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Descent: Journeys in the Dark        

Category: Miniature cooperative board game
Ages: 12 and up
Players: 3-4
Play Time: 240 minutes and more
Published By: Fantasy Flight Games

Description of Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Shadowed dungeons, lost cities, forgotten ruins and so on are the places that players of Descent: Journeys in the Dark, visit. Once there, Skeletons, Hell Hounds, Giants, Demons, and Dragons are the kind of creatures they meet. If players are able to defeat these creatures and survive they are rewarded with ancient magic spells, bags of gold and powerful weapons and artifacts.

A game of Descent: Journeys in the Dark consists of thrilling adventures and deadly confrontations. To help with these adventures a pack of Descent: Journeys in the Dark brings players a quest guide, 20 hero sheets, 20 plastic heroes, 60 plastic monsters, 12 custom dice, 180 cards, a compass rose token, a town marker, 61 map pieces, 49 prop markers, 55 wound tokens, 24 fatigue tokens, 32 threat tokens, 24 conquest tokens, a breath template, a rule book, 4 hero turn tokens, 12 training tokens, 6 miscellaneous markers, 10 door markers, 52 coin tokens, 10 plastic door stands, 39 treasure markers, 16 hero order tokens and 55 effect tokens

   
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Players of Descent: Journeys in the Dark play the role of adventurers and face dangers armed with mighty weapons and powerful abilities. These weapons and abilities come to them during game play. Each turn can either equip them with weapons and abilities or set them to battle a monster. The game play involves dodging deadly traps, finding out lost treasures and ultimately meeting evil forces head-on and defeating them.

The dungeon crawling adventure promised by Descent: Journeys in the Dark can take a long time to come to an end. One game of Descent: Journeys in the Dark can take anything from a minimum of two hours to about four hours.

Players of Descent: Journeys in the Dark combine forces to fight the evil force and destroy them. In Descent: Journeys in the Dark players are not pitched against each other but are rather pitched together to fight evil forces. This game promotes harmony among players who unite for a common cause. Other competitive games are likely to result in disappointment and ill feeling. This does not happen when Descent: Journeys in the Dark is played.


Review of Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Descent: Journeys in the Dark proves that there are people out there who have very different tastes. This is a game for people who have a taste for scary adventures with generous amounts of horror thrown in. Descent: Journeys in the Dark is probably a very accurate representation of somebody’s nightmare with a good ending. After all in the end the players do succeed in winning over the evil forces.

The cooperative play among players in Descent: Journeys in the Dark makes players join forces and fight against evil.

Those of you who can take skeletons, demons and fire spitting dragons with calmness should definitely play Descent: Journeys in the Dark for tons of fun. As one game of Descent: Journeys in the Dark can take up to four hours to finish players are advised to plan accordingly.
 

 

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