I remember playing as one of the spider-hives in the playtest for this game - though I made a hive that was still pretty new to existence and hadn't solidified its identity yet. So, I played "D.A.V.E.", the Democratic Arachnids for Voracious Exploration. And I had to keep a copy of the constitution all my spiders had signed, and transparently tell my party members the results of my hive votes. "You wish for DAVE to be captain of ship? 45% of DAVE agrees this is good idea. The rest are smarter than that." :P Good times :) Loved this review, this setup, and this new expansion into RPGs. Stay awesome Quinn and team!!
Holy crap that is such a cool idea! I really like the idea of playing a Cactus person who's only wish in life is to know what a hug feels like. This is such an entertaining world an idea.
Personal tip: instead of using those cardboard tabs, use different sized dice to represent clocks, moving to the respective number on the die to represent each stage. It allows you to dial them up and down in equal respects
Thank you so much! There's definitely a lot I would have done differently- I was many years younger and had a lot less experience when I started working on the project- but Felix and Ray were the coolest people I have ever worked with and will ever work with.@@Quinns_Quest
Currently a couple sessions into a Wildsea campaign where my crew have also stumbled into making an ambulance. They've leaned heavily into the coastguard vibe, with one player playing a Kitesailor from the new Storm & Root expansion to act as the helicopter. But in classic RPG fashion, they also very hungry to get reward for their good deeds, and so it's turning in to a strange turfwar game with other rescue ships, a la 19C New York fire brigades! This game is a joy
@@felixisaacs Felix, I''ve said on the Discord already (plug for everyone interested in the game to join).... the stories are so emergent! You've made such a compelling game, almost to a fault, where Session 0 is as exciting as gameplay itself! Other party memebers include an Augur and a Steep who, before even Session 1, decided that they were in a symbiotic relationship; the Itzezko Augur drinking hallucinigenic teas to point the Gau Steep towards wilder and weirder ingredients. You guys have killed it, in Core and S&R. Can't wait to see v2!
I played a cactus man briefly in an epic D&D 3.5 campaign. It turns out the game isn't designed for 30' tall 3 ton armoured saguaro warriors as player characters but it can handle them mechanically.
Dude, you killed it. Never been so entertained watching a TTRPG review! Thanks for this series, I’ll definitely be watching more “Guys, it’s an emergency… we’re maybe gonna have too much fun” 😆
I didn't realize that Quinn's energy was just what the RPG review side of TH-cam needed, but know we all know! The vibe and presentation are immaculate, and it's nice watching reviews from someone who has actually run the games they're reviewing rather than just having read through the rulebooks! Keep up the great work!
Oh my god I just built a Blades hack to do exactly what Wildsea appears to have done 10x better. Thanks so much, Quinn, don't know how this wasn't on my radar.
I got chills and they're multiplying. Thank you for this heartfelt review and amazingly structured and entertaining recommendation. I really hope, Quinn's feels real good about vulnerability. Because that's just the best part about this. The strange presentation is the little extra spice, to make it so fun and funny. I'd say, "Shut up and take my money", as I'm off to Patreon.
Love the production Quinns! The old school vibe, synthwave soundtrack, stellar cuts, and grainy video. I am really looking forward to how this channel unfolds!
Quinns I've been following your work for a (horrifically) long time and this is one of my favourites so far! Beyond excited for this channel, I've been solo roleplaying for a year now so this is perfect!
I found these bits a bit disrespectful. I understand he wanted to make it funny, but it did actually distract from what the designer said and made it look less important.
Take all this with a chill vibe as I wouldn't bother with this comment at all if not to boost engagement on a channels 1st video. I can absolutely see where you're coming from. In fact, I'm the sort who would enjoy these more if all the gimmicks were jettisoned entirely and we just got straight down to the insightful review and thoughtful commentary. But these aren't made just for me! Content like this always has to be something the creator wants to make and also something with sufficiently broad appeal. One of the strengths of the format is that it is so easy to replay a portion if you find yourself distracted. In this case, there was no chance that I'd miss out on Felix's comments no matter how distracted I got, as I could trivially go back to review them. @@thpion
Absolutely love this format - the enthusiasm, the detail, the focus not just on players but on the actual book as a piece of design, storytelling, and format! All excellent, keep it up Quinns!
Love the new channel! For the Patreon, I'd love to see a quick session with you playing with your group (30/45 minutes?). It would be a great way to show to showcase something cool about the TTRPG and help people take a plunge to try to learn how to run it themselves.
I picked up wildsea after this video and have been running it for a few sessions now. We are loving it, it's such a delight to play. Glad I took the chance and run my 1st game.
I've never felt so aligned with someone on RPGs before. Wild Sea is one of my my top loves right after the carved from Brindlewood games. I own all of Grant Howitt's one shots. The only other TTRPGs I own are Shadowdark and Salvage Union, so you basically just name dropped everything that pulled me into this world in one video. As soon as the intro came on I was thinking this was giving major Public Access vibes. Easiest sub of my life - looking forward to your other discoveries!❤
Happened to stumble onto this video while watching some other videos on ttrpg recommendations, and I gotta say- instant subscribe! I've already watched this video and your video on Lancer and I'm hooked on your coverages. You show some genuine excitement with these games and it's great hearing the amount of time you've spent playing them before giving your review! Also, I LOVE the Pay It Forward segments, such an awesome idea. Can't wait to see more in the future!
