Gold is used to buy items with some cards coming with discounts for character race or abilities. XP is spent to increase abilities through the mastery track, increase health, add to the combat dice limit, and add extra bonus play tokens. But you want to be frugal with your XP spending as that’s also how you improve your characters.Īt the end of each adventure XP and gold can be spent to improve your characters in what’s called advancement. Stamina recovery is based on rolling the number of dice equal to the XP you spent. When players rest, they can regain their spent cards and recover stamina. After each challenge, all cards in the discard piles can be returned to players’ hands. Players collect XP for covering certain slots on skill checks, even if they failed the check. If all the characters are out, then the players lose the scenario and read the text in the tome of encounters for that mission. If a character has stamina tokens in the spent box equal to or exceeding their health, they’re knocked out of the challenge. The maps are stunning, and you’ll add to them with cards you discovered giving a sense of exploration.Ĭombats can last for three rounds with enemies doing damage for each uncovered slot on their card and providing other negative effects for rounds two and three (usually damage, loss of treasure, or experience). Through your adventures, you will earn and buy new cards adding to your toolbox to handle more difficult challenges. Cards allow players to add more dice to the dice pool, treat dice to be different numbers, and change values through rerolls, assigning, or flipping. Players can get bonus play tokens that will allow for additional cards to be used up to the limit of bonus play tokens the party have. Except if they do then monsters will turn around and hurt you.Įach player can play cards up to the allowable play limit. And that’s where your hand of cards will never give you up and never let you down. From just rolling dice chances are there are going to be open slots that need dice to succeed. After rolling these dice you match up the color and values required. You can blindly draw more dice until you’ve reached the dice pool limit. For both, you can spend stamina cubes, at a cost of one per character in the party, to add a specific die color to your starting dice pool. Throughout the game, you’ll encounter different skill and combat encounters. Player dashboard with replaceable character sheet.
The booklet provides a short summary and set up information and then you place tokens and XP cubes per the instructions and set your party miniature where instructed and you’re ready to roll. Each scenario has its own booklet that’s reminiscent of late first edition D&D modules and a map. You can import your own characters from Roll Player or select a premade character to start your campaign. Does Roll Player Adventures deliver as a role playing game in a box for people who don’t just want to fight their way across the entire board? Gameplay Overview:
Roll Player Adventures looked more like an intricate choose your own adventure story with some dice-based puzzles that drove the story forward. There may be some choices but you’re on a linear path just hitting monsters until they drop some loot like an armored piñata with teeth. Many of these games are tactical combat engines with character leveling with some narrative sprinkled throughout. A lot of board games try to be that ever elusive RPG-in-a-box that doesn’t require a game master. Like many people my age I started with the red and blue boxes before progressing to the Advanced D&D rules and played several other editions over the ensuing years.
My first gaming love was Dungeons and Dragons.
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