Pyramid Review: Dungeoneer

Pyramid Review

Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord Card Game

Published by Citizen Games

Designed and illustrated by Thomas Denmark

116 cards, counters, character stand-ups; $20

Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord - a fantasy adventure game is the newest entry into the range of games with the theme of the dungeon crawl. Published by Citizen Games, it is played as a board game, but comes formatted and packaged as a card game. Designed for between two and four players, they each control a brave hero delving into the tomb of the Lich Lord in the hope of being the first to complete three quests. This will make them the greatest living hero and their player the winner of the game.

Inside the box is a four-page black-and-white leaflet, and a deck of 116 cards. These are done in full-color by the game's designer and despite being a little dark, the look of the cards and their excellent art does much to both make Dungeoneer very attractive and also impart the dangerous feel of dungeon delving. The Dungeoneer deck consists of:

The game is not complete upon purchase, as a pair of six-sided dice are needed to play. Character stand-ups and counters also need to be cut out. Unfortunately, both the counters and stand-ups feel a little inadequate; there also isn't anywhere to store these components once they are cut out. It is better to substitute glass . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: March 21, 2003

Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jackson Games. All rights reserved. Pyramid subscribers are permitted to read this article online, or download it and print out a single hardcopy for personal use. Copying this text to any other online system or BBS, or making more than one hardcopy, is strictly prohibited. So please don't. And if you encounter copies of this article elsewhere on the web, please report it to webmaster@sjgames.com.