BABL Board Game - Class of the person you need to Find ?

[erskinew2]

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

[stevenpage]

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

On page 21, under Special instructions: "you draw a character card for the class of the person you need to find. roll 1d6 and read the result..."
  -(1-3) You found the Profession. 
-(4-6) The NPC is not the Profession.

As I read it, if you roll 1-3, and get Criminal on the drawn card, they are holding the person you want 'hostage'. You must confront them.. If not a criminal, you have found the person, and must roll for the results of the encounter....If it is NOT the profession you seek(4-6) you resolve the encounter, and may find yourself on a 'side adventure'.

Hope this helps.

Ed, let me know if I got anything wrong.

[erskinew2]

May 4, 2020 14:47:55 GMT stevenpage said:

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

On page 21, under Special instructions: "you draw a character card for the class of the person you need to find. roll 1d6 and read the result..."
  -(1-3) You found the Profession. 
-(4-6) The NPC is not the Profession.

As I read it, if you roll 1-3, and get Criminal on the drawn card, they are holding the person you want 'hostage'. You must confront them.. If not a criminal, you have found the person, and must roll for the results of the encounter....If it is NOT the profession you seek(4-6) you resolve the encounter, and may find yourself on a 'side adventure'.

Hope this helps.

Ed, let me know if I got anything wrong.

Thanks - For some reason when I read that section I thought you had to keep searching for a specific class and once you found the class, the rest of the mechanics take place. But your explanation makes sense.

Can't wait for the actual board game 😁

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

Like Steve said, just the 1d6 die roll for finding the target is used. Who it is isn't important. That is different than the BABL minis. Board games need to address a different audience, more of a bang, bang, do it and move on. Less detail. Sorry for the confusion.

[stevenpage]

I love how this worked in my first game. A criminal sent me to find 'someone'. It turned out to be an 'exotic' who was also looking for 'someone' . So now i was helping her. We ran into a 'joe' needing to find a 'deal' I could not get her to leave or shut up so we rode the train(with NHC Spec Ops on board), found her a dealer, and then found the Zhuh Zhus that the exotic was looking for. A brawl ensued, we won, barely, (I decided that they had stolen something she needed to return to the original criminal), and we went home to a well-deserved reward. All from flipping cards, and rolling a few dice. One of the best game sessions I have ever enjoyed.

[erskinew2]

May 4, 2020 16:51:05 GMT stevenpage said:

I love how this worked in my first game. A criminal sent me to find 'someone'. It turned out to be an 'exotic' who was also looking for 'someone' . So now i was helping her. We ran into a 'joe' needing to find a 'deal' I could not get her to leave or shut up so we rode the train(with NHC Spec Ops on board), found her a dealer, and then found the Zhuh Zhus that the exotic was looking for. A brawl ensued, we won, barely, (I decided that they had stolen something she needed to return to the original criminal), and we went home to a well-deserved reward. All from flipping cards, and rolling a few dice. One of the best game sessions I have ever enjoyed.

Cool. I love the crazy stories BABL tells. Have to unlearn the mini version and focus on the boardgame, although I really liked the city tiles.

Maybe Ed will publish a city tiles / building card combination supplement 😁

[stevenpage]

I use those tiles in a lot of games. Good for pulp, super-heroes, you name it.

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

Well I do have some city tiles left that I can sell. $10 plus postage. Here's a pic, there's ten.


Can build a 3x3 area, double sided, and one tile tells all for all the areas.
Email me at [e-mail] and put Tiles in the subject line.

[easyeight]

I know for now the tiles aren't emphasized, but I really like them and can even see the potential to do tiles like these for people doing all sorts of games - spaceship deckplan tiles, outdoor terrain tiles, etc.

[sztrave]

May 4, 2020 16:51:05 GMT stevenpage said:

I love how this worked in my first game. A criminal sent me to find 'someone'. It turned out to be an 'exotic' who was also looking for 'someone' . So now i was helping her. We ran into a 'joe' needing to find a 'deal' I could not get her to leave or shut up so we rode the train(with NHC Spec Ops on board), found her a dealer, and then found the Zhuh Zhus that the exotic was looking for. A brawl ensued, we won, barely, (I decided that they had stolen something she needed to return to the original criminal), and we went home to a well-deserved reward. All from flipping cards, and rolling a few dice. One of the best game sessions I have ever enjoyed.

This is what I am looking forward to - while reading through the PDF I noticed that if you were on an Encounter you could have to have another encounter, that could send you off on another encounter.  So you could have all these nested deals, searches etc that you have to slowly unpack as you complete them.

[davidlhsl]

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

When I was looking at it, I thought the card that triggered the Recover was the class you had to find. Example: you draw an Exotic with 1/2 d6 options:

1: Recover
2: Interact
3: Interact

I rolled 1, so I thought I Recover the Exotic.

I like your idea of rolling a die, but you could also draw the next Character Card instead of rolling, note it as the class you have to find, then shuffle it back into the deck. You still want to keep the rule where you find the one you're looking for based on the card's class, even if it has a different graphic image. For example, I draw a Criminal with a female graphic image, so I need to Recover a Criminal. I shuffle it back into the deck. If I draw any Criminal card, even if it's male, I've found the Criminal I'm looking for.

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

May 4, 2020 22:45:24 GMT davidlhsl said:

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

When I was looking at it, I thought the card that triggered the Recover was the class you had to find. Example: you draw an Exotic with 1/2 d6 options:

1: Recover
2: Interact
3: Interact

I rolled 1, so I thought I Recover the Exotic.

I like your idea of rolling a die, but you could also draw the next Character Card instead of rolling, note it as the class you have to find, then shuffle it back into the deck. You still want to keep the rule where you find the one you're looking for based on the card's class, even if it has a different graphic image. For example, I draw a Criminal with a female graphic image, so I need to Recover a Criminal. I shuffle it back into the deck. If I draw any Criminal card, even if it's male, I've found the Criminal I'm looking for.

Great idea David.

[erskinew2]

May 4, 2020 22:45:24 GMT davidlhsl said:

May 4, 2020 3:03:48 GMT erskinew2 said:

Ed / All - During a Recover (Find) encounter, how do you determine the class of the person you need to find?  Roll 1d6, 1=Mover, 2=Shakers,3=Exotic,4=Joes,5=Criminal,6=roll again?

Thanks

When I was looking at it, I thought the card that triggered the Recover was the class you had to find. Example: you draw an Exotic with 1/2 d6 options:

1: Recover
2: Interact
3: Interact

I rolled 1, so I thought I Recover the Exotic.

I like your idea of rolling a die, but you could also draw the next Character Card instead of rolling, note it as the class you have to find, then shuffle it back into the deck. You still want to keep the rule where you find the one you're looking for based on the card's class, even if it has a different graphic image. For example, I draw a Criminal with a female graphic image, so I need to Recover a Criminal. I shuffle it back into the deck. If I draw any Criminal card, even if it's male, I've found the Criminal I'm looking for.

Will try it. I think I prefer having to find a particular class.

Thanks