I rarely comment on TH-cam videos, but I just have to express how absolutely happy I am that one of my favorite board game content creators now started a channel for my favorite type of game. And not only that, as someone who has learned to love Blades in the Dark and with it successfully dragged a whole bunch of friends into TTRPGs, this new recommendation has me now giddily excited to try out. Cheers Quinns, and I hope this channel will SOAR!
Love the opening! The video dropout, the logo, the cheesy eight bit theme, the jacket with the rolled up sleeves, t-shirt and chain! Super fun vibe. It's 1984 again. Well done! I’ll have to re-watch the video to see what I missed.
I love the way you reveiw and video humor so much you could reveiw phonebooks and I would still watch. the fact youve shifted to TTRPG which I already love is just perfection.
I only recently discovered both this channel and your recent Jubensha video on People Make Games, and I have to say I am blown away by the quality of your content. Your passion for this industry shines through every frame. The humor is tasteful and of no sacrifice to the review. Your evaluation of the game is fair and got me incredibly excited to play. Thanks for becoming a cornerstone of the type of content I want to make in the world! I’m excited to see what’s next!
So, like, im having a really rough day. And this video... this video made me cry. Wowie. Really appreciate all of your careful insight. Beautiful video. Beautifully written. Touching at its very core.
I recently stumbled into your channel and I'm loving your style. Your candid way of explaining concepts and mechanics is quite easy-to-follow (and funny). I find you delightful.
Quinns, TTRPGs, and possibly vulnerability? I'm so in! Wildsea looks amazing, I love the idea of not having lore on the bloodlines and things, having players create all of this stuff during games makes it so much more personal and natural. Can't wait to see all the other games, especially since we are about to finish our D&D campaign and are itching to try some new systems, I already sent this to my group to check out!
Really nice to see thoughtful comments like this at the start of a "new" community. Gives me hope that the comment section might actually be good and stay good for awhile!
I am so excited to see you embracing ttrpgs. As a longtime viewer of SU&SD and a professional ttrpg designer, seeing people fall hard for these types of games just makes me so happy.
What a neat channel! Glad I discovered it. This really was a great review that actually made me want to own and play this game. Thoughtful, articulate and informative. Can’t wait to get this game and can’t wait to see more from this new channel!! 😊
That was sooo good! Just like with TTRPGs, the most important thing for a TH-cam channel is the vibes. And I must say the vibes are good. Keep up the great work!
I run 7 one-shots of Wildsea, finishing my 6-session campaign and in the process of writing my own game using Wild Worlds SRD. I just want to thank you, Quinns, for introducing me to this great game which brought me and my players so much joy.
I'm currently reading Wildsea, it's awesome. When I saw this video all my hair fell out in excitement of listening to someone else's review of this book.
Thank you Quinns for starting this type of channel I've felt it's been hard to find good in depth rig recommendations and this is exactly the type of content I wanted.
In case it's useful to you: @DaveThaumavore has a huge library (150+) of quality TTRPG system reviews. Not exactly the same style as what we'll probably be getting here, but you can't have too many nice things, right?
Haven't even had a chance to watch yet, but had to subscribe given how incredible of a reviewer you are. Excited to learn more about cool RPGs, buy them, and then never get them to the table and just poke through the rulebooks for fun!
Thank you for making this video! I backed this game on Kickstarter, but by the time I received the book I had kind of lost enthusiasm, so it has been living on my shelf, making me feel vaguely guilty every time I see it. Now I'm excited to dig into it and being it to my group!
Love this new series! Really excited to hear your views on RPGs because that book shelf looks smoking! (PS: love to see you rolling those Vaesen-dice in this video)
You can really feel Wildsea's influences, and it takes all the right things from all the right games and wraps it up in an amazingly creative and absolutely stunning package. Awesome review!
Yaaasss!!! I always wished you would do TTRPGs and now you do!! Even better, the first game you review is my new favorite game "The Wildsea"! You also mentioned my past favorite game Blades in the Dark and uses the dice set of Vaesen, which is another of my top three! Thanks for your awesome review!! Also I recommend: NewEdo, Symbaroum and Mouse Guard! ;)
Symbaroum has such an incredible setting. Its very rare for me to get excited about traditional (dark) fantasy anymore but my god did they kill it with this rpg. Such an evocative and amazing setting and lore.
Isn't it just great when you find out that you're going to have a new favorite thing? This channel already is off to such a strong start and I can't wait to see what else comes out of it.
Wildsea is amazing. In our campaign I'm playing the ghost of a pirate ship that is bound to an ancient xerox copy machine on a quest for staples for his stapler hook hand. (complete with office chair peg leg, pixar lamp eye, shoulder cannon and lemur loading assistant.
Ever since I’d fallen into the TTRPG deep end(via learning about World of Darkness books) I’ve never wanted to come out. Wild Seas is exactly what I look for in new fantasies. Really loved this video and looking forward to many more.
No kidding. I'd been playing TTRPGs off and on for two decades before I decided to GM a vampire themed game last year and walked into the WoD rabbit warren trying to pick a system to use. It's a crazy mess ... but there _is_ some great stuff in there!
