A "Blessing of the Gods" card in your hand can be played to emulate the effects of the top card of the Blessings Deck.
I don't think the GC bug crashes the Quest Mode. Shame, but thankfully I have 7 Mages to keep me occupied
Alright. I need help understanding how the deck building part works. Probably a True of false to each, or some explanation would help. Thanks. The vault is all the cards available to you, either from the scenario, or things you got from chests, right? You select your gear at the beginning of the scenario, but beyond that point, everything you pick up is random from the vault ? When 'discarding' a card, it goes into the discard pile until some card (heal) allows you to pick it back up ? But the discard pile goes back into the vault at the end of a scenario ? So what about banish? Does that also return to the vault at the end of the scenario? Would that mean the vault is always the superset of all your cards? If so, that's weird... I was regenerating a team and somehow I noticed the number of cards were different between the new and the experienced team (last team I played with). Is there anyway to delete the 'experienced' players from my list? It's an eyesore. Some how, I got 2 of the same characters in a team. (2 merisiel, 2 kyra) ... Don't how I did that, but I'm pretty sure that's abnormal. At times, I can't move to a different location, screen is just non-responsive and I have to cancel and skip a turn. That normal?
Yes. Well, you can move existing equipment between party members, but not draw anything new. Otherwise, yes. Yes. Yes, but first you get to manage the various items and such you collected over the course of the scenario. You can move loot between characters until they're each at their maximum for each category, and the left over stuff goes back in the vault. If there aren't enough items to restock a character (e.g. a character only has 2/3 weapons, and you have no weapon to give them), you'll be given access to items from the basic set to fill them back to their limit. Anything your combined characters can't hold is thrown back into the game box in the physical version, which is the "vault" in the app. Banished items go directly back into the vault. The vault is the entirety of the cards you have available to you during the game. Tap the "..." symbol on the character screen; you'll find an option to delete them there. There could be a number of issues for this; do make sure you're not at low health with Effects turned on in the settings, as the "heat haze" effect drops the game's framerate intensely on a lot of devices, along with its responsiveness to touch input.
The quest mode is bugged right now. It yields duplicate characters and other fun stuff that could make impossible to progress your story. So stay away until fixed. Now to clear a bit of the game mechanics. Banished cards go back to the box ("vault") while discarded cards are still available to you during the scenario (there are healing spells/abilities that recharge them (put on the bottom of your deck) and some powers or spells may even let you take them from discard pile directly in your hand. Then they get shuffled back to your deck when the scenario ends. Then you go to deck rebuild screen. The first time you start a new campaign (new party on the Brigandoom scenario), you are allowed to build your deck with any BASIC card from the vault. Every character starts with a prebuilt deck, but you can change the cards as long as you respect the card number for each type (you see them in the deck building panel, indicated by <current quantity>/<required quantity> on card types buttons and you can also see them on characters' sheet, "composition" tab if I recall correctly). After you've stated the campaign, you can no longer take cards from the vault when rebuilding the decks. You have to get back to those required quantities, you can share cards between all your characters and can keep new cards acquired during the scenario, putting back into the vault any exceeding card. If you happen to have not enough cards of any type to build a legal deck, you can take basic cards from the vault.
Wow. Fast replies. Thanks! So... Is there a card that allows me to get stuff back from 'buried'? (Otherwise I can't see the diff between bury and banish) If I can only create a deck from the basic card list... Then, aren't special cards (ie: from purchased chests) really rare for playing? What's the chance that it will show up in my next game? ... Can't be very likely....
Buying treasure chests just unlocks cards for you to find during scenarios; you don't get given the items to add to your characters directly. If a chest gives you a piece of loot from one of the unreleased adventures, you won't see ever see that item/spell/ally until the adventure comes out later this year and you're actually able to play it. This preserves game balance, and lets your characters increase in power as they go along. Buried cards are just discarded cards you can't recover during the scenario, but you get them back at the end, same as the discarded ones. Banished cards go straight back in the vault.
How can you tell if a character is "proficient" at a certain skill? For example, some cards would say that "if you are not proficient with weapons then..." - how can I tell if I am?
Tap on your character portrait in the lower right, or just get to the character card screen, and then click on one of the tabs (sorry can't remember right now), might be skills. In there it will have a "tick" in the box of what you are proficient in. Also realise that this proficiency screen scrolls down.
No clue if there are any special exceptions, but buried is pretty equivalent to exiled in Magic the Gathering. Completely removed from the game until you next adventure while banished means it has been tossed away until it randomly shows up again in some future adventure's location deck. I'm a bit confused by the whole treasure thing as well as I believe each Treasure card is in a sense an unlockable bit in one of the game's many Difficulty Decks (B-6), so it isn't simply a matter of if it randomly shows up if you are playing one of the Difficulty Deck 1 adventures and the Treasure card in question is now part of Difficulty Deck 3. In the beta which Difficulty Deck these cards joined was more clear, unless I'm just missing where it is listed on these cards.
Just wanted to bump this as I thought it was the most direct and made things cluck for me. No relation to the guy and I appreciate he is describing the card game itself, but it does a great job explaining the mechanics. If you are lost as to what is going on or what you are doing in this game, watch this video. Doesn't help with interface or detailed questions, but does a great job explaining how to play! (No relation to link, I just want people to have the lightbulb go off like it did for me. Before I watched I'd been ready to delete the app and was lost, after watching and trying the app again I dropped the $24.99 without hesitation and hoping for updates and more for this!)
^ Agreed. Great playthrough type learning to be had here. I enjoyed it. I wasn't at the point where I was going to delete the app though!! Quite liking the game so far.
So recapping many said before Reveal is the use the item card (mostly weapon) Discard is sending card to discard pile (left) and can return to deck (right) on heal/cure action Recharge is putting card from hand to deck Banish is sending card away from the current game and may return later at deck-building phase Bury is sending the card away "permanently" until you meet it again, by chance, during drawing from pile And, if I am buying the "full bundle" (sooner or later), will the Quest mode be still appealing?
I would love to have this on my iPhone on the go.. Is this supposed to be going universal? Because I guess tablet and mobile means iPad and iPhone .. If devs are on this forum, can anyone tell me if/when this may happen? Tony
In the lower left-hand corner of the image on the card there's either a letter or number, along with the type of card (weapon, barrier, monster, ally, etc.). 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 = Card belongs to the adventure with that number. B = Basic set. C = Character pack. P = Promo deck.
Not quite. Burying is the same as discarding, only you can't recover buried cards during the scenario. You get all your buried cards back at the end of the scenario, just as you get all your discarded cards back, so you can still assign them to your party in the post-game inventory screen. Banished cards, on the other hand, are gone for good unless you find them again in a later scenario.
Yup, after reading the PDF a few pages before, I stand corrected. Thank you! Summoning $$$ for the full bundle as we speak (which takes some time you know)
Also I would suggest what my pirate friend always tells me when I first play a digital conversion of a board/card game I've never played: "Read them old bloody manual, ahrrr!!" ^_^ Seriously, I think the best way to understand a game's mechanics is reading the original manual. Obsidian has made a great work in creating a rules section and the tutorial explains most of the stuff, but this is a complex game and I think the best way to unseat rand the basics is going to Paizo's website and download the PDF with the rules. I think the tutorial is more useful to teach you how to use the interface, but for game mechanics the physical game's rules are best.
