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# 1-hour strategic gameplay 2-5 players, perfect for game nights Immersive Waterdeep city setting Lords of Waterdeep

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## Summary

> 🏰 Rule Waterdeep, Outsmart Rivals, Own the Night!

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## Key Features

- • **Dynamic Player Interaction:** Use Intrigue cards and building control to outwit opponents and shift the balance of power.
- • **Master the City of Splendors:** Step into the shoes of secretive Lords vying for control in a rich, political fantasy world.
- • **Deep Strategy, Fast-Paced Fun:** Engage in intense worker-placement and quest completion rounds that last about an hour—perfect for busy pros.
- • **Premium Quality & Organized Setup:** Durable components with a smart insert keep your game ready to play and impress your friends every time.
- • **Replayability That Keeps You Hooked:** Randomized quests and unique Lord bonuses ensure no two games feel the same—stay ahead or get left behind.

## Overview

Lords of Waterdeep is a highly rated Euro-style board game by Wizards of the Coast, designed for 2-5 players aged 12 and up. Set in the iconic Forgotten Realms city, players act as masked Lords who hire adventurers to complete quests, build influence, and strategically outmaneuver opponents. With about 1 hour of gameplay, premium components, and deep strategic layers, it’s a perfect blend of immersive fantasy and competitive fun for millennial professionals seeking engaging social game nights.

## Description

Product Description 388510000 features: -impressive game casts players as Lords Of water deep who hire adventurers to complete quests. -Game play: 1 hour. -Perfect for 2 to 5 players. -Ages 12 and up. Game: -board games. Product Type: -sets (game pieces included). for ages. . . : -adult. Gender: -boy/girl. Theme: -fantasy/military. Generic dimensions: -15" H x 7" W x 12" D, Dimensions: overall height - top to bottom: -15 inches. Overall Width - side to side: -7 inches. Overall depth - front to back: -12 Inches. From the Manufacturer Waterdeep, the City of Splendors—the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force. Lords of Waterdeep is a strategy board game for 2-5 players. You take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder—or help—the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.

