Test 31 May

[Jubal]

This was an interesting test, with trickthegiant (occasionally of this parish) and a couple of other friends.

Rather than me 'running' the game, the others did their best to work out from the rules what was meant to happen, which highlighted a number of potential issues, mostly in that there are several mechanics (how the Styx works, how lava works) that really need visual aids, and the book isn't arted yet in any sense. Also some more flavour text and clarification is needed in places, and maybe some sort of better quickstart run-down of a turn. Will need to think on these.

We played The Forging of Talos, which went horribly for us - we got through over half the Great Monster entries stomping around the map, which was kind of fun but we were getting very very flattened. I'm considering nerfing the Gorgon somehow - her unique power is incredibly good, and the fact that she (almost uniquely among the Great Monsters) can't be hidden from in a tunnel currently kind of makes her an auto-death sentence. I thought the Chimera worked really well - it is and is intended to be a different proposition from the other monsters in that you can't gang up on it - and the giant's ability to be paid off also worked out which I appreciated. Revolving rooms were fun too, mechanically.

The scenario was still fun, though we only found one Great Forge, I think there needs to be a secondary way to get parts of Talos for the scenario to work properly much like there are multiple ways to get songs in Songs of the Muses.