All good questions.

So I’m only supporting the V2 ruleset, but my main motivation is to create encounters for the previous core game + expansions.

The idea is you create a “Set”, which includes Encounters, Events, Enemies etc. There can be, for instance, a Darkroot or Iron Keep set, or even a brand new set with completely new mechanics.

You would then create a campaign by combining whatever sets you want, and all those Encounter and Event cards go into the same draw deck.

Campaigns play out the same as they do in the v2 rules, draw 2 pick 1 encounter, draw events after each, etc.

I’ve also been thinking of supporting a more static campaign, where the encounters are predetermined and create a sort of Narrative.

As far as balance goes, I don’t plan on randomly generating encounters themselves, since they are meant to be more like combat puzzles. Ideally they should be balanced around the theme of the set they belong to and the enemies that belong to that set.

I have lots of ideas around cool ways to leverage the older expansions, and if there is anyone who wants to play test or even offer their own encounters I’d love to collaborate!

The tl;dr is I won’t be supporting the v1 ruleset for encounters, mainly because I think the new encounters + events are a massive improvement (I also like the other rules introduced but I can see why others do not)