"Those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who are watching in noisy environments - rely on the English subtitles (and i spend a lot of time and effort transcribing each of my videos to ensure those are available.)" This should be every channel's approach and I'm immensely thankful for the effort you put in this. Although I'm fluent in English, I find it very hard to make complex connections in my head if I don't see something written because it's not my mother-tongue, hence I really struggle without subtitles. Not to mention that every game has some weird names in it and if you, like me, prefer to watch a tutorial before reading the rulebook, those create additional confusion. Lastly, we might not realise, but there's MANY hard of hearing people in the community, they deserve to be included as well!
APPLAUSE~~~ Fabulous performance. This is some serious video magic. This has been very helpful as I learn rules for the game and finally (hopefully) get it to the table next week after owning it for 3 years.
If you use the Dark Alley expansion you get one fewer of every permanent assigment card not just the theatre. That means that you get 2 Theater, 1 Workshop, 1 Market Row, 1 Downtown, 1 Dark Alley in total.
Awesome - highly entertaining way of learning the game ...I came to this video having already learnt the game but not played for several months and this was perfect for me ...excellent work Ric
Today will be my first time playing Trickerion and your video really helped me to clarify some questions I had!! This is an excellent tutorial! Thank you very much for your hard work!
That was the most entertaining rules explanation video. I usually fall asleep on rules explanations if I haven't already read the rules before. This is the first time of which that did not happen.
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Not gonna lie, I was with you up until the theatre. :D Up to the workshop I was thinking to myself "that seems logical and easy to grasp" and when we got to the theatre and ESPECIALLY the showtime I got completely confused. I've played complex games in the past so I thought this might be up my alley ... but I'm not so sure anymore.
Your explanation is clear and your tips are useful. You're a rarity on TH-cam in that your voice is nice, easy to listen to and not in any way annoying. I also like that you had a few jokes to lighten the mood but not too many (and weren't laughing at your own jokes which is super obnoxious). Keep up the great work!
I'm sure I've commented on this before, but you do a GREAT job explaining boardgames. I believe it was THIS particular explanation of one of my favorite games that brought me to be a supporter of your channel!
@@NightsAroundaTable without the dark alley for this one. Next time though, we’ll be flipping the board to the dark side. We were flying by the 4th round so 2 more’ll be fine, even with the fancy orders/magician powers! Cheers for the work on the explanation - top stuff
@@DanielHolding Thanks, Daniel. i don't think i can name any other game where the resources on the board are just representative of resources in the supply, and you're not supposed to take them. And i think i can count on one hand the number of games where the resources you've collected aren't expended when you build the recipes they describe. Trickerion's an outlier, for sure.
An assistant is somebody that works for you. Their role is to help you with whatever. An apprentice is not a worker; they are someone who is learning from you - a pupil. But in order to learn, they spend some time on actual hands-on work - they are doing this for the sake of getting experienced. You might pay an apprentice, if you are benevolent, because you know they need to eat. So, the main difference is not practical (you may give money for both and you may benefit from their work), but of the nature of the relationship. The assistant-master relationship is one of labor; the apprentice-master relationship is one of learning. But I agree with you that it would be clearer if they used different icons and words.
Even in the real world, though... at least in Canada... "apprentice" means something in the trade world, and apprentices most certainly get paid. "Intern!" That's maybe a world they could have looked at. It gets even muddier in the expansion, where they introduce a third kind of underling, your protégé!
At 19:48, I am confused. I understand 2 different coloured tricks getting linked. But after that you mentioned 2 same tricks linked gives one shard. But I thought you CANNOT have 2 same tricks on a single card. So does the scenario happen?
@@NightsAroundaTable yep. spotted that. I prefer the Klingon subtitles method as it's all there in one place, but the big thing is that you added the corrections. Some dont :) If I can be critical, I didn't find the rules gremlin thing useful at all, and the swipe noises were a bit loud, but overall, your production is fantastic.
@@GamingRulesVideos Thanks for your fedeback! This vid is a little long in the tooth by now. i've improved my audio processing method so my whooshes are more blended and varied, and i've started to collect any goofs in one place - each game i cover has an errata section on my website (where needed) which cross-links with the video. Here's an example: nightsaroundatable.com/2019/07/15/how-to-play-great-western-trail/#greatwesterntrailaddenda i don't favour the Klingon subtitles method because i know some of my viewers - those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who are watching in noisy environments - rely on the English subtitles (and i spend a lot of time and effort transcribing each of my videos to ensure those are available.)
The Prestige didn't make sense? What was confusing about it? I could understand being a little confused during the middle of the film but the ending reveals the secret and then it makes complete sense. Great video though.
