by kenchaney
Here are some more questions for the experts ...
There are spoilers so unless you have your own questions about Box 5 content - turn back now! (If you are in my group, you probably don't want to read this just now ... there are complications. If you are in any group and don't feel "stuck" you probably don't want to read this either.)
Ok, simple things first:
[o]1. Once you "have a friendly discussion" with an Advisor (and for some reason put an Enmity sticker on them!) they nominally cost an extra 1 gold for your Province to hire them.
If you hire them with Reputation, do you still pay an extra gold? I ask because there is an earlier Booke entry that puts a sticker on an advisor adding 2 gold to that advisor's cost for the Province that put it there. It has been clarified that the added cost for that case is ignored if hiring that advisor with Reputation, so I wonder how people are playing the Inquisition added cost.
2. The Event "Pirate King Demands Respect" at the end of the round performs a 9 strength Raid on the Province with the most Glory. If 0 or 1 successes are rolled, the card is destroyed.
If Ker has been conquered, most of the Pirate King cards say to destroy them at the end of the round, but not this one. This inconsistency seems unthematic.
So, is it an oversight and the card should be destroyed, or deliberate and essential for game balance? (I don't actually believe it is terribly balancing, really.)
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Ok, now for the big ask:
[o]I'm in a strange situation. I learned something that I'm not sure I'm supposed to know yet ... and have kept it to myself without acting on it so far.
Last SPOILER WARNING
We have learned that the Leader of each Guild gives an additional Glory on interrogation, and have discovered two of the presumably four Leaders by that revelation. One of them was the very first card we (I) shined the light on. After finding the number on the front of the card, I noticed the chart on the back of the card, but suspected that wasn't supposed to happen yet and went on without acting on it or mentioning it. It looks like it is intended to give 5 successes when attempting to discover the last island, used as a Chart and presumably consumed when used that way, suggesting that a player needs the Temple (+9 Explore) and most/all of those advisors to have a very good chance to discover the 30 Dangerous island, but that feels speculative/unclear to me. Should I have claimed the Milestone when I noticed the Chart? I don't remember being told we could shine the light on the backs of the cards, so am/was reluctant.
If not, we now seem to be stuck without any knowledge of how to meet any milestone available. (From memory, they are Find a Wave Chart, and discover the secrets of the statues, maybe something else we don't know how to do.)
We do have a way forward, but it basically involves collusion. We know that some artifacts (Tablets?) have Symbol = Numeral hidden on them. I think we have 4 of those collectively, but they are distributed 2/1/1/0 among four players, so nobody can, by themselves, go to the hidden numbers on the Temple Map. We're probably supposed to fight to get the information distributed, but are not really inclined much that way. We'll work out or own solution - share voluntarily or break down and fight, but I thought I should check if we missed something.[/o]
Thanks for your kind answers, and happy gaming,
Ken
