Greetings!

I was wondering is this game a co-op game or competetive? If it is mainly competetive, is there a co-op option.

The wife and I like co-op games and I was thinking of giving this one a shot.

That being said, with so much out there, how do you suggest I start out (I am normally a "must have it all guy") what expansions are the better lot?

Thanks!

Peace

Roger

I would say Runebound is neither competitive nor co-operative. It's a solo game for multiple players. Everybody makes his own quest to win the game and there's no cooperation between Characters; they can hinder each other if the board is well crowded (4+ players), but this is usually unintentional.

Characters can fight each other but this is not very useful; they can trade Objects if they want, but if someone has a good Objects that he can use and gives him a big advantage, he won't sell it.

This is the base game and the Island of Dread Expansion set. I can't say anything about other boxed sets. However, while other games give the best result if you play with a lot of people, Runebound is interesting and fascinating if you play it in two or three.

The gameplay depends on what expansions you have. Some do really add more competitive elements, some may increase the possibility of some players teaming up, etc.

Expansions that change these game factors:

Character deck expansions (all of them) (many cards to help or disturb some player)

Crown of the Elder Kings (one becomes bad guy in the process of game)

Midnight (one plays bad guy all the game)

Sands of Al-Kalim (the pretty non-linear scenario gives more options to interrupt other players)

Keep in mind that although all these expansions i mentioned add competitive elements, in that way they also encourage teaming-up, which will logically happen more often.

Are the Base Game and Isle of Dread linked? or seperate things all together?

Anyway, thanks for the thoughts!

Peace

Roger

rdw5150 said:

Isle of Dread simply expands the Base Game, you get new board, new characters, new items, new adventure cards, etc, but it doesn't add any big gameplay changes, as opposed to the expansions i mentioned in my previous post.

rdw5150 said:

You have to have the base RB game in order for Isle of Dread to be useable.

I believe that either The 7th Scion or The Cataclysm introduce a co-op play variant. So you can actually make that happen. There are also good rules for this sort of thing over at BGG as well. In the end, with 2 or 3 players you're really jsut playing cooperatively anyway since the player interaction is typically very stunted with the base game.