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Expansion for Dark Souls: The Board Game
Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion
2017
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Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion is an expansion for Dark Souls: The Board Game released in 2017 for 1–4 players. It was designed by David Carl and Alex Hall and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Modular Board, and Cooperative Game.
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About the game
Your fate has led you to the winding corridors of the flooded and labyrinthine Depths, distant from the light of the sun. Here you find the Gaping Dragon, an abomination hideously transformed by its ravenous hunger. Can you defeat this vile creature and escape its vicious maw, or will you fall to the endless voracity that lies ahead? The Gaping Dragon Expansion is intended for use with Dark Souls™: The Board Game. This Dark Souls™: The Board Game expansion features a terrifying new mega boss in the form of Gaping Dragon. Included are a new gigantic mega boss tile, deadly new boss behaviours, tokens for the new Corrosion condition, and unique new boss treasures. The Gaping Dragon Expansion also adds new encounter cards which provide larger battles than ever before in Dark Souls™: The Board Game. The tremendous scale of these encounters creates a whole new level of peril to you and your party. Are you up to the challenge?
Editions
- Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss ExpansionenSteamforged Games Ltd.2018
- Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss ExpansionenSteamforged Games Ltd.2018
Designers
Publishers
- Steamforged Games Ltd.
Questions and answers
Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion has a complexity rating of 3.5 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-weight game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion belongs to these categories: Fantasy, Video Game Theme, and Exploration. Its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Modular Board, and Cooperative Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion are: David Carl and Alex Hall. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Dark Souls: The Board Game – Gaping Dragon Boss Expansion as an expansion for Dark Souls: The Board Game. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Dark Souls: The Board Game to use it. Check that your edition of Dark Souls: The Board Game is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.