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I really like your setup here. Lots of useful tools, tables, and info put together in a way that makes sense! (And Forbidden Lands is my absolute favorite!) 🙂

Wish I saw this earlier! Just found your channel, really enjoying your videos, thx. Will keep an eye out for a sale since my backlog is so large already.

Awesome video. I have a free dice tower you can print for at my cult store. It’s designed as a piece of terrain.

Love to see a lot of games I didn’t see anywhere else. Others I like are Resist! (really thematic) and Sprawlopolis

I just had this come up in suggested interests and i have been trying to find more instructional vids on printing and binding pdfs as i dont have the money to buy every industrial printed and bound version of things, hardly any i do that with, as im into crafting things myself anyway. But i have difficult time with finding actual suggestions on what is the best type printer for doing game stuff as im into going back to old vintage magazine games files, such as people post on BGG,and making custom sized versions of games for myself. I inherited a HP printer along with this old pc and its terrible cartridges that have hardly any ink,and the ink runs if it gets any sort of moisture near it,and the density of the printing is so opaque and weak. Id like to know exactly what was best kind of printer. Id seen people saying tank ink printers of some kind,but forgot what exactly they were called. Not laser jet, i dont think, because thats what i already have and its blurry crap production.

I was going to bounce after the binding stuff but you really sold me when you mentioned indecision. Love the content!

For a more stable front and back cover you can take a slightly heavier paper that still runs through the printer and laminate it. Cut of the excessive transparent part (back to the size of the paper) with that cutter of yours and them bind with the rest. Works for me :-)

What is the system did you take this from? It really worth look into. Thanks for the video.

I believe you have a lot of good and useful ideas. But I really don’t know they many GM’s or DM’s that have the time the put them to use. Thanks for your video .

I love! the forbidden psalm series of games I have them all but the cyber punk one, there is also a load of great side content and expansions done by others for some of the games :-) Earlier this year I backed one for the last war got it before I got the last war since it would be a bit cheaper ha

Thanks for the kind words about Game Stamps! I'm intrigued by the way you colored the stamps with markers, rather than using ink pads. That takes more time, but it creates some interesting possibilities. Perhaps you could use multiple colors, coloring the trees in a darker shade of green than the ground beneath them, or using a different color for the rooftops on the towers?

Personally I have nothing against minis. But in this game I felt they are very unnecessary since you really only move over four different spaces. This would look cool if they are painted, but I can't do it and playing with a big grey mess just won't do it for me. In addition the price was very high for something I was conviced I do not needed so I didn't back this game back then. But recently I was very lucky and got a copy from someone who just wanted to paint the minis. So I paid payed a touch over 100 bucks for the game with all gameplay expansions. For the creatures I printed their portrait from the back of their boards and glued them to 95mm wood disks, did the same for the hunters with 35mm disks. And this should have been an option from the beginning. In my opinion this looks better than unpainted minis, there are zero drawbacks in terms of gameplay und you need just a fraction of the storage space. For me the best buy of 2024.

Writer of your three most recent decks here! The colours of the tiles show either a room, or a corridor. Yellow is Room, White is Corridor. So you should be able to add those Good, Bad & Troll cards into your mega deck (I do this myself!). There's also another deck now (Undead & Buried) which will mix very well into your mega deck. Its based in a graveyard, but has standard door/corridors. I hope you like adding Manic Mansions into your deck though; there are lots of dead end rooms, which should increase the flavour.

