Each time you retire a character you get to start your next character with an extra perk. Perksįor each character that you retire you record their name and information in the town records book. Not the end of the world but retiring means everyone can get a chance at playing a really cool character. The combination of a tough quest and the lack of drive to finish said quest meant that this player had one character for a very long time! I never did get the chance to play the lightning bolt with that group. I’m talking to you lightning bolt class!įor about 1/3 of our campaign one player had a tough personal quest/loved the lightning bolt character a lot. But seriously, there becomes a point when it is time to let that character go, no matter how over powered they are or how much you love them. It’s great to have a class that you just love to play. Give Other Players a Chance to Play The Character That doesn’t mean the characters were bad, just that certain part combos don’t work as well as others and there are a couple party compositions that are downright boring/under powered. On the flip side, there were a couple of times where characters were brought in that didn’t work well with our current group and it was a bit anti-climactic. Certain party compositions are absolutely overpowered and it was really cool to have a retirement and then one of the group bring in a character that completely altered the dynamic of the group. If you never retired then you wouldn’t ever change the composition of your party. Gloomhaven has 17 different classes, 6 starting and 11 unlockable.
Hopefully I came up with some that not even Isaac Childres, the creator of Gloomhaven, foresaw! Different Party Compositions I really love trying out different builds and trying to create characters that play really different and cool ways.
Any time there was a retirement we celebrated and I don’t think that any person in my group ever played the same character twice in a row, just due to how exciting it was to try something new.Įven if a character had been played before by another player, it was exciting for me to go and try that character. Opening a new mini and discovering what the character looked like and then going over the deck of ability cards was absolutely awesome. The excitement of opening a new character was something i had never experienced in a board game and it kept me eager to play week after week. Trying different things is cool! I absolutely loved changing characters. These spice up the game and keep your city and road event decks ever-changing and specific to characters you have used! Character Diversity When you do that you get to add city and road events for the retiring character and also for the newly unlocked character. When you retire a character you usually get to choose a new character that hasn’t been used yet. I know personally that the amount of characters in the game, the method of unlocking them and trying out new builds and party compositions is what kept me interested for more than 2 years. I think this adds a lot of interest to the game. One of my favorite parts of Gloomhaven is the amount of characters. Why you should retire (in a reasonable amount of time) That being said if you are really committed to retiring, or not retiring you should be able to make it happen. Frequently they are very easy or very hard to complete which means in some cases deciding whether to retire or not is somewhat out of your hands.
Personal quests in Gloomhaven are a bit all over the place. Retiring and changing characters is what keeps the game interesting for the long term and it will allow you to play Gloomhaven, and enjoy it, for an extended period of time.īefore I launch into the pros and cons of retiring, I would like to discuss personal quests. Retiring allows you to try other characters and also let other people play those characters. Should You Retire in Gloomhaven? Yes you should definitely retire in Gloomhaven, but sometimes you might want to play certain classes longer. There are quite a few factors in determining the optimal time to retire based upon your own personal preferences and your group preferences. Sometimes characters were retired quickly and other times we stayed with certain characters for longer. Retiring in Gloomhaven was often discussed in my weekly Sunday night game.
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