Notes from Seventy-first Playtest

Beejell and Cybil

This was a playtest of the new simplified hunting system with two players who do not have a D&D background. They had struggled with the old system but were very happy with the new one.

You can also see from the photograph how the new cards fit nicely along one side of the board.

Simplified Hunting, Sample Turns

The new simplified hunting system has cut my pictorial sample turns down from 5 pages to 4. I need to find fresh players to teach the game, but I do think a 20% reduction in explanation effort is not unrealistic.

Sample Turns (1mb pdf)

Notes from Seventieth Playtest

Mini Equipment Cards shown with
Goal card, a pawn, and a meeple

This play-through was a test of the new mini equipment cards. Now in most games I'd never want to see these "Hobbit" size cards, but since they are equipment that sits on the table the whole game, it works. I actually bumped up the font size for the most used information.