I can't believe how perfect this video was. Thank you for making this. I'm excited to see what comes next from QQ. And I have already gotten the itch to look at Wildsea. This looks like a treasure.
I am so unbelievably excited for the content that comes from this channel. Awesome work here! I love this format and the aesthetic. I need to buy this game now.
I am super stoked about this new venture of yours! I have had a very samey shift in my gaming preferences (from board games to be more interested about ttrpgs) so this seems like a perfect timing for a new show!
i've been REALLY CURIOUS about this game, this video showed up on my recommended page and oh boy. thanks for covering this, guy! lovely video! Edit: oh shit, just saw that this is your first video! COngratulations! can't wait to see more of this channel! Love the wit and the fun friendly vibes
If you aren't aware, this is the first video on this channel, but this reviewer has been making videos for quite some time, see Shut Up & Sit Down or People Make Games for more!
This is so sweet 😭💖 You're a delightful person and I'm sure Quinn appreciates the encouragement, but he's been making video reviews for over a decade on two different channels!! Check out People Make Games and Shut Up & Sit Down for more of his stuff c:
Love it. I don't get many oppertunities to play the various RPG's I've collected over time, but I love being taken on guided dives into fascinating design and fictional worlds.
What a treat stumbling upon a new Quinns content adventure. Fantastic review, this game sounds awesome, I hope one day to find a group to enjoy TTRPGs with.
Online play is surprisingly decent these days. In addition to being an easier sell to my local friends (no travel, no hosting duties, no cleanup); I also found a purely online group a couple of years ago on a reading/book sharing forum of all places. We've got a core of 10 who may skip a given campaign, but always show for the ones they do join. Such that any given campaign generally has 5-7 in it for the long haul. Since it's a decent sized, international forum, each new campaign attracts a few new folks. Only about one in 10 sticks, but that's been plenty to sustain the group and add a little spice now and then. I've met folks from Scotland, England, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Romania, Japan, Australia & New Zealand. We've played a half dozen campaigns in games from 5e/Dark Eye to Shadowrun, Fate & Delta Green with 5 different long term GMs. Plus each of us in the core group has GMd some one shots to get our feet wet or to try out new systems. Overall it's been a great experience. We've played on Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry and most recently Role. With the possible exception of Fantasy Grounds (which was both pricey and fiddly in our experience) they are all perfectly enjoyable to use. Even Fantasy Grounds would probably be fine if you were willing to throw the necessary time & money at it. Absolutely worth looking into if you don't have a local group handy ... even if you do it can be a great way to meet and game with a broad range of people and systems.
This was absolutely brilliant and I loved the outro John Carpenter music vibes This was so much fun, I love everything about this game (especially the wierd fantasy of China Mieville nods) and the review. I've followed SU&SD for over a decade I'm pretty sure. One of the things that got me back into DMing and getting my group to play TTRPGs again was the SU&SD video about "Why now is the perfect time to get into TTRPGs" And here we are...
Thank you for confirming your place as the greatest game reviewer to ever grace our screens. Your writing genuinely inspires me to read more stuff. Excited for this new channel, sending only the most premium of vibes your way.
A great initial episode! The setting really reminds me of Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires series with its terrifying danger forest covering the land and humanity & friends sailing above it on airships; just replace Cinder Spire's brass steampunk, spires, & crystal magic with monster parts, more fantasy species, and even weirder things. Though I imagine you can slide the sentient cats into Wildsea with minimal changes. I really like the idea of tying your characters knowledge together with languages. It makes sense that if you spend a lot of time on a subject, you'll learn all the nuances and slang and acronyms.
The way you describe opening an TTRPG book... That's exactly how I do it... I open, flip through, inhale the vibes of the setting and the smell of the tone it wants to invoke.
Everything in this video is 359% amazing. It helps just a little that I already bought the game, but the help is not needed: amazing style, amazing references, amazing production, amazing writing, amazing humor, amazing game selection, amazing review philosophy, amazing everything. Insta subscribed, and quite excited to see the next one.
Dear Quinn, I'll just let you know that it's your fault alone that I've delved into this magnificent candy shop of a game and reached the point of no return. Right now I'm going through the book and preparing something big, hope it works out. Many thanks!
Excellent stuff told in an unique entertaining way! Can't wait to take Wildsea off my shelf and get my friends to play. Your channel is a breath of fresh of air. You just earned a Patreon sub, fine sir:)
EDIT: Forgot to say, great video and I am keen to hear more from you. Subscribed :) no criticisms for you personally, I just wanted to share my experience with the Wildsea RPG. 4:07 as someone who tried to run a Wildsea campaign, I must inform you that unfortunately this is not true for everyone. I really struggled to enjoy running the Wildsea RPG because, despite the sheer richness of the setting, it felt like it lacked an actual game to play. I constantly felt like I had to create my own game with my own rules, and all the book offered was the concept of tracks and the core resolution mechanics. The monsters don't even specify the number of boxes their aspects should have i.e. they don't have stats, I have to try to figure it all out myself. Which would be fine, if there was at least one example of an encounter containing hazards and/or monster with stats, so that I had some benchmark to base my decisions off, but there isn't (AFAIK, happy to be corrected on that). To provide some contrast, Borg-likes (Death In Space being the one I've played the most) seem to do a good job of vibes-heavy, rules-light. But that's because they are actually rules-light. Wildsea seems to have a subtle complexity to it, but just doesn't explain how all the pieces are supposed to fit together into a cohesive gameplay experience with clear goals and challenges. As the GM, I did not feel like I was playing Wildsea. I felt like I was designing it. For myself and my friends who are avid gamers (many of us also have some game design experience and/or education), the mechanics are supremely important. We want to play a game, not just imagine a story and occasionally invent some numbers to roll against. Wildsea felt like it lacked that, or at least didn't do a good job of conveying what the core gameplay loop is supposed to look like. It's very much a "writer's room" game, which is fine for many people, but not for everyone. I hope it gets a 2nd edition that addresses this in some way.
