Thank you so very much your time considerable time and effort in creating this series. I was utterly intimidated by this game, but so hungry to learn it, and your videos really helped me eat the elephant. In fact, as I listened, I wrote my own step by step player aid (as I found the ones in the game or online severely lacking) and now I'm getting a handle on it and loving it. Your articulation, humour and the visuals all made for an entertaining and easily digestible guide. Just amazing.
Just used this series as a refresher going into my second play after a year away from the game. Thank you so much for this! I got tired of reading rulebooks for a bit and wanted to learn using a video... you delivered!
Hands down the best How to Play video on TH-cam. Your work should be a go to for content creators on how to teach and present complex boardgame. I'm more amazed by the quality and thought that was put into your video than the actual game itself.
That was one of the best explanation videos I’ve ever watched and I’ve watch hundreds! Is there anyway you could make another video of all the characters and explain each of their skills?
Thanks for the feedback, I'm always glad to hear that the videos are useful to some. And yes - they're unlikely to be the only Oathsworn content I create. Though, the official kickstarter updates have done such a great job of exploring the character classes already. No doubt there'll be lots of new TH-cam content when the game comes out - can't wait!
Amazing serie of videos, very well done and perfectly explained. I like the way you present theory then practical combat example. You sense of humor is also delightful. Very well done, great use of blender and HitFilm too. I'm amazed by the quality of your production.
2:40 . As of 2.0, you still get to finish friendly effects, so tou would still gain a potential battle token when breaking a location, if I rexall correctly. Thanks for an awesome series! 3:40 . 2.0 also changed that you calcumate the movement points it takes, not the range, so the broodmother would not move towards the exile. This is due to it being easy in 1.0 to game the boss by using water tiles, forcing it to not attack anything in many situations by just stopping short. 5:40 Fire is now resolved at the end phase.
Thanks. Kudos to Shadowborne for spending valuable time to help me out, from the start. (I've reached out to other board game companies, offering to create content for free, and received no reply).
I'll echo everyone else here: This was a wonderful series. Thank you for getting me more excited for this game, and also giving me the best explanation of the mechanics yet!
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 I think so! Your explanations were so good that I was beating you to your explanations of what would happen during movement or a card draw. :)
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 ohh you got that right! Really looking forward to this...! And again, you are really really a great 'producer' or what it can be called :)
I finally got around to watching these all the way through and they're really excellent! There were several times I thought you were describing something wrongly but found when I checked the rules, you were correct! Usually it was something I overlooked in print even though I read it several times. Everything is SO much easier to follow in the format you have presented!
one of the best rules videos i ever seen. detailed playthrough and a beautifully made video made this very easy to understand what was going on, you need more subscribers for sure. hope to see of you in the future!!
I just watched this series and it’s hands down the best and most clear explanation of any game mechanics I’ve seen to date and was the defining factor in my deciding to play this game. I’d love if you could continue with this approach to bigger games. A Frosthaven one would be fantastic.
Yeah, Shadowborne have been so helpful and supportive as I worked on these, and it was fantastic to get their shout out, and then appreciation from the community. Thanks!
Have my copy and just played the first scenario. Your series was a GREAT help with the rules and gameplay. I also enjoyed your humor a lot! Excellent work.
A very informative, entertaining and polished tutorial series. I really hope you’ll do more of these for other games. Other creators could learn a lot from you.
Outstanding video series. Just perfect the way you chunked it up into 6 different videos as it would have ben too overwhelming to do it all in one. I will be reviewing these again once my game arrives hopefully in the next month or two. Very excited to play now!
Appreciated the professionalism and content (and humor) of the series. Great job. Only downside is now I am champing at the bit to get the game on the table!!!!
This is simply amazing and one thumb up cannot do it a justice. Now I feel much better prepared to read the rulebook :) Jokes aside, I love the whole. Thank you, super useful and very well made.
