Any one playing any roguelike at a high level knows the RNG is critical to it. For certain designs like Slay The Spire, you end runs prematurely if the dice is stacked against you early game, because you need a certain number of positive rolls early on to accumulate an advantage or profile for later on. I've started to feel like starting a new run is like instantiating a different path in the multiverse. It's simply "another me", that "could have happened". Delving further deeper into it, I start to feel like the RNG itself becomes everything, because if things don't fall my way I just restart into a new run. And the primary difference in that new run is RNG. And it's almost like, why does it even matter at that point, because I'm not stopping a run because of more or less skill -- though to be fair, as you play more, the depth to which you understand turns, cards, choices and meta-decision dynamics in the campaign tree continue to deepen. It d
