Island Survival

First of all, very cool concept for a game. You don’t see many solitaire games out there (or at least I don’t).

So, this seems like a good draft. I take it that it’s not your first? It still needs a very fine editing job, but for now is descent. Very good use of pictures and examples. I think I basically understood most of the rules, however had a few questions to ask (or things that weren’t clear right away, though I’m being a bit picky, just because I figure it will help).

A few thoughts:
-Why is it that a canteen has a -1 fitness penalty, but not a water pot? Don’t they do the same thing?
-Why is there such a large penalty for matches, and no penalty for flint? Isn’t flint almost as good? Also, the cards and rulebooks say different things about what is required to stat a fire.
-I think your rulebook is out of order.
-“Highest uncovered fitness level,” was confusing until I read the example (I thought it meant if you were at 70%, and were injured, then you’d put it on the 70%).
-The setup instructions were difficult to understand, though the drawing helped a lot (what’s that old saying about 1000 words I guess?). You might consider explaining what each card means before the SETUP section.
-In the going astray example, “You roll again to determine left or right. Rolling a three, you stray left and arrive at location 5 as shown on the table.” Three should be 3. Also, a picture would be very helpful here. (additionally, it might help to have both the random table, and the pathfinding table available here; not necessary though)
-Eating berries causes you to gain stamina (if they are the bad ones). You mean lose stamina, right?
-What happens if you shoot at the wild animal and miss? Do you get injured, or does it run? (the rules make it sound like the later)
-Under chased by natives, it is pretty clear that “+1 per shot fired,” means the gun, but you might want to state that explicitly.
-Stamina and fatigue are used kind of interchangeably here. You should probably pick one and stick with it.
-Can you only search the ship once, or can you do it every time. Also, if I understand it, you get to pick any equipment?
-What causes you to lose or die? I caught: not running from the locals, or sleeping with the panther, and maybe going unconscious (though I missed that bit the first time I read it). Otherwise, how do you lose? Is it just missing both planes? What happens if you can’t start a fire on turn 10 (I’m guessing you just lose, right)?
-Is there anything that permanently reduces stamina?
-So, you can forage anywhere except the native village, right?
-Two food track questions: if I am at Day 4, do I just lose the fitness, or do I also gain fatigue? Also, is that fitness regained by eating?
-Just a thought, the medical kit almost seems a bit overpowered. Literally, every time you are injured it means you get one less injury? Even if you only gain 1 injury?
-If you start with, say, a fitness handicap, does that mean you can never go above 85%? Or is it just that you start feeling slightly unfit?
-When you say, “Recover one additional level of fitness” from eating a lot and resting, maybe I missed it, how else can one regain fitness?

As I said, overall great concept for a game.

Simon