tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post6406368019754226695..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: Board Game: Wizards (1982)Timothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-38447544950967406412022-10-06T16:08:35.185-05:002022-10-06T16:08:35.185-05:00Honestly, you're better off not playing it. I...Honestly, you're better off not playing it. I got through several games back when it was new-ish, and even by the standards of the day it was one of the worst gaming experiences I've ever had from Avalon Hill. I can understand liking the concept (I did myself when I bought it based on the box blurb) but the execution is execrable.<br /><br />If you want some suggestions for other AH fantasy to try instead, Dragonhunt is clunky but vaguely similar in being a explore-and-quest-to-do-stuff game, and Magic Realm is even more of both those things. Mystic Wood is less ambitious (about on par with Talisman for complexity) but close in theme and a lot more playable than any of them. There's also Wizard's Quest if you want a simple proto-4X style fantasy game (sort of Amoeba Wars with orcs if that means anything), and of course their reprints of Elric and Dragon Pass. Dark Emperor has a tiny bit of questing involved but it's mostly mass army combat - similar to Divine right, really.<br /><br />Me, I'd go play one of the smaller scale scenarios (some of which are very hero-go-quest in feel) in SPI's Swords & Sorcery, and even their Sorcerer game has a few scenarios where it's mostly your spellcaster wandering around trying to do stuff.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-45864611777564304952022-10-06T14:28:18.558-05:002022-10-06T14:28:18.558-05:00I tried playing this once or twice back in the day...I tried playing this once or twice back in the day (I'd have been a teen). It seemed like a "takes forever to play" game, so after two hours or so and with no end it sight, it was shelved. At least other AH games like 3rd Reich had some sort of progress after two hours of play...<br /><br />The game is in my library, unopened for 30+ years.HJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888523264153555779noreply@blogger.com