The Importance of Intent in Slay the Spiral

The intent system was so vital to like making combat feel fair and tactical instead of just random and arbitrary. I really value displaying information to the players that they can make informed decisions, he says. He never wanted to do a card deck or anything because he thought there'd be too fiddly and complicated. The player feels way better about everything if you're showing them what's going on rather than telling them how to play it.