Héros de Légende -
Camino a la Leyenda -
Wege zum Ruhm
Road to Legend (RTL)
Expansion
I - Overview
The Road to Legend is the third expansion to Descent : Journey in the Dark. It introduces a whole new style of play called the Advanced Campaign. In this lenghtly campaign, which can stretch over many weeks and game sessions, the overlord incarnates an Avatar who can take the form of a mighty Titan, for example, or a Dragon. Hiding in his lair, this avatar plans to enslave the world, become a god or plunge everyone in a permanent darkness with the help of his Lieutenants.
Meanwhile, the (yet to be) heroes start their journey in the city of Tamalir and evolve slowly in the land of Terrinoth, exploring dungeons, encountering foes in the wilderness and saving all the money they can to buy new items and get the training they require. With the necessary equipment, the party can also travel by boat or follow secret trails to go from one location to the other, always keeping an eye on the Lieutenants who can siege and raze cities to ashes.
Week by week, the game progesses through the 4 different stages of the campaign (copper, silver, gold and diamond), stages that limit the power of both sides. Heroes, for example, cannot find or buy gold treasure during the Silver campaign while the overlord cannot upgrade all of his monsters. The game ends during the final battle or if the evil plot has been realized.
The full rules (without the quests) can be downloaded in PDF format on the Descent support page of Fantasy Flight Games' website.
II - Components
Note: after buying a new expansion, make sure you have all the components listed below. Some players have reported missing or wrong components. However, it is said that Fantasy Fligh Game's service is really good and that they will send you the missing ones.
1 Rulebook (the second part of which is a Quest Guide)
10 Dice
- 5 Silver Power Dice
- 5 Gold Power Dice
6 Avatar Sheets
6 Boxes
- 4 Hero Boxes
- 1 Overlord Box
- 1 Graveyard Box
1 Pad of Campaign Sheets
1 Terrinoth Map Board
220 Cards
- 40 Campaign Monster Reference Cards
- 40 Dungeon Level Cards
- 35 Avatar Upgrade Cards
- 21 Plot Cards
- 30 Incident Cards
- 15 Location Cards
- 15 Rumor Cards
- 10 Lieutenant Cards
- 5 Tamalir Upgrade Cards
- 4 Party Upgrade Cards
- 3 Campaign Skill Cards
- 1 Relic Card
- 1 City Shop Card
22 Double-sided Map Pieces
- 3 Room Pieces
- 7 Corridor Pieces
- 3 Intersection Pieces
- 8 Dead End Pieces
- 1 Portal Piece
23 Prop Markers
- 1 Camp/Lake Marker
- 1 Throne/Summoning Circle Marker
- 8 Table/Bed Markers
- 6 Villager Markers
- 4 Bone Heap/Mushroom Patch Markers
- 3 Fountain/Sarcophagus Markers
43 Terrinoth Map Markers
- 1 Hero Party Marker
- 1 Overlord Keep Marker
- 10 Lieutenant Markers
- 14 Siege/Razed Markers
- 4 Elemental Temple Markers
- 3 Scroll Markers
- 1 Sunstone Marker
- 9 Comet Markers
3 Large Lieutenant Markers
6 Sleeping Effect Tokens
4 Money Tokens
18 Wound Tokens
95 Training Tokens
- 11 Silver Magic Upgrade Tokens
- 12 Silver Melee Upgrade Tokens
- 12 Silver Ranged Upgrade Tokens
- 12 Gold Magic Upgrade Tokens
- 12 Gold Melee Upgrade Tokens
- 12 Gold Ranged Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Copper Wound Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Copper Fatigue Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Silver Wound Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Silver Fatigue Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Gold Wound Upgrade Tokens
- 4 Gold Fatigue Upgrade Tokens
7 Miscellaneous Tokens
- 1 Reinforcement Marker
- 1 Rumor Token
- 1 Crown of the Elder Kings Marker
- 4 Shackle Tokens