by Tseims
Last night we played the first encounter of the LotW-minicampaign, Gold Digger. Me as the Overlord got 4xp and 4 threat, while the players all got 4 xp and 100 gold. I picked the Basic 2-deck and Verminous for my plot deck, and bought the one card that gives Skittish to my monsters by spending threat. I picked Dark Minotaurs and Harpies as my open groups. The heroes were Reynhart as Champion, Arvel as Thief, Dezra as Necro and Andira as Bard.On their first shopping step before the encounter, they bought Mana Weave, Bow of Bone and Djinn's Lamp. Travels were a no event, an all-party test which they all failed to give me 4 more cards for my starting hand, and the knight duel which the heroes won to get the Bard a new sword.
They absolutely devastated all my monsters and even spent time just hanging around before triggering Valyndra's descent while one of them grabbed the remaining search tokens. I killed only 2 of the miners due to poor rolls before Valyndra got brought into the field. It took only 2 turns for them to hurt her so badly, that I just decided to screw the miners and use all my cards to bring even one of them down. I barely managed to down their Bard with 2 Dirty Fightings, a Flurry, a Mental Error and a Blood Rage. They had Andira, so Valyndra got killed by her ability before she could make the second attack granted by the Blood Rage. I lost by a large margin and only got 1 threat to make up for it.
We decided to end playing there, but it got me thinking: Did I make some huge mistakes or are the minicampaigns in favor of the heroes? That much xp and gold makes the heroes way too strong for the act 1 monsters. I remembered to reinforce and drew a card at the beginning of my every turn. Thoughts?