by Detrimus
A friend and I are playing through the campaign at the moment, and we are approaching the interlude (or whatever it's called).I can fully admit I'm not a great player and that dice rolls can screw you over, but the overall impression I'm getting is that the game's balance seems skewed towards the Overlord.
I haven't won a single quest and have only won 2 encounters thus far.
I'll use my latest play session as an example. I don't recall the name of quest but it involved saving people from a ball. There were 5 tokens on the map, that when revealed, would either be an enemy or a local that would be escorted off the map. I was lucky in that I was able to uncover the count and that gained me an advantage in the second encounter.
When we started on the second encounter to retrieve his treasure, Lady Farrow (controlled by the overlord) was at a disadvantage in that she had to test one of three characteristics to get the multitude of doors open. my friend and I both figured this was severe enough to allow me to catch up.
At the entrance I found myself blocked by three spiders which held me up for quite some time before I was able to test my own characteristics on the upcoming door in hopes of opening. I wasted 2 characters turns trying to open it, meanwhile my friend made a successful dice roll opening his in the next room. As I followed into the next room I was held up, again, by a shadow dragon. My friend continued making successful rolls (which wasn't hard with a 5 agility stat), meanwhile I was being held up trying to pass the dragon whilst taking considerable damage. I wasn't even able to get to the next main room where another group of creatures would have undoubtedly held me up when he closed in on the treasure room and claimed the artifact.
In short, almost every encounter has played out similarly. I get held up trying to bash through a creature wall, only to get cheesed out by a terrible time limit, or win condition. Granted, you can't really lose the game yet, it's only determined at the end, but so far he's nabbed 2/2 powerful artifacts and some really nasty OL cards.
I feel like there are some rules or such that I'm missing, or maybe I'm just really bad. Either way some of the mechanics seem really cheesy and the dice rolls can just really F*ck you.
What are everyone else's thoughts?