Style: Competitive
Players: 2-4
Ages: 8+
Appx time: 5-10 minutes
Contents: 112 cards (4 28-card decks), 4 hit point trackers, 4 hit point markers, 16 damage tokens, 4 reference cards, and 1 instruction set.
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Do you have the guts to bring home the glory?
Introduction
Dungeon Mayhem is a fast and fun little head-to-head combat between characters of different classic Dungeons & Dragons classes. Each one brings their own unique talents to the fight!
* Sutha, a half-orc barbarian
* Azzan, a human sorcerer
* Lia, a elven paladin
* Oriax, a tiefling rogue.
Description
Set up for this game is pretty simple. Each player chooses one of the 4 characters to play and takes the matching character deck, hit point tracker, hit point token, and reference card. Each player shuffles their deck, places it face down, and draws three cards. Each player places their hit point marker on their hit point tracker at the 10 value.
Play order is in three steps: Draw a card, Play cards, Discard cards.
During the Draw step, the player draws one card.
During the Play step, the player plays a single card. If that card allows addition cards to be played (indicated by the lightning bolt icon), they must play that number of additional cards as well. If the player plays all the cards in their hand on their turn, they immediately draw two more cards and continue playing.
When you play a card, the actions of that card are represented on the card by identifying icons. There are several basic actions that are shared by all characters: block one point of damage (shield), draw one card (card), deal one point of damage (swords), play an extra card (lightning bolt), or heal one point (heart). Each character also has several icons for unique abilities based on the class type of that character. These unique abilities are listed only on that character's matching reference card.
During the Discard step, the player moves all the cards they played this turn into their discard pile except cards that have a defense ability (indicated by the shield icon). Defense cards stay in play until they are destroyed (or stolen!) and then they are discarded.
For each point of damage done to a player, they move their hit point marker down that number of spaces. When a player's hit points are reduced to 0 or less, they are eliminated from the game. The last remaining player wins!
Bonus!
At the time of this writing, there is an expansion for Dungeon Mayhem!
Battle for Baldur's Gate
This expansion adds 56 cards (2 28-card decks), 2 hit point trackers, 2 hit point markers, 6 additional damage tokens, 1 rules sheet, and two new characters from the iconic Baldur's Gate:
* Minsc, a human ranger - and his animal companion, Boo
* Jaheira, a half-elf druid
These two new characters bring a new set of unique abilities to the fray!
Second Bonus!
Wizards of the Coast has released another stand alone game in this line. This game can be mixed and played with the standard Dungeon Mayhem and Baldur's Gate expansion characters, and in fact it is designed to be. But there's a twist! The characters introduced here are classic Dungeons & Dragons monsters!
Dungeon Mayhem - Monster Madness
This game comes with 168 cards (6 28-card decks), 6 hit point trackers, 12 hit point tokens, 6 reference cards, 12 damage tokens, 1 rules sheet, 1 token box, and 12 divider cards (allowing for all Dungeon Mayhem decks). Introduced are 6 monster characters with their own unique abilities:
* Delilah, the beholder
* Hoots McGoots, the owlbear
* Mimi LeChaise, the mimic
* Lord Cinderpuff, the red dragon
* Blorp, the gelatinous cube
* Dr. Tentaculous, the mind flayer
In addition to the extra characters and the storage space for all the decks (if the cards are left unsleeved) and tokens, it also comes with rules to expand the game to accommodate up to 6 players.
Wrap-Up
Dungeon Mayhem is an extremely simple to play game. The rules are simple enough for kids, and the icons representing the actions of the cards are easy to learn and remember. It is a quick and fun game to get down and dirty in a brawl with your friends.
Originally posted 4-22-2020
