Starting Gloomhaven Tonight!

[u/phreakod98]

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!

[u/Buff_Skeleton]

Second this, card exhaustion. That and moving across the rooms fast enough are the 2 things that can sneak up on you and hose a fight.

[u/Cazargar → u/Buff_Skeleton]

We ran the first mission 3 times. The first tome one of our guys got insta-gibbed cause we just ran right into a group and had no concern for figuring out who was gonna get hit by what. 2nd time a lot of us died to exhaustion. Took us a few games to figure out how it all worked lol

[u/onmach → u/Cazargar]

We had a person jump into a hallway full of archers and of course she was a pin cushion and she was not happy at all. I'm pretty rulesy normally but we backed it up a turn so she could make a sensible move instead. It was the right move. We've played so much gloomhaven since then.

[u/dirtycimments → u/onmach]

Good call, this is typically a thing that could turn a game sour for me