Hi there, Wesnoth UMC dev here, just stopping by to post that I'm attempting to address some of the feedback from this thread in some of my UMC forks of mainline Wesnoth campaigns. I'm tracking the issue of AToTB having bad writing here: https://github.com/cooljeanius/Two_Brothers_With_A_Third_Difficulty/issues/4
Suggestions of how to improve it are welcome!
Meanwhile, I also had a hard time with SotBE as well, and made an easier version of the campaign that can be found here: https://github.com/cooljeanius/Son_Of_The_Black_Eye_Easy_Edition
Hopefully this version isn't as frustrating and allows players who were previously unable to complete it to make it through this one!