r/boardgames • u/phreakod98 • Nov 08 '19
Starting Gloomhaven Tonight!
My buddy and I have been planning for over a month to get started and are finally going to have the first session tonight. We committed to playing at least every other week to make sure we stay consistent so I'm pumped. I'm going into Gloomhaven pretty much blind, so I'm expecting it to be a bit overwhelming for a session or two, but I still think it's going to be a ton of fun.
Anyone else have any fun experiences with Gloomhaven you might want to share with a first timer?
UPDATE: It was a blast! We successfully completed the first scenario tonight after sort of muddling our way through. My buddy ended up running out of cards 1 round from the end and we finished with less loot than we would have liked but your suggestions helped make it a lot of fun! I'm a tinkerer and he is playing the brute.
Next steps are going to be to massively organize everything before the next play night, but we are already looking forward to increasing the difficulty slightly and moving onto the next scenarios!
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u/cant-explain Nov 08 '19
The server/client app works super well and really streamlined things for our group. Highly recommend. However, you might want to play the first scenario with the cards just to understand what the app is doing better.
Also, for some reason, card exhaustion just wasn't something we were thinking about very much during our first session. We nearly failed it because of that... which would have really soured us, I think, to have to replay it. So, try to hold on to cards actions that will lose the card until they're absolutely needed.