#Descent legends of the dark expansion upgrade#

So you can use this loot to craft items, to sell in order to buy other things. Another fun thing that the app will take care of is all that loot that you have been gathering, it’s all stored in the app. These feat accomplishments will give you new abilities and are part of your levelling up of your character, which allows for more things to be equipped. As you complete them, you can be assigned your next one. Through your adventures you will have objectives for your characters, be that killing a particular bad guy, or touching something in the story. This is the first thing we’ll talk about with the app.

#Descent legends of the dark expansion upgrade#

But anyway, normally you will start out your adventure in town, get some information and story and then possibly upgrade gear and abilities. You and up to three other players will have characters that you can develop and grow throughout the adventures in this first box, labeled Act 1, with more surely to come, this is FFG, right?Įach adventure starts out in a town, or I suppose you could end the previous adventure in town and then start out on an adventure immediately. As opposed to previous iterations, this Descent is purely cooperative with an app that will help run the action and tell the story. Also worth noting, some of my game terminology may be a bit off as I didn’t read the rulebook completely, but I will try to get as close as I can.ĭescent Legends of the Dark is a dungeon crawl style game with a strong narrative hook.

It’s not as if the system is difficult, that’s not what I mean, but there are, just like most any game from Fantasy Flight Games, lots of little things that you need to know in order to play. It worked for the most part, but I think you would have a more difficult time doing this for someone who is coming in completely cold to the game, and the system. Having only read the rule book briefly when I got the game, I relied on the folks at the table to teach the game to me as we went, as I didn’t want to slow them down too much. I was lucky enough to be at the Gathering of Friends in August and I hopped into a game with an old acquaintance and then continued on for three scenarios total, the flea market made sure that we didn’t continue as we had to put the game away where we had just been leaving it set up to come back to. The other note I want to make is that I have only played three scenarios, and those weren’t from the beginning. That led me to this, becoming the owner of another system, Descent Legends of the Dark.īefore we get too far into this, let’s just say, there will be no spoilers here. All of that change was met with a lot of trepidation and baseless dismissal prior to release from a couple of “big name” reviewers here in the states. Up steps a new Descent, one that we really shouldn’t call 3rd edition and one that Fantasy Flight Games has made sure to try to differentiate it through art, through playstyle and through packaging. A lot of game groups have that gamer who wants to be that one, we didn’t. I know part of the issue with it was the all versus one aspect of the game. Never regretted selling it, but always wanted to play it.

My youngest daughter and I played with the miniatures and created our own stories and adventures, but I never did play the actual game, not even when the app came out that would be the Overlord for you. One of those games was Descent Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition, and sad to say, a lot of extra expansions that went with it. Sometimes they just never got to the table. Be it a giant box Euro, a big dungeon crawl or even family style games. For one reason or another, I would buy a game and be excited to play it, only to find out, no one else shared the excitement, or that we could never schedule time to play it for one reason or another. I buy, or rather, I used to buy a lot of games that ended up never being played. HajekĪ bit of history, a confession of sorts.

Designer: Kara Centell-Dunk & Nathan I.