well pale is of course rather personal, but it just means that to me it doesn't add anything exciting. Map just replaces Vein and saves you a turn, that makes Mithril more playable indeed, but otherwise doesn't add, and that's a pitty. Or maybe I just don't see what's the point of making a deep mines your protected wizardhaven? So you can be safe playing veins and all other stuff there, is it too dangerous, or just you want to be down there and still be able to maintain a protected to play the big Stage? Sometimes it seems a bit mechanistic thinking. Or is it meant to build up to the 4 MP of Gnawed, I like moving ability to Ancient DH (see my Deepest Delving), but Gnawed can get you to other underdeeps as well now anyway, and does this merit 4 MP's? Well, those are just some thoughts, but that discusion should better take place at the relevant topics. Anyway I do agree Delver/Eater totally suck, you just throw them down for 1 mp, only kick you get out of them is the artwork...
most ring ideas included are beneficial for testing, but it could also be nice to make the ringplay itself more divers, what do you do with rings? Example, we talked about lesser rings or rings that give DI like spirit rings, and the idea is they are good for controlling characters, but that's just it, DI is always used for getting safe character mp's, why not design rings that create interaction between players via influencing. You know, just something along other lines than only helping the direct obstacles of ringplay, I agree we need to fix those, and Ringlore does perfect job, but there's more.
If we'd include all FW Saruman proposals, he would go from zero to hero in one second, honestly, even despite his crappy GI.
of course there's no need to include all those missions. And for most missions, there is no distinction between companies, for example it might be even better to go with your Diplo RW to play in the name of Mordor, not to mention cooler, because you can expect CvCC coming, and all other diplo's but the Mouth are pretty awful at that.
What hole does Steeds or Messenger fill? RW CvCC has become rather popular, now you can fly your guy everywhere so no one is safe. Steeds to me looks just like Heralded Lord only it doesn't discard or modify prowess.
Yes, Bairanax was quite an oddity, wasn't he? yet, I liked the idea of a RW riding a real dragon, some strange vision of the Fall of Gondolin, or siege of Tangorodrim, where all evil teams up.
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