Descent - the board game

 Yet another shameless excuse for a post ... we recently played the old 'Descent' boardgame, the DNA of which helped build Imperial Assault in latter years (but without the massive Disney licence issues - and thereby added expense).

An excellent game using superb little floorplans - and Stephen's excellently painted miniatures (we chose these over the plastic figs that come with the game). Dice pools with pre-marked D6, nice initiative sequences and missions whose success (or lack thereof) affects what happens next and on subsequent missions - with recurring campaign enemies - a bit like D&D but without the Ham acting and need for DM caffeine tablets.

I bet he drinks Carling Black Label

...speaking of which...I've also been running a lot of D&D 5e with the younger group - 1st segment of that campaign is finished - it only took 12 months :O - pics at the end.

Lovely floorplans

Character sheets are streamlined to make it play faster - but great components

1960s Woodstock style headband...cue Hendrix

The thief and her dwarf companion - who umm is clearly not to scale

Goblins who are angry about Brexit

A large black monstrosity which only looked scary because it had been undercoated

goblins who are angry about Biden

'the Final Conflict' in the D&D game now - the evil snake god Zargon tries to snack on the magic princess - can the characters save her from stomach acid?

...ok she can't..oops

the Dragonborn barbarian dives inside the snake - knowing that he has to do at least 40 points of damage in turn 1 to get out...ummm which he does

'It's behiiiind youuuu!'

A return to normal transmission should resume soon ... :)