One time in high school creative writing class, i got a bad mark on what i thought was a great story because it had a supernatural twist ending that came out of nowhere, and the teacher said it was unfair to the reader because the world wasn't introduced as a place that had supernatural elements. She considered it "cheating." i feel that way about The Prestige, a little.
@@NightsAroundaTable Oh because of the the Tesla stuff? I can see that. Definitely dipped its toes a bit into some sci-fi elements there. I suppose I was able to suspend my disbelief with that but I can understand why it would feel out of place or "cheating" to some.
This is the first of your videos I have watched. It will not be the last, and I have shared this video with my group who will be playing later this week. Exceptional work. You have my Sub.
Well done! I think... :D I don't have that game yet, but I'll get the reprint incl. all the new expansions whenever it's done. I got Cerebria recently, Mindclash Games most recent heavy game and I must say that rulebook is great if you ask me, so fingers crossed they have learned their lesson and Trickerions revisited rulebook will be just as good! :)
@@NightsAroundaTable I have played it twice in a 2 player game so far. I enjoyed it a lot, even in the basic game already (recommended for the first games, where a couple mechanics are not in play). I wasn't really sold on Inside Out either, but I like how the game looks and it's theme.
Just discovered your game explanations. I watched the Alchemists walk through and now this one. Your explanations are excellent. As suggestion I would consider not including your personal opinions on most things (i.e. "This rule is stupid" etc... ) as those types of comments detract from the learning experience. Someone who has invested time and money into a game doesn't really want to hear that the rules are dumb. Regardless...I am now subscribed, thanks for posting your videos, cheers!
Heeeeelp ! 😉 the 'Guest' Magician (the passiv who was not Performing but with Trick Tile on the Showboard) has become the Thursday Malus or the Sunday Bonus or only the Things for his Trick?
If the guest has anyone in the theatre on a different day, you use the bonus modifiers on the guest's chosen day (not the current performer's). If the guest does not have anyone in the theatre, you use the current performer's bonus modifiers.
Maybe I'm late for this but ... If you get a new trick and you replace an old one with it (you discard a level 1 to place a level 2) and you still have chits from the old one on a theater... what happens? 😢
Wish I had found your channel earlier. Saw you on the Rahdo Tiny Town video. I watch a lot (aka too many) game videos. Yours are the best. Keep it up! Have binge watched most, including the three plus minute ads ahead of many of them. You’re welcome! :)
Why have I never seen this video before? So funny YET.......brilliantly clever in content. I have had this game from date of release, yet just didn't understand the performance rules. Now I get it!! Well done Sir on an excellent video.......excellent work. I can finally introduce this one to my friend! Thank you so much for helping my understanding of this complex beast.
The green magician is clearly playing the Priestess of Mysticism, who was able to see into the future to the as-yet-unreleased Dahlgaard's Academy expansion, and use that game's "rotate trick in any position" power. Magic! (but yes - you're right. That's an illegal placement. Good catch! i'll update the addenda on the website.)
Thank you for this!! We played it last night and this video was very helpful :) I was hesitant to play with the dark alley part but the cards are soooooo good! Sadly, i lost on the tie breaker lol 😂
There’s a huge difference in play length. Anachrony is positively breezy compared to Trickerion. But despite being by the same company, they’re kind of apples to oranges for me. It’s like asking “do you prefer flying by airplane, or eating strawberries?”
The game looks really stunning visually and I'm really appealed by it but....is it worth it? I mean, is the game really good? or just ok? is it worth to make a group of friends learn such a tricky game? Btw, love your videos! :D
@@NightsAroundaTable I'm trying to get to the table Alchemists and it's already a challenge for some friends, I won't image this one xD But I'll give it a try! Again, thank you very much :D
Hi - couple of questions - 1. I thought in a two player/ three player the theatre does not get reduced spaces. 2. Although yourself and a lot of other people have said this, I can't find where in the rules that initiative is reversed for tied players. Thanks for explaining the Yield Modifiers - the wording in the rules is a bit...verbose!
Hiyo! From my original rulebook, page 11, in a callout box 3/4 of the way down the page: "IMPORTANT: IF two or more players finish their turns on the same Fame slot, reverse their Initiative Order when it is next set." You're correct about the theatre. though - all days are available in a 2-player game. Thanks for the correction! i'll add a call-out to my addenda page on the NAaT website.
@@NightsAroundaTable I can't believe I didn't see that - I read so many rule books - and I think sometimes I get 'rule blind' even when it is obviously right there!!! Thanks so much - oh and I LOVE your humor and the videos are of extraordinary quality. Thanks SO much for doing these...
