest Night set.
Its model number and name are #003 / Scarecrow.​

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Character Bio - During Blackest Night, Scarecrow is immune to the Blackest Lanterns due to his inability to feel emotion. He claims that only Batman can scare him, and tries to lure Batman to him so he can feel something. During this time he is selected by the clone of Sinestro's ring to be a member of the Sinestro Corps for 24 hours.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-
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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:
Outgoing Synergy:
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Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:
  • As a Human, Yellow Lantern interacts differently with these special powers.
  • As a flying figure, Yellow Lantern interacts differently with these special powers.
  • As a figure with a special attack, Yellow Lantern can interact differently with these special powers.
  • As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Yellow Lantern interacts differently with these special powers.
  • Figures with the Fearless personality do not subtract from their defense dice against Yellow Lantern's Murder of Crows Special Attack. Current Fearless Figures.
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Re: Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Phase

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NAME = Yellow Lantern

SECRET IDENTITY = Jonathan Crane

SPECIES = Human
UNIQUENESS = Unique Hero
CLASS = Insurgent
PERSONALITY = Terrifying

SIZE/HEIGHT = Medium 5

LIFE = 4
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 240

YELLOW POWER BATTERY 3
Start the game with 3 yellow Battery Markers on this card. Add one to this Yellow Lantern’s Move, Range, Attack, and Defense numbers for each yellow Battery Marker on this card.

YELLOW POWER SHIELD
Anytime this Yellow Lantern is attacked by an opponent’s figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, instead of rolling defense dice normally, you may remove one yellow Battery Marker from this card and ignore that attack.

MURDER OF CROWS SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 3. Attack 2.
All figures except destructible objects and figures with the Fearless personality roll 1 fewer defense die against this special attack. After attacking with this special attack, you may attack with this special attack 1 additional time for each yellow Battery Marker on this card.

FLYING
SUPERSTRENGTH
 
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Re: Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Phase

Make his class Insurgent and this design is solid. :up:
 
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tcglkn said:
Make his class Insurgent and this design is solid. :up:
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I'd prefer Psychopath, as Crane doesn't seem to have ever been part of any organized insurgency during his time as a Lantern.
 
Re: Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Phase

I agree that this is looking like a pretty solid design already. However, I do think the Army of Crows SA should be capped at 3 total attacks rather then 4. CA, Batman, Nightcrawler, Warmachine, & Punisher all get just 3 attacks. Tigra & Wolverine are also capped at 3 attacks per turn. So it seems to me that the norm is for a single Unique Hero to get capped at 3 attacks per turn. The exception to the rule is Doc Ock, who has 4 robot arms for 4 normal attacks so the theme is pretty strong for that exception, and the Flash with his super speed punching.
 
Re: Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Phase

Yodaking said:
I agree that this is looking like a pretty solid design already. However, I do think the Army of Crows SA should be capped at 3 total attacks rather then 4. CA, Batman, Nightcrawler, Warmachine, & Punisher all get just 3 attacks. Tigra & Wolverine are also capped at 3 attacks per turn. So it seems to me that the norm is for a single Unique Hero to get capped at 3 attacks per turn. The exception to the rule is Doc Ock, who has 4 robot arms for 4 normal attacks so the theme is pretty strong for that exception, and the Flash with his super speed punching.
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Beast, Black Canary, Iron Fist, Carnage, Daredevil, Bucky, Gambit, Heat Wave and Pyro all can attack far more, with Pyro being able to attack up to six at range. I'm sure others can attack just as much, but didn't want to look them all up. Especially since Army of Crows will get 4 attacks of only 2, with figures subtracting 1 from their defense for each marker. The moment that Scarecrow starts taking attacks, that number of markers is going to fall really quickly, and he'll probably be down to no markers pretty quickly.

I'd also prefer Insurgent, personally.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

I prefer Insurgent because it is the class we've given to the Yellow Lantern faction, I think as a Yellow Lantern Scarecrow should be able to receive those synergies and it would make him a more fun design. Sure Scarecrow wasn't a Yellow Lantern for long, but when we're immortalizing him as a Lantern in our game, we should make him a part of that faction.
 
