Roll Player Adventures Nefras’s Judgement Expansion Review

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My game of the year for 2021 was Roll Player Adventures and I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to preview the upcoming Gulpax’s Secret expansion. While Gulpax’s Secret will be new, Roll Player Adventures Nefras’s Judgement expansion augments the original base game with additional material. Is this content worth searching out while you wait for Gulpax’s Secret?

Roll Player Adventures Nefras’s Judgement is an expansion for the Roll Player Adventures board game from Thunderworks Games.

I’m not going to cover how to play Roll Player Adventures and will point you to my original review’s Overview section for a brief overview of the game’s mechanics.

During character creation for a campaign utilizing the expansion, you can use either one of the included pre-generated characters or import one from Roll Player. For either, you write down the backstory on a new sideboard and place an alignment cube where indicated or in the center for the pre-generated characters. With each backstory there are four stories and locations that are also written down on the sheet to remind you of when your backstory is revealed.

If you’re playing with either one or two characters, it’s suggested to take an additional background and the book has recommended suggestions that synergize well or you can go rogue and pick what you’d want like the chaotic neutral scoundrel you probably envision yourself to be.

At each of these moments, you read some text and then make a choice that will either move your alignment cube or give you a title that will trigger something later, much like the base game.

Nefras’s Judgement adds a little seasoning to the main course of the base game by augmenting your 11-chapter experience (plus a repeatable side quest)