500pt Adventuring Party

RULES:�Standard Warband Building rules apply with the following additions:

You must have 4 adventuring party characters.�One Cleric, One Fighter, One Mage, and one Rouge.

Fighter also includes:  Monk, Ranger, Paladin, and Barbarian

Cleric also includes Druid.

Mage also includes Artificer, Sorcerer, and Psionics.�

Rouge also includes Bard and Assassin.

To qualify for a certain class, look on the back of the card.�At the top, it shows what D&D classes the character has.�A character qualifies for the class if�he has the most levels in that class, or if the second class he has is more than 1/2 the highest class level..

For example:�Artimis Enteri:�The back of his card shows rog4/rgr1/ftr12/asn1

His obvious class is FIGHTER, even though he has rouge like abilities.�NOW, if Artimis had rogue 8, and fighter 12, then He could be either.�

Another example:�George the thief:�The back of his card reads:�rog1/ftr4/mage7

He may be called a thief, but he cannot take the rouge slot in the class.�He can either be the Mage, OR because his second class is more than half his 'main' class , he can choose THAT class to be if he wants to.�So, George here can be either the MAGE OR FIGHTER.�He cannot fill two slots.

You must have 4 characters filling the 4 slots.�If a piece does not have any classes on the back, it cannot be in the party.�This rules out Beholders, some undead, most dragons, etc.  �The only dragons that could potentially be party of a party are the Gith on Red, and the Sorcerer on Black.�Since they actually have class levels on the back of the card.�The dragon only serves as a “mount”.

You can have up to 8 characters in your party.�The other party members are considered Henchmen.�They cannot exceed 150 pts total.�Henchmen cannot be a “COMMANDER” unless they have the ability “Willing to follow”.�Henchmen must also follow restrictions set by the adventuring party, except in the case of Warband Building.�IE:�Greenfang Druid fills the slot of your Cleric in the party.�He could bring in 3 Dire Bears as “henchmen” if he wanted due to his warband building.�Or if you have Drizzt in your party, you could bring the epic Guenhwyvar because he’s 141 pts.

The game report:

The winning band was the Adventuring Party called Tthe Archies.

A long time ago, the crew got together and adventured around, eventually getting the nickname The Archies.  They included:

Archie:   Epic Storm Archer

Betty:  Epic Storm Silverhand

Jughead:  Archmage

Veronica:  Combat Medic

3 Shieldwall soldiers

2 Bat Familiars.

It was suprising how many people went with LE or CE bands.  It was also interested to note that Veronica became the MVP in the first and last game because of her ability to "heal" undead.  Not once did Jughead get a chance to use his swords.  Archie was just devastating with his arrows.  7pt Shieldwall henchmen were a real pain because of where they planted themselves.  You just could not get across the Dragondown Grotto with them blocking lanes of travel.

All in all, quite fun.