@@justinandmaxgames5472 Thanks!! (It's totally understandable in this case, btw - i actually had to dig for the rule, because it's mentioned a few pages apart from the Round End section where you'd expect it to be. that's why we have the Rules Gremlin!)
Caveat: i like my games complicated, and this one definitely scratches that itch. It has a little bit of that Agricola agony to it, where one wrong move completely dooms your strategy, but you need to kind of embrace the theme and take it in stride if you're going to have a good time. Just keep thinking "The Prestige." It's not a nice magician game. You are mean magicians. You are cutthroat magicians. You're gonna get in each other's faces. i like high player interaction, but i know many people who don't. The action points system is cool, and i think it's the most interesting thing about the game. It's not just placing a worker on a space. It's not even deciding whether to place a big worker or a little worker, a la Viticulture. It's about really mathing out what you need to do, and which workers you need to place where to help you do it. i also quite like the decision-making of where to place your trick tokens in the theatres, because that's where you face the highest risk of getting hosed by your opponents. So i quite like it, enough to have bought the big and little expansions. i just wish more of my friends were up for 4+ hour games! Guess i'll have to wait until my next birthday to play it again...
@@greginfla_1 Weird! i've seen this before... does "worker placement" convey simplicity to you? Like, are only (i dunno) war games allowed to run 4 hours? Why should the mechanic have any bearing on the run time? (although, i suppose if i played a 4+ hour roll n' move, i would off myself.)
I never seen a worker placement game going 4 hrs. Its more of 4x or war games that run that long. Worker placement games have a relatively confined placement options. Even with AP, 2.5 hrs tops. Or at least that’s my experience. Of course i haven’t played Colonist. I am learning Lisboa so lets see if the 2.5 limit is broken.
@@NightsAroundaTable I'm into card-driven adventure games with a minimum amount of lore and intelligent play, plus varying probability shemes. For example The Phantom: The Card game, or Diceborn Heroes.
Very nice video, I'll definitely be watching this again after the Kickstarter arrives. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get the clean white outlines? Does your video editing software have that feature or did you use something else? I always want to do that but Premiere Elements doesn't have that, closest I can get is highlighting with boxes.
Thanks so much! i pause the video, export the frame, import that image into another program (Adobe Animate), draw the outline, apply a subtle glow filter to it, export it as a transparent png, and drop it into the video. Doesn't matter that it's Animate - you could do something similar with Illustrator, Photoshop, Gimp, or your favourite drawing software.
All of them!!! The Mindclash games, Red Raven games, Vindication, Final Frontier games, Oh My Goods! (there is NO great video for that damn game), Underwater Cities... just to name a few... ;)
@@NightsAroundaTable Excellent! I might try to sweet-talk them for you too. I testplayed the new expansion for them and they lent me copies to run at GenCon. It's quite a rough game to get your mind around at first, but then once you get it, it's mostly just a normal worker placement.
Hello there! Congrats for your video! Perfect for players like me who want to understand trickerion better! I just have two more questions! It would be perfect if you could answer them to me! First question: When it comes to the "placing characters" phase, players, one by one, place their characters on board ONE AT A TIME. Got that. What i dont get is this: when it comes to "spending action points" phase... players do their actions all in once? Meaning... first player spends action points for ALL his tokens placed on board, or one by one like in the "placing characters" phase? Second question: A player can't take those square tokens already placed on the trick cards, and place them on the performance cards in the theatre, if he hasn't placed for example an assistant on thursday, so that he takes an action point to place the square token. Right? My question is this: he uses that action point - in order to put the square token on a performance card - during the "spending action points" phase or before the show itself? Thank you very much for reading this. Waiting for your answer!!
"first player spends action points for ALL his tokens placed on board, or one by one like in the 'placing characters' phase?" You place your discs one by one. So at the beginning of a round, there are zero discs on the board. The first player places a disc. There is now one disc on the board. That disc has action points printed on it. The space the player places the disc on also has action points printed on it. Add those two totals together. The available actions in a single location all cost different amounts of action points. First player spends his first disc's action points on as many actions as he can afford with his disc+board total. Then the next player chooses a disc and places it on the board. There are only two discs on the board now. The first one, belonging to the first player, is all used up. The second player adds her disc points + board space points, and spends them on one or more actions in a location. Repeat for all players in player order, until you get back to the first player, who places his second character disc. Et cetera. Does that make sense? Second question: When you place a worker backstage, you can spend your action points on one of two different actions. The first of those actions is to move a trick token from your workshop to a theatre card. That costs 1 action point, and you can repeat that action for as many action points/available trick tokens you have.
