Epic Thunderstone Variants | Thunderstone

Chris Copac

(copax)

United States
Hudson
OH

Very cool. Thanks for putting this together.

Posted Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:29 pm
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Mark Roberts

(Markybooo)

United States
Sunnyvale
California

Thanks for doing this Yoki.
You should put your name on the PDF and give it a version number.
Also, thanks for mentioning me as an "influence". modest

-Mark

Posted Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:44 am
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Yoki Erdtman

(Yokiboy)

Sweden
Södertälje

Handsome devil huh?

Thanks for the compliments Chris and Mark, I appreciate it.

Posted Thu Oct 6, 2011 7:43 am
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Skylar

(Skylar114)

United States
Tempe
Arizona

Nicely compiled, and thanks for the mention as an influence! Very cool.

Posted Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:13 am
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Mark Roberts

(Markybooo)

United States
Sunnyvale
California

I like Stephen Schaefer’s and Rickard Eriksson’s Modified Game Setup.
I makes sense to adjust the amount of cards per village stack.

I need to buy some little colored dots to mark the cards for easier post-game sorting.

I have also realized only two cards of a given type are needed if you own all of the expansions.

Yoki, I like all of your mods with a few exceptions:

- 3 spell stacks, the 3rd one being just offensive spells (fireball, ice bolt, etc.,) anything that has a Magic Attack.
- 3 weapon stacks, the 3rd being Magic Attack weapons
I do like your idea of mixing magic items with magic weapons though.

I hoping these changes will get my group to play wizards more.

-Mark

Posted Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:24 am
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Rick Teverbaugh

(rickert)

United States
Anderson
Indiana

I didn't see this in the rules. Do you use all copies of each village card in creating your stacks?

Posted Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:12 pm
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Yoki Erdtman

(Yokiboy)

Sweden
Södertälje

Handsome devil huh?

rickert wrote:

I didn't see this in the rules. Do you use all copies of each village card in creating your stacks?

I do, but Richard Lanius does not. I think he's currently just using two of each card.

Posted Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:46 pm
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Chris Woodside

(Citanes)

United States

California

Thank you Yoki for your contributions to Epic Thunderstone. I whole heartedly agree with your adding Recuperation to the Rest turn option. Getting XP is more important when level two and three heros can't be bought. We did something similar except it was a separate turn option called "Training".

One thing we do that alleviates some of Tom's reasoning for creating a leveled dungeon is to draft our staring cards rather than using the starting twelve cards (which are generally pretty bad). We each start with 60 gold (the average card costs about 5 gold and we wanted to start with about 12 cards). Then we take turns buying from the village. All rules about removing the top card of village stacks still apply. For theme's sake we reason that the king or local nobles have put us in charge of assembling a party that can stop the monsters threatening the village.

This variation has a few pros and cons:
-CON: Cards that mention Militia are generally obsolete (some cards could still work if you treat the word "militia" as "hero"). Thornwood Siege really takes a hit with its emphasis on making militia matter.
-PRO: There are new layers of strategy in that drafters must decide how much brute force, light, food, gold value, etc. should go into their starting deck.
-PRO: You can begin creating your deck's engine imediately.
-PRO: Difficult monsters are more managable... even early on. A leveled dungeon isn't needed.
-PRO: Drafting is fun!

What do you think?