Castlevania junkie? Try Castle Ravenloft! (DnD Board game)

[LudroLycandrel]

Hey, I just tried this board game, and it's pretty sweet.  1-5 players and some pretty impressive figurines.  Anyone else that hasn't tried it yet(apart from Chi, Floru, and DmanMike) :D

[Kardrack]

I've played it with some friends and we discovered something.  The fighter is is worthless as a fighter.  Best 3 man team seemed to be ranger, cleric, and rogue or Ranger, cleric, and wizard.  It is kinda fun but only after we changed some of the rules to house rules.  We all hated that as soon as you step on the edge of a tile, you lose your movement and all other actions in favour of putting down a new tile.  Also no matter what monster gets summoned, unless it is stationary for some reason, gets a surprise attack on you.  So I guess everyone is almost blind and can only five foot infront of themselves, otherwise they would notice the kobold just down the hall.  Oh and since most enemies have practically no health whatsoever, the ranger's ability to automatically damage any adjacent enemy is one of the very best abilities in the game.  It would be unwise not to take this power.  But yeah after we house ruled a couple things, this game became really fun.  Like one thing we changed was black tiles only spawn a trap, not a trap and a monster because we were getting wasted every game.  Monster and trap bonuses to hit are ridiculously high.  They only really miss if the role a 1.  Also, there are only 3 healing surges per party, which makes the cleric absolutely required and he has to take the healing at will powers.  It makes everyone call not it on the cleric since again, it is just a heal battery rather than an adventuring character.  "Hey, you hang back and patch my wounds  I'll go fight the monsters.  Unless it is undead, that is."  I know I am only pointing out the bad parts here and while there are a couple, like I said, it is a lot of fun.  My friend bought this game the same time I got Arkham Horror and we mostly play AH now.  I do admit, Castle Ravenloft's build-a-dungeon type map is really great.