Ye Dogs & Ye Dust Playtest and Development

[Mattias!]

Hey all,

I thought I would make a dedicated thread for YD&YD so that anyone who is interested can have easy access to the link to the most up-to-date version of the rules.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YsAcZ2Vr26fZSJZGJ-m_6f5hmbMi0bJi/view?usp=sharing

I'll keep the newest version posted to this shared link, and anytime I make a change I'll post about it so you can easily see what has changed.

If you try out the rules, please feel free to post here to let me know how it went! Happy to address any questions or clarifications as well.

Happy gaming!

[Mattias!]

Thanks very much to Chris for giving this game a go at the meeting last night. Based on our experience, I've made the following tweaks:

-Updated Disengage language to be 'directly away'
-Updated Portal Spell to change the size and success requirement for portals.
-Updated the Summon Daemon spell to stipulate that only one daemon may be summoned at a time, and only within 1 short of the caster (instead of 1 medium)
-Updated Wide Swing to exclude the STAB attack action

[Michael S.]

Hello Mattias,
Thanks for sharing your new rules for Ye Dogs & Dust. I always like to try out new skirmish games.
Michael

[Mattias!]

Hello Mattias,
Thanks for sharing your new rules for Ye Dogs & Dust. I always like to try out new skirmish games.
Michael

Most welcome! Let me know if you have any questions I can answer!

On further reflection of my game vs. Chris last night, I've made a couple more tweaks:

-Changed the Daemonic Blade scenario to stipulate that if the wielder of the Daemonic Blade is forced to FLEE, then the Daemon within the blade sucks out their soul and puts them OOF. This will prevent the edge case of the wielder winning the scenario by fleeing the battlefield with the blade before the six turns are up.
-Changed the BLOOD RAGE special rule so that it triggers on a result of STEEL THYSELF or GIVE GROUND (as opposed to just STEEL THYSELF)

[Mattias!]

Further changes:
-removed references to 'broken' as a possible character status.
-Changed the Parry/Riposte rule to affect the OOF roll rather than the DEF roll.
-Added TAKE COVER to the defenses section
-made minor clarification edits throughout