Waterdeep, the City of Splendors–the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors–the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force!
Lords of Waterdeep is a Euro-style board game for 2-5 players.
Components:
Game board
Rulebook
5 card stock player mats
121 Intrigue, Quest, and Role cards
130 wooden cubes, pawns, and score pieces
Wooden player markers
Card stock tiles and tokens representing buildings, gold coins, and victory points
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Is this good? You better believe it! If you are a eurogamer but not particularly drawn to fantasy themed dungeon games, please keep reading this. If you are a dungeon game fanatic with no euro experience, you also should keep reading. This game is a straight euro-style game, with a clever fantasy theme wrapped around it. Mechanically, it runs on worker placement and resource management principles. There are some cool cards, but the game pieces are… drumroll… wooden cubes. And some meeples. And some victory point tokens…
Great board game for all audiences Lords of Waterdeep is based in the Dungeons and Dragons world. More specifically, in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Unlike the other board games that have been released by Wizards of the Coast over the past few years that are also set in the D&D world (eg, Wrath of Ashardalon and Conquest of Norrath), this game is pure euro. For all intents and purposes, it is a worker-placement game with a pick-up and deliver mechanic (no, really, it’s funner than that might sound!).
Classic resource collection and quest fulfillment game For those who’ve played Agricola and Caylus, this game uses similar concepts to those two games. Your meeples (people) collect resources or money. I call them resources or cubes but these are fighters, rogues and so on, in the game’s terminology. You use these to gain special powers or victory points or build buildings. Meeples can visit any building to get more resources or money than they normally would. However, the owner of the building i.e. the original builder gets rent or resources when…