The Shieldbash really looks powerful. However one thing to keep in mind is, when you move into a room with an enemy your movement action will always END. Therefor you CAN NOT move into a room with an enemy, shieldbash him with a free action and then continue your movement action. (See page 7 under "Enemies in a Room")

Very good quality video. But you keep saying that the Librarian need 2 Secret Tome (1:11:58), but He only need 1

Really enjoyed this video, thank you. At 1:02:02 you say, "You can very easily make things multi-coloured," and show a token tray with orange bottom half, black top half. How do you go about printing something like that with more than one colour? Is it a manual process where you have to stop the printer at some point, change the filament and restart? Or is is a bit more automatic than that?

For non-North Americans is there a specific time/sale/thing to look out for to get these games at a discount. You mentioned you got them for less.

loved seeing the different enemies and heroes!

You can kill Zogar with the Martyr. According to boardgamegeek forums, the creator said any enemy. So you probably could have gotten out of there with everything intact! Great game!

you're always so hard on yourself but you remember more than I would haha.. great vid

Another great playthrough! What a great game, and adding all these expansions give it an even greater variety of different flavors. When you showed all the playable characters I was like "Oh, man.. it would take A LOT of games to get to know half of them.." but it makes it even more worth the effort 🤩 I haven't had the chance to play that many co-op games, but I'd love to play them all 💪 Nowadays, Tabletop Simulator is a great way to play with people around the world (granted you find the right mod) 😉 I believe many people would love to play together with you 😁 Now, onto the next playlist! 🏃 Thanks for the great content, and for the G.A.M.E.R. phrase (which I'll ask you to lend me so I can use it on our game nights 🤭)

So glad to see you doing playthroughs of gate and gates!!!!!

Niiiice!! Congrats on the first win of the series 🤩 Drawing the full set of the phoenix helped a lot, and this time the potions DID help a lot too 😆 It's neat that some spells can be used by warriors because they don't require an intelligence check specifically 🤔 The fact that you can go through the whole potions deck in a single game is great (granted you survive their peril effect), but having so many loot cards makes it impossible to get that specific piece of gear that you're looking for (which says a lot about your luck when drawing a whole set to begin with 😜). Keep up the great work! 💪

great game! I think that the best strategy in any deck-builder game is to chain as many cards with the effect "Draw x cards" as you can. On the previous-to-last turn you managed to draw a lot of cards and got very good results. Also, combining the effects of the mill and the woodcutter to put 3 (and potentially 4) barricades in a single turn was amazing. Zogar dying to the barricades was hilarious 😆 There were only two things that I noticed: 1) the Shelspawn should have dealt damage to the mill directly because of its ability (ignore barricades); 2) when moving through the Fearamid, the effect of all the symbols passed through should also trigger. Amazing content, as always 😁

Okay, rules talk: ~30:00 c;mon Mr. Phour, there isn't a deck builder worth its salt that doesn't cycle your discard into your draw when a card is called for, whether for good or ill. Glad your conscience won you over to the right side of that issue. : ) ~37:30 Unless there's something in the rules distinguishing Zogar in any way (e.g. "bosses cannot be affected by card text", I cannot see any reason the Martyr wouldn't work. But I guess he ended up delivering the fatal kick to Zogar even if he didn't martyr himself as advertised! And all due respect to your Gates prowess, but I definitely caught a whiff of promo inflation in that playthrough. I've seen the same thing happen in other games, particularly from a print-on-demand operation like The Gamecrafter, where designers are almost encouraged to keep up a steady stream of new content. I've played a lot of Iron Helm, and it's shot through with that kind of balance-killing expansion and promo nonsense. It's a real disservice to some otherwise fine games and I'm disappointed to see it here. I am, however, heartily tickled by your enthusiasm for it, so please don't take my comments as a criticism or judgment! (And, oof, RE: that little shoutout at the end. "Heck of an election year", indeed. Hope you and yours are well, particularly your mother given I know you mentioned she'd had surgery.)

Yep, it looks like I'll be picking up Gates now that you've effectively OBSOLETED my copy of Gate, Mr. Phour. : ) Seriously though, I had no idea Glover had done more work on Gate, mostly because I'd been picking up his additional stuff for Iron Helm. Thanks so much for showcasing the dramatic improvements to Gate! And I'm very happy to see a second playthough posted and waiting for me to watch. So glad to have you back at it, my friend!

What a great game! I'm starting to like deck-builders 🤔 The first deck-builder game I played was Clank! and I enjoyed it a lot (haven't played any expansions yet, but had a blast playing Catacombs and its solo campaign). So, I'm sure I'll enjoy playing this one every once in a while 😁 Also, the added variety of the expansion and promo cards add a lot of replayability to the game, which is awesome! 🤩

How this game ends?Does it has any final aim?

