I use these cardboard standards that came in the next mephisto magazine

Yea, I have those but would rather use figurines....  Don't want those characters to feel bad for being 2d.

I have only checked the Black Witch (Schwarze Hexe) and the Satan Servant (Satansdiener) from Velharts translation,

the others will follow. There are some minor errors!

The Black Witch will start in the Forest (German: Tiefer/Böser Wald) not the Cursed Glade (German: Verwunschene Lichtung)!

The Satan Servant must take the Devil, the Mephistopheles or the Phantom on a roll of 1-4 (there is no can in German text) .

Weapon, Armour and Helmet shoud be written in the same font.

inkblob said:

Well, as a quick fix you could use the ones I made a while ago in Strange Eons.

They are a little more substantial than the ones from the magazine, and you can download a PDF of them from my site.

Thankyou, very much appreciate the offer! I pillaged my Runebound and Descent boxes for figs and came up with some pretty good matches. We did the token draw method, and I colour coded the bottom of the figs to match the corresponding entry on the numbered character list for Mephisto cards, worked out great. Now I just have to find better tokens than card board squares. I went to the game store and bead store but couldn't find anything suitable that didn't cost at least $25-50. I'll check the craft stores next.

Here's the figs I came up with, I don't know all of their actual names so hopefully this will be enough for anyone in the same boat to go on. What's great about these is they are the same scale and match up with the rest of the figs. Image thumbnails open up to biggified version





I think that I'm not going to modify the German cards at all, growing very fond of the German names for all the characters  I've printed out a bunch of translated descriptions, and will eventually make nice copies to laminate.

I don't know each translation version of the mephisto promo cards,
but there are several errors in the english translations.

for example:

Magielehrling (Apprentice Magician)

Wrong translation:
Whenever you draw a Spell you do not wish to
keep, you may discard it and draw another one
to replace it, which you must keep.

German:
Immer wenn du einen Zauber ziehst,
kannst du den Zauber aus dem
Ablagestapel auswählen.

Right translation:
Whenever you draw a Spell,
you may choose the Spell
from the discard pile.

My suggestion:
Whenever you draw a Spell card, you may
choose the top card on the Spell deck or
you may take one discarded Spell from
the discard pile.

I try to make some printable translated sheets soon.
 

Here are the same cards in better esolution:
http://www.shareimages.com/images/pics/0/0/2/50825-pJOhl5ehk6KinaU-mephisto_45.jpg
http://www.shareimages.com/images/pics/0/0/2/50826-pJOhl5ehk6KinaU-mephisto_46.jpg
http://www.shareimages.com/images/pics/0/0/2/50827-pJOhl5ehk6KinaU-mephisto_47.jpg
 

I keep my characters as they are

I know that the last ability from the apprentice magician is different than what the germany text says, but the character is otherwise too powerful, if she can get the cards from the discard pile.

These are perfect azoic. I'm going to print out some cards just using the text  from these. These cards would just be pretty if it wasn't for everyone's wondeful help, thanks so much! 

I kind of like how the MA gets to rifle through the discards, I could see her doing that, learning from the scraps of other magicians. Not all characters are equal and there needs to be more competition for the Alchemist

As soon as the MA got her hands on a powerful spell like random etc then she can cast it almost every turn in the game.. ( that;s not so fun is it

The game is then unplayable..

Good point. I'd then say she could do that once per discarded spell and then it's used up, it wouldn't get reshuffled back into the deck even with the Demigod card or anything else that asks you to reshuffle the discard pile. It's a cool ability, you just want to break that infinite loop.

The only thing what i have changed now is the start position from the Black Witch(to make it forest), and the avoid ability from the juggler.(to make it evade)

i keep the others as they are..

I posed this conundrum to my wife, how MA could pull a card from discard, cast, repull ad infinitum, and she immediatly said that MA could only cast it once then it's out of the game. So that will make it a houserule here, I really like the idea of MA digging through the scraps on the floor, learning how to be a better magician that way   The Warlock starts in the Middle Region, why did you move the BW?

inkblob said:

Well, The Black Witch says that she start in a evil forest.

And a cursed glade is actually not a forest.

The confusion is that with the black witch first ability, they call it (tiefer wald), while her start position is (böser wald) evil forest

I wonder why mephisto made a difference with the wordings

And about the juggler. avoiding the monster, is the same idea as evading the monster before combat begins, so we decide to change it.

 I finally got word back from Mephisto about the characters!

<snip>

The problems with the Magician Apprentice are an interesting take on the
character's ability. Indeed it is not intended that the character casts
the same spell over and over again. To remove a spell directly from the
game would be also problematic as this ability could be used
aggressively to get rid of certain spells forever. Therefore there are
two solutions.
1. When the Magician Apprentice casts a spell, instead of putting it on
the discard pile it is put below the other cards.
2. The character has to alternate between between drawing from the
discard pile or the spell deck.
The second solution contradicts the card, so I would favor solution 1.
The idea of the ability was just to give this character somewhat more
freedom in learning spells.

Regarding the Black Witch: This was just an error, the starting location
should be the Deep Forest.

<snip>

Best regards
Bjoern

I'm going to go with solution one, it's more in the intended spirit of the character.