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Dungeon, the boardgame
« Thread Started on Jan 26, 2008, 12:29pm »

Makofan put this in a general thread and I thought it deserved a spot of its own. Dungeon was a really neat TSR boardgame, with some support via Dragon magazine.

Here's Makofan's report:

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Here's a recent Dungeon session report for you

This is the 1975 version of the game where the map squares were big enough to hold the treasure cards

My two sons Jamie (11) and Michael (13) played a 3-player game with me on the weekend.

HOUSE RULES
We played a house rule that subtracts 5000 gold from the Wizard and Superhero victory conditions, because the elf usually wins. Sword on level 6 is +2, Swords on level 4 are +2 on a roll of 1-3. Custome character classes.

Jamie chose the Dwarf (fights like the elf, avoids traps), 10,000 gp needed. Michael chose the Sorceror (our name for the optional Wizard - 10 spells instead of seven, but can not use the magic sword), 25,000 gp needed. I was the elf (10,000 gp needed)

The dwarf made a beeline for level 2, stopping along the way to grok the only level 1 treasure in his line of sight. The sorceror took 4 fireball, 4 lightning and 2 transference spells, and headed to Lower Level 4, with the idea of fighting his way through the room at the top of the steps, then entering the chamber and teleporting to Level 5 hunting grounds. The elf decided to systematically loot all of level 1, looking for the magic sword. He never failed a secret door roll all game!

The dwarf jumped to an early lead, getting some good dice rolls to start and hitting 4000 gp fairly quickly. The elf found the magic sword in the second room, but decided to stay and loot lvl 1 anyway. The sorceror, with a few stumbles, eventually teleported to Upper Level 5 and settled down to work. His first treasure was 8000 gp, then he found the ESP medallion, and I figured it was his game. But three missed fireballs on a Giant (he needed 6 or higher on 2 dice) slowed him down, and he hit 20,000 gp with only 2 spells left - 1 lightning, 1 transference. So he had to set back to get a few more spells, and then maybe grab a few quick treasures on level 4

The elf joined the dwarf on level 2, and we cleared it, the dwarf having a couple thousand lead on the elf, and also having a magic sword, but I figured my mobility would tip the scales on level 3 in my favour. It all became moot when the dwarf died to an Evil Hero, and the elf ran in, killed the evil hero, scooped his loot, and staggered back home to win while the sorceror was still resting, regaining spells.

It would have been a tight-run game if the dwarf hadn't rolled snake eyes on his damage roll - dwarf and elf were about 7,000 and 6,000 when the dwarf died.

A good game indeed