Let's play the DnD Boardgame: Tomb of Annihilation Adventure 1

[Music] and here it is the tomb of annihilation this is going to be a semi-blind playthrough of this board game i say semi-blind because once we have never played this before we have played another game in the series temple of elemental evil fourth one this is the fifth one and looking over the rule book these are pretty much the same games there are a few differences though mainly theming and story but also the monsters are all different you get all different heroes probably also a lot of the cards will be different even if they might fill the same role gameplay wise speaking of the story and background this is based on the tomb of annihilation module for dungeons and dragons fifth edition the pen and paper game and i'm really curious to see how they translated that into a board game and this seems to be a lot of stuff to set up so whilst i'm busy with that let's have a look at the story something evil is trapping the souls of the dead and draining life from all who have been raised from death by magic this worldwide death curse not only prevents the raising of the dead but also causes creatures that were previously raised from the dead to wither and die divination spells have revealed that the source of this death curse lies in a trap riddled tomb beneath the lost city in the death of a vast jungle the tomb of annihilation in an effort to end the death curse the heroes sailed to chult making landfall at portney and zaru the only major settlement for hundreds of miles from there the main adventure has the heroes embarking into the wild untamed tropical jungles of chald facing these jungle warriors prehistoric creatures and undead only to find themselves needing to wander further as deep within that jungle lies an ancient tomb under a ruined city that tomb the tomb of the nine gods is under the control of assadarak an archlick with incredible power we're defeating him and the death curse [Music] that's the story so far and now we have five characters ready to take on a sarah rack the game gives you a varied selection of heroes to choose from each of them have different classes and they're from mixed braces as well you have a lot of animal folk in this one the first hero is dragon bait he's a sorial paladin a sort of lizard folk and he can't talk but only emit sense then you have ashara an ara kokra wizard bird folk and her special ability enables her to fly across the board switching positions really fast then you have artist symbol a human ranger in possession of the ring of winter an artifact granting him magical ice powers next up is kawasa a human druid who can shapeshift and who brings a friend to the fray a plant person called kubalui and last but not least there's birdsong a tabaxi barred cat person originating in portnianzaru who has a good chance to avoid traps even without disarming them by simply stepping over them all these characters come with their own deck of class specific powers from which players select their personal arsenal before each adventure some of these powers are reusable others have to be recharged before they can be used again i won't go into detail as to what these do right now we'll just explain them as they come up in the adventure now we face a final problem here we've got two players we want to play with four characters to make things a bit more interesting but we've got 5 characters here making things uneven so after thinking about it for a while we've decided to chuck out arthur's symbol he comes with the ring of winter providing him with extra powers to use and he's so powerful that he basically turns the game to easy mode if you use him so off he goes [Music] this leaves us with 4 characters which will neatly split down right the middle and now let's finally introduce the first adventure you have come to pornzaru seeking to end the strange death curse that has befalled on the land of children magical feeling has grown weaker and in some cases begun to fail entirely even reversing earlier healing however first you need a starting point and after kicking around town for a while you were pleased to have an opportunity to fall into your lap the merchant prince jessamine is looking for some poisonous mushrooms found in the jungle and if you can find some for her she may well prove to be a vital source of information for you [Music] [Music] right let's go all right um you start let's go first with dragon bait because you have the only guy who's big and well armored and also we can't tell him not to go because he's not accustomed to spoken language so he smells of adventure um and he'll spend his entire turn standing in place so yeah that's your hero face you didn't move you didn't attack anything because there's nothing and now we go straight to the exploration phase and have a look in the jungle i found a monster and an encounter right a monster you find is a charlton skeleton isn't it good to know no matter how far you travel into the world you'll always find some skeletons for