by Ren6175
I began a 4-player solo mini-campaign of SotP using RtL on normal difficulty this weekend. This post should probably go in sessions or variants, so feel free to move it if necessary.The 1st quest is The Unearthed Tomb. This is a fun quest where heroes have to find a key to released some trapped grave robbers. The OL tries to kill them while the heroes try to usher them safely off the map.
Overall, it was a well balanced quest. With the reinforcements constantly coming from both the exit and entrance it keeps you busy. The heroes got beat up especially by the zombies as they reinforce from the direction you are heading to get off the map. I ended with one morale point left out of four. The quest peril I rolled was "Woo! Shiny!" which causes the grave robbers to engage the closest search token. In this case, they were one turn away from moving off the map so when they reversed course it caused me some headaches. Eventually one grave robber died from a Zombie and the other 3 managed to escape with about 3 health each.
As for Road to Peril, the mechanics worked well. Since I'm playing alone it is a lot to keep track of. It is a little tricky to track the health of 4 different grave robbers. I used pen and paper but once I moved them or left the table I would forget which was which. I might use 4 colored tokens next time to distinguish them.
The only other problem I encountered similar to other automated OL's in that the monsters engage the heroes, so inevitably there is a big cluster of figures at some point. After a few turns most of the map was barren so my scout sprinted around collecting search cards without opposition.
That isn't to say that my win was easy. It was well fought. I also rolled well and found the key right away, so that really skews how the action played out. The difficulty level would have been much higher had I needed to search 3 or 4 corpses to find the key. Plus, I was only playing normal. I would have certainly lost had I played Heroic or Nightmare.
For the record, my team was Lindel - Bounty Hunter, One Fist Raider/Treasure Hunter, Lyssa - Lorekeeper/Disciple, and Andira - Spiritspeaker.