Hey folks. We want this game to be successful, right? So give people more options to play it in ways they find more enjoyable. I can enjoy this game as is, but I can’t recommend this game to my friends. I can’t – it’s just too unforgiving. The easy difficulty setting is a good solution for this but currently the easy difficulty setting does nothing for the difficulty of combat.
I’d recommend one simple addition to easy difficulty: a trait which adds +10 to all defenses and +10 to hit for all brothers. It’s right there in players’ faces so they know they are playing with an unfair advantage, and thus are encouraged to move up to normal difficulty once they are more comfortable with the game. I hope that is a good compromise to you ‘hardcore’ gamers.
