I'm looking for a board game that has a fantasy theme that's fun to play. Moderately complex is okay...any recommendations?
I used to have the "Thieves World" board game 20 years ago that was a lot of fun.
We already play Settlers of Catan....Thanks in Advance!
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When I went home to visit my folks for Thanksgiving, I found my old Dungeon! board game in my grandma's house! That brought back a flood of memories! For some reason, I always was trying to collect the Jade Idols. Anyway, it's taken a place of distiction up with my copy of Stop Thief! Now, if I can pick up a Dark Tower one of these days, my nostalga trifecta will be complete!
I'm looking for a board game that has a fantasy theme that's fun to play. Moderately complex is okay...any recommendations?
There's the classic Dungeon! boardgame as well as the Dungeons and Dragons version of Clue (both can be found on eBay for $20 more or less.) There's also HeroQuest (for about $50 with all it's parts) with its many add-ons. Sure, there's Dark Tower but that'll set you back quite a bit if you're lucky to find a complete game in good condition (a NM one from the UK is going for almost $140 right now.) For something more recent, maybe a look at Hasbro's Heroscape. Sells for $40 new and has lots of add-on pieces for about $15 each set. Hasbro.com has all sorts of pics and info on their Heroscape game.
Good hunting and good gaming!
- Chris Shadowens
Definetly the TALISMAN boardgame and all it's accessories (The Dungeon, The Expansion Packs, Ect...). It's a cross between monopoly and D&D.
You go around the board on three paths, the outer, the middle and the inner path. You play as a character (either taken at random or chosen), each with their own pros and cons. As you go around the board, you land on different terrain spaces that tell you to take adventure cards. These cards could be treasure, events or encounters. Monsters not beaten, treasures not taken or events that last for more than a turn stay on their spaces for the rest of the game. As you progress, it gets harder and harder to maneuver around those tough encounters. You get hit points, improve your character, get followers, spells, magic items, etc... All the flavour of your basic D&D game. In the end, you must seek the Crown of Command and "Dominate" every other player.
I wouldn't play this game every weekend (because all boardgames seem to get repetitive after a while), but it's a great alternative when some of your players are absent at the scheduled game and you still feel like bashing monsters.
I give it a 4 out of 5...
Ultradan
Thanks for all the suggestions....will delve further into your comments to see what I can find out.
Also "Descent," offered at the paizo.com store, is a cool Hero Quest style game. Also, Hero Quest.
-Amber S.
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A fantasy-flavored game is "Dungeon twister", a boardgame (for 2 players, but you've got an extension for 4) in which each player plays a team of 8 that has to get out a labyrinth alive and with treasures.
Your team : a mage, cleric, rogue, fighter, passwall, ogre, goblin (I'm forgetting one). Each has an attack and defend value, and you've got "actions" and "combat" cards. You may find objects like the rope, treasures (of course), fireball wand, armour or sword.
It's not at all an adventure game, mostly move and tactical, kind of strategy game.
I know it has been translated (it's a french game), since I've seen an advertising in "dragon" less than 6 months ago, but I don't know if the 3/4-players extension has been translated (and you've got more to come : fire and water / evil / epic extensions).
Good luck.
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I realize that I may be chastised for going outside the generally supported brand names, but if you want a D&D flavored board-game, not necessarily a D&D simulating board game, with straightforward rules and is a lot of fun to play; I'd recommend BLOOD BOWL by Games Workshop.
The game is American Football, fantasy-style. Orcs, humans, elves of all varieties, dwarves, halflings, and even undead strap on the helmets and kit-up for bone-crushing fun.
It's only a 2-person game, but it can easily be converted into a group event by forming a league. Win your division, make the playoffs, and claim the BLOOD BOWL trophy.
I realize that I may be chastised for going outside the generally supported brand names, but if you want a D&D flavored board-game, not necessarily a D&D simulating board game, with straightforward rules and is a lot of fun to play; I'd recommend BLOOD BOWL by Games Workshop.
The game is American Football, fantasy-style. Orcs, humans, elves of all varieties, dwarves, halflings, and even undead strap on the helmets and kit-up for bone-crushing fun.
It's only a 2-person game, but it can easily be converted into a group event by forming a league. Win your division, make the playoffs, and claim the BLOOD BOWL trophy.
I have Blood Bowl. Pretty neat game; VERY funny at times... Imagine your Fire Elemental tackling a rooted Treant Blocker, or a Minotaur Runner charging with the spiked ball, or an Ogre Quarterback tossing the goblin star-player who's holding the ball straight to the end-zone.
Every game ends with multiple deaths and many injured (Except for the undead team who somehow always have a full complement of players). Hmmm.
Ultradan
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The game is American Football, fantasy-style. Orcs, humans, elves of all varieties, dwarves, halflings, and even undead strap on the helmets and kit-up for bone-crushing fun.
Isn't there a type of ooze or jelly creature that can wrap around the ball for a pass? You can pass and the critter is killed on impact, but hey, pass completed... I might be thinking of something else...
