A Descent into Madness
I’ve been slacking off posting. It’s so easy to just wrap myself up in what I’m doing and skip the writing part. I owe a few posts; maybe this week I’ll catch up. But! we’ll work backwards - newest first.
I believe I’ve mentioned somewhere that we picked up the World of Warcraft board game after Polycon and played it into the ground. It’s a good game, with good replayability, and I enjoyed the mechanics.
Hungry for more gaming in the key of ‘how am I going to fit all this on a table?’, I picked up ‘Descent’, also from Fantasy Flight. We played the training quest on Sunday. The game is a dungeon crawl in a style similar to Warhammer Quest. One player runs a predesigned dungeon as the ‘Overlord’, controlling all the creatures and traps. The others play heroes, ready to crush the baddies.
( Read the rest of this entry » )(crossposted from The Dream Library)