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Hugh G. Rection
United States
La Mesa
California
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shnar wrote: I'm just still in shock that Thaadd left! I'm going to miss her awesomeness!!! 
You must have been absent that day...
5 Years! (Last day at FFG!)
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Corbon Loughnan
Singapore
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Mr Skeletor wrote: You really clocked up 100 pages of FAQs? :shake:
Yep, but that includes detailed explanations of the background for each question, and implications of the question and answers, and most questions then have multiple answers for FFG to choose from. There is also a section for SoB balance detailing many problems that aren't rules issues, but overall balance issues, and some suggestions people have made that might help as rules changes. Then the GLOAQ has a section as it really ought to be made part of the FAQ where it isn;t alsready, then the existing FAQ has a section, where things need updating or have errors or need to check against new question-answers.
And some pages have only one question, covering less than half a page (though most are full or close to full).
Here is the ToC, page numbers on the right, question numbers on the left (it helped keep track by numbering questions).
General Descent 5
2. Large, odd shaped monster movement 5
3. Walls and Doors 7
8. Guard + Mimic 9
12. LOS in own space 10
13. Daze 11
20. Rapid Fire/Cleaving/Quick Casting after a Dark Charm 15
21. Token limits 16
30. Large Monsters and Terrain 17
35. Adding dice to an Aimed attack 19
36. Jumping 20
38. Leap and landing on empty spaces 24
39. Damage that ignores Armour 25
40. Fog 26
42. Dark Charm and threat from surges 27
43. One Fist’s special attack 28
44. What makes a figure? 29
57. Crushing Block 30
58. Elevation 31
59. Start of Turn timing 32
60. Dungeonquest Heros specific clarifications: 34
61. Familiars 34
68. Spawning, placement and anti-spawn 35
69. Brilliant Commander + Hordes of the Things 36
70. Overlord turns interrupting heroes 37
71. Killer Chests and Mimic 38
75. Shadowcloak 39
Tomb of Ice 40
23. Hustle and MP 40
51. Riposting a Swoop… 41
52. Lunge 42
Road to Legend and general Advanced Campaigns 43
9. Healing Skills in Advanced Campaigns 43
10. Silver or Gold Start Advanced Campaigns 44
11. “in Dungeon” cards during outdoor encounters 45
24. Necromancy and Advanced / non-standard monsters 46
25. Double training at Secret Master locations 48
27. Hero immunity from Avatars and Lieutenants 49
32. Lt encounter movement requirements 49
41. Transport Gem timing 50
45. Dar Hilzernod reinforcing 51
47. Ascension plot and heroes with 0 wounds 52
56. Restock action in Advanced Campaigns 53
62. Upgrading dice 54
63. Wandering Merchant / Merchant Ship 55
64. Pits with special effects 56
65. Magic Gateways 56
67. Paying threat for special abilities during attacks. 58
74. Soul Ward 59
76. Fleeing the Overlord’s Keep 59
77. Villagers 60
Sea of Blood 61
1. Does the Revenge sink (and thus get healed) during a TPK encounter result 61
4. Terrain 62
5. Burning Bay/Sea SoB level 65
6. The Kraken and Tentacles 66
14. Fleeing an Island Level 69
15. Trails with no encounter shield 69
16. Divine Favour 70
17. Armour and deep water 71
18. Wild Vortex rocks 72
19. Definition of a round ending and vessel movement 73
22. Exiting the Cage 77
28. Is scrub empty? 78
29. Ship upgrades 79
31. The Siren’s call 82
33. Scrub effect 83
34. Advance Campaign Level 68 – Maze of Madness 84
37. Advanced Campaign Level 50 – Pit pull 85
46. Cannons and Fatigue markers 86
48. Reinforcement Marker and new areas 87
53. Dallak 87
54. Soar on Islands 88
55. Sea of Blood starting Location 89
66. Level 67 House of the Unholy 90
72. Nimble 90
73. SoB Level #49 91
Gathered List of Answered Questions 92
Basic Game + Non-Campaign Expansions: 92
Campaign Expansion-related questions: 96
Existing FAQ Errata 98
Pg2 Large Monsters and Terrain 98
Pg4. Knockback etc. over water: 98
Pg5 Skills and Abilities 98
Pg5 Transformed Heroes 98
Pg6 General Hero Questions 99
Pg6 Monster Movement 99
Pg6 Overlord Cards 99
Pg7 Dark Charm 99
Pg7 Attack 100
Pg7 General game questions 100
Pg8 Environmental Hazards and Obstacles 100
Pg8 Skills and Abilities 100
Pg8 Miscellaneous 100
Pg9 Items Treasure and Equipment 101
Pg12 Miscellaneous 101
Pg12 Avatars 101
Pg14 Lts 101
Pg15 General game questions 102
Pg15 Glyphs and Town 102
Pg15 Environmental Hazards and Obstacles 102
Pg17 Miscellaneous 102
Pg17 Items Treasure and Equipment 102
Pg18 Opposing cards 103
Pg18 Environmental Props and Obstacles 103
Pg19 Ships and cannons 103
Sea of Blood Balance 104
Lieutenant Encounters 104
Non Lt Encounters 105
Five City raze condition 105
Plots 106
Treasure Maps 106
Divine Favour 106
Cities 106
Other issues 107
Solutions 107
Results 112
Checklist 112
Transcribed Q&A 114
Notes: Numbers 7, 26 have been removed.
