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Oath of the Outcast introduces four heroes and three monster groups previously available only in the first edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark, as well as two brand-new quests. Trenloe the Strong, Laurel of Bloodwood, Elder Mok, and Shiver join your quests as eager heroes, but even as they enter your quests, monsters arise to attack. This is the first of the Heroes and Monstersexpansions.
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Oath of the Outcast introduces four heroes and three monster groups previously available only in the first edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark, as well as two brand-new quests. Trenloe the Strong, Laurel of Bloodwood, Elder Mok, and Shiver join your quests as eager heroes, but even as they enter your quests, monsters arise to attack. This is the first of the Heroes and Monsters expansions.
Oath of the Outcast includes three monster groups: bane spiders, beastmen, and razorwings! You will also gain two new quests in this expansion: Oath of the Outcast and Prison of Ice and Lies. In these quests, you will attempt to stop the perpetrators of a dark ritual from reanimating a host of powerful undead warriors.
Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Dice Rolling, Dungeon Crawler, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Miniatures, Modular Board, Partnerships, Variable Player Powers |
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Play Time | |
Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
Theme | Expansion for Base-game, Fighting, Miniatures, Adventure, Exploration, Fantasy, Medieval |
Ages | 14+ |
Publisher | Edge Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta, Giochi Uniti, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Wargames Club Publishing |
Designer | Nathan I. Hajek, Nathan I Hajek |
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Heroes: Trenloe the Strong Laurel of Bloodwood Elder Mok Shiver Monsters: Bane Spiders Beastmen Razorwings
soccastar001
This is a hard one for me to judge the worth of. I didn't quite understand until after I placed an order for this that it just reprinted 4 heroes and 3 monsters from the first edition of the game. I already had the upgrade pack that gave me cards for all the old heroes and monsters. However, it also comes with figures for those heroes and monsters. I was using proxies since I didn't own any of the first edition content (the upgrade pack is still a great value for the amount of content you get for ~20 bucks) and now for these specific monsters/heroes I have incredibly detailed figures. FFG always does a bang-up job on these. It does come with another quest (initiated through a rumor card) and the associated Overlord quest reward card but that's minor. I adore Descent and plan to play it for a good while so I was able to justify the price, between 20-25 bucks online. You get a lot of plastic for that even if I do already have all the necessary cards. I guess at some point if they reprint all of the first edition stuff I can turn around and gift/sell/trade the upgrade pack and just recoup that cost anyway.
DaedalDurst
Oath of the outcast was a pack I purchased at the same time as Treaty of Champions and though I like this pack, it falls a little shorter than the aforementioned pack. In Oath of the outcast, you get 4 heroes and 3 new monsters groups. The heroes include Trenloe, a name that sounds like a brand of floor bleach, Elder Mok, a character so good that you may hide him if you are playing as the overlord, Shiver, which is a godawful song by Coldplay and Laurel of Bloodwood who I honestly forgot about. Out of the heroes, I think Trenloe is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills Ettins and doesn't afraid of anything. The monsters however sit on an awkard fence where they aren't bad so to speak, but they are forgettable. You get Bane Spiders who are pretty big guys, Beastmen because Skeletor didn't pay well enough and Razorwings which are just really big bats. As an Overlord player, I see these and almost always disregard them immediately, not because they are bad, but they are only really a passing grade. Overall, I feel as though Oath of the outcast is a good pack, perhaps worthy of a bit of a look if you want to add more to Descent, however I feel there are better packs out there. Who am I kidding? You're going to get it for Elder Mok anyway!