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Dungeon! the boardgame that presaged Dungeons and Dragons is 50 years old!
- Thread starter darjr
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kronovan
Adventurer
When I was in my board game burying craze I kept hearing about this game - like it was some shining jewel of a game from days gone by . Then it got republished years after its original release, so I bought a copy. Wow, was I ever unimpressed. To each their own, but it's mediocre IMO and I traded my copy away rather quickly.
darjr
I crit!
It's definitely a product of 1975.
Undrave
Legend
In the late 90s I went into a phase where I would paint miniatures as a hobby and I got a box of characters for Dungeon! that I think was used but unpainted (it has a 1989 copyright and I got that way later)... They came with little cards for new spell cards, but I don't think I had the rules. They were TSR and Ral Partha branded. There were 10 characters and supposedly 4 new ones? It also includes cards for the Illusionary
Ah! Found 'em! The characters were: The Cleric, the Halfing (not halfLing), the Ranger, the Warrior, the Paladin, the Elf, the Dwarf, the Wizard, the Thief and the Gnome Illusionist. The spells were Illusionary Warrior and Telekinesis Treasure. No explanation what they do
Ah! Found 'em! The characters were: The Cleric, the Halfing (not halfLing), the Ranger, the Warrior, the Paladin, the Elf, the Dwarf, the Wizard, the Thief and the Gnome Illusionist. The spells were Illusionary Warrior and Telekinesis Treasure. No explanation what they do
Stormonu
Legend
Yeah, I've owned this at least 3 different times (back in the 80's, in the 90's and the 00's), and it never stuck with me. My own kids never were never fond of it, so I finally got rid of it back some years ago. I'll take Heroquest & Descent over it any day.
Stormonu
Legend
You're probably thinking of Dungeons of Daggoroth, which has no relation to this game. I used to play the computer game a fair bit, but never finished it.
MGibster
Legend
I don't think I've played it since the Bush administration, the first Bush administration, and I'm almost positive I must have played the 1989 version rather than the '75 version. But I couldn't tell you anything about how the game plays other than you go through a dungeon and kill things. I didn't even remember you had to collect treasure to win until I looked it up.
In truth, there are a lot of games I loved way back then that I have fond memories about, but I doubt I'd want to play them these days. Starfleet Battles and Car Wars are two that I can think of off the top of my head. Good times, but tedious these days.
Andvari
Hero
My small town local library had this and we played it for a while as kids. Other than the cool box art it didn't really manage to capture out attentions for long. Especially when we had stuff like D&D, AD&D and HeroQuest.
I seem to vaguely recall the paladin being capable of healing another hero as a special thing he could do, but there was no reason to as you were playing against the other heroes.
I seem to vaguely recall the paladin being capable of healing another hero as a special thing he could do, but there was no reason to as you were playing against the other heroes.
