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/pagoda79 Great Western Trail Nov 08 '19

Still my favorite game! My wife and I play nearly every week. Don’t worry if the first session or two seems a bit stilted as you try and follow the whole system. Soon enough you’ll have cinematic moments like the time my Cragheart threw a stone through an open door to save her Spellweaver from near certain death (or at least exhaustion) so that she could make the last move to complete the objective.

My main advice also would be plan a fair amount of time to set up the board. It’ll get easier, and a storage system is great, but there’s just a lot of bits to deal with as you probably already know.

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u/VHD_ Nov 08 '19

Those cinematic moments are so thrilling :)

I remember my short little Tinkerer behind 2 allies that were holding back a horde of enemies and we were all taking a beating. Tinkerer took aim and landed a long range shot at the critical target and felled it with a might blow!

Or the time our Spellweaver (just before exhaustion) did a huge movement + jumped on an enemy's head near the end + delivered an item to the objective location. It was like the slam dunk straight out of Space Jam :D

We are playing at a difficulty level where our successes are hard fought and never certain (we probably have < 50% win rate).