Review: Lots and lots of strategy! - LoW is probably the most complicated "euro-style" game I've ever played, but it's also one of the most fun, and one of the most replayable. The setup of the game takes around 10 minutes alone. Play takes roughly an hour, give or take a little depending on the familiarity of the players. I won't go into how to play, as it's a fairly complicated game. Suffice to say that you have only a handful of actions per turn, but copious amounts of choices to make per turn. Do I try to acquire adventurers so I can complete quests? Do I play Intrigue cards to derail my opponents? Do I try to claim the First Player marker so that I go first next round? Do I build a building and hope to cash in on other players using it? Do I claim more quests? Lots and lots of choices, but limited resources to execute them. Strategy in the game revolves around doing quests. Your "Lord" (randomly chosen at the start of the game) determines which types of quests give you bonus points at the end of the game. However, because the quests available are randomly determined as the game progresses, it's often difficult to capitalize on this bonus. Since the quests vary greatly in the resources required to complete them, you end up spending your turns debating whether to acquire resources, play (or gather) Intrigue cards to either hinder your opponents or gain resources yourself, or set up plays for future turns. Generally, the more resources a quest requires, the bigger the payout. Though the big reward quests are tempting, it's often better to complete multiple smaller quests of your lord's speciality to acquire the bonus points. You also have to plan ahead to ensure that you're not found wanting a specific adventurerer type or gold in order to complete a quest. I still haven't completely identified a routinely successful strategy to playing the game, though playing at least one agent into Waterdeep Harbor seems to be effective, if you don't require much resources for quests. The Harbor allows you to not only play an Intrigue card, but also to redeploy your agent at the end of the round. With good planning, you can play your card AND get the resources that you need. Too many Intrigue cards end up wasting your time, however, as you won't gain as many resources from playing them as you will get from buildings on the board. I could go on for pages about various strategies, but ultimately you have to play the game for yourself to determine what works for that particular game. Production quality is very good for the game. All pieces are either ~2mm thick plastic-coated cardboard or wood. The Quest and Intrigue cards are plastic-coated as well, much like good playing cards. Most impressive to me is that the game box contains an insert which neatly stores all of the pieces in various wells dedicated to those pieces. This allows you to quickly distribute materials and set up the game without having to dig around the box and sort all of the little tokens. It also makes the box "tip-resistant", where flipping it upside-down won't cause all the pieces to go flying around the box. Granted, some will lose their places, but they're easily retrieved. My major complaint is with the victory-point tokens and the 1 gold piece markers. They take some doing to get them to fit in their assigned spots in the insert, but I don't really know how one would improve upon the design to ease the problem. Overall, this isn't a quick or simple game. It requires some time dedicated to setting up and playing it, and requires a fair amount of thinking and strategizing to play well. It is absolutely worth getting and playing though. The replay value of the game is tremendous and the quality of the product will keep it in good playing shape for many games to come.
Review: Great board game for all audiences - Lords of Waterdeep is based in the Dungeons and Dragons world. More specifically, in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Unlike the other board games that have been released by Wizards of the Coast over the past few years that are also set in the D&D world (eg, Wrath of Ashardalon and Conquest of Norrath), this game is pure euro. For all intents and purposes, it is a worker-placement game with a pick-up and deliver mechanic (no, really, it's funner than that might sound!). The idea behind the game is the following: Each player takes on the role of a lord of Waterdeep - one of several actors who essentially controls the politics and economy of the City of Splendor (as Waterdeep is known). To increase their influence, they hire adventurers to complete quests on their behalf. For example, you might hire a few rogues to infiltrate one of the many guilds composing Waterdeep's market economy. The more quests you complete, the better you do in the game - the player who completes the most (and most valuable) quests, wins. Game play The game play blends the theme with the mechanics almost seamlessly. The game plays over eight rounds, and each round players take turns assigning their agents to different buildings. Each building procures the player something, but most commonly a collection of adventurers. Adventurers come in four flavors: clerics, rogues, fighters, and wizards (in other words, classic D&D archetypes). After assigning agents to a building and collecting its benefits, a player can complete one quest per turn. To complete a quest, you must return a certain type and amount of adventurers to the general stock. In return, you earn victory points - and sometimes gold and more adventurers, or even advantages that last throughout the duration of the game. That's basically how the game plays. There area a few extra things, however, worth noting. First, the game begins with several basic buildings that allow players to procure all necessary resources: the four types of adventurers, quest cards, money, and intrigue cards (more on this in a second). But players who visit the Builders' Hall can also build a new building for that turn. This creates more spaces and resources for players to use and collect, and also provides a benefit for whoever built that building: whenever another player assigns an agent to that building, the owner receives a reward, as well. Intrigue cards allow players to mess with each other more directly than simply blocking one another when assigning agents to buildings. Sometimes they allow you to steal adventurers from other players, while other times you can force them to complete a quest before moving on to their own, more lucrative quest cards. Perhaps most importantly, when you play a quest card, you do so by assigning an agent to Waterdeep Harbor. At the end of each round, everyone who assigned an agent here, that is, played an intrigue card, gets at least one more turn to assign agents to buildings. This mechanic forces players to be in each others' faces. Finally, at the start of the game, players receive a Lord of Waterdeep card that indicates their particular character. Each character is typically associated with a specific type (or types) of quest cards. For example, a lord may be associated with both Skullduggery and Piety (odd combination, but it happened to me with the character Nindil Jalbuck - an evil doppelganger of an otherwise honest and philanthropic halfling). For each quest of that type you complete, you earn bonus points at the end of the game. Why we love this game a. Lords of Waterdeep is easy to learn and pick up, and it goes quite fast. Our games clocked in at around 45-60 minutes. My current gaming group starts around 2200 and we usually poop out sooner rather than later. This means games that are quick to pick up and play, but strategically fun, are a boon. What's more, with the Lord of Waterdeep cards, each player starts out with a clear goal that helps shape their strategy. b. I like the theme, a lot. I've never played D&D as an RPG, but I've enjoyed the literature and the D&D Adventure Games (we own both Wrath of Ashardalon and The Legend of Drizzt). This game evokes the D&D world in a very unique way. Although I wish the adventurers were something other than classic euro-cubes for thematic reasons (I insist that everyone call the cubes wizards, clerics, fighters, and rogues, and not purple, white, orange, and black cubes!), it still works: you get the idea that you are hiring people to go do stuff for you. Fun, dungeony, high fantasy stuff. I dig it. It just does not feel like a cube-pusher to me. Along with the theme, there's actually quite a bit of flavor text (and incredible artwork) on the cards and in the rules book that make it even more fun (and yes, I read my flavor text, out loud, too, when completing a quest!). c. Although you keep track of victory points as you complete quests, you never quite know who wins until the end of the game, because it's only then that the Lord of Waterdeep cards are revealed. This means that the run-away front runner will not necessary win - and if they do, at least everyone else feels like they're still in the game and has a chance up until the bitter end! d. Finally, this is a good game for all numbers of players (2-5) for which we've played (2 and 4). Strategy changes slightly between player counts, but, in our experience, anyway, the core feel and tactics of the game remain constant between 2 and 4 players - a rather rare and well done feat, in my opinion. In short, Lords of Waterdeep is absolutely fun. I want to note, also, that within my gaming group, I am the only one with any D&D background or, shall we say, enduring and obsessive high fantasy/sci-fi interest. But that did not seem to matter: everyone loved the game and the theme, and this is one of the few games that got a call back from my gaming group.

