Steamforged Games Dark Souls: The Board Game: Wave 2: Black Dragon Kalameet, Brown

Honestly, Im mostly leaving this review because... I had to leave a 1-star review on the Asylum Demon expansion for this game (the hammer came broken three times, I ended up giving up on a replacement and will try to glue it). To balance it out, I wanted to leave this 5-star review, because I love the game and I love the company. SFG does such a great job on all of their games, both in the fun of the mechanics as well as *generally* the model quality for the given price. I certainly had no complaints with this one.

Bought this for my son as a gift. Was very happy.

Excelente el producto y la entrega. Muchas Gracias.

Wings do not fit in very well require being shaved down at the joints. Horns came bent in a figure 8 as well.

Aside from the obvious issues like the pastic horns warping a heat gun or hair dryer just warm it up bend it in shape and let it cool down. I was impressed how awesome the figure is one of the wings was hard to snap in place they dont line up 100% but I may use some kind of fill puddy before I paint it

I got a ups box glued to the inside with half a shoe...

Arrived as described

Black Dragon Kalameet is a fairly middle of the road mega boss expansion. Cool extra-large map tile, detailed and easy to assemble miniature (mine didnt need shaving or glue), fun level 4 encounters to challenge your party, and a final boss with a ton of health and a variety of attacks that mimic the fight in the game. If this is the only mega boss you buy, you will be happy: its a sweet dragon mini that you can use in any fantasy game, and an epic conclusion to your game of Dark Souls. However, the design makes some missteps. Kalameet is so tanky that he doesnt hit very hard, making the fight a 45-minute slog where you roll dice to block 20 times, instead of a tense puzzle or a desperate race against time or a heroic battle The new Calamity status punishes dodging more than blocking, which is the exact opposite of what it should do; Kalameet is the boss most likely to be dodged instead of blocked in the video game. The boss has so many fire breath attacks that cover so much of the map that its essentially random, taking some of the fun out of the games core mechanic of learn the attack patterns and use them against the boss. 3 stars as a game expansion, plus 1 star for having a sweet, universally applicable mini that ports over to D&D with no effort.

This mini was everything i wanted and more

This is my only expansion so far and its absolutely amazing. Lets start with the gameplay. It comes with way more behavior cards than needed which is really good, it means each fight could play out differently and even after a few fights you could see a new attack. The battle does take a bit of time thanks to its high defense stats and massive hp pool, this can be good or bad depending on who you ask, for me I think its good. I dont think it would be mega-boss if you could kill it in 10 minutes. I bought it thinking it would be similar in length to an epic raid boss on an MMO or something and I wasnt disappointed. I wont spoil and mechanics or the level 4 encounters but I will say the level 4 encounters are my favorite encounters in the game so far that Ive played. Now lets get to the miniature. The miniature is of great quality, lots of detail and feels really sturdy. Mine had bent horns and problems getting the wings in but the hot water trick fixed both of those issues in a few minutes. It comes on a huge 150mm base which is double the size of the core game bosses. Now the card. It comes with the main stat block card in multiple languages, 8 strafe cards, 1 heat up card, 2 signature cards, and 13 standard behavior cards, and 2 treasure cards in multiple languages. The rulebook also includes a new campaign for this expansion that continues where the first campaign in the core rulebook leaves off. Despite the few issues with the model (hard to assemble wings and bent horns) I have to give it a 5 out of 5. The miniature could also work for D&D or Pathfinder, Im using it as a colossal dragon for Pathfinder and just for the Miniature alone I think Its well worth the $35