Twilight Sword, a first review

Twilight Sword is a new game from Two Blind Mice, where you play adventurers not entirely unlike like Link and Zelda, and work to save the Lands of Radia from the Scourge. A few months ago, when the first PDFs of the Twilight Sword game came out, I took four doughty adventurers through the First Trial of the Starter Set adventure, Twilight Island. I promised to write it up, but I never did. This week, my physical Twilight Sword game came, and it reminded me of my promise. from left to right, top to bottom: dice bag, stamina gems (blue), two sets of dice (blue and orange, each with one d10 and two d12s), heart gems (red), Lands of Radia Expansion, Core Rulebook, DM screen, Champion journal, Hope tracker, card chest and starter set Rules Twilight Sword comes with an original system called Created at Twilight (CAT), which has a moderate amount of crunch. The box below summarises: Rule Summary CAT (Created at Twilight) System Basics: Resolution mechanic: d12 roll under target number…