Alright friends and fans, things are about to get super stoked in here, because I’m about to tell you about my current favorite board game, Dice Masters. Trust me, you’ll want to play this one for sure. It’s a game full of heroes, villains, fantasy characters, combat, magic, and, most importantly, tons of dice rolling!! (If you couldn’t tell, I really like to roll dice.) Let’s get to it. Here are 5 reasons why I love Dice Masters, and you should too.
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Let’s start with the contradiction that is this game: Mysterium is a cooperative, one-VS-many board game. If you don’t know what that means I’ll try to put it simply – In most one-VS-many games, one player plays against the rest who play on a team (they very often use the “heroes VS the dungeon lord bad guy” kind of story). And in cooperative games…you work together, hopefully you knew that one. So in this game, the one player isn’t trying to defeat the many, but is helping them succeed.
No, we aren’t actually going to the town in France (boom just gave you the definition of the game, and a quick geography lesson), we’re just learning how to play the game. This is one of the simplest games I have ever played, so it baffles me that it comes with 7 pages of instructions – that’s excessive if you ask me. But, if you really want me to hold your hand, I can walk you through the game one step at a time.
Let’s not beat around the bush – sometimes you just want to sit at home with your –
Choose one:
Boyfriend/Girlfriend
Roommate
Mom/Dad
Siblings
And that’s cool, right? (Maybe we should steer clear of hanging out with parents, but you get the idea.) But watching a movie or TV show every weekend gets old quick…especially when you’ve already binged anything worth watching on Netflix.
Look at that, I made a rhyme!
Red Dragon Inn is a game where adventurers (the playable characters in the game) stop at …go on guess… yupp, an Inn, have a few drinks together, and maybe gamble a bit. You want to keep up your strength, and keep down your drunkenness, all while weakening others and making them drink, a lot.
This is not only one of my favorite games, but also a game I tend to dominant at. No really, I’ve only lost this game twice, and I’ve played over forty times. Some would probably argue that it’s dumb luck and there’s no real strategy to winning this simple game, but I care to disagree. So here are a few tips I tend to follow which may help you win a few rounds of Red Dragon Inn too.
cards come in very handy.
1. Pick a Character you Like and Understand – I have to admit, I’m often guilty of picking my character based on who looks the coolest, but I learned in this game, that’s not the best choice. All of the playable characters have their own individual deck of cards, which means they all have abilities and powers specific to them. Some are better at cheating during gambling, some are so strong they make their opponents lose fortitude (what your strength is called in the game), and others have magic that allows them to avoid drinking.
So sure, choose someone you like to look at, (you’ll have to stare at their mug the whole game between your cards and your player mat) but also try out different characters until you find one or two whose powers you like and can use expertly (like by combining cards and chaining their effects to wreck your opponent).