Get a D&D experience with these varied board games!

Published Feb 16 2023 - 4:00pm Updated Mar 19 2024 0 Comments
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Get a D&D experience with these varied board games!

Dungeons & Dragons is perhaps the world's most popular TTRPG (that's a tabletop role-playing game for those that don't know), but the brand also releases a ton of other awesome products not directly tied with the RPG! The fantasy game also produces a epic range of branded board games and card games, that give the same heroic aesthetic at your table. Furthermore, there are some awesome board games out there that embrace some elements of D&D, whether that is aesthetically or mechanically! If you're looking for the same feeling for your game night but are looking for a board game, then why not try one of the awesome options below?

Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
The shadow of Bhaal has come over Baldur's Gate, summoning monsters and other horrors from the darkness! As you build and explore the iconic city's dark alleys and deadly catacombs, you must work with your fellow adventurers to survive the terrors ahead. That is, until some horrific evil turns one — or possibly more — of you against each other. Was it a mind flayer's psionic blast or the whisperings of a deranged ghost that caused your allies to turn traitor? You have no choice but to keep your enemies close! Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, in Betrayal at Baldur's Gate you'll return to Baldur's Gate again and again thanks to the fifty included scenarios only to discover it's never the same game twice. Can you and your party survive the madness, or will you succumb to the mayhem and split (or slaughter!) the party?

Each copy of the game includes the following components:

  • 2 haunt books: Traitor's Tome and Secrets of Survival
  • 44 tiles:
    • 13 building tiles
    • 14 street tiles
    • 15 catacomb tiles
    • 1 Elfsong Tavern/Inner Chamber/Kitchen start tile
    • 1 Catacomb Landing/Kitchen Basement start tile
  • 6 prepainted plastic adventurer figures
  • 6 two-sided character cards
  • 30 plastic clips
  • 8 dice
  • 1 turn/damage track
  • 86 cards:
    • 45 event cards
    • 22 item cards
    • 13 omen cards
    • 6 player aid cards
  • 215 tokens:
    • 62 small teardrop monster tokens
    • 54 square adventurer power, event, haunt, item, and obstacle tokens
    • 36 circular adventurer tokens
    • 18 small teardrop NPC tokens
    • 18 triangluar quest tokens
    • 14 pentagonal item & item pile tokens
    • 13 large circular monster tokens
  • Rulebook

Tyrants of the Underdark
Tyrants of the Underdark is a territory control game with a deck-building element. Each player leads a house of Drow in a section of the Underdark below the Sword Coast. The Drow house is represented by a deck of cards, with each card being a minion in that player's deck. Each minion belongs to one of five aspects of Drow society, and those aspects correspond to different strategies in the game, e.g., malice minions excel at assassinating opponents' troops, while ambition minions are best at recruiting additional minions and promoting minions to your "inner circle", which is a special zone that increases their value at the end of the game. The game supports play for 2 to 4 participants and takes around 60 minutes to play. If you're a D&D player or are looking for a great fantasy board game, then this id definitely worth a look.

Each copy of the game includes the following:

  • Game board
  • Rulebook
  • Storage tray
  • Pad of scorecards
  • 4 Drow-house playmats
  • 220 Plastic pieces:
    • 160 Player troops (40 for each of 4 colours)
    • 40 White (unaligned) troops
    • 20 Spies (5 for each of 4 colours)
  • 260 Minion cards:
    • 28 Nobles
    • 12 Soldiers
    • 15 House Guards
    • 15 Priestesses of Lolth
    • 30 Insane Outcasts
    • 160 Market cards (four 40-card half-decks)
  • 68 Die-cut pieces:
    • 40 Tokens, 1 VP
    • 16 Tokens, 5 VP
    • 7 Site control markers
    • 4 Inner-circle boards
    • First Player Token

HeroQuest
In the HeroQuest dungeon crawl board game, heroes work together to complete epic quests, find treasures and defeat the forces of evil. This semi-cooperative board game has one player taking on the role of Zargon, the Game Master, while 4 mythical heroes--Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, and Wizard--team up in their quest for adventure in a maze of monsters and eerie dark dungeons. Players can immerse themselves in the fantasy with the stunning artwork, and 65+ detailed miniatures. The game comes with 14 quests, and has limitless replayability because players can also build their own quests and create their own stories. Gather friends together for an exciting night of tabletop gameplay in an epic battle of good and evil. The game is for 2-5 players, ages 14 and up, and takes around 90 minutes to play.

Each copy of the game Includes:

  • gameboard
  • 31 monster miniatures
  • 4 hero miniatures
  • 15 furniture pieces
  • 10 skull pieces
  • 4 plastic rat pieces
  • 21 dungeon doors
  • 93 game cards
  • 4 turn-order cards
  • cardboard tiles
  • Quest Book
  • 4 character cards
  • Game Master's screen
  • pad of character sheets
  • 6 white combat dice
  • 2 red dice
  • rulebook

Call to Adventure
Call to Adventure allows up to 4 players to craft an epic hero with an equally epic destiny by acquiring traits, facing challenges and overcoming obstacles. The game is quick to play as it typically takes 30 to 45 minutes per playthrough but does offer a challenge, being somewhat more complicated than games such as Catan or Carcassonne. Call to Adventure focuses on the mechanics of deck building, dice rolling, set collection, and storytelling. It features a unique "rune rolling" system for resolving challenges, a point-based system that encourages storytelling. Players begin the game with an origin card and two limited abilities, as they complete challenges they gain more abilities and grow in power. Failed challenges also allow your character to grow but may also set them on a dark path...

Each copy of the game contains the following components:

  • 4 Player Boards
  • 24 Runes
  • 40 Experience Tokens
  • 45 Character Cards
  • 91 Story Cards
  • 22 Hero Cards
  • 22 Anti-Hero Cards

Descent
Descent: Legends of the Dark puts you in the role of a budding hero with their own playstyle and abilities. Together with your unlikely companions, you'll begin an unexpected adventure — an adventure told across the sixteen quests of the "Blood and Flame" campaign. The game is a perfect fit for any group of up to 4 players and takes around 2 to 4 hours to play throughout.

Each copy of the game includes the following components:

  • 3 booklets
  • 12 dice
  • 16 plastic markers
  • 40 figures + 1 riser
  • 18 map tiles
  • 47 terrain pieces
  • 6 underlay cards
  • 6 hero cards
  • 40 weapon cards
  • 18 armour cards
  • 12 trinket cards
  • 42 consumable cards
  • 42 skill cards
  • 10 injury cards
  • 4 reference cards
  • 8 sleeves
  • 12 explore/sight tokens
  • 80 condition tokens
  • 54 fatigue tokens
  • 4 health dials

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