low-level adventurers to beat down and your encounter because we have a black arrow alright let's pause this real quick i just realized you might not be familiar with the adventure board game system and thus probably have no idea why we're talking about black arrows and encounters here so a quick rules recap a typical turn in this game is divided in three phases two of which we've already completed for dragonbait here first up is the hero phase heroes get a free move action and can perform one other action which may consist of using power trying to disable a trap or just moving again after that it's on to the exploration phase which just means if a hero stands next to an open board edge you get to draw and place a dungeon tile that dungeon tile will have an arrow on it and that's pointed towards your hero when you place it once the tile is placed down you populate it with traps and monsters as indicated on the tile once that's done it's on to the villain phase in the villain phase you first need to draw an encounter if you didn't explore the tile this turn or if the arrow on the tile you've placed is black instead of white such as in this case so we will have to face an encounter which are usually just bad things happening to you and once that's done all the monsters this hero previously discovered get to have a turn and it's on to the next hero but let's just move on the event is crushing humidity the heat and humidity in the jungle are unbelievable and what that does is it tells you that wearing too many clothes isn't a good idea here each hero whose ac is 16 or higher takes advantage okay so the lizard doesn't like the warmth i i'm not entirely sure how that makes sense but well the native druid also has an ac of 16 so he can't stand the heat either i just won't question it well maybe we moved out when we should have had siesta probably too bad the native druid didn't know about that i don't need that actually i need the monster yeah you need the monster it's yours now yes so monster activates if the charlton skeleton is adjacent to a hero it detects that hero twice with its sword okay so that's bad it isn't however if the children skeleton is within one tile of a hero it moves adjacent to the hero with the lowest ac within one tile and detects that hero once with his sword so ouch so he bypasses our tank and goes straight for poultry keep your eye on the birdie [Music] a lot smarter than i figured that skeleton would be made first yeah so he will attack with a plus five and deal one damage if [Music] that's out of the camera but it's an 80. so ouch well it's just 1 6 of hp it should be fine this is already a bit more mean than temple of elemental evil i don't think there was any focused weaklings monster there there was the archers that always targeted the ones with the lowest hp remaining huh yeah they didn't target the ac but their hp that was my turn that's a as good as start as any only three hp loss and no kill let's go i'll try to pick up the slack with kawasa he's a member of the emerald enclave and he even brought a friend he has a vagina pigme who's native to this jungle and he can bring him along but it would take me a whole action to get him out here so i'm not going to bother but i'll move over to here so i can explore and then i'll produce flame kawasa hurls conjured flame at his foe it attacks one monster within one tile of my hero so one tile and it's a plus seven how high is the ac on that thing twelve it's a level one monster that hits the scene that's it and it does one damage so that is one xp for our heroes yeah just put this here and a treasure for you you find apache copper pouch of copper very popular very [Music] and i explore with the back to the unknown not sure that's a good idea but trust me i'm a druid trust me trust me it's only a four armed gargoyle well that's not so bad then i'm surprised this is in here already quick break i'll check that [Music] so yeah there was a bit of a weird misprint on the gargoyle this thing should have been golden but the number of the car tells me that this guy isn't supposed to be here so what i thought was a four-armed gargoyle really was a sioux monster which is a type of ape i miscounted the arms i thought it was a gargoyle no big deal well you didn't try to make it out [Music] yeah next time i'll just use my eyes it's just a bit jumpy i guess look there's a lot of rock there and i think you just heard some stone moving and yeah trust me i'm the native guide i know my stuff it's a forearm it's a three-headed monkey so black arrow encounter it's a constrictor weed appropriately a patch of weeds tightens murderously around your ankle my hero becomes stunned this is a great start the druid becomes entangled in the native plant life and it's also a great opportunity to explain the stunt mechanic what it does is next turn it'll make that i don't have a free move action so you can move via attack action if you like but do you obviously can't attack anymore yeah and that's it it i discard it at the end of my