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You could use it to target yourself, as you're always within 3 inches of your self. But looking at his actions: Twist / Obey - both are attack actions and you cannot target yourself with an attack action (as its still yan lo taking the attack). Final WIshes - does not target anyone so can't be taken Choose a path - free action so can't be taken. So while technically you could target yourself, he doesn't currently have any actions that would allow for him to target himself due to other restrictions.

My read is feed on fear is 'after failing a WP duel' but vengeance is 'after resolving an action' so you would heal first and then take damage as failing a WP duel happens when the conflict is resolved, before damage / triggers / etc hit. Timing is a bit strange as if feed on fear was more of a 'resolving an action' it wouldnt necessarily proc on stuff like terrifying / wp shockwaves / etc (I'm sure the devs could of worked around it, but could be a reason why the heal kind of hits mid action.

Harrison and the Watchmen are brand new last book, so they have blurbs in Madness of Malifaux, but I don't think they show up in the lore for that book (haven't finished reading it yet).

There was a post in the discord that basically said that historically the app is updated a month or so after physical release. So I'd expect to see cards early Jan at the latest.

Yeah, they've done these offers for the last few books. It's less 'heres a pdf while you wait' and more 'if you want a version to carry around on your phone you don't have to double buy it'. I actually really think it's cool that wyrd does this promo as I do enjoy having a book to look things up on my phone / computer. It's less needed with the app but is still very helpful if I want to quickly reference something, so I would of double bought the book without the promo.

I am wondering if I should take traps with me or summon them with the pathfinder during the game. That will take some tweaking. I tend to see 1-2 traps in games I've played into, they're a great 'odd number of stones' addition to a crew and that summon can sometimes be hard to get off.

Not the biggest basse player myself, but thinking of his models I'd prolly say you can't go wrong with: Sandworm Rough Riders Pathfinders and traps Still prolly good but I'm not quite as knowledgable Austringers (I know some people swear by em) Pearle (i know people really like her in parker, so assume shes solid in basse too, just havent seen as many reactions there). Which luckily sandworm / pathfinders are in solo boxes so thats an easy grab. Rough riders are a bit harder as they're in with McCabe models (the cryptologists) so that feels a bit more expensive for what you get. Versatiles is a bit different, and I'd see what you like / need before really digging in there deep. I think vernon and welles / the emissary boxes / botanists / the starter box are all great for when you need what they bring, but a lot depends on what you're looking for.

The 2nd, when wyrd wants to identify multiple suits they tend to put the suit symbol multiple times or do a 'for each' kind of language. Ex: Ivan's summon needing 2 crows, or yan lo's lingering voice giving +mask +crow.

Stories can't use the configuration, her stories of the red library just allows her the chance to get 3 tomes into the config in thunders as there's no way to get 3 witness activations in thunders (with what we've seen at least). Its kind of a bespoke repository action that helps her when shes out of arcanists. Dabblers don't have something similar when they're in Bayou, but since they can theoretically put 2 cards a round into the config (a failure + repository) and are rare 3 they don't quite need an ability like this as much there.

I have creative cloud for adobe so there's an easy way to just select all + merge the files. Not sure if they let you do it easily without the paid for adobe, so your best bet would prolly be freeware pdf software, which is always a bit of a crap shoot but there should be something that lets you drag + drop a lot of files together for printing.

This feels a mite self defeating. When I get a demo for anything, I don't expect the person teaching me to be a grizzled veteran of the game system. I'm mostly just looking for excitement / enjoyment of the game. I've definitely done demos (looking at you ToS) where I had to preface it with 'Ok, while I love this game, it's been a bit since I've played consistently, so I may have to hit the book for clarification/we may get some rules a bit wrong'. If you choose the crews so they don't hit a lot of odd edge case rules + focus on the strengths of the system (strats / schemes / cards / etc) the people you demo with should get a good idea of whether they'd be interested or not. Are there things that are a bit tough for new players to understand? Course. Luckily theres groups (here / the official discord / local discords / etc) where players are more than happy to explain things / help new players out... which I consider a good selling point. As having a question with a new system is expected, getting a response to your question in minutes is a major plus on the side of the community here.

IDK bout general releases around that time, but gencon in person had copies (wanna say 100+) and sold out early Sat of the Con. It definitely feels like its going out as fast as its coming in.

