After this fiasco, I went on Board Game Geek only to discover that I’m not the only one who has found production issues with this game.

The DM lowers the damage clip on the monster card a number of health spaces equal to the damage inflicted. Place the Boss tile in the Boss stand and place it in the gatekeeper space on that Boss’s dungeon tile. While this a great way to encourage improv roleplaying, none of it has any actual mechanical impact on the game.The game encourages you to roleplay while doing this, though the outcome will be based on which of the options listed on the card are picked. The DM then distributes and gold or items listed on the card as a reward to the players on that space. The hero tiles let players customize their character with different attributes, special abilities, and attacks. It's a fun little game and I would like to see more, perhaps adding a little more complexity that you can mix into it if you'd like. Again after a couple of days, I heard back from Hasbro Gaming and they asked me all kinds of details about my copy of the game.

When you reach the last spot on a board instead of drawing a random encounter card you instead face the boss monster’s henchmen. Unfortunately the game does suffer potential feelings of repetition in its mechanics but that can be minimised by enthusiastic DMs and imaginative play. The choice of boss monster is one you need to make at the very start of the game and will dictate which area of Neverwinter you arrive in last. Rotating the DM does help with this, however, and there are enough story cards in the deck to vary the scenarios enough to keep players interested.Adding a fifth character could be the solution, with the expectation that the current DM’s character acts as a pack animal each turn.