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9th Age Sneak Peak #6 - ask us anything

I assumed it was a new keyword.
 
I like your idea @skink chief. It would be very fun but because of randomness of attacks on every monster it would not be good in competitive part of the game and could make it too complicated with so many rules
 
I agree. Nice idea for friendly games! Makes it more realistic.
 
Sneak Peak #4

Magic items are always an important part of the armies identity, and no change with our dear reptilian creatures.
So many different comments were made on which magic item was necessary for the uniqueness to stay intact. We hope that you feel like we mannish this by these items presented here, we at least feels that they are a well document and fairly interesting bunch to have in the mix.
Naturally not everything could be accept by the Rules Team and rightly so, but we got mainly what we bargained for.

With out further a due:


Magic items

Light-sabre:
Magic Weapon. Type: Hand Weapon. Strength +1, Armour Piercing (1), Multiple Wounds (2)

Triceratops War-Spear:
Magic Weapon. Type: Lance. When using the weapon, the wearer has Impact Hits (2D3), which are resolved at Strength 6. Cannot be taken by flying models.

Tyrannosaurus Hunting Bow:
Magic Weapon. Type: Short Bow. Range 18". The Tyrannosaurus Hunting Bow can be shot using the rules for Bolt Thrower Artillery Weapons: Strength 6, Armour Piercing (6), Multiple Wounds (D3).

Triceratops Helm
Magic Armour. Type: none (6+ armour save). Grants wearer +1 Toughness and Impact Hits (1).

Staff of Mending 20 pts
Enchanted Item. Bound Spell (Power level 3). The Staff of Mending contains the path of White Magic spell Apotheosis.

Flaming Aura of the Ancients
Talisman. Attacks against wearer's model suffer -1 to hit and wearer’s model has the Flameborn special rule.

Black Cube
Arcane Item. One use only. Instead of making a Dispel roll, you can use the scroll. The spell is automatically Dispelled. In addition you may choose to end all spell effects which Lasts one Turn or Remains in Play affecting a unit within 18”.

Ancient Plaque
Arcane item. Once per magic phase, the wearer may reroll a single power dice rolled after a casting roll. You cannot use this when casting with 1 dice or to re-roll natural rolls of ‘6’.

Esoteric Egg
Enchanted Item. Wearer has a Breath Weapon (strength D3+2, Magical Attacks), that can only be used in close combat.

Sun Tzu's Standard of Know thy Enemy:
Depending on your opponent, Bearer's unit benefits from the enemy's army specific special rule as well, see list below:

Dwarfs (DH,ID): Bearer's unit gains Relentless and Thunderous Charge
Men (Koc,EM): Bearer's unit gains Ward Save (6+) in close combat and Ward Save (5+) against artillery weapons
Elves (EoL,EoD,EoN): Bearer's unit gains Supernatural Reflexes
Chaos (DL,WoW): Pick one enemy unit with a Mark of the Dark Gods. Bearer's unit gains that Mark as well.
Undead (ED,VC): Bearer's unit gains Lethal Strike
Beasts(RE,RoU,BH,OT,GH): Bearer's unit gains Fear and Impact hits (1)


Bare in mind that certain magic items are still up for debate, but we reckon this will be fairly close to the final outcome ;)

Credit to Sauric Ace for first bringing the Sneak Peak at T9A :)
 
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omg that standard... so cool and fluffy! Not traditional LM fluff, but definetly a great add!
Nice idea regarding the plaque and the sabre seems to be a solid choice (depends on the price obviously)
 
Unfortunately there won't be a sneak peak 5. The book only needed a few minor things to be fixed, but the Rules Team decided to drop a bomb last night, forcing different major changes upon the Committee. It's odd considering how all of these things had previously been approved by two of the RT members and it's a democratic system. So there's no reason for me to bring sneak peaks if things risk to be completely changed by the time of the release.

It's unfortunate because 2 of the Committee members don't have a lot of time for the upcoming week and the deadline is before the end of this month (saturday next week).

The Committee have done the best they could and throughout the process been quite consistant in having everything approved by members of the RT. So regardless of the end result remember that once the book is released it's just a beta. Things are subject to change, some likely more than others. So don't expect the book to be a completely finished product with no issues. Take it as it is - a beta and have fun with it.

I'll be creating feedback threads once the book goes live :)

So for the final time I have to ask you to be patient a little more. The book will be released soon, but as it is now you shouldn't expect it to release before time.
 
Pinktaco said:
The book only needed a few minor things to be fixed, but the Rules Team decided to drop a bomb last night, forcing different major changes upon the Committee. It's odd considering how all of these things had previously been approved by two of the RT members and it's a democratic system.
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Sounds like we might be dealing with someone that "need" to have something to say in every matter. Or as Shrek as nicely put it in one of the movies, "you would think he is compensating for something" :angelic:
 
Pinktaco said:
The Committee have done the best they could and throughout the process been quite consistant in having everything approved by members of the RT. So regardless of the end result remember that once the book is released it's just a beta. Things are subject to change, some likely more than others. So don't expect the book to be a completely finished product with no issues.
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That's disappointing... I was hoping for something more complete and polished. :( All of your hard work and updates have been greatly appreciated though!
 
It was never going to be a 100% completely finished product since it's a beta, but admittedly the Rules Team are basically forcing design choice upon the committee this late in the process and it's hard not to imagine it having an impact on the overall finish of the product. But we'll see. The book should still be satisfactory :)
 
Mmh.. Minor sneak peak :

Something nostalgic that haven't been mentioned is returning. :)
 
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