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Couple of things:

First, you can negate this fortress, which could lead to messiness.  If you were intending for it to not be stopped, you may need to add that in.

Second, this card would protect your cards from your ANB as well (except for the character it was played on, you cannot be protected from yourself) and thus could help to again break the card (worse than it currently is).  Actually...it would break it for all players, now that I think about it.

Third, this card is too powerful.  I understand the size of the cost, but think of these restrictions it places on your opponent:
1. It completely stops all banding (good or evil).
2. It makes all artifacts untouchable by your opponents.
3. It stops them from playing SoG.
4. It could do other things I cannot even think about because they haven't been tried (are sites protected from being placed in battle for site access, for instance).

All of these (especially #3) make this card way too powerful and unable to be stopped.  It also protects itself from opponents (and if it becomes CBN like I think was intended, you just can't stop it).

I like the thought behind it, but this drastic change to the game would not go over well, and would break things considerably.  Would like to see continued discussion on this type of fortress, however

I agree with Redoubter, it's too powerful. But I'm sure STAMP will love it.

Still far too powerful, just limiting the effects to LS and NT cards (note that this includes NT artifacts and fortresses still) doesn't solve the OP problem.  This much protection, especially when it cannot be stopped, is too much for that many cards.

It may solve some problems (like stopping SoG), but the unstoppable nature added to the amount of protection this offers is still a bit over the top.  Restricted a bit of course from the original, but I'm not thinking it's balanced.

Like I said, I like the idea of placing NJ somewhere.   I just don't like this particular ability.

I think the artwork is fantastic!

That I can agree on, too   Really like it.

Does this satisfy the Nerf corporation yet?

No! It protects TGT!

Quote from: Thomas Hunter on May 15, 2012, 10:39:30 PM

No! It protects TGT!

Oh, no, I make you have two characters of the same brigade at the same time.  What a nightmare.

You haven't been around here long, have you?

Is it just me, or does this protect all lost souls in play from opponent's SoG, NJ, and Burial?  It says "...protect from harm..." which is defined as being targeted by an alignment not that of the targeted card.  Lost souls are neutral, so this protects them from good and evil cards...  Am I missing something?

Actually, I just looked up the definition of harm in the REG, and harm only has meaning in regards to characters.  So protecting lost souls from harm apparently doesn't mean anything.

That's not what "harm" means in Redemption, and I doubt any cards will use that terminology in the future.