face right what does the eighth do well if it is on the same tile as a hero which it isn't if it is within one tile of a hero it selects the tile within one tile of the zoo monster that has the most heroes on it so this one and it attacks each hero on that tie with its psychic crush it's a psychic monkey so psychic crush that's a plus four and a stun all right um kawasa ac of 16 12 that hits that's another hp but you can't stun me i'm already stunned um now tabaxi she only has an ac of 15. that's a miss that's a miss so we only get a second stun on the druid i don't think he's ever going to move again don't those don't stack though that's good to know all right that was my turn i removed one monster i brought out another monster and i did our first mistake during the game that didn't take very long at all did it so um ashara will move next what's the defensive stats on the monkey his defensive stats is he is an ac of 12 but he has 2 hp hardy little fella very much okay um in that case the arachokura will fly over here actually she could just walk yeah you do have a sort of flight ability don't you i do but i don't need it here um how does it work i have six movement and i can give up two points of movement to move an entire tie as if i would be a monster that's pretty awesome so with four movement i could have gone from here right over here all right but you don't want to be adjacent to the monster so no i really don't it's more of a i can't get away from monster's ability less than and i can approach monsters it works the same way except i end up as food so i will hold the chromatic orb at the monkey because i don't want it to exist case the rainbow crushing rainbow hits with a nineteen so it deals two damage to the a not a fan of skittles [Music] and i will draw a treasure cut hey look it's another part of copper hundred pieces of gold for chevron that's a lot of copper if you get a hundred pieces of gold for it maybe they don't have a lot of copper here i have no idea maybe it's just a very big and very heavy pouch of copper i don't think the bird would want to carry that oh look traps and monsters at least known you encounter well we begin setting up a few traps and drawing a few monsters oh a velociraptor and a fire nude two reptiles [Music] raptors technically avians i think technically they're dinosaurs all right so you found the party i did and i would like to join it but they don't want to but white arrow no encounter ray what do they do velociraptor first velociraptor first obviously if it's adjacent to a hero it rents that hero it is not if the velociraptor is within one tile of a hero it moves adjacent to the closest hero and attacks with a pounce so the dinosaur jumps jumpsuit bird [Music] to prove that original is still better modern interpretation it's a plus six attack which deals two damage of disadvantage wow feisty little fella [Music] luckily he missed jumps probably mistaking me for groundwork um so last night and fire huge does he have ground to air fireballs the fire nude does have well technically he's more of an aoe kind of guy he attacks each hero within one tile that has the most heroes with flame breath yep that's a plus 6 attack dealing 1 damage alright who do you want to start with um the bird because she's closest all right plus six here we go that's 10 that's 16 that's another hit she's down to 4 hp i do wonder how there's any jungle land i mean the native rules throw fireballs the native animals breathe fire it's very humid yeah and i can see why that the whole place was an ocean once like two days ago uh the nude attacks the brute goes and the newt attacks the cat and misses he misses the missus speaking of the cat it's her turn now and i know exactly what i want to do i want to walk up to here and i'll use my bardic inspiration singing songs of valor and heroism birdsong moves in for the attack i attack one adjacent monster and hit or miss up to two other heroes on my tile gain advantage so advantage for ashara and advantage for corrupt uh kawasa nice go right ahead then yeah and after a plus four attack on the velociraptor he's very dodgy with an acr 50 yeah but the 19 not that dodgy not bad he also has only one hp so your treasure is another culture couch of soccer couch of poppa there you go um also advantage for the good so another two points of experience now we are up to five points of experience which is good because that means we could cancel an encounter and i didn't explore a tile so encounter let's see biting insects sometimes the most dangerous things can seem the most insignificant attack each hero within one tile of your hero it's an attack plus four for one damage um that's for potentially everyone so i think we'll cancel that oh a quick note here experience points in this game aren't used to level up your characters instead they are a currency you spend to avoid encounters how many experience points you need to cancel an encounter varies throughout the game since we're still at the start we need five yep that's our xp power