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Information

Designed By: Kevin Wilson
Published By: Fantasy Flight Games
Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Nexus
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Mfg suggested # of Players: 2 - 5 players
User suggested # of Players:
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(83 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 240 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 12 and up
User Suggested Ages: 10 and up
(21 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence: Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(38 voters) [poll]
Category: Miniatures
Fighting
Fantasy
Exploration
Dice
Adventure
Mechanics: Modular Board
Dice Rolling
Co-operative Play
Role Playing
Other Names:
Descent: Viaggi nelle Tenebre
Descent : voyage dans les ténèbres
Odalent: Kalandok a mélyben
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Description

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A dungeon crawl game using modular boards and scenarios, the game system is an updated version of Fantasy Flight's Doom: The Boardgame. One player acts as the dungeon master while the others take on the roles of adventurers cooperatively exploring a fantasy dungeon. The game is set in FFG's Terrinoth universe (the same as used for Runebound) and was designed by Kevin Wilson. 20 plastic miniature heroes and 60 plastic miniature monsters.

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0 Referenz/Kurzanleitung
Rreferenz-QdF.pdf
Referenz zum Regelwerk von Descent und Quelle der Finsternis
0 Descent Solo Adventurer's Kit
Descent_Solo.zip
Kit contains a 90 card Dungeon Deck, a 90 card Spawn Deck (including creatures from Well of Darkness) Instructions and a Treasure Table. Cards are designed for 2” x 3.5” business card stock to simplify printing. (Avery 8371 or similar). Three finished cards per business card. Kit allows for solitaire adventures, no Overlord necessary. Randomly generated dungeons, events and rewards. Typically 1-2 hr. play time.
2 List of ALL Components
List of Components.pdf
List of "Tot-ALL" components used in GAME Descent: Journeys in the Dark and all their expansions released to (Oct. 2008)
6 Descent Line of Sight Cribsheet
descent_los_v1.0.png
Diagram of all line of sight lines for all targets within 5 spaces, version 1.
2 Summary of Monster strength JitD+WoD+AoD (german)
descent_Monsterstaerke.pdf
The sheets gives a summary in german on the strength and abilities of all 20 monsters in JitD, WoD and AoD. The ability descriptions are adopted from the player aids of powermaki (http://powermaki.spymac.com/descent/), cheers mate!
0 Mage Spells
mage-spells.zip
This zip file contains 24 spells for a Mage/Wizard class (this variant of Descent uses classes and swaps Fatigue for Power, giving spellcasting classes more points in this area).
0 Cleric Spells
cleric-spells.zip
This zip file contains 24 spells for a Cleric class. Spells require Power to cast (a re-imagined version of Fatigue where spellcasting characters have more Power).
0 Wizard skills
wizard-skills.zip
20 skills for the Wizard class (this is a revised version of Descent that has 5 character classes: Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue, Ranger).
0 Rogue skills