I've been here for the first time and I had tons of fun, stabbing around to find out how everything works here.

I'd probably rate my experience somewhere close to 3?! I enjoyed the retro GIFs and the style of humor of this adventure a lot, and it's awesome to have such a little game on steemit.

Coming in as a last minute first time player it was honestly a bit confusing how things would work, the rules were laid out in every post and that was fairly easy to follow, so the instructions were clear and I got a good grip of how things worked as I went along, but I think there's room for improvement in communicating to the player through the bot as he progresses.

I guess the replay-ability of the game in this stage is also a bit limited, after a short while it's probably just a dice-roller?! That's where I feel the luckydip and openpockets options already add a whole lot to the game, I would love to see more options like this to build the character with items or skills, maybe merchant/tavern-stages or random events that add opportunities to the character progression. More options in combat would be great, too... one-use-items like health-potions or damage-bonuses that you can apply when you missed the battle by 1 to turn your score around... In that scope, I also wouldn't hold back with more microtransactions either. There's a prize to be had, so it's not such a bad idea to spend a little steem for a small advantage (not pay-to-win, but that tiny little extra margin to make things a bit easier/safer - or make power items unusable for the boss fight, to keep the grand-prize competition fair). The 0.01 was way too cheap, make that 0.1 right away... I'd dare to go even higher and then just make it so that a good chunk of it adds to the prize-pool?!

Of course, adding all these complexities is not going to be easy, both in programming and communicating it in an intuitive gameplay experience... so take my wish-list with a grain of salt... it's as it is already an impressive little bot and game experience you've created on steem there! Kudos!