New Blood.

The mission: get in, grab the hobbits and make your escape in the car.

She is really switching on to narrative play. The game can go hang for all she cares, she just wants a story and to find random magical stuff on the way. I’ve had props brought in for her, she found a wand, magic gloves, a magic ring and a few tiny glass bottles that are magic potions. She’s not found them all at once of course, she’s built up these collections over many linked missions. But beware! If you set a precedent be prepared to maintain or ween them off it. I didn’t have a little prop at the end of the last mission, there was tears. She needs to learn though so I didn’t cave in and give her something but tears was there none the less. She is still very young.

she has taken to involving herself more and more in the narrative as it’s happening. She pipes up often, ‘oh dad this monster makes a grumbling sound because he ate a magic……..and we kill him cut him open and take the magic thing.’ I’ve been reading her red riding hood. She’s taken some lessons from it.

the top of the glass vials have the tiniest of screw eyes in the cork stopper. No more than 2mm rings. She pulls one out and shouts excitedly “it’s got a key to something!!! Must be a door!” Yes says I, and we don’t know what door it is, we will have to keep searching for this special door and found out what lurks behind it.

Must be something special.

Well done to that little imagination I say. Onwards to the next quest to save Arundel for queen Elsa.

The eldest has decided she doesn’t like dungeon games, she prefers no threat bored games like Catan, chess, ticket to ride, genius star and the like.
Well, I’m proud she game dungeon crawling a go and I can definitely play board games with her. I like a good board game, Catan is very good.

The new Heroquest is proving immensely popular with the young people. They get it intuitively. The minis are attractive for their tastes. The board is a full inch squares so my dungeon saga bases fit on them perfectly so that’s fun!

Some adult newbies have enjoyed a hybrid Heroquest of old 80’s cards, minis and gaming components with modern game board, dungeon furniture and doors. Again because it is intuitively easy board game for people to ‘get it’ and it’s familiar in a board game format so not intimidating. Makes a perfect entry point to then Segway into D-Saga for those that find even the saga a big jump from snakes and ladders. Very well designed game for bringing newbies in, even after all these years.