Stale dungeon | Thunderstone

Gabriel Schweitzer

Brazil
Cuiabá
Mato Grosso

Hi, I just played my first TS game and a situation came up where the dungeon monsters were so bad (all 3 gave only 1 VP) that neither me nor my opponent wanted to go battle anymore. So we kept visiting the village and resting to improve our decks and the game came to a stalemate. Eventually we agreed to battle those crappy monsters just for the sake of continuing the game. Is there any ruling I'm missing to prevent this happening?

Thanks.

Posted Mon Feb 6, 2012 12:29 am
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Robert Kline

(BaronLeone)

United States
Mayfield
Ohio

It happens some time. I also pay attention to the amount of gold that a monster gives. One VP but 2 or 3 gold is okay by me. However, the best way to get better monsters is to just defeat the crappy ones.

Posted Mon Feb 6, 2012 12:52 am
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Doug Mann

(Doug1020)

United States
Corpus Christi
Texas

Plus, if you had knocked off all three while he sat around, you'd have 3 XP to level up a mid-level hero to elite status, gaining another 2 VP (on average) and getting a better hero for the final battles.

Posted Mon Feb 6, 2012 1:03 am
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Kennyd Sevenants

(dexploratio)

Belgium

Doug1020 wrote:

Plus, if you had knocked off all three while he sat around, you'd have 3 XP to level up a mid-level hero to elite status, gaining another 2 VP (on average) and getting a better hero for the final battles.

Yeah, what he said ^^
And 1 VP could even make the difference between winning and losing.

Posted Mon Feb 6, 2012 8:37 am
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Bob Wieman

(Scholeologist)

United States

Virginia

My issue is that fighting a low-value monster risks handing an opportunity to your opponent, because the new monster coming out is probably better. I don't know if that was the original poster's reason for a stalemate, but for me, it's a point in favor of arranging the dungeon deck: shuffle all the 3 or 4xp monsters with the Thunderstone, then shuffle the 2xp monsters and put them on top, then finally the same with the 1xp monsters. There's still a lot of variety in what comes up, but the challenge ramps up along with your deck improvement.

Posted Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:20 am
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