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Dragonlance

Game ID: GID0102963
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1988
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Description

In the Dragonlance Boardgame, each player commands an army of dragons in search of the fabled Dragonlance. The first player to snatch the Dragonlance from the top of the central tower and successfully deliver it back home wins! But be careful! Your opponents will attack your dragons, trying to make them crash-or even steal the Dragonlance and use it against you. The game comes with a large hex mapboard, 30 dragons figures in six different colors, two sets of rules (Basic and Advanced), Cards, dice, altitude markers and more.

Description

In the Dragonlance Boardgame, each player commands an army of dragons in search of the fabled Dragonlance. The first player to snatch the Dragonlance from the top of the central tower and successfully deliver it back home wins! But be careful! Your opponents will attack your dragons, trying to make them crash-or even steal the Dragonlance and use it against you. The game comes with a large hex mapboard, 30 dragons figures in six different colors, two sets of rules (Basic and Advanced), Cards, dice, altitude markers and more.

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Video VWDXFywkmno UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:21:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Prints are big and have a good feel
  • Signed by Larry Elmore
  • Good artwork
Cons
  • Not all prints were signed with a gold pen
Thematic elements
  • Fantasy art prints
  • Fantasy
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • The printer said that we never even came close to doing any sizable print run of anything
  • nothing's left it's all gone it's never coming out
  • I hate it's it's goofy fun
  • On certain numbers you pass a card to the left
  • It's a T-Rex on a surfboard
  • The artwork was changed from the original version
  • They did not get done fast enough
  • They did not get on a boat fast enough
  • Foundations of Rome in a city instead of in
  • big fun
  • It has a lot of rules
  • you got to really pay attention
  • Orlons the plague
  • The plague
  • I haven't played or so long nearby I was thinking about that the other remember I enjoyed it
  • The original artwork is described as 'very cute.'
  • It's a Texas hold 'em variant.
  • Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
  • The game is described as 'goofy fun.'
  • The redesigned artwork is not preferred by some.
  • The creator walked away and hasn't communicated them for too long.
  • The effectiveness and morality of capital punishment compared to life imprisonment.
  • Concerns about executing innocent individuals.
  • The role of race in the application of the death penalty.
  • Concerns about driving under the influence of cannabis.
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Video wSnq-Unha34 The Dungeon Dive Top List at 2:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Tremendous value in the box set
  • High-quality cardboard standees
  • Inspiring map
  • Well-laid out rulebook with great art
  • Bestiary includes randomized monster attacks
  • Ducks can be player characters
Cons
  • Solo rules aren't very robust
  • A little on the complex side
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • card decks — Includes two decks of cards for utility and treasure.
  • D20 system — The game uses a 'd20 system, a roll low system where you are trying to roll your skill level or below to do all of the various things.'
  • random tables — Includes random tables for generating inspiration, effects, NPCs, and monster attacks.
  • standees — Comes with cardboard standees for monsters and heroes.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • It's Fun to Go Alone. This is the top 10 solo RPGs.
  • As a matter of fact, I've done an episode on uh solo analog dungeon crawl.
  • And boy howdy did I fall in love with this game.
  • This is a game that that treats the kind of spirituality and folklore and mythology of the Japan in a very very respectful nature.
  • Holy crap, what a game. I love this game. It is so much fun.
  • This game is super super simple.
  • The simplicity can be a little confusing because as you're reading the rules, you're kind of like, 'Oh, wait. That's it. I don't get it.'
  • Morgborg, man, what a game. I love this game so much.
  • The solo rules that made me understand solo role playing.
  • The generosity liberal thirdparty licensing.
  • Scarlet Heroes really is the game that made solo role playing click with me.
  • This is an all inone solution with some of the best, most useful solo oracles and rules I have ever played.
  • The urban adventure rules in Scarlet Heroes handle that really well, better than just about any other game I've played.
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Video Axbt1K-qC8c Drive Thru Games Top List at 3:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Evokes strong childhood memories
  • Fun epic battle experience
  • Lots of dice rolling and combat
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Epic dragon war
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Miniatures combat — The game involves big epic battles with lots of dice rolling and crazy combat maneuvers.
  • team-based play — The reviewer mentions playing it with two teams against each other or three teams versus three teams.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • it is a crime against somebody that this game has not been just been picked up because people that have played this game, I still have the game and and you know, they love it.
  • overrated, I'm going to probably get hated for this is I'm just going to say Magic the Gathering.
  • it really elicits a lot of the interesting feelings of the movie.
  • Now Urban Sprawl is like a city building game. Like think of SimCity or something like that. But, it's a little bit more I would say mean, but the players aren't really mean to each other.
  • But, the combat everything else that happened in that round and in previous rounds and what might happen in the next round informs that moment of fight, that moment of conflict.
  • it abstracts it in such a compact way that everything else in the in the system is is important and that's what actually where the combat is. So, the fight isn't where you think it is.
  • it really just got me into the hobby, like learning about mechanics, reading reviews and all of that and then like really sitting with the game strategically and thinking about stuff
  • his boards are seamless. Like it looks like an actual landscape and then the spaces are there as opposed to like, you know, drawing a border or a box.
  • but they're they're written the best I've ever seen a like piece of flavor text or a paragraph written in the board game space
  • Tales of the Arthurian Knights. It's beautiful game. The reason this is the top one for me is because the the level of care and craft that goes into the story entries
  • they're written the best I've ever seen a like piece of flavor text or a paragraph written in the board game space.
  • I will lose myself in the paragraph and feel like, oh this is like a good snippet from some ancient tale or something written in the 50s or whatever, you know, and or the 1800s.
  • Rangers of Shadow Deep, which has been like my number one game for the last couple of top 50s that I did.
  • it's a solo co-op miniature skirmish game that has a really vast expansive narrative campaign.
  • It gives me that D&D sort of taste cuz it's a D20 system and it's very like miniature scape world building type of thing.
  • it's just great. It's it gives you the chance to just play with all of your toys and play with all of your your terrain and your models and your your creative thinking, your world building cuz you can still kind of be a game master for yourself because the the game lays out like a narrative thing and then there's some like deck of card things that sort of change up the scenarios if you play them more than once. And so there is sort of a game master there, but the game master's kind of like left the table by the time you get there. They're gone. They gave you the outline and then you're there to kind of game master and play at the same time.
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