Great run.

23:48 - One overlook - on Rule Card 16 (Enemies Attack) we read: "If the location is already destroyed, that damage is applied to the gate." The farm was already destroyed.

I'll definitely be picking Gate and Gates. The Gnome Pack being $20 is rough though, especially when you get a bunch of cards for unrelated games.

Good to see you, and I've been looking at this game...

oh, hey! Glad to see you uploading videos! 🤩 I've been binging your videos for a while now, little by little, bit by bit, and I'm enjoying them all! In fact, I'm starting to think about new games to play solo or with friends 😁 I saw that a lot of things happened to you lately, and I hope you can get through everything and enjoy some gaming at the end of the day/week/month 🥰 Thanks for the great content as always, Mr C4!

There he is! I've missed you, Mr. Phour, very glad to see you back with this little solitaire bon bon! EDIT: Holy cats, look at all the extra Gatery! Looking forward to the hopefully imminent Gatestreams!

He must play the games until he dies them playing!

oof.. what a hard game! 🙃 From what you did on the beginning, I thought you'd get a better result, though. You were crushing it! 💪 I believe that a good strategy would be to rack up on gear/spells beforehand in order to be better prepared for the minions and the boss. Another thing I noticed is that I got the feeling that you were rushing through the rooms. Maybe a better strategy would be to explore at a lower pace and defeat goblins, disarm traps and/or explore stuff to get gears/spells. As a side-note, I appreciate you uploading even the games that you lost 😁I'm sure it'll give me comfort once I try this game and fail 😆 Let's see what's next on the following episode 🤩

Great playthrough! And good catch on the FAQ regarding the order of things when exploring. Maybe doing things in the wrong order is what made the last game so hard. Also, you really got me on the "Let's start with Ethairna... Etherna... ETHERNET is going to go first" 🤣 Lol, Ethernet ended up being the buffed mage 💪🧙 Oh, boy.. at the end I was desperate because you weren't adding the +1 focus from the phoenix set! But you realized and managed to defeat the boss 🥳 Great game! It definitely shows how much strategy you have to put into it in order to get the best outcome, and I very much like that ❤ Thanks for the great content! Let's see what happens on the next playthrough 🤩

Id say for alchemist table you would use one dice since the card says "a" d10. Buyt rules say any so I guess you can, just for those 1 seems more appropriate.

I’m digging these videos. Keep making them!

hello, thanks for playing it. Why you roll the blue dices and keep the 3x5 ?? not only 2x5 ? normally you keep the highest score... but not calculate the sun of the thee Blue dices.

Yellow Mage badge -> blue card background -> green meeple... So off that they offer a new yellow mage meeple in the season 2 kickstarter 😂

another great game that I didn't know about! You were totally right when you said that the cards had a lot of stuff, but over time you get the hang of it 👌 Also, at the beginning I was like "Oh, this game looks pretty interesting, let's see what it has to offer..". Then I saw your first turn and was like "...that's tough, buddy..." 😆

this was a great game! And it's rather easy to learn. I love the coop aspect of the game 🤩 great game and great video 💪 would love to see more synergies from different spirits 😁

what a neat game! I' love to try it some day 😁 Complete and concise explanation 💪great video!

Really enjoyed this. Got slaughtered on the tutorial game but managed to pick up a win game two. Ordered stories today too.

Finished the campaign! Managed to get an A- overall 🤩 What a great game! Thanks for the hard work you put into these videos and for showing everybody the joy of this game and its solo campaign 😄 Oh, boy! When the app started discarding 6 cards at a time, I started to sweat 😆At the end of the game the deck had only 11 or 13 cards left 😨 I'm hoping you can give this another shot at a higher difficulty one day 😁And I also hope you can make time with your work schedule for more videos like this 🤞 As always, I'll watch your video now and enjoy the ride 💪

My latest team got robbed twice by invisible goblins, then stumbling around in a dungeon hopelessly, surviving by luck and running away. They abandoned their goal and exited the dungeon. I imagined them looking at eachother standing outside just in their underwear and being like "what the heck just happened". And they decided to go to the nearest village and for the whole walk there they spoke no word to eachother, just loud silence LOL

Dude I love your enthusiasm. Great videos thanks

Just played my first game yesterday, and man there's a lot to remember haha. I feel once I get the flow of things it'll speed up though. (that and I need a few more accessories to organize the 57 deck stacks and 32 token types haha) Fun game and great art =) I saw this on the Dungeon Dive, but it didn't click for me. After watching your play through I had an "Ah-ha!" moment and decided to order it (glad I did). Thanks for giving this oddly rad game the attention it deserves!

