Thank you so much!

I think the idea is that you'll have an idea whether or not you'll need that modifier before hand, i.e. if my weak spellcaster is forced into melee combat with only 1 strength die

Oh I completely agree, I am just stating that having exceptions in a game with a lot of symbols can make it easier to miss those rules. Which is why I included it in this video! :)

Ya I can see what you’re saying about chronicles of Drunagor. The darkness if very fiddly. It was still a big hit for me. And Dante as well I have been having a lot of fun with!!

@@TheQuestKids it is still my kids favorite game! :)

Nice! I have been wanting to try some of the DnD board games, are they any good?

@@BoardGameOfficer I really have fun with them. Very easy to play and teach. Just explore a dungeon and fight monsters.

Also thematically you can retaliate, it's a lightning action so thematically my teammate gets attacked and I can help him out by retaliating against the monster.

Ya I see what you are saying. Think they were just trying to increase the difficulty of the game and that is one way to do it. Because if you can retaliate without being targeted, you would do that a lot more often where now you have to really decided if you want to use a retaliate or block some damage! Hope that makes sense what I am trying to say.

@@BoardGameOfficer Oh it made sense as to what you were saying I just don't think the rule itself makes sense lol.. I only have version 1.0 though.

That is a good one, not game breaking but can definitely help!

@@jksalamon ya it’s something tried but it takes a lot of time to do! Haha ya I am excited for this one for sure!

Yes, it is a separate extra move action, so you can use it after your characters normal move action.

@@DrDribs ya that would have been nice to show the new art and stuff off! Ya TTS can be super nice for that reason though!!

@@BoardGameOfficer I am sure we can arrange an upgrade pack for you next year 😁

@@dungeonsofdoria I’m already a backer for the update pack! 😄 I’m excited for it!!

@@kosterix123 ya having to play 4 handed is not my ideal either, but the roguelite does seem fun!

@@BoardGameOfficer i love RL but the price (4h) is too high. Maybe they will tweak gameplay so it can be played 2h, if ever.

@@user-fr1ys2wn4t ya this is a more in depth game and this is a in Depth how to play as well. But once you get playing it flows pretty well!

@@paulqruel9290 ya i have a pretty shelf of unplayed games as well! Haha

@@BoardGameOfficer have an addict full.

@@user-kp2dj2zx6v no, the spell stays until you choose to get rid of it.

@@gozzywozzy485 I haven’t been able to table it yet, but ya it looks quite fun. I am excited to try it out!!

Hard and easy are very relative! haha

@@seanfrazier1731 thanks! Ya I looked it up after the unboxing haha

I had to say it that way!! ;) haha

Loot, roguelite, dice chucker, what else can you ask for!? 😂 haha

thanks!! It is not available for purchase just because it is way too expensive to produce and it was more of just a passion project then really trying to make it a thing. We only printed 2 copies and that was expensive enough haha. That would actually be a cool expansion. I will do a playthrough here soon so you can see how it is actually played as well!

@@BoardGameOfficer I forget the site, but if you put the game files there you can let the market decide if they want to pay for single prints of the game at a time. Even selling 10 or 100 copies would feel pretty cool. A cheaper alternative would be some of the pay for PNP sites.

@@DavidBrown-hy4vm Oh really!? that would be pretty cool actually! I will have to look into that!

@@MarcinAffek ya it was our 2 favorite mechanics, so we merged them into one game! :)

@@suntzugames thanks!! We only printed 2 copies so I don’t think it has any chance of getting picked up but we definitely had fun making it!!

@@freakyzed8467 hahaha truth!!

@@johnrogers5264 yes I would say it is similar to JoTL but there seems to be a little bit more of a game play difference between adventures and expedition then there were for JoTL and gloomhaven. Ya I am curious as well since Adventures had so many!

@@911Gargoyle Yes, Adventures is a bottomless pit for sure! Ya I feel that’s a common thing now a days is the add-ons make it way more expensive. But that is the point of this one is to be a much more accessible game vs Adventures but we will see how true that is! Thanks for watching! :)

I'm starting to realize I can't play it all and shouldn't own it all. My copy of Tanares Adventures is also in shrink. Planning to sell it and just wait for Expeditions to go to retail. Maybe by then I would have gotten through my backlog of campaigns (or sold the rest). I do wish the Expeditions campaign all the success tho.

@ trying to get through all campaign games is so hard. My desire to play them is always greater than my ability to get them to the table for sure!! I completely understand that!!

@@LeeKenshin7 sell to any greater fool at half prices and never look back. Life is too short to be weighed down.

