Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur’s Gate Game Review

When you hear "Dungeons & Dragons," you expect tales of scrappy adventurers delving into dark dungeons and earning their fortune through perilous quests. Builders of Baldur's Gate throws that entire fantasy out the window. Instead of playing humble heroes rising from nothing, you're wealthy nobles and powerful families who already sit atop mountains of gold, focused on expanding your influence through economic maneuvering and shrewd building placement. It is a game that trades sword and sorcery for city planning and arithmetic math.

So yes, this is yet another European-style board game draped in Dungeons & Dragons colors. Like countless other euros, it features the familiar mechanics of worker placement, special ability cards, and resource constraints to navigate. With Baldur's Gate name prominently displayed on the box, the game naturally included the obligatory "city under siege" element where players contribute to its defense. And true to euro form, your success isn't measured in epic tales or heroic deeds, but in the cold calculation of victory points.

Trading Swords for Spreadsheets

With the theme overview out of the way, let's talk about mechanisms.

You start out with a handful of building cards, agenda cards, some coins, favor, and supplies. Favor acts as the currency for the worker placement part of the…

The post Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur’s Gate Game Review appeared first on Meeple Mountain.