Gloomhaven RPG, Miniatures and 2nd Edition - What We Know So Far...

sup glimmers so today we have finally the launch of the backer kit for glimp Haven's second edition the RPG and of course Miniatures of gloomhaven did I write a script for this no but I'm just really excited on all the new things that they're announced with this new backer kit campaign including all the wonderful things about it like oh my goodness this is there's so much so I'll try to be brief I try to be brief I mean I'm going to inevitably fail and talk for way too long so before I jabber too much let's just get into it remember if you want to be kept up to date with all things gloomhaven RPG Miniatures second edition or even Frost Haven be sure to subscribe and be sure to hit like or join us on patreon it really helps a refined experience this new edition of gloomhaven takes the classic game and elevates it to a new level with rebalanced and redesigned characters monster scenarios and a Rewritten story all new art and graphic design and a new faction reputation system I'm actually particularly excited about it I do love the new characters I personally think that this is awesome and just the new campaign feels like a new experience I didn't do a lot of the campaign testing but I did get to see and play so many of the characters and some of the characters that I wasn't really enthused about before now I love and it's all the characters I previously loved I still do so if that's any statement the stuff is good that's the short version but even taking a look at some of these including renaming the Bruiser and Silent knife as a heads up don't sing the song Silent Night and replace all the words night with knife makes the song really creepy but as we can see all the new starters they look great I'm not going to talk about the lock classes but we have already I've already gone over second edition some of the characters in detail But ultimately I'm super enthused and I think the one thing I really want to talk about is here the new faction reputation tracks instead of just having one reputation track we now have the demons military and Merchants I I love how this works out because giving people different rewards for their choices in the campaign is huge not only that but it kind of changes how you play the game a little bit and instead of saying like hey I want to try this new reputation thing but I don't want to take reputation and it doesn't matter they're all great choices and because that it gives you to player agency now some people were saying hey you know this one campaign we tried to be the bad guys or whatever like that and the events didn't pay off we tried to do the good guys the good being good guys is always better and in general it is but you can side with the demons and it's not gonna be like oh no we're gonna take me back no no you get cool rewards from the Demonic reputation it's sweet plus with the new design we clearly have hey look a new scenario book and a new section book and these are going to just they they make the campaign flow so much better and if you look at the items that are going to be the rewards from this not only have we revamped and rebalanced the items but we actually have 20 new ones as introduced to you which is fantastic and of course they're bringing back the campaign tracker from frost Haven which I think is super good there's something I thought that was really weird about gloomhaven having like the tiny that tiny party sheet and then having the stickers on the map and they're all in different places having everything in one cohesive Place love it wow this campaign also includes a second print run of frost Haven there'll also be a frost Haven play Surface Book set the jaws of the lion map book was wildly popular and now we're getting it in Frost Haven and that'll be released alongside the second printing guess what though glenhaven's second edition will also be receiving this treatment it isn't yet development yet so you can't pledge for it yet but I'll update you as soon as I know ultimately I'm super enthused about second edition I think the other videos I've done it has already done we've already said enough about this and I think we need to move on to the next product also taking a look at the schedule for cool things coming out soon we have chatting with Shuffle Affair which is going to be on the 21st which I'm super excited about obviously if you looked at the stream I was on it which all playing's fun I really like my character design and I can't wait to play her some more I really feel really good about this I think we had a lot of silly characters and I think ultimately that just makes it a more enjoyable watch rather than everyone being serious dark and brooding I know my character is a little dark in brooding but um you know need some variety in the group right but expect another session on that very soon and on the 23rd we have miniature painting which I think I personally I love watching paint try but that's not for everyone but if that's your up your alley we've got that looking coming forward too but if this is something you want to try I'll be at Origins this week from the 22nd to 25th I think and I will be running demos of the RPG as a glimmaster we're going to be running this really cool short scenario which you could take I'll guide you through for two hours and I personally think it's gonna be super fun so be sure to stop by the stuff Lafayette Booth early and get a spot for that there will be only pre-generated characters because