The king is too weak? Add setting to exclude him?

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Bon12345
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The king is too weak? Add setting to exclude him?

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He has the most useless ability, and +2-3 HP doesn’t compensate for that.

There aren’t many ways to make him stronger—simply adding additional HP won’t make much of a difference. One possibility is to give him 1 base energy. Alternatively, you could make it so that the user is unable to pull any tracks during the turn they step on the King’s token.

As it stands, he’s the most useless monster, in my opinion.
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jjthejetplane246
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Re: The king is too weak?

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Yeah, his ability doesn’t generate value while the others all do. Not a great design
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TomKy
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I also find the strategy of playing the King hard, if his tokens was full stop at that turn, I agree it would be useful. Right now, with power cards and effects you can easily skip the king token if you progress several times during your turn.

Maybe you can post your opions here as well?
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/342105 ... ving-pulls

The designer and publishers is watching people forums posts there (maybe here too, but I don't see them commenting here). Thr assymetric style has only become quite noticable since the game just dropped here on BGA.
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RoyalRook
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Re: The king is too weak?

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Yeah, the king is a jester of the court. The Doc is the true king.
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JustinJR
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Re: The king is too weak? Add setting to exclude him?

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Yes. King is so bad I worry it will ruin arena if arena goes random.
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Bon12345
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Re: The king is too weak? Add setting to exclude him?

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upvote my suggestion to add a setting to exclude him here
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=161044
benjaninu
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Re: The king is too weak? Add setting to exclude him?

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I think he's probably not that bad, he's just not an exciting choice because not really having a power is less fun than powers.

His extra health means that if Meka Dragon doesn't get lucky early, you can probably beat him down enough most games to prevent him from fishing for the jackpot.

He's more of an aggressive character since he doesn't have any help to move tracks, but his tokens can be nice to stop Penguin from having mega moves with his 8 dice.
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