Dark Souls: The Board Game Solo Assassin - Asylum Demon

My tortoise is hibernating, so she can't make thank you appearances.
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[@XboxHerO3467]

Thanks for doing these! I really enjoy them!

[@RageBadgerGaming]

> My tortoise is hibernating, so she can't make thank you appearances. The real disappointment.

[@vipergecko03]

I LOVE that you play by the rules! The game is not unbeatable and many players don't realize that

[@craignewboult]

Brought this game today loved the video. Love that u owned your mistakes. Big help defo going to watch some of your other vids cheers dude

[@eugeniovargasvillanueva2670]

Your videos are very good explain. Please upload more videos about the other expansions set. Good job.

[@gwyndolin1536]

Asylum Demon is thicc.

[@DjImpossibility]

32:00 T H I C C

[@cliffcarrico1831]

"Boom. I'm a hero." Almost spit my coffee everywhere on that one, bud. Hilarious.

[@talljohn28]

Nice to see you do this alongside Arkham Horror LCG. Thanks!

[@YuGiOhWaffle]

oh wow i was just watching your older dark souls board games video and wondered why there weren't any solo assassin. lucky me now you have a vid on it! XD

[@Xtreme_Mudding_ATV]

Yes that movement method work but logic if you want some challenge you would make the enemie move 1 in the front of him and after left or right depend the enemie because playing like this is easy at the end

[@castagnopolis]

I agree, usually in these types of the game when is the enemy turn, you need to think, what the enemy would really do? there is no challenge in doing this.

[@theundeadranger10]

@@castagnopolis and moving them as he did makes it too simple and just feels like cheating realistically the enemies will always take the quickest route towards you not suddenly go sideways

[@xSal101x]

I think the spear comes from the enemies in front of the Abyss Watchers in DS3.

[@CynicallyAwesome]

xSal101x you’re totally right. This comes from those crazy goat people in the swamp area. Weird that they put a dark souls 3 weapon in the dark root basin expansion unless they are implying that Farron keep is connected to darkroot.

[@Emma7846]

CynicallyAwesome Lore wise, the swamp in dark souls 3 is oolacile, and in fact, the buildings in Farron keep have the architecture of oolacile’s buildings along with other obscure connections

[@craigambler3282]

Nice playthrough. Getting these extras for Christmas. Painting is excellent though. Wasn't going to paint mine but better do now.

[@Freddy_da_fox]

Hi, I really have to say your Dark Souls Vids are awesome! I bought a cheap copy and will jump in soon

[@sirensplace6394]

Rotten gru spear is a dark souls 3 weapon. Love your solos gg.

[@patchwork536]

Nice session ;)

[@DriedMoss]

Is the Gargoyle a Mini Boss or Main Boss? The rulebook and boss card for Gargoyle are different. I have only recently, since SFG has updated the shipping schedule for expansions to DS, been getting more into my copy of Dark Souls, as is why I am commenting so late in to these videos.

[@CynicallyAwesome]

mini boss. Only the dancer and the golden boys are main bosses

[@LouLouTooPaToow]

at 12:16 when you attacked with your spear, i was wondering if it would inflict poison to the enemy even tho you rolled 0 on the damage dice

[@vipergecko03]

Essentially you STILL HIT but for no dmg so the poison still procks

[@just70hq]

this game is such a meme! I love the video games but I doubt I'd have the patience to get into the board game

[@andresfelipemoncayo]

Excelente video, pero un dato adicional es que cuando esquivas debes de moverte no es opcional.

[@maxhazePlays]

I have a question regarding status such as poison, bleed, ect... If u have poison on ur weapon and u roll a 0 or doesnt beat the defense threshold, does the status still apply? A reply would help improve gameplay alot, thank u.

[@CynicallyAwesome]

Conditions apply even if the damage is 0 for both sides

[@oddthequiet4868]

20:30 Nope If it was "equidistant" you could have put the Foliage in the center of the tile, but you never did. The legal move was Foliage to center.