Good explanation, but dumb comments. By the way, on minute 15.10, When you prep a trick, you do not spend your components, does that make sence? offcourse it does (also the movie, sadly you didnt get it). You are not paying, spending money, you are just using something you have, and ypu can use it again. When you make vidio, do you "spend forever" your camera, table, or game? I dont think so. Also aprendice and assitant are two completly different words with complete different meanings. I can`t believe you can explain so well the game and don't understand these and a lot of other perfect sense rules.
i buy some wood and metal to build a table and saw for a saw-the-lady-in-half trick, and when i’m finished, i still have an unexhausted pile of wood and metal? And i can use it again to build a linking rings trick, and it’s still not consumed? Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, no.
Anachrony, Cerebria, The Gallerist--all have twice as much set-up as this game. Who's your target audience, if you have to complain about the set-up to get them to stick around? I'd love to see you cover the set-up for a game of chess. Don't forget to chuckle condescendingly when you explain how to know where the king and queen go. You can show your little 'rules gremlin.'
I gave up after the fourth time complaining about the setup and rulebook. I came for a refresher on the game, not to watch someone complain about it...
"Those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who are watching in noisy environments - rely on the English subtitles (and i spend a lot of time and effort transcribing each of my videos to ensure those are available.)" This should be every channel's approach and I'm immensely thankful for the effort you put in this. Although I'm fluent in English, I find it very hard to make complex connections in my head if I don't see something written because it's not my mother-tongue, hence I really struggle without subtitles. Not to mention that every game has some weird names in it and if you, like me, prefer to watch a tutorial before reading the rulebook, those create additional confusion. Lastly, we might not realise, but there's MANY hard of hearing people in the community, they deserve to be included as well!
Now you're making me feel really bad that my last 3 videos were rushed and i didn't have time to transcribe them! :)
@@NightsAroundaTable It's the exception that confirms the rule.
Love love love this tutorial video, well done on taking a complex game, adding an entertaining way of learning it. Keep up the awesome work
Thanks so much!
Best rule explanation video ever! Keep going! 👍
Indeed!
Thanks so much!
This is the best explanation video on TH-cam. My girlfriend Moon and I understood it immediately after watching. Thank you !!!
APPLAUSE~~~ Fabulous performance. This is some serious video magic. This has been very helpful as I learn rules for the game and finally (hopefully) get it to the table next week after owning it for 3 years.
If you use the Dark Alley expansion you get one fewer of every permanent assigment card not just the theatre. That means that you get 2 Theater, 1 Workshop, 1
Market Row, 1 Downtown, 1 Dark Alley in total.
Thanks, Dani! i've updated the card with the correction, and linked to the addenda section on my website (and gave you a shout-out!) :)
Awesome - highly entertaining way of learning the game ...I came to this video having already learnt the game but not played for several months and this was perfect for me ...excellent work
Ric
Dirty little secret: i plan to use my own videos to remind me of how to play games in the future.
Today will be my first time playing Trickerion and your video really helped me to clarify some questions I had!!
This is an excellent tutorial!
Thank you very much for your hard work!
Thanks so much! i hope you really enjoy it.
That was the most entertaining rules explanation video.
I usually fall asleep on rules explanations if I haven't already read the rules before. This is the first time of which that did not happen.
Thanks! i'm the same way - i drift at about the minute-and-a-half mark. Keeping people awake is the goal of my vids!
The quality of this rules explanation is phenomenal!
Thank you!
First time I saw any of your videos, but I love your way of explaining. Very good "how to play". Thanks a lot! 😃
Thanks, Fredrik! Can i interest you in another?
How to Play Fun Board Games, Card Games, and Eurogames
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Not gonna lie, I was with you up until the theatre. :D Up to the workshop I was thinking to myself "that seems logical and easy to grasp" and when we got to the theatre and ESPECIALLY the showtime I got completely confused. I've played complex games in the past so I thought this might be up my alley ... but I'm not so sure anymore.
It might be up your… Dark Alley? :P
Your explanation is clear and your tips are useful. You're a rarity on TH-cam in that your voice is nice, easy to listen to and not in any way annoying. I also like that you had a few jokes to lighten the mood but not too many (and weren't laughing at your own jokes which is super obnoxious). Keep up the great work!
Thank you! Just call me Mr. Usefultips™.
The Prestige made total sense to me. You must have been thinking of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
I'm sure I've commented on this before, but you do a GREAT job explaining boardgames. I believe it was THIS particular explanation of one of my favorite games that brought me to be a supporter of your channel!
Thanks, Paul. And i'm so glad you are!
I am so glad that this video exists, you sir have a gift for rules explanation!
Thanks, Andres! My mother is very proud.
Played my first game yesterday and nailed it thanks to yr video, thank you!
YEAHBOIIIII! Which magician did you play? Dark Alley or no Dark Alley?
