RPG-style Board Games

[Olgar Shiverstone]

What are your thoughts on RPG-style Board Games? What makes a good one, what do you like to have in the ones you play, and/or which ones would you recommend?

Define "RPG-style Board Game" as broadly or narrowly as you'd like -- for me it could be anything from a dungeon-crawler like Descent or HeroQuest, an overland adventure game like Runebound or Skyrim, a campaign-style puzzle game like Gloomhaven, or even an adventure dice-chucker like Talisman. It can be one of the D&D themed games, or Dungeon!, or sci-fi, or its own thing. Or even I suppose Outdoor Survival.

 

[payn]

FFG's Android remains one of my favorites. It was ambitious and bold, and perhaps tried to bite off too much to chew. While its mechanics are interesting, it also feels like playing 4 games at once. Then, each character has their own story going on which adds to the complexity.

It might sound like im dogging it, but im just pointing out its rough edges. It is very fun to play for folks who enjoy it and I havent seen anything like it attempted since.

Also out of obligation;

 

[Andvari]

The Deep Rock Galactic board game is a lot of fun and fairly easy to learn. I made some rules for generating random missions for more variety than the brief guide for it included in the mission book.