Mauricio Vives
United States
Smyrna
Georgia
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So that didn't end well. Our first game of DQ, with my wife (Holly) playing Hugo and me playing Challara, went something like this.
Turn #1: Hugo dies from a swinging blade trap after rolling 11 on armor of 9.   This is indeed a discouraging first move for Holly, especially since I am trying to demonstrate that DQ will be a fun game. The irony is that she had the rune that would block a trap, but figured that an armor of 9 would block the trap on its own. In order to continue our introduction to (or testing of) the game, we pretend that the check succeeded. But that only took her to...
Turn #4: Hugo falls into a bottomless pit and dies. Well... that was unexpected. Once again, in the spirit of continuing our introduction / test, we replace the bottomless pit with another chamber and continue.
Turn #12: A few turns ago, Hugo decides to take his 40 gold and head back to the tower. Too bad he is killed on this turn by a poison gas trap. At this point Holly decides to call it in and let Hugo rest in peace. Let's see what happened to Challara...
Turn #19: Challara was doing OK for a while, but has become trapped behind two rotating rooms, and the only way out is through the catacombs. An attack by razorwings, a vampire, and... more razorwings eventually leads to her demise.
The image below shows how it ended up from Challara's side of the board. Kalladra the dragon is pleased with the day's results. Better luck next time for the heroes!
One amusing anecdote... Holly was impressed by the 500+ pieces in the game, so when she received the card for 40 gold, she asked "So where's my gold?" thinking that there must tokens to represent loot. 
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Patrick Grogan
United States
Renfrew
Pennsylvania
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals." Agent K. Oh my what he would think of people had he known about what the internet would become.....
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lol. are there really that many pieces? I
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Mauricio Vives
United States
Smyrna
Georgia
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Not including the box, the game includes 564 components, mostly the (little) cards. Everything has a purpose though some, like the determination tokens, aren't really that necessary.
It also has some parts that are for the other Runebound-universe games, and not used in DQ at all.
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Patrick Grogan
United States
Renfrew
Pennsylvania
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals." Agent K. Oh my what he would think of people had he known about what the internet would become.....
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I love the game though. Might be playing again tonight with my gaming group. I was a little shocked by how many cards there were. That was a lot of sleeves to invest in.. But worth it in my opinion.
I am not a fan of the little cards but for games like this and Arkham Horror they make sense.
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Patrick Grogan
United States
Renfrew
Pennsylvania
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals." Agent K. Oh my what he would think of people had he known about what the internet would become.....
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by the way... Total win with the duplo dragon. :-D
Being a Descent player any time we got a monster I pulled the appropriate figure out of the box and had it on the map.... hehe.
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Posted Thu Sep 2, 2010 7:26 pm
