Runebound Retrospective - Episode 4 - The Sands of Al-Kalim

[@TheDungeonDive]

Yes! The series will continue in the near future. Probably in a month or so. I've got so much on my plate right now. We will look at the final big box expansion I own, then a bunch of the small box expansions, before moving on to Runebound 3rd edition. Stay tuned for more Runebound coverage!

[@agender7052]

Hell yeah, can't wait!

[@davidwillems9904]

Glad you're continuing the series. "Views be damned". It's good to have a record of this stuff, and good to do things that make you happy.

[@davidwillems9904]

Also is there a link to your Shop variant/sheet?

[@carolinelabbott2451]

"Views be damned" excatly this. 😃

[@TheDungeonDive]

The shop variant has been posted to the DD FB Group and to the Patreon!

[@adrealz276]

Daniel, full support and long life to the dungeon dive

[@artistpoet5253]

Really would like to see Runebound released again like Hasbro did for Hero Quest.

[@sethpeterson8261]

Same. I'm not interested in 2, would like 3e if I could find one complete with all expansions, but if they did a 4e I'd buy it all. I did pick up a 3e Core game for only $30, but gave it to my daughter as a present

[@giovotek]

Another great deep dive. Love these vids. Thank you for keeping on with this series.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Glad you like them!

[@erikjordheim2933]

YESSSSS! So glad you are continuing with this series. I really wanted to see this expansion but what I am most excited for is your review of Runebound Third Edition AND the ultimate showdown!

[@eriklusyne6892]

Got this one a couple weeks back for 60$ didn’t play it yet. Love this Runebound revisit, Daniel.

[@jawsvvvvv]

I have loved these videos!!! Runebound is one of my favorites!!! I spent almost 1 year to get all expansions and small decks. Still haven't got the Midnight....

[@TheDungeonDive]

Yeah. I doubt I’ll ever get the Midnight expansion. Oh well :)

[@carolinelabbott2451]

I do enjoy these deep dives.❤ I hope many more will come to love them as well, and soon.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Arkham Horror 2e coming next! Although I'm doing it a little differently.

[@TomTermini]

Well, I appreciate your retrospective… and Runebound is a favorite

[@Joshuadmathews]

Looking forward to 3rd editions vid. One of my favorite boardgames. Watching these has made me want to pull it back out. Al-Kalim was prob my favorite of 2e's expansions. How I play 2e (and 3e) is connect all the cards and events together in one cohesive storyline and I always roll a Rory's Story cube at each location using that cube to help tell the story. Sometimes I'll leave the story cube on that location that way if I ever go back there I can remember what was there and perhaps build off that with a second encounter. One time slightly GMing 2e, we roleplayed just 1 green location turning it into a story that lasted a good 20 minutes before moving on. For 3e I've always liked how the combat when using your imagination can feel very cenemic visualizing it blow by blow in the location you are at. I've played with using 3e as a whole as a solo rpg system. I've never 100% rolled out little kinks when trying to use it as a full fledged rpg but still have had fun doing it whenever I did and it is a concept I always want to come back to. I even went as far as buying wooden cubes off Amazon and taking all the Unbound Monster tokens and with markers creating six dice sets of the four monster types (Green, purple, brown, Red) for the very purpose of trying to fight multiple monsters at once- I think I tried this using the first episode of D&D Phandelvers. I know for use I did for the Goblin Ambush. Can't remember if I took the concept into the caves, but I know another time I tried it for level 1 of Castle & Crusades Adventure. Again, never devoted a lot of time to iron out how to do it but still the ideas are still there in the system. Heck, the same is true with 2e. Especially if going for a very narrative story based rpg where you want the battles to go by quickly. I know I've talked with the creator of Micro RPG in the past about this, but I even see inspiration from 2e's fighting mechanics grafted into that system, too.

[@ianbullingham3201]

I like it a lot! Got me into solo gaming, gonna have to dust it off;

[@cwkennedy13]

Another great video, thank you! I really enjoy the questing that this expansion introduces.

[@TheDungeonDive]

My pleasure!

[@shineLouisShine]

Thank you for another great overview, Daniel. It is only natural and themaic that the desert will be a harsh and tough place to deal with and to deal within. There's one thing that I'm not sure of... It seems like old-FFG made all of those expansions because of the game's major success. On the other hand, how major was that success? In my head... in my imagination... Runebound was a success only for a specific audience/community, And all of those expansions are a labor of love, a gesture from the publisher and the creators to the community, And the economic aspect wasn't at the highest priority. Obviously, it is probably a wrong estimate, but... while I really don't know what happened behind the scenes, And while it was long before I entered the hobby - I find the amount of content for this game unproportional with how things ended up, and with shutting this universe down.

[@peterwilson7806]

I’ve really been enjoying this Runebound series. Appreciate all the hard work.

[@gerth7546]

Woohoo another Runebound review!

[@rhubahb]

Love this series, Daniel! Thank you!

[@TheDungeonDive]

My pleasure!