I only have 2 of the games you've done playlists for (Under Falling Skies and D100) but these playthroughs ive watched for these games are great. Thank you!

What a twist! Managed to get out in time thanks to the boots of the ape lord (again!) and got enough stuff to escape too 🤩 I drew 2 Riot cards at the beginning of the chapter, which helped me a lot in freeing some prisoners 💪Although the +1 clank didn't help a lot, but managed to get 2 bards and some cards with the "minus clank" effect (like the good ol' Sneak attack 🗡). In the end, I ended up hoping to generate some clank as it helped me stay afloat in terms of health and trigger other effects. That coupled with the sword that lets you recover health if you defeat a monster on the dungeon row (although some times I drew it and there were no monsters to defeat...). This was a very good run and I got a whooping 225 points, which ended up giving me an A+ at the end. Now, onto the final chapter ⚔But before that comes your video 🤩

So awesome to see a solo playthru of this amazing game. I've got it out on my table right now after getting the expansions last week. Brilliant!

This chapter got me greedy and made me realize how clumsy I can be sometimes! At the beginning I had to collapse a tile and collapsed the only tile that connected me to the rest of the maze, so I got locked on the upper part of the rectangular tile, going back and forth getting all the monkey idols until I defeated the Keymaster, which let me discover new tiles 😆 After that, I decided to free Max, which ended up making it very difficult, as the rules state that you are knocked out if he's knocked out, so I was juggling between our clanks and restoring health with the bard. I ended up getting knocked out because if a dragon attack, but not before barely getting to a safe tile, which ended up getting me rescued 🤩 I loved the mechanics of restoring collapsed tiles by marking wayshrines, and getting more stuff by marking extra wayshrines! I won't get tired of saying this: They did an amazing job with this solo campaigns ❤ Now, let's see your playthrough 👀

Men your setup is so similar to mine. The main difference mine content is in Portuguese 😅

Oh, man.. this chapter was the greatest yet! I almost got to kill the Skeletal Ape (I was one sword away from doing so in like 3 turns). I got too greedy and almost got myself killed 😅 I thought I could take him out, but couldn't manage to do so. I ended up getting out of the dungeon with one hit-point left and no cubes left on my reserve 🤣that hadn't happened to me before, and I was so nervous about the next dragon attack and having the ape get to me and deal damage that I had to run away. Thankfully the boots of the ape lord and the monkey idols made it possible 🏃💨 Got my highest score yet on this chapter 💪 Now I'm looking forward to watching your video and see how was your experience 🤩

Finished the second chapter! Got knocked out at the end on the only safe place that I could manage to get to: A crystal cave near the entrance. The amazing part is that I managed to get there thanks to a card that lets you ignore monsters in tunnels, and the only way I could get there was through a tunnel with a monster, but I was with only one hit-point left (you can't take the damage from a tunnel monster if it kills you). So, I was very lucky! 🤩 And I couldn't have known about this if it weren't for you, so, thank you very much for this playlist! Now I'm gonna watch your video 😁

Still waiting for mine to arrive in the EU. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks. Thanks for your videos while I wait!

Fun game. If only the shipping costs were not crazy to Europe 😢

This looks fantastic. I might pick this up.

Which sleeves do you use? Thank you

Good play through lots of fun I’m about to start this myself. I do have a question the card holder that you’ve printed you wouldn’t be able to point me to the STL I’ve looked around and can’t seem to find one that’s similar. Thanks.

Just finished the first episode of my solo campaign, and I must say, it's amazing!! I had watched this video before starting my campaign, so I knew that there would be collapses. What I didn't recall was the effect of the first collapse! I had bought the card that lets you teleport from a wayshrine to another, and I had discovered some tiles with portals and wayshrines, so I thought that the way back would be a breeze... 🌬 After defeating the skeleton, I realized that I had to collapse all the tiles that had a portal in it.. including the one with a wayshrine.. So, you can imagine that the way back got increasingly complicated, which was bad and good at the same time 🤩 Now, onto the second episode of the solo campaign (and your video after I finish that) 💪 Thanks for the amazing content!

Here we are a couple of months later and it's fun, but hard to find an online game (it can be hours between lobby messages) and I've reported close to 20 bugs. The AI is atrocious except for adding some randomness if you don't have enough players. Even in this game you played, the AI trashed a burgle instead of a stumble. When you can get a proper game, it's good, and support is super responsive