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So we’ve played through the Dunwich, and Path to Carcosa campaigns and had a grand time all the way through them. Then we started on the third campaign The Forgotten Age.
Things were definitely trickier with the new explore mechanic but manageable for the first two scenarios. We definitely felt a large step up in difficulty.
Then we got the Boundary Beyond and just got like totally smashed with almost no headway towards finishing the second act. Like we retried it twice but the results were nearly the same we got one maybe 2.5 locations cleared out before our situation became obviously hopeless.
The costs to explore each location are just so punishing and leaves you with no gas to handle the mythos that ultimately ushers us to our doom.
It’s really soured our group on the game in general and I’m not sure they’ll want to continue at this point. Is there something we’re doing wrong?
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I have heard that The forgotten age is pretty difficult. I played it recently 2 handed solo, had someone die and then both investigators die in the next scenario (can’t remember which exactly).
So are you doing something wrong? probably not, it’s just poorly balanced. I would recommend “cheating” - the recent rules have “boons” which are modifications to make the game easier. For example, one boon lets you choose one card for your starting hand, another lets you have one additional move action per turn, another lets you ignore an autofail once per game - which i kind of do anyway, sure the game is “balanced” around it but it’s simply unfun for me to commit half my hand to a test and then lose.
The game is supposed to be fun (I think) and sometimes it and it’s fanbase forget that.
Anyway, I definitely feel you on not wanting to continue, I had a similar experience a while back on a different scenario where I lost and was killed part way through the campaign. I dont have the time required to replay all that to make it “fun”.
last thought, is that the game really wants to surprise you with the scenarios but simultaneously wants to reward you for knowing what will happen so theres some real conflict there imo.
Thanks for helping me see it another way! Guess it’s too much to expect for every scenario to be perfectly balanced 😅. We’ll have to revisit it sometime and maybe just skip a scenario or two!