Hi Folks, I've got alot of friends who play board games which means oftern we have too many for Descent. We recently tried ToI mission The Hive with five heroes - We gave the Overlord evil genius, and Brilliant commander to start with and one extra treachery of each.

Unsurprisingly, it was a cake walk for the heroes.

Has anyone had more success with house rules for this?

Rather than 5 heroes, play with 4 vs 2. Have 2 people play the OL, helping each other out. The number of times I've been caught out by making a minor tactical mistake, which the heroes dont make because there are 4 players all helping each other....