by Safid
My play group is on it's second campaign (our first one was abandoned after the Interlude, with the OL having won every encounter except First Blood and with the heroes being poorly built and ill-equipped).After the experience with our first campaign, everyone has tried to play smarter. One player built a super-exploring Thief, another player has a maxed out ranged death-dealing Wizard. I decided to play the Disciple to provide support. I read the skill cards and couldn't believe how good Radiant Light was, so I saved up to buy it immediately. Now after a few encounters worth of experience, I'm wondering if it's actually TOO good.
For reference, Radiant Light allows the Disciple, as an action, to spend 3 fatigue and then roll a red die (1d3). Monsters in LOS suffer the result as wounds (no armor roll, doesn't trigger any "when attacked" powers because it is not an attack) while heroes in LOS (including the Disciple) heal that result. Given how *ahem* generous the LOS rules are, so that anything not screened by something on a straight line from the Disciple or completely around a corner gets hit, in practice this skill usually affects the entire party and virtually all monsters close enough to attack. It also allows the Disciple to do things that the game designer probably didn't intend, like killing monsters across the map.
The Overlord has tried switching from swarms of minions to big beefy elite monsters and it mitigates the effect of the skill somewhat, but even catching 2 big elites in the blast while healing the entire party for 1d3 the skill is still pretty much the best use of an action and 3 fatigue.
And that's the problem. Now that I have it, I can't see myself doing ANYTHING else. Fatigue-move into a good angle, Blinding Light, Rest. It makes the game boring for me because my decision matrix shrinks to nothing more than getting LOS on the most targets possible (which isn't very hard because the LOS rules are so generous).
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'm kind of bored of the character, and the Overlord is irritated because he's pretty much forced into not using minion swarms. Is this skill just bad for the game?