2 questions about HP2-03 Ancient Battles Unfinished scene 3?

And welcome to a Battle Interactive.

These are meant to be tougher than normal battles and the threat of death is meant to be there. However, as far as I know, no one died at the BI and I believe, no one did at your either. So at the end of the day, the encounters did what they were suppose to do: create a tough challenge for your Heroes.

Take heart however, this was the last BI released for home play.

Yep. In general, I like BIs (this is my 3rd played (if you count Arcaniscon this year as a BI) and 1 GMd). Except for this year’s Arcaniscon, it seems that there is always 1 scene I really dislike (archer “swarm” on bridges at Origins last year and this one (so far) in HP2-03).

I think my huge complaint with this one is it is completely irrelevant what your stats are. Defenses don’t matter and AR is ignored. Basically the entire scene comes down to do you have enough healing to keep the group up long enough. Killing them isn’t even that relevant. Also, if you don’t have a blunt weapon or aoe attack spells, you effectively can’t do any damage to them anyway.

I still have mixed feelings about no more home play BIs.

Hello Cody,

In other games making a focused character is almost essential, but in Arcanis generalists are key I have found.

That was my design philosophy from the beginning. When we first started on this road, I told Peter and the rest of the team that I wanted every single Hero to be able to stand on their own two feet. In fact, I think my exact words were, “Each party member should be able to be the main character in a story”. meaning that you could pluck any one Hero out of a party and they would be competent enough to not only survive, but to rise above any challenge the story might provide.

So yes – specialization is not rewarded for a reason. There are plenty of games where hyper-specialization is necessary for a positive conclusion, but I wanted players to be able to create three dimensional Heroes.

So there you have it.

As you say, “Welcome to Arcanis!”