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Free shipping on orders of $35+ from Target. Read reviews and buy RBG - I Dissent Board Game at Target. Get it today with Same Day Delivery, Order Pickup or Drive Up. Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) is a board game created by Fantasy Flight Games. In the darkest depths of Terrinoth, an ambitious overlord gathers his minions to lay siege on the world above. Only a small band of heroes, gifted with courage and power, will be able to save the land.
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The box for the game's First EditionFantasy Flight GamesJesper Ejsing, John Goodenough, Frank WallsPlayers2-5Setup time. Players with the Descent board gameThere are two sides, the 'hero side' and the 'Overlord'. The heroes are attempting to complete a quest (usually kill a at the end of a set of rooms).
The Overlord attempts to stop the heroes by playing traps or spawning monsters who can then be used to attack the heroes.Each quest features a different map (a configuration of tiles). The arrangement of tiles and placement of various traps, special events, and treasures gives Descent a great deal of flexibility in comparison to many other board games. However, the players must spend somewhat more time to set up the game before it can be played.The heroes are able to use a number of items which enhance their abilities such as, enchanted armor, healing potions, and much more. They also have a number of abilities which make them stronger and more effective than the majority of the monsters which the Overlord can summon. As the heroes find more treasure, they grow more powerful and this allows them to tackle more difficult quests. Even so, heroes are expected to die during their quest, but can be restored to life indefinitely.
They merely concede some victory points in the process.Heroes are represented as a set of cards and tokens. A primary character card identifies the character, provides initial statistics, and indicates special abilities. An additional set of three or more cards indicate special skills. A campaign game makes heroes start well below this level (one special skill instead of three) and end well above. Further cards indicate equipment carried and equipped. Tokens indicate health, stamina, potions, and statistic enhancements.
Specialized tokens indicate which heroes have taken actions, indicate special preparations a character has taken, and indicate negative status effects like being poisoned.The game features many different dice, while they are all six-sided, they contain a number of symbols (sometimes three on a single face). The different dice have different purposes (one die generally produces damage, another die generally produces range).
The most powerful weapons in the game can result in the heroes rolling ten dice for a single attack, though normally heroes only roll three to five.Game play is listed as between four and five hours to play a single quest. A total of nine quests were defined in the original game. Many more quests have been created and officially posted on the FFG website.
Expansions Since its initial release, a number of official expansions have been published. The expansions add additional quests, as well as additional options for players.YearDescription2006The Well of DarknessThe Well of Darkness was the first expansion released for the Descent game.
The expansion provides new tiles, new heroes, and new monsters. It also adds more options and power for the Overlord. With the expansion, the Overlord player can modify his deck of cards (potential actions in the game) to include some number of more powerful traps, summoned monsters, and events.Treachery points allow the overlord to customize his/her overlord deck with specific cards of their choice.
This allows the overlord to combat specific tactics or add in challenges that synergize with the current quest.The Well of Darkness contains nine new fully defined quests. Like the first game, the expansion features heroes who are also found in the board game.2007The Altar of DespairThe Altar of Despair is the second expansion for the Descent game, released in January 2007.
It offers 6 new heroes, 5 new types of monsters (such as Dark Priests and tentacled Chaos Beasts), new traps (such as crushing walls), and new quests. New terrain consists of corrupted dungeon terrain. Some minor rules and changes are also made to accommodate a new action type (prolonged actions) used in the new quests.2008The Road to LegendThe Road to Legend is another expansion for the Descent game, released in March 2008 in the US.
It is the first 'plastic-less' expansion, featuring no new miniatures but instead focusing on new campaign rules and new world stories allowing for a group of Descent adventurers to grow and develop over long-term play across several sessions. Alongside the campaign rules, there are new props and obstacles such as boneheaps, nourishing fountains, and sheltering trees. It also provides many new tile pieces and new outdoor tiles.
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There are new rules for leveling monsters and adventurers up to silver, gold, and diamond versions for added challenge, as well as new Overlord lieutenants and avatars to allow the forces of good to come face-to-face with the evil player's character.2008The Tomb of IceThe Tomb of Ice is the fourth expansion for Descent: Journeys in the Dark. Included are new plastic figures representing spectral shades, volcanic lava beetles, petrifying medusas, stealthy wendigos, and gigantic ice wyrms as well as six new heroes which are partially very distinct from the previous ones. It also introduces a new die which is used for the new invisibility ability and the so-called Feat cards which allow the heroes to perform special actions or add an extra bonus. The players' Feat cards are unknown to the Overlord and, thus, provide an element of surprise counterbalancing the Overlord's card hand.2009The Sea of BloodThe Sea of Blood is the fifth Descent expansion, and the second 'plastic-less' expansion focusing on the rules for the campaign game, and not new miniatures. It was announced at 2009, and officially released shortly before Christmas 2009. It provides a refined set of the Road To Legend campaign rules, alongside a completely new island based campaign setting for Descent campaigns, and several new other cards, such as treasure, to enhance the basic game.
The expansion has a decidedly nautical theme, with the game gaining new mechanics allowing the party to look after and use a ship in the new setting.It contains the complete rules required to expand the basic game into the campaign game, and FFG states the game is fully compatible with all previous expansions except Road to Legend.Single Miniature Expansions Since the release of 'Road to Legend', Fantasy Flight has also released a number of single-figure expansions. These each provide a single detailed metal miniature to represent one of the Overlord's lieutenants, originally introduced, and represented, in that expansion as counters.There are currently 15 of these small expansions, with 10 representing the evil characters introduced in 'Road to Legend', and 5 representing those from 'Sea of Blood'Second Edition In 2012 Fantasy Flight Games released a streamlined version Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition.
Along with the second edition a conversion kit was released, allowing players to use first edition monsters and heroes in the second edition game. Since then, several expansions plus hero, monster and lieutenant packs have been released for the second edition, which add quests, campaigns, secret rooms and additional overlord rules to the base game. The original first edition has been discontinued and replaced by the second edition.Reception The first edition of the board game was nominated for 2006 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game and the second edition, six years later, was nominated for 2012 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Gamecomments: 'If you want something simpler than Descent, or want to start with a more basic dungeon-crawl game, TSR's old Dungeon board game, isn't bad at all. In fact, it had been my favorite dungeon-crawl for over 30 years, until Descent came along. But my bet is that once you play Descent, you won't want to play any other dungeon-crawl game again.'
Have referred to is as 'one of the best dungeon crawl classics out there' and Quintin Smith from said that 'for all that gaming has evolved D&D since it first came out, there's nothing better than that'. Related Games Descent borrowed and expanded mechanics from, released in late 2004. It also borrows from ', released in 1989. Descent is set in Terrinoth, the same fantasy universe as, and, as well as the new edition of. For a time was set in the world of Terrinoth as well, however, though still keeping the names of characters and types of monsters, FFG removed all references to Terrinoth as of the latest revised edition of the game, released in 2014.In 2014 Fantasy Flight Games released Imperial Assault, a board game based in the universe using a similar ruleset to Descent.could be considered the grandfather of Descent, with characters assigned to the players, and equipment purchased before descending into a dungeon region to solve quests. Descent prevents the 'stalling' tactics players were capable of in HeroQuest – the deck the Overlord uses in Descent acts as a timer, so every action taken by the heroes comes at a price.References.
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