User blog comment:CheeseBurgerGuy/TD Choose Your Own Roleplay: Island (Part 3)/@comment-44809221-20200205200333/@comment-35606925-20200205233728

The challenge is a mix of RNG and strategy. I decided to do it this way as whatever choice you make always carries with it the same risks no matter who the player is. Plus, it would be easy to argue why something should be worth less than it is, and I wanted to avoid that.