[@CynicallyAwesome]

Those 3 spaces are equidistant. If you count out how many spaces it takes for the bush to get to me from where it started, it would take 3 spaces regardless of which of the 3 directions it went, so I have it to left, so I can go right to give me more breathing room

[@fivelement73]

I watched the video well. It helped me a lot to play alone. However, you made the wrong move. When moving backwards from boss front on the same node, you have to spend one cube. The core rule book is well explained in the example on page 28.

[@DamtheMan50]

For a tutorial kinda video, weird seeing the very first turn (and rest of the encounter) have a pretty major blunder, namely ignoring the Repeat icon on Shears Scarecrows behaviour card. Not sure if you noticed or corrected it later, only got to around 8:00 mark. I drew the same encounter on my solo Assassin run, having one enemy move 2, attack at 1-range for 4 and then two doing move 1, attack for 3 Repeat each, all with 2-Dodge value, burned through lot of my resources on the first tile.

[@CynicallyAwesome]

you know what, you're totally right on that- When i saw that card, I interpreted it to be attack twice, not do everything twice because I'm used to that icon being more centralized as it is with boss cards. There's no precedent for that, but I was still doing it wrong. Thanks for catching that, I'll ingrain that for subsequent videos, sorry I never noticed that until now

[@scottspartan9]

What does the Big pilgrims key do in this version of the game?

[@youtubeadministration8037]

You didnt do the shears guy twice. At the end it has the icon which says to do it twice. It would change the gameplay drastically

[@Berstalin]

My god i played the game wrong. I assumed that the enemy always had to take the most direct route towards the player never invisioned the equal distance node travel.

[@Xtreme_Mudding_ATV]

Is equal node but if you want challebge you gona make the enemie go front and not left to right depend how people want challenge when starting playing the first time is ok but with people with experience you should make the enemie go push forward is more spicey for the game

[@4KandChill]

Yea, manipulating the enemy movement to your advantage like this kinda ruins the fun I feel. In these scenarios I prefer to have them move in the way that would be more advantageous for them, not me.

[@Xtreme_Mudding_ATV]

@@4KandChill yep exact if u play like this u dnt have the real gaming of dark souls it become so easy heal up ur stamina or heal if ur a healler by doing this i allways play that enemie push if they act does back up like ranged person and even the first time played i play like this because other than that hard to die if playing like this not much challenge

[@joselazo9799]

Yeah, that's not the wrong way to play it though just a different way. Most people want the monsters to run straight at players and cut them off, etc. In Dark Souls monsters often veer left and right and try to surround and overwhelm players, so there's no "cheating" or "ruining fun" the logic for both is acceptable. Just do whichever you prefer.

[@GameHauntings]

i really love Dark Souls and i really would love to play this.... new friend here, nice to meet you, saw you on Dreads stream, left a like and turned the bell on, you can check our haunted channel if you want, i ll stay connected. have a nice day, stay safe take care...

[@CLutz009]

I think you're supposed to place your figure on the map before you reveal and populate the encounter. Can you confirm this?

[@CynicallyAwesome]

you can find the rulebook online at steamforged.com/resources there it says on page 19: once you've set up the node- THEN place your character

[@omega.revolution3894]

why did you start with 16 souls?

[@CynicallyAwesome]

omega.revolution when you play a solo game, you get a boost of 16 souls at the beginning. When you play with more than 1 character, you don’t get this boost

[@CLutz009]

@@CynicallyAwesome I thought it was 9 souls for a solo start. Does the Darkroot basin change that rule?

[@CynicallyAwesome]

@@CLutz009 why did you think it was 9? pg 13 of the rulebook clearly states if you are starting with one player, you start with 16 souls

[@qwertyman459]

you dont shuffle the boss deck, you look at the behavue then place it on top of the deck. its so you know what hes going to do to plan around it. its called insite.

[@originorange1185]

You shuffle the boss deck when it reaches it's heatup threshold and add the new heat up ability.

[@xxalgorinxx]

Youre playing on easy mode, try in hard mode, spending 4-8-16 souls to level up each stats, or 20 in one move! Cya

[@4KandChill]

That’s not hard mode, that’s campaign mode, otherwise known as boring mode