Your email address will not be published. Over the course of a couple of in-game days, your adventuring party will investigate an overarching mystery, punctuated by heading off into the wilds to pursue other, briefer diversions. [CDATA[ Company Registered in England no. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2017, Just awesome!!! This is not a legacy game. It sets the scene and tells the story well. The choices you make are what make this game special. It would take a very plucky amateur role-player to push through the “strong recommendations” of an experienced player with an exhausted activation token suggesting a contrary action, but hey, I can’t fault Valens or Fantasy Flight Games for providing a mechanic that at least addresses the issue. I can tell you that I had several very enjoyable evenings going exploring Dragonholt and its surrounds. But when you’re reading it out to a table of people, it feels a bit… wordy. There’s more agency here than you might first think. As a campaign-driven, highly thematic and very enjoyable Choose-Your-Own-Adventure–esque title which introduces new complexities and features for the solo player, Legacy of Drahonholt is superb, albeit very expensive in comparison to the books still readily available. But when you’re reading it out to a table of people, it feels a bit… wordy. Without freewheeling into spoiler territory I’m forced to be vague, but in a nutshell: it’s a great fantasy jape. If anything, it flew a little under the radar when it came out at the end of 2017. The components, as always with a Fantasy Flight game, are excellent, with features like maps, notebooks and other correspondence thrown in to enhance the experience when a simple image on a page would have sufficed. Do we need to talk about value here? Hopefully, that experience can be shared – and I’ll give FFG one thing on that front. That character creation process is a bit of an uphill struggle, particularly for newcomers, or those less familiar with RPGs. Legacy of Dragonholt . So what’s it actually about? As a light, self-contained role-playing game that could act as a gateway for Dungeons and Dragons, it is perhaps less successful when played with a mainstream audience, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Boards and Booze is the work of three friends whose passion for gaming is matched only by their thirst. //