Excellent intro and break down vid. Wayfarers & Adventurers is my favorite expansion, as it introduces character traits, my favorite add-on mechanic (in fact, I combine Milestones and Character Traits to create the backstory, using the Milestone as the explanation as to why the milestone exists). Two other books that add milestones and worth having would be Twisted Traits and Zealous Zouaves. Another great add-on to give it that AD&D1e would be Digressions of the Devouring Dead. Fortress of the Warlord is a multi-part campaign, the first mission includes a miniature hexcrawl. Also, minimal rules on creating hex maps/overworlds is presented in Tales of the Adventures Guild. And a mini sandbox level 1 campaign is presented in Lantern zine 2, that probably could be combined with the overworld/hexcrawl in Tales. Lantern 3 has a pirate ship dungeon, perhaps you could combine it with the pirate themed deck, Dark Waters is also pirate and water themed, all three loosely combined together could possibly create a kind of sandbox / hex/ shipcrawl feel - the two patrons in Dark Water are expanded as full fledged patrons Greedy Gifts of the Guildmasters for truly expanding the world (and off course adding in Treachery of the Troublesome Towns, TTT, to create the port city the adventure takes place in, would be the complete package on how to generate a "Freeport" type setting for 4ad). You should also look into Crucible of Classic Critters to help expand out your forest tiles and encounters, as it can be easily combined with the forest decks you have. The craig tile's expansion, More Mountainous Meyhem, may also be worth looking into for creating above-world sandbox/hexcrawling. Again, excellent vid and looking forward to further 4ad vids and implementations.

What about the "Dungeon Card Decks" (Dungeons, Mines, Forest, Sewers, Necropolis... I think) with 3 sets each? There are also "Loot Card Decks", not sure if there's something with Armor/Weapons/Equipment. This seems to make the whole RPG a lot better to get into the game, especialy for newcomers like me. No map-drawing, way less details in whatever tables searching.

Wow! Love your list and your channel. You do a great job of presenting the games, and I agree with what you value in games. I will definitely be back for more content. I have For Northwood, Regicide and Spaceshipped (and agree on all of them) and am close to getting Fliptown. Other solo or solo mode games that fit this list (besides several other Button Shy games, of course) - Cascadia (and now Cascadia Rolling...) - Doppelt So Clever - Maquis - there is a PnP solo mode on BGG for Splendor Duel that is very good and free. - also on BGG free PnP, 2023 in-hand game design winner Fungi of the Phalages Forest by Roshni Patel who has done other good games - any of the Oniverse games - Guild of Merchant Explorers which is just a flip and write with cubes and chits instead of a pen (you could put the maps in report sleeves and write) - Black Sonata might be on this list if the KS ever fulfills (the PnP is too complicated to built for me). - Orchard/Grove/Forage - Dr. Steve Finn games (Herbaceous, Floriferous, Snowfall over the Mountains, Sunset over the Water, etc.) - 20 Strong Anyway, GREAT content! Oh, and in contrast to this list, I just checked out A Feast for Odin from our local public library for the winder holidays to try for the first time. It is actually unplayed and unpunched. I look forward to learning it.

Iron helm❤

What a cool idea! I know you borrowed it from someone else, but your consumer friendly version is personalized and customizable. You can match any gamebook you happen to have! I might put a pushpin in the back of the eraser to make a little handle for my-butterfingered-self.

I wonder if a TPU print would work? 🤔

Best review ever that explains my feelings with this game. Played it when it first came out in 2015. The game’s card text and mechanics were flawed but art and dice play set it apart. Fast forward and Nick has absolutely fixed the game but couldn’t put my finger on why I wasn’t having fun playing the solo. This review helped me feel like I wasn’t crazy. Will try your suggestion of not overthinking the play next time and see if that helps. It absolutely felt like a grind. The rinse and repeat nature of solo games usually bothers me and the solo play-thrus for red rains felt like that. The only solo ones that don’t feel like a grind for me are the legendary encounters games. I think it has to do with the amount of work one has to do for the ai in addition to their own play choices. I love this game but struggle to find people to play it in-person and when I did have people to play it with I usually felt blown out of the water back in the early days. Thanks for this review. Also thanks for mentioning the awful marvel champions mechanic of spending cards to play cards among other things. Was so disappointed in that game. It should have been so much better.

Do you need the corresponding PDF of the module you have the cards for, or just the cards? I tried playing 4AD with the PDF only, and I didn't understand the hype. The card system looks much quicker and easier. Also, I didn't have any of the expansions. It seems like that is where the magic lies. Maybe I need to give the system another try.

