I had a lot of fun with this. I actually found myself invested in the story, which made me care whether I won each duel and nervous when I couldn't roll what I needed. Our game has no stakes, which is great for experimentation, but also makes it easy to blow past battles without thinking, so finding myself caring about yours and thinking hard was a nice contrast.
I was disappointed I didn't get to see any sort of story resolution though, when I made it all the way without losing (after losing a few times on the first level to learn the game). I was sweating, but yeah, just over. Oh well.