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Originally Posted by C.W.Richeson
Great review, Lukas!
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Thanks! That means a lot considering your track record.
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Beast Hunters sounds like an excellent choice for two people who want to play something lighter that still involves strategy. How long do you think an average session would take? I had been thinking of using this game to fill in an hour here and there around existing game sessions, but I don't know if that would work.
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One of the neat things about the adversity pool mechanic is that it makes the game visibly and easily scalable from session to session in terms of length and difficulty. The Hunter chooses both the total number of points and the maximum that can be spent on one conflict. So, if you wanted a very short session, setting the pool at a relatively low number, but setting the max expenditure relatively high would mean that you could have a quick game with just 1-3 conflicts of moderate to high difficulty.
Sessions with actual beast hunts will tend to be a bit longer, both because they dictate the minimum adversity pool and because they have a built-in endgame for the session that only comes into play after all the points have been expended.
Does that help?