Notes from Eleventh Playtest

Playtest with 4 people ran 35 minutes (not including rules teach, which has gotten much faster, even if I did leave out some details - sorry Eddy).


Observations:

• Meat & Hide still lose value very quickly in the Market
• The pattern that appears to win the most games is Spear + Atlatl to kill a Bear, then wait until Meat & Hide have an average value >3 and sell.
• 4 spaces movement still works, but you can pretty much cover the whole (explored) board
• Point bonuses are definitely too high. They should be tie breaks, not make you (or rather me, sorry guys) win by 30 points.

Suggestions:

• Reduce or even remove some point bonuses (point bonus for having highest score may be redundant, even though it's low score that gives you points)
• Simplify animals to be either Small Game or Large Game (would a bear be 2x large game?) instead of Meat & Hide in the market
• Let's revisit Equipment. If Pouches and Atlatls are so key to victory, there aren't enough of them, or they should be weaker (maybe both).