@@dimmok8344 ya the three trays go into the ‘spoils of war’ box which is the stretch goal box. Which are the original ones that come in that box.

@ odd I mine didn’t come with that tray. Do you happen to know if there was a difference in what came in the 1.0 versions?

There is some difference but that tray is not one of them. So what came in your spoils of war box, just 2 trays?

@ mine came with a flat tray with no lid. It has four spots to hold cards and was shown in the video they showed in an update a long time ago that sleeved cards fit.

Holy Cow, you are right, I just went back and watched an unboxing of version 1 and that tray is different in version 2! I never knew that!!

@@wwsohare thanks! Ya middara does have a way to play with less characters to help a little on table space! Oh I have seen Folklore the Affliction, I will have to try that one!!

Thank you so much!! welcome!!

@@ashleyhawkins9619 I am not sure about the sleeves cards as I have not tried to sleeve mine yet. As for the dimensions, yes everything is the same, it is just deeper. So if what you have is good just with lid lift then it should work even better with the new box!

​@@BoardGameOfficer Awesome thanks for the quick reply i will probably order just the new box then so it all looks nicer on the shelf.

Ya I hate lid lift too, I think it is worth it! Haha

Understood! My channel isn't for everyone and I respect that! thanks!

So Chronicles of Drunagor is my favorite Dungeon Crawler! So I will highly suggest that one! Middara is going to have ALOT more things going on so it can be a lot to handle playing solo, you have to play 4 characters but they do have some ways to play with fewer. Chronicles of drunagor you can play true solo, the enemies are very straight forward to control and the character cube management is awesome! I actually haven't been able to table Shadows of Brimstone yet, I have it on the ever long list to play though! I have A LOT of videos on Chronicles of Drunagor on my channel and so if you want to see more of that, then you can check that out on my channel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5qzdmSBard1ipo

​@@BoardGameOfficerthanks! I have watched several chunks of your playthrus and had come to the same conclusion. Nice to have you reaffirm it and thanks!

@@freakyzed8467 of course! Let me know if you have any other questions!

@@andreasgabel ah that is good to know! thank you! I will pin this comment!

@@yomamaa13 I mean yes but not sure why you are saying that?

@@FhillipeepillihF haha it is quite entertaining so try a lot of different things haha

@@tobyr21 thank you very much! I appreciate the kind words!! And thank you for the pronunciation, I definitely struggle with that! Haha

Thanks for your honest feedback. You are right my lighting I am still messing with because I had a flood in My game room and this was the first video with it all set up again. As for the gameplay, if you want to see more about my experience with it, that is a separate video. This one is just to help people know what to expect for Essen Spiel. Thanks for your comment.

@@vahrens thanks! And ya I have been looking at doing a quick how to play video! So that script would be awesome if you would like me to help out with that!

@@911Gargoyle ya Middara you do level pretty slow. MD2 is good even the Amazon retail version is good!! And I’m very excited for Rogue Angels!!

@@BoardGameOfficer a lot of content in one box. I like that.

@@jeffirving9189 Ya the changes I have heard of so far have been all for the better, so I’m excited to see it keep going! 😁

@@Deltium5683 thanks! And ya that one is looking interesting!

@@panagiotispavlidis83 Good clarifying question! The armor is USELESS against the element that is listed.

@@BoardGameOfficer Thank you my friend. I have one more question. Can I choose a hero bonus for the second time to double (or triple the bonus) the bonus if a have enough xp or i choose only one bonus per schenario?

@@panagiotispavlidis83 ya each bonus only be applied or gained once. Of course let me know if you have any other questions.

​​​@@BoardGameOfficer Hi my friend. I reveled new tile and put the correct monsters on the right squares. When the monsters activates? After the heroes finishes the action phases or before? On the monsters level cards have side the number of action points a letter. What the letter means? If a hero have enough action points can make and second attack in the same action phase?

@@panagiotispavlidis83 1: when revealing a new tile, you can finish you movement, but as soon as the movement is done, you go back to the initiative board to see who activates next. So if the spawned monster is higher then that is when they will activate. 2: the letter indicates the order they activate if there are multiple of the same number, so 9A will activate before 9B. 3: as long as you are the highest on the initiative board. Yes you can do another attack. I hope those made sense.

@@Allthesmallteas haha ya he called me after he watched the video and got ‘mad’ at me and then just laughed! Hahaha Ya I have over 20 videos of chronicles of Drunagor on my channel if you want to see some of them as well!

@@BoardGameOfficer Thank you, Ill check them out!