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Calculating Commissar




pontiac, michigan; usa

So the last time i had the idea of warpstone being eaten to increase the strength of skaven characters.

This time i'm throwing around the idea of the 'liber bubonicus' which is something each plague priest carries. Now i feel this should be an upgrade or item for plague priests. I'm not entirely sure what it should do as a skrolk (plague priest special character) has something similar. Perhaps it would be a bound spell with more than one use. Perhaps it gives plague monks death frenzy (death frenzy is probably redundant though) and/or hatred. Alternatively maybe it gives a unit a weak form of regeneration (5+) or more likely the -1 for opponents to hit in close combat that nurgle units get. I feel like this would make taking plague priests even off the furnace a valid choice.

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In the old book, the Liber Bubonicus was a 40pt Enchanted Item that made your Plague Priest a lvl1 wizard who know Pestilent Breath (they weren't wizards, then).

It's a book that lets them do stuff with diseases. Pretty sure it's just a spellbook.

I'd be more interested in re-vamped Skaven Lores. Same thematic result, but more streamline.
Plague ought to have...I'd say 2 Direct Damage (Breath and Plagur), 2 Augments (Bless and something to make units tougher), and 3 Hexes (Wither, maybe something to mess with enemy movement and/or Initiative, and...maybe something Ld-based. Auto-panic or something).

That would give the Priests a little more to do.
To be fair, though, I run them on foot all the time. S6 is a really nice addition to Plague Monk units, as is a Censer.

 
   
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A bound spell would be pretty cool like you suggested.

I would like just the lore for plague priests to have some distance upgrades (with higher casting values of course) I like most of the plague spells but the problem has always been their reach.

I will have to think of some items that would be good to try. I'm not one for making up new items and stuff but its Skaven so might be cool to think of something and I'll post it here if I do think of something.
   
 
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