by irishroar
I love the story, the look, the concepts, all the items, the general feel of this game. I freaking absolutely detest the rules and fiddlyness. The combat rules make me insane. I’m looking for suggestions to fix the game.Here is what drives me bonkers:
It’s ridiculously hard sometimes to kill creatures. Any creature rolling more than one dice hits shields pretty often. If not shields they hit cheese which quickly leads to more minions. I’m not kidding my son and I just finished playing a game we lost that took 60 minutes worth of dice chucking on one tile. Stupid surge that brings out the cat... just dumb The cat rolls 4 defense dice. Oh and if I’m interpreting this rule book correctly am I defeating those 4 defense dice not once but twice... pretty tough to do when you roll 2-3 attack dice per mouse.
I’m looking for suggestions to help us enjoy the game. Right now I want to throw it in the garbage.
I’m thinking of some alterations. Maybe attacks hit if you roll swords. No defense dice are rolled? Or if minion rolls defense they must roll all shields. If any dice is anything other than a shield it’s dead.
Also I’m considering if enemies roll cheese dice. For instance if Brodie rolls 4 cheese in one roll only one cheese goes on the wheel. Not the 4 that caused an almost instantaneous surge upon an already bad situation.
Is this a kids game or is it for hardcore dungeon crawlers? Kids don’t min max so the rules need to be less complex and battles should be drastically easier... all my kids were seriously disappointed the last two times we played this game and I’m worried there won’t be anymore plays if I don’t make it funner. Any advice?