Been a while since I was on this site but wanted to come back & do some stuff again. Apparently I either never did this one or I forgot to comment after. Anyway, agree somewhat it's nice to just have to rely on skill & not dice for this. I might've gotten extremely lucky as I did this in one shot without my usual map/chart making. Seems like it's good overall though, with nice content & choices. Lower rating only because I'm not sure of everything in it. 80/100.

YARD
Sun Sep 17 11:03:23 2023
Star - optimum ending reached

Well...

This isn't the worst adventure on here, but it's far from the best. I do wonder if I might have had wrong expectations from looking at its difficulty rating. It is supposedly "medium" difficulty, yet I have completed it just now, on my third attempt. You can get one of the items which guarantees victory when used really, really early, and it takes no real effort to find the solution to the one riddle which will likely block your path a little earlier, either. After that, it's just knowing where to turn to avoid straying too far off the path, which is again not very difficult.

I have had a similar experience with Below Zero Point - again, it's marked as "medium" difficulty, yet I completed it in four attempts, and it was hardly luck - its very structure is such that one of the earliest choices in the whole thing trivializes about half of all encounters at no cost, and once you bypass a couple of instant failure choices, practically all that's needed is to not be stingy at the shops and buy all the stuff with interesting names. Meanwhile, the supposedly "fairly easy" A Flame in the North has a timer mechanic and a very considerable range of choices, many of them seemingly reasonable-looking, which either end the run instantly or collectively leave you unable to win. Its predecessor, A Shadow in the North is easier, but still considerably more demanding than either this work or Below Zero Point. For that matter, The Word Fell Silent is also described as "fairly easy", yet it has both the potential to engage in fights that might be really difficult for certain backgrounds, random events and associated skillchecks which may end your run immediately, and some pathways always end in failure for certain backgrounds.

Some proofreading. (Having won once, I haven't explored many of the remaining choices, at least not yet, so it's best to assume this is only a fraction for now.)

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Riley
Wed Jul 10 16:26:56 2024
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

I died ;

roghar
Sat Oct 12 13:59:00 2024
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

is this immpossible

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