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The pacing/flow of the game play is constantly changing modes and never feels like it gets stuck in a boring rut. Silly subtitles aside, Folklore: The Affliction, takes direct inspiration from Gothic European folklore and mythology.In this new expansion the design team at Twin Fire takes us down to the dark streets and up to the rooftops in the towns of Kremel. Sorry, missed this question – I had a few situations of having to ‘balance’ the game (as the narrator/pseudo-GM), but by the end of the first story journal some of the PCs were powered (overpowered? I’ve always enjoyed – as did everyone around my table interestingly enough – to have the players make their decisions, roll their dice, and play through the adventure/campaign without any regrets or non-stop second guessing. There’s a day deck and night deck and the world of Folklore is a dangerous one, especially after the sun goes down.

From that perspective, Folklore seems to pack a lot of value, as the fully cooperative system lowers the barrier to entry and offers a unique mix of open-world story-telling and miniatures based combat. Also, Folklore isn’t truly a miniatures game in the first place and would be just as great if we were using counters to represent the heroes and monsters instead of minis so I’m not shaving that much off the review score. However I did find some answers that work for me, giving me a balance between the level of challenge and enjoyment I want. If you’re the sort of person for whom a dark fantasy roleplaying game holds absolutely no appeal or you’d rather eat broken glass than roll a lot of dice, I’ll be the first to tell you Folklore is probably not for you.

Fans of games like Descent: Journeys in the Dark will feel right at home and will want give this a try. It may happily embrace basic, dice-heavy combat and card-drawing wilderness travel, but Folklore: the Affliction, mark my words, is still a lot of fun. Beneath the buildings, stone and wood edifices, you notice the layers of dust and grime, and a deepening of the shadows. As the group travels across the world map, they’ll be faced with many “choose your own adventure” type encounters in which they’ll be forced to make a decision in regards to resolving that event.

Each character will also require their character booklet and card as well starting ability and item cards. The players are also faced with choosing from a variety of party decisions throughout as well as skill checks for success or failure during encounters.Imagine Eldritch Horror except that every once in a while you have to pause the game and play out 15 minutes of story narrative and exploration on the Mansions of Madness game boards. Story markers can be positive or negative and mostly are gained at key points in the overarching tale.