Paperback Adventures | Damsel Playthrough | with Jason

Jason plays through this very unique and fun deckbuilding roguelike solo word game with the Damsel Character. For a how-to-play tutorial, please check out our original crowdfunding video - • Paperback Adventures |...
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0:00 - Introduction
3:19 Damsel's Adventure
5:44 Plot Twist Cards
6:35 Book One Lackey
14:46 Book One Boss
23:28 Book Two Lackey
35:38 Book Two Boss
53:04 Book Three Lackey
1:03:39 Book Three Boss
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Music - The Heist by Nomada Jo - • 100% ROYALTY FREE MUSI...

[@galepdx4340]

Your play through on this series of games inspired me to buy this series for myself for my birthday. In the process of playing. Set up a permanent gaming area in a section of my living room to leave solo games up. Loved Ex Machinas. Thanks for inspiration

[@juddjensen7578]

Fantastic playthrough! This game is already fantastic, but I sure hope we get more content in the future as well.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

We’ll see how it sells!

[@elqord.1118]

It really does seem like this game could be easily expanded and become even deeper and crazier

[@CptBumFlufff]

Great playthrough Jason, just had this delivered, looking forward to playing it. Hope you're well. ✌

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Peachy keen!

[@pencilpauli9442]

Having watched Mike's review I checked to see how the markers fitted in the slots. May be wrong but: The markers bulge the sides of the slots out slightly. So if you put another marker in an adjacent slot, it doesn't fit snugly and when you move the first marker it pops the second one out. I'm thinking if you stagger the markers in adjacent slots it won't be such a big problem. Leaving a gap between markers in the same slot will also make it easier to remove without popping the other one imho HTH

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Or they can replace the tokens, which they said they would do eventually :)

[@elqord.1118]

I don't understand how hexes work with her venom vial ability card. E.g. the enemy has 5 hexes on him. Does this mean I can do 5 damage to her if I spend the corresponding amount of hexes and energy? But wouldn#t that still leave hexes on the enemy so I could simply do it all again next turn (albeit with fewer hexes meaning fewer damage and energy to spend?)

[@OneStopCoopShop]

That’s exactly how it works. If you build up a bunch of hexes, it gives you multiple instances of damage you can deal, as long as you can keep paying the energy cost. Think of it as a slow-working poison dealing damage over time as it works its way through the foe’s blood

[@elqord.1118]

@@OneStopCoopShop Whoa, this helped me get it. Thanks!

[@Judgedredd1973]

Can you play this with Hardback?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

They are very different games, unfortunately.

[@malkav1120]

A few minor corrections: In the first encounter (I think) you give a hex from a Plot card being your top card on a word. I'm pretty sure you don't activate Plot effects if they are the top card, only if you discard the card. I believe both with the Bandit King and the Dragon you missed giving yourself an extra hex from Forbidden Tome when you activated the X card ability - that's giving the enemy hexes, so it counts! (As worded it conceivably could double the number of hexes you're adding but I don't think that is the intended interaction.) In the tail end of the Dragon battle, the Dragon clearing 4 hexes put it below 3 so your Alien Skull should have given it a hex at the end of turn (and then one more for the Forbidden Tome). I've really loved my time with Paperback Adventures so far and found the Magic Beans just as powerful as you did, same with that X. I didn't get quite as much hex generation going, though! Looking forward to seeing Ex Machina and Plothook in action as well. :)

[@OneStopCoopShop]

The plot card works in both cases - discarding it and also using it as the top word. I was kicking butt so I wasn’t a stickler about giving myself credit for every hex. Enough to know the boss when down :). All the plays are filmed and watched by the designer, so they’re mostly correct. And fun! This game rocks.

[@Boomtron]

@@OneStopCoopShop Per the designer on bgg " Plot cards have no effect as the top card of the word. They still get fatigued as the top card."

[@OneStopCoopShop]

@@Boomtron Gonna have to ask the designer to chime in here, which they might. The wording on the character card says you "may" discard for the effect, indicating I have a choice to use it another way (ie, as the top card). If that's not the case, a) the wording needs to improve and b) that makes the card underpowered relative to other powers on other characters, IMO.

[@Boomtron]

@@OneStopCoopShop I hear you, but those are Skye Larsen's words from bgg. Can't link thread, but you can search on the rules forums.

[@pencilpauli9442]

Doxing the internet troll to get them offline? Not sure about the ethics of that, but karma, I guess? lol Nice play on defeating the giant!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Don't praise me, praise the Scrabble dictionary!

[@pencilpauli9442]

@@OneStopCoopShop Had to pause halfway through. Thank Jason, great fun to watch along. Looking forward to seeing the other two characters, and eventually playing my own copy.

[@MattHarropActor]

Zanax is a viable word? It’s a name surely?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

According to the dictionary I used, xanax is a word in the same way “xerox” is a word - a proper name that, through frequent colloquial use - becomes accepted as a word in its lower case from. Language is awesome.

[@DavidGFool]

@@OneStopCoopShopWhat dictionary was that?

[@gwgumby]

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