Legend of Drizzt Review - with Tom and Melody Vasel

[@doggyd5874]

2022, Belgium, I've just bought the first Drizzt's book... and then the boardgame the same week. Nice video, thanks to share this enjoyable family moment

[@locksmithdb5987]

Rhymes with blitzed. Drizzt. I've read all the novels, they are amazing! Some of the BEST fantasy stories/novels of all time.

[@RealityWithRoNiece]

No lie look up the audios on Spotify amazing dramatic readings

[@shadroth]

The water elemental is the Medium Water Elemental (number 36) from Dragon Eye set of D&D Miniatures Game. That was set #2 released in 2003, eight years before this video was uploaded. D&D minis weren't reused in Heroscape until a much later stage (when Heroscape was starting to die off). Essentially all of the minis in the three D&D board games (Ravenloft, Ashardalon, Drizzt) are unpainted versions of the minis from the D&D Miniatures game.

[@raffaelepassarelli6444]

I would LOVE to see a 4th box with Dark Sun setting.

[@IdlePeasant]

You're a good dad, Tom. Keep up the entertaining reviews!

[@KitKat-lp8gn]

You draw an encounter only if the arrow is black

[@nozidnolram]

I've worked with customizing D&D minis and the thing to deal with bending is to dip them in hot water, then straighten them, then dunk in ice cold water. Hope that helps =)

[@cedricdelille6014]

Very fun video and very insightfull, I just got this for christmas and was a little overwhelmt but you helped alot thx!

[@Whisper6911]

how did u mix the games? did you just throw everything together? does that effect anything besides the theme?

[@CollectionTHX1138]

Someone described it more as a Dungeon Race to the last tile then a dungeon Crawl lol and yeah the water elemental was used in the D&D minis game only it wasn't translucent it was painted blue. the CR Skelton is also the same. and this system is interesting in that it's fun to lose like some video games til you win.

[@cfcalle]

you can mix almost everything; you can mix heroes, villains, monsters, adventures, and even tiles and make one heck of a game. However, there are some encounter cards, and treasure cards specifically for certain situations or heroes, so in that case u draw another card and ignore the previous one. ( if you read the booklet it would be much better but that's pretty much the idea)

[@Captainlunchbox]

Kudos to you for getting your kids involved. I'm taking the opposite approach and trying to get my father into my hobby.

[@skalapunk]

@yabyab Actually it's "Drist" with the s sounding slightly like a z at the end!

[@erics.3240]

Starting at 10:35 the battle really begins. This girl is destined for geek greatness!

[@EirikrThorvaldsson]

@SPBTooL Get Wrath of Ashardalon unless you really want the Ravenloft (undead) or Drizzt (Underworld) theme. Wrath is more generic than Drizzt with the big baddy being a Dragon under the mountain and it has more variety and a few other things are fixed and/or improved from Ravenloft. If you buy a second get Ravenloft as the two really compliment each other well in terms of components and options. The are all great though so pick the theme you like best and go with that one.

[@isaiahfurrow7414]

These D&D games have definitely made the list, just need to decide which one first, along with Dungeon! .... any advice on which order to pick up these 3 games? Thanks again for the video, hope you had a good Turkey Day....

[@marcbowling6451]

Drizzt imho. Ashardalon kicks you in the nuts super hard, and from what I'm told Ravenloft is even worse. From personal experience, I say Drizzt.

[@jamielishbrook2384]

Im going for ashardalon first myself just because it was the first one i heard about

[@millbranch2]

I feel you! I've spent years pronouncing "drow" to rhyme with "know," not "now." Since I now know better, I'm trying to self-correct. Oh well. Maybe the Matron Mothers won't come after me for disrespect.

[@sandal_thong8631]

"I never play the boys." That's cute. None of my buddy's daughters wanted to play a male fighter/barbarian back in the day, so I had to look for a plastic female fighter/barbarian figure and finally got one in the form of a valkyrie in HeroClix, I think, and maybe used it once! I saw some rare female dwarfs, but haven't seen a plastic one, yet. This was before I got Castle Ravenloft which has a female Ranger and a female Rogue.

[@lqdreality]

"I said to him that he would not pass and he didn't". LOL

[@michaelbauers8800]

It's spelled Drizzt, but it's pronounced Throat wobbler mangrove

[@eliasrosa2123]

Michael Bauers !

[@michaelbauers8800]

Monty Python reference

[@markjohnson6901]

This is the best of the three box sets. I would love to see a Conan/Drizzt crossover.

[@MrJustintreat]

I recommend you read the drizzt series. It is great

[@verticalisland]

Amazing book series. Only reason I would buy this probably. lol :D

[@wtjbatman]

I have an unopened Wrath of Ashardalon that I need to introduce to my group, they would love this series.

[@voltcorp]

@thegreatmerga Maybe because games are meant to be played, and the only real value within those plastic pieces are the meaning we embed in them when we play and have fun. Else they are just molded goo with a production cost of 0.001 cents per piece.

[@bigsky780]

02:17 Icing death? Is that chocolate or vanilla. I didn't realize Pastry Chef was such a power class in D&D.

[@kustomkure]

one hell of a syllable I might add

[@codykonior]

I own all 3 but have only played Castle Ravenloft a dozen times or so. CR was heavily weighted against the player unless you are playing with all 4 heroes at once. Common opinion seems to be that Drizzt has stronger heroes and is an easier game (with less punishing encounter cards being a big part of that) - though it will likely still require 4 heroes at once.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I played some solo games in C.R. two years ago with two characters and usually succeeded if one of my characters was the dwarf cleric (or rogue & ranger). I played the finale a dozen times before I used 3 to win the finale.

