Dragonwood A Game of Dice and Daring Board Game

It's a wonderful family game!

Dommage qu'il ne soit pas en français.

Amazing. I play with my kids and we have a lot of fun. Easy to play and my boy gets interested in mathematics!

To my surprise, and delight, my young children (6 and 9 years old) are very much into Dungeon and Dragons. Just the mention of it gets them even more excited than the Playstation - which is quite commendable in this digital- and streaming age. However even the basic and standard versions of this game are time-consuming to play. So I was on thelookout for related games with dragons, hero’s and dice that can also be taken along easily on our frequent holidays. Dragonwood is more a dice game than role playing, but the fantasy element is there. To start with, it is a very nicely illustrated its a visually appealing card game, that seems to be of reasonably good quality and is presented very well. It took a small effort to learn the rules and to explain this to the children. But they could swiftly play along. The average games takes us between 15 and twenty minutes, though there is a wide variation - a game might only take a small amount of time in case a dragon shows up early or if you end up with a strong set of cards. It can be played by 2 to 4 players. It’s for 8-year and older however our youngest, that we generally pull along in more complex games, had little problem playing it. In essence, its a card combination game; you collect series of adventurer cards to be able to throw the dice to battle creatures. This in turn wins you points. The aim is to collect the most point value through these creature cards. A wide range of standard fantasy foes is included; goblins, fire- ants, trolls, ogres. There are a few types of cards that you can win by using card combinations of dice throws; ‘Enchantment cards’ can be helpful while ‘event cards’ throw up unexpected events. There are cards that support you with one of the three types of attack, this upgrading has some roleplaying elements. In particular given that one of the challenges is to decide when to play such cards. So this game proved very popular with my children although it took a few practice rounds to get them to grips with it. At the start we always made sure to work from the summary cards. We’ve played it very frequently now. And the children love to introduce it to their friends and cousins. It’s a good, thoughtful game that demands a fair bit of engagement. I quite like the fact that it forces children to consider strategic options and to think about chances/probabilities. While it forces you to train your memory skills. It's simply FUN to play and even more important is that it allows families and friends to have a good time together. All this combined makes it very good value for money.

I bought this game to play with my 9 year old daughter and she loved it. I have other games from Gamewright but this one beats all. Very entertaining, has enough variety to keep playing over and over. Best part is, you can find ways not to play against each other but set aims like defeating all the creatures together. Possible to play 2 players as well.

Fácil de aprender y jugar, las partidas pueden durar bastante y se vuelve bastante competitivo, los materiales son de buena calidad aunque recomiendo usar micas para las cartas para que te duren en buenas condiciones.