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AToE vs Mansions of Madness
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08-23-2012, 08:10 PM
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AToE vs Mansions of Madness
I apologize if there is a thread or link in regards to this but...
Could someone who has played both games give me a Pros/Cons list of AToE vs Mansions of Madness? I can only afford one. I will be playing with 5 people (incluing my 3 teen kids). My two girls seem a bit bored with LNoE as the combat is taking way too long and really drags the excitement of the game down. Thanks. |
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08-23-2012, 09:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2012 11:46 PM by mqstout.)
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RE: AToE vs Mansions of Madness
ATOE: Better as a competitive game than a cooperative game.
MoM: Strictly a cooperative game. ATOE: Decent chance of anyone winning. MoM: (especially with expansions) the keeper wins, the heroes lose, most of the time unless they exploit a cheese tactic. ("For the Cthonic feel.") ATOE: Colonial setting. MoM: Early 20th Century setting. ATOE: Easier to broaden the theme and feeling. MoM: Fixed in the Cthonic. ATOE: Far easier to mod/custom than MoM (except... fixed board) MoM: Difficult to make custom cards (many double side cards and different card sizes) and each scenario requires a good bit of content -- but the board is itself made of modular pieces to lay out. ATOE: The villain is scripted. MoM: The villain is a player. ATOE: Almost each time you search/interact, something happens. MoM: A lot of search results will be "nothing of interest". ATOE: Much broader cast of characters. Each character is quite varied. MoM: Small cast of characters who seem to stagnate faster (depending on what items you get during play), despite each character having a few permutations. ATOE takes a bit longer than MoM to play; though setting up MoM takes far longer. Overall, I do like both. They do play quite differently though. MoM is frantic and usually requires you not to deviate from the path. ATOE builds tension over time and rewards exploration. I prefer ATOE. (08-23-2012 08:10 PM)wisdomknight Wrote: I can only afford one. I will be playing with 5 people (incluing my 3 teen kids). My two girls seem a bit bored with LNoE as the combat is taking way too long and really drags the excitement of the game down. Combat in ATOE can take even longer than LNOE -- especially when battling the big bad. But each side is often rolling a whole handful of dice, which can be exhilarating. Combat in MoM is funky and uses a unified mechanic with other actions, but requires repeated card drawing. That said, combat is rarer in MoM. For many characters and scenarios, if you're needing combat, you're playing wrong. As a side note, both games have strong female protagonists that might be good for the teenage girls. How are your kids with reading and comprehension? MoM has a pretty strong component of that (verbal clues in the story blurbs) that's quite important to successful play. Depending on ages (you say only "teen"), MoM contains a bit more a mature content. The rules, I would say, are easier and more straightforward in MoM than ATOE --if that is a concern. |
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08-23-2012, 09:50 PM
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RE: AToE vs Mansions of Madness
Wow mqStout!
Thats very helpful and one hell of a comparison. My kids are quite bright and love to figure things out. I think less combat and more thinking might be better suited to us. Not sure as I love customiztion possibilities as wll. |
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