sabato 16 gennaio 2016

New monsters: Skaven Clanrat

I will start introducing some new monsters realized for Descent, adapted from the Warhammer fantasy universe. This is the turn of the Skaven, the vicious rat-men, with their basic form: the Clan Rats.

Clanrats are the common warriors of the Skaven clans, forming the bulk of any Skaven army. Mainly due to cowardice and lack of discipline, lone Clanrats are not formidable opponents except when they are attacking a weakened or crippled enemy, preferably from the shadows. Banded together in large numbers, however, they are ferocious warriors, attacking without hesitation even against obviously superior enemies.

The Clanrats do their part to ensure the Skaven hierarchy is maintained, keeping down the class below them (namely the Skavenslaves), while profusely humbling themselves before those of the ranks above them.

 

Note that for now I will start releasing just Act I version monsters, assuming that the Act II ones just add +2 to Health and +1 to Speed. Aaand the italian version :)


1 commento:

  1. Hi Stefano! First of all: great idea and great theme! But...

    ... Gosh! 7 speed in act I is already a huge value! Watch out because it would quickly screw te balance in a large number of quests, especially from the Shadow Rune campaign.
    So far, the fastest figure in the game is the master Razorwing with a 6, and he flies... :)
    Going up to 8 in act II is overkill, in my opinion; but I'd personally not even use any value over 5.

    Also, why has the master Skaven Clanrat an attack pool of 2 blue dice? Is it an error? I know, technically, it's possible to have more than 1 attack die, but is there any reason you chose that combination? A blue+yellow would yield roughly the same results, and being a melee monster he wouldn't need that boost in range. Also, what happens if he rolls only one X? And remember that the base game only has 1 blue die.

    Eventually, I'd change the English text to be more in line with the usual spelling. Something like: "After an attack with this monster is resolved, this monster may move into an adjacent empty space."

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