Warlock Quest Issues

[Labrys]

1) If the ninja gets the lose a follower quest he is essentially out of the game and cannot win since he can’t get followers. learned about the swap quests option after this but when trying again i just ended up with 2?!?

2) next game I ended up with the take a life quest when only other players was in the crown of command - so only option was to find a spell or something (ended up using an assassin) to take a life but it did not complete quest.

[Da' Vane]

There are ways of getting rid of quests in the game, but the Warlock only stops you if the Portal of Power exists. A terrain card will get rid of that annoying Portal of Power and the Warlock won't stop you.

Alternatively, find ways to the Crown of Command in many places, such as defeating the Dungeon Lord or using one of the Dragon gates.

If you are concerned about the Ninja getting an unwanted quest, then remember that the False Grail means you can't get quests, and might be worth keeping around if you think you are facing players who might want to lock the Ninja out of the game like this...

[Crash [LV]]

but the Warlock only stops you if the Portal of Power exists. A terrain card will get rid of that annoying Portal of Power and the Warlock won't stop you.

No. Portal of Power doesn't need talisman, it just needs you having good stats, that's about it.
IF you have inner board that is NOT the dragon tower, you do need talisman to enter the location that comes exactly before the CoC location.
That being said there are many other ways how to get the talisman besides warlock and, like you said, other ways how to reach CoC space too.

AND no, Warlock CAN stop the player from winning IF the ending requires to accomplish Warlock's quests. In that case reaching CoC space won't help at all.

Besides what OP mentioned, it is also possible to terraform Warlock's space, so that no quests can be gotten normaly, only through 1 specific spell, 1 denizen and at least 1 adventure card.

[Stephen Alzis]

- You can force the guy on the crown of command square to go out. Wizard's chess (City), Arena (Reaper), Gong of War (Highlands)
- You can kill the guy on the crown of command square (the Assassin card in the City can cause a three point HP loss)
In fact, you don't even need to have a talisman to go to the crown of command!
Besides the two dragon cards (Dragon Portal and Dragon Spire), you can be propelled in the command room by the Spiteful Imp (Sacred Pool), when you beat the lord of darkness with a sufficient margin of 8+ in the Dungeon or, the nifitiest way, once you enter the inner region, you can swap places with the Transference spell (Reaper).
So, you don't have a Talisman? No problem, bro, no problem!