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Thank you for watching! I’m hoping to do a few editorial like videos on this game since I have put so much time into it. I appreciate the suggestion!

Thanks for watching!

Glad you like them! I’m hoping to! I might wait until the 2nd edition stuff arrives to continue.

Glad you enjoyed it!

(For close combat I mean :) )

Thanks!! I figured I missed it somewhere.

Appreciate you sticking with me!

Glad to hear it! Me too!

It’s been a minute but I treated the Shambler as the fight for that encounter since I didn’t open the door. It may have been in error but in my mind they were separate encounters.

Strange to have them on that table for sure! Ratmen are coming in the expansion. Youre right they would have made more sense.

That’s a great idea! I did back the new stuff and I’m eagerly awaiting it. Thank you! I may get to that eventually.

Thanks for watching!!

Welcome aboard! Thanks from watching. I’ve got the new stuff coming as well. Hope to keep making vids when I can! I’ve got the finale of this quest to edit still.

Thanks for watching!

After a significant amount of time spent with this game, I tend to agree. I find myself hoping I don’t roll an encounter in most rooms and when that’s the main point of the game that’s disappointing. I’ve said before that I wish dungeons were half as long but I guess it’s called a dungeon crawler for a reason!

Thanks for the note. I hadn’t thought of that.

Whoops!

Must have hit delete on my note on accident.

Glad you like them!

I believe they are 28. They are from FFG’s Lord of the Rings game.

Thanks for the visit

That’s a great idea!

Yeah. Nuts!

Well, the first Quest Book is among those 286 pages too, but still... Way too much for a board game.

True true. I think this game is a little more RPG than board game so with that in mind you can almost justify it but it’s still A LOT.

I guess I had better set aside any other reading time for the next few months and reserve it all for this.

I went back to the PDF to see what is taking up so much space... 40 pages of character & party creation, 20 pages on magic rules, 40 pages on dungeoneering and combat (one would argue is the 'meat' of this game). Everything else is not essential to start. So yeah, you need to read a good 100 pages to start.

I think that’s kind of right. Dungeoneers was the original print and play version and the first iteration of this game. LoD was the first game with a new name and an expanded version of Dungeoneers. So yes and no!

@@saveyourgame5578 :) also, pose a question if i may: i noticed that in game its way too easy to get behind someone. if you go face-to-face the person with initiative just sidesteps one square, 45 left, 45 right, turn and enjoy your +20 attack. i try to play the bad guys as if i were controlling them instead of the script so my battles in long rooms end up looking like a ballroom dance as the fighters twirl their way across the board. i really like the way that the game acknowledges actual cqb by basing cs on dex and not str so in that spirit i made a house rule that things with two legs pay 3ap to move through enemy zoc instead of two. if youve ever tried chasing a dog or cat you know why: they CAN get behind you but i cant mange the same. thoughts?

Yeah, that seems to be the best way to mitigate being overwhelmed for sure. Although with a game that can wipe you out so quickly, I almost don’t mind having a little bit of a loophole. Question though: how would you use three AP? Just use a couple turns of action points?

i mispoke. mistyped. i meant to say that instead of 2movement points to traverse an enemy zoc i raised it to 3. that way you cant 45-45 spin and stabby stab.

Gotcha!

It’s a lot to take in!

I have been tempted to do the same. Especially with how many errors I’ve noticed I’ve made while editing. Agreed! I love parts of it but it does wear me out to play after a while. 😂

Running t with the Basic Moldvay dungeon system works well. 0e D&D is very streamlined here too I've done it with chainmail and that worked well.

So close!

There are errata on BGG. As well as a ton of other supplemental files.

@@saveyourgame5578 looking for the 2e specific changes. Thank you though.

Gotcha. Haven’t seen anything like that yet.

If you are on Facebook, there is a League of Dungeoneers group. A few people in it have begun to make documents of the updates in second edition. I’ve seen a few post like that in the last few weeks.

Can’t wait! The new dragons sound intense!

I appreciate that! Thanks for watching.

Thank you! I don’t have that game, unfortunately. And I probably only have time for one big DC at the moment. Appreciate the request though! Will look into it.

I’m so sorry to hear that you are going through all that trouble. That is just awful. Glad I got to give you a little escapism today! Thanks for watching.

Where are you from, im guessing Toronto?

Nope. Im in North Carolina. Born and raised. ☺️

Welcome aboard! It’s been a lot of work but very rewarding. I’m about to get the game out again and play some more. I love it. Can’t wait for the expansion to arrive!

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching. It is a nice and fairly easy way to get a hit bonus.

Thanks for watching! It is pretty fiddly and makes for some frustrating encounters. Due to this my wish is that dungeons were half the length. Overall though I like the system especially when it’s going my way. I like the idea of a steel yourself type of mechanic! Good work.

Happy to do it!

Yes! It certainly was.

That’s correct. He was the head of FFG for a long time and co-designed a lot of their games. I must have seen his name when making the video and wrongly attributed him to the design of this edition.

Christian designed Battlemist and some ideas in Runewars were based on that game. Maybe that’s where I got this from? Thanks for pointing out the error.

These are from Journeys in Middle Earth from FFG. The whole party is from the core box. The dwarf is a Gimli model. Thanks for watching!

Right you are!

These are great ideas!

I also really like the idea of rolling a dice to recover some arrows at the end of an encounter as well.

@@saveyourgame5578 Not my ideas, I just look for the best rules to handle the mechanics of a game, trying to balance realism and fun.

​@@saveyourgame55781e AD&D has a 25% chance of recovery for magic arrows. I use that for LoD arrow recovery.

I do notice it eventually!

I’m tempted to!

Same here! Thanks!

😂 Isn’t it? It popped into my head and I knew it was the one.

Oh, and: Awesome session, lots of close calls, very exciting!

It sure was! One of the closest yet!

Right? And how do we know the merchants they’ve been attacking were honorable? What if I’ve been taking out Robin Hood and his merry men?

@@saveyourgame5578: That is the only flaw this games has: No way to talk your way out of a encounter. The party inevitably becomes murder-hobos. This is the problem with most GM-less games. Which is fine, my group of friend are "Kill them all, let God sort them out" types too.

That is true. Although the combat system is so deep that you almost don’t mind. You’re right, though, with the traveling, buying, selling, events, exploring, etc there’s almost every core aspect of an RPG except for that. I hadn’t thought about that before. I’ve played a little bit of Pericle. It’s driven by an application on their website, has a fairly deep combat system and does have some dialogue options. It’s pretty cool. I hope to do a video on it someday.