@@NightsAroundaTable without the dark alley for this one. Next time though, we’ll be flipping the board to the dark side. We were flying by the 4th round so 2 more’ll be fine, even with the fancy orders/magician powers! Cheers for the work on the explanation - top stuff
Great tutorial, a lot of the rules you chose as confusing rules just made sense to me, but only due to other similar games I've played.
But I'm glad you clarified them for others who may not be as familiar with these mechanics
@@DanielHolding Thanks, Daniel. i don't think i can name any other game where the resources on the board are just representative of resources in the supply, and you're not supposed to take them. And i think i can count on one hand the number of games where the resources you've collected aren't expended when you build the recipes they describe. Trickerion's an outlier, for sure.
Thank you oh great magnificent..........Ryan. Now my copy of Trickerion is more than an illusion, I think.
This video is FANTASTIC! Thanks, and bravo 👏
An assistant is somebody that works for you. Their role is to help you with whatever. An apprentice is not a worker; they are someone who is learning from you - a pupil. But in order to learn, they spend some time on actual hands-on work - they are doing this for the sake of getting experienced. You might pay an apprentice, if you are benevolent, because you know they need to eat. So, the main difference is not practical (you may give money for both and you may benefit from their work), but of the nature of the relationship. The assistant-master relationship is one of labor; the apprentice-master relationship is one of learning. But I agree with you that it would be clearer if they used different icons and words.
Even in the real world, though... at least in Canada... "apprentice" means something in the trade world, and apprentices most certainly get paid. "Intern!" That's maybe a world they could have looked at.
It gets even muddier in the expansion, where they introduce a third kind of underling, your protégé!
At 19:48, I am confused. I understand 2 different coloured tricks getting linked. But after that you mentioned 2 same tricks linked gives one shard. But I thought you CANNOT have 2 same tricks on a single card. So does the scenario happen?
Thanks for this concise rules overview! Playing this again tonight after over a year of not playing it. This was a great way to relearn the game!
My pleasure! i have my vids peeled out into setup guides, too, for when you know the game but can't remember how to put it on the table!
great job. Doing a live stream tonight and need to relearn how to play. So I'm using this video :)
Thanks, Paul. Be my guest! And pay attention to the cards... i made a couple of small goofs.
@@NightsAroundaTable yep. spotted that. I prefer the Klingon subtitles method as it's all there in one place, but the big thing is that you added the corrections. Some dont :)
If I can be critical, I didn't find the rules gremlin thing useful at all, and the swipe noises were a bit loud, but overall, your production is fantastic.
@@GamingRulesVideos Thanks for your fedeback! This vid is a little long in the tooth by now. i've improved my audio processing method so my whooshes are more blended and varied, and i've started to collect any goofs in one place - each game i cover has an errata section on my website (where needed) which cross-links with the video. Here's an example:
nightsaroundatable.com/2019/07/15/how-to-play-great-western-trail/#greatwesterntrailaddenda
i don't favour the Klingon subtitles method because i know some of my viewers - those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who are watching in noisy environments - rely on the English subtitles (and i spend a lot of time and effort transcribing each of my videos to ensure those are available.)
Wow. Best ‘teach’ video I’ve seen. Where have you been all my life? (Well, to be fair, you haven’t been born for a chunk of it, but no matter…).
Hatching fetal schemes, rubbing my little unformed hands together…
According to the Collector's edition rules if you're playing with the Dark Alley, you start with 6 assignment cards not 9. 26:05
Yep - thanks! It's already mentioned in the addenda on the website, and there's a card calling out the error at that point in the video.
@@NightsAroundaTable Ah, sorry! Thanks.
Great video! Keep up the good work ;)
"Abracadouchbag" LMFAO great one
The Prestige didn't make sense? What was confusing about it? I could understand being a little confused during the middle of the film but the ending reveals the secret and then it makes complete sense. Great video though.
One time in high school creative writing class, i got a bad mark on what i thought was a great story because it had a supernatural twist ending that came out of nowhere, and the teacher said it was unfair to the reader because the world wasn't introduced as a place that had supernatural elements. She considered it "cheating." i feel that way about The Prestige, a little.
@@NightsAroundaTable Oh because of the the Tesla stuff? I can see that. Definitely dipped its toes a bit into some sci-fi elements there. I suppose I was able to suspend my disbelief with that but I can understand why it would feel out of place or "cheating" to some.
@@dsweet5273 Yeah - the whole climax/explanation. But i don't want to annoy anyone who hasn't seen it.
Excellent work! Excellent explanation! Keep uploading....!
Great presentation overall. I'm of course talking about the game itself.
