Piggy

At the start of the game seperate the “item” treasures from the ” play immediately” treasure. Use a spare dice, I prefer 10 sided, rolled and place the result on top of the “non item” deck. Players then have the option to purchase the top card of the deck for the die result×100 gp. Lets players use gold inn the game and adds chance, that card may or may not help when purchased.

When I play solo, I only draw 4 adventure cards and don’t replenish them until the start of the next hour. Makes it harder to avoid tougher challenges.

Bottom line is the characters are supposed to be played differently. The troll isn’t intended to be a crafty git and the fairy isn’t meant to hulk out. However, it’s hard to play this game for 10+ hours. Start upgrading stats after 5 trophy points, until the stat upgrades to 5. After this you don’t upgrade until you beat your current stat. This speeds up the game while keeping the characters varied. Use to play upgrade when you bet the current stat, faster but weak characters bulk up too quick, same with lower craft characters. Then 10 rounds in you get everyones stats equal and the game slows down.

We play this expansion differently in my group, more the way it was played inearlier editions. 1st- to entetr the dungeon you need to be at a dungeon entrance card or at the ruins at the beginning of your turn. When you enter the dungeon you stop at the entrance for your first turn. Once in the dungeon you can only move further into it, unless cards, locations or spells say different. For the most part this makes it more difficult than the other regions of the board and other expasions so unless you have good stats and an abundance of life, try not to go in too early. Players die in the dungeon alot this way, and retreiving their stuff can become difficult because of the one way movement. If your playing with the Reaper or Werewolf expansions, They move into the dungeon freely, just like any other region, but they can only move forward as well, when their movement brings them to the end of the dungeon the player controling them can place them anywhere they want, except the inner
region.

My group always plays random endings. Makes it more chaos to have a secret reveal after the long journey to the crown. We pick 6 possible endings at the beginning and 1 st one to the crown rolls d6. When we get death, the person on the crown sends him to another player of their choice. That person rolls for the result. Makes fate very valuable. If 2 people are on the crown they must fight instead.