16:57 I encountered the exact same issue with the healing rules lol I just shifted it all up by a few points so that a failure heals 1, conflict heals 2, and triumph heals 3. It was a combat-heavy campaign so that made sense for us.
So happy to see you get some use out of all those RPGs you showed off on your floor in your board game collection. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get through a bunch more of them with this channel as a new excuse! :)
Insane production value, I freaking love it! Wildsea looks great, I feel like the system and lore are both really cool! PS: I feel like the 'Aspect' system is similar to the 'Attrition' system in Crown and Skull which I freaking love but I have yet to try
Really excited for this new series! I hope future episodes can be a little more future friendly (less stylized visual effects that may distort the featured games in a way that interferes with its readability...), since this will for sure be a valuable series to look back on.
Haha, no, it's a good point. It's gonna take a while to strike a balance between an aesthetic that's vibey, historic, but still clean for the purposes of a review, but we'll get there! I appreciate the feedback.
I have always wanted an RPG review channel in the same tone as Shut Up and Sit Down. I did not expect but am very happy Quinns is now doing just that!
SU&SD has videos and reviews of RPGs but I'm so excited about this new channel I can barely stand it
Agreed!
I remember playing as one of the spider-hives in the playtest for this game - though I made a hive that was still pretty new to existence and hadn't solidified its identity yet. So, I played "D.A.V.E.", the Democratic Arachnids for Voracious Exploration. And I had to keep a copy of the constitution all my spiders had signed, and transparently tell my party members the results of my hive votes.
"You wish for DAVE to be captain of ship? 45% of DAVE agrees this is good idea. The rest are smarter than that." :P
Good times :)
Loved this review, this setup, and this new expansion into RPGs. Stay awesome Quinn and team!!
So good. I had to post this in my Wildsea group's groupchat, just for the mental image of every spider in a tzelicrae "signing" a document
That's amazing!
Holy crap that is such a cool idea! I really like the idea of playing a Cactus person who's only wish in life is to know what a hug feels like. This is such an entertaining world an idea.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing! I once played a Geth (Mass Effect) with a similar gimmick, but the spider version is clearly superior.
A bit late to this but your scenario reminded me of the sci-fi novel "Children of Time"
Personal tip: instead of using those cardboard tabs, use different sized dice to represent clocks, moving to the respective number on the die to represent each stage. It allows you to dial them up and down in equal respects
Not sure if it's intentional, but I'm really enjoying the Garth Marenghi's Darkplace vibes here.
I was getting more a "look around you" vibes
A little from column A, a little from column B
@@t3hsp00n The Helvetica Scenario is specifically what caused the portal in Darkplace to open.
Definitely getting a booze-soaked sex pest vibe.
My first thought! Quintin Smith, board gamer, role player, plus actor.
The Wildsea is maybe the coolest project I've ever had the honor of working on. It's so cool to get to make music for something I absolutely love!!
You did the official soundtrack? You did such a good job!
Thank you so much! There's definitely a lot I would have done differently- I was many years younger and had a lot less experience when I started working on the project- but Felix and Ray were the coolest people I have ever worked with and will ever work with.@@Quinns_Quest
Currently a couple sessions into a Wildsea campaign where my crew have also stumbled into making an ambulance. They've leaned heavily into the coastguard vibe, with one player playing a Kitesailor from the new Storm & Root expansion to act as the helicopter. But in classic RPG fashion, they also very hungry to get reward for their good deeds, and so it's turning in to a strange turfwar game with other rescue ships, a la 19C New York fire brigades!
This game is a joy
I'm really glad you're enjoying it, and that is a hell of a vibe :)
@@felixisaacs Felix, I''ve said on the Discord already (plug for everyone interested in the game to join).... the stories are so emergent! You've made such a compelling game, almost to a fault, where Session 0 is as exciting as gameplay itself! Other party memebers include an Augur and a Steep who, before even Session 1, decided that they were in a symbiotic relationship; the Itzezko Augur drinking hallucinigenic teas to point the Gau Steep towards wilder and weirder ingredients.
You guys have killed it, in Core and S&R. Can't wait to see v2!
That is absolutely awesome.
A self funded TRAUMA Team!
