TOPIC: Amorgen's Character Designer (Excel Spreadsheet)

I also found the Necklace of Shadows doesn't affect the AC. It's looking for a condition that we're in the Underdark. Maybe it should be switched on until after GenCon, or have a flag somewhere? Not sure what the best thing would be, but I was relying on the sheet to track it and almost missed that it wasn't.

Lode

And found the 2013 Silver Halberd is missing an entry completely.

Lode

Lodestone wrote: I also found the Necklace of Shadows doesn't affect the AC. It's looking for a condition that we're in the Underdark. Maybe it should be switched on until after GenCon, or have a flag somewhere? Not sure what the best thing would be, but I was relying on the sheet to track it and almost missed that it wasn't.

Lode

Do we know for certain that the entirety of both dungeons will be classified as "Underdark"? In general, conditional items have not been figured into the party card, but sometimes noted. Since I have not seen this year's party card, I'm not sure how they are handling the Necklace of Shadows. If it is going to be the entire time, I can adjust accordingly.

That's why I wasn't sure what to do with it, just that it's easy to miss. Maybe '+2 AC in Underdark' in the Other box? Hopefully a coach or DM can chime in where it would be helpful to see it.

Lode

Amorgen Burke wrote: Do you use the Reusable Projectiles slot?
If so, in what way?

no & yes

Amorgen Burke wrote: Do we know for certain that the entirety of both dungeons will be classified as "Underdark"?

I know I don't know.
So far the only significant change to the 2015 party card is a revamping of the Exit Room columns. I was led to believe this revision was to be used at WYC. Was it?

My guess--this is total speculation, I know diddly-squat about the modules--is that based this on the underground and outdoor precedents from the last two years, at least one adventure will be entirely in the Underdark. So if it's not too much trouble to implement, perhaps it would be handy to include on the spreadsheet.

Druegar wrote:

Amorgen Burke wrote: Do we know for certain that the entirety of both dungeons will be classified as "Underdark"?

I know I don't know.
So far the only significant change to the 2015 party card is a revamping of the Exit Room columns. I was led to believe this revision was to be used at WYC. Was it?

Yes, there was a single column for bonus treasure count (I don't recall the exact wording, perhaps someone else does).

Amorgen, I suggest that you also add tracking of the Medallion of Nobility since (as far as I know) it is still what is being used to track the bonus treasure for player level.

Oh, and I'll add my vote to asking for a few additional Special slots. I had to leave a couple tokens off my Cleric build at WYC (and tracking the Medallion of Nobility would eat up one more)

Are the coaches now being expected to compute the bonus treasure count? 24 minutes is often a stretch today for some parties. Are we trying to create a need for 36 minutes of coaching?

It does appear that the coaches will have to calculate treasure count.

From what Stu said, only a very few actually wrote in the number of "bonus pulls" for each person. So we had a list of numbers down the party card for number of bonus chips over the three treasure stamps. I think that might be the go forward strategy to keep the exit rooms very smooth.

I can understand that having the treasure count ahead of time will help keep the exit room smoother, but it adds yet an additional thing to the coaching area which varies in smoothness by the readiness and timeliness of the players. A bad experience at the start can set the tone for the entire adventure. The exit room last year seemed to work quite well, at least for each of my runs.

The bookends are both very important. Starting or ending on a bad note will affect the overall experience. I thought the way we were handling the treasure enhancers made sense as is since the coach could quickly indicate what tokens were present at the start of the adventure and then the total payout could be determined once the number of treasure stamps was known. IMHO.

I have never used the reusable projectile slot.

Also, for future condensing of specials, you might want to list the teeth of cavadar as; 1 tooth, 2 teeth, etc. Instead of having each tooth listed individually. That way, in another 5 years, we can select a single item '6 teeth' rather than use up 6 of the 10 special slots for all our teeth.

Amorgen Burke wrote: I thought the way we were handling the treasure enhancers made sense as is since the coach could quickly indicate what tokens were present at the start of the adventure and then the total payout could be determined once the number of treasure stamps was known. IMHO.

I don't disagree, however last year we had three treasure-enhancers, and now we have six. Is there enough room on the party sheet to mark them down individually? I assume that is why they went to a number system.