Opening the box of Sword & Sorcery, one disadvantage of miniature-based becomes immediately obvious: Miniatures are more costly to produce and take up more space in the box than cardboard standees, thus you end up with a much smaller number of different enemies. The core set of Sword & Sorcery, Immortal Souls, has just 4 different types of common monsters, and two boss monsters. However the common monsters each exist in different color-coded levels, and even the two monsters of the same color and type aren't completely identical. Also the 5 hero types exist in two versions each, a "lawful" and a "chaos" version, which play very differently. And you can choose different powers, so there is quite some replayability. Even if the base box contains only 7 quests to play through, there are several expansions with more content, and you can find player-made quests on BoardGameGeek.

As the delivery of my copy of Sword & Sorcery took several weeks, I had the opportunity to learn the rules and prepare for the game by watching YouTube playthroughs. Always just the first quest, to not spoiler the rest. But one thing I noticed lots of people having problems with is the relatively simple math of the combat system. Basically you produce a number of hits with your attack, and then subtract a number for defense from that. For example if you land 5 hits against a defense of 3, the target takes 2 points of damage. The problem is that both the number of hits and the defenses are calculated from a number of different factors: Various cards in play, decisions by the players, and the situation on the board. Those 5 hits you land might be 1 for domination of the space, 1 for having used your action on a focused attack, 1 automatic hit from your weapon, and 2 from the attack dice you rolled. And the defense of 3 might be 1 for the currently active event, 1 from armor, and 1 from the defense dice. It is quite easy to forget one factor of this, or losing track of something. The YouTube videos are full of people calculating a number of wounds, then remembering something and redoing the calculation. So I thought there might be a better solution, and designed a 3D-printed score board using TinkerCAD:It is a simple board with one side for attack, and another side for defense. Each side has 1.1 cm square holes, in which 1 cm square cubes fit to mark the various conditions. So you just need to go through the (2D printed) lists for attack and defense once, mark the applicable conditions with a cube, roll your dice and mark those with cubes too, and then immediately see the difference between attacks and defenses.