unlike gloomhaven character creation takes a little bit of time but I assure you the adventure is super fun and you should join us I think something that's really cool is a lot of people have been asking hey I want to know more about the world of gloomhaven and like you kind of dig a little bit more like in town records Frost Haven add a little bit more but ultimately there's just not a lot of information out there the Glenhaven RPG book is actually going to be full of pages and pages of story about like of all the different ancestries of all the different cities and kind of develop the world for you this allows you to at least at the very list maybe you're not interested in role-playing but it's just a big lore book which I'm personally super enthused about I have been baturing Isaac a lot and totally not for my fan fiction absolutely not for that there's so much wonderful lore on the setting and just being able to share that finally I'm I'm so excited because oh it's it's such a wonderful world and being able to share that is just great and it's not just the world there's actually going to be fun Maps you'll get to see like the breakdown of various cities and the Very cities and various regions and explore outside of the um Eastern air Northeastern area of caskia where we have Frost Haven and Gloom Haven and we finally got to see more like what's in the midst they see what's in the southern air are we finally gonna see the red desert the answer is yes forever DM's everywhere like me are gonna get stuck with like writing new wonderful things in this world but if like writing isn't your Forte there's a big adventure already built into it it's like supposed to take like 20 hours to do and so if you're like hey writing's not my forte don't worry we've already done some work for you and they made the promise they're going to be supporting this product with more much so if writing isn't your thing but playing the game is oh boy they're gonna have plenty of modules for you to play in the world of caskia just a heads up if you are pledging the RPG book that's 30 that's a great book but it does not come with everything you need to play be sure to get the deluxe kit because you will need those ancestry cards just a heads up that's very important something that's actually really cool about this game just has a heads up though your character's class determines a lot of their proficiencies and your character's ancestry gives you access to Unique skill as well and you you unlock this very interesting combination of characters and then you build in backgrounds in your backgrounds and your skills and your attributes all combined to these relatively controlled attribute checks that are although they're fairly narrow in what they can do you still have levels of ability to get through these challenges and you might be able to stumble through them with different successes or not but the cool part I really like about this is just involving your background Crown involving your character's choices rather than just you know back in the third third edition where basically anyone could take any skill but some were cross-class and you were never good at these certain types of skills just allowing you to say hey my background allows me to pick this hey my ancestry's good at this hey my class is good you can use this whole buffet and build the character that you want in this world and a lot of it is focused on this ability to handle out of combat encounters because the combat design is very similar if you've seen it uses second edition cards with just a few modifications but the combat shines because it's not just this this long like Dungeon Crawl of like Hey we're gonna play through the scenario and it's going to take two or three hours no this is this allows you to play through combat relatively quickly whatever you use in that combat the the discards and losses and all of that carries over into a thing called stamina if you burn yourself out in combat you might not be affected with skills if you burn yourself out during the skill phase you may not and you may have losses that happen in combat so you still need to be careful but at the same time combat isn't just gloomhaven like here set up the board and play gloomhaven there's going to be ways like hey can I do this thing and like in gloomhaven if you're like hold on there's these this obstacles here I think my background allows me to do things and maybe I can like swing on a chandelier and kick him in the face knock them prone or like you know do stuff like that or even like kick a guy's weapon away the GM will be like you know what that that's cool that's in this check You're Gonna Roll it it's like roll a finesse check right now people oh crap like that's not something you don't suddenly stop combating Glenhaven to say hey we're gonna roll an attribute check to see how successful you are or how successful you're not you might suffer some backlash for the failed check or there's so many different possibilities just like an RPG and I love that aspect of this we can take a look here at one of the characters that Isaac has built a tinkerer and ultimately see that this character isn't just like a gloomhaven character where you're like hey I'm this character and I get some perks and don't worry you get some perks around the next page but on this this is just the information you get during character creation and you'll unlock the new cards some from your ancestry and some from your class and make this wonderful and unique character