Match Making Marauders

After some really careful consideration, I decided to release my design documents for a match three game/RPG hybrid collection under Creative Commons. Now, I got two problems with them:

1. Are the elements sufficiently balanced enough to prevent overuse of certain elements?

2. The RNG that I am currently using (for generating colors based on number codes while I making battle data for novel writing) is the one that comes with Microsoft Excel, but the numbers are rather off and leads to either lots of board resets or too much chain matches. Is there any alternatives?

Thank you for your help and other kinds of feedback are welcomed too!

edited 1st Jun '14 2:10:59 AM by murazrai

Damn, you really put some feedback into this. Gonna take a while to read the whole thing that's for sure...

Though I think you might want to take this to the writer's block or world building section, the other Tropers tend to post their gameplay concepts there and you might get more coverage and readers as well.

You might also want to hunt down another Troper by the name of burnpsy, he makes games as well for a living and may have some invaluable advice for you.