Re: Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Phase

Flame Gryphon said:
Yodaking said:
I agree that this is looking like a pretty solid design already. However, I do think the Army of Crows SA should be capped at 3 total attacks rather then 4. CA, Batman, Nightcrawler, Warmachine, & Punisher all get just 3 attacks. Tigra & Wolverine are also capped at 3 attacks per turn. So it seems to me that the norm is for a single Unique Hero to get capped at 3 attacks per turn. The exception to the rule is Doc Ock, who has 4 robot arms for 4 normal attacks so the theme is pretty strong for that exception, and the Flash with his super speed punching.
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Beast, Black Canary, Iron Fist, Carnage, Daredevil, Bucky, Gambit, Heat Wave and Pyro all can attack far more, with Pyro being able to attack up to six at range. I'm sure others can attack just as much, but didn't want to look them all up. Especially since Army of Crows will get 4 attacks of only 2, with figures subtracting 1 from their defense for each marker. The moment that Scarecrow starts taking attacks, that number of markers is going to fall really quickly, and he'll probably be down to no markers pretty quickly.

I'd also prefer Insurgent, personally.
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You are right on Gambit, I missed him. The rest of the figures you cited are highly situational and require multiple targets to pull off. We are talking about a power that lets him attack 4 times every single turn on just one target at range 2. CA & Batman still need multiple targets for their SA and Wolverine and Tigra need to have 2 wounds before their 3 attacks kick in. So a single unique hero getting to make 3 attacks every single turn on one figure is pretty rare, much less 4 attacks. I'm just concerned about power creep.

What point range are you thinking you want the final design to fall in?
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

I think right now Scarecrow is gonna fall in the mid to high 100s.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

I agree with tickle on the Insurgent class. I'd rather he'd played better on the board with existing YL's.

One comment on the stats, it would be nice if his stats matched Scarecrow's with Life 4. You could give him 3 markers to start and then it becomes more crucial to maintain his survivability by having to burn a marker than keep his offense beasty.

In summary:

Class = Insurgent
Life = 4
3 YL markers
SA = attack 2 additional times
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

I don't see the problem with 4 attacks of 2 personally. I feel this is thematic to both the name of the power and the characer.

Also, I too prefer Insurgent, but am ok with Psychopath.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Just a note that (other than things that may be unreleased) the only synergy Insurgent adds is with Arkillo.

The other Yellows just need a Unique Yellow Hero (which he will be).

Of course, there may be other things I don't know about, but from what is out, making him Insurgent is a pretty small potatoes in terms of synergy.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Perhaps we should change the title of the SA from Army of Crows SA to Murder of Crows SA as this is what a flock of crows is called and it sounds more menacing and thus more terrifying :2cents:
 
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Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Yeah, I don't think it's a major difference - he won't get the attack boost from Arkillo, but his best power is his Special Attack, so it's not going to come up too often.

Murder of Crows sounds pretty good... and I wouldn't mind dropping it down to 3 attacks.
 
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tcglkn said:
I think right now Scarecrow is gonna fall in the mid to high 100s.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see him hitting over 200. But that's not a problem for me. He's a Yellow Lantern.

Karat said:
I don't see the problem with 4 attacks of 2 personally. I feel this is thematic to both the name of the power and the characer.
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Agreed. The special attack needs to have a number of attacks to represent it being a whole group of crows.

I believe Shang-Chi can attack four times a turn as well.

1Mmirg said:
Just a note that (other than things that may be unreleased) the only synergy Insurgent adds is with Arkillo.

The other Yellows just need a Unique Yellow Hero (which he will be).

Of course, there may be other things I don't know about, but from what is out, making him Insurgent is a pretty small potatoes in terms of synergy.
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Good notes, 1Mmirg! :) I find Insurgent to be unthematic and I don't think the synergy loss is an important one at all.