Wow, that sucks so bad! Losing the video. More for you, I'm sure, but at least you had a really nice script as a backup of the session. If I had to read my notes after losing a live-play video they would be a lot of single word mishmash. I'd just yell out random words that made sense to me at the time, but give no lasting record of what actually happened. Seriously, this was great for those of us following along! Stay strong Urak!

I have only done a few solo games so far but to me it seems like the building of your board to start the game is the real challenge of the experience. If the Chimera weren’t pressuring you immediately then there wouldn’t be much challenge at all. Great video, thanks for your thoughts.

The standees have a thin plastic sheet on them on both sides that you can rip off. That's why some of them look bad at first.

Ah, Primal. From everything I've seen, it's certainly a very well-thought out game esp. in card play synergy. But this is just a "me" thing, I just feel like when battling giant fierce bosses, I need it to be on a battlefield grid system. It just lacks that spatial aspect to the tactical positioning you would find in a grid arena setting. I do see how it appeals to others in a streamlined form though

I'm here if you have questions. (The designer) Card set up video th-cam.com/video/s8VEq0mRPuI/w-d-xo.html

I absolutely adore this game. To me it is the biggest revelation of the last few years and how well the narrative part can be done in a such small format as well as how its deterministic nature provides superb base for new runs as it creates this tension between known (what the cards do) and unknown (when specific cards will happen, - Order of Silent Berserkers FTW!)

When your player aid is the size of a standard rulebook, you know you're in for a crunchy good time!

Thanks for doing this one! Was on my radar but I forgot about it. Seems like a lot of “Dungeons of” games at the moment, and I get them mixed up.

Oh man I’m now honestly considering backing this game over Avalon now haha

This looks great, but filtering through available content is confusing. Can you get everything by ordering a Divine Wrath bundle now and backing 2nd edition? Is there any reason to buy 1st edition?

I love Under Falling Skies! I'll give this game a look. Great insightful review, btw!

Haha.... mate your cartoon intro is insane....i love it.

This is a cool one. I kinda want to give it a shot 🤔

Love the video and you have me intrigued.... any recommendations on what to get? What not to get? Go for divine wrath? Or 2nd edition? So many options...

I’ve been looking at this for awhile. The pledge levels are very confusing and it doesn’t really show what is included in each one. That’s my opinion and I’m going to pass on it. It seems pricey for what it is.

hey ryker - hey man I know you didn't ask for this feedback but I just want to let you know I can't listen to videos with artificially sped up voices -

Thanks for this review, never played this but interested in the 2nd edition on gamefound.

Such a great game!!

+20 wisdom for using the word waffling!

Great start, lots of intrigue early on! I've been using Google Docs for my note taking. You might be influencing me to try a scripting software though. Perhaps on my next game. I'm getting tired of typing "Bob said", "said Bob" and "responded Bob". I'm currently playing through a game of Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log.

I have the regular and sci-fi apprentice decks. I'm excited to see how you use the decks in your game. I'm jealous you got them for $8! Also, I didn't realize Scarlet Heroes was specifically made for solo adventures!! How has no one ever said it so succinctly?!? Session zero and you're already helping me!

Thanks so much for the great video and the kind words about my work,my friend! Very much appreciated! Looking forward to seeing how you use it in your Mork Borg solo play in the future. 😊⚔️🤘

Next time type the book titles on paper, I use the same el cheapo duck tape but halved the width.

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Great video, thanks! If the expansion comes with decks, do you really need the base game? I've only got the first edition and heard that you need the second for Red Rains but since it comes with Phoenixborn decks, it looks as if you only need the dice (which I have)...

This is great! I'm looking forward to the adventure

enjoy playing

Thank you for the how-to and ramblings! I totally agree with buying PDFs and then printing what you need. My board games already take up way too much space. It's also a much cheaper way to fulfill the addiction of buying more. Question about your printer option: what program do you use for your PDFs because I don't think I've seen all of those on my computer?

This is a great option. I also broke down and got a spiral binding hole punch machine - obviously an option that takes more specialized equipment, but I like being able to fold the pages back, which the spiral allows easily.