That "sorry" at the end of the video was so Canadian, I just grew moose antlers.
Let the contagion spread far and wide!
Great vid! Thanks for it! Rules were a bit of a headache! 😂
This is the first of your videos I have watched. It will not be the last, and I have shared this video with my group who will be playing later this week. Exceptional work. You have my Sub.
And my axe!
Got me with the blueray! lol
A bit too much snark (towards the game) for my taste, but a great explanation of the way it plays. A very solid explanation video. Well done.
Thanks! i snark because i love. It's sibling snark.
It's just the right amount of snark and fun, made me watch the whole thing.
That was actually hilarious on top of being a great teach
Well done! I think... :D
I don't have that game yet, but I'll get the reprint incl. all the new expansions whenever it's done. I got Cerebria recently, Mindclash Games most recent heavy game and I must say that rulebook is great if you ask me, so fingers crossed they have learned their lesson and Trickerions revisited rulebook will be just as good! :)
Have you played Cerebria yet? i took a pass on it. Might have been the theme or the artwork? Wasn't a huge fan of Inside Out. Let me know how it is!
@@NightsAroundaTable I have played it twice in a 2 player game so far. I enjoyed it a lot, even in the basic game already (recommended for the first games, where a couple mechanics are not in play). I wasn't really sold on Inside Out either, but I like how the game looks and it's theme.
Hey this video was amazing, you are highly entertaining, but wow there is SO MUCH going on!
Thank you so much! Yes - it can be overwhelming, for sure. Trickerion is a brain workout.
Just discovered your game explanations. I watched the Alchemists walk through and now this one. Your explanations are excellent. As suggestion I would consider not including your personal opinions on most things (i.e. "This rule is stupid" etc... ) as those types of comments detract from the learning experience. Someone who has invested time and money into a game doesn't really want to hear that the rules are dumb. Regardless...I am now subscribed, thanks for posting your videos, cheers!
Thanks! When you see the Rules Gremlin, think of it more as a warning that a certain aspect of the game may not work as expected.
Heeeeelp ! 😉 the 'Guest' Magician (the passiv who was not Performing but with Trick Tile on the Showboard) has become the Thursday Malus or the Sunday Bonus or only the Things for his Trick?
If the guest has anyone in the theatre on a different day, you use the bonus modifiers on the guest's chosen day (not the current performer's). If the guest does not have anyone in the theatre, you use the current performer's bonus modifiers.
Maybe I'm late for this but ...
If you get a new trick and you replace an old one with it (you discard a level 1 to place a level 2) and you still have chits from the old one on a theater... what happens? 😢
Without looking it up, i believe they clear off the card and come back to you. They don’t transfer over to the new trick.
@Nights Around a Table but what if they are already in a theater placed and ready to be performed? Are they lost too?
Wish I had found your channel earlier. Saw you on the Rahdo Tiny Town video. I watch a lot (aka too many) game videos. Yours are the best. Keep it up! Have binge watched most, including the three plus minute ads ahead of many of them. You’re welcome! :)
ADS?? How.... how DARE you! ;)
Why have I never seen this video before? So funny YET.......brilliantly clever in content.
I have had this game from date of release, yet just didn't understand the performance rules. Now I get it!!
Well done Sir on an excellent video.......excellent work. I can finally introduce this one to my friend!
Thank you so much for helping my understanding of this complex beast.
So nice! Thanks, Steve. i really enjoy this game. The length and complexity of it mean i generally only get to play it on my birthday.
Hope your birthday isn't 29th February.......cor.....every 4th year....lol.
@@TheDiceman56 Merely FEELS like it.
Shouldn't the corner of the trick marker for the Burning Mummy trick at 21:06 been turned to the 'Escape' icon in its circle?
The green magician is clearly playing the Priestess of Mysticism, who was able to see into the future to the as-yet-unreleased Dahlgaard's Academy expansion, and use that game's "rotate trick in any position" power. Magic!
(but yes - you're right. That's an illegal placement. Good catch! i'll update the addenda on the website.)
Thank you for this!! We played it last night and this video was very helpful :) I was hesitant to play with the dark alley part but the cards are soooooo good! Sadly, i lost on the tie breaker lol 😂
OH MAN! Such a beefy game to lose in a tie. Oh well. Rack 'em up and demand a rematch!
the best rule explanation video i've ever seen!
Do you prefer trickerion or anachrony?
There’s a huge difference in play length. Anachrony is positively breezy compared to Trickerion. But despite being by the same company, they’re kind of apples to oranges for me. It’s like asking “do you prefer flying by airplane, or eating strawberries?”
The game looks really stunning visually and I'm really appealed by it but....is it worth it? I mean, is the game really good? or just ok? is it worth to make a group of friends learn such a tricky game?
