I bought a copy of Mansions of Madness 2 after playing it at MACE in late Fall of 2017. Mansions of Madness 2 is a cooperative horror, puzzle, exploration and combat game from Fantasy Flight Games. A groundbreaking aspect of the game is that a computer app (which can be run on a smart phone or a tablet) is an essential game component.
One Deck Dungeon is a simple one or two character dungeon exploration game. The two character game can be played either cooperatively with another person or both run by the same individual. The game centers around rolling a handful of color coded die to overcome encounters. The more experience your character has the more dice they obtain and the more ways they have to increase die values, swap dice of different colors, or gain additional dice.
The game mechanics are simple. You pick either one or two characters from five choices (Fighter; Mage; Thief; Paladin; Archer). Each character has different starting attributes on four different variables (melee, magic, nimbleness and health). Different colored dice represent each attribute. Next you pick an opponent as the “boss” of the dungeon out of a set of choices. Bosses are rated at different difficulty levels and each changes the characteristics of the overall dungeon challenges.
