jwconvery
Spellsword
So, I just finished my first season in Alliance. I had a great time playing in my home chapter and even got to travel a little. Now that the season is over, I've been talking with my new friends about this and that. It sounds like a lot of the things that happen in one chapter don't always work the same way in other chapters. Different interpretations of the rules by different owners, and sometimes just different views on the logistics of playing the game. Hopefully next year I am going to travel more so I am a little curious about how standard everything is.
Let me preference this entire post with the fact that I am not complaining about anything, just curious about what tricks different chapters use.
Body Tags: So how in the heat of battle are you supposed to collect all those !@#!@-ing little pieces of paper to show your current body. I understand you keep track and do the actual trading off after the fight/mod. But do people honestly walk around with a huge ring full of cure morts and lights that they've received to keep a running Body count? I've see some people just keep a note on their card for current body, others don't seem to be noting it in anyway I can tell. I had 1 body for 95% of the event, so it was easy for me. (Yay newbie scholar) But my wife is playing a fighter, and it seems pretty cumbersome when it doesn't need to be.
Protectives/healing given by NPCs: all they have is a monster card, so how am I supposed to take a tag from them? People call Magic Armor or whatnot that they get from their backpacks in battle all the time; without physically receiving the tag first. Why does it matter out of battle? I get that the idea is to prevent cheating, but with so many exceptions, it just seems to muddy the waters.
I saw a lot of higher level players make little tag sheets for their column/ items. IT seemed really helpful, everything in one place without having to sift through all your tags to remember if you've cast all four spell shields or just three. At the end of the fight, they'd take out a pen and mark off what they cast. No issues with tags ripping inside pouches or getting wet. It's was a lot easier just to pull out one sheet of paper and a pen, then go one by one through your ring. Less wasteful too.
Like I said before, I am not trying to call anyone out for cheating. I just hope to travel next season and I want to make sure I'm am picking up universally accepted 'tricks.' If a given chapter really uses the body tags as written in the rulebook how do players physically do it? Figuring out your body has to be the longest simple math problem in history. Do some chapters out their use these tag boards to replace tags altogether? or are they just a very helpful tool?
-Joe
Let me preference this entire post with the fact that I am not complaining about anything, just curious about what tricks different chapters use.
Body Tags: So how in the heat of battle are you supposed to collect all those !@#!@-ing little pieces of paper to show your current body. I understand you keep track and do the actual trading off after the fight/mod. But do people honestly walk around with a huge ring full of cure morts and lights that they've received to keep a running Body count? I've see some people just keep a note on their card for current body, others don't seem to be noting it in anyway I can tell. I had 1 body for 95% of the event, so it was easy for me. (Yay newbie scholar) But my wife is playing a fighter, and it seems pretty cumbersome when it doesn't need to be.
Protectives/healing given by NPCs: all they have is a monster card, so how am I supposed to take a tag from them? People call Magic Armor or whatnot that they get from their backpacks in battle all the time; without physically receiving the tag first. Why does it matter out of battle? I get that the idea is to prevent cheating, but with so many exceptions, it just seems to muddy the waters.
I saw a lot of higher level players make little tag sheets for their column/ items. IT seemed really helpful, everything in one place without having to sift through all your tags to remember if you've cast all four spell shields or just three. At the end of the fight, they'd take out a pen and mark off what they cast. No issues with tags ripping inside pouches or getting wet. It's was a lot easier just to pull out one sheet of paper and a pen, then go one by one through your ring. Less wasteful too.
Like I said before, I am not trying to call anyone out for cheating. I just hope to travel next season and I want to make sure I'm am picking up universally accepted 'tricks.' If a given chapter really uses the body tags as written in the rulebook how do players physically do it? Figuring out your body has to be the longest simple math problem in history. Do some chapters out their use these tag boards to replace tags altogether? or are they just a very helpful tool?
-Joe