Another off-fantasy game that's a lot of fun is Zombies!!! by Twilight Creations. You lay down tiles to make up a town, move/attack zombies around you, then you get to move a remaining zombie to screw the other players! First person to reach the helipad or kill 25 zombies wins. Nice little zombie minis (and you can pick up glow in the dark ones, as well!), fun action cards to spice things up, and 3.5 expansion sets (military base, Mall, zombie animals) make it extremely entertaining.
I'm looking for a board game that has a fantasy theme that's fun to play. Moderately complex is okay...any recommendations?There's the classic Dungeon! boardgame as well as the Dungeons and Dragons version of Clue (both can be found on eBay for $20 more or less.) There's also HeroQuest (for about $50 with all it's parts) with its many add-ons. Sure, there's Dark Tower but that'll set you back quite a bit if you're lucky to find a complete game in good condition (a NM one from the UK is going for almost $140 right now.) For something more recent, maybe a look at Hasbro's Heroscape. Sells for $40 new and has lots of add-on pieces for about $15 each set. Hasbro.com has all sorts of pics and info on their Heroscape game.
Good hunting and good gaming!
- Chris Shadowens
I'm looking for a board game that has a fantasy theme that's fun to play. Moderately complex is okay...any recommendations?I agree with Chris; Dungeon! is so much fun. I had about every version of it through the years, and recently picked up an unpunched copy at my local game store. We play it all the time now. Great for a quick pick up game if you dont have lots of time. Also, Dark Tower rocks. If you google it, you can find a flash version that is fun to play just to hear the original sound effects and see the bug-eyed brigands.
Stratego LEGENDS! i don't know if it's still easy to find at your FLGS, but it's Stratego with teams of undead, angels, mutants, fungus, forest creatures which have special abilities. that's a good one. there have been fantasy variants of several standard games like Clue and Risk.
i don't know if you can still find those tom wham? games that used to be in old Dragon magazines like The Awful Green Thing from Outer Space and Snit's Revenge. anyone remember those? a few got proper board game treatment. hmmm, not exactly board games but there's lots of good card games like- 'gimme the brain' and 'munchkin'. cheapass games are usually good stuff.
Does anyone remember the "Lord of The Rings" strategy board game that SPI put out, back in the early '80's?
...didn't think so.
*chirp chirp...*
M
Does anyone remember the "Lord of The Rings" strategy board game that SPI put out, back in the early '80's?
...didn't think so.
*chirp chirp...*
M
Yes, that was a lot of fun. Another fantasy boardgame I used to enjoy was "Divine Right". It was put out by TSR, and had a bunch of supplemental rules and background material published in the Dragon (somewhere around the 30s, if I remember aright). It would be awesome if Paizo could put that one up as a download--my copy was among the large box of gaming materials that my mom assumed I was no longer interested in when I went off to college . . .
Yes, that was a lot of fun. Another fantasy boardgame I used to enjoy was "Divine Right". It was put out by TSR, and had a bunch of supplemental rules and background material published in the Dragon (somewhere around the 30s, if I remember aright). It would be awesome if Paizo could put that one up as a download--my copy was among the large box of gaming materials that my mom assumed I was no longer interested in when I went off to college . . .
Ahh, good ole' "Divine right";
My brother recently bequeathed to me his dog-eared original copy, still in its original box... It's all yellowed and still smells of cheap cologne that my uncle had given us as a small bottle of as a Christmas gift - we spilled the bottle at the game table and some of it soaked one of the cards.
*Setting wayback machine to about 1977-78*
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Another fantasy boardgame I used to enjoy was "Divine Right". It was put out by TSR, and had a bunch of supplemental rules and background material...
Why am I not surprised: I can see it now...
"To find out more about how many spaces your marker can move on the board, roll 2d6+3 and look up p.783 of the 6.75th Edition 'Complete Book of Marker Moves - Volume 4' also published by TSR..."
Ultradan
Another fantasy boardgame I used to enjoy was "Divine Right". It was put out by TSR, and had a bunch of supplemental rules and background material...Why am I not surprised: I can see it now...
"To find out more about how many spaces your marker can move on the board, roll 2d6+3 and look up p.783 of the 6.75th Edition 'Complete Book of Marker Moves - Volume 4' also published by TSR..."
Ultradan
The supplemental rules were in two early issues of the Dragon, and there was a monthly feature that went on for quite some time, detailing the histories and politics of the countries and some of the special characters that appeared in the event cards. I was quite taken with it at the time (at age 14 or so)--I thought it was a good job of fantasy world-building, and it helped me to think about how to do up my own.
Thanks for all the recommendations.
A Dragon magazine game I really enjoyed was "King of the Tabletop" published back in the early '80's.
Similar in play style to Zombies!!!! (which is a lot of fun to play) is Betrayal at Hill House. The characters you play explore an old haunted house by laying down tiles and encountering all kinds of creepiness untill one goes rogue and tries to kill the others. Lots of fun if you have 3-5 people playing.
http://www.funagain.com/control/product/~product_id=014949