But legacy games also adopted the asinine barbaric concept of making permanent changes to the board game so it can only be playable once.Ī large part of me feels like it’s marketing, wanna play again? Buy another box. The concept of legacy games is fantastic, and I love going on long-spanning adventures. Here’s a secret, I still love Jaws of the Lion, so put the pitchfork away. Please do not take this as an attack on you. I’m sure what I’m about to say is going to piss some people off. It’s a concept that I have a love-hate relationship with. Actions from the last session impact the next, and your characters level up and grow with each game. Basically, this means that every session is just one ongoing adventure that you play overtime. There is a lot of card shuffling, so I’d still advise sleeving them if possible. A few standees or tokens didn’t punch out cleanly, but for the most part, I was impressed with how nice everything in the box looks and feels. The components are all great quality too, with beautiful artwork. However, you do roughly get four times as much stuff for roughly double to triple the price, give or take depending on where you pick it up. At the time this review was written I have not played the base version of Gloomhaven. You get great value for your money in terms of content. I was completely shocked at how big the game is for the price. That’s not the case with Jaws of the Lion. When I see a game with big ambition that is under that 70 to 80$ range, I almost always find that it’s missing something that was cut for a later expansion.
You get four playable classes and everything that they need including character sheets, decks of cards, minis, and nice cardboard portraits of them.įor the price, Jaws of the Lion is packed with stuff. Finally, there are a dozen or so types of tokens, an element board, and a crap ton of different card types. In addition, there are a bunch of monster standees, and cards for them.
#GLOOMHAVEN EXPANSION HOW TO#
You get a map of Gloomhaven, four books, two of which are rules and how to play, and two that are centered around the game’s 25 scenarios. So I’m just going to do a vague overview. But given the nature of the game, doing that would be spoiling a lot of surprises. In these reviews, I normally walk through all the components. The initial setup takes a while, but it’s mostly painless after that. The innards of the box come with a bunch of baggies and specific places for you to organize and store all the pieces, tokens, and cards. That the game doesn’t bite, and it’s going to walk you through taming the monster before it devours the living room table in clutter. Heck, the first thing you see when you open the box is a giant paper basically telling you not to panic. While Jaws of the Lion is a great deal smaller than the base game, you’re still going to be buried in an absolute ton of game pieces. The good news is, you might be ready for that commitment after a few dates with Jaws of the Lion…mines pickles. It aims to win you over gently, rather than dropping the 22-pound base game on your face that will demand to know your safe word. I would say that Jaws of the Lion is a cheaper, smaller entry point into the world of Gloomhaven instead. But I wouldn’t say it’s an expansion at all, very little material is cross-compatible. Jaws of the Lion is billed as a stand-alone expansion to the mega-sized base game. Gloomhaven is its own beast with separate design goals. Any attempt to do so will end up diluted. You can’t truly simulate the open-ended nature of a TTRPG in board-game form. Outside of being fantasy games where you fight monsters, they aren’t even in the same league of being similar.
You can find a video version of this review on my YouTube Channel After playing Jaws of The Lion, I would like to find all these people and club them with a 600-page core rulebook for being wrong and leading me astray. I already play Pathfinder, I don’t need a cut-down board game version. I had seen people call it D&D or Pathfinder without a GM, and that meant I had no interest in it.
To my great shame, I slept on Gloomhaven for the longest time.
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