Board Game Review, Tyrants of the Underdark a Dungeons & Dragons mash-up of board game and card game
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 2020-12-13

A look at Tyrants of the Underdark, a hidden gem mash-up game that is a mix of a deck-building card game and folk on a map area control board game. This Dungeons & Dragons themed boardgame combines two popular styles of gaming to create something new and wonderful.

Tyrants of the Underdark was designed by Peter Lee, Rodney Thompson, and Andrew Veen. It features artwork from Steve Ellis. In North America it is was published in 2016 by Gale Force Nine under license from Wizards of the Coast. This mash-up of deck-building and board game plays two to four players with games taking about an hour to an hour and a half depending on the player count.

This review is one segment from The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 115: It's in the Cards. You can catch our full episode here: https://youtu.be/McL6_f35-Sg

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Disclosure: Gale Force Nine was awesome enough to provide us with a review copy of this D&D themed board game.

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From the Publisher:

Tyrants of the Underdark is a competitive strategy game for 2 to 4 players in which you take on the role of the leader of a drow house. As a drow (a dark elf) your goal is ascension to greater power through control of the Underdark.

During the course of the game, you’ll build and play your own deck of cards that represent the minions of your house and determine what actions you can take on your turn, such as recruiting new minions or deploying troops to the game map. You’ll continually refine your deck, adding new cards while removing others to make your deck more powerful.

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