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2024
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Description
The first expansion for Dragons Down. Now you can adventure in the sinister swamps and perilous plains... or add them to your existing base game to create an epic experience.
Allows for up to 6 players
Two new terrain packs (Sinister Swamps and Perilous Plains)
12 new map tiles
30+ new monsters
8+ new natives
25+ new treasures
12 new missions
10 new items
6 new lineage cards (adding the Half-elf and Half-orc lineages)
10 new classes (assassin, bard, battle mage, black knight, executioner, paladin, ranger, runesword, soulless, and trickster)
2 new civilization locations
3 new merchants
—description from the designer
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The Dungeon Dive Review at 0:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds significant variety without new rules.
- Increases player count potential.
- Provides many new classes and lineages.
- Offers deep replayability.
- Creates engaging stories and player agency.
Cons
- Original cube colors had a misprint, though new colors are being worked on.
- The Witch class is described as complex.
- Some items are duplicates from the base game, only included for higher player counts.
Thematic elements
- Exploration and adventure in a fantasy realm.
Comparison games
- Magic Realm
- Arkham Horror
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat — Encountering monsters and potentially engaging in combat, with mechanics for ambushing and escaping.
- exploration — Revealing and placing map tiles as you explore.
- haggling — Merchants respect certain social attributes for haggling, with different vendors valuing different attributes.
- looting — Searching sites for treasures and items, with dice rolls determining success.
- New Classes — Introduces 12 new classes with unique abilities and playstyles, often double-sided with different loadouts.
- New Lineages — Adds two new lineages, Half-Orcs and Half-Elves, with unique starting bonuses and abilities.
- Player boards — Includes two new player boards to increase player count up to six and provide components for more players.
- Scenario creation — The game offers opportunities to create custom scenarios with specific objectives and setups.
- simultaneous turns — Can be played with simultaneous turns to reduce playtime, similar to games like Arkham Horror.
- Terrain Packs — Adds new map tiles, monsters, treasures, and mission tokens for different terrain types like Sinister Swamps and Perilous Plains.
- Title Cards — Adds new title cards for victory points, with one for each terrain pack.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The expansion adds a lot of variety without any need to really learn any new rules or add any complications.
- Dragons Down is a game that creates good stories and it creates the stories and the little moments that we have while playing the game.
- I really do feel like I am in control of my Hero's individual actions in this game and it makes me feel super engaged.
- This game engages me on a level that I am often not engaged in and yeah I I I I just I love it I love dragons down.
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