Thanks for making this amazingly well produced series... Wow, it was very fun to watch and of course very informative to get the best starting chance of understanding the game 👍👍👍🥳🥳🥳🤯🤯🤯🙏👏👏 [Edit] BTW. I loved the 'arrow to the knees' joke 😂
Thanks so much for this wonderful series. I only have one real quibble is that the way the videos are cut you end up skipping over the battleflow steps where cards get rotated/returned to hand. You covered the mechanics back in Part 3, but it would have been nice to see the actual phase taking place during the subsequent parts. Everything else was brilliant.
I am sad that it is over... You can make more Vids about the characters? Whould be totally awesome. I love your animation skills. Next Ideas: Monster Hunter, Gloomhaven/Frosthaven, Valor and Villany, Spirit Island If u keep up this amazing work maybe further kickstarter companys will contact you for this kind of videos. 😁
At first, amazing video series. I did greatly enjoy it; very refreshing after the study of the rulebooks. One question arose while watching, that never accured while reading. Maybe you have an answer. Imagine your Free Company has had some bad luck: One or more unconscious Oathsworn while winning one encounter, getting ambushed on the following with some Injury Cards. Are you allowed to play Interrupt Abilities in the ensuing Encounter Phase without playing the Injury Cards first? The wording in the Rulebook may suggest that you can, because it's not your turn. But it's not clear for me. Thanks for your thoughts.
Good question. The requirement to play injury cards only applies to the Oathsworn Phase (and only to your first turn of each round). So you're right: it won't affect Interrupt Abilities (or playing ability cards for their Defense value), which aren't part of your turn. Once the game has been released, the community will hopefully produce an FAQ, to help with clarifying such subtleties.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 Thanks for your answer, glad that I wasn't far off. An FAQ would be nice - spoiler-save of course. I think the community will get to that. Have a great day! The waiting for the game gets excruciating, though 🤪
All 6 of these videos are incredible! I am so glad I watched them, and I can't wait to get this game. Any news on what the Oathsworn logo teased recently means?
I'm glad the videos were helpful. If I had to guess, I'd predict that a reprint of the game will be Shadowborne's next big project, after the game delivers.
Just wow! So good and easy to follow. Now, I would like to see some making of tutorials with Davinci Resolve. How do you plan those videos? How long didi it take you?
Well, you're right that minions don't *activate* (i.e. move and attack) until the Encounter Phase. But breaking a location will trigger the next Stage Card, which usually says "Release the Brood". Thanks for the feedback.
Just to be sure - breaking the 4th die on the Brood Mother advances the Reaction Cards to the next stage - however is the immediate reaction from her unchanged vs before (ie the Stege 2 card that was face up prior ot the die being broken), or is the reaction card replaced with a new unknown one from Stage 3?
@03:50 the broodmother is just 2 movement away from the ursus and 4 movement away from the exile. Shadowborne Games confirmed in a bgg thread, that the extra movement created by water is included in the calculation. Shouldn't the broodmother go to the ursus? Do I miss something? maybe you could help me understand? I will play my first session in 2 days. Without your help I would have made a ton of mistakes. Thanks so much for your videos!!
Yes, unfortunately that's an error in the video. All corrections have been listed in the video description. Apologies for the inconvenience. Good luck in the deepwood!
At 2ish minutes you reroll a miss into a critical. That also means you should have drawn an extra card for the critical roll correct? (Obviously you didn't need it for anything in the example)
Actually the redraw wasn't a critical (as it didn't have the squiggly brackets). White Might Cards include both an ordinary 2, and a critical (2). But you are correct that, if it had been a critical, I would have drawn an additional card.
I have a question about using the white cards. After you used however many you decided to use, do you shuffle them after you put them back into their area?
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 you respond so quickly and I really appreciate that. I just got this game a few months ago and was having the hardest time learning this game until I found you. I thank you, I will continue to ask questions on your videos as they come up
Thanks for the feedback and good luck with the game - it's well worth the effort. BTW, Might cards aren't covered very well in the video, but the rulebook should help.@@BigBlack20
No, injuries are permanent, and stay with you for the rest of the campaign. (Unless you can discover a way of getting rid of them. For example, the Free Company Trait "Field Medic"). This game is no stroll in the forest!
One thing I remember reporting as being ambiguous from an earlier rulebook draft was if an enemy with one movement point could enter a water tile. Since you have the final version, do you happen to know the answer?
