Unfortunately, the mimic is even more badly designed than the Old Dragonslayer: harder to dodge (with less thematic justification), more punishing when you fail to dodge, no way to punish someone wearing heavy armor, and his best attacks aren't locked behind Heat Up. In Explorers Expansion – Old Dragonslayer Mini Boss, players get a new mini-boss option. Created by Steamforged Games. Their scaling cost is matched by their scaling number of actions. I do wish that the rewards scaled, though; 3 souls is a pretty miserly reward for effectively fighting a miniboss in the middle of your run to the main boss. You get four treasure cards. The Dark Souls board game is an officially licensed board game based on the video game series. Prepare to Die. Welcome to Dark Souls: The Board Game. But we are getting the rules early so that's something! I do wish that the rewards scaled, though; 3 souls is a pretty miserly reward for effectively fighting a miniboss in the middle of your run to the main boss. First thoughts on the Print & Play mechanics: Summons are awesome. Mimic chests are worth two chests. Summons can be used to assist players during the difficult boss battles of Dark Souls: The Board Game. Might as well skip the chest. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the DarkSoulsTheBoardGame community, Continue browsing in r/DarkSoulsTheBoardGame. Tying invaders to embers is an elegant way to control their appearance without rewriting the encounter deck, and the rare game where you fight all the invaders all the time is a good enough story that I can't get mad. Tying invaders to embers is an elegant way to control their appearance without rewriting the encounter deck, and the rare game where you fight all the invaders all the time is a good enough story that I can't get mad. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1164061559, FYI Old Dragonslayer is missing two of his normal behavior cards, Leaping Darkness and Darkness Bolt. Also armor set models with legendary weapons! Press J to jump to the feed. Contains 10 Summon and 11 Invaders miniatures and their corresponding cards. It will give the game more flavor and make it seem like more of a world. This expansion features special rules for Invaders and their unique treasures, which add a brand-new element of excitement and challenge to your encounters. I'm super excited to see this come out, I seriously am addicted to this game, and when my friends and I can start "mix-and-matching" classes to do campaigns with, that's gonna be great! it's delayed ? I did a whole minboss fight for two treasure cards? This should be a shorter version of the O&S fight, which is the best fight in the game. Beware the Red Phantoms, for even more than the other dire opponents you have encountered, they are not of this world. Adds the ability to summon characters for assistance to aid in your fight and invaders to appear during encounters! Kindle the flame; defeat enemies and bosses lest you and your party perish. Seekers of Humanity is an expansion for Dark Souls: The Card Game. The Old Dragonslayer is badly designed. Looks like real bad quality. The 10 new summon characters come with their own miniatures and behaviour card decks that give each one a unique personality. Instead, he has a ton of range, he's functionally impossible to dodge, and he is trivial to defeat if you brought some heavy armor. The Phantoms expansion is intended for use with Dark Souls: The Board Game. It's a shame, because his ability is super interesting and encourages fun strategies like dual wielding, poking with light attacks, etc. You may have noticed a theme: Wave 2 looks like it was playtested at the same time as Wave 1. Summons, Invaders and mimics will be handy to make the game easier, harder or much harder. They do their thing for a few turns and die, just like in the game, keeping the Heat Up phase tense. Dark Souls™ - The Board Game. I looked through it all, it has me quite excited. Kirk is a missed opportunity to turn dodges into damage, but he makes great use of the Bleed status effect and his loot is a great way to represent armor set bonuses in this game.