Hi! I had a great time cutting out the standups! Very relaxing, and they look great!
Now that I'm into the game, I do have a few questions:
1. Is there a way to save the game when you're using the app?
2. Skeleton Warrior (and others) list their health, but then say +heal5. Does that mean they actually have 10 health?
This is my first crawler, and I'm really enjoying it!
Glad you're enjoying the game.
Question 1 : Can you save the game?
Yes, you can, now. Your comment made me realize the save feature must be broken since it wasn't offering any save restoring. Version 1 had it, but version 2 seemed to have dropped it, so I just made a fix. It should save your game now as you go, and when you return, it should prompt you to see if you'd like to return to the saved game.
Question 2 : Do skeleton warriors have 10 health?
The way it works is that those dice have "boons" on them, just like your own weapons can have boons. A "boon" is a special effect on a die that triggers when that die is highest in a 2x2 contest. So, skeletons only have 5 health, but if they roll their Undead die in a contest and it comes out on top, its boon triggers, and it heals five, giving it unholy longevity beyond its mortal frame.
For example, say you are fighting a skeleton warrior. You hit it for 3 damage. Now it's health is only 2 because it starts with 5. Later, you attack it again, and it rolls its Ignore Pain and its Undead dice to defend against your own two attack dice. All the dice come up 1's except for the Undead die, which comes up a 5. That means the Skeleton's Undead trait comes out on top as the determining factor of the contest. It receives no damage (because it defended successfully), but on top of that, it gets to apply the boon of its Undead trait - to heals 5. Since 5 health is also its maximum, that means it heals back up to full health of 5. The other 2 points of healing are "lost" because it can't go above its maximum. Not only do you fail to do damage to it, but it has fully recovered from the deadly blow you landed earlier - this thing has unholy resilience against wounds that would fell any mortal!
This sort of effect is true for all the little notes underneath the dice. For instance, the Skeleton Warrior also has a +1 damage boon on its Pitted Sword die. If it attacks, and that die comes out on top, it will add +1 damage to the normal computed value for damage. As another example, the Rat Swarm will only give you Rat Bite Fever if that Nasty Bite d4 ends up being highest. If it hits you with its Swarm die, it won't infect you with the fever because that die doesn't have the boon on it.
Hope this clarifies things!
