This might just be the best gateway dungeon crawl system I’ve seen.Most adventures will also have additional ways you can lose. If you’re able to complete the objective for the adventure you’re playing, everyone wins! You’ll lose if a character starts their turn with zero health and there are no Healing Surge tokens left. After that you’ll activate any of the enemy cards in front of you and follow the instructions on their cards.

If you didn’t explore on your turn, you’ll draw and resolve an Encounter card, which is pretty much always a bad thing. When you explore you add a new tile, draw a monster card, and place that monster’s miniature on the new tile.Īfter you’re done taking your actions, the Villain Phase will begin.

If you finish your turn at the edge of a tile with an open edge (no wall), you’ll explore. Later on you can use your experience to skip encounters or even to level up your character if you’re lucky enough to roll a natural 20 during an attack. When you defeat a monster, you get the experience points written on its card as well as a treasure card (these give you more special abilities). If you’re able to meet or exceed the enemy’s AC, then you’ll do damage. You’ll attack by choosing one of your Power Cards to use, rolling the die, and adding any bonuses given to you by your Power Card. Your team gets a total of two of these tokens to use per game.ĭuring your turn, you can move and attack, attack and move, or move twice. If you ever have zero HP at the start of your turn, you’ll need to use a Healing Surge and gain health equal to your Surge Value. You’ll have Armor Class (AC), Hit Points (HP), Speed, and Surge Value stats written on your Hero Card. Once you’ve read the setup instructions and what you need to do to win, you’ll choose heroes, place the heroes on the starting tile, and then you’re pretty much ready to go.Įach character has his or her own stats and a special ability, as well as Power Cards that give you even more unique abilities. This game – and all of the D&D board games that followed – was designed to give players a Dungeons & Dragons(-ish) experience in an hour or less.Ĭastle Ravenloft is published by Wizards of the Coast and was designed by Rob Heinsoo, Peter Lee, Mike Mearls, and Bill Slavicsek.Īll of the adventures in Castle Ravenloft have their own win conditions. This Castle Ravenloft board game review was made after playing the game six times.ĭungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft is a cooperative dungeon crawl board game in which you will go on different adventures inside of Count Strahd’s castle and attempt to take out monsters and complete objectives.

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