Drawing Event Cards

[nigel]

I rarely see the Event die being used to draw an event. So here's some suggested house rules to make using the Event die to draw an event more attractive. Don't use all of them just pick your favourite!

• When you use an Event die to draw an event you draw an event from both decks, choose one and return the other to the top of the relevant deck
  
  
• When you use an Event die to draw an event, draw 2 events, choose one and return the other to the top of the relevant deck
  
  
• When you use an Event die to draw an event you draw an event from both decks, choose one and shuffle the other back into the relevant deck
  
  
• When you use an Event die to draw an event, draw 2 events, choose one and shuffle the other back into the relevant deck
  
  
• When you use an Event die to draw an event, draw 2 events, add them to your hand and shuffle any event (your choice) from your hand back into the relevant deck

You'd need to experiment to find which variant works best for you. I like the first best - lets you pick which event to get immediately and gives you advanced warning of what is coming up ... bit like a palantir. But isn't too powerful, the variants where you can draw 2 from one deck let you burn through one of the decks looking for the card you need (such as Shelob), which might be a bit broken.

Nigel

[eXistenZ]

I think that nobody use the event die to draw a card because you actually don't need to... often it's even too much that you draw 2 cards at the beginning of the turn, and it's happened to me I had to discard because I reached the 6-cards-in-hand limit. In fact the instance is that you draw too much, and the decks are depleted too early: in a game I dropped very early a "palantir", and I "milled" my decks far before the end of the game.
So, aside the suggestions you give I'd add as alternatives:

1) At the beginning of the turn, each player draws only one card from a deck of his/her choice [this would especially make sense to draw by an event die]

and/or

2) when you have to discard for having reached the 6-cards-in-hand limit, you put the exceeding cards in the relevant deck (shuffled or at the bottom) instead.