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( continues...) to help with that. It lets every player, once a game, search for a card matching a certain criterion (there are nine such criteria that the player can choose from). Two of those criteria are either a cheap non-military windfall world, or a cheap military windfall world. (One can also seek a development that gives +1 or +2 military.) But for the moment, every so often a player can find themselves just at the mercy of their draw.
In summary: outpacing the other players can be a viable strategy, especially if you can ensure bonus points from goals or 6-cost developments or such like. Falling too far behind the other players is likely to hurt. It's something to avoid, but that's sometimes easier said than done.
My plannage is on for the next game. Who wants in? I figure we play under the same conditions as the game just gone, so we'll have the goals and a choice of starting worlds.
Only if you promise better card draws.
Eh. Ok. Even if you can't promise better card draws.
Only if you promise better card draws.
Done! Not necessarily for you, but I'm sure someone will pull the good stuff.
RFTG
I'll play but as always, I am happy to sit out to make room for new players.
Ran the final session of my 2+ year D&D/Pathfinder campaign (we converted to 5th Ed about 8 months ago) last night. Showdown between 7 16th level PCs and an ancient wizard in his pocket dimension with a few giants, a pair of lamia matriarchs and an adult blue dragon backing him up.
About an hour in I thought I had horribly miscalculated as the entire party was either down and making Death Saves or sitting at around 20 hit points and the baddies had barely been scratched. But they somehow managed to turn it around through judicious spell use (Holy Aura and Circle of Power are incredible buffs. Holy Aura alone probably turned 2 dozen crits against PCs into misses during the course of the fight) smart deployment of an Eversmoking Bottle (Transmutation specialists are powerful, but the vast majority of their spells require you to see your target) some good luck.
Overall the battle took close to 5 hours to play out, 4 out 7 PCs got dropped (and multiple times at that) a 5th would have dropped if not for being a half-orc and the party wizard actually got killed by a Finger of Death, but the cleric managed to bring him back with Revivify. They were all running on fumes at the end, having used most of their spell slots and other per day/rest abilities as well as the majority of their potions and scrolls. Final blow came from the rogue who had popped a potion of Invisibility the previous round (which was only effective thanks to the bard having dispelled the big bad's buffs, including True Seeing) and then fired at the flying evil wizard with his bow for a sneak attack.
As I told them after it was all over, there was no doubt that they fully earned that final victory.
That sounds properly epic.
I'm in for racing.
Kalshane, that sounds awesome and hair-raising!
