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In some isolated area there's a village which, through a mix of cruel necessity and centuries thereof, has thrived by offering yearly sacrifices to ward off their destruction at the hands of a threat which, it turns out, died out long ago anyway. Unfortunately the need to sacrifice themselves has essentially been both bred into them through selection and drilled into them through culture.

Well meaning holy pilgrims who chanced upon them attempted to change their ways, but only succeeded in redirecting the sacrifices to their own god, who wasn't exactly pleased. Fearful that they might accidentally direct them to a god who enjoyed that sort of thing if they didn't handle things gingerly, the pilgrims very carefully and slowly convinced the villagers to redirect their sacrifice to a more practical purpose.

Enter Derrin Sweetblood. Through a fairly simple, if legally dubious, arrangement he has been hired to serve as the most expendable member of your party. He will test any traps, taste foods for poison, and generally undertake all your most suicidal actions for you. It's okay, he's literally born for this job, and would gladly run into a horde of goblins carrying the world's largest "firework", lit. When he finally goes, and he will, all that's required is that any leftovers of his payment be sent home.

Only if you call the village "OT", the sacrifices ketara temps, threat "LL moderation and rejuvination", and the pilgrims are people who "attempt to revive strat section."

Can the first dungeon be an LR thread

I was thinking you'd segue into a werewolf (as in, the mafia rip-off) situation at first.

But now I'm stealing that if I'm asked to short notice host again (especially for a black plague variant—when there are no scum, but an epidemy killing people chosen by the host each night, until the town decide to "quarantine themselves" (by calling out the plague and not lynching that day).

UR didn't punish 5c bombs so much as it punished UGx ramp, which it did very well.
X/4s walled most aggro which was neutered this set, greediness went over the top of midrange:
RW was easy to wall, GW bland boardstall.dec w/o the key uncommons, BW could only support one person on average, BG had even less support than in AKH.
B in general had little going on and was a support colour outside of zombies, so it was usually feast or famine because of people cutting/splashing the good cards in your other colour (especially true of UB and BR).

More than 5c performing, it was people forcing/being greedy with 5c and its effect on the draft that made me mad:
People picked Ambuscade/Ritualist/Sifter Wurm super high, then bombs and strong cards, passing most G until mid-late pack 2 where either they started gobbling up all G or had a second colour and consolidated on the pair with several splashes. If you were G you could never be sure whether it was truly open or would randomly disappear in pack 3, if you weren't G finding an open pair was hard due to few good cards going late and/or you'd randomly get your payoff/good cards cut by goodstuff drafters.
Switching after opening a bomb pack 2 (or even 3!) or getting passed a strong unco P2P2 was very common, and done regardless of signals. + Show Spoiler + Trying to make sense of what was happening during the draft, your neighbours's colours, etc. was a chore, often useless, and goodstuff drafters regularly made finding the "open" pair at one's seat a gamble.
You mentioned that a good "deck x" beat an average 5c, but for a lot of decks there being one or more 5c drafters at the table (on top of all the splashes that already happened) made the good versions of these decks less likely to come together as more pieces would be picked away from their seats.

The gameplay itself was neutered aggro + free fixing = very lenient, hard to punish misplays or mediocre builds (be it a goodstuff pile with low support, or a lot of bad filler praying for bombs). Hail Mary until someone's went unanswered were frequent (at some point the norm).