by DA_Maz
I've read quite some reveiws/threads about this game and wanted to ask the community a few things.The overlord:
-)Quite a few people mention that you have to be much more involved in the game to play the overlord, like reading scenarios in advance and think about how to plan out the tactic extensivly. This seems to be problematic when deciding to play "one more" mission the OL player hasn't read up yet, meaning you have to plan in advance how many and which missions you are going to play. Is this pretty accurate or am I missing something?
-)Extensive thinking before the game even starts, seems to make it hard to swap the OL position between players, because the "new" OL would take much too much time to prepare for this role. The way I see this is that if someone pontanously gets excited to play the OL role, he can't do that without taking 30mins-1h preparing for this.
Scope of the game:
-)Your heroes embarc on an epic quest and fight the evil forces. Yet every scenario seems to be very limited in scope and size, mostly consisting of only a few rooms and hallways. To me it seems the game is not able to evoke some kind of epic feel, because the "playfield" is always very small and confind, without much branching paths or atmospheric touches. I don't know every scenario, but the few I saw made me feel like that. Can anyone clarify this?
Replayabilty:
Once the scenario is completed, how much does the scenario lose freshness with the second, third or fourth playthrough? Am I practically forced to get expansions from this point on (when seeing the end of the scenario for the first or second time) to keep the game fresh, or are there some kind of fan-created scenarios (a series of quests)?
thx for your time and answers
kind regards