Tomb of the Lord of the Dead. Dungeon

What is Dungeon. Tomb of the Lord of the Dead?

• Unforgettable adventures in a gloomy underground world;
• Risky tasks, search for great artifacts, battles with evil spirits;
• Exciting atmosphere and the ability to play in the "solo" mode.

"Dungeon. Tomb of the Lord of the Dead" is a variation of Dungeons & Dragons. Being a representative of the old school, the game is devoid of unnecessary embellishments in the form of cartoonish drawings of the main characters - adventures and only adventures!

"Dungeon. Tomb of the Lord of the Dead: A World of Danger and Risk

The gaming atmosphere deserves special attention. What is special about her? Before you is not just a game - this is a full-fledged fairy-tale world that you can study for a long time: there are so many interesting things in it. By the way, you can do this not only in a friendly company, but also alone with yourself: there is a special addition in the rulebook.

A mysterious dungeon full of horrors is waiting for you. And the further you go through the creepy corridors, the more knowledge you get. However, the risk of becoming a victim of a curse or encountering a terrible monster also increases.

The main thing is to complete all the tasks and stay alive!

The main goal of all heroes is to perform various tasks. For example, take a lost sorcerer to the library, catch a magic fish, sell your soul to the devil, or solve a demonic riddle. All these actions are accompanied by dice rolls to pass tests and the gradual development of your own alter ego.

Players move in turn order. Each turn consists of five phases:

• recovery phase;
• Phase of atrocities;
• Location phase;
• The phase of exploits;
• Draw and discard phase.

The winner is the player who, moving through the dungeon, completes three tasks and remains alive. In addition, victory may be in the hands of the one who destroys the rest of the heroes.

The game mechanics are interesting: on the one hand, the participants are good forces, on the other hand, they seek to interfere with the opponents in the game, committing all sorts of atrocities.

Great importance in this game is given to ease of perception. Rough and simple, the board game has amazing chemistry that immerses us in a world of scary dungeons filled with adventure. It provides us with a unique opportunity to live the life of a noble paladin or a gloomy necromancer in just one hour.

What's in the game box?

• Cards (110 pcs.);
• Tokens (60 pcs.);
• Chips of heroes with stands (6 pcs.);
• Cubes (2 pcs.);
• Rules of the game.

"Dungeon. The Tomb of the Lord of the Dead ”is the embodiment of the best traditions of heroic fantasy. High-quality illustrations seem to have come off the covers of old books about the adventures of Conan the Barbarian. Artistic inserts on the cards are not without common sense of humor.

Developing heroes, completing various tasks, searching for equipment and artifacts, fighting monsters - all this fits into one small box. The game will appeal to fans of dynamic and beautiful fantasy board games.

Board game

Number of players
1 to 4

Party time
From 60 minutes

Game difficulty
Medium

Board game Dungeon is a strategy game that will allow you to immerse yourself in the gloomy world of the dungeon. If you are an online player and you can easily operate with such terms as dungeon, respawn, then this is the game for you. In the board game Dungeons you will fight various monsters, make sacrifices for the sake of goodness, search for valuables, open secret rooms. And also you will take on the role of the dungeon master and will prevent the heroes from going through the dungeon.

The purpose of the game "Dungeon"

You have to visit the dungeon and fight with many enemies. You must play as a hero to complete three tasks and not die. If the player is playing as the dungeon master, then he must destroy all the heroes.

Board Game Dungeon: Game Rules

• Before the game begins, it is necessary to separate the cards and set aside the location cards. Mix everything else separately.
• Location cards. Find the Entrance card in the location card pile and place it in the center of the table. Then take four location cards randomly and place them on the table near the entrance. Shuffle the rest of the location cards and place them face down.
• Give each player a hero card and a level overlay. The hero card is placed in front of the player, while the overlay can be used when leveling up 2 levels.

Each player is given

• Hero card. Give each player a hero card and a level overlay. The hero card is placed in front of the player, while the overlay can be used when leveling up 2 levels.
• We distribute the health of the heroes. Each hero is given 3 tokens with a face value of "1" and 1 token with a face value of "3". All other hero cards are set aside.
• A counter card and 2 risk and glory tokens are dealt.
• Players take their heroes and place them on the entry card. At the same time, they immediately receive one glory and risk token for entering the most dangerous dungeon.
• Each player is dealt 2 personal task cards. These quests can only be completed by players during their turn. Other cards are placed on the table and the top card is revealed. This quest can be completed by any player on their turn.
• Each player is dealt 5 adventure cards. These cards make up the player's hand and are not shown to the players.
• Game process

All players take turns clockwise. Each turn consists of five phases:

• Recovery phase. Everything that was in effect during your turn, effects, traps, and so on, returns to its original state. All locations, except for which your hero is currently located, become new for him again.
• Atrocity Phase. You become the master of the dungeon and you have a chance to spoil the life of your opponents. To do this, you need risk tokens from your opponents. You must play the risk card and pay with tokens only to the players, not your own. However, risk tokens from different players cannot be used on the same card.
• Location Phase. Take the location card and place it on the table where possible. If there are no location cards, you skip a turn.
• Labor phase. In this phase, you perform any of the following actions: explore (you are allowed to draw location cards and place them on the table, and you spend 1 point on each location card), move (one point is spent to move the hero to another location), play glory cards (you can play glory cards from your hand to gain benefits) or complete a quest (the cards show all the conditions, restrictions, and everything you need to successfully complete the quest). Any completed tasks are deleted.
• The discard and draw phase. If you have cards in your hand, you must discard one card from your hand or one card from your inventory. If there are no cards in your hand, then you don't have to discard any cards. If you did not move and did not choose an “action”, you will receive one glory and risk token. Draw adventure cards to 5. The player's turn is over.

