I recently picked up this game, and it is worth every penny. My 11 year old son and I (still trying to get the missus to play!) play a game a day after school, and we are running evenly in number of wins! It took him all of 5 minutes to get the gist of how a turn works, then his devious little mind kicked in with some strategy. He took to Battlelore the same way (little nit.........

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We've played a few games using a "random draw" to select the 10 Action cards to use. It's worked out pretty nicely, and it doesn't get dull!!