Sanity Test for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dungeon

70/100
Final Score
The rules well-organized and nicely formatted, and a little humor is interjected tastefully.
Completed February 9, 2017 by CrassPip

Rules 58/80

Structure 9/9

The rules are very well organized and easy to follow.

Requirements 0/3

Number of players is given but not ages or play time. These could just be icons.

Introduction 2/3

The non-introduction is humorous and fits the game.

Overview 2/3

The victory conditions are given but no information about what happens on a turn.
The object should mention that getting 5 Glory just wins one round, and the full game is 6 rounds.

Component List 2/5

A person getting the game might want to make sure everything is included, so a list of components is a good thing to include. (Basically what you have on the shop page would do.) As is, someone can deduce most of the components from the card descriptions, but quantities should be given.

Component Pictures 2/3

Pictures of some cards are given in their various sections.

Setup 8/10

It would be good to mention that there are optional rules that should be chosen before play.
Players should also decide how many games they are playing.
There are 9 Race and 9 Class cards, so shouldn't there be 18 with the expansion symbol, not 9?
"The Character expansion will be explained below." By below you mean at the very end of the rules on the next page.
If Event cards are dealt, does it matter in what order they are resolved? If so, that should be specified.

Setup Pictures 5/7

Not needed.

Game Play 10/15

Overall, very good. Just some minor clarifications needed.
If multiple Response cards are played by different players, how are they resolved?
Monsters: Do all Monsters do one damage? Does any Weapon defeat any Monster?
"In your turn" sounds odd. "On your turn" would be more common.
I think the turn actions could be reworded to be more clear. Basically there are three cases: you start the turn with no cards, in which case you just draw a card; you have no cards you can or want to play, in which case you discard a card; or you play a card.
If you are dead, do you need a specific "raise dead" card, or does any card that heals damage revive you?

Game Play Pictures 5/7

Not needed.

End Point 5/6

If multiple people die at once to end the game, (which I assume is possible with Event cards,) or more than one person gets 5 Glory simultaneously, are all considered winners of the round?

Overall Comprehension 3/4

Straightforward other than the questions noted above.

Clarity 3/3

Very good. My only complaint is some missing commas. For example, in sentences starting with "if," there needs to be a comma where the "then" would be.

Presentation 2/2

Good use of bolding and call-out boxes.
I prefer for examples to be italicized so they stand apart from the main rules.

Shop Presentation 12/20

Ad 2/3

The ad is decent but not exceptional. The tagline from the rules, "An overly random card game for 2 to 6 players," would be a good addition.
The little reflections of the words make it kind of hard to read the image.

Backdrop 1/1

My only complaints are the image looks a little stretched horizontally, and the fade-to-black gradient makes it harder to see the cards. (They could be moved up a bit.)

Logo 0/1

I understand the schtick that there is no art, but even without art it doesn't have to be ugly, which I think the logo is. Also, if you ever want to be a featured game, TGC help says, "Game logos must contain the name of your game only (no other graphics or artwork)."

Action Shots 5/5

Great selection. A few critiques if you want to make them even better; there is glare in some of the images, the shot of the game in play looks a little blurry, and there's a big scratch on the table in a couple pictures that is a bit distracting.

Description 4/5

Well-written, funny text. It would be even better if it gave more information about how the game is played.
You should probably mention that counters aren't included. (Why not throw in some winks? Twelve of them (if the same color) would costs like 35¢.)

Video 0/5

None.


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