Roleplaying without Roleplaying: Runebound
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We’ve had a couple of bites from people interested in joining a new group, but haven’t actually met face-to-face, so in the meantime, Bridget and I have begun trying roleplaying without roleplaying.
What do I mean?
An example of Runebound in play
I mean that I pulled out Runebound the other night and we marched around the lands of Terrinoth, which is the world of Descent, Runbound and Runewars, adventuring and fighting all manner of monsters.
In the game, each person plays a character that can be found in Descent, but instead of dealing with all the players in one dungeon, each hero is their own adventuring party, battling monsters throughout the land and gaining allies and treasure. The normal game would take a few hours, but we basically just played until we were ready to go to bed, playing for about an hour or so.
Doing so, we realized it felt like an actual night of gaming, with no set goal in mind, just going around and fighting monsters and getting loot.
We plan on sitting down and playing a little bit more soon, and this time, save our character’s upgrades and locations so we can come back to them anytime. It’ll be like actual roleplaying…
Sort of.
Love this damn game. We played it the other day up at my shop….it takes a while, but sometimes it fills the itch to game perfectly. There’s a few hang ups with the game for me….like there’s really no incentive to play it with other players (you can solo the game and get a similar experience out of it.) Still, it’s a good way to waste an afternoon.
We had equally good experience with Arkhem Horror.
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