Category:Adventure board games

In an adventure board game, the player is represented by a single token, which is how the player interacts with the world represented in the game board. However, unlike simple roll-and-move games like Ludo or Monopoly, the different players' tokens are not identical; they have a number of attributes, and what a player is capable of doing is related to those attributes. This may be abstract (the standard colored pawns, but the player has a card telling him what he can do), or explicit (the playing piece is a representation of, say, a warrior), the point is each player has different abilities. In addition, these abilities may change over the course of the game, either by gaining items, or some sort of experience level. In some cases, the person may well be representing a particular character in the context of the game.

This gives these games many of the traits associated with role-playing games, in some cases having a strong resemblence to early combat-heavy RPGs. Despite this, they remain very distinctly board games, with the board controlling the flow of the game and representing physical locations.