Btw, love your videos! :D
Thanks, Nicolò
! i really, really like it. i have a few friends who do too, thank goodness, but it's definitely challenging to get to the table.
@@NightsAroundaTable I'm trying to get to the table Alchemists and it's already a challenge for some friends, I won't image this one xD But I'll give it a try!
Again, thank you very much :D
Thank you so much for this entertaining video!
Love the way you’re rolled! Thank you!
Best comment ever.
amazing explanation! instant suscribe! thank you
Hi - couple of questions - 1. I thought in a two player/ three player the theatre does not get reduced spaces. 2. Although yourself and a lot of other people have said this, I can't find where in the rules that initiative is reversed for tied players. Thanks for explaining the Yield Modifiers - the wording in the rules is a bit...verbose!
Hiyo! From my original rulebook, page 11, in a callout box 3/4 of the way down the page:
"IMPORTANT: IF two or more players finish their turns on the same Fame slot, reverse their Initiative Order when it is next set."
You're correct about the theatre. though - all days are available in a 2-player game. Thanks for the correction! i'll add a call-out to my addenda page on the NAaT website.
Ok - got it!
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@@NightsAroundaTable I can't believe I didn't see that - I read so many rule books - and I think sometimes I get 'rule blind' even when it is obviously right there!!! Thanks so much - oh and I LOVE your humor and the videos are of extraordinary quality. Thanks SO much for doing these...
@@justinandmaxgames5472 Thanks!! (It's totally understandable in this case, btw - i actually had to dig for the rule, because it's mentioned a few pages apart from the Round End section where you'd expect it to be. that's why we have the Rules Gremlin!)
Super fun video, thanks for giving it your all.
So what did think of it? How does it compare to other worker placement?
Caveat: i like my games complicated, and this one definitely scratches that itch. It has a little bit of that Agricola agony to it, where one wrong move completely dooms your strategy, but you need to kind of embrace the theme and take it in stride if you're going to have a good time. Just keep thinking "The Prestige." It's not a nice magician game. You are mean magicians. You are cutthroat magicians. You're gonna get in each other's faces. i like high player interaction, but i know many people who don't.
The action points system is cool, and i think it's the most interesting thing about the game. It's not just placing a worker on a space. It's not even deciding whether to place a big worker or a little worker, a la Viticulture. It's about really mathing out what you need to do, and which workers you need to place where to help you do it. i also quite like the decision-making of where to place your trick tokens in the theatres, because that's where you face the highest risk of getting hosed by your opponents.
So i quite like it, enough to have bought the big and little expansions. i just wish more of my friends were up for 4+ hour games! Guess i'll have to wait until my next birthday to play it again...
4 plus hours ... worker placement game, oh my.
@@greginfla_1 Weird! i've seen this before... does "worker placement" convey simplicity to you? Like, are only (i dunno) war games allowed to run 4 hours? Why should the mechanic have any bearing on the run time?
(although, i suppose if i played a 4+ hour roll n' move, i would off myself.)
I never seen a worker placement game going 4 hrs. Its more of 4x or war games that run that long. Worker placement games have a relatively confined placement options. Even with AP, 2.5 hrs tops. Or at least that’s my experience. Of course i haven’t played Colonist. I am learning Lisboa so lets see if the 2.5 limit is broken.
@@greginfla_1 Oooh - Lisboa! Been on my list for a while, but mostly because the box is heavy. ;)
Not my cup of tea but good video. Saves me shelf space for such a huge box..
TOTALLY not everyone's idea of fun, and i get that. What are you into?
@@NightsAroundaTable I'm into card-driven adventure games with a minimum amount of lore and intelligent play, plus varying probability shemes. For example The Phantom: The Card game, or Diceborn Heroes.
@@kosterix123 i don't know either of those! Would Mage Knight fit the bill?
@@NightsAroundaTable No. Do you want me to google them for you?
@@kosterix123 lol rude
I'm so literate that I watch Dude, Where's My Car? with the subtitles on.
There's an exquisite poetry to the screenplay in its written form.
This was very clear and funny !!! I am just sad I didnt get "The prestige" DVD at the end :)
This is perfect. Just a minor issue dani82 pointed out, but it was a perfect how to play for a quite tricky game.
Very helpful, thank you 🙏
Great video, thank you.
Very nice video, I'll definitely be watching this again after the Kickstarter arrives. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get the clean white outlines? Does your video editing software have that feature or did you use something else? I always want to do that but Premiere Elements doesn't have that, closest I can get is highlighting with boxes.
