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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3808836" data-attributes="member: 14041">Having played both I would gladly play DDM again, and have played it several times.  I have played Descent once, and wished I had quit half way through.   For a competive game DDM is far more fun given that all players start out on an equal footing and the game then plays out primarilly based on ability to choose and run your warband (and there is lots of online help for that) whereas Descent is a group of players playing against the DM (essentially), one in which the DM is at an adavantage and has no reason not to play it Killer DM style, and in my experiance seems encouraged to do so although I will admit I was a player and not the DM.   Thus DDM can be friendly competition whereas I found Descent frustrating. EDIT:  Sorry, it's 'Overlord' and DemonKing said: "I like it a lot - especially the idea of the Overlord being competitve rather than a "dungeon master" type figure ala D&D."  Which is exactly what my group hated about it. Cost is another factor.  You can either buy up some boxes of DDM or buy them individually at various places fairly cheap compared to buying Descent.  Yes, if you want specifically themed warbands you are going to have to buy a lot of booster packs or shell out for rares and uncommons and thus pay more in the long run, but I think based only on minimal price to play you can start DDM more cheaply.Somewhat related to this, you can get the cards for most of the DDM sets, and the rules IIRC, and just use minis you already own to start playing.  That might be a good way to try it out. Rules wise Descent is another system to learn with its own quirks.  For the most part if you know how to play DnD you can play DDM in only a few minutes of prep. You can also play a lot of skirmishes with DDM in the time you can play half a game of Descent.  You can play a Tournament of DDM in the time you can play a game of Descent. Thus to me DDM is the only way to go.</blockquote>

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