Descent : Jouneys into the Dark Review

             Descent: Journeys into the Dark is a board game that deals with various dungeons or “dungeon crawler,” where you fight monsters, collect treasures, and avoid traps.  One person is the overlord, and the rest of the players pick characters that have various abilities and statistics that let them do certain things.  For example, each character has four statistics, which is speed, fatigue, defense, and health.
             Each player can do various actions on their turn, where they can run, which doubles there speed. Advancing will allow them to move up to normal speed and then attack a creature.  Battling involves a character not moving at all, and can attack the monster twice.  The final action players can do is ready an action, by either interrupting the attack and make a counterattack, resting to recover fatigue, make a precise shot or dodge attacks.  Players do not seem to ready an action very often because they keep forgetting there is a fourth action they can do.  Readying is more important than the other actions to help you beat quests and kill monsters because this action will let you re-roll the dice if you do not like the result.  However, you have to take the second result if you choose to re-roll the dice.
              The major problem with this game is the treasure and the experience point system.  When a player opens a chest, the player will get various things.  The treasures are too powerful that can have characters kill monsters with one hit, which is a major flaw.  There isn't any fun in playing the overlord because he cannot kill the characters, which is his goal in order for the overlord to win the game.  The player that is the overlord could end up quitting the game because the game is boring.  The other flaw is the experience point system, where you get certain points to level-up for your character to build growth and strength, like Dungeons and Dragons.  Descent has no system like that, and the characters level-up by completing a number of quests.  However, there is a Descent Second Edition coming out that will add this experience point system.  Hopefully, the treasure will be modified to make the game experience intriguing to play.
               This is a good game to play if you enjoy Dungeons and Dragons.  I highly recommend this game to all players who do not care about the flaws in games, and want to have fun.  This game is not recommended for kids because the rules are complex.  I do not recommend this game for people who get frustrated a lot because certain things do not go their way because the dice system is balanced, and tends to screw players over.  If you have the game Descent: Journeys into the Dark, check out the expansions for the game such as Descent: Tomb of Ice and Descent: Well of Darkness.