Strangely enough, in all my years as a gaming geek, I’ve never done an actual table-top dungeon romp before. I’ve played pencil-and-paper role-playing games in the past, but due to my snooty attitude towards Dungeons & Dragons, I’ve always stayed away from it and preferred less hack-and-slash oriented games like RuneQuest, Shadowrun and Robotech (okay, maybe this last one is a bad example.) I’ve cleared dungeons in MMOs like World of Warcraft before, but that’s not quite the same thing. So when Sean offered the opportunity to participate in a session of Descent, I agreed despite some misgivings over how long it would be expected to require.
The bad news is that our session actually lasted longer than I expected, about five and a half hours in all. The good news is I had a blast the entire time and would gladly do it again! It’s all a bit embarrassing really because even more so than BattleLore, much of the appeal of Descent lies in being able to play with all the awesome miniatures and other props. As one of the players in our session, Chee Wee (sorry if I got the spelling of your name wrong) commented, there’s an open-mouthed kid in the candystore feeling when you see all that cool stuff laid out on the table.