OH MY GOD MY LIFELONG DREAM OF BEING A CACTUS WILL FINALLY COME TRUE
I played a cactus man briefly in an epic D&D 3.5 campaign. It turns out the game isn't designed for 30' tall 3 ton armoured saguaro warriors as player characters but it can handle them mechanically.
im happy for you, embrace the danger plant you were meant to be
You can also play a cactus in pathfinder 2e
Truly, nothing is forbidden. Be the knife tree you want to see
I was a cactus in a school play… I can recommend it!
Is this channel a dream I never knew I had finally come true? Yes. Yes it is.
Dude, you killed it. Never been so entertained watching a TTRPG review! Thanks for this series, I’ll definitely be watching more
“Guys, it’s an emergency… we’re maybe gonna have too much fun” 😆
I hope these videos go on for years and I hope Quinns never changes his clothes
This is an exciting series! Always wanted to see Quinns chew through that pile of RPG books in the corner of the top 136 board games video!
I didn't realize that Quinn's energy was just what the RPG review side of TH-cam needed, but know we all know! The vibe and presentation are immaculate, and it's nice watching reviews from someone who has actually run the games they're reviewing rather than just having read through the rulebooks! Keep up the great work!
Oh my god I just built a Blades hack to do exactly what Wildsea appears to have done 10x better. Thanks so much, Quinn, don't know how this wasn't on my radar.
I got chills and they're multiplying.
Thank you for this heartfelt review and amazingly structured and entertaining recommendation. I really hope, Quinn's feels real good about vulnerability. Because that's just the best part about this. The strange presentation is the little extra spice, to make it so fun and funny.
I'd say, "Shut up and take my money", as I'm off to Patreon.
Yes, this is what SUSD was always about for me. The heartfelt and vulnerable moments. The quirky lightness is there to balance it out.
Love the production Quinns! The old school vibe, synthwave soundtrack, stellar cuts, and grainy video. I am really looking forward to how this channel unfolds!
Quinns I've been following your work for a (horrifically) long time and this is one of my favourites so far! Beyond excited for this channel, I've been solo roleplaying for a year now so this is perfect!
Ahh, you're very kind. I'm having fun.
This channel just came out of nowhere, digging the vibe.
Dang it Quincy! I bought all those board games you suggested. Now I have to buy these books!
Quinns staging the most lifelike fake phone call of all time by pointlessly twiddling with something while the other person is talking
Do you also completely tune out and just watch Quinn instead?
I found these bits a bit disrespectful. I understand he wanted to make it funny, but it did actually distract from what the designer said and made it look less important.
While also playing Go Cuckoo with bread sticks.
@@thpion Eh, I'm okay with it - it is pretty true to life for a lot of phone calls, and I feel it suited the vibe. And it's me on the phone, so... :P
Take all this with a chill vibe as I wouldn't bother with this comment at all if not to boost engagement on a channels 1st video.
I can absolutely see where you're coming from. In fact, I'm the sort who would enjoy these more if all the gimmicks were jettisoned entirely and we just got straight down to the insightful review and thoughtful commentary. But these aren't made just for me! Content like this always has to be something the creator wants to make and also something with sufficiently broad appeal. One of the strengths of the format is that it is so easy to replay a portion if you find yourself distracted. In this case, there was no chance that I'd miss out on Felix's comments no matter how distracted I got, as I could trivially go back to review them. @@thpion
Hell yeah! I've been hardcore into solo TTRPGing for almost a year now. I'm so excited to see my favorite board game youtuber cover TTRPGs.
Absolutely love this format - the enthusiasm, the detail, the focus not just on players but on the actual book as a piece of design, storytelling, and format! All excellent, keep it up Quinns!
Love the new channel! For the Patreon, I'd love to see a quick session with you playing with your group (30/45 minutes?). It would be a great way to show to showcase something cool about the TTRPG and help people take a plunge to try to learn how to run it themselves.
I picked up wildsea after this video and have been running it for a few sessions now. We are loving it, it's such a delight to play. Glad I took the chance and run my 1st game.
I am so excited for this channel! I’ve been secretly hoping for a Quinn’s reviews TTRPG’s for a while now. So happy that it’s come into existence.
QUINNS HOW DO YOU HANDLE ALL THESE TH-cam ENDEAVORS!! He's gotta be using a time machine to run all these channels at the same time. 🐐🐐🐐
The trick is to make a low effort top 100 with your main channel. Not that I mind
@@Wookienbut this is the main channel my friend 🤯
He's posted on SUSD about stepping back and letting Tom run a lot of stuff so he can do this. He'll still be around and involved, but less so.
Shout out to Impossible Landscapes in the opening means a definite subscribe from me. Excited to see your work here Quinns!
I want to review it but it's SO BIG.
I've never felt so aligned with someone on RPGs before.
Wild Sea is one of my my top loves right after the carved from Brindlewood games. I own all of Grant Howitt's one shots.
The only other TTRPGs I own are Shadowdark and Salvage Union, so you basically just name dropped everything that pulled me into this world in one video.
As soon as the intro came on I was thinking this was giving major Public Access vibes.
Easiest sub of my life - looking forward to your other discoveries!❤
Happened to stumble onto this video while watching some other videos on ttrpg recommendations, and I gotta say- instant subscribe! I've already watched this video and your video on Lancer and I'm hooked on your coverages. You show some genuine excitement with these games and it's great hearing the amount of time you've spent playing them before giving your review! Also, I LOVE the Pay It Forward segments, such an awesome idea. Can't wait to see more in the future!
