Thank you for the replies.
After the holidays, I’m going to talk to the two players to see if they’d be willing to give it another chance as well as explain what they didn’t like about the game. I get the feeling that one of the players won’t want to try again. His Elf entered a duel of wits with the Dwarf, but didn’t want much more from the duel aside from getting the sword to take with him which is the opposite of the Dwarf and assumed. I tried to get him to raise the stakes a little more. He then lost the duel, but it ended up being a major compromise situation where he still didn’t want much since he didn’t win the sword.
I’ll have a talk and see what happens. I don’t want to push him too hard about not playing, but at the same time I think it needs a discussion to clarify any issues he had.
I’d love to get these two to try at least once more, but my gut is telling me that they won’t.
Has anyone run Dinner for One with only two players? If I end up just having two players, I was going to modify the difficulty to make it still work since I think it’s supposed to have at least four players.