Thanks so much! i pause the video, export the frame, import that image into another program (Adobe Animate), draw the outline, apply a subtle glow filter to it, export it as a transparent png, and drop it into the video. Doesn't matter that it's Animate - you could do something similar with Illustrator, Photoshop, Gimp, or your favourite drawing software.
Nights Around a Table That makes a lot of sense, I can’t believe I never thought about that. Thanks for the tip!
You really really need to make a ton more how to play videos. You're the best I've ever seen.
Aw - thanks, Sara! i take requests!
All of them!!! The Mindclash games, Red Raven games, Vindication, Final Frontier games, Oh My Goods! (there is NO great video for that damn game), Underwater Cities... just to name a few... ;)
@@saratippey769 i've requested Anachrony from Mindclash... let's see if they send it over. i could definitely tackle Oh My Goods! for you.
@@NightsAroundaTable Excellent! I might try to sweet-talk them for you too. I testplayed the new expansion for them and they lent me copies to run at GenCon. It's quite a rough game to get your mind around at first, but then once you get it, it's mostly just a normal worker placement.
@@saratippey769 That describes so many so-called heavy games though, doesn't it?
Hello there! Congrats for your video! Perfect for players like me who want to understand trickerion better! I just have two more questions! It would be perfect if you could answer them to me! First question: When it comes to the "placing characters" phase, players, one by one, place their characters on board ONE AT A TIME. Got that. What i dont get is this: when it comes to "spending action points" phase... players do their actions all in once? Meaning... first player spends action points for ALL his tokens placed on board, or one by one like in the "placing characters" phase?
Second question: A player can't take those square tokens already placed on the trick cards, and place them on the performance cards in the theatre, if he hasn't placed for example an assistant on thursday, so that he takes an action point to place the square token. Right? My question is this: he uses that action point - in order to put the square token on a performance card - during the "spending action points" phase or before the show itself? Thank you very much for reading this. Waiting for your answer!!
"first player spends action points for ALL his tokens placed on board, or one by one like in the 'placing characters' phase?"
You place your discs one by one. So at the beginning of a round, there are zero discs on the board. The first player places a disc. There is now one disc on the board. That disc has action points printed on it. The space the player places the disc on also has action points printed on it. Add those two totals together.
The available actions in a single location all cost different amounts of action points. First player spends his first disc's action points on as many actions as he can afford with his disc+board total.
Then the next player chooses a disc and places it on the board. There are only two discs on the board now. The first one, belonging to the first player, is all used up. The second player adds her disc points + board space points, and spends them on one or more actions in a location. Repeat for all players in player order, until you get back to the first player, who places his second character disc. Et cetera. Does that make sense?
Second question: When you place a worker backstage, you can spend your action points on one of two different actions. The first of those actions is to move a trick token from your workshop to a theatre card. That costs 1 action point, and you can repeat that action for as many action points/available trick tokens you have.
Makes perfect sense!! Thank you so much!!
fantastic rules video
Thanks, Jacob!
Good explanation, but dumb comments. By the way, on minute 15.10, When you prep a trick, you do not spend your components, does that make sence? offcourse it does (also the movie, sadly you didnt get it). You are not paying, spending money, you are just using something you have, and ypu can use it again. When you make vidio, do you "spend forever" your camera, table, or game? I dont think so.
Also aprendice and assitant are two completly different words with complete different meanings. I can`t believe you can explain so well the game and don't understand these and a lot of other perfect sense rules.
i buy some wood and metal to build a table and saw for a saw-the-lady-in-half trick, and when i’m finished, i still have an unexhausted pile of wood and metal? And i can use it again to build a linking rings trick, and it’s still not consumed? Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, no.
I think this is the worse rule book “Trickerion” I’ve ever had in my hands !
Some more examples and explanations would of helped out a lot .
Anachrony, Cerebria, The Gallerist--all have twice as much set-up as this game. Who's your target audience, if you have to complain about the set-up to get them to stick around? I'd love to see you cover the set-up for a game of chess. Don't forget to chuckle condescendingly when you explain how to know where the king and queen go. You can show your little 'rules gremlin.'
Great rules video... I'll be checking your channel whenever I need a reference.
Please do anachrony
i haven't played it! But it's pinging loudly on my radar.
Dam this game is a bit of a mess. Glad I watched this before buying it. thanks
Excellent tutorial. My type of humor! However, you are the jerk sir for your insulting of The Prestige! Nothing confusing about it! 😜🎩
Hilarious
I gave up after the fourth time complaining about the setup and rulebook. I came for a refresher on the game, not to watch someone complain about it...
Cool story. i hope you find a better video.
The Prestige made sense. Get smarter.
There's no such thing as "too hairy" in a Mindclash. The basic version is there to help you learn the full version. I don't like your tone.