This is great! I love that you reached out to the designer for comments.
I rarely comment on TH-cam videos, but I just have to express how absolutely happy I am that one of my favorite board game content creators now started a channel for my favorite type of game. And not only that, as someone who has learned to love Blades in the Dark and with it successfully dragged a whole bunch of friends into TTRPGs, this new recommendation has me now giddily excited to try out. Cheers Quinns, and I hope this channel will SOAR!
Love the opening! The video dropout, the logo, the cheesy eight bit theme, the jacket with the rolled up sleeves, t-shirt and chain! Super fun vibe. It's 1984 again. Well done!
I’ll have to re-watch the video to see what I missed.
Finally a page that makes ttrpg break down awesome. Thank you so so much. Definitely gonna check on wildsea and the future ttrpgs u explain
Goodness! This is perfect. Excellent in-depth reviews, delightful humor, and a bizarre retro vibe. You nailed it. Keep the episodes coming!
I love the way you reveiw and video humor so much you could reveiw phonebooks and I would still watch. the fact youve shifted to TTRPG which I already love is just perfection.
I only recently discovered both this channel and your recent Jubensha video on People Make Games, and I have to say I am blown away by the quality of your content. Your passion for this industry shines through every frame. The humor is tasteful and of no sacrifice to the review. Your evaluation of the game is fair and got me incredibly excited to play. Thanks for becoming a cornerstone of the type of content I want to make in the world! I’m excited to see what’s next!
Agree completely. Also, thanks for the heads up on the People Make Games vid, I wasn't aware of that.
Solid review man. Thoughtful, entertaining, thorough. I'm new to your stuff, and I'm heading over to Patreon after this.
So, like, im having a really rough day. And this video... this video made me cry. Wowie. Really appreciate all of your careful insight. Beautiful video. Beautifully written. Touching at its very core.
I recently stumbled into your channel and I'm loving your style. Your candid way of explaining concepts and mechanics is quite easy-to-follow (and funny). I find you delightful.
Quinns, TTRPGs, and possibly vulnerability? I'm so in! Wildsea looks amazing, I love the idea of not having lore on the bloodlines and things, having players create all of this stuff during games makes it so much more personal and natural. Can't wait to see all the other games, especially since we are about to finish our D&D campaign and are itching to try some new systems, I already sent this to my group to check out!
Really nice to see thoughtful comments like this at the start of a "new" community. Gives me hope that the comment section might actually be good and stay good for awhile!
Bought the book immediately after watching this. Love the new channel and the vibe of this book!
I am so excited to see you embracing ttrpgs. As a longtime viewer of SU&SD and a professional ttrpg designer, seeing people fall hard for these types of games just makes me so happy.
What a neat channel! Glad I discovered it. This really was a great review that actually made me want to own and play this game. Thoughtful, articulate and informative. Can’t wait to get this game and can’t wait to see more from this new channel!! 😊
My man, this channel is everything I have EVER wanted in an RPG review! Brilliant work, never smashed that subscribe button so fast!
That was sooo good! Just like with TTRPGs, the most important thing for a TH-cam channel is the vibes. And I must say the vibes are good. Keep up the great work!
I run 7 one-shots of Wildsea, finishing my 6-session campaign and in the process of writing my own game using Wild Worlds SRD. I just want to thank you, Quinns, for introducing me to this great game which brought me and my players so much joy.
I'm currently reading Wildsea, it's awesome. When I saw this video all my hair fell out in excitement of listening to someone else's review of this book.
Thank you Quinns for starting this type of channel I've felt it's been hard to find good in depth rig recommendations and this is exactly the type of content I wanted.
In case it's useful to you: @DaveThaumavore has a huge library (150+) of quality TTRPG system reviews. Not exactly the same style as what we'll probably be getting here, but you can't have too many nice things, right?
Haven't even had a chance to watch yet, but had to subscribe given how incredible of a reviewer you are. Excited to learn more about cool RPGs, buy them, and then never get them to the table and just poke through the rulebooks for fun!
Thank you for making this video! I backed this game on Kickstarter, but by the time I received the book I had kind of lost enthusiasm, so it has been living on my shelf, making me feel vaguely guilty every time I see it. Now I'm excited to dig into it and being it to my group!
man not only was the review comprehensive but the random tidbits here and there that were dropped were freaking awesome too
Love this new series! Really excited to hear your views on RPGs because that book shelf looks smoking! (PS: love to see you rolling those Vaesen-dice in this video)
This sounds delightful, and I have never heard of it. I hope to learn much more from you with this channel!!
You can really feel Wildsea's influences, and it takes all the right things from all the right games and wraps it up in an amazingly creative and absolutely stunning package. Awesome review!
Oh no. My library of aspirational RPGs is going to balloon treacherously with this new channel, I can already tell.
Yaaasss!!! I always wished you would do TTRPGs and now you do!!
Even better, the first game you review is my new favorite game "The Wildsea"! You also mentioned my past favorite game Blades in the Dark and uses the dice set of Vaesen, which is another of my top three!
Thanks for your awesome review!!
