The importance of good luck and the distraction of the vivid dungeon setting help suppress competitive impulses, making the Dungeonquest game quite comfortable for social play." But he concluded with a strong recommendation, saying, "Play is tense, suspenseful, and exciting, since the objectives are extremely difficult, and death is swift. But hard-nosed adventurers aiming for a big haul from the dragon’s hoard will die like flies." He also mildly criticized the game for making random draws the determining factor in winning. If you are playing socially and are more interested in getting out alive than in winning by grabbing the most loot, a conservative player can generally get his character out in one piece. In the April 1991 edition of Dragon (Issue 168), Ken Rolston liked the high production standard of the components and the simple rules, but commented on the relative lethality of the game: "It is tough enough to get out alive with any treasure at all, much less to be successful in snatching gold from the dragon’s treasure chamber before he awakes and bakes you. The Swedish edition is still being published by Alga as Drakborgen: Legenden ("Dragon Fortress: The Legend"). This expansion also adds the ability for players to travel underneath the main game board, albeit without any accompanying catacombs game board.įantasy Flight Games introduced a new version of the English-language game at Gen Con in 2010.
( The Wizard's Castle) Both Bonds and Glimne felt a "family fantasy" board game was needed, and they agreed to merge their two game ideas and jointly develop the new project. Dan Glimne, who had been working at Alba since 1980, was also working on a fantasy board game with a similar theme titled Trollkarlens borg. In the early 1980s, he submitted the game to Alga AB for consideration. Jakob Bonds created the concept of Drakborgen ( Dragon Fortress) while in high school in Sweden. This can include monsters, chasms, crypts, traps, secret doors, etc. When a player's character enters a room, the player draws a card to determine the type of challenge that must be overcome. In all, the game contains 115 room tiles. Each tile may be one of several different configurations: a room with several doorways, a corner, a hallway, a dead end, a bottomless pit, a rotating room, etc. During each player's turn, the player selects a room tile at random and sets it down on a grid space on the board. Room tiles are placed facedown near the board, and the time track counter is set to "Dawn". The board, marked by a grid, begins blank except for the dragon's hoard at the center. The Games Workshop version of the game includes: The player who successfully escapes from the castle with the largest amount of treasure is the winner. The game ends at sunset any characters still in the castle at that point are automatically killed by the dragon. The object of this game for 1–4 players game is to enter the ruins of Dragonfire Castle at dawn when the castle's guardian dragon falls asleep, navigate a labyrinth to the dragon's hoard at the center of the castle, and exit the castle.
Dungeonquest as published by Games Workshopĭungeonquest (sometimes known as Dungeon Quest) is a fantasy adventure board game originally published in Sweden in 1985 by Alga AB as Drakborgen, and subsequently published in English by Games Workshop in 1987.
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