I've brought this up for discussion because the card is great thematically and in its intentions, but the first thought shouldn't be it, you want to go get dinner before the second game?' or 'Can we just restart?' I could be overinflating this due to my profession as a user experience designer, but a participant result of their time feeling wasted would make me hold a release to investigate. No upgrades and no progression, a mitigating factor at lower tiers are that failure will often still result in a deck upgrade.Īn influencing factor could be the scenario power and servitor demons that appear at the higher adventure decks. Each of our recent needs to replay were directly influenced by demonic horde and how it distributes its effect, even more frustrating at high tier where remaining deck upgrades become very infrequent. We also try to limit our tables to 4 players to avoid adding in extra demonic hordes, which goes against the spirit of OP wanting as many people to play as possible. More time is spent on resolving the horde due to needing to ensure N success otherwise having to do the same thing again. Resolving the horde also takes a disproportionate amount of time due to its nature, especially when coupled with varied card traits or scenario effects. If we do face the horde, often times it goes back into the deck due to one failure forcing a full fail. When Demonic horde is showing up I begin to question whether its better just to call the scenario and restart or move to a season 2 session. So why do I say this card is affecting more that just the game? Because it can make 90 minutes of play suddenly worthless. The party hammer may get none and the healer may have multiples. This same formulae doesn't translate into the ACG, the summoned demons are randomly assigned to an individual member.

Tanks will tank, dps will dish the damage, support will try to make sure the battle goes the party's way.

In an RPG setting such a thing is mitigated by the party being able to rely on their class roles to handle this unexpected event. The issue is the development/mechanics portion. Suddenly an group of demons descends upon the party unexpectedly and they must fight them off to continue their mission. I understand the cards design, its very thematic and fits great with the lore. Just wanted to open a thread for this card in OP.Īs the organizer for our standing event, this card has been the recent bane of my existence.

Frustration 21 card game