also the GM being able to pick some cards is super cool because every now and then as a forever DM I'd always love to be like hey guess what they're doing and see how they react to it of course the GM doesn't need to be adversarial there's ways on how you can handle this and it guides you through how to properly get characters through this and it's a pretty easy transition anyone who's familiar playing Dungeons and Dragons especially fourth edition should be really familiar with the system and oh boy look at all these Miniatures which first off are great for upgrading your game first off I love the standees but I do love painting miniatures I think this is super great but some people are not going to be super into this but imagine all the fun stuff you can do in the gloomhaven RPG like seriously there's so many options you can use any combination you can bring back some of these boxes even then you can kind of customize months monsters how you want and and I love one of the things I love about fourth edition Dungeons and Dragons is I made custom bosses I think that shined through to my group and I had some very intricate encounters and those were some of the most memorable like fights in there and not only that but it wasn't always just like big boss fights and stuff like that but there were like other elements I'd like to throw in there so imagine taking some of these scenarios in gloomhaven and adding your own personalized twist to it and that's something I'm really looking forward to as a matter of fact I've already been designing some I'm going to be testing it which I'm super enthused about so once I finish my little story I'm going to be running a group through it and who knows maybe I'll be able to share that Adventure what I mean I might actually like try to publish a module and maybe people will be able to try it out I personally think that sounds super fun and let me know if that's something you'd like to see you know once once the game's actually published holy crap look at all these Ministries there's so many of them look at that cutie mc2d little verbling oh he's so cute just the cutest little boy but I'm a huge fan of all these I'm probably gonna get out the contrast paints because I'm going to be honest although there's a lot of them here I'm not going to want to bunch of detail on all of them so I'm gonna probably like Slap Chop the crap out of them I did really want to see the new inex Miniatures but I don't have access to them yet but even then just it's not just monsters that you got summons you got frost Haven Miniatures Jaws I mean forgotten circles I thought they would have forgotten that please don't kill me for that ultimately this gives you the opportunity to play like whatever you want in gloomhaven you can pull out all the summons all the characters you can pull out any monster that's in any part of the system and you can bring this to life in the RPG and that's something I'm super excited about also I'm gonna paint oh also I'm definitely going to be painting some of these bosses and I I really want to see I have some like custom terrain so I'm gonna try to see what leveled up climb Haven is going to look like when we have full Miniatures and full oh I'm so excited I might need to get some walls or something to really level it up but I'll take some pictures when I'm done but there's a lot of Gloom Haven miniature sets you can you know you can a la carte or just grab them all even though you've got the big box set look at all these look at everything that comes from the big one which is huge I'm super excited for it this is a great campaign and ultimately in the upcoming weeks we're gonna get more details on all of them and I love to see these Miniatures painted so that's super cool if it wasn't aware for me appearing on the screen I do have a close relationship with several Affair if there's something you want to see shown off let me know in the comments All I you know a bunch of people have been asking I want to see circles I want to see circles I'm asking them can we show off circles or let me show off circles that would be super cool but uh who knows what they're gonna do but I'd love to share that with you but if you have any other suggestions for me to ask please let me know in the comments what are you really enthused about also let me know just I love hearing people get super excited because that's kind of just my default State I hope you keep being amazing be uh I will be at Origins I'll be doing a couple updates I'm going to be showing off some of the RPG cards while I'm there so be excited for that and be ready that's only going to be a few days away oh my goodness it's almost here I'm literally driving down tomorrow so stick around for that if you haven't already be sure to subscribe I'm going to be doing lots of updates on this and hit like it really helps and of course thank all of you for being amazing and sign up for patreon if you want to support us speaking of patreon thank you to our inex tier patrons all of you are amazing I didn't oh my goodness you're so wonderful there's been so many new ones this year this month even and I just really appreciate all of you you're you're wonderful and thank you for helping support what I do so thank you so much and thanks all of you for watching the the Bruiser is now as much more daddy energy going on uh than the original artwork uh yeah anyway

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Length: 13min 53sec (833 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023