come and that's the first turn around the table [Music] oh so right tattoo dragon bait [Music] i don't think we need you to help out with the fire nude i think three to one odds we we can take him if we can't we may need to turn around and cancel this adventure you think the ultra sarah might be even more powerful than the fire nude i'm not sure about that after all he is hiding out in a secret temple instead of being out in the open flaunting his powers but just to be on the safe side i think you made the right conclusion there so dragon bait will just advance a little i think it doesn't have anything to fight currently so he'll just [Music] it didn't smell of danger over there just burnt fur and feathers and what have you we're here or here i'm not sure thank you so there's a monster there and that monster is a yuan t brute guard here here's a reptile to play with you there's lots of reptiles in this jungle huh probably should have seen that coming so since my turn is done and i had a white arrow no encounter no nothing broodguard is within one tile of a hero moves adjacent to the closest hero and bites that hero this guy knows um special ability crushing grip uh hero's adjacent to dirty brute card cannot move ah no escaping that one so he will just roll the dice it's a plus seven attack with one damage that's 16. that's a damage and that's the time yeah and you're in the deadly deadly hug of the reptile yep he's just lonely some of you may have noticed that while the broodguard attacked fire nude didn't do anything that's because of the way monster control is handled in this game when ashara drew that fire nude earlier she became that monster's monster controller and it was placed in her play area the broodguard on the other hand was drawn by dragonbait and was placed in his play area when a hero's villain phase rolls around they only activate the monsters they control all the other monsters do nothing so dragon bait would only activate the umt brute guard whilst ashara would only activate the fire nude there is a special wrinkle to this rule though let's suppose dragon bait had drawn another fire nude instead of that brute guard now if things look like this if dragon bait's villain face comes around he has to activate every fire nude on the field so both of them would have had a go so the monster cards refer to monster type and not to a specific monster which also means that if you defeat a monster you can choose which hero's monster card goes to the xp pile but thanks being as they are right now we don't have any double monsters and the fire nude will have to wait until ashara's turn comes around if we don't take care of it first so let's go on over to koasha i'm stunned i can't move so since i can't move anyway it's time for a snack i break out the good berries it's the utility power of mine kawashan knows which fruits have the best heating properties he he heals one hit point on every hero on his tile very thankful and individual seems to be on a diet or maybe she's just not that into fruit probably not all right he produces flame again and i aim it at the fire nude flame he probably doesn't like flame or etsy would keep it well that's plus seven that's an 18 i don't think it's a hit you don't need to roll with a second dice i think he still does your advantage though yeah that's my advantage then also another treasure let's see pouch of no it's not a pouch of color it's a departure fortune it's quiet too quiet play immediately let this start face up on top of either the encounter or monster deck the next time a card would be drawn from the chosen deck discard this card instead yeah i don't want an encounter right now so i put it on top of the encounter deck i would get an encounter but it's quiet too quiet and i don't have an encounter so we have monsters activate you don't have a monster this was a very good turn yes we did not lose large quantities of hp we we actually came out on positive so i like this turn do more like these also you lost your stun i just removed it for you great uh ashara ashara can ashara actually fly over traps i think so where she can move tiles so i don't see why not but she moves like a monster all right uh quick rules check break when moving you may spend two move points to move one tile as though you were a monster why might do this as often as you like well then you go on to the next free monster symbol or as close as possible so by luck you would jump behind the traps right could do that not sure i want to because then i'm cut off from the rest of my party technically maybe but birdsong's special ability is that she has a very high chance of not triggering a trap if she moves over it that's good enough for me i'll just jump these traps then [Music] hey look it's another monster and an encounter i really shouldn't have done that thinking about it i should have moved here and burnt that whatever it is maybe edgy pick me more fruit i think he's more of a vegetable the name is kind of a giveaway it's just there to fool you into not eating