Review: Dungeons & Dragons Castle Ravenloft

Well as some of you will know a fair few weeks ago I was musing on why I no longer played board games anymore, you can find that article here. Any way I decided I should really try to put this right by picking myself up a couple of board games and giving them a damn fine go. Well I'm well on my way to having a nice little collection of board games now, I started off with Dwarf Kings Hold from Mantic Games and will be hopefully getting myself the second of those games Green Menace. I also have the Gears of War game on pre-order from OG Games and Mansions of Madness should be arriving any day soon hopefully.

However none of those games are really what I'd term true Dungeon Crawlers, yep Dwarf Kings Hold is set in a dungeon or should that be a 'hold' but its an adversarial game that I've heard described as Space Hulk with Dwarfs and axes, now while I think that's not an entirely fair analogy its not a million miles off in terms of vibe, but the two games play very differently. So I wanted a dungeon crawler. I'd had a few people suggest the D&D Adventure System Games of Castle Ravenloft and Wrath of Ashardalon, so I picked both up to see what they were like. First things first I've given Castle Ravenloft a thorough going over, and I've enjoyed it, but in the words of the tax dodging Irishman Bono 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for'.

Product Description

Lets get this out of the way right now, the production quality on this product is very high indeed and its clear Wizards of the coast have really gone to town with the components in this game. Even the box itself is a high quality product that will stand up quite nicely to the rough and tumble of daily gaming sessions. The card tiles and tokens are all on a very high quality card and have nice glossy surfaces, its all very slick. The miniatures although quite nice sculpts some of them are what lets this down. They aren't made of the nicest substance known to man and I actually think they'll be pretty naff to paint considering how bendy they all are. Its not great and its a shame, because I'd have liked to have painted them. There is however a lot of stuff in the box.

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