Is the game playable on the "tactical" difficulty, or is it some kind of sick joke?
Everything is hitting harder than MC, healing in a tavern costs a lot, potions cost an arm and leg and there is no source of income (hunting wolves is a loss since healing costs more than loot and hunting boars is broken or something, they just run away every time).
The level-ups seem to be useless in combat.
I have completed quests 1-5, 10,11,19,23; have 150 HP and less than 200 gold at the moment. The guy in the elf girl's room, two bandits during an ambush, the centipede in the cave, and the bear just rip the MC apart (even fully healed) and there are not enough potions to survive (healing card is unreliable and RNG seems to be on the enemy side today).
Is there something that I am missing that can salvage the situation or am I already soft-locked myself somehow and it is better to drop and just start over on the 'story' difficulty?