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(More customer reviews)First off - the MSRP of this game is NOT $38.95. The publisher, Fantasy Flight Games (FFG), lists the price as $34.95 on it's website. Other online retailers list the MSRP as $34.95. Moreover, it retails at both of my local games stores for $34.95. As such, the listed discount price is misleading and, in my opinion, outright dishonest. Amazon does this a lot.
Now, to the product itself. Since acquiring the Battlelore license from Days of Wonder, FFG has released a number of expansions to the base Battlelore game. Creatures includes three "new" miniatures: the hill giant, rock elemental and hydra. Two of the three - the rock elemental and hill giant - were previously released in limited supply as promotional miniatures by Days of Wonder (although the rock elemental was called an "earth elemental.") The hydra is a pretty good sculpt with decent detail. It requires some assembly (you have to add the heads)but makes an impression on the battlefield due to its relative size.
The expansion contains banners for each miniature (red, blue and green), summary cards, effects tokens and 4 new adventures. Also included is a summary card for upgrading the spider included in the base game to a more powerful, "Blue Widow." The creature rules contain minimal revisions and clarifications to those included in the base game. The rules are available for download at FFG's website.
Is Creatures a worthwhile addition to the base game? Yes. Is it worth the price? Not at $34.95 (or for $38.95). For the same price, the Dragons expansion offers larger, better-looking sculpts that have a much more dynamic impact on the battlefield (both in terms of abilities - they fly and breath fire/acid/cold - and aesthetics). For five dollars more, you can get the Horrific Hordes or Bearded Brave expansions, each of which contains around 40 miniatures and allow you to field complete armies of goblins or dwarfs when combined with the base set.
Nevertheless, Creatures does add a lot of variety to the game. If you can find the expansion for under $20 (as I did), jump on it.
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Creatures is a specialist expansion pack for your BattleLore board game. A Wood Giant, Rock Elemental, and Hydra are the beasts that come from the darkest corners of the realm to strike out against their opponents with horrible new attacks that can kill with a single blow! Includes 5 new BattleLore adventures.
Please note: This is not a stand alone game. A copy of the original Battlelore board game is required to play.
Contents of Battlelore - Creatures Expansion:
3 Unique Creature Figures, including:
1 Wood Giant
1 Hydra with 6 interchangeable head/neck pieces
1 Rock Elemental
3 Creature Banners
A Rules Booklet, including 5 new adventures
2 Landmark Tiles
7 Web Tokens
7 Poison Tokens
1 Conjure Token
7 Cards, including:
1 Tactics Card
4 Creature Summary Cards
2 Landmark Summary Cards
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