Karat said:
Perhaps we should change the title of the SA from Army of Crows SA to Murder of Crows SA as this is what a flock of crows is called and it sounds more menacing and thus more terrifying :2cents:
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Murder of Crows SA is a great name. :)
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Big Thumbs up on the Murder of Crows name.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Another note on the Insurgent/Psychopath discussion, is that for future YL designs that have support powers it would end up having to affect either all Yellow Lanterns, which would leave the Sinestro Corps. Soldiers out, or all Insurgents, which would leave Scarecrow and Arkillo out. Not sure it's hugely important, since we could just put "All Insurgents and Yellow Lanterns" if need be, but just putting that out there.

And I definitely like Murder of Crows better. :)
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

There is another Synergy in the Sanctum that I would love for this guy to be a part of by being an Insurgent. The design could use all the options it can get and this would be a great addition.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

We made **** her class so she would be synergistic with the groups she most likely hangs with (sorry trying to be a little vague ;)), & although I think Psychopath would be best we have to follow the same logic here so he should be INSURGENT.

MURDER OF CROWS is a great name :up:. I would like to see it have a range of 3. You could increase the YELLOW POWER BATTERY to 3, then make the SA additional turns based on how many battery markers are on the card.

A life of 4 to match Scarecrow is best also.

Great start here :up:.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

since everything else has been covered, my only question is why the change in personality? I'm not arguing to actually change it, just curious why he isn't insane just because he got himself a ring. Also I love the SA name change, and an attack of 2 is very hit and miss so I'm not worried about him getting 4 attacks. Insurgent would be nice to help him stay alive longer so he wouldn't need to burn a marker everytime he gets attacked, but other then that I don't see that its exactly that big of an issue other then the precident set by what has already been be released.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

But he's NOT an insurgent. He's not a part of the Sinestro Corps that rebelled against the Green Lanterns. He just got the ring for a joyride, really - it'd be disingenuous to call him an insurgent.
 
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A3n said:
MURDER OF CROWS is a great name :up:. I would like to see it have a range of 3. You could increase the YELLOW POWER BATTERY to 3, then make the SA additional turns based on how many battery markers are on the card.
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I like this option and then just have a round the board minus 1 for figures without the Fearless personality.
johnny139 said:
But he's NOT an insurgent. He's not a part of the Sinestro Corps that rebelled against the Green Lanterns. He just got the ring for a joyride, really - it'd be disingenuous to call him an insurgent.
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He may not have been, but given the chance, I'm sure he would have.
 
Re: The Book of Yellow Lantern (Jonathan Crane) - Design Pha

Karat said:
A3n said:
MURDER OF CROWS is a great name :up:. I would like to see it have a range of 3. You could increase the YELLOW POWER BATTERY to 3, then make the SA additional turns based on how many battery markers are on the card.
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I like this option and then just have a round the board minus 1 for figures without the Fearless personality.
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That could work. That would also put his normal attack at 6 with all the markers, which might be a bit much for someone who hasn't had the experience with the ring that others might have.


johnny139 said:
But he's NOT an insurgent. He's not a part of the Sinestro Corps that rebelled against the Green Lanterns. He just got the ring for a joyride, really - it'd be disingenuous to call him an insurgent.
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Even though he wasn't, he was still part of the Sinestro Corps, if only for a little bit. If somebody was a GL for a few comics and we made that character a GL, we would call him an Officer, even though he was technically only a GL for a very small period of time. Likewise, I feel that since Scarecrow became a YL and was an official member of the Sinestro Corps, even if only briefly, he should be an Insurgent.
 
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Flame Gryphon said:
Karat said:
A3n said:
MURDER OF CROWS is a great name :up:. I would like to see it have a range of 3. You could increase the YELLOW POWER BATTERY to 3, then make the SA additional turns based on how many battery markers are on the card.
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I like this option and then just have a round the board minus 1 for figures without the Fearless personality.
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That could work. That would also put his normal attack at 6 with all the markers, which might be a bit much for someone who hasn't had the experience with the ring that others might have.
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I'm ok with this, as it just adds to his fear factor, though I forsee Murder of Crows being used much more than his normal when possible :2cents:
 
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