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While I never dug D&D, I probably would have enjoyed this board game version from TSR. I love the wholesome 80s looking family up there, considering TSR was beleaguered with negative press during this period, it's almost ironic....
What you don't know is that little girl, inspired this devil-worshiping board, would kill her entire family that evening. She eluded police for weeks in the sewers of her town, subsisting on flushed alligators and boiled sewer water.
I didn't know TSR made board games. I did dabble in D&D a few times. Worrying he would look silly trying to Dungeon Master in front his nerd clan (seriously), my brother convinced me to be a one-person adventure party and explore the dungeon he created by paying $10 an hour! I didn't tell him I really liked playing so he'd continue paying me for 2-hour sessions.
My folks picked that up for me thinking it was the D&D I kept talking about. Their hearts were in the right place and I appreciated the gesture, but NO one was going to play that with me when D&D and Tunnels and Trolls was all the rage.
It's D&D compressed down to a 20 minute competitive dungeon crawl with a risk vs reward type of gameplay. Do you play it safe at the upper levels of the dungeon fighting weaker monsters and slowly building up a collection of less valuable treasure or do you risk fighting tough monsters in the lower levels for more valuable prizes? It's a really good game and lot of fun.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
I was big into D&D (still am) and had the Dungeon board game (got it and Dark Tower the same Christmas). It was a game I could get family and friends (i.e. non-D&D friends) to play when they wouldn't go near a tabletop rpg for fear of looking too geeky. Playd it a lot, but not as much as Dark Tower. We did sometimes replace the tokens from the game with the lead miniatures I had for D&D though.
-M
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I did dabble in D&D a few times. Worrying he would look silly trying to Dungeon Master in front his nerd clan (seriously), my brother convinced me to be a one-person adventure party and explore the dungeon he created by paying $10 an hour! I didn't tell him I really liked playing so he'd continue paying me for 2-hour sessions.
There's a term for that arrangement and it's not "sibling rivalry."
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Ah, the New Dungeon. Really nice version. That's the one with the figural minis instead of generic pawns.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
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