This week’s Explorable Favorites (Feb 22)

On the topic of Descent 1st Ed. had a great mechanic of the Overlord burning cards to produce threat to power other cards – it was an interesting trade-off of discarding many cards to play a few. The characters on the other hand reset each game back to fledgling. It made for intense 3 hours crawls that just jumped to square one next game. Of course then Roads to Legend created a campaign system that went a little overboard and while leveling up took place – the epic crawls and storylines were gone and replaced by bite-sized mini dungeons.

2nd Edition skewed everything to the character side giving them a campaign system while leaving the Overlord to do very little aside from push monsters about and roll dice.

I kind of wish they would merge the two concepts beyond what they did for Imperial Assault

Haven’t played Descent 1st Ed. I played 2nd Ed a few times and thought it was fun. We stopped playing because no one wanted to be the DM. Now I shy away from any games that require a DM (Descent, Imperial Assault, Mansions of Madness, Tomb, etc…).

Battle Lore is a fun game too. However, I like a little more meat on the bones for a wargame. A friend of mine loves War Cry, which is similar. We play every so often.

I own Descent 2nd and I still playing it, it’s one of my daughter favorite.

BattleLore was once on my wishlist but it has been pushed by other games

I’ve always been intrigued by Descent, but after purchasing Imperial Assault, I don’t think I could justify getting in to another game that similar.

Descent is a great game but I like the 2nd Ed. better. I have not played BattleLore but I’m looking forward to trying it. FFG does a great job with their games.