Like the yellow, it also has a 4 Investigation side which is great to see when you need it. That Wild Card is one of the few reasons to use Spells in the game, because locking it down and re-rolling the others can give you the flexibility to overcome the game’s randomness. The Red glyph is the best one, and only because of one side – the Wild Card. In addition, the Yellow glyph can come up with 4 Investigation, which can be useful all on its own. You discard one that was never going to come up Terror anyway, keeping all the others that are more likely to give you what you need. If you roll the glyphs and don’t get what you need, discard the yellow and roll again. This might seem like a disadvantage, but in a mission with a lot of Terror glyph requirements, it can literally be a free re-roll.

The yellow glyph can have a special advantage of it’s own – it does not have the Terror symbol on it. For all these reasons, you need extra glyphs for every mission. Which means you need extras to discard, no matter how low the glyph count is. You’re not going to get through a mission without discarding at least once. No matter how many glyphs you’ll be using, you’ll be discarding some every time. The game is cruel and fickle and will yank the rug out from under you at the worst possible time. If you have a mission that has only 2-3 glyphs, you’re going to be able to do that one without a problem, unless there’s something like a Terror effect that causes you to lose dice or even lose the whole mission on a bad roll (damn you, Koi Pond…) Even so, don’t count on being able to do that. You HAVE to have extra dice, and a character that can control the outcomes of those dice to be certain of success. So looking it over, if you have a mission that has 3 glyphs and 6 investigation, the odds on you doing that with just the base six dice are very, very low. On average you’re going to get 2 per die. You can roll higher or lower on Investigation, but you can’t count on it. Each single symbol is going to be one of your glyphs, and every two Investigation is going to be one of them as well. Period.īefore entering a mission, look at the tasks you’re going to have to do. Some of the most powerful and effective characters give you those glyphs for cheap or even free, and those are the characters that should be on your winning team every time. For this reason, you should never keep a red or yellow glyph in reserve, use them every time you have them. Finally, you’ve got to keep them equipped, making sure they always have “ammo” to fuel their special abilities and extra red and yellow glyphs to give them plenty of chances to succeed at tasks.įirst off, you need to have as many glyphs as possible when you go into a mission. Keeping those characters alive and sane is the next tough step, as some missions can quickly wear them down.

This means using characters that excel at this, and using their special abilities correctly. The way to make sure you can regularly beat this game is by exercising as much control over the glyphs as you can.

Either way this can often backfire, leaving you boned without enough glyphs to succeed. It’s possible that my latent psychokinetic powers are more easily able to affect the dice than they are the software, but it’s my belief that the program creates more tension by forcing you to repeatedly re-roll, losing another die every time, until you get just what you need on the last roll. I put randomness in quotes because I am not entirely convinced the glyphs are random, I have played the tabletop game with actual dice many times and I am vastly more successful at getting what I need from those bits of plastic than I am from the bits of electrons in this game. Your real enemy in this game is the “randomness” of the glyphs.

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