Sanity Test for Slime Lords

71/100
Final Score
A few points of minor confusion but most players should slip in okay.
Completed September 14, 2016 by Peter Dast

Rules 63/80

Structure 7/9

Parallel Slime & Player explanations are fine; some important information in several sections seems to be added as an afterthought; see notes in Game Play.

Requirements 3/3

Introduction 2/3

Good, but minimal. 'Gluttonous' means greedy, hungry; 'glutinous' is sticky, glue-like.

Overview 2/3

A bit more on how we'll do some of this would tell us what to expect in the rules to follow, for instance, variable turn order & bribery. One misspelling: 'hoard'.

Component List 4/5

Good.

Component Pictures 2/3

Dice 'picture' doesn't really add anything. The rest is good, but of the tokens, what's what?

Setup 10/10

Place the decks face down? Missing a space in "infront". May I look at my Action Cards?

Setup Pictures 5/7

A better picture of the game mat tracks would be good.

Game Play 10/15

Recommended amounts don't make too much sense if I can decline a bribe. And that I CAN decline a bribe is important enough to be in the first paragraph, not the last sentence. 'Break' is misspelled.
Player's Turn: I'm a little lost here, since I don't know what my relationship with the slimes is - Am I hunting them, avoiding them (slimed out!?), eating them? What are slime dice for? Addressing these questions in the overview would help me understand what I'm reading.
Will I lose a hit point token for each 1 I roll on a black die, or could I match them against slime dice showing a 1, rather than just taking those as freebies?
During player-on-player attacks, am I still free to refuse a bribe? May I spend a luck token to make my attacker re-roll?
So is it the card I play that determines whether I may move, attack, or use the Room Check token? Is that token removed after use, or is it permanent? In this context, it's 'its', not "it's".
Skill cards - if I need to spend three Ability Tokens to activate a card, can other players contribute? Two ps in 'equipped'; 'discarded' & 'requirement' also have typos.
The limit on discarding doesn't make sense unless the optional penalty for unfilled (another typo in 'unfinished') recipes is in play.
Slimes' Turn: The last two paragraphs should be earlier, before the rolling of the dice is explained. Do slime dice stay in a room if the players move to a slimed out room? (That is, if there's a tough set of slime dice in a room, can we leave there to force a re-roll before we decide whether to go back, or would we have to go to a room with a spore?) Does the Round Counter move every turn after the first slime is captured, or only on turns in which at least one slime is captured?

Game Play Pictures 5/7

Showing the complete board (particularly the round tracks) and complete Action cards would help - not sure I understand how they work without seeing them. A visual chart of the Merge conditions would be useful for quick reference.

End Point 5/6

Example is good.

Overall Comprehension 3/4

Pretty sure, but I'd need to see some cards and the board.

Clarity 3/3

Several typos and misspellings, mostly noted. The abbreviation i.e. means 'that is' ("id est") and implies a clarification to follow; 'e.g.' ("exempli gratia" or 'example given') precedes an example of the point just made.

Presentation 2/2

Good but a bit tight - more diagrams and smaller blocks of text would be easier to handle.

Shop Presentation 8/20

Ad 1/3

Art is not particularly impressive; backstabbing seems like too minor of a part of the game to be so prominently featured in the ad.

Backdrop 0/1

Just a giant logo? I want colored slimes!

Logo 1/1

OK, but white background is unflattering.

Action Shots 4/5

Good, but lacking context; a picture of a game in progress would help.

Description 2/5

Minimal and not too interesting. Not sure I'd feel like a 'con artist' while playing this. More information about how the game is played would be better - "with a group of greedy and not-entirely-trustworthy comrades, enter the perilous caverns beneath [wherever] to seek ingredients to prepare exotic foodstuffs for gluttonous nobles!" "Roll your dice and take your chances, but beware! - when the slime runs out, you'll quickly turn on each other!"

Video 0/5

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