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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1871773" data-attributes="member: 4530">Admittedly, I can sometimes be overly blunt, but that review was my gut reaction to the game, written the very next day after purchase and playing two games back to back. I agree that Runebound is not a great game, but it is definitely capable of becoming a good or even very good game with extra rules tweaks and add-ons. In fact, with the changes to play I outlined today (including my new understanding of the rules regarding activation/refreshing of cards), I will say it is now a good game. I had hoped I'd made that clear in my posts today, but maybe they were hard to see for all my grumbling.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I have high hopes that Islands of Dread and future expensions will continue to improve the game, and make it the very good game it always had the potential to be. Fantasy Flight Games is a great company but nobody's perfect.  Runebound, IMO, was clearly rushed and released prematurely, replete with confusing rules, a confusing game board, many embarassing typos throughout the card decks, inconsistent art, insufficient storage parameters, lack of Hero interaction, etc.That said, I've been extremely pleased with almost everything d20 related I ever bought from Fantasy Flight, and my purchases were fairly extensive between 2001-2003 (afterwhich I stopped playing D&D in favor of Mongoose's Conan and then various boardgames as my group's free time shriveled). Runebound (once tweaked) is a game I can enjoy playing on a fairly regular basis. I enjoy it enough now to continue to buy the expansions, so coming from a guy who didn't much care for it in the beginning, I think Fantasy Flight (and the online fan community) have really won me over. It still ain't perfect, but it's getting more fun with each new addition. Now that's what I call progress!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />   PS: I truly appreciate the uncanny pace at which quality, reasonably priced expansions are being released. This new material keeps me interested in playing the game in addition to the new rules improvements.</blockquote>

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