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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 5469344" data-attributes="member: 38357">My apologies, I got a major negative vibe from your questions. I'm sorry if it wasn't your intention, but they way you phrased things seemed to say "how dare WotC make my D&D into a board game!", in particular the section I addressed directly.Don't buy them just because they're D&D-branded. Either buy them because you like boardgames and think they look fun, or maybe if you want to use the components for other purposes (like D&D).It stands for "Dungeons and Dragons", I'd assume they know that. Ravenloft is a fairly iconic D&D "thing", idk about Ashardalon, personally, but I gather he's a red dragon, so there you go. There are no D&D character sheets in the box, but the concept of the board game characters are based off of 4e characters - if they like playing the Cleric (frex) in Castle Ravenloft then they may enjoy playing a Cleric in essentials. There is the now-pretty-much-standard advertising insert sheet, in my copy of the game it was the second thing down after the rulebook but before the adventures book - don't know if that was intentional but it seemed like good placement to me. The insert is focused on Essentials and has one side for players, one side for DMs.The minis are nice. IMO the plastic is better (much stiffer, no deformation that I can see) than DDM minis, but they are not pre-painted. I've seen a number of examples of people painting them, so I guess they take paint ok. And there's a bunch of them - my own estimation is that I would have spent more on them (the equivalent DDM minis) as singles off of ebay than I paid for the box, but I didn't actually do a piece by piece comparison because I wanted the game anyway.There's also a d20 in there, and the dungeon tiles are the same quality as the regular ones, but they fit together like a puzzle (so no flat outer edges). The rules of the boardgame are different from the RPG (similar, but simplified), so I think all of the cards and counters and such aren't going to be of much use to you. Really, if you want to just use components in your D&D game I think the minis would be the significant selling point.</blockquote>

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