Hi Jesse, yes in the finalized rulebook it takes 2 movement to enter a water tile, and if an enemy has only one movement point, they'll simply stop, before entering the tile. (Their final movement point is lost). Hope this helps to clarify.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 Yep that's great thanks! They said they were gunna fix it, but I was just curious what they decided in the end. Thanks for the exceptional videos! Even to those of us who read the rules, these are a great refresher! Out of curiosity, did you sign up to be a playtester, or will you also be going in mostly blind?
@@JesseAStern Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed the vids. I wasn't a playtester, and I've avoided any TH-cam videos which showcase the story part, so I'll be going in completely blind (just the way I like it!)
Thank you very much for these very helpful and comprehensive videos. You may like to know that you have persuaded me to part with real cash to buy a copy of the game. Cheers !!
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. It was correct when I made the video (Oathsworn 1.0), but the reprint (Oathsworn 2.0) changed a few rules, including that one. I'll add a note in the description.
Congratulations for such a well done series. Very helpful and inspiring. Made the waiting even more painful!
Thanks, and congrats on reaching the end. I'm looking forward to it, too. At least we'll be able to hit the ground running, when it does arrive.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 😂😂😂
Thank you so very much your time considerable time and effort in creating this series. I was utterly intimidated by this game, but so hungry to learn it, and your videos really helped me eat the elephant. In fact, as I listened, I wrote my own step by step player aid (as I found the ones in the game or online severely lacking) and now I'm getting a handle on it and loving it.
Your articulation, humour and the visuals all made for an entertaining and easily digestible guide. Just amazing.
Thanks Paul. Nice of you to say, and I'm glad it was helpful. Fare well on the wire road!
Just used this series as a refresher going into my second play after a year away from the game. Thank you so much for this! I got tired of reading rulebooks for a bit and wanted to learn using a video... you delivered!
Excellent, excellent series. It's amazing how much care and work went into it! Thanks a lot - love it.
Hands down the best How to Play video on TH-cam. Your work should be a go to for content creators on how to teach and present complex boardgame. I'm more amazed by the quality and thought that was put into your video than the actual game itself.
Wow, high praise indeed - thanks for the encouragement!
That was one of the best explanation videos I’ve ever watched and I’ve watch hundreds! Is there anyway you could make another video of all the characters and explain each of their skills?
Thanks for the feedback, I'm always glad to hear that the videos are useful to some. And yes - they're unlikely to be the only Oathsworn content I create. Though, the official kickstarter updates have done such a great job of exploring the character classes already. No doubt there'll be lots of new TH-cam content when the game comes out - can't wait!
Most amazing tutorial series I have ever seen. So creative , polished and instructive. Well done and thank you!
Amazing serie of videos, very well done and perfectly explained. I like the way you present theory then practical combat example. You sense of humor is also delightful. Very well done, great use of blender and HitFilm too. I'm amazed by the quality of your production.
Thanks. I see some cool HitFilm and VFX adventures on your channel, too - nice!
2:40 . As of 2.0, you still get to finish friendly effects, so tou would still gain a potential battle token when breaking a location, if I rexall correctly.
Thanks for an awesome series!
3:40 . 2.0 also changed that you calcumate the movement points it takes, not the range, so the broodmother would not move towards the exile. This is due to it being easy in 1.0 to game the boss by using water tiles, forcing it to not attack anything in many situations by just stopping short.
5:40 Fire is now resolved at the end phase.
Very impressive work! I hope game designers hire you to make tutorial videos for board games.
Thanks. Kudos to Shadowborne for spending valuable time to help me out, from the start. (I've reached out to other board game companies, offering to create content for free, and received no reply).
I'll echo everyone else here: This was a wonderful series. Thank you for getting me more excited for this game, and also giving me the best explanation of the mechanics yet!
Thanks. Hopefully it will help people jump straight into chapter one, when the game lands in 2022.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 I think so! Your explanations were so good that I was beating you to your explanations of what would happen during movement or a card draw. :)
Just Rewatched the series... AWESOME!
Thanks. Though I now agree with others who have pointed out that the damn videos have made the wait even longer!
