Pandora's Box ending: Ninja

[Minsc]

I just had a pretty entertaining, but clearly very unfair game. When my friend got to the middle and started throwing terrible monsters at everyone, being a Ninja I simply Evaded every single one, thus eventually winning the game. It was pretty funny, but seemed incredibly OP since basically if you ever get onto the Crown with Pandora's Box and there's a Ninja in play, you've lost.

[Ragic]

Bluegill87 eredeti hozzászólása:

One has to wonder about characters like Priests, Exorcists (and really crafty Necros) along these lines though too.

Seriously the spirit banishers happen to be really good in these endings xD

just change boukha to a cultist and the titan wraith to an elemental. the other spirits are easily beat anyway. oh wait, the elementalist.. sigh nm.

[Bluegill87]

Sorry to bring this one back, but I'm still a little curious about other people's experiences on this while I share my own.

I have indeed killed a Ninja on this ending solely from the information gained in this thread. I saved ALL my chanter cards for him and him alone (and God help me if he ever got his hands on an Astrolabe) while the lowly Dwarf ate the rest of the Netherspam. I attempted the ending while Ninja was at 2 lives as well, so timing is important as I think he was packing a heal spell too just after I landed there. (No Healz rule ftw!)

My thoughts on the 3 new endings as they all have a very different meta going for them:

Gauntlet is a very late game type of ending (which even while overstatted you can STILL lose) unless you have luck on the crown with Arknell/Harpies/+8 DL win handy. I can't speak for the Hopper/Stompy pets and other such shenanigans since I've yet to see them in action. Seems to be the most 'loophole-ish' of the 3.

The Hunt is all about taking your bad cards and replacing them with a potential trophy and objective early on while you beef up in preparation for the more nightmarish draws (again spirit banishers amazing here for them free objectives). So it's kind of an early/late mix depending on what gets drawn and when.

While Pandora's Box is cleary designed for the rushed crown approach, you want to be on that thing as soon as humanly possible to crush everyone else before they have a chance to 'git good' on you. Also for bloodbath rules every dead player steals 6 Nether cards from your final deck so even more reason to double time it.

All in all I'd say I like Hunt the best since that element of randomness to both love and hate about Talisman is pretty prevalent there. Still there's something satisfying about commanding the forces of darkness to do your bidding in Box or taking them head on and surviving, whichever end of the fence you end up on :D.

[SKYNRD]

There are certain characters that have huge advantages against certain endings... that's Talisman. I don't see any reason to change things just because a characters ability is useful against a specific ending. For MP, just say you can't use the ninja, if you plan on using Pandora's Box.