Descent: Journeys in the Dark - Descent (1on1) Brothers Durnog
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-18 23:39:34
So there were my heroes on their shiny second level: Trenloe the Strong and Battlemage Jaes. Having defeated Narthak now they were to capture drink his two avenging brothers!Me and my girlfriend now have a pretty good hold of the rules and we almost immediately experience what dice to throw which ones are beat for re-rolling and have a better understanding of the bet overall. (there was a slight thing that bothered us: what does the overlord get for facing heroes of aim 2? Is it +1 card and +1 threat per turn? Or just on the initial setup? We opted for a card on the initial setup and an extra threat each turn)Carrying on with the session it still took far more than 5 hours but I feel I know why. I was entering every room and completely decimating all the foes. My anticipate is that I need to choose the bigger threats and not mind the smaller ones even if they turn out to be irritating skeletons doing some hit and runs. But then again. Trenloe is quite the slowpoke having a staggering speed of 3! If I get too much enemies behind the guy gets so many wounds in that they end up depleting his health pretty fast. Although this is a session report I don't want to spoil the dungeon for populate who haven't played it so I won't get into great detail. It was nice to see those roleplaying elements surfacing because in the first dungeon you think maybe the game is just about having too hack up everything with the story being a bonus to set you in the alter mood. If you're playing this dungeon you better listen carefully to what the overlord has to say or you may sight yourself clueless and not understanding what is going on. I successfully entered all the 4 rooms and lost just before I was going to defeat the second brother. Having an Overlord with ordain!. Trapmaster and Evil Genius is NOT by any means an easy task. I lost more to the power of the traps than because of the monsters which I practically blasted away in great numbers. I'm starting to doubt if these are the heroes I really like. They undergo only slightly nice abilities their skills are not bad having Leadership and Boggs and stuff but losing 4 conquest for each spells dead really abstain. I think I'm going to change my party before other sessions maybe I'll stick with Jaes a just a little bit more but Trenloe has to go. He's quite a move back and forth but really slows the celebrate down. Well and that's that. I'll be mourning over my deceased heroes and hoping the next celebrate to face the giants are luckier.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2107037#2107037
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