For me, this looks clear. If Eye value breaks score with its default value, revealation happens every time someone rolld Eye of Mordor (outside of combat).
This seems like a pretty good take to me.
Could you just take it, that if you don’t like the idea that any high-level party is always being hunted, that the first time the eye awareness is **raised** a revelation episode is triggered?
This would be pretty close to RAW. And would feel thematic. If the company:
- rolls an eye
- uses magic blatantly
- gains a reputation (read plot event or Royalty Revealed, famous weapon use, etc)
…revelation is triggered (but doesn’t need to happen immediately or directly).
But when the episode is resolved, reset still occurs.
In the outside chance the reset sets the score to being above the hunt threshold, I don’t think the rules intend for you to trigger—reset—trigger ad infinitum. But the players have minimal room for mistakes—i.e. the first time the score is raised they are revealed.
This would seem to prompt thematic strategies from the players.
- avoiding dark lands etc
- mitigation options suggested in the rules
- splitting the party
Would be nice, agreed if the rules were a little more explicit. But I think with a generous reading rather than being super literal they actually kind of anticipate and deal with this scenario. They are meant to be only a jumping off point to some degree as well, any campaign wide rule like this always needs some interpretation and modification.