Balancing Turn-Based Games is Really Hard and Scary

Replacing Difficulty With Elo

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The challenge of balancing turn-based games has fascinated me for at least the last decade. I’ve participated in several game jams and wrestled with balancing my own games.

But mostly, I used to play NetHack a lot, and discussion forums were filled with people saying the game was too hard (never…