{"id":241,"date":"2011-03-23T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-03-25T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:18:18","slug":"castle-ravenloft-the-boardgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/castle-ravenloft-the-boardgame","title":{"rendered":"Castle Ravenloft &#8211; The Boardgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I purchased this game quite a while ago, shortly after it had been released.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of nostalgia around this game, as it was one of my favorite adventures from my days of playing D&amp;D.<br \/>\nUltimately, I love this game, I haven&#8217;t managed to get through all of the scenarios yet, but what I&#8217;ve played I&#8217;ve really enjoyed.  I&#8217;ve read some reviews of people complaining that it is too difficult, that they often fail.  I say, you suck!  I have come soooo close to failing this so many times, only to pull off the adventure by the skin of my teeth, I LOOOOOVVVVEEE IT!  A game that comes that close to killing you is a CHALLENGE, and I love a good challenge.  I can easily see how you could die repeatedly, but only if you aren&#8217;t cooperating with your party.  If everyone at the table is playing cooperatively, instead of competitively, this game is difficult, but well worth the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think if you enjoy board games, and rpg&#8217;s, this is a great, non-commital way to get your fix.  It only takes a few hours to run through an adventure, and you don&#8217;t feel obligated to ever do more than that.  A great game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=darkbydesignc-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0786955570\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I was so impressed with Ravenloft, I also just ordered Wrath of Ashardalon, designed similarly, and with house rules can be combined with Ravenloft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=darkbydesignc-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0786955708\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I purchased this game quite a while ago, shortly after it had been released. I had a lot of nostalgia around this game, as it was one of my favorite adventures from my days of playing D&amp;D. Ultimately, I love this game, I haven&#8217;t managed to get through all of the scenarios yet, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}