Alex

Here’s a Co-op version to take your Adventuring Group on.

Adventuring Party

Cooperative Play Variant

The dungeon’s gotten very dangerous of late—with its wandering monsters threatening to overrun the nearby town! You’ve decided to set aside your differences for once, and created an adventuring company charter to aid your town in beating back the tide of evil. And this time, everyone gets an equal share of the loot… although you still have to watch the Rogue.

Variant Rule: Instead of playing the game against each other, you are all working together to defeat the Monsters and claim treasure. At the beginning of the game, add up the gp amounts of Treasure needed to win the game for all Heroes, and divide the total by 2. That number is the collective amount of winning Treasure for everyone. During the game, you can play with your Treasure cards face up. Once the Heroes have enough Treasure to win, each Hero must return to the Great Hall. The Heroes lose the game if one of the following things happen:

Two Heroes are killed during the game.
You have a number of revealed Monster cards in the numbered slots on the side of the board equal to the number of Heroes +2.

In this game, the Thief character is the weakest of the lot. That only needs 10000 thousand looks appealing, but the average reward for level 1-3 is about 1000. The Thief has to kill at least 10 things or more, depending on treasure reward. The Thief has never won any games we played.

So let’s help the thief out and give them a magic sword right off the bat. This should level the field a bit and give them a fighting chance.

This is a simple tip but I find that it is very useful for my fellow Evil Corporation moguls.

Do not misunderstand that as a Corp, your bluff is actually Agendas. Yes, that is right. We bluff with Agendas. The whole sneaky misdirection we should achieve against the Runner is making them THINK that we have a nice, fat, rich agenda behind a veritable wall of ICE in a Remote Server, when in fact, the real Agenda is in a remote server that has maybe one ICE. The server that the Runner is eyeing is maybe a trap or something that will hit him with lots of tags.

To get the Runner in that mindset we have to sacrifice maybe one or two low point agendas by placing them behind such walls of barriers and putting a few ad campaigns or similar in light defended servers first.

One of the many mistakes I have seen Light Side players make is attacking straight away on turn one. This is a poor strategy as it leaves you wide open to the Dark Sides counter attack.

Attacking is a must with the Light Side but you need to take one or two turns gaining control of the force and building up your offensive units.

Once you have 3 or 4 units ready, by all means attack an objective but always keep one or so units in reserve for necessary blocks on offensive moves by the Dark Side player.

Maintain control of the force and keep a good supply of troops and you should start winning objectives!