The Vampiress is much stronger than you have her down as!

Ell.

It is odd that she is the only 3/3 character at the bottom (none even in low tier), but that's the stats + impression I've gotten from her. To me, she is basically a 3/3 Sorceress with an improved Follower stealing minus beguiling. 3/3 doesn't really help her in terms of her psychic combat attack ability, gimme 2/4 or 2/5 (Wizard) for that. No spell access, only really left with healing abilities, which might keep her alive, but don't help her get kills.

Even the nerfed Assassin we use (as per 2nd edition ability) beats her by a mile, as he does beat the often complained about Prophetess, who barely cracks mid tier around here.

Too many favorites. Ah, I love them all.(currently own base+Reaper+Bloodmoon) Except the Sage. :/

I just don't like  this constant deck peeking of his.

With that said, we had one of the funnest games with him. Starting out with the Sage(my buddy) against the Sorceress.

The Sorceress starts with the Lycanthrope spell. (Curse of the Werewolf, I think it;s called)Then gets another spell by rolling 6 at the City( Divination)

The Sage trips me with an Angel, by rerolling his die for movement and moving to a non-draw Space.

I cast Divination. the cards that come up are Demon,Prophecy,  Black Cat, Peasant Mob, and The Bear

The Sage keeps eluding the draw spaces by travelling to  corner tiles and other non-draw spaces, re-rolling as he rolls.Using fate to mock me.

I get tripped by the demon. Down to 2 lives

I cast  the Lycanthrope spell, then land on the Phantom left prior by the Sage. Ask him for a spell(yea, I know not the most optimal move, but I just wanted to see some of the new spells that were added to the decks. Got the old Teleport though)

Druid draws Prophecy and has to draw another card(Black cat: his luck has run out: he loses all his fate)

My Sorceress celebrates this event by getting drunk with the boys at the tavern, effectively missing her next turn.

The Sage peeks at the next card, and a feeling of dread befalls him, beads of sweat start collecting on his forehead.

He rolls: boundless hills and fields in each direction.. rerolls: same result. The black cat keeps peering at him intently.

The sage  hears the hollering of the mob approaching, torches and pitchforks at the ready.

Poor were-Sage!

Even if the Sorceress didn't spend that night at the inn,getting naughty with the guys,  she still had the teleport spell to stave off the mob for one turn.

How strange that I can no longer edit the post.

I keep mixing up the Druid and Sage all the time(they kinda look alike). So the druid  didn't actually appear out of the blue in our game. Same old sage.

Thank you for that clarification!

Your games sound quite lively!

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Currently,  my favorite characters would be all the ones in the Dragon expansion. At first we thought they'd be overpowered, in comparison to the base ones and those in other expansions   but actually, they're not, and they're very fun to play.

We've only restricted the Conjurer's ability to summoning regular adventure cards. So no summoning from the Dragon deck for her. 

The Gypsy has the most wins in our games.

I like the Sprite, but don't get her very often anymore with all the new expansions adding characters. When I have her people call her 7up and when she turns evil she's Diet Sprite :))

Me and my friends usually draw three cards (drawing one card for each player, then repeating two more times).

After some games, I usually select characters I haven't played as before.

But the most successful character has been the Dwarf, who has won every game that he's appeared in (4 so far).

A new strategy has been suggested - if someone is the Dwarf, confront that character in battle!

(Dwarf's chances depends on another player being the Chivalric Knight with higher strength, or the Dwarf turning good and another player is the Knight).

I like the Minstrel and the Valkyrie probably about the most