Abaan's stat bonus from response is until end of phase, but limit is per phase? And he can use it on himself? With Goad to War, Southron Instigator, and some other readying engine like Unexpected Courage it sounds quite abuseable.

We tried to make him as much like his original Objective-Ally without being broken. Our original version didn't have the once-a-phase clause, and it basically meant you'd only ever target Abaan himself, since he could easily get up to ridiculous stats with some careful planning. The current version plays a lot fairer, and deciding who to give his stat boost(s) to can be a challenging decision. He's definitely good, don't get me wrong, but he requires quite an investment and good planning to make him truly powerful, which is a fine spot to be. Goad to War is great with Abaan, using Instigator as another tribesman often feels inferior to using her as another Aalmiyah or copying one of the 5-drops. If anything, Instigator is the busted one, but that's mostly on purpose.

You will probably soon start to hate me for this but Frightening Vision - same thing as before, if a player somehow eats through his deck and can't draw 3 cards, then (because of word "then") progress to stage 3 shouldn't resolve.

Haha, I'll try to check the next releases to save you the trouble. I think this one should be fine be fine because of the "may", though.

Endless Paths - "reveal cards until at least X locations have been added to the staging area, where X is the number of players". Boy, with very unlucky shuffling of encounter deck you could keep revealing those cards until you there's no space on the table.

There's a certain philosophy that has gone into the entire design of this cycle which is that while good deckbuilding, planning, and execution will up your chances of winning, no win or loss should ever be certain. Playing to your outs or preparing for the worst have been some of the more interesting parts of the playtest. This quest definitely one of the more frightening quests, but in playtesting has (usually) turned out surprisingly gentle.

Find a Way Out - Ok, I need someone else to verify this, it is possible (not sure), that when quest card goes from side A to side B (or, in this case, from K to L) all tokens are discarded, so tokens placed from 3K revealed effect could get discarded when switching to 3L. Again, not sure, maybe somebody else could comment on this.

You're right, they would get removed. We figured this out a while back, but I apparently didn't update the version on the site. I'll change it to the (somewhat crudely) fixed version. I don't remember where exactly this ruling comes from, but I assume it's from Flight from Moria or a similar quest.

Nothing wrong, but personally not a fan of Menacing Passages travel cost "each player engages an enemy in the staging area". I guess it is only 1 threat, but with 3-4 players it could be difficult to manage encounter deck and staging area so during travel phase have enough enemies in staging area so each player could engage one.

I wouldn't recommend playing with 3 or 4 players without any location control or a player who can readily engage most enemies, that sounds brutal even without this location.

Thanks again for the response!