Descent

Board Games: The group I roleplay/board game with played about our 5th session of Descent tonight. I really think this game needs work. We've only played with 4 and 5 players, so I'm not sure if fewer changes things. I've only played as the Overlord (GM) once. After that, and talking with (and seeing the reactions of) the other three guys who have done it, I've come to the conclusion that it pretty much just sucks. Rolling through the dungeon as a Hero is fun, but that basically means the Overlord just gets to sit there and say "yep, you killed it" after virtually every roll. The problem is really with the massively over-powered level 2 and 3 treasure chests that you find in the dungeon. These swing the game from difficult to simple for the Heros. All in all, it's fun, and I want to play it again, but I think I'll either advocate using some of the house rules from The Geek or something all the players, GMs and I can go along with.