by HopRodRye34
I traded for Descent 2nd Ed at BGGCON a few years ago and finally made up my mind to read the rules and bring it to game night. We played the first quest in the Shadow Rune campaign, A Fat Goblin.Since it was our first game and I was teaching from scratch, we just did a quest with the basic cards for 4 heroes vs me as Overlord. I played sub optimally I'm sure as it took me a few turns to notice my monsters' special abilities on the back of their cards. Also, since it was a learning game I sort of wanted them to win so they'd have a good time. But the result was an easy victory in the 2nd encounter for the heroes.
My question is, is this an easy encounter for 4 heroes vs Overlord in the basic game? Was I as the overlord supposed to use my full deck (I only used the basic cards)? It seemed odd to me that I had to work so hard to defeat just one of the heroes and then one of their buddies would revive them and another heal them. I felt outnumbered.
I'd like for the second play of this to come down to the wire and have a more dramatic ending. Any tips?