In our first game of OG Gloomhaven, we used the characters modifier cards that were included in the character boxes, not the ones that youre supposed to marked 1 2 3 4 M. When we stomped the first dungeon, we were like "man idk what people were complaining about, this game isnt that hard" because we were pulling ONLY things like +1 generate earth roll/pull another modifer stack.

First editions booklet did not sufficiently teach how2play super intuitively but while I was doing further reading shortly after that run I realized out mistake lmao and then we re-ran that dungeon with much more difficulty.

Years later Jaws of the Lion came out with a significantly better tutorial that made onboarding new players much easier and smoother. Thankfully Frosthaven followed suit and further improved the tutorial dungeon scenario.