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Can Descent: Journey in the Dark be played by non-English speakers?
There are two significant challenges to playing Descent in a language that you aren't fluent in.
Text ability on cards (characters, upgrades, monsters, overlord cards, condition cards, etc). Fantasy ...
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Dark Charm and Objective tokens
In short, NO.
My reasoning is based on the two pieces of information:
The Dark Charm card mentioned above has the following text (emphasis mine):
Play this card on a hero at the start of your ...
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Descent (Nerekhall expansion) bleeding mechanics
A bit of rephrasing may help clarify the intent of this condition:
(One Action): Discard this card or token. For any action, other than discarding this condition, you resolve, suffer 1 fatigue.
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How to mobilize Cardinal Koth?
Summary
Cardinal Koth can still take a move action while immobilized because the quest rule trumps the card effect of Immobilize
Explanation
If the master zombie can prevent the cardinal from ...
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Good handicaps for Descent
Descent is balanced towards the heroes, if certain conditions are met:
Played with 4 Heroes, regardless of actual player count
Descent scales terribly. The actions of all 4 heroes are necessary to ...
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Shadow of Nerehkal, Civil War, Encounter 2: How do the leaders work?
Summary
Leaders can only take 1 damage at a time and only from an attack (not from other effects).
When a leader is defeated, one of the two players wins the mission; exception: if the Overlord ...
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Another Scenario: Can monster be targeted?
TL;DR Yes
Please have a look at the below given sketch. The line through the upper right corner A = (1,2) of the ranged Hero and the bottom left corner B = (3,0) of the monster is described by the ...
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Scenario: Can monster be targeted?
TL;DR No
For reference, "Line of Sight" (pg 12) from the Rules of Play:
In order for a figure to have line of sight to a space, a player must be able
to trace an uninterrupted, straight line ...
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Can Descent: Journey in the Dark be played by non-English speakers?
Different parts of the game need different levels of English understanding
The significant core components of the game use icons or numbers for their operations, which should be fairly easy to ...
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Can Ronan of the Wild use Pico himself?
Yes, this does mean that Ronan cannot use Pico's ability himself.
How is this balanced? Pico's ability grants something that, while it sounds minor, is actually very significant: several free actions....
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How to tell from which expansion a card is?
I've not handled Descent cards myself, but in my experience most games with card-based expansions — Fantasy Flight games in particular — tend to have small icons on their cards which ...
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Poison Dart Timing
'Search' or 'Open door' action should be finished before 'Poison Dart' effects apply.
So, whenever the card was played, hero will receive his item, even if he/she knocked out because of OL card's ...
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Dark Charm and Objective tokens
I asked this question to the official developers.
No, the overlord cannot use Dark Charm to make your hero give the
token to Baron Zachareth in The Shadow Vault.
Thanks for playing, Kara ...
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Are the large box sets stand alone, or do they require Descent 2nd Edition base-set?
The base game is required as it provides certain "core components" which are used in every game.
The expansions only provide "additional" components, which complement or replace certain but not all ...
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Are encounters naturally weighted against players and how do we 'fix' it?
We haven't got to the 2nd act yet, but so far I feel the opposite. The game is weight heavily against the OL.
Heroes have more HP. Half of your heroes have more HP than even the red dragon
Heroes can ...
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