## Features

- An exciting Euro-style board game set in Waterdeep, the greatest city and jewel of the Forgotten Realms
- This immersive game casts players as Lords of Waterdeep who hire adventurers to complete quests
- Game play: 1 hour
- Perfect for 2 to 5 players

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | 0786959916 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #358,755 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #9,822 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (3,385) |
| Department | All Ages |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Item model number | 5513165 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Wizards of the Coast |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 12 - 15 years |
| Product Dimensions | 12 x 7 x 15 inches |
| Release date | March 20, 2012 |

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Help! Just bought my grandson Lords of the Waterdeep a D&D board game. Do I need to buy any figures, etc to go with it?**
A: No It's a complete board game that includes all you need to play right in the box. There is an additional expansion for the game that is available which adds more fun to the game but isn't needed to play. Lots of fun hope he enjoys it. If he does check out the expansion Scoundrels of Skullport.

**Q: Is each game you play different? or are they repetitive?**
A: There's one major goal - collect the most victory points.  But there are different strategies to accomplish this goal, and since your lord is hidden from other players, your advantages from that lord are not revealed until the end game.  So, assuming you play as different lords, get different quests, each game is a little different, even if you follow similar strategies.    I would say this is less random chance than strategy, but both are elements of gameplay.  We have played this at our table back to back and enjoyed multiple games in one sitting.

**Q: Can younger children play this game with some help from adults?**
A: It could definitely be introduced to younger kids so they get a feel for the game. I've been playing with my grandkids who are really getting into gaming and the rules are simple enough for them to understand. When I play with them we usually play with our Lords showing so they can be helped and remove the mandatory quests.

**Q: Can this be played solo? By a single player?**
A: There is no solo rules built/included with the game, but there is a solo variant on boardgamegeek.com (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/110327/lords-waterdeep/files).  This is a user-made variant.  Not sure if Scoundrels of Skullport expansion is needed for it, however.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lots and lots of strategy!
*by D***Y on June 20, 2012*

LoW is probably the most complicated "euro-style" game I've ever played, but it's also one of the most fun, and one of the most replayable. The setup of the game takes around 10 minutes alone. Play takes roughly an hour, give or take a little depending on the familiarity of the players. I won't go into how to play, as it's a fairly complicated game. Suffice to say that you have only a handful of actions per turn, but copious amounts of choices to make per turn. Do I try to acquire adventurers so I can complete quests? Do I play Intrigue cards to derail my opponents? Do I try to claim the First Player marker so that I go first next round? Do I build a building and hope to cash in on other players using it? Do I claim more quests? Lots and lots of choices, but limited resources to execute them. Strategy in the game revolves around doing quests. Your "Lord" (randomly chosen at the start of the game) determines which types of quests give you bonus points at the end of the game. However, because the quests available are randomly determined as the game progresses, it's often difficult to capitalize on this bonus. Since the quests vary greatly in the resources required to complete them, you end up spending your turns debating whether to acquire resources, play (or gather) Intrigue cards to either hinder your opponents or gain resources yourself, or set up plays for future turns. Generally, the more resources a quest requires, the bigger the payout. Though the big reward quests are tempting, it's often better to complete multiple smaller quests of your lord's speciality to acquire the bonus points. You also have to plan ahead to ensure that you're not found wanting a specific adventurerer type or gold in order to complete a quest. I still haven't completely identified a routinely successful strategy to playing the game, though playing at least one agent into Waterdeep Harbor seems to be effective, if you don't require much resources for quests. The Harbor allows you to not only play an Intrigue card, but also to redeploy your agent at the end of the round. With good planning, you can play your card AND get the resources that you need. Too many Intrigue cards end up wasting your time, however, as you won't gain as many resources from playing them as you will get from buildings on the board. I could go on for pages about various strategies, but ultimately you have to play the game for yourself to determine what works for that particular game. Production quality is very good for the game. All pieces are either ~2mm thick plastic-coated cardboard or wood. The Quest and Intrigue cards are plastic-coated as well, much like good playing cards. Most impressive to me is that the game box contains an insert which neatly stores all of the pieces in various wells dedicated to those pieces. This allows you to quickly distribute materials and set up the game without having to dig around the box and sort all of the little tokens. It also makes the box "tip-resistant", where flipping it upside-down won't cause all the pieces to go flying around the box. Granted, some will lose their places, but they're easily retrieved. My major complaint is with the victory-point tokens and the 1 gold piece markers. They take some doing to get them to fit in their assigned spots in the insert, but I don't really know how one would improve upon the design to ease the problem. Overall, this isn't a quick or simple game. It requires some time dedicated to setting up and playing it, and requires a fair amount of thinking and strategizing to play well. It is absolutely worth getting and playing though. The replay value of the game is tremendous and the quality of the product will keep it in good playing shape for many games to come.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great board game for all audiences
*by J***C on April 25, 2012*

