Castle Ravenloft

My friend's and I have been playing this board game for quite a while now.  We all love it and it is one of the best board games I have played in a while.  Castle Ravenloft is based on the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game and specifically the Castle Ravenloft campaign.  The general plot of Castle Ravenloft is that a group of adventures come to Barovia where a castle ruled by a great vampire known as Strahd von Zarovich lives.  The adventures all come for their own reasons, some for wealth or some to defeat the great vampire.  The board game is split into many different adventures all set around this core plot.

The gameplay involves every player picking a class such as the warrior, rogue, wizzard, or cleric.  Then everyone picks an adventure to complete.  You set up the adventure with a group of tiles and you start the campaign.  Every turn each hero has a time to move, fight monsters, or explore deeper into castle Strahd.  Whenever you explore into a new tile you have to spawn a monster on it or if it contains a black triangle on it you have to draw an event card.  Event cards can be good or bad, but most of the time their really bad.  Event cards generally effect the hero that picked it up or the entire party of heroes.  The group of heroes continue to explore the castle until they get to the main objective of the adventure such as killing a dracolich or stealing Strahd's treasures.

All in all this game is quite a challenge and is really fun to play with a group of friends.  It has high re-playability because of the many adventures it includes.  Games only take around an hour to two hours to complete and it is really hard for things to get boring in the game.  The game costs around seventy dollars, so it would be a great game to split with a few people who want to play it.  If you and your friends like to play fantasy board games I would suggest picking up Castle Ravenloft today.

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