If your group, or even one of the players in the group, isn’t willing to take part in the storytelling and improv aspects of this game, it’s going to fall flat, very flat. Think choose-your-own-adventure books, but on a board game with actions decided by 20-sided dice and you wouldn’t be far off.

Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games! Each dungeon tile has its own adventure deck and the damage clip is used on monster cards to keep track of its health. It's a fun little game and I would like to see more, perhaps adding a little more complexity that you can mix into it if you'd like. If only there were a gateway game to introduce the main concepts of the game without lots of reading and math.Players pick three of five hero tiles and everything they need to know about that character is ready to go.

Shuffle the deck of item cards and place it to the side of the game board along with a pile of gold tokens.Place the Boss tile in the Boss stand and place it in the gatekeeper space on that Boss’s dungeon tile. Now had they written back and said, “Hey sorry we can’t replace that elf, we don’t have replacement copies of components for that game.

My boys were very excited to play, and although I had watched about an hours worth of “how to” video, I was still intimidated by the game.When players reach the gatekeeper space at the end of the current dungeon board, instead of drawing a new card, the DM selects the gatekeeper card next to the dungeon board and then the party either plays through the scenario or fights the monster to complete the dungeon board. What all of these character choices are really for is to give you roleplaying prompts to use when describing what your character does. Items can only be used once per dungeon board and you can only play one item per attack or when you are attacked.