[@ajpiskel]

Thanks for the retrospectives. Runebound 2e was definitely a mainstay of my solo gaming when it was new. These videos are very nice as a broad overview of what's in the box and it's nice to hear your thoughts on certain mechanics and how you view them and the changes or different features. One thing I'd definitely like to see more of is when you talk about what happened during your play session. Here you touch on it very briefly with which character you played and the ally who joined up, but that was pretty much it for the scant details. I realize such things might be out of scope for this particular series, but I just wanted to give a voice to my thoughts. I found your channel via your mork borg videos where you went through the steps of playing and I would very much like to see more content in that vein.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Thanks! Yeah, that’s just not the point of this particular series. :). But that can be found in others for sure! This series is all about what’s in the box, the art, the general feel, and things I like and don’t like about each.

[@davidrussell7085]

This looks like the best expansion adventure from what i see from your videos - there is more story and questing threads going on to make it more engaging - but i admit i have not played them

[@NikoTeaJay]

I'm a viewer who likes these deep dives. I don't remember if I did, but I know if I saw the poll I voted YES on stuff like this. That said, I'm also a "bad" viewer. I'm now watching these. Not when they were new. Not when you were probably most looking at the metrics (and experiencing the effects of said, apparently poor metrics). I take on and off seasons being into stuff. Whether it's a youtube channel or specific aspect of my more involved hobbies. Fun and healthy for me. Less good for the content machine that is youtube, and you making a partial living off of it. Great video series thus far and thanks for making these!

[@TheDungeonDive]

Thanks for watching! Appreciate it.

[@leipherd8118]

I'll watch any video you put out, even if I don't have or have no interest in picking up the games covered. Just interested in thoughts on games and game systems in general

[@ewenneiertz8362]

The number of fan made expansions for Runebound 2nd is completly crazy.

[@RoyOlsen-uf3tp]

Good stuff. 👍keep it going.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Appreciate it!

[@nakanoFIN]

In the 1st episode it was especially nice to learn about the fan made expansions you use. Unfortunately those are not pnp available. This series may in the future help me to decide which expansion to add first, but before that have to try the base game one day. I wish the maps in Runebound 2nd edition were a little bit modern/prettier.

[@TheDungeonDive]

The maps are definitely not the best looking, especially when compared to the beautiful map in 3e.

[@d.aardent9382]

just ordered this to add to my collection. i was thinking about the runebound series and i just went on ebay and found it right off ,a really cheap offer for a good condition set. now going to try and get the Frozen Wastes edition, but its a bit harder to find and one thats not expensive. lol

[@TheDungeonDive]

Good hunting!

[@dagnon99]

Runebound

[@JevousGaming]

Daniel, this is the only channel that does regular, quality, in-depth coverage on older games like these. Totally in for the ride. I’m wondering why FFG discontinued Runebound but continued printing Erdrich Horror. Was 3rd edition so poorly received that it killed the series?

[@TheDungeonDive]

Yeah, I'm not sure. I'd bet it had to do with sales being down, if anything.

[@IslanKleinknecht]

I just like listening to you talk about your passions, but I don't really watch them frequently.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Is the Merchant of Mystery pondering his orb?

[@dumpty008]

I sure hope there's an Ep 5 about Midnight.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Don’t own that. Too expensive.

[@ericperez7872]

I had really wanted this expansion after the bought the main game used on eBay …and for a couple weeks I kept checking noble knights site since they had a copy for around 100$ and the day I finally went to purchase it it wasn’t there 😆😒 …I’ve been looking for other games with the same simplicity but the only ones I came across that would be anything close to the mapping etc. would be mage knight and hexplore it and one other can’t remember the name ..but I really like the open map I would just like a little more choices and to where I don’t have to complete the main objective by a certain time

[@TheDungeonDive]

I literally just posted a video of 6 great Runebound alternatives!

[@ericperez7872]

@@TheDungeonDive I had seen the one with the game zerywia which looks very cool but it’s only available thru kickstarter I believe ?

[@TheDungeonDive]

I think you can late pledge still for the reprint.

[@ericperez7872]

@@TheDungeonDive what about older games like dungeonquest …you know where they sell such games besides eBay and and noble knight ?

[@TheDungeonDive]

I buy most of my old games from eBay.

[@sethpeterson8261]

Hey Daniel, have you taken a look at the 2d6 Dungeon campaign or developer/play videos yet? Seems like something you might enjoy if you haven't

[@TheDungeonDive]

Sure have!

[@APieceofPeace2022]

I think you could make affiliate money posting links to Art Cow or other businesses you reference in your videos

[@jasonsmith1133]

People say they like old games but they don’t. They want to only watch stuff on new stuff. I have a channel and people say the same stuff but only watch new things.

[@CrashOverdrive789]

They really could have made the bigbox expansions into stand alone games and added coop mode earlier. Aside from that this looks really good, thx for the overview

[@TheDungeonDive]

Co-op games were pretty rare back then, especially when compared to now.