I finally got to play Descent last night. I guess I'm ready for that particular dice mechanic for WFRP3. I thought it was terrribly boring though as a boardgame.

The overlords turn of drawing cards was pretty slow too.

jh

Descent is a game that you have to be in the right kind of mood to play. It's D&D with out the conversation, and chit chat. It's pretty intense, crazy game. you could spend an hour fighting your way out of one hallway. The next day after playing I often have a "gaming" hangover, and I feel slightly dirty. Next week, I'm planning on starting RTL with my nephews. and I'm trying to get ready for it mentally.

It can also be described crudely like this: Your favorite RPG is like your wife is now. you have built a relationship with her through the good times and bad. Descent is like when you used to be single. Sometimes you'd hook up with someone for the night, weekend, or week. very low maintence, very low commitment, and when you get tired of the arrangement you move on. six months later you can't even remember their name.

my guess is that FFG wanted to put some of the sensible, less frantic, time saving elements ( cards and custom dice) concepts of Descent into a RPG. I don't expect to have a gaming hangover when I play it, and I expect to build a longterm relationship with the game.

cheers and have a good one

A lot of games- both RPGs and board games - use dice pools.

I think Descent would be fun with only two players - one in control of the dungeon and one in control of all the heroes. When we played with five people, I could easily determine a pretty much optimal move for all of the heroes in short order, which made waiting for other people's turns kind of boring. I suppose I play a lot of tactical games and think in this manner pretty easily, so maybe it's not this way for other people.

Decent is fun! I played it a couple of times and it always was fun.

If FFG "steals" mechanics from other games, adds it to some "WFRP-feeling" rules and puts together a new game, that's fine for me. Best of both worlds, I would presume.

chojun, your description is really wonderful! But given the dark and gritty, perilous and dirty background of the warhammer world, I would prefer my wife to be another game