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If you enjoy Fantasy Flight Games, you really should take a look at Runebound.

It does not have the 'dick the other players' syndrome that makes so many of these board games bad for a non-traditional play group (you know, women that aren't gamers).

That's a huge plus.

It's best described as you play a DND character running around doing adventures.

You level up after you gain experience, you can buy items with gold gained from monsters, etc.

Everyone has the end-game goal in mind, and just when it seems you have it in the bag...you fail and someone else swoops in for the win.

Note: while there is a player versus player combat included nobody does it.

I've really enjoyed it, my wife (who never plays games) has enjoyed it and actually *wanted* to play it again the next day, and my regular crowd of jaded DND'ers has enjoyed it.

It has alot of support, meaning lots of different adventures to be had. This is a good thing, I think.

I'd rate it 9.5/10. Highly recommended.

I really enjoy this game as well. Me and a couple friends purchased a good chunk of the card expansions, but haven't tried any of the board expansions. The only complaints I had with the game are two things. 1, Healing is clunky and expensive. It makes combat expensive which I kind of understand, but it seems somewhat counter-productive at times. 2, If someone falls hard it's nearly impossible to come back. It is indeed a great game and I would suggest it for anyone who enjoys board games.

We changed one thing, at the suggestion of the game designer.

Every adventure beaten nets +1 gold on top of anything else.

Some people go for the super killy items, others for a more balanced approach.

Even the guy who had a really nasty combo (for 6 hearts worth of damage pre-combat) and was way pumped up, couldn't get it off in multiple tries and lost tons of stuff against the boss, and eventually the game.

I went balanced, and while I couldn't catch up to the others (I was far away board wise and kept rolling 0 moves out of where I was stuck lol) I had taken a huge beat down several times but saving a bit of cash and having a remove hearts for exhaustion ally helped alot.

Stelek what expansions are you playing with, if any?

I haven't played runebound, as I am still waiting to play descent: journeys in the dark which is a similar dungeon crawl/D&D style board game

hancock.tom wrote:Stelek what expansions are you playing with, if any?

I haven't played runebound, as I am still waiting to play descent: journeys in the dark which is a similar dungeon crawl/D&D style board game

From what I've seen from pics on the Internet, Runebound looks more
like an adventure board game as opposed to a dungeon crawler.

Runebound was indeed fun when I played it couple years back. Also good FFG players vs game-game is Arkham Horror.

It is a fantasy adventure boardgame. I like playing it when I can but it takes a few hours to get through usually. I own all the card packs that aren't character based.

Definitely don't play with the rule about being able to attack other players to take their stuff or gold. You're all supposed to be heroes defending the populace from the "Big Bad Whatever It Is", not squabbling over a few artifacts or gold.

I missed the suggestion about all killed enemies being worth +1 gold. Might try it next time.