It’s been a slow brain week so going back to what I started on Tuesday to look at some of the Kickstarters that I’m waiting on and figuring out how excited I am for them still. This article, we’re looking at the expansions for Tainted Grail and then Dice Throne Adventure + Ninja and Treant.

Tainted Grail Expansions

So, I already have the base game for Tainted Grail and you can find my thoughts on that here. It’s a game that I really enjoy that has a very interesting story. When the pandemic hit, though, that kind of put a lot of gaming for me on the back burner, which is odd because I was playing Tainted Grail solo, then we are moving, so that makes it even trickier to get to the table and stream. So what’s coming exactly.

There’s a big chunk of stuff coming, there are two big box expansions that are basically the time of the first game, so probably 150 hours worth of game play when it’s all said and done, plus a side expansion that you can do after any of the other expansions, plus a mini-character expansion that basically adds more to the characters and you can go through more of a journey with them with getting certain goals done. I’m really excited for more story, but it also might me that even post move, I put my game of this on pause since shipping should be in November and I have more I can stream in the meantime, so I could wait for the character expansion to add to what I already have going on.

I’m also curious to know what the new mechanics will be in the expansions. I know that it adds in new things for both of them which is cool. I also find it interesting that the expansions do not go in chronological order. The first expansion takes place after the base game, but the second expansion takes place before both of them as kind of a prelude for events to come, so I’m going to be curious to see how they can do the branching storyline with that one.

Excitement Meter: 9 of 10

Dice Throne Adventure + Ninja vs Treant

Dice Throne Adventures is a game where you can take the Dice Throne characters you’ve been battling against each other in a tournament on a quest to take down the Emperor who sits on the Dice Throne, but first you need to find your way through the twisted lands and face off against past competitors who have been twisted by the powers of the Emperor.

One of the cool things is that the main mechanics of the game don’t change. You’re still chucking dice in order to attack and put up a defense, but now it’s a cooperative adventure where you’re all working together. You get loot, level up not just your character but your decks as well, which is awesome, and if you can make it through, you’ll get a chance to face off against the Emperor at the end. I like the idea of the leveling up, and while the game doesn’t seem overly complex, I think it’s going to be a fun addition to everything else that I have for Dice Throne, and I have all the other characters.

Well, I have almost all the other characters, I’m missing two, because the Treant, I believe, was in Season 1 of the Kickstarter. The Treant and Ninja give me 16 total characters that I can play between the two seasons in a massive tournament if I want, or I can add them into Dice Throne Adventure as well. I can imagine doing a massive tournament with a few people, go through all 16, and then the final four would end up being taken through Dice Throne Adventures, and that would just be an epic event.

Dice Throne Adventures: Excitement Meter – 7.5 out of 10

Treant vs Ninja: Excitement Meter 8.5 out of 10

So, two more down. Do either of these interest you. My interest level is really high for both, and it sounds like both should be delivering later in the year. I just have to update my mailing address so they get to the right place when they do ship.

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