What is "runebound"

Runebound is a 1-6 player high fantasy adventure board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2004. A second edition was published in 2005. A third edition was released in 2015. In Runebound, players take the roles of adventurers who seek out quests (indicated by markers on the map). The quests are then resolved with either victory for the player, or a loss of some item. Each player is seeking quests and trying to gain experience which results in greater power and combat skill.

Runebound is one of a number of fantasy board games published by FFG, others include Talisman, Descent: Journeys in the Dark and licensed games Warcraft, World of Warcraft and several The Lord of the Rings games. Runebound shares the same heroes and artwork and (some) items with Descent:Journeys in the Dark and Runewars and is set in the same world as the card game ''Rune Age'.

The first large expansion, to Runebound, Runebound: Island of Dread, was released in 2005. Many other expansions to Runebound have been released by FFG, some are just sets of cards, others contain new maps and rule changes. Only one "large" expansion or adventure variant deck can be used at a time.