Descent: Journeys in the Dark as a Roleplaying Game

Before we begin, I understand there’s a campaign mode for Descent in the Road to Legend expansion. This isn’t what we’re discussing at this juncture. That being said, here we go:

Greetings!

I was thinking the other day about Descent, and the “rules lightness” about it. For a board game, it’s a complicated morass. If we could use a metaphor, Candyland is like Atreyu’s horse, Artax, and Descent is the Swamp of Sadness. It would eat Candyland for breakfast.

But as far as RPGs go, however, it’s pretty light. A character sheet is roughly the size of an index card, and most stuff is covered by cards.

My idea is this: What if you ran an entire campaign, where any combat was dealt with by Descent, and any RPing was done through… well, RPing.

Character advancement could be in the vein of Road to Legend, if you wanted, and with Fantasy Flight coming out with a free character builder, you can have your own customized hero.

It was just something I had been thinking about while digging through the box of Descent the other day.

Keep rolling 20′s!

Or, you know, those different colored little dice that come in FFG games.