him ah yeah the tomato of monsters so encounter hit me but please not too hard well event must be a pretty bird she's got a stalker something has been dogging your steps place a new monster on the closest ambush side amber sides are these little exclamation marks which are new to this game so we get ambushed by a shadow tree [Music] it seems as though something incredibly powerful tore this tree into pieces do not place a monster so yeah you get ambushed by a tree probably a few branches broke off that i tried to land on okay so uh watch out for that tree let's let's just right then be careful everyone there's a tree here i swear it's been following me nope no but pretty sure it's it's just standing there well now that you mention it there was a tree back there too um the vegetable approached me careful see um legend approaches me and snaps me with a i don't even know just oh no he it says on the car he attacks me with a spear so he tries to convince me that he is not in fact a fruit and succeeds he convinced me that he is a fruit with thorns back to two damage that's my turn done then it's birdsong [Music] see what i have here this guy's a bit far away for me you know i think the druid will help you with that five one two three four five yes one two three four five i throw poison darts at the um t thank you that's a plus six and that's a hit um t has 13 ac and 2 hp so he takes one damage but nothing else if i would hit with an 18 or higher the monster would gain disadvantage but it was a 16 and i'm all right with that because i don't think dragon bait will tolerate that guy just standing around there no probably he has something to smell about that now encounter go right ahead hidden tripwire uh-oh choose a trap within two tiles of your hero and trigger it as if your hero was on it one two there's no trap i don't think this works through walls so yeah so that's your turn done and let's turn to two that was quick yeah [Music] so after person back to drink bed drink bait will well there's not much to do much to do i will just until you're still hugging him yep i can't do a whole lot except wholly avenger him which means i'll clobber him with my sword um global way it's a plus nine attack that deals one damage against one adjacent monster i would deal plus one damage against undead demons or devils he is neither no he's just very sturdy very annoying very annoyingly sturdy um there's not much i can do about that that's the road too what can you do take damage from the unt and well first you get an encounter yep ambush of course this is going to hurt choose the heroes with the fewest hit points remaining that would be the bot yeah place a new monster on that hero's tile adjacent to that hero oh no oh no this is going to be the straw man a straw decoy has been placed here by some of the local natives ashara is just incredibly lucky i feel that's two monsters that turned out to be inanimate objects i say she's paranoid do not place a monster instead plays a straw man token the straw man token counts as a hero for the purpose of monster tactics it has an ac of 11 and one hit point i'll keep that obviously for reference right so uh i say you are ambushed by a tree and now you're ambushed by a straw man very jumpy bird look it almost looks human they they used to place these all over their fields i know them they're they're terrifying i tell you it does make a point for scarecrows actually working [Music] so um that done with uh the unt attacked me yeah once more actually does he actually yes he just he likes the target he likes and he'll stay and bite and hit once more at least it's not doing much damage yeah that released i would like it to just die but so back to kowasher bit too much to ask [Music] i wanted to throw flames at that veggie pit me i would need to go closer i'm not sure i want to do that because i kind of want to explore more go right ahead please i'll go can't you attack first and um i could shoot it if it was over here but it's too far away for me okay um yeah so i need to move speed six that split up that way we can deal more damage yeah we'll just move the whole thing up yeah and i'm not going to explore this yet because i'll call for kupalui my ally he's also a veggie pygmy but he's my friend [Music] i may try not to eat that one that promises so we have another monster it's a shattered tree there's a lot of those around this forest is crawling with trees horrible and an encounter [Music] zabu mushroom spores a choking cloud of spores suddenly erupts from a nearby mushroom each hero on your hero's tile gains disadvantage [Music] here's your disadvantage well i get another one for the battery pick me oh so you do um now in my monster face in my villain phase actually the veggie pygmy activates right before any monster oh okay if he would be within one tile of a monster he'd he'd go and attack it but he isn't so he just moves as close as he can towards the hero that's controlling him so he's happy where he is are you sure there's no monster in red one oh that's