If you can't read that, it says:

Xuo: Veteran Guardian

When Xuo is the Guardian, shuffle the Xuo's Influence and Xuo's Fortune decks and place them near the board at the start of the game.

Xuo has saved the planet from various Ancient Ones three times now. He's getting tired of it.

When setting up the game, shuffle the Xuo's Influence deck, turn over three of those cards, and put them into play. These cards have beneficial effects for the Investigators. They may be discarded at any time by any player to remove a doom token from the Ancient One's doom track.

At the end of each Mythos Phase, the first player rolls a die. On a success, that player shuffles the Xuo's Fortune deck, draws a card, and takes its effect. The card is then returned to the deck.

If the Ancient One awakens, immediately discard any Xuo's Influence cards that are still in play and remove that many doom tokens from the Ancient One's doom track. Then, if you're using the Epic Battle rules, shuffle the three Small Favors cards into the Battle deck. Put the deck of Xuo's Interference cards next to the Ancient One's Plot deck.

There is a Herald who acts as foil to Xuo. View the whole gallery (of both Guardian and Herald) here: http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=carddeck1.jpg

I like Xuo, but he is insanely overpowered IMHO. Even one of the effects alone would make for a strong Guardian.

I'll admit that he's insanely overpowered in comparison to the other Guardians.  But he's balanced against the Herald I made, Fah'ic.  If you're playing with both, they balance each other out.

You might want to consider making a stand alone version of both yoru Guardian and Herald, so they don't have to both be used in order to get the most out of them.

Alright, have Xuo not produce any free Influence cards at the start of the game. If you're lucky, you'll still get one or two anyway, through the Fortune card that gives you an Influence.

Also, feel free to ignore the "Small Favors"/Interference cards.

Similarly, to make Fah'ic less scary, don't produce any Impact cards at the start of the game. You'll still probably get one or two through the Curse card that gives you an Impact.

Uhhhh...  Isn't that He-Man on Battlecat?

Avi_dreader said:

No matter how hard I tried and how many times I've read this post I couldn't understand a word of it. Sorry.

kroen said:

::Laughter:: I see...  I guess you don't realize what art it was you used.

http://www.latinoreview.com/images/upload/newspic4765.jpg

http://www.figurerealm.com/Customs/6500/6186-4.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man_and_the_Masters_of_the_Universe

"He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's successful toy line Masters of the Universe. The show, often referred to as simply He-Man, was one of the most popular animated children's shows of the 1980s and has retained a heavy following to this day both in America and worldwide."

I was pretty amused when I saw your herald picture.  I could recognize who it was instantly (from the sword and the glowing insignia on the chest, not to mention Battle-Cat).

This Guardian is not recommended playing with the King in Yellow Herald.

edit: obviously the "can't be devoured" part doesn't work against acneint ones.

I wouldn't call them Blight but Delight cards

kroen said:

I concur with Avi that the picture is... distracting, I suppose. Other than that I really like this guardian. Great theme for a marathon game.

kroen said:

That's an odd use of Blights, but it's interesting. I think this would actually be more fun against the King in Yellow, as there would be a lot of 'back and forth' between the two powers.

An interesting side effect of this guardian is that the terror level becomes somewhat of a blessing, in it's own strange way. Not that that's a bad thing in and of itself, but it might make pure sealing and ignoring monsters a bit too viable a strategy. In any case, I'd like to try this out before passing judgement.

Here is a Guardian from The Dark Tower Series: Skoldpadda. The turtle pic isn't very good it should be a turtle with the earth on its back. Couldn't find one...

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