Shadows of Brimstone - Video 1 - For a Few Dark Stone More

For a while, I've been wanting to play this game. Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients has a LOT of expansions, but just this basic game has more cards and tokens than you can imagine, and tons of replayability. You can play solo or co-op, with up to 6 heroes (but the basic game comes with just 4 heroes). If you like the game, you can combine the second "Basic Game" called Swamps of Death that adds four more heroes and lots more expansion options.
In this first video I'm taking US Marshall Duke Houston and Gunslinger Dakota Breaker into their first Dark Stone Mine... we'll see if they can survive and head back to town!
Links of Interest:
Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients Basic Game:
amzn.to/3E2yKvw
Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death Basic Game:
amzn.to/3E7NZmH
My two heroes' character sheets (with updates to end of this game):
drive.google.com/drive/folders/15f4KoS8kX5vKY6lp4SA5JO3cLkHPPBSS?usp=sharing

[@timboulay324]

Nice video! Shadows of Brimstone is one of my favourite games. I'll admit I was painting some minis while watching but I did notice a few mistakes. 1) When you draw loot cards, all heroes draw their loot cards at the same time before they shuffle back into the deck. 2) You forgot to make the sanity checks against the Night Terrors. They have Terror 2, so each hero starting their activation on the same map tile takes 2 san hits (you can make Willpower saves against this just like Defense against normal hits) 3) Once you complete the fight in the Objective Room, the game ends. You don't actually need to find your way back out. This may help a bit with the filming as you can remove tiles once you don't think you'll revisit them! My goal is constructive advice, so I hope it doesn't come off as criticism, as I quite enjoyed the video! Oh, and 4) Searching is an action you take at the end of your move, so once you Look Through A Door or Scavenge a tile, that character can not move any farther. Each character may also only Look Through a Door or Scavenge each turn, not both (I don't think you did this one, just pointing it out) And... Yes, the room cards get discarded after use, otherwise you may end up with more than one of the same room while you only have one of the room tile.

[@jktechwriter]

Thanks, Tim!!

[@crazyvolucris]

Double one on the HBTD roll triggers an Depth Event Cart… and the Track Marker don’t move… and double 1 is a Ambush Attack 😮

[@crazyvolucris]

Ohhh and the XP for the big monsters are different… you get the 10 XP for your first hit and additional +5 XP for every wound you cause… that’s way more per enemy

[@papiplays1677]

Yes that 8 point hit that you did should have been worth 50xp alone.

[@crazyvolucris]

The Map Card goes in the discard pile 😊

[@crazyvolucris]

Ambush Attack only adds +2 initiative to the monster!

[@nikital.6523]

Oh, hey Brimstone! So many good hours with friends and acquaintances were had. Good times. We've found quite a few tokens to be useless, chiefly the dollar tokens. It's quicker to just write them down as the dosh comes and goes. While I can't remember the rules page off the top of my head, the tile cards are not shuffled back in. If you explore the entirety of a deck, then something already went quite wrong (although, arguably you can exhaust the deck in the other worlds).

[@checkedout3592]

Entertaining video. The first of your videos that I have scene. I will toss in one critique since I spent the time watching lol. There dice tray seems to be the center of the action but quite of few of the actual rolls were negated by glare. The six's were the primary culprits.

[@jktechwriter]

Will try to fix that!

[@prorizo]

Love SoB. It's my favorite dungeon crawl board game. I own most of the expansions. If you're interested, look for the fan made hexcrawl rules for an overland, open world experience.

[@BrewsGamesRides]

Great game, looking forward to the series! 🍻

[@crazyvolucris]

And you don’t have to track down the cave back… 😅

[@keithscherer3043]

Rolling doubles on the Hold Back the Darkness results in a Depth Event and the Darkness does not move on the track (unless the Event says so). Depth Events are different for each world.

[@thetabletopengineerplays]

Okay, will look that up. Yet another thing to remember :)

[@dennishutt427]

The tee junction doesn't get explored and that is why the card doesn't say which way to block.

[@jktechwriter]

Got it.

[@CrowManyClouds]

Sword... I mean, Six shooters and sorcery!

[@crazyvolucris]

Oh for scannendes roll you draw 1 Scavenge Card per 6 rolled. NOT LOOT CARDS

[@crazyvolucris]

And you don’t put an Exploration Token on the Junction 😀

[@keithscherer3043]

Scavenge uses the Scavenge deck not the Loot deck. The Scavenge deck has possible dangers while the Loot deck does not. If you explore and reveal a a map card, you cannot also Scavenge. Once you move and explore, you cannot move afterward. The T-Junction is a passage and not a room, so no Exploration token.

[@thetabletopengineerplays]

yeah, much of this was already pointed out in earlier comments. I'm now on Mission 3, so I've made some corrections. Thanks, Keith.

[@keithscherer3043]

@@thetabletopengineerplays There are a lot of things to remember. You are going a great job being new to the game. Hope you are enjoying it.

[@LordTalismond]

@@thetabletopengineerplays Also you draw all the cards then reshuffle them back in, it is possible with 4 or more heroes to draw every loot card in one go.

[@keithscherer3043]

The Marshal killed an Enemy and should have gotten another shot. You forgot Loot cards at the end of the final fight.

[@thetabletopengineerplays]

Yep.