When I heard about the Dungeon Saga Kickstarter, I jumped right on board. I am very enthusiastic for a board-game/rollplaying game hybrid being released. I owned and played Heroquest, Advanced Heroquest and Warhammer Quest. I love Heroquest and Warhammer Quest. Heroquest does the dungeon crawl as a board-game perfectly and Warhammer Quest was a good board-game/rollplaying game hybrid. It is by that standard I judged Dungeon Saga.
I am disappointed. When I received the Adventurer’s Companion add on I expected it to contain the rules for making the base Dungeon Saga game into the roleplaying version. That is how it was sold to us in the Kickstarter.
Quote: With these detailed sections added in, the Adventurer’s Companion becomes a truly monumental tome of role-playing goodness.
It wasn’t a tome of role playing goodness. The only things it added to the base game was to add character classes and races and to add levels for your characters. There are no new stats or mechanics added to characters. The base game character sheet and advanced character sheet are the same. Exactly the same.
It was also promised that there would be lore included in the Adventurer’s Companion. There is not. The book is small and pointless feeling. Compare it to Warhammer Quest Roleplay Book that came with Warhammer Quest. The WQRPB book has 192 pages and does not contain the core rules. The DSAC has 96 pages and contains a reprint of the core rules for the game as well. On top of that the WQRPB feels full to the brim with info and stuff, while it feels like there is a lot of blank space and repeated information in the DSAC. I am very disappointed.
The base game is fine if a bit boring but it is for it’s role playing aspect that I backed it. There isn’t a role playing aspect, I wasted my money.
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