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NinjaDorg’s ramblings on the solo aspects of Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon

March 17, 2011 12:21 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Here’s the original article first published on the awesome solo nexus which you can visit here…. http://solonexus.blogspot.com/ Quick overview of the system The Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System consists of the board games Wrath of Ashardalon and Castle Ravenloft (and also Legend of Drizzt, which is coming in October), which are basically the same game but with different themes: Dragons and Orcs for Wrath, Vampires and Undead for Ravenloft.  Both games are hack and slash dungeon crawlers based loosely on their original D&D modules that build a random dungeon for you to explore by drawing room tiles, random monsters –... View Article


Defenders of the Realm – first play session report

March 14, 2011 4:08 pm Published by 4 Comments

Okay, so I’m pretty late to the bandwagon with this one.  But we’ve had trouble getting Defenders of the Realm in the UK: first it took ages to land on our shores, then it apparently sold out on pre-orders, and shipping from abroad was horrendous.  Then when it did arrive the cost was much higher than we’d anticipated. But we’ve finally managed to bag a brand new copy and might I just say: thank heavens for that! We played through our first two games at the weekend – 2 two-player games. First game I was the Ranger and Mmzomba was... View Article


The Hunt for Strahd – “Assault on Castle Ravenloft” campaign session report

March 9, 2011 10:16 am Published by 2 Comments

After successfully playing through the mini campaign Adventure 6 from Wrath of Ashardalon “Against the Clans” it became crystal clear how easy it is to integrate those campaign rules into any string of adventures you get with the game, or indeed, with Castle Ravenloft.  Since we hadn’t yet managed to best Strahd I was determined that we’d play through Castle Ravenloft’s Part 1 and Part 2 of the Hunt for Strahd back to back, which appears to be how they were intended to be played anyway, and we’d also use the WoA campaign rules.  The WOTC online scenario Search for... View Article