by sawtooth
Hiya Kiya! (again)Here's my attempt to bring Filch up to speed with the other characters (Nez) based off starting gear.
Filch has various, flexible abilities and the potential to become quite powerful when equipped with the right gear, but starts off with limited capabilities. With his starting dagger he gets his base combat of 2 and the defending minion may get -1 to defense, depending on whether they are lower on the initiative track than Filch. Not a bad deal, but I still want to give him a nudge.
My "thought" is that any encounter card that doesn't feature the "ambush" effect listed on it gives Filch the possibility to perform an ambush himself. In order for Filch's ambush to take effect, he must also be placed in one of the last two positions in the initiative track, which results in the ambush ability taking effect. It functions the same as the "ambush" effect for minions, where a single die is rolled and Filch's initiative card is moved up on the initiative track the corresponding number on the die. This is based off Filch's only real combat advantage, coming from his daggers ability to give the enemy -1 to defense when they are lower on the initiative track than Filch.
This is a significant detriment to the minions capabilities to fend off Filch's attacks, but I feel that it gives the character of Filch much more allure. the Filch player, only getting two die per attack (with base gear), has very limited ability to acquire cheese and is really depending on kills to offer value to the party, as it dispatches an enemy and gains a cheese, possibly directly from the minion cheese wheel.
As always, this is just an additional thought I had to add to the core game mechanics, and that i felt would make the game more "fun". Filch is an awesome character and I think his potential in the party should represent that.
"There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy going to take out the eye of the last guy left whose still got one eye left?"