Lords of Waterdeep is based in the Dungeons and Dragons world. More specifically, in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Unlike the other board games that have been released by Wizards of the Coast over the past few years that are also set in the D&D world (eg, Wrath of Ashardalon and Conquest of Norrath), this game is pure euro. For all intents and purposes, it is a worker-placement game with a pick-up and deliver mechanic (no, really, it's funner than that might sound!). The idea behind the game is the following: Each player takes on the role of a lord of Waterdeep - one of several actors who essentially controls the politics and economy of the City of Splendor (as Waterdeep is known). To increase their influence, they hire adventurers to complete quests on their behalf. For example, you might hire a few rogues to infiltrate one of the many guilds composing Waterdeep's market economy. The more quests you complete, the better you do in the game - the player who completes the most (and most valuable) quests, wins. Game play The game play blends the theme with the mechanics almost seamlessly. The game plays over eight rounds, and each round players take turns assigning their agents to different buildings. Each building procures the player something, but most commonly a collection of adventurers. Adventurers come in four flavors: clerics, rogues, fighters, and wizards (in other words, classic D&D archetypes). After assigning agents to a building and collecting its benefits, a player can complete one quest per turn. To complete a quest, you must return a certain type and amount of adventurers to the general stock. In return, you earn victory points - and sometimes gold and more adventurers, or even advantages that last throughout the duration of the game. That's basically how the game plays. There area a few extra things, however, worth noting. First, the game begins with several basic buildings that allow players to procure all necessary resources: the four types of adventurers, quest cards, money, and intrigue cards (more on this in a second). But players who visit the Builders' Hall can also build a new building for that turn. This creates more spaces and resources for players to use and collect, and also provides a benefit for whoever built that building: whenever another player assigns an agent to that building, the owner receives a reward, as well. Intrigue cards allow players to mess with each other more directly than simply blocking one another when assigning agents to buildings. Sometimes they allow you to steal adventurers from other players, while other times you can force them to complete a quest before moving on to their own, more lucrative quest cards. Perhaps most importantly, when you play a quest card, you do so by assigning an agent to Waterdeep Harbor. At the end of each round, everyone who assigned an agent here, that is, played an intrigue card, gets at least one more turn to assign agents to buildings. This mechanic forces players to be in each others' faces. Finally, at the start of the game, players receive a Lord of Waterdeep card that indicates their particular character. Each character is typically associated with a specific type (or types) of quest cards. For example, a lord may be associated with both Skullduggery and Piety (odd combination, but it happened to me with the character Nindil Jalbuck - an evil doppelganger of an otherwise honest and philanthropic halfling). For each quest of that type you complete, you earn bonus points at the end of the game. Why we love this game a. Lords of Waterdeep is easy to learn and pick up, and it goes quite fast. Our games clocked in at around 45-60 minutes. My current gaming group starts around 2200 and we usually poop out sooner rather than later. This means games that are quick to pick up and play, but strategically fun, are a boon. What's more, with the Lord of Waterdeep cards, each player starts out with a clear goal that helps shape their strategy. b. I like the theme, a lot. I've never played D&D as an RPG, but I've enjoyed the literature and the D&D Adventure Games (we own both Wrath of Ashardalon and The Legend of Drizzt). This game evokes the D&D world in a very unique way. Although I wish the adventurers were something other than classic euro-cubes for thematic reasons (I insist that everyone call the cubes wizards, clerics, fighters, and rogues, and not purple, white, orange, and black cubes!), it still works: you get the idea that you are hiring people to go do stuff for you. Fun, dungeony, high fantasy stuff. I dig it. It just does not feel like a cube-pusher to me. Along with the theme, there's actually quite a bit of flavor text (and incredible artwork) on the cards and in the rules book that make it even more fun (and yes, I read my flavor text, out loud, too, when completing a quest!). c. Although you keep track of victory points as you complete quests, you never quite know who wins until the end of the game, because it's only then that the Lord of Waterdeep cards are revealed. This means that the run-away front runner will not necessary win - and if they do, at least everyone else feels like they're still in the game and has a chance up until the bitter end! d. Finally, this is a good game for all numbers of players (2-5) for which we've played (2 and 4). Strategy changes slightly between player counts, but, in our experience, anyway, the core feel and tactics of the game remain constant between 2 and 4 players - a rather rare and well done feat, in my opinion. In short, Lords of Waterdeep is absolutely fun. I want to note, also, that within my gaming group, I am the only one with any D&D background or, shall we say, enduring and obsessive high fantasy/sci-fi interest. But that did not seem to matter: everyone loved the game and the theme, and this is one of the few games that got a call back from my gaming group.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by F***A on June 16, 2024*

The delivery was super quick and all the pieces completed

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