I've tried the new version, and find the lack of treasure cards very disappointing. For me, that was one of the best parts of the game. You had to find the treasure to win, and get cooler stuff. Now it just seems boring without the treasure cards waiting for me in each dungeon. I want to combine the two games and put the treasure cards back in. Any thoughts on this?

You could use the store cards for treasure.  Of course not all of them, you would still want to get items from the store.  It's just a thought.

i do understand how you feel, but if you get the treasure all the time, ended up the hero will be way too over power, don't you think?

 I think there's a search card or two that lets you randomly get store treasure. Plus, it would be a little bananas if you got too much. personally i enjoy the challenge. Nothing wrong with the OL winning.

I don't know; I just don't think it's as much fun without the treasure cards. It's one of my favorite parts of the game. Now there's really nothing to drive you forward, no reward for completing the task. And you can't really beef up your guys without playing through a ton of quests with nothing to motivate you. Getting a random treasure card every once in a while, and mostly no times at all is dissapointing. I have the 1st edition with all the expansions, so I guess I'll just play that instead of buying anymore of this edition. It sucks because I was really looking forward to collecting expansions for this new edition if it was fun to play.

 This. I never played Descent 1, but the OL wouldnt have a chance in a blue moon if the players would get more items than they already can!

In the first edition, you only get a small amount of gold to buy equiptment to start. So you start off the game really weak. In the first part of the dungeon, there were bronze treasure chests, in the second part of the dungeon, silver treasure chests, and in the third part, gold. Each level of treasure chest had a deck that you would draw from, and that was further randomized by having face down colored treasure chests that were all different when the dungeon was set up. As you progressed through the game, you actually had to get to the treasure chests in order to win, since the monsters would become stronger as you went. Also, it was really cool to have great treasure cards waiting for you so you could equip them and be able to face the challenge. Often times you would not be able to win if you didn't get to the treasure chests, or if your random treasure wasn't something you could use. Now there's really nothing to draw you towards winning other than just acheiving what ever task you're sent to do. You don't have all these great treasure cards, and you hardly ever get to have treasure or buy cool stuff. The store deck is really lame when it come to equiptment compared to all the really cool treasure cards that you used to be able to get. After each dungeon, you would have to discard all the treasure you collected unless you were playing a campaign, in which case the OL would also have better cards that increased the monsters strengths.

I love both games, they're great in their own ways. Here's a thought though. With the release of info from Gencon about our 1st expansion with this game, they're adding more shop card items. I'm sure we'll be seeing more and more items that help balance out the "lacking" in the shop decks that it currently has.

I wouldn't suggest adding treasure cards/tokens back in. I suggest getting a thief with appraisal to dig to the treasure card in the search deck, lol.

You could try giving the heroes a free item draw from the store at the end of each encounter, and see how that works out for you.

Getting more gear more quickly will top out that aspect of their growth really quickly, but I get the impression that most of the real power advancement comes from skills in 2e, so hopefully it won't be TOO unbalanced.

you still need the gear, some skills wane in power in the second act and those that dont are expensive to get and use lots of fatigue.  and of course the lack of coinage is not good for the uber spendy gear in act two making heroes suddenly weak against monsters that doubled in strength.

Steve-O said:

And BOY should he get some love.  Upgrades for the overlord are duuuulllllllllllllll.

I guess my problem with the new edition would be that when I played the first two dungeons there was nothing to gather. The 'search' option was painfully lacking and generated random stuff that wasn't exciting. When I looked through the search deck, there wasn't anything in there that was cool. Plus, the first two dungeons were more of the fetch and carry type. The first edition gives you something to shoot for in that you can get good treasure cards; this one I found to be a bit boring. It's really the only thing holding me back from buying it. When I played the first edition, it was amazing and immediately made me get excited to play. I wanted to go out and buy all the expansions as soon as possible. I don't feel any of that with this edition. Why even play if you can't get cool stuff? Even in all the other games I like, you get cool stuff. Mansions of Madness; seaching the rooms gets you cool stuff. Arkham Horror; drawing cards or purchasing them gets you cool stuff. Talisman; drawing cards or purchasing them gets you cool stuff. This game; no cool stuff. Even the purchase deck in the first edition gives you better items. I could rant about this all day, but I guess my best bet is to wait and see if this gets fixed or not in the following expansions before wasting money on buying it.

 I personally don't care about getting cool stuff.

I am more interested in tactical challenges.

Of what I read about first edition, it seems that objectives were about killing all enemies with not a lot of variations - thus repetitive.

At least, in 2nd edition, the quests are varied and the heroes and OL pursue different objectives.

nathrotep said:

Why is it okay to have to purchase things to get cool stuff in Arkham Horror and Talisman, but having to wait until between quests to purchase shop items and skills to get cool stuff in Descent isn't okay?

Because the purchase deck in Descent doesn't have any cool stuff; it's all regular, boring level one type stuff. And in both of those other games, you actually also get to find cool stuff as you play; the search option in the new descent gives you only a small chance. And then it's only stuff from the same deck, which seems boring to me. In the first edition, there was a ton of great treasure that you were trying to get. Now there really nothing that's worth looking forward to buying. Maybe they'll fix this in the expansions by adding back in better gear, but for now I'm going to wait until they do. Even in all the video games I like, a main part of the fun is raiding the treasure chests for loot. First edition had that type of feel while this edition doesn't. Not yet anyway.

Yes, but 'fetch and carry' quests are boring. The first edition may have had you try to fight your way through, but it was way more fun. And way more challenging. And it had better story lines.