by Cavetoad
I just purchased WoA and ToEE and have had the chance to play WoA once.It seems that, despite the campaign mode, ToEE is much different than the other 3 in how the tiles, traps, and monsters spawn.
I really want to print out some of the variant stuff that ninjadorg and others have created to make campaigns out of the combination of the games.
I LOVE that you can use the heroes from any of the games with the other games, but I will admit that the Drizzt heroes are pretty powerful and can seem a bit unbalanced when using them in the other games (well the little I have done it to this point).
My favorite is still Ravenloft, but of course I need more plays in the other games. I was able to obtain unopened copies off all the Dungeon Command games and have added the components and monsters to the recommened games each.
TBH I am a total fanboi of the series. We played the Ravenloft module a bunch in D&D when I was a kid (back when we still did THACO for armor..) and it just brings back a ton of nostalgia.
To me the encounters can be very hard, but damn I love them. I think what happens for too many people is they run and the problems stack up. We have found the best approach is kill kill kill and use the XPs to cancel encounter cards as needed.
I keep hearing there are better crawls out there, but other than Descent R2, I am yet to have anyone say anything definitive.
Enjoy the game! :D