Yep, hence a 'classic' format (could do something like 'currently everything up to explorers book + all erratas) would be relatively simple for people to understand by just having it be by book. But if you want to do it, go forth and do it (prolly just odd tone over text but feels more 'heres a proposal what do you think' rather than 'fyi im going to run with this and see how it is!' ha.... tho i guess the official announcement gives you a date to start reps from if you want to really sell the concept for a official GG add). I do think my biggest issue with this format (provided it doesnt sweep the nation) is that I'm sure there'll be new boogiemen to dominate the meta... which may not as bad as damian / nexkids (as if they were really egregious wyrd would of tapped em down). Unless the format is 'different enough' that people don't try and powergame it with the strongest in their faction (which I know I see more when the format changes radically, there's a lot more 'let me try out X for a bit and see how he does!' than 'oh wait, i remember x was a monster, back to him i guess!') FYI tho, I'd wordsmith the name a bit, as I don't like the way 'balanced' reads, as it makes me think it should be the dominant format, or that the core is a 'in testing/ in dev' ruleset. Something like 'Classic' or 'Errata Eligible' or 'Book (X)' would help make it feel like something I could see in the official packet without confusing people.

Yep. I know I play a order of magnitude more than people in my meta, and theres people who outstrip me by 2x at least, so there's definitely a lot there. Which is why I'm surprised 'fan variants / variants in general' haven't become more prevalent in this game. As I know once I hit that 'when is gg3 coming out stage' earlier this year I was chomping at anything that would make things feel different, hence dipping into GG All pretty heavily once it came out (and just other GGs before that). Similarly its why even now we're (locally) trying different variant rules for events, had a bans event when GG3 dropped, and are finishing a 'All in key with max 1 versatile' league and have a upcoming tourney at the end of Oct with the same rule set. It requires being able to handle a bit of 'i think you should do this instead' pressure from TO's from other metas, but people will always have a gripe or 2, so no biggie. And (lets be honest) 'classic' servers from MMO's have been around for ages, the concept of 'classic' malifaux as a format isn't far fetched (unless it means m2e or m1e, in that case, go to heck). I do think timing for some things could be a bit of a headache as wyrd doesnt really release things in a set fashion, so remembering when erratas / new books dropped / what was 'valid' for each of those would be a bit hard, as would things that break the mold (like is mcmourning2 legal as he jumped the queue and was errated without the usual year+ wait?) same thing are erratas also subject to a cool down? (like is raspy1/wong1 playable in that format?) Obviously thats stuff you can work out when you build your rules doc tho.

I think it could be interesting to try as a format for an event or more, as I feel like variating the tournament rules is a good way to keep things from feeling stale / seeing different things on the table. That said, if the goal is to switch a major tourney circuit / meta to this format instead of the base format it could be bad for the game. If people are told 'yeah you can buy (x shiny new thing), but none of the tournaments around here will let you play it for a year+' why would I bother buying new product? Same if large tournaments ban whole swaths of models, then IDK how Wyrd will get the info about stuff that needs to be touched for good / ill (as the current errata cycle seems to be built around giving enough time for kneejerk responses to calm a bit). Additionally, not using the new stuff for a period would effectively take you out of the review equation. (like you said above 'I'm not quite sure I'd ban damian right now, as I want more time to build strategies against him'). I know it's not the same (as banning dual masters doesnt stop the keywords from getting reps) but it kind of reminds me of people who are anti-dual masters being able to point out new combos that aren't fun, and I wonder 'is this a testing/wyrd issue, or a '1/2 the community doesnt use em, so changing the combos may be low priority / low visibility thing for the devs'. That said, if something like this would happen, I think it should be universal rather than certain models/keys being banned v others. As I've listened in to chatter about Damian and when I asked how playing into him was different than other masters that feel over-curved (nexus2 for instance) the response I heard was 'oh but people like the challenge of trying to break that / find solutions for it' which feels kind of strange to me. So if the controlling group says that witness is banned but not returned (for instance, haven't looked into em closely, just saw some chatter that said they look 'fine'), that gives a faction 1 less keyword to play than others, which doesnt seem right. That said, I do wholeheartedly agree that playing in a meta where people 'abuse' the OP stuff every release isn't fun. And it isn't fun to constantly play into the same 2-3 masters each time you go to a tournament / event. So something that could help with that would be nice (whether the event gives people breathers with format changes now / then or if Wyrd releases some emergency changes to certain models).