The Importance of Balance in Masters of the Universe

There's two types of combat. You can even, there's a type of combat if you're just flipping up a normal action card that you just roll a bunch of dice and allocate them in a certain way. We tried it once and the odds seemed to be really bad because in the dice-based combat, you only do one round. If you don't successfully knock out a creature, just nothing happens. It seemed very unlikely that you'd ever knock anything out in that form of combat in Masters of the Universe. On the other hand, in the player versus player combat, you can play up to two rounds. And so there's more interesting trade-offs.

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