by Eeeville
QBert80 wrote:
For those of you that have played the game, did you find the other additions increase the difficulty of the game? If so, the purple dice could have been added to alleviate that added difficulty. If not, I tend to agree they are unnecessary. Fortunately, they can easily be left out.
It depends on what you mean by difficulty:
If you mean difficulty in decisions, yes. It increases the difficulty because you have more choices.
If you mean difficulty due to events, no. There is one nasty Red event that does make the all events more savage but that's one event out of many.
So, for me personally, I don't think the purple die makes the game better. The purple might make the game longer too as each person has an additional die to use in a round. Sometime you'll use it in a group of dice, but individual dice actions are more common with the expansion due to the ramparts action.