As an archivist, he was in possession of some valuable information such as the names of church members and the locations of the hidden treasures that the church owned. Lawrence was the librarian and archivist of the early Christian Church. Saint Lawrence was one of the seven early Christian deacons of the city of Rome, lead by Pope St Sixtus II, who were martyred during the persecution of the Christians that took place on the orders of Emperor Valerian in 258 AD. As it was, it dealt two wounds to the mage, and then a zealot-powered wolf jumped him for 15 damage, ending our quest.The Martyrdom of St Lawrence by Tintoretto If we'd double teamed it with hammers, we probably could have killed it quickly and saved a lot of pain. No, it was firmly opposed to us, and beat on our mage a lot. From the description, I thought maybe it would sometimes attack other monsters, just not able to tell friend from foe. I guess one problem is we didn't focus on the golem, the toughest monster on the board. Then the ember underlays caused scarring for moving through them. Monsters were a problem, and grabbing the books and scholars meant building up a lot of fatigue fast. The encounter seemed particularly brutal, compared to my experience with Chance's quest, and the starter.

I suppose you could set this up without an app, but the number of pages to cover the shrinking rooms would be immense. Figures that weren't safe were dropped onto the ember underlays below. But, at various points the rooms would burn up- we'd replace the tile with a smaller tile. Okay, so far you could do this with another game, reach the sight markers, add on more room tiles and monsters. Smoke obscured things until we reached the sight markers. We had to rescue scholars and books from a burning building. It's also tracking the treasure we find, which is very handy with the many resources we're finding.Īfter we finished up (about 2hours and 24 minutes, though some of that was double checking rules to make sure we were handling things like tests correctly) we then met up with Ronan the Wild, who I recognized as one of the heroes out of original Descent, so that was neat (and Frostgate I recalled was on the map in the original Road to Legend). Along the way, effects are happening which the app is covering. And fight a boss, hopefully killing her before reinforcements arrive (and looting a chest before we kill her because I figured, like Gloomhaven, the scenario would end with her defeat). Need to search around for some keys, and once we get through this gate, that's the end? Ah, another fight, save the prisoners and we're done. I thought, here are some bad guys sneaking up on our camp, we'll kill them to see how combat works, and that will be it. We explore a tower, find a bookshelf, and the mage calls dibs on checking it out first. We encounter a well, and we can all drink from it, but also, each character has a unique interaction. Oh, the dragon hybrid inflicts a condition that reduces the enemy's damage by 20%, and the app is handling the math? That's cool. Oh, monsters are picking their targets? Although still targeting the closest if they can't reach their target, not too far from Gloomhaven. Cool, a little more organic than checking a quest book. So we start out, our elf is on watch, he gets to investigate and we're prompted to fill in the map. It makes parts of the game more efficient. It's a useful tool, not necessary, but gives an easy place to track initiatives, damage, conditions, it draws monster action and attack cards so I'm not having to shuffle those decks. I've played a lot of Gloomhaven, using the Gloomhaven Helper app. I was pretty sure I was going to enjoy it, but my expectations. Just one scenario, my friend and I each playing two characters.

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