The player executes five phrases at once on his turn and, upon completion, passes the move to the next one.

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We have terrible news: the Lord of the Dead has thrown off the shackles of sleep! And with him, of course, immediately rose from the graves and his henchmen, who fled with absolute impunity to the surrounding lands. Mighty heroes immediately responded to the cry for help from local residents, among whom, of course, there is you! Are you brave enough to enter the dungeon containing the tomb of the Lord of the Dead?

Gather your strength, our brave heroes, for great adventures await you in the gloomy world of "Dungeon"! You have to complete several brave and risky tasks in the most remote and sinister nooks and crannies of the catacombs. Challenge fate itself, take risks and make sacrifices, look for great artifacts, exterminate evil spirits, find secret rooms and hinder your rival heroes in every possible way.

The best traditions of classic heroic fantasy are embodied in the Dungeon board game. It's hard to believe how everything could fit in such a small box, but the fact remains - the game will pleasantly surprise anyone! Fighting monsters, searching for artifacts and equipment, completing interesting tasks and even developing heroes - all this and even more is present in the game and pleases with the quality of performance!

The players take turns. Each player's turn consists of 5 phases: the recovery phase, the villainy phase, the location phase, the exploit phase, and the discard/draw phase. At the end of these phases, the turn passes to the next player. When each player has made a move, it is considered that the game round has ended, and all actions are repeated in a circle.

Moving through the dungeon and fighting with various opponents, the player-hero must complete three tasks and stay alive. You can also win if, playing as the Dungeon Master, you destroy all other heroes.

Hurry up and open this compact box and plunge into the world of exciting adventures, fierce skirmishes and great heroes!

Equipment:

• 22 location cards;
• 60 adventure cards;
• 14 task cards;
• 4 counter cards;
• 4 double-sided memory cards;
• 6 hero cards;
• 2 six-sided dice;
• 4 level overlays;
• 6 hero tokens;
• 6 stands for chips of heroes;
• 8 risk tokens;
• 8 glory tokens;
• 32 health tokens;
• 8 tracking tokens;
• rules of the game.

For some, the dungeon is damp, suffocating darkness and stuffiness. But for fans of classic role-playing games, the word "dungeon" evokes completely different associations - this is a place where heroes perform feats, extract treasures and destroy the undead. About the same game "Tomb of the Lord of the Dead." It's just a card game.

Genre: role-playing, card
Author Story by: Thomas Danmark
Artists Cast: Thomas Danmark, Molly Mendoza, Ben Van Dyken and others
Publisher: Atlas Games
Publisher in Russia: Hobby World
Number of players: 1–4
Age of players: from 14 years old
Party duration: 45-60 minutes
Game language: Russian
Similar works:
Dungeons & Dragons
runebound

The Dungeon Game was created by artist Thomas Denmark. In addition to the actual mechanics, the Dungeon demiurge made a lot of illustrations for the game. And if there is no doubt about their quality, then everything is not so smooth with the rules - they are not written and structured in the best way. A clear confirmation of this is the mass of topics on the desktop forums, where they try to give the correct interpretation of this or that moment. On the other hand, the author managed to fit in just a hundred cards almost all the possibilities found in many hours of computer RPG. Of course, this complicates the game somewhat, but old school connoisseurs will only be happy. In addition, despite the complexity, the games are dynamic and take no more than an hour.

The gameplay is simple: the hero descends into a randomly generated dungeon (it is made up of cards), fights monsters, searches for treasures, completes various quests and grows in levels. And at the same time, every turn the player takes on the role of the local dark lord - the lord of the dungeon. Such a split personality is implemented quite elegantly. Each hero has two types of resources - glory and risk. Fame is used to pay for useful cards, while opponents spend risk by playing cards of attacking monsters and other harmful cards against the hero. As a result, each player has time to speak for both sides, which pleasantly diversifies the gameplay and creates tension - you never know who will deal the next blow against you. There are a lot of possibilities - from inciting a monster or setting a trap to moving the hero along with a piece of the dungeon to another part of the map.

Most of the actions in the game are based on a standard skill check: a die is rolled, the rolled number is added to the value of the ability being checked, and if the final result is not less than necessary, success. Therefore, you will have to roll the die here often. Checks are used when completing quests, when dodging numerous traps and, of course, in battles. The latter, despite the use of all the same banal checks, turned out to be exciting and unpredictable thanks to several forms of combat and a lot of opportunities to influence the result with the help of a well-played card. By the way, each card has an artistic text that allows you to feel the game world well - and just smile. The game is generally made with humor. What is worth, for example, a card that allows you to discard an attacking monster - it shows a hero pointing the embarrassed monster to the door. It's so simple.

What is nice, quests are not limited to the destruction of monsters. The game has seven types of tasks, thanks to which it does not get bored for a long time. And for those who are still tired, seven more Dungeons sets have been released in English, and the game mechanics provide for full compatibility of all sets. True, all references to this compatibility were removed from the Russian-language edition; however, until other Dungeons sets have been released in Russian, this does not make much sense. But the publisher added a single version of the game for those who like to play role-playing solitaire games.

In general, the localization is very different from the original. The English-language edition was distinguished by a fair amount of asceticism. There was nothing in the box besides cards and a black-and-white sheet of rules, so the first quest for beginners in the Dungeon was to search for chips, tokens, dice, and also scissors. The domestic publisher added all the necessary props, made high-quality hero chips (in the original they were cut from one of the cards), and also reworked the structure of the rules. True, this slightly increased the cost and size of the box. But you have to pay for convenience.

Outcome: a very successful, albeit difficult to master, transfer of the ideas of classic dungeon crawlers to a card format. But be careful - the game is intended strictly for connoisseurs of the old school. However, it will be easier to introduce newcomers to it than to force them to play the ancient game “without graphics”.