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Year Published
2005
# of Players
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(158 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
240 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(52 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(67 voters) [poll]
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Descent: Journeys in the Dark
Alternate Names
Descent: Die Reise ins Dunkel
Descent: Reise ins Dunkel
Descent: Viaggi nelle Tenebre
Descent: Viaje a las tinieblas
Descent: voyage dans les ténèbres
Odalent: Kalandok a mélyben
Η ΚΑΤΑΒΑΣΗ:Περιπετειες στα εγκατα της Γης.
ディセント 〜闇世界への旅立ち〜
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Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a semi-cooperative game in which two to five players will take on the antagonistic roles of heroes and Overlord. Up to four players will choose characters with a wide assortment of skills and innate abilities to be the heroes who will explore dungeons in search of treasure and adventure. One player will take on the role of the Overlord and will control the dungeon's many traps, puzzles, and monsters.

The heroes' goal will be to cooperatively conquer the dungeon, seize its many treasures, and achieve other objectives as set by the scenario. If the heroes cooperate and achieve their goals, they will all win. The Overlord's objective is simply to use all the means at his or her disposal - from deadly traps and ferocious monsters - to kill the heroes. Each hero has a certain Conquest Point value to the party and if too many Conquest Points are lost through hero death, the party loses and the Overlord wins.

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Descent: Journeys in the Dark
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Fantasy Flight Edition 2009
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Artist: Frank Walls, Jesper Ejsing, John Goodenough
Year: 2009
Product Code: VA11
Size: 11.60 x 23.25 x 4.00 inches
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Descent: Viaje a las tinieblas
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Spanish Edition
Publisher: Edge Entertainment
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Year: 2007
Product Code: EDGDE02
Size: 11.80 x 23.60 x 3.90 inches
3.00 pounds
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Descent: Die Reise ins Dunkel
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German edition
Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Artist: Frank Walls, Jesper Ejsing, John Goodenough
Year: 2006
Size: 11.60 x 23.25 x 4.00 inches
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First Edition
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Artist: Frank Walls, Jesper Ejsing, John Goodenough
Year: 2005
Product Code: VA11
Size: 11.60 x 23.25 x 4.00 inches
8.02 pounds
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Publisher: Kaissa Chess & Games
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6 Reglopilación para Descent: Viaje a las Tinieblas
Resumen de reglas de la edición básica de Descent en un Din-A4 a doble cara. Incluye los consejos publicados por Edge en sus foros para Descent. Incluye todas las reglas del manual, así como descripción de los estados persistentes y capacidades especiales. Para nuestras partidas ha sido de gran ayuda a nivel de consulta para los jugadores noveles, así como para información general de eventos, condiciones, etc.
2010-08-27
1 Jeff's Descent characters
Back when I got Runebound, I made additional characters for it. Now that I have Descent, I converted them for use with Descent. Most were made with the official character generator, but a couple weren't.
2010-08-17
4 NinjaDorg's Cooperative Descent (no Overlord, random dungeons, scaled levelling)
NinjaDorg Descent Coop/Solo Rules Version 1.1 Conquest Tokens Option added, spelling corrected, PDF instead of DOC. EDIT - FYI, Morten H has posted an interesting session report using these rules [thread=553681]HERE[/thread].
2010-07-28
1 Monster Stats reference sheets, separated by number of heroes
Very minor update. Fixed a spelling mistake and tidied a couple of things up. The older version is still perfectly correct for gameplay though!
2010-07-27
5 N.G.Martin Extra Heroes
28 extra heroes; a first attempt using JL's HeroGen v2.3. Post comments!
2010-07-25
4 Cataclysm - Quest variant
"The forces of evil have won, taking over the surface world, forcing civlized beings to survive in the catacombs. How can you win a war that's already been lost?" Cataclysm is a campaign for new players without complicated rules, and for hardcore players that start with nothing and gain equipment, money, and experience. As of 08-27-2010, quests 1-3 are fully tested, with quests 4-13 nearly completion. 55 quests total. Inside the zip file are the Campaign files (PDFs, which include the campaign sheet to print out for each player on page 1, and a quest map), and the Campaign Editor files (descent editor)
2010-07-06
6 Descent PvP
When all is said and done, when all quests have been cleared, when there is no more kick in crushing weak spawns... You turn to the greatest challenge of your lives - The very ones who have endured and conquered everything together with you. Who is the best? This module was carefully thought up and made with painstaking effort over a long time to grant Descent fans a new angle of the game - PvP! Player versus player and no... Not the Overlord - Hero style. This is the Hero - Hero style. (Hero Wars)
2010-07-06
6 Descent Hero Creation Tool
This spreadsheet uses the official Fantasy Flight Games method to allow you to create your own heroes for use in Descent. It carries out all of the calculations for you and will produce a printout sheet that you can use in your games. Enjoy!
2010-06-25
3 Descent Dice
Vector graphic drawings of the Descent dice. I was planning to make an online dice rolling application for Descent. So that someone from another location could participate in the game. But I never got further then just drawing the dice. So I post them here so other people can benefit from it. You should be able to view the file in most modern web browsers and edit it in most modern vector drawing programs.
2010-06-12
4 Calculations of expected damage, range and surges for all combinations of dice.
Fixed a minor error in the data and added the probabilities of getting zero Damage, Range and Surges. Also added some colour for the dice names. Aaaah - pretty!
2010-06-11
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Average Rating: 7.57
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