a broken tree right yes yeah we and the veggie pig mean nose trees bird brain strikes again right um so that's that um yeah that's you're turned on right back to ashara sharma um now you have three dangerous adversaries very close to you it's a tree a straw man and a veggie pygmy i'm sure you'll make the right choices here fly away and panic maybe fly wind panic there's actually really no need to attack the veggie pygmy he's not much in terms of experience i may actually fly away and panic but then again you can also first attack him and then fly away yeah but i could fly away and detect the actual threat yeah but then again we have two heroes who will have a turn before that guy yeah and won't have anything to attack maybe so let's see if the spikey fruit is actually tasty um i will attack it with the essence flash [Music] that's impossible if it was edible before it certainly won't be afterwards i'm going to find that out right now the hard way i'm afraid that's a plus 8 he melts and i cannot eat it anymore which is very sad for the bird but you get a treasure maybe it's a part of copper i'm not even going to question where he stored that well he did melt all right so that's that's my gun and now i can still move and i'm going to move away from the dangerous straw man [Music] just to be on the safe side yes i'm guessing technically since there are no monster tiles on these uh starting tile the way i'm flying back is to the ambush tiles let's just say that's what you're doing right now and i'll look it up after the game yeah because that way that's two movement four movement and my fifth point of movement if this was temple of elemental evil you'd just try to be as close to the middle of the tile as possible but yeah that works the same way actually even if this is the middle of the tile i still have two movement to reach the edge and we have a corner oh and that connects to this time nice trapped corner well the traps are on the ground and i'm not so i'm not worried and you found a battery warrior which is the native goblin tribe of this jungle i don't know you know in the actual pen and paper these guys like to stack it on each other's shoulders until they are a sort of totem pole because that way they can attack things that are bigger than them or higher up yeah especially that but probably flying above them and looking down look at goblin just before i crash into it yeah the one on my height um oh i lost the advantage as well certainly um but your goblin the battery goblin he actually was just scavenging something there yeah look at that dinosaur skeleton let's hope he didn't kill that or else i may be very afraid of it not as much as of the straw man or broken tree but still very afraid this one also has a spear so he will just move to the closest hero and stab me and he's actually fairly accurate with that spear on a roll of 18 or higher he will deal plus one damage it's a plus six attack otherwise that's an 18 so two damage for the bird i'm down to two hp remember folks if you're playing wizard don't mess with house cats all right i really should have activated the major armor [Music] over to birdsong didn't i we skipped the encounter didn't we oh yeah right you have an encounter here hatred something has enraged one of your enemies past all reason choose a monster you control monsters of that type actor white wait twice this turn if you control no monsters draw again so it tries to stab you again oh no oh my lord okay that's one point of damage that's all right no it's not i'm down to my last hp that's all right because now it's birdsong's turn yeah and see you live up to her name and sing a song of rest every time with every hero within one title of her may either recharge one utility power or regain two hit points [Music] i like regaining midpoints hit points are great i like hit points how often can you do that no that's my daily power this is used up um right so uh dragon bank will just heal as well it's every year all right every hero within one tile of her yes i think that was a good way to use my daily of course i can't attack now but that's all right is it instead of an attack it's instead of an attack right and on perform [Music] it's a dead end but a very very tempting dead end especially for the light quick footed cat more than you think because i'm good with treasure chests [Laughter] okay but it's also a very deadly we need to get away no it's not for the treasure chest i actually misread that yeah i'm better at looting monsters but no matter no matter so that's turn three that's turn three done [Music] back to dronebeard back to dragon bait let's try that with a sword again this time maybe aim a little lower that that that trick will do it um is it on camera i am not sure either way it was a natural 20. yeah a crit will would that would actually have killed it in one hit even yes also it will give me treasure than one hit puncher cup obviously copper pouches are probably a very trendy fashion item over here apparently so everyone has one would think