Review: Dungeons & Dragons The Legend of Drizzt

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Well this is the third Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System Game that I've brought, so either Wizards of the Coast were doing something right with the other games, or I'm a complete schmuck. Don't say it, I already know I am! However, between them Castle Ravenloft and Wrath Ashardalon probably would have made a pretty engaging experience. As it was though, Castle Ravenloft proved too easy, and although it had a great theme it was, as Geology Girl stated, a little 'soulless' as an experience. Meanwhile, Wrath of Ashardalon was a sterner test of my adventuring mettle but had even less character and lacked a cohesive and consistent theme, which was a shame because I felt the challenge it offered was a worthwhile one. So then, how does this third game fare? I mean, they've brought out one of their big guns in Drizzt, a character who has had many novels, they've also had feedback from the first two games. So, has this iteration learned any new tricks?

Product Description

This is a game that comes within a self contained storage device.... OK, OK it's yet another game in a box. Yay!!! I've had a fair few people email and PM me to ask if these are somehow expansions and ask whether they need Castle Ravenloft to play both Wrath of Ashardalon and Legend of Drizzt. The answer is no, they are not expansion packs. Each game is a standalone game and comes with everything you need to play the game out of the box. So what do you get in this box then? Well I'm glad you asked, there are 40 plastic heroes and monster type thingies ranging from the huge winged demon Errtu Balor, right down to the tiny ickle spider swarms. You also get the eponymous Drizzt Do'Urden of course, along with other Drizzt stablemates Regis, Catie Brie and even the Assassin Artemis Entreri. There are the 58 floor tiles, these are the interlocking jigsaw type. The 12 hero and villain cards, the rulebook and adventure books, 168 markers and tokens, we shouldn't forget there are also 200 Encounter, Monster and Treasure Cards, split between the standard and Advanced decks. Have I forgot anything? Oh yeah, there's a lovely almost black but very dark navy blue / purple D20... sexy, and so in keeping with the Drow theme darlings!

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