RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg Review
boardgamequest.comWe review Runescape Kingdoms, a dungeon crawling board gmae published by Steamforged Games. Runescape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg will have you exploring the world and leveling up your character.
Welcome to the world of Gielinor! Are you here to stake a vampire? Slay a dragon? Battle an Evil Chicken? The choice is in your hands. Regardless of your decision, there is adventure in your future. Also, possibly a good dose of mayhem and havoc.
RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg is a cooperative campaign exploration game for 1-5 players based on the popular MMORPG. Familiarity with the property isn’t a requirement to play, but those who are fans can expect to be sucked straight into the world and lore of RuneScape.
The game plays through 4 main quests, plus a tutorial. Players build up a basic character through experience and exploration, taking on side quests and working together to accomplish shared objectives, like vanquishing vampire kings and saving kingdoms. Each character begins roughly the same and is modified through special items received and XP points earned in different skill categories. These characters stay with the players throughout the campaign.
On their turn, players take several basic actions to move, explore, and forage. When they move to a new area on the main map board, they turn over an exploration card that allows them to do some kind of skill test or take on an event card. Skill tests are performed by dice rolls, adding more or fewer dice based on the difficulty of the test compared to the character’s experience level. If they meet the correct conditions, characters can also further the main objectives or take on side quests.
Throughout play, an escalation tracker along the side of the map board keeps pressure on the players to complete their main objectives, increasing as they hit landmarks and visit valuable locations. When the tracker maxes out an escalation card is drawn, complicating the main quest or making it more difficult to complete.
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