Also I recommend: NewEdo, Symbaroum and Mouse Guard! ;)
Appreciate the recommendations. Will be looking some of those up.
Symbaroum has such an incredible setting. Its very rare for me to get excited about traditional (dark) fantasy anymore but my god did they kill it with this rpg. Such an evocative and amazing setting and lore.
Isn't it just great when you find out that you're going to have a new favorite thing? This channel already is off to such a strong start and I can't wait to see what else comes out of it.
Nice, a very refreshing, quirky (and thorough) review. I like the cut of your jib
Wildsea is amazing. In our campaign I'm playing the ghost of a pirate ship that is bound to an ancient xerox copy machine on a quest for staples for his stapler hook hand. (complete with office chair peg leg, pixar lamp eye, shoulder cannon and lemur loading assistant.
That's brilliant :D
As a SU&SD viewer of almost 10 years, Quinns Quest makes me so happy
Ever since I’d fallen into the TTRPG deep end(via learning about World of Darkness books) I’ve never wanted to come out.
Wild Seas is exactly what I look for in new fantasies.
Really loved this video and looking forward to many more.
No kidding. I'd been playing TTRPGs off and on for two decades before I decided to GM a vampire themed game last year and walked into the WoD rabbit warren trying to pick a system to use. It's a crazy mess ... but there _is_ some great stuff in there!
Quinns!!!!! One of the biggest reasons I got into board gaming. Glad to see you have a new awesome channel.
As a pro Horror GM I love seeing more stuff from you! Also love that you had Delta Green Impossible Landscapes in your intro!
I love reading rpg game books even though I don't play them. This one feels like a good read!
I can't believe how perfect this video was. Thank you for making this. I'm excited to see what comes next from QQ. And I have already gotten the itch to look at Wildsea. This looks like a treasure.
Never seen this channel before but man im happy seeing wildsea mentioned i have wanted to play it so badly.
I am so unbelievably excited for the content that comes from this channel. Awesome work here! I love this format and the aesthetic.
I need to buy this game now.
As a former two-fingered typist, seeing you go from hands on the home keys to two fingers won my subscription, and absolutely nothing else.
The production style and theme of this video are beyond excellent. Great job, Quinns
I am super stoked about this new venture of yours! I have had a very samey shift in my gaming preferences (from board games to be more interested about ttrpgs) so this seems like a perfect timing for a new show!
Wow am I excited to have found this channel in its nascency. I adore the style on display here.
Great first video, I'm digging the 80s vibe. Looking forward to more!
I don't know how or why Quinns chose to shoot this video over 30 years in the past but I'm loving it.
Finally it's here! Congrats on QQuest after hearing about your ttrpg interests over the years and that one RTFM episode!
i've been REALLY CURIOUS about this game, this video showed up on my recommended page and oh boy. thanks for covering this, guy! lovely video!
Edit: oh shit, just saw that this is your first video! COngratulations! can't wait to see more of this channel! Love the wit and the fun friendly vibes
If you aren't aware, this is the first video on this channel, but this reviewer has been making videos for quite some time, see Shut Up & Sit Down or People Make Games for more!
This is so sweet 😭💖 You're a delightful person and I'm sure Quinn appreciates the encouragement, but he's been making video reviews for over a decade on two different channels!! Check out People Make Games and Shut Up & Sit Down for more of his stuff c:
I need more of this as soon as possible. Also what a wonderful world that TTRPG sets up! I'm instantly hooked by the concept of playing a moth person.
This channel makes me so excited! Can't wait to see what else this absolutely wonderful madman cooks up for his ravenous viewers
Yes! Very excited for the future of this channel. Been having a blast dming Heart inspired by your suggestion on SUSD
Love it. I don't get many oppertunities to play the various RPG's I've collected over time, but I love being taken on guided dives into fascinating design and fictional worlds.
What a treat stumbling upon a new Quinns content adventure. Fantastic review, this game sounds awesome, I hope one day to find a group to enjoy TTRPGs with.
Online play is surprisingly decent these days. In addition to being an easier sell to my local friends (no travel, no hosting duties, no cleanup); I also found a purely online group a couple of years ago on a reading/book sharing forum of all places. We've got a core of 10 who may skip a given campaign, but always show for the ones they do join. Such that any given campaign generally has 5-7 in it for the long haul. Since it's a decent sized, international forum, each new campaign attracts a few new folks. Only about one in 10 sticks, but that's been plenty to sustain the group and add a little spice now and then.
I've met folks from Scotland, England, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Romania, Japan, Australia & New Zealand. We've played a half dozen campaigns in games from 5e/Dark Eye to Shadowrun, Fate & Delta Green with 5 different long term GMs. Plus each of us in the core group has GMd some one shots to get our feet wet or to try out new systems. Overall it's been a great experience.
We've played on Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry and most recently Role. With the possible exception of Fantasy Grounds (which was both pricey and fiddly in our experience) they are all perfectly enjoyable to use. Even Fantasy Grounds would probably be fine if you were willing to throw the necessary time & money at it. Absolutely worth looking into if you don't have a local group handy ... even if you do it can be a great way to meet and game with a broad range of people and systems.
