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Darkness Personified

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Overlords try to kill players.

You can do almost anything? have you two ever played an RPG? The fact that you assume that any RPG is D&D really hurts. If you use all, or even most of the pieces from the game, you are rollplaying, not roleplaying.

It feels like a traditional pen & paper RPG? Really?

Edited Wed Jan 5, 2011 1:52 am
Posted Wed Jan 5, 2011 1:47 am
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will molinar

(The Reaper Abides)

United States
los angeles
California

Horrible review. Dices, really? Did you say dices? It's dice. Die is the singular, dice plural.

Posted Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:25 am
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Yoki Erdtman

(Yokiboy)

Sweden
Södertälje

Handsome devil huh?

The Reaper Abides wrote:

Horrible review. Dices, really? Did you say dices? It's dice. Die is the singular, dice plural.

Yeah they took a lot of flak for "dices," including from me.

Posted Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:49 pm
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Brian

(misanthrope)

United States
Garden Grove
California

The Reaper Abides wrote:

Horrible review. Dices, really? Did you say dices? It's dice. Die is the singular, dice plural.

Dice is the singular, dice is the plural.

b.

Posted Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:49 pm
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Marco Reubzaet

(Co1980)

Netherlands
Landgraaf

I agree with most of the cool things mentioned, but not so much with the bad:

If you are dropping an item, it generally disappears, but considering there are "too many portals" to town, you should just think ahead a bit and go and sell the stuff you cannot carry. Besides, if it would not disappear, the Overlord would have had even less of a chance of winning.

The Overlord should always be the most experienced player. Besides: if you want a massive game AND a lot of depth, you should be prepared for it to have a lot of things to familiarise yourself with. Right now, this statement sounds like it comes from some spoilt bratt: "I want everything and more, and I want it RIGHT NOW! Daaaaddyyyyyy!"

The Overlord indeed has a rather hard time to win. The Well of Darkness expansion improves his situation to some extent. But as an Overlord, I always like the heroes to win, although I never hold back. It makes the game seem a bit more like an adventure than if the monsters would finish off the heroes (notice how rarely that happens in an adventure film? :-P)

No more reviewing of the rules once you have the expansions.

Cheesy scenarios? I never noticed that. Perhaps because I don't really care about the scenario and just want to get some pummeling going on. The only thing that is relevant, is what the big boss is like...

Yes, I am very prejudiced about this game, because I love it to bits. That said, though, I completely respect those who do not. I just think the reasons given are not very valid and/or entirely objective and therefore require a bit of criticism themselves. Anyone wanting to buy this game should really try to get their information from several sources in order to get a good idea of this game, I think. You should note that this game tends to be VERY long - something not emphasised enough in the review, in my opinion. Give it a try before you buy. I was hooked :-)

Posted Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:51 pm
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Ciaran McCann

(Kihon)

United Kingdom
Belfast
Nothern Ireland

8 ON 10??? 6 ON 10 eh eh eh??????

Don't u's mean 'out of' surprise

Awesome dude

Posted Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:41 am
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William Garramone

(Keesvanloomacklin)

United States
Nashville
Tennessee

Just bought this game and played the first scenario twice with different groups. I think the game is a 5 or 6 out of 10 as written. I totally agree that with some house-rules this could easily be a 10 out of 10. So, off I go to work on some rules. I've been role-playing since 1979 so it shouldn't be too hard for me.

Posted Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:16 pm
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