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Year
2018
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Description
Darkest Night, by designer Jeremy Lennert, is a fully-cooperative board game set in a kingdom broken under a Necromancer’s shadow. Each player takes on the role of one of the kingdom’s last heroes, each with a unique set of special abilities, just as they hatch a plan to save the realm.
Can you save the kingdom from darkness? Do you have the courage, the cunning and the will to withstand the necromancer and his forces? Strategize, plan and bring out the best of your abilities to end our Darkest Night!
Darkest Night Family
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Part of the Darkest Night family — see Darkest Night for the combined view.
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The Dungeon Dive Top 50 List at 12:59 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- lots of characters and unique powers
- variety in enemy design and encounters
Cons
- rules can be weighty to learn
- thematic intensity may not appeal to all
Thematic elements
- dark fantasy outbreak-style crisis management
- cooperative fantasy threat-management with adventuring elements
- team-based planning with evolving perils
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- character decks — each character has a unique powers deck
- Combat: Deck/Hand — each character has a unique powers deck
- Cooperative Actions — team-building to balance strengths and weaknesses
- multi-character synergy — team-building to balance strengths and weaknesses
- Risk Management — players manage crises and global threats
- threat management — players manage crises and global threats
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- it's a really really simple game you basically do the same thing every turn you move your character into a new room you draw an encounter card you face that encounter rinse and repeat
- if you are into pulp fiction if you are into adventure fiction this is the game for you
- Dungeon Crusade has the best dungeon tile art and i've ever seen i absolutely love the way that various dungeons look
- there are a ton of expansions from the small box expansions which just kind of add a whole bunch of cards
- it's absolutely dripping with theme this game feels like you are playing an old hammer house of horror movie in a board game
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 6:13 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
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Cons
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Thematic elements
- necromancy
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a pile of mid games as I take a look at board games on boardgamegeek.com, a repository of all things about board games.
- These are games that don't get talked about as much.
- it really is a very simple game from Prospero Hall.
- This is kind of one of those games I wish I had played back in the day.
- This is one of the best fillers out there where you have a bunch of swimmers out there.
- I think A Fell is a fine game. I just think it's sort of broken.
- It's a classic for a reason.
- what a fantastic party game.
- Phoenicia Tom Lehmann killed his own game. He eventually came out with Race for the Galaxy, which was a much, much better Phoenicia, which is why this game has kind of disappeared.
- one of the longest rule books in history.
- It is so complex.
- Of all the games I talked about today, I actually I think Lynx City I like Asking for Trouble's a lot, but Lynx City is my favorite.
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