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Got this on the bundle, and it is an amazing way to gamify a behaviour that I already have, while also making it fantastic and placing goals to achieve. The system is easy, rewarding, and also very generous with the points, so you can confortably defend your archive. But it's important to seek the final goal of 500 points; since the levels are increasingly harder to get and at some point, the steady increase in the enemy hordes will be too much for you to keep up.

What I like most about the game is that it encourages people not only to hoard pdfs or materials, but to actually read them in a way that they can rate and have opinions about it (and now play them with the alternative rules). The fact that there is no mechanical penalty if the Legion wins one week makes it casual enough for people that have other things to do; but I will be substracting from my points if that happens. I already have an archivist level and I will seeking more.

The only real suggestion that i could give would be making the fillabe spaces in the PDF wider, specially for the Points. As it is currently, you can only see two digits, even when one of the goals is to collect 500 points

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Whoah. Being able to lose points definitely adds some extra challenge. I'd also consider having the legionnaires lose a d6 after successfully sacking part of the library---that way they aren't endlessly growing more powerful while you're losing points---but this is optional. Definitely play on extreme difficulty mode if that's what calls to you!

For the fillable PDF, it was generously created by volunteers. I'm not sure I'm good enough at layout to mess with it, but I'll keep the lesson in mind for future projects and make sure the fillable fields on character sheets are wider.

+23 Archivist Points!