Lanefan
Victoria Rules
I liken it to what once happened to me in one of the very few really big M:tG tournaments I ever entered: it was a Vintage tournament at GenCon with some big prize or other, and I'd come up with one of those half-cocked either-it-works-or-it-crashes-hard deck ideas.I'd say there's a narrative disjunction between "ghouls aren't known to be a big problem in the world" and "we run into them all the damned time." I'm not inclined to insist the players be the ones to patch it.
There were at least a few hundred people in this tournament; and to no surprise at all I lost my first three rounds then bailed. I was up against the same general deck-build idea in all three games and thought to myself "this deck must be the flavour of the month". Imagine my surprise when the tourney organizers later published deck-type stats and I saw that there were only four of those deck builds in the whole damn tourney - and I'd played against three of them!
That's how ghouls are in this game world - the thing there's not many of but of which we-as-PCs meet a disproportionate amount.