First, to reiterate, Uncle Mike has done everything in #300 independent of the official code. Kind of scary and extremely remarkable. And let me tell you, in a game like Alamaze, the easiest things to fix are values - its just changing the numbers. The concepts are the important thing.
One thing I want to do with Alamaze is as I did with Fall of Rome and have unusual sightings bear a ranking, which in Fall of Rome was Fine, Excellent, or Superior. Fine is the lower level, and the guardian corresponds. So players know when they recon a sighting how tough it is likely to be.
I always struggle a bit with how much to tell players about how the sausage is made. I really should loosen up as the few people that know how much goes into order resolution are astonished. (Remove clapping hand from back.) I would say, where we are going, is you want about 12 leadership points to have a good chance in a Fine encounter, about 20 for an Excellent enccounter, and perhaps 30 for a Superior encounter, where you would likely find quest items. BTW, we may go to 3 stages for the top superior artifacts in the next scenario and they likely will be significantly more powerful.
One thing I want to do with Alamaze is as I did with Fall of Rome and have unusual sightings bear a ranking, which in Fall of Rome was Fine, Excellent, or Superior. Fine is the lower level, and the guardian corresponds. So players know when they recon a sighting how tough it is likely to be.
I always struggle a bit with how much to tell players about how the sausage is made. I really should loosen up as the few people that know how much goes into order resolution are astonished. (Remove clapping hand from back.) I would say, where we are going, is you want about 12 leadership points to have a good chance in a Fine encounter, about 20 for an Excellent enccounter, and perhaps 30 for a Superior encounter, where you would likely find quest items. BTW, we may go to 3 stages for the top superior artifacts in the next scenario and they likely will be significantly more powerful.