So what’s Descentall about, then? To be honest, I’m a little vague on the specifics, ’cause my copies are still in the shrinkwrap, but I do know it’s one of the most popular of the dungeon-delving board games, which simulate the loot-and-scoot dynamic of Dungeons and Dragons in a more contained setting. (If you’re in the market, Amazon still has new copies from a handful of vendors, starting at $289.) The first, a jumbled box containing the game and all the expansions, sold for $92, and the second, an unpunched set of the first edition only, sold for $130. There were two copies of the long out-of-print first edition and they were way out of my price range. Seriously, it was like feeding time at the crazy cat lady house. Let’s say a few words about the basic game, Fantasy Flight’s Descent: Journeys in The Dark, because it came up for auction and … man. I’m still processing the four boxes of loot I brought back from the Spring Games Plus Auction and, like a determined CSI agent at a crime scene, putting clues together to determine how I ended up with a copy of Descent: The Sea of Blood.
You know what that sounds like? Drowning, that’s what it sounds like.īut let’s move on.
