Dungeons & Dragons Power Combo Slot – Free Demo

Chests, tokens and a grid of d20s

The frame I kept from this one has stacked d20 Mystery symbols sitting on reels one, two and five with the reveal not yet resolved, and the three chests down the left of the reels reading 10 free spins and a 2.0x multiplier with the jackpot ring between them — every meter on its reset value. Dungeons & Dragons Power Combo is a video slot created by Microgaming partners Triple Edge Studios, and it has a configuration of 5 reels, 3 rows, 20 fixed paylines and pays left to right on neighbouring reels. The three pots sit in chests beside the reels and carry between spins, so the base game is doing two things at once — paying lines and filling meters.

Dungeons & Dragons Power Combo is quite probably to have been influenced by other licensed fantasy themed standards. Triple Edge Studios put the same collected-pot structure into Sisters of Oz Jackpots, its other 20-line jackpot game, and holds a second licence in Lara Croft Tomb of the Sun, from 2023. Except this one will never become a standard...ever, and just like the games noted, it is fairly plain and uncomplicated. Those pots are free spins, multiplier and jackpot, and each one has its own token. Most players will get a grasp of it pretty much straight off the bat, and while the main game does have a random feature, it's all about the bonus. The bonus can arrive as one of those rounds or as more than one at once, which is what the Power Combo name covers. That bonus is almost as poor as the main game. Whatever combination fires, it plays at the bet and lines of the spin that triggered it.

Win on a line pays if the same symbol shows up in succession, from the leftmost spot to the right, and only the largest win per line is paid. Tokens are what the rest of the game hangs on: they come off revealed Mystery symbols and feed the three pots.

The Beholder pays what the dragon pays

In this game you join a band of monsters out of the Monster Manual and these monsters also serve as the top symbols, and the Beholder is the most rewarding one. Owlbear, displacer beast and gelatinous cube sit below it, with six hexagon runes at the bottom of the table. It is of the exact same value as the Wild symbol, and that value is 20.00 for 5 across a payline. The Wild symbol is the red dragon. It replaces all symbols except for the Mystery symbols. Mystery symbols land stacked, so a reel of them is a reel a Wild cannot reach.

There rest of the symbols are not engaging enough. Not engaging enough to waste any ink describing.

One reveal, applied to the whole grid

The Mystery symbols randomly show up during the main game and arrive stacked, and they reveal one random symbol for the whole spin before pays are assessed. Every Mystery on the grid resolves to the same symbol, so the reveal is one decision applied everywhere at once. That essentially means a blackout of the reels is possible. A blackout is that same symbol filling all five reels. A blackout pays all 20 paylines at the current bet. Tokens ride on the revealed symbols rather than on the Mystery tile itself, so the reveal is also the moment the pots find out whether they grew.

Which chest fires decides what the round is

Revealed Mystery symbols may hold tokens. Free spins can trigger randomly on any token collection, so a single collect is enough of a trigger condition. The tokens fill three meters that grant Power Combo free spins accordingly:

Free Spins Bonus Feature: up to 40 free spins
Multiplier Bonus Feature: 7 free spins at up to a 10x multiplier
Jackpot Bonus Feature: 7 free spins with a shot at a jackpot

The feature can trigger with any of the three separately or in combination, and it seems a lot. When the free spins pot fires, all of the free spins accumulated in it are played.

The multiplier rises in 0.5x increments and applies to line wins during the free spins. The jackpot round runs on its own tokens, which raise the Mini, Minor, Maxi or Major amounts as they are collected. It then resets to 2x on return to the base game, and the jackpots range from 5.00 for the Mini to 25,000.00 for the Grand. Jackpot values scale with bet changes, and every jackpot except the Grand can be won more than once.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Everything here routes through the three chests, and across 270 spins at a 2.00 stake not one of them opened — 540.00 wagered came back as 271.40, with a 102.00 line win on spin 258 as the high point of the run.

270 spins without a Power Combo

I'm not a big fan of this game, as you probably already surmised. Why? It is utterly dull.

I played 270 spins at a 2.00 stake and never once saw the Power Combo free spins. The longest run without a win was 32 spins, ending on spin 55. 55 spins paid anything at all, and 31 of those paid less than the stake. The lowest the balance got was 1,637.20. The balance never got back above the 2,000.00 it started with, and 540.00 wagered came back as 271.40. Behind the top hit, the best of the rest were 30.00 on spin 91 and 20.00 on spin 113. The biggest hit of the lot was 102.00 on spin 258, 51x the stake.