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SparkyTheHappyGiraffe22 days ago

Well done!  I know the Hero is supposed to be the VIP, but I just want to read that book!  It sounds like a really thematic way to tell the story (pun intended) of this faction in the Woodland.  Plus, your art is adorable!

Just a couple questions about how the book works:

1.  When I take a feat action, the bottom of the card says to turn the page.  This usually reveals another feat card, which I can then use as another action, correct?  So, assuming you had the perfect storybook, you could do up to 12 actions in one turn (3 from the faction board, and 9 from Feats)?  Probably not likely to happen, but theoretically possible?

2.  The first step of Evening talks about the Denouement being face down, which triggers  a penalty of renown/points.  However, the Feat cards always give an option to flip the whole Tome, which would mean that the Denouement is face up.  Is there ever a reason you wouldn't want to "finish the book"?  At some point, I would imagine you see that your Hero isn't going to be able to do many more actions and you would choose to "skip to the end" instead of turning the page?  

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RuneLords22 days ago (1 edit)

Thanks for the feedback ! Both of your questions can be answered by knowing that you can only flip the next card or the Tome when you ACHIEVE a feat, not when you take the feat action. I should find a way to make it visually clearer I think. 

The Tome is meant to be a Push your luck mechanism. When you achieve a feat, you may want to flip the next card to have a new action and more chances to place renown, or you may choose to play it safe and flip the whole Tome to be sure to score points in Evening and not remove half of your renown.

In practice it is really complicated to get all 9 feat actions, because to achieve the feat it usually requires more than the action given by the feat. Also you need to have 8 renown on the map already in order to set-up a Tome with 9 feat cards, that would be quite difficult.

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SparkyTheHappyGiraffe21 days ago

Ah, that makes more sense!  I was just misreading the cards.  I should've been paying more attention to the bullet points to denote the actions.  Maybe removing the line break before the "Then" statement would make the Achieve action read as one block of text instead of two?  Otherwise, this seems like the kind of clarification that could be written in the Law of Root rather than on the cards themselves.

I also read past the step that says "Repeat [placing a feat on the Tome] once per Renown on the map".  The growing (or shrinking) book should make the Push-Your-Luck mechanism much more dynamic.  Would love to see this in action!

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