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 ohh you got that right! Really looking forward to this...! And again, you are really really a great 'producer' or what it can be called :)
Thank you a lot! I am preparing our first session today. Your videos were extremely helpful.
I finally got around to watching these all the way through and they're really excellent!
There were several times I thought you were describing something wrongly but found when I checked the rules, you were correct! Usually it was something I overlooked in print even though I read it several times. Everything is SO much easier to follow in the format you have presented!
Thanks, and congrats on watching the lot - it's a marathon. Shadowborne Games helped me iron out errors, which was super helpful. Happy hunting.
Great series of videos. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make them.
Really looking forward to getting my copy of Oathsworn.
Amazing tutorials mate. Thank you! Just got my second edition standee version and am having a blast following along with you.
Amazing work. Look forward to any future instructional videos you may do.
This series was brilliant. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to produce these. Absolutely invaluable.
one of the best rules videos i ever seen. detailed playthrough and a beautifully made video made this very easy to understand what was going on, you need more subscribers for sure. hope to see of you in the future!!
High high quality set of instructional videos here. I enjoyed all 6 tutorials. Than you! Now I'm off to my first ever Oathsworn game,. Wish me luck.
This was sooo crisp and clear and good Thank you so much for making this
This has reignited my excitement for this game. Great video tutorial!
I just watched this series and it’s hands down the best and most clear explanation of any game mechanics I’ve seen to date and was the defining factor in my deciding to play this game. I’d love if you could continue with this approach to bigger games. A Frosthaven one would be fantastic.
Thanks for the feedback. BTW, Paul Grogan has made a fantastic Frosthaven series. Amongst others.
Great series! I'm so happy to see you get recognition from Shadowborne Games in their new update!
Yeah, Shadowborne have been so helpful and supportive as I worked on these, and it was fantastic to get their shout out, and then appreciation from the community. Thanks!
This was really enjoyable and informative. I forgot 4 videos ago that this was even a tutorial of sorts.
Thanks! I think the gameplay is _much_ more fun than I managed to convey in these videos.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 Well I sure hope I miss less often then you showcased!
Absolutely amazing videos, the best I’ve ever seen for a tutorial. Thank you so much!
Have my copy and just played the first scenario. Your series was a GREAT help with the rules and gameplay. I also enjoyed your humor a lot! Excellent work.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! So informational for the game as a whole AND hilarious comedy expertly woven into each episode! BRAVO MATE!!!
The Kiwi sense of humour is why Aussies (at least those who couldn't give a rat's about rugby) love Kiwis. =)
A very informative, entertaining and polished tutorial series. I really hope you’ll do more of these for other games. Other creators could learn a lot from you.
Great job! Big apreciate for what you have done for us:)
Outstanding video series. Just perfect the way you chunked it up into 6 different videos as it would have ben too overwhelming to do it all in one. I will be reviewing these again once my game arrives hopefully in the next month or two. Very excited to play now!
Great production and clear explanation. Exactly what I wanted. This must have taken quite a while to make but I appreciate you doing it.
THE best instructional videos I’ve ever seen! Many thanks for all your hard work.
AMAZING video series, thank you so much. Im so excited to finally play this EPIC game :)
Yeah, epic is the word. It's cool to hear how many people are really looking forward to diving into the Deepwood.
Fabulous series, so extremely helpful!
Found my way here by way of the reprint and the companion app. Thanks for helping me.
Unbelievably good series
Appreciated the professionalism and content (and humor) of the series. Great job. Only downside is now I am champing at the bit to get the game on the table!!!!
Me too! I reckon that's a pretty good problem to have.
Thank you very much for this series!
Outstanding work! Thank you!
Thank you very much for this series. : )
Awesome series - highly recommend!😃
Hell, what an AMAZING series! So Gold production quality.
Thanks, glad it was helpful.
This is simply amazing and one thumb up cannot do it a justice. Now I feel much better prepared to read the rulebook :)
Jokes aside, I love the whole. Thank you, super useful and very well made.
Thank you so much for this series. Not sure if another tutorial could top this. Really well done. I am strongly considering getting this game :)
This series was great. Now to wait until Oct 2023 for my game to arrive.
