No, it didn't. This website got started because I wanted somewhere to post op/ed style pieces that would have been drowned in noise on the BGG forums. That's it. The rest is explained in the Founding of the Fort piece I posted last week.

Anyway, Wolvendancer, I can't pick up fom your posts whether you've played the games Jeff is talking about, but of you have I'd like to know what you think of them. Dragon Pass especially.

Apropos of nothing I was thinking about this the other day and it struck me there were lots of cool ideas in Wizard's Quest that were worth keeping, even though I didn't much care for the design overall. Anyone know of anything similar out there, or a set of house rules to improve things?

MattDP wrote:


Isn't the orc thing in Wizard's Quest basically the Pandemic/Defenders of the Realm mechanic? So many build up, then they pop and spread to adjacent areas.

That's the main mechanic I remember--what were you thinking about specifically?

MattDP wrote:


Matt - I was going to submit a review of Wizard's Quest discussing some of this on Tuesday. It is a game that holds a near and dear place in my heart.

a strange aeon wrote:


Oh I hate the orcs. Too much overhead. I was more thinking the starting positions where players get to position their opponents treasures, immediately facing the conundrum of whether to defend the treasures themselves or make other, possibly unreliable, players do the work. Also I recall the positioning of the sorcerer and the hero was a similar double edged sword but I don't remember the details.

MattDP wrote:


Thought I'd addressed that pretty straightforwardly:

wolvendancer wrote:


Your point about the founding of F:AT is well-taken but not exactly what I was referring to; MB's march to his inevitable banning on BGG certainly raised the AT vs. Euro Grand Melee to popular awareness, and that was, as far as I noticed, when this website really took off. If you disagree, that's fine, and I could be wrong. It was a poorly worded off-handed comment, and not even an important one at that.

Space Ghost wrote:


Is this review still forthcoming? I'd love to read it.

Yeah; our AC went out and have had to deal with that

Space Ghost wrote:


I can't imagine a better way of spending a sticky, hot summer day than writing a review of Wizard's Quest...it sounds like a kind of purgatory.

So, looking over ebay I see what appears to be two different game boxes for Wizard's Quest.

One has a more detailed castle containing some tall towers and an entry bridge along the left side of the box cover.

The other is a much less detailed castle without tall towers and an entry bridge along the right side of the box cover.

Anyone know what these covers mean? Different printings? Game still the same?

Don't want to de-rail this thread futher, but... I have a chance to acquire another AH Fantasy wargame- Dragonhunt. Does anyone have thoughts how this games plays? Is it worth playing? ect