When their turn comes around, the player chooses the top ability from one of the two cards, and the bottom ability from the other. Each turn, players pick two cards out of their hand and reveal them simultaneously, with the leading card deciding their initiative. Players start the scenario with all their ability cards in hand. These cards are split in two, typically with attack on top and movement on the bottom, and an initiative number between them. With levels, characters gain access to more powerful cards, but the total number of cards they can take with them into a scenario never changes. Quick tabletop quality paint job, don’t meĮach character comes with their own miniature and a deck of ability cards. With very rare exceptions, the difficulty felt just right to us, games often coming down to the wire even as our characters leveled up or the party composition changed. This shifting balance is one of the most impressive features of the game. The challenge adjusts with the levels to accomodate the increasingly powerful characters. Monsters’ level doesn’t simply increase their hit points and damage, but gives them features like poisonous attacks, damage resistance, or simply increased speed – and an ooze that goes from speed 1 to speed 2 is that much harder to kite. The scenarios scale the number of monsters to the number of players, and their level to the party’s average level and desired difficulty. You won’t get 95 unique experiences here, there’s rarely a need to radically rethink your tactics, but the game has enough variety not to feel stale. Some even have special rules, like constantly spawning enemies or locked doors you have to open by pressing a button in another room. Each scenario comes with a map made up of chunky terrain tiles and smaller terrain features such as fallen logs, traps, chests, etc., split by a hexagonal grid. Scenarios have decently varying win conditions: kill boss/kill all enemies/loot specific treasure/get to exit/etc.
There are 95 of them in the book, plus a deck of randomizing cards to make your own. Tactics on topĪt the heart of the game are combat scenarios. I’ve played 27 scenarios so far with my brother, and while we’re nowhere near done, there probably aren’t any major surprises, mechanics-wise, hiding in the box by now. A tactical dungeoncrawling game with persistent world and character advancement, essentially a D&D campaign in a box. Designed by Isaac Childres, it is a monumental board game, largest and heaviest of boxes I own. With two fantastically successful kickstarters behind it and a #1 spot on Board Game Geek’s top 100 list, Gloomhaven is the current darling of the hobby.
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