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Hi Michael,

I played a little bit of v1 a few years ago and absolutely loved it! Tremendously atmospheric and fluid gameplay, it's an amazing game. Just discovered the update today and I'm super-excited to try it but I am slightly pining for the sheer volume of different unique card descriptions in the original.

I'm just wondering: would it be possible to use all the v2 rules but with the v1 card tables? Would it completely screw up the balance and the new mechanics you've added? Or are they mechanically quite similar but more streamlined in v2? I'm also attracted to the lovely, concise new 2-page dungeon spreads, so if the v2 rules are best enjoyed as-written I'm totally happy to grab a torch and get delving!

Thanks for this awesome game.

NotWriting289 days ago(+1)

That's a good question.

I think the original card tables... should work fine? I mostly streamlined the dungeons in v2 to fit in a printed zine and to cut down on the amount of layout work I would have to do. But to my knowledge it should work out to about the same number of encounters per dungeon, and similar types of encounters. Nothing right off the bat that strikes me as a problem, though it has been a while since I looked at the original rules so, delver beware!

drmindflip289 days ago(+1)

Ah that's really cool - nice to have the option between the two, and if there's some extra danger on the cards then all the better! Thanks for your reply and congrats on an amazing game :)

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