Changes in BOLD.
Due to several reasons, we have decided to start and end the token development process in July rather than September. This may or may not effect the pre-order delivery time, but we will still start the pre-order time on Nov. 1st as before.
This will be a "special" year for TD adventures as we will be starting a new story-arc, we are presenting three "special" modules, and the tokens will be centered around the three "special" modules that should be much fun to play. One will be in the Underthing (the underbelly of a wizard school) in the world of Pat Rothfuss. Another will be a classic haunted house adventure where players must banish a baneful presence, while the last one will task the group with surviving the legendary Tomb of Terrors.
UR "Arcane" Set Bonus - Wearing all three of these items will gain a character +1 healing from any healing Potion or Scroll received
UR "Lucky" Set Bonus - Wearing any two of these items will gain a character +5 hit points
New Multi-Year Token Set - Over the next four years we will release four Shirts that will give bonus/penalties toward the STR, DEX, CON stats and the final year will have a “Focus” power (+2 to healing, damage spells & polymorph damage) . At the end of the four years, all four can be combined so they make one Shirt that gives +2 to all those 3 stats – and have the Focus power.
The 4-Year Shirt will not be an Eldritch item. We are capping the Eldritch set at five. It is time to forge a new line of multi-year tokens that hopefully will use hidden RFID chips to make some cool effects for the players. Any "set" benefits won't be manifest for many years (since it takes two of these multi-year tokens), but I would not rule out giving the first "Arcanum" multi-year token (light purple token that's coming in four years) a cool little RFID chip enabled ability. I have so many cool ideas.
I should have noted that the ranks of the Treasure Token collectors have swelled considerable in the past few years. While it is vital to always "take care" of the wants/needs of veteran collectors, we need to keep the new players in our thoughts. Some tokens might be kind of lame for veterans, but newer players might really like something like a set of new Armor tokens. It is always a tough thing to balance all the various collector groups, so I could be wrong on some of the mix this year. Let me know if you think I did.
New Powers Mentioned on Transmuted Tokens
Fury – One per game a Barbarian (whether in “Rage” or not) can announce that she is going to “Fury” before she makes her slide. If she hits, the damage done with that one slide will be treated as if it landed in the “20” area on the combat board.
Animal Friend – This power allows the Ranger to use a Potion of Polymorph to summon forth a spiritual animal friend for one room. It can't be dispelled or damaged. When attacking with a 2H Bow, the Ranger can put any polymorph token into the second slider and slide both as a Ranger normally would during combat. The damage done by the spiritual animal friend is only the amount shown on the token...and not modified by anything. The token is also consumed at the end of combat like a potion normally would be at that time.
UPDATE: The Ranger gains no special bonuses on the polymorph token description. They only get the extra damage from the polymorph token. Also, the Ranger's Ranged "to hit" bonus is used to determine if the spirit animal hits or not.
Token Conjurer
Geek Dreamweaver
Nerdomancer
Author of the never-to-be-released "The Secret of Trees"
