It activates when hero receiving fatal damage. There is a feature of all characters called Death’s Door. A dead character will not return from an expedition, but other members of the party can loot his trinkets. High stress or huge damage received lead heroes to death. But you can reduce stress in the Abbey or the Tavern for gold. Characters get stress from low light level, attacks of monsters, critical strikes, other heroes’ abilities, curious, special events and even more. The high-stress level applies serious penalties on a hero and even leads to death. All heroes accumulate stress during dungeon crawling. Diseases and stress are your main problems on which you should spend money at the Hamlet.Īlong with quirks and diseases, characters are affected by other game features. The Plague Doctor can cure diseases easily. You can do it in the Sanitarium or just at the mission during camping. Diseases give some penalties and debuffs so you should cure them as fast as possible. These only negative traits hero can acquire during expedition or special events. After receiving new upon finishing a mission or town event another non-locked quirk will disappear. Each hero can deal with up to 5 good and 5 bad quirks. You can delete bad quirks and lock positive ones in the Sanitarium. Quirks influence characters’ behavior in the Hamlet and during the expedition. Each hero has its own combination of special traits with good or bad effects. Character elementsīesides base stats each character also has a set of persistent elements: So let’s discover some essential characteristics of heroes and differences between classes. You can hire new adventurers in the Stage Coach. Also, each hero has different quirks in addition to class features. For example, healers are effective on the fourth slot and damagers should face enemies at the head of the team.Įach class has its own base stats and skills. Depending on abilities you should place characters in different slots of the squad. Heroes, means playable characters, are divided into classes which defines their skills and appearance. You hire them and build an expedition to explore dungeons.

Characters ate the main part of the game.

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