8/1 Featured Games

Hello Gamers!

This upcoming Friday we at FND will be hosting another game session.  It will begin at the normal time of 6:30 PM at Bridge Church.  The full details are on the right hand side of the blog in the info section.

First I want to put my BGG library link on this page as I will not be present at this upcoming FND.  If anybody wants to play a game we own then please let me know and I'll be sure to leave it at the church for ya'll.  I plan on dropping off a handful of them but if there's any specific requests please be sure to let me know.

http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Nicholee

If you're newer to the gaming hobby and haven't visited Boardgamegeek yet spend some time there and check it out.  It's the premier gaming website and is definitely worth making an account.

Anyways, this Friday the theme of the featured games will be Dungeon Crawls.  Dungeon Crawl is a colloquial term for games that generally have players playing as various heroes or characters in some type of personal setting.  Usually this involves a dungeon as in fantasy games (think Skyrim or Dungeons and Dragons) but sometimes it can be others scenarios - surviving Zombies, that type of thing.  We have a handful of these games in our members' personal libraries.

Dungeons and Dragons: Castle Ravenloft

Castle Ravenloft is one of three D&D Board games to be released by Wizards of the Coast, each of which can basically be combined to play large scenarios.  Each players is a traditional fantasy archetype - mage, warrior, rogue - and the team groups together to complete the selected scenario.  Each scenario is different and unique, which is pretty neat.  Throughout the game you will be drawing even cards, fighting monsters, and possibly teaming up to defeat a boss.  You also work as a team making this a cooperative game.

Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition

Descent is one of the best dungeon crawls to be released.  The follow-up second edition is even better than the original - creating a very streamlined and fluid gaming experience.  It plays best as a campaign but each scenario from the campaigns (I own a few expansions so there are no less than forty) can be played as an individual session.  Like Castle Ravenloft everybody (except one players) takes control of a unique fantasy archetype, but in Descent they get a subsequent subclass making everybody more individualized.  One player plays as the Overlord, the evil mastermind behind the bad guys the heroes are trying to destroy.  It is a terrifically fun game and one that won't disappoint new players.

Lords of Waterdeep

Okay this game is actually not a dungeon crawl but is rather a Euro-styled worker placement game (pretty much the exact opposite of dungeon games).  However it is based in the D&D universe so it fits really nicely with this theme and is a very popular and easy-to-learn game.  Each players takes control of one of the controlling factions in a fantasy city.  Essentially that players is trying to gain the most power in the city by hiring various adventurers to go complete different quests (the kinds of quest you'd expect in Skyrim).  It's a very straightforward game and is, like I've already stated, quite excellent.

In addition to these games, as I said before we'll have others available as well as any from my personal library that have been requested.

Please invite your friends out to FND this upcoming Friday!!!  We look forward to seeing you all!