49-50 were set aside for GLOAQ
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Bryce K. Nielsen
United States
Elk Ridge
Utah
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Hugh_G_Rection wrote: shnar wrote: I'm just still in shock that Thaadd left! I'm going to miss her awesomeness!!! You must have been absent that day... 5 Years! (Last day at FFG!)
Figures it would be a bloke that steals her awesome service away from us! I can't believe I missed all that
-shnar
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Lorenzo Sasso
Italy
Mondovì
Cuneo
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shnar wrote: Hugh_G_Rection wrote: shnar wrote: I'm just still in shock that Thaadd left! I'm going to miss her awesomeness!!! You must have been absent that day... 5 Years! (Last day at FFG!) Figures it would be a bloke that steals her awesome service away from us! I can't believe I missed all that -shnar
Damn, i too completely missed that.
Sad day, sad day indeed.
Lawrence
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I am glad to hear they are going to do a final complete FAQ for the Descent series. Its a good way to send off a seasoned board game in style.
Also it is a great opportunity to pass the torch to Descent 2nd Edition.
My love for gaming started out with PnP (D&D red box) and board games (Avalon Hill Starship troopers) then transitioned to computer games Apple IIe and Atari 800. Gaming, gaming and more gaming all the way to present day. Many good memories!
Now it appears things are going full circle - a few years back I started collecting table games again, started with the casual collecting of D&D and other PnP games (hard back books are easy to store) then expanded to board games again starting with Descent. - Uh oh shelf space problems now : )
I remember seeing the huge Descent box on the self and the epic scene with the promise of high adventure. Twilight Empirium caught my eye first but I figured how many I could pull people into a long evening of that Scifi but a classic dungeon crawl? No problem! I only needed to mention that I would provide the drinks and away we went.
So yes good games matter and need TLC! I am quite happy that Descent is getting some final polish before we move on to new and great adventures.
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Martin Plourde
Canada
Sherbrooke
Quebec
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Syncronis09 wrote: I am glad to hear they are going to do a final complete FAQ for the Descent series. Its a good way to send off a seasoned board game in style.
I remember seeing the huge Descent box on the self and the epic scene with the promise of high adventure. Twilight Empirium caught my eye first but I figured how many I could pull people into a long evening of that Scifi but a classic dungeon crawl? No problem! I only needed to mention that I would provide the drinks and away we went.
So yes good games matter and need TLC! I am quite happy that Descent is getting some final polish before we move on to new and great adventures.
Exactly my thought, and how I got started with the game in 2008! 2008 and 2009 I would have my friends come and play a game almost every saturday, we had a really good time. Then we played a bit of Starcraft, and they all moved to different cities (after graduating). I painted all my minis, I wish I could still play 1st ed as much as I was back in those years. Maybe 2nd ed will attract some of my current gaming partners, and I might crawl that big box back on the table once in a while.
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I'm really surprised. Descent is probably the hardest game they have ever had to deal with when it comes to FAQs.
Kevin is probably going to have to put all his other projects on the back-burner to complete this Behemoth document! The Sea of Blood section will likely give him blood-squid nightmares for an eternity!!!
Hopefully they allow him to drink on the job to finish this project!
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