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Peter Russell (61 KP) rated Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle in Tabletop Games

Mar 21, 2019

I love that this game is cooperative (0 more)

A scenario can become unbeatable (0 more)

A friendly jaunt through the world of Harry Potter

This is a cooperative Harry Potter Board game for 1-4 players. A cooperative board game puts all players on the same team against the board with challenges that are randomly generated by a deck of cards in this case. This game is a deckbuilder/ card drafter and each play you build a new deck thoughout the gameplay. This game also has elements similar to a legacy game (a game that has more content that is unlocked after each playthough), however, this game does not require any destruction of parts and can be completely reset. There are 7 boxes, corresponding to the 7 books/ years of Harry Potter. You start at year 1 and after each play through and defeating the villains, the group can choose to move on to the next year, adding the secrets of the next box to your next play through. Each year does get more difficult. I love this game for the theme, the cooperative working together part and the thrill of getting a new experience with each playthough. The only bad aspect of this game I have experienced is that because the random generation of challenges by the board, a scenario can become unbeatable, the good news if that happens, ypu just reset where ypu are, shuffle everything and try again. I really love this game and after writing this review I even increased my rating from 7 to 9, as writing this made me happier about the game.
If you get through year 7, there is an expansion with more boxes to open and work through.

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BadgerMuffin (48 KP) rated Dungeons and Dragons in Tabletop Games

Jun 2, 2019 (Updated Jun 3, 2019)

Dungeons and Dragons

1974 | Action, Adventure, Dice Game, Fantasy, Fighting

9.6

(25 Ratings)

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Unlimited hours of Gameplay (2 more)

Multiple Expansion Books

Tonnes of Free Homebrew

Not the Cheapest to buy the source books (About £35 Each) (0 more)

The Greatest Ever Roleplaying Game? Damn Straight!

Dungeons and Dragons. A game released in 1974, 5 editions in and every time they out do themselves.

This game is fantastic for a number of reasons. Firstly, there are thousands of groups playing across the world, and this game is only getting more and more popular. This means, if you don't have any friends who want to play this, you can find a local group and join them, most of my closest friends I have met through DnD. Its perfect for anyone, most people are misfits and as such you form the closest bonds both in game and out of game.

I have now been playing DnD for the past two years straight, every Tuesday and Thursday; and yet I still haven't got bored. Every game is different, one week you're killing a dragon, the next week you're travelling across country with a Creepy Puppet Maker called Borris.

The leader of the group (AKA Dungeon Master) plans a rough idea of what is going to happen (it never does) and then as a group of players you walk around the world trying to accomplish quests. All of this is down to the fate of the dice. So no two games will ever be the same.

Honestly this is one of the games I will always return to and I plan on teaching my kids.

TL;DR
-Fun to Play.
-Available in most towns (and spreading across the country).
-Always different.
-Great to meet new people.
-Free Basic sourcebooks available from Wizards of the Coast