After a lot of butting my head against the wall as to how to add some depth to my old card game rules without making it too baroque, I finally got a semi-workable third ‘build’ run off and played with a while tonight, and for the most part, it seems ok. Emphasis (literally, there are em tags around it) on the “ok-” the solo run was a bit too easy with a party that wasn’t even complete. I was trying out a point-buy sort of party formation this time, and in my randomly slapping numbers on, I actually *couldn’t* afford a full team with the starting allotment. I need to be stricter with hand size for items too. Basically, my Hero/Mage/Cleric trio romped through about 20 rooms and only dipped into dangerously low HP once. I’ll have to try again with a friend some time to see how the balance is with the added chaos of a second hostile player.
Overall though, it seems like the basics *work,* so I’ll start tweaking from there and hopefully have another version to share for download soon. Ish. I won’t subject you to the test build this time since I really just printed multiples of the same sheet a few times.
