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It is not compatible with the first edition however, a conversion kit is available to bring monsters and heroes of the first edition to the second. The redesign was primarily designed to reduce the time required for each game session. In 2012, FFG released a redesigned second edition of the game. Descent was to be BattlePawn's launch title, but development on this product was terminated on 13 June 2008 following creative differences with Fantasy Flight Games. In October 2006, Board Games Online announced that they were working on an online PC version of Descent: Journeys in the Dark for their BattlePawn 3D boardgame engine.

Finally, the Sea of Blood expansion creates another campaign world. A fourth expansion, Descent: Tomb of Ice is also available, providing additional features. A second expansion Descent: Altar of Despair was released February 2007 and a third expansion, Descent: Road to Legend which includes campaign rules, was released in March 2008. The first expansion, Descent: Well of Darkness, was released on October 26, 2006. Descent shares the same characters with Runebound and its expansion set as well as Runewars and the card game Rune Age. This mechanism is very much reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings when playing with the Sauron optional expansion.ĭescent is one of a number of fantasy board games published by FFG, others include Runebound and licensed Warcraft III, World of Warcraft and several The Lord of the Rings games. The Overlord's resources are limited by the rules of the game, which require them to hoard and expend "threat" points, which are generated in response to the hero players' actions, in order to hamper the other players and to bring out additional monsters to defeat them. Descent differs from other games in the genre in that the Overlord player's goal is to win by exhausting the other players of victory points, rather than merely to facilitate play. One player takes the role of the Overlord, who controls the enemies and plays cards to hinder the hero players.

In Descent, players take the roles of adventurers who delve into underground complexes in search of treasure (the so-called " dungeon crawl"). The game is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's licensed Doom: The Boardgame. Descent was designed and produced by Kevin Wilson. Jesper Ejsing, John Goodenough, Frank Wallsĭescent: Journeys in the Dark is a two to five player high fantasy dungeon crawl published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005.