Thanks for the feedback!
I never played Throne Fall but back when I saw some clips, it seemed pretty fun. The original idea for this game was to have these events, the dilemmas, as modifiers for the geckos' factions (like Europa Universalis' event cards). They would be the core of the gameplay, but not the only mechanic.
We planned on having resources, city building, city defense, etc, which would all complement the narrative side of the dilemmas, but, in retrospect, that was very unrealistic for a 30 day project.