Further into the game, the Good, the Bad, and the ones I avoid like a plague.

While I am both a card hunter club member, and someone who bought all the additional content dungeons, I had not actually done that until... I think after I had beaten the trogs. Not because I didn't want to, and not because I felt I needed to. I felt a legitimate want to support this game, so I bought the pizza to buy subscription and the dungeons. Maybe other figures.

Interestingly that is a weapon I used in my renewed attempt on the level and I had forgotten where I even got it.

 

Well actually he gives you the option to unlock it, it is not forced. Perhaps it should be forced to be unlocked?

 

I want to chime in on this. I'm a bit of a buff for game design and metagame theorycrafting and all the additional thought that goes into a game.

Counterplay. Every time I start an adventure I have no clue what sort of enemy I'm going to meet. Often times I'll flail during the first adventure because the terrain favours mobile Fighters and long-ranged Wizards or I need to prepare AoE Chops and Lava and all that.

On the one hand, in deckbuilding games a major part is preparing counters -- c.f. Magic personality David Price, "There are no wrong threats, only wrong answers." It's annoying to have to flunk the first adventure to find the right build. On the other hand, RPGs are about discovering new sorts of enemies and figuring out how to beat them.

It feels great to figure out: ahah, if you Zerg Melvinorous early, his Cowardly stops most of his magic. It sucks to position your elf wizard to die to spearmen.


P.S. there's a free premium adventurer?

 

Like everything except the Card Hunter club when Gary introduces the concept of Treasure Hunts he gives you enough pizza to buy one and recommends that you do. You aren't required to use that pizza for that purpose, or to buy that particular Treasure Hunt if you do, but as has been pointed out Woodhome's Wound is highly useful (as long as you aren't running some odd no warrior party in the campaign).

 

I like it the way it is. You get free pizza and can spend it for multiple things.

 

Just wanted to say that I agree with everything said by the original poster. The Crude Plate missions were the ones that almost made me quit, and the Geomancer ones were the ones that did it. I get what I need to do to beat them, but I don't have the gear to do it. To get that gear, I need to grind. To grind I need to wait days. Sometimes I grind if it's an option and the game is fun, but if it's required, I stop playing the game.

Even when I do have the gear needed, if I don't draw what I need in time, I lose the mission. My Crude Plate experience was that I had to replay the missions once each because on the first go, the enemy would end up drawing a couple Crude Plates and I'd get no armor-melting abilities until turn four, at which point my entire party is bleeding and broken and all the enemies are virtually at full health.