The innards of the box come with a bunch of baggies and specific places for you to organize and store all the pieces, tokens, and cards. That the game doesn’t bite, and it’s going to walk you through taming the monster before it devours the living room table in clutter. Heck, the first thing you see when you open the box is a giant paper basically telling you not to panic. While Jaws of the Lion is a great deal smaller than the base game, you’re still going to be buried in an absolute ton of game pieces. The good news is, you might be ready for that commitment after a few dates with Jaws of the Lion…mines pickles. It aims to win you over gently, rather than dropping the 22-pound base game on your face that will demand to know your safe word. I would say that Jaws of the Lion is a cheaper, smaller entry point into the world of Gloomhaven instead. But I wouldn’t say it’s an expansion at all, very little material is cross-compatible. Jaws of the Lion is billed as a stand-alone expansion to the mega-sized base game. Gloomhaven is its own beast with separate design goals. Any attempt to do so will end up diluted. You can’t truly simulate the open-ended nature of a TTRPG in board-game form. Outside of being fantasy games where you fight monsters, they aren’t even in the same league of being similar. You can find a video version of this review on my YouTube Channel After playing Jaws of The Lion, I would like to find all these people and club them with a 600-page core rulebook for being wrong and leading me astray. I already play Pathfinder, I don’t need a cut-down board game version. I had seen people call it D&D or Pathfinder without a GM, and that meant I had no interest in it.
To my great shame, I slept on Gloomhaven for the longest time.
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