[@ceeqanguel]

Knowing Drizzt, he really doesn't mind when good people mess his name. But he's absolutely pissed off when bad people get his name right...

[@jeromysmith1983]

lol. Yeah, considering R.A. Salvatore says "Dritz", WoC's promos say "Drist" and I've even heard "Drizz". I don't really know if there is a correct way to pronounce it. My rule of fantasy is if you can't pronounce it, make it up.

[@Mark-OutWest]

Someone want to tell me how a woman in a bare mid riff has an armor class of 15?

[@theone-sideddie8802]

Magic armor?

[@michaelbauers8800]

Armor class historically represented inability to hit/damage something. So a very agile entity could have a high AC due to being hard to hit

[@sandal_thong8631]

Replace with a figure that looks like E'owyn from LoTR.

[@marcpieruccini3742]

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[@musicismyfavorite777]

It's pronounced (Drist) right?

[@yabyab]

Hello Tom! Nice review like always.. just in case you're curious Drizzt is pronounced Dritz.

[@raykiii]

It rhymes with Liszt.

[@Moshimoshism]

lol drizzt is easy.. but i was always wondering how to pronounce jarlaxle. Is it Jar-Lal, Jar-Laxl-Jar-lax-lay

[@parkarboy73]

@psbauman I'm pretty sure most 14 year old haven't heard of him myself. I agree the books aren't great, but the character himself is pretty cool. Let me guess you love Tasslehoff :P

[@Nailsnake]

i love the dark elf saga

[@holysmoke8439]

the rules suck you can't see 4 feet down a hallway n the monsters come outta thin air, good thing dungeon saga improved on all this.

[@RoPinh]

This is to make a random dungeon experience. The diference with Dungeon Saga is that DnD Adventure System don't need a Master ( player that play against the players) the monsters have a sequence of action. It makes the DnD board game more akin to Diablo 1 or 2 in terms of Dungeon Crawling while DS is just a simulation of a RPG's combat. Also cause u need adventures to play the game, u can make rules for them. U don't like that it is only 1 tile revealed from time to time? Make a adventure with one of the rules being " when u reveal the next tile u also reveal all the other tiles adjacent to it" etc. It is very open. If u like to control the monsters, and know all the map in advance... Then u shoud look for 'Mage Knight Dungeon', a old game that did all this.

[@jackreacher4297]

I reminds me of fog of war in Diablo or Starcraft. I dig it. I like the randomness / revealing will exploring factor

[@Whisper6911]

maybe he just got the audiobook version :P

[@fiddlerjones84]

Sounds like a great addition to the Cooperative D&D Series. The game would be much better with less Drizzt. Yeah the water elemental was a D&D Minis model first. They recycled a lot of the older sculpts from D&D Minis for the later Heroscape sets.

[@Rhino10e]

I think he got the pronunciation right

[@Sebascc100]

Jarlaxle is amazing hehehe

[@Talloweed]

@fiddlerjones84 I agree. I'm not really a fan of the character, so that it's very specific to Drizzt is kind of a turn off for me.

[@warrentame]

Looks cool

[@KhanGarth]

its "drist", not "drizz - it"

[@TokedOutVlad]

lol I read pretty much the whole series pronouncing it "drizz-it"...felt pretty stupid when I found out how it's "supposed" to be pronounced though XD

[@KhanGarth]

TokedOutVlad lol i dont know where people get the extra "I" after ZZ, so how can it be drizz - it? lol

[@BornLoserPoker]

+Garth Palmer The author pronounces it as DriTs, so since he created the character, i am going to have to say he is correct

[@BornLoserPoker]

for sure. after I posted this comment I found a video with R.A. Salvatore saying he sometimes pronounces it multiple different ways. As a side note, I always thought I, Strahd would have made a great movie

[@maestro7058]

Jezus you pedants :D. Although I understand lol I am coming from a good place :)

[@shagoosty]

Drizzt is one syllable.

[@jackreacher4297]

This title should say how to play lol. Thx for Za fun doe

[@Herfer]

Drisst would be the correct name...but we now Tom doesnt care

[@kustomkure]

more like Drizzit

[@jackreacher4297]

Drittz lol dritttzzz

[@JaKamps]

ha the Dice Tower dungeons.

[@rc7771]

Drizzt sounds more like "Drist".

[@weizur]

I never realized how much mispronouncing Drizzt upsets me.

[@TheBayzent]

Well, he does mention that it happens often with surface dwellers...

[@sandal_thong8631]

I didn't realize how much I preferred Anglo-names until I played Descent and tried to read the adventures out loud.

[@Medsas]

dreezit! lol

[@Naraxiskillz]

The mispronunciation of Drizzt was harmful to my ears. It's pronounced exactly like it looks. "Drist" is how you should say it.

[@mattkennedy146]

Okay, I know this is really old but I have to put this out there. How Tom pronounced it is how I always pronounced it: "drizz-it", because to me, that's how it looks like it should be pronounced. To me, "drizzt" in no way looks like it should be pronounced "drist". The "zz" looks like it makes a "zzzz" sound, not an "ss" sound.

[@AndrewKimbrell]

no respect *shakes head*

[@jackreacher4297]

Drzzt has zittz