Yes folks, i'm 23 years old!
So today will be my gaming groups (myself and a couple close friends) weekly Descent: Journeys in the Dark session.
As I stated above Descent is a dungeon crawl boardgame for 2-5 players. In the game a band of 2-4 heroes must venture into a dungeon to accomplish some task. The heroes are opposed by the "Overlord" who acts as a DM/GM type character. The overlord spawns monsters and plays traps in an attempt to stop the heroes from completing their task. Unlike roleplaying games, the Overlord can win in Descent and actively tries to do so. There is a sort of scoring system called conquest points that determine who is winning. If the heroes ever run out of conquest points they lose the game (usually as a result of being killed).
This week's quest features a rather linear dungeon, in which the heroes have to rescue some dude who is being held prisoner by some monsters:
In this pic you can see the board and some of the components to the game. The heroes start at the bottom of the picture. Immediately blocking their progress is a door and two monsters.
The heroes know how the dungeon is layed out (they always have a map) but they don't know where doors are or what is behind them. (It's kind of hard to tell but the dungeon is composed of multiple puzzle-like piece. This allows for many different set ups, and there are a ton more included dungeon pieces then just what you see in this pic.) As new areas are revealed the Overlord player places monsters, obstacles, treasure, etc according to the quest guide.
This game is mostly about fighting monsters and finding treasure.
More pics:
There are only 4 Heroes in the picture, but between the base game and the 2 expansions I think there are 32 Heroes to choose from.
This is probably the closest thing I have to something like D&D. But there is really no roleplaying per se, it's more so just fighting, exploring, getting treasure, etc. Almost like a board game version of Diablo.
My group plays pretty slow, so we usually take around 4-8 hours to finish one quest in Descent.
I'll take some more pics when we start our game.
Lots of replies to everyone:
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Originally Posted by Lashujin
Quality stuff in that collection there. I see several games that I want/have been curious about playing.
I still need to pick up A Victory Lost. I wish MMP would release the rules (doubtful) because I'd really like to read them. Still the price on the game is so cheap (compared to some of my recent acquisitions) that I should just buy it.
Bonaparte at Marengo is another game I hear great things about, but i've yet to really look into it.
I'm not too keen on early 19th century warfare (Napoleonic stuff really) which is probably why. I also have no games about the American Civil War now that I think about it.
Heres my BGG collection:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewcol...xyear=&B1=Load
How do you like Imperial? I really like the idea of an economics type game sort of posing as a WW1 game. I've read the rules and it seems like something I and my friends would enjoy.
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Originally Posted by not sonic
between me and my friends we probably have about 6-8 heroscape master sets. then i think weve got 4 lava expansions, the ice expansion, multiple trees/paths, and two castles.
we tend to buy more terrain than figures.:emb:
the whole deal with heroscape is its "the battle of all time" which is cool and all but it doesnt work when the scenery is pretty much all medieval.
sir denrik and the knights of weston ftw.:buttrock:
one time we built a replica of elwynn forest from warcraft and played out a modified version of that table top rpg they played in the yugioh manga. :emb: :emb: :emb:
I'm really tempted to buy Heroscape Marvel and then get the Heroscape master set again, and then i'd take the Captain America unit and the Airborne Elite (WW2 Paratroopers) squad and have them be on the same team. WW2 Cap squad for the win! They could even fight Red Skull! Now if only Red Skull had some minions...
I hear once you get 2 (or more) Master Sets then the terrain stuff you can do is amazing. Undoubtedly the best part of the game is the terrain. I still regret selling my copy of that damned game, especially now that actually cool units are out like all the Samurai, Ninjas, Greeks/Romans/Gladiators, and Zombies.
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Originally Posted by norton9478
The worst part of Monopoly is the fact that 90% of the population doesn't really know ANY OF THE FUCKING RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never mind house rules, motherfuckers wanna start a fight with me cuz I tell them you have to auction a house if somebody lands on it and doesn't want to buy it. Or they try to put a fucking hotel on Boardwalk and no Houses on Fuckin Park Place...
Hahaha, so true man. I'm convinced like all of maybe 4 people have ever actually sat down and read the rules to Monopoly (or most of the other well known, now property of Hasbro titles). I really hate the house rule where free parking gives you money.
Monopoly is pretty looked down on by people at Board Game Geek, and while there are a lot of other games i'd rather play than monopoly, I'm not so elitist that I wont play it. I really don't care for the roll dice and then move mechanic, it's a bit too random for my taste. I want to get a few more games dealing with economics/finance though.
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Originally Posted by n00bz0r
Thats cool. I love board games, and I used to play Pencil and Paper games when I was in highschool too. Just ust about any other Palladium books were awesome, and if you had RIFTS, it made them all even better. My favorite boardgame is probably Risk, I only have the standard variant though. I really wanna get the one that is from like 2589 or something. Its got the moon, and other planets or something as territories. Very cool. I had never played Catan, and I tried it on XBL. I only had the demo, and I didn't have time to really get into it but it was pretty cool from what I did play. I also got the demo for Caracasson or something. Its a very simple game, but with people on xbl it can be fun.
have you ever played games like Munchkin, or Hacker by Steve Jackson Games? Munchkin is pretty cool as it pokes fun at regular pencil and paper RPGs and its card-based. I recently started playing Munchkin and Hacker with some friends of mine and they are pretty fun.. Grab a 12 pack of beer and some snacks with those games and you're in for a night of laughs.
I haven't played Carcassone myself, but i'd like too and I think I might just buy it some point later down the road. I'm trying to broaden my collection a bit and get some games that don't deal exclusively with combat/fighting (I really need more of what are termed "Euro" games in 'teh Geek Vernacular).
From what I understand the Risk 2210 edition IS the best version of Risk available. There is an overall turn limit, which prevents the game from dragging on endlessly, plus some new mechanics like cards and commanders make for more strategic and tactical options then just massing troops and rolling dice.
What's really badass about the game is that they released some tournament/convention only exclusive expansions that allowed you to fight on Mars, and I think Mars' moons. There may have been some other planets available but i'm not sure. If you look hard enough you can find the maps online (you'd have to print them yourself obviously) or if you have the cash you might be able to get them on ebay, though they fetch a high price (from what i understand)
Yeah, I've played Munchkin once. It was humorous at the time, especially because it's just a silly D&D/Fantasy/RPG spoof. Seemed definitely best with some beer.
Steve Jackson games put out a cool Chess variant called Proteus that I want to buy. It can be had for $10-15.
