The beta: or the advice I just can’t follow.
How’s your beta going? So it will come as now surprise to anyone to discover that I have jumped around all over the shop during the beta so far. I know! Who knew? Beyond my usual flip flopping tendencies there have been a couple of additional reasons for this, which I’ll come to shortly. But firstly, some advice! That I have utterly failed to take! It’s important to recognise that 4th edition has a general (and probably quite significant) downshift in power level. Everything has been nerfed. Everything. Except of course it hasn’t, that’s just the new normal. Now personally, I am a big fan of this as a philosophical shift in the game for 4th edition as it means that more often than not I am playing the person opposite me more and less the rules on the cards they have chosen. This, for me, is a more hard skill vs soft skill game style approach that I enjoy. I’m not saying it’s better, or more superior I am simply saying that I enjoy it. Which is nice. What this does mean is th...
