i think tattered wizard hat is kinda confusing like it should say an enemy card doesn't increase hunger instead of saying it doesn't take food.
I was a little confused by the Ring of Balance: It "increases hunger by 1.5x but decreases HP by 2x." Aren't increased hunger and decreased HP both bad things? Why I would I want a relic that has all negative effects? I must have misunderstood what it does.
(I understood it to mean that your hunger will now increase by 1.5 when it previously would have increased by 1, and your maximum HP will be reduced by half. Both of those effects seem catastrophic, so I've been avoiding the ring until I can figure out what it actually does.)
I was also confused by the Whip: "each card opening deals 1 damage to all enemies on the board."
Does it damage all enemies, including enemies that have not yet been revealed? Or does it damage only the enemies that are visible? I wasn't sure which effect the ring had--and it makes a huge difference.
I think some of the confusion may be coming from the terminology: Right now, it feels like a double negative when the interface talks about decreasing hunger (which occurs in the absence of food). Modifications to the scale add another difficulty, because it's not necessarily clear whether the modification applies to the resource itself, or to the resource requirements--and those two possibilities have opposite effects.
If the interface were to switch from "hunger" to "food" consistently, I think the confusion would mostly disappear. For example, the interface could say that 1 food is consumed when revealing an enemy card, rather than say that hunger increases by 1 when revealing an enemy card. When the resource scale is modified, you could say that food is now worth 1.5 times its previous value (or, even more simply, that you'll be given 1.5 times more food). I think that very minor change would clear everything up.