Wizards of the CoastDandD Dungeon Board Game

I played this game with my brother as a kid in the 80's and on a lark, searched for it on the internet for my kids, now 6 and 7. I was happy to see that it was remade and still in circulation. As others have noted, it is fairly simple as far as gameplay goes. Much of the in-game mechanics involves simple dice rolls to determine the winner in fights with various monsters and possible damage to you if the monster wins. The loot system and victory mechanics are simple but fun. Therefore, it is an easy way to introduce young kids to fun fantasy board gaming. One thing that must be underscored, however is that it is very easy to customize. After getting familiar with the game, it is very easy and fun to invent new classes of characters. I invented ones based on my kid's favorite adventure characters (Merida from Brave, the kids from the Narnia books, the Hobbit books, etc.), and each had special in-game abilities (e.g., Bilbo could use his ring to automatically escape from an encounter, and Gandalf could use his forsight to detect the nature of an enemy in a room before the encounter). I won't get into the details here. If anybody is interested, I can just post my notes in a further comment discussion. But this sort of thing adds tons of replay-ability to the game. In any case, I'd recommend it highly, esp. if you enjoy doing customization like this as you or your kids become more comfortable with the game.

This is a light game that works with a fairly large group of players and plays pretty fast. The board is a large and twisty labyrinth filled with doors, secret passages and rooms of all sizes. It's color-coded for difficulty, which rises as you spread out from the central entrance. As you enter rooms you draw encounter cards to see what you fight. Different characters are better fighting different ways, different monsters are weaker to different sorts of attacks--but each fight comes down to a die roll. You win you get to draw a treasure card. You lose, you take some damage and its someone elses' turn. Folks can help each other clear rooms, but ultimately as each character gets more gold it turns into every adventurer for themselves. See each adventurer has a number of gold pieces that if they get out with them, they win.And that's the game. If you and your friends are already nerds of the roleplaying variety, having a D&D flavored board game will give you all a nice concentrated hit of that dungeon delving magic. If you or your friends are roleplaying curious and are looking for a low risk, fast way to familiarize yourselves with the basic ideas of what D&D is all about--this is a fun entry level game.For folks like us that love all things Dungeons & Dragons or fantasy in general, the game is fantastic. If you aren't into that sort of thing--this is probably not going to be the same for you.

I'm a pretty big board game fan, so when I saw this reprint, I wanted to give it a try. It was really inexpensive when I bought it, so even if it was a dud, I didn't feel I would worry about it. The board is well-made, although with the irregular tile size, it is sometimes hard to count your movement out. It really doesn't make a huge difference, but it would have been nice to have clear squares to move around on.The cardstock playing pieces are of average quality. The treasure and monster cards a little small. Again, adequate to play, but nothing you are going to be wowed over.The game mechanics are rather shallow, but I was expecting this ahead of time. It's a very straightforward dungeon delve, hack n slash game. The dice mechanics are 2d6 with each of the four classes having a single hit number to defeat the monster. If you hit the target number the monster is dead and you get its loot. If you miss, it has a chance to attack back with a handful of random effects. The only wrinkle to combat is the wizard, who gets a couple spells and the ability to teleport to different areas of the board.Once you collect your target GP Value of treasure (classes have different goals), it's a race to the exit and first one there wins. It plays in about 30-45 minutes.I had fun playing it the first time, basically for nostalgia. Having been used to playing more current board games (mostly euros) it was certainly flat from a strategic level. But, it does do a good job of mimicking a dungeon crawl in DnD, minus the roleplay. I think kids would have fun with it for a few play-throughs.

Das Beschreibung ist komplett in Englisch, aber Regel sind einfach, logisch und schnell zu merken. Die Aufmachung ist OK, aber was die Hauptsache ist - die ganze Familie ( das Alter variiert von 8 bis 60 Jahren) hat grossen Spass dabei und spielt es hin und wieder gern seit einem Jahr.

Un juego estupendo. Muy simple pero divertido, ideal para introducir a los niños al rol básico, y al ser de D&D se le pueden meter normas extra con mucha facilidad.

This is a simple dungeon & monsters game that can be played together with family or friends. The premise is simple, go in, kill monsters, earn enough gold and leave. You can choose various types of heroes, some are stronger but need to collect more gold, others are weaker but require less gold. The board is laid out into various sections with "levels", meaning that you will find harder monsters in higher levels, but also more valued treasure! The dungeons have rooms and halls where you will find monsters or sometimes traps. You don't need dice to move, you can move up to 5 spaces, but you do need the dice to kill monsters. If you fail to kill a monster, the monster fights back (using dice also), which can mean either nothing happens, you loose some loot, you loose maybe a turn also, or you can get killed, which just means you begin again without any treasure. The monsters are all different which makes exploring the dungeon fun because at random you can get easy monsters or hard monsters, advancing or delaying your hero's progress... all while you watch your friends continue their treasure hoarding! Once you clear a room of monsters, that space is now explored and no other hero can find monsters or treasure there, so players must move to other rooms or levels to keep finding treasure!I've been playing this with friends and with my daughter of 6, and we've had a lot of fun and nervous excitement at discovering new monsters or stubbornly going after the same monster to get our treasure back! The exercise of comparing dice roll values to see if the monster is killed, or the amount of treasure accumulated, has been a fun way to practice some mathematics with my daughter, while building the concepts of strategy and decision have come as a bonus while playing this game.The game is a fun activity to introduce fantasy and competition, and the game is simple in mechanics so you don't have to learn many rules. There are options available in the web to "spice" the game a little, but the game on its own stands well. The quality is decent for the price and beautifully colored, although the cards and the figures will wear with time. There is a need to find some way to store the cards and pieces for easy setup, but I just use plastic sandwich bags.

Ce jeu est la reedition du celebre jeu dungeon ! De 1975 du pere du jeu de rôle gary gygax mort en 2008C est un jeu simple à partir de 8 ansMes gamins l'adorent car les parties sont courtes 45 minutes et très ludiques.Le jeu a une prise en main facile 4 pages de règlesIdéal pour noëlAmusera les grands et les petits

日本語の説明書が入っていませんでした。分からない英単語を調べれば遊べそうではあります。