Thanks for watching & commenting, and good luck with the wait. :-)
This series was very well done. Thank you.
Great series, thank you!
Wow, crystal clear and very entertaining 😅
Thanks for these great videos! Will be very helpful to learn the rules :)
Absolutely fantastic stuff! Can't wait for you to make more!
Really great series! Very professional and excellent all the way around. Earned a Sub!
Incredibly well made series thankyou
Thanks for making this amazingly well produced series... Wow, it was very fun to watch and of course very informative to get the best starting chance of understanding the game 👍👍👍🥳🥳🥳🤯🤯🤯🙏👏👏
[Edit] BTW. I loved the 'arrow to the knees' joke 😂
Thanks. Hopefully it will make people's first game a bit easier. Fingers crossed for fewer misses!
This is just perfect thanks a lot !
Dude - this is sooo good!
Phantastic series, very well done. Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated.
Fantastic videos. Thank you
Brilliant series, thank you so much,
Congrats on watching the whole lot!
Thanks a lot, loved it !
Thanks so much for this wonderful series. I only have one real quibble is that the way the videos are cut you end up skipping over the battleflow steps where cards get rotated/returned to hand. You covered the mechanics back in Part 3, but it would have been nice to see the actual phase taking place during the subsequent parts.
Everything else was brilliant.
Very well done! Clear and well presented.
Thanks for these videos. Which game do you enjoy more - Oathsworn or Drunagor ?
Brilliant tuition video. Probably the best I have seen and definitely the best produced. And funny. Well done. Any more to come?
Thanks. I haven't decided what I'll do next.
What? Only 6 video's? Surely there is more to learn about Oahtsworn!.....
I know, right?! The muppet who created these was so lazy, he skipped an entire rulebook!
I am sad that it is over... You can make more Vids about the characters? Whould be totally awesome. I love your animation skills.
Next Ideas: Monster Hunter, Gloomhaven/Frosthaven, Valor and Villany, Spirit Island
If u keep up this amazing work maybe further kickstarter companys will contact you for this kind of videos. 😁
Yes, I'm bound to make more board game content. Thanks for watching.
At first, amazing video series. I did greatly enjoy it; very refreshing after the study of the rulebooks.
One question arose while watching, that never accured while reading. Maybe you have an answer.
Imagine your Free Company has had some bad luck: One or more unconscious Oathsworn while winning one encounter, getting ambushed on the following with some Injury Cards.
Are you allowed to play Interrupt Abilities in the ensuing Encounter Phase without playing the Injury Cards first?
The wording in the Rulebook may suggest that you can, because it's not your turn. But it's not clear for me.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Good question. The requirement to play injury cards only applies to the Oathsworn Phase (and only to your first turn of each round). So you're right: it won't affect Interrupt Abilities (or playing ability cards for their Defense value), which aren't part of your turn. Once the game has been released, the community will hopefully produce an FAQ, to help with clarifying such subtleties.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 Thanks for your answer, glad that I wasn't far off. An FAQ would be nice - spoiler-save of course. I think the community will get to that.
Have a great day! The waiting for the game gets excruciating, though 🤪
This was the best!
Best teaching ever! 👊
How long did it take to create these videos?🤔
Haha, way too long! 😛I chipped away at them for several months.
Great series! Would give 2 thumbs ☝.
Nice job on the video buddy. Publishers should have you on the payroll.
Funniest kiwi award 🏅
All 6 of these videos are incredible! I am so glad I watched them, and I can't wait to get this game. Any news on what the Oathsworn logo teased recently means?
I'm glad the videos were helpful. If I had to guess, I'd predict that a reprint of the game will be Shadowborne's next big project, after the game delivers.
Incredible series, it makes me sad I didn't back the game haha!
Fortunately, a reprint is expected later this year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadowborne-games/oathsworn-into-the-deepwood-second-printing
Just wow! So good and easy to follow. Now, I would like to see some making of tutorials with Davinci Resolve. How do you plan those videos? How long didi it take you?
Not gonna lie, they were time-consuming to make. Fun, though. And as an added bonus, I now know the Oathsworn rules _really_ well!