This was absolutely brilliant and I loved the outro John Carpenter music vibes
This was so much fun, I love everything about this game (especially the wierd fantasy of China Mieville nods) and the review. I've followed SU&SD for over a decade I'm pretty sure.
One of the things that got me back into DMing and getting my group to play TTRPGs again was the SU&SD video about "Why now is the perfect time to get into TTRPGs"
And here we are...
Thank you for confirming your place as the greatest game reviewer to ever grace our screens. Your writing genuinely inspires me to read more stuff. Excited for this new channel, sending only the most premium of vibes your way.
This new channel is awesome. The ttrpg community needs this channel more than ever.
A great initial episode! The setting really reminds me of Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires series with its terrifying danger forest covering the land and humanity & friends sailing above it on airships; just replace Cinder Spire's brass steampunk, spires, & crystal magic with monster parts, more fantasy species, and even weirder things. Though I imagine you can slide the sentient cats into Wildsea with minimal changes.
I really like the idea of tying your characters knowledge together with languages. It makes sense that if you spend a lot of time on a subject, you'll learn all the nuances and slang and acronyms.
This was quite interesting! Thanks, Quinns. Looking forward to more RPG reviews.
The way you describe opening an TTRPG book... That's exactly how I do it... I open, flip through, inhale the vibes of the setting and the smell of the tone it wants to invoke.
This is great! Commenting to support the algorithm and to support tabletop-RPG reviewers who actually play the games they review
Wow this looks incredible - definitely what I plan on running next
This was so good! Love the review and the production value is amazing. Looking forward to more videos :)
A Lancer TTRPG review would be lovely
Edit: indeed it is
Beautiful setting. I was blown away by this book. Thanks for the review.
Everything in this video is 359% amazing.
It helps just a little that I already bought the game, but the help is not needed: amazing style, amazing references, amazing production, amazing writing, amazing humor, amazing game selection, amazing review philosophy, amazing everything.
Insta subscribed, and quite excited to see the next one.
The detail! The polish! Absolutely following this channel :D
Dear Quinn, I'll just let you know that it's your fault alone that I've delved into this magnificent candy shop of a game and reached the point of no return. Right now I'm going through the book and preparing something big, hope it works out. Many thanks!
Quintin Marenghi's Dark RPG Place. Really love this new channel. Great work!
Excellent stuff told in an unique entertaining way! Can't wait to take Wildsea off my shelf and get my friends to play. Your channel is a breath of fresh of air. You just earned a Patreon sub, fine sir:)
This is a fantastic review! Absolutely love what you’re doing and can’t wait for more content!!!
EDIT: Forgot to say, great video and I am keen to hear more from you. Subscribed :) no criticisms for you personally, I just wanted to share my experience with the Wildsea RPG.
4:07 as someone who tried to run a Wildsea campaign, I must inform you that unfortunately this is not true for everyone. I really struggled to enjoy running the Wildsea RPG because, despite the sheer richness of the setting, it felt like it lacked an actual game to play. I constantly felt like I had to create my own game with my own rules, and all the book offered was the concept of tracks and the core resolution mechanics. The monsters don't even specify the number of boxes their aspects should have i.e. they don't have stats, I have to try to figure it all out myself. Which would be fine, if there was at least one example of an encounter containing hazards and/or monster with stats, so that I had some benchmark to base my decisions off, but there isn't (AFAIK, happy to be corrected on that).
To provide some contrast, Borg-likes (Death In Space being the one I've played the most) seem to do a good job of vibes-heavy, rules-light. But that's because they are actually rules-light. Wildsea seems to have a subtle complexity to it, but just doesn't explain how all the pieces are supposed to fit together into a cohesive gameplay experience with clear goals and challenges. As the GM, I did not feel like I was playing Wildsea. I felt like I was designing it.
For myself and my friends who are avid gamers (many of us also have some game design experience and/or education), the mechanics are supremely important. We want to play a game, not just imagine a story and occasionally invent some numbers to roll against. Wildsea felt like it lacked that, or at least didn't do a good job of conveying what the core gameplay loop is supposed to look like. It's very much a "writer's room" game, which is fine for many people, but not for everyone. I hope it gets a 2nd edition that addresses this in some way.
16:57 I encountered the exact same issue with the healing rules lol I just shifted it all up by a few points so that a failure heals 1, conflict heals 2, and triumph heals 3. It was a combat-heavy campaign so that made sense for us.
So happy to see you get some use out of all those RPGs you showed off on your floor in your board game collection. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get through a bunch more of them with this channel as a new excuse! :)
Insane production value, I freaking love it! Wildsea looks great, I feel like the system and lore are both really cool!
PS: I feel like the 'Aspect' system is similar to the 'Attrition' system in Crown and Skull which I freaking love but I have yet to try
Really excited for this new series! I hope future episodes can be a little more future friendly (less stylized visual effects that may distort the featured games in a way that interferes with its readability...), since this will for sure be a valuable series to look back on.
The fuck am i talking abt, I'm so excited for this series it could be presented in slideshow and I'd still watch it loyally forever!!!
Haha, no, it's a good point. It's gonna take a while to strike a balance between an aesthetic that's vibey, historic, but still clean for the purposes of a review, but we'll get there! I appreciate the feedback.
The "talk to the designer" segmentä is better be called "quinterview"... because...