Adventures into Gloomhaven! Finally got my hands on a copy of this charming homage to the preschool dungeon crawlers. Set up was something else for damn sure, but I was a fan once we got rolling. The gameplay was entertaining and things got pretty hairy at points, namely in the first room when Thunder's Brute named Knack was surrounded by all the bandits in the first room, and when my Quatryl Tinkerer opened the final doorway by himself right before it became a necessity for Knack and Stabby-Joe (Bahari's Mindthief) needed a long nap-nap to recover their abilities. I was stuck in the doorway for two full rounds courtesy of the archers hobbling me with attacks and leaving me immobilized. Scrapping as best I was able I slew a number of the zombies (or at least weakened them up) with a flamethrower which as you know is the only true way to deal with such pests. I escaped the room with a single hitpoint and was not much help beyond that opening volley I admit, but I like to believe I was instrumental in paving our way to victory and opening up the archers for Knack. I look forward to future adventures in this world and we will see how things develop for all of our characters I can't speak for the others of course but given the secret motivations I think it will be quite some time before my tinkerer (for whom I desperately need to decide on a name) retires but I am thoroughly enjoying his shtick so that doesn't bother me.