I thought breaking a dice didnt spread the brood, i mustve played it wrong then...anyways great videos! Keep it up!
Well, you're right that minions don't *activate* (i.e. move and attack) until the Encounter Phase. But breaking a location will trigger the next Stage Card, which usually says "Release the Brood". Thanks for the feedback.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 yeh, i guessed as much. Should have had more rats around then 😆oh well
Just to be sure - breaking the 4th die on the Brood Mother advances the Reaction Cards to the next stage - however is the immediate reaction from her unchanged vs before (ie the Stege 2 card that was face up prior ot the die being broken), or is the reaction card replaced with a new unknown one from Stage 3?
The second option. Advancing the Stage deck can reveal a brand new card, and an unanticipated reaction.
@03:50 the broodmother is just 2 movement away from the ursus and 4 movement away from the exile. Shadowborne Games confirmed in a bgg thread, that the extra movement created by water is included in the calculation. Shouldn't the broodmother go to the ursus? Do I miss something? maybe you could help me understand? I will play my first session in 2 days. Without your help I would have made a ton of mistakes. Thanks so much for your videos!!
Sorry I found it in your clarifications!! thanks :)
Yes, unfortunately that's an error in the video. All corrections have been listed in the video description. Apologies for the inconvenience. Good luck in the deepwood!
So after killing the brood mother the remaining giant rats on the board just despawn? No need to kill them?
At 2ish minutes you reroll a miss into a critical. That also means you should have drawn an extra card for the critical roll correct? (Obviously you didn't need it for anything in the example)
Actually the redraw wasn't a critical (as it didn't have the squiggly brackets). White Might Cards include both an ordinary 2, and a critical (2). But you are correct that, if it had been a critical, I would have drawn an additional card.
I have a question about using the white cards. After you used however many you decided to use, do you shuffle them after you put them back into their area?
You only shuffle might cards when you refresh the deck.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 and I assume you refresh the deck at the beginning of your turn right?
Nope, just when the deck runs out of cards. (Or a game effect says "Refresh Might Decks")@@BigBlack20
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 you respond so quickly and I really appreciate that. I just got this game a few months ago and was having the hardest time learning this game until I found you. I thank you, I will continue to ask questions on your videos as they come up
Thanks for the feedback and good luck with the game - it's well worth the effort. BTW, Might cards aren't covered very well in the video, but the rulebook should help.@@BigBlack20
On the broodmother's last move, why didn't she turn to face the warbear?
So injury cards are only for the next encounter right? Not permanent?
No, injuries are permanent, and stay with you for the rest of the campaign. (Unless you can discover a way of getting rid of them. For example, the Free Company Trait "Field Medic"). This game is no stroll in the forest!
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 wow hardcore! So if you have 3 injury cards, all 3 gotta be played before you can do anything?😳 I’m liking it!
One thing I remember reporting as being ambiguous from an earlier rulebook draft was if an enemy with one movement point could enter a water tile. Since you have the final version, do you happen to know the answer?
Hi Jesse, yes in the finalized rulebook it takes 2 movement to enter a water tile, and if an enemy has only one movement point, they'll simply stop, before entering the tile. (Their final movement point is lost). Hope this helps to clarify.
@@adventuresincreativesoftwa6283 Yep that's great thanks! They said they were gunna fix it, but I was just curious what they decided in the end. Thanks for the exceptional videos! Even to those of us who read the rules, these are a great refresher! Out of curiosity, did you sign up to be a playtester, or will you also be going in mostly blind?
@@JesseAStern Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed the vids. I wasn't a playtester, and I've avoided any TH-cam videos which showcase the story part, so I'll be going in completely blind (just the way I like it!)
Thank you very much for these very helpful and comprehensive videos. You may like to know that you have persuaded me to part with real cash to buy a copy of the game. Cheers !!
Yeah, TH-cam can be expensive that way. Enjoy the horrors of the Deepwood!
You said you get 4 items from the common deck but rules say you get 3 items at rhe end of encounter
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. It was correct when I made the video (Oathsworn 1.0), but the reprint (Oathsworn 2.0) changed a few rules, including that one. I'll add a note in the description.