they would make their pouches out of leather like any normal person um yeah you're in the dead end i'm very much in the dead end and since there is absolutely nothing of value over there i'll just turn around one two three four five and he's very slow because he's very well he's a lizard right that's my job [Music] kawasa um i'll move him two three and you know what just for fantasies no no i'm not going to use the power yet over here and open up the mushroom grove there we go here are the mushroom that jasmine wants now you just have to gather them up and you're on your way be careful however these mushrooms can be deadly so place the four mushroom tokens next to the mushroom grove tile [Music] harvest mushroom this adventure features a new action that a hero can take when a hero takes the harvest mushroom action roll or die on a 6 or higher they find a suitable sample and remove one mushroom token from the pile on a 5 or lower the hero takes 1 damage from the poisonous mushroom victory is if we have all the mushroom tokens removed and thus picked all the mushrooms we can only do that in the grove i'll say yes i believe that's how it's intended to work so um right then you find two monsters right yes let's go um did dragon bait activate an encounter last time we forgot that and it's danger from the dark an attack is launched at your group out of the darkness attack each hero on a tile with an unexplored edge so that was kawasha that's a plus nine and it would do one damage and give him disadvantage on them again you roll for that because it was your encounter roll that's funny again so he gets disadvantaged he already has this advantage for something yes he got that because of the yeah he has sports mushrooms balls right outside the mushroom grove yeah i think now we know where those came from yeah um and your companion he takes the hit as well uh yeah it's 11 that's a plus i'll record that on his card right don't want to plug all this stuff around the ladder board yeah but still two monsters hunters a group of hunters grows close draw two more monster cards and place them on the two closest empty ambush sites that's that's bad let's go is there one no those two yep nope this one and that one that's not that bad actually right away you want boot guard that's the one here and the vegetable warrior and the other monster is a zorbo yeah in in the early editions these just looked like koala bears and they still kinda do only a bit more different it's it's a drop bear joke really right right so yeah well green teddy bear izu activates no your pikmi activates my pygmy is first so um it moves adjacent to the closest monster that's the veggie pygmy but i want space and takes it with a spear plus five roll it that's ten that's a fifteen um yeah he's only got an ac of 11 so do you get a treasure for that uh i guess so because it's your ally yeah yeah we'll just say that's how it works he finds some coin and that's that that's that that hello now it's the unt brute guard yep you just move closer and attack um now kawasa usually would have an ac of 16 but i took the utility power of bark skin and that gives me a plus one bonus to my ac but as soon as a monster for the first time hits me with an 18 or higher that is discarded right that's a miss i don't think he gets that much yeah but he still activates the crushing grip he just needs to be adjacent to me yes for that that's not now the zorbo is within one tile of the hero it moves adjacent to the closest hero and closer that hero his special ability is drain magic on a roll of 18 or higher zorbo also also destroys one of the euros items we don't have any items yet so that's not a problem here's the pile of coins tonight no [Music] then i draw magic oh i'm broke um [Music] it's plus six so twelve plus six is eighteen so yeah that hits despite the bulk skin but at least it doesn't destroy the bulk skin [Music] all right i found them that's nice um our cockroach yeah oh croco will do as our cockroach does but we probably still have a few daily powers would one of those help maybe maybe yeah sure or or something to attack multiple enemies or anything yeah i have something like that just needed to reach up first time playing this character after all so okay so [Music] we found the cave right so now we have powers to burn because we don't need them anymore yes right um i will just toss the whip this little goblin anytime he would move instead he gets to discard one two he takes three turns to get out of that weapon in the meantime i am not where he is [Music] that's me over here um what's the ac of your druid [Music] my druids ac is 17 17. um okay so that's not useful in that case i will activate mage armor on myself which gives me a plus one ac to a maximum of 16 so i right now have 15. it gets discarded if anyone hits me with a 17 or higher a natural 17 or higher yeah i also because i didn't cast enough abilities this time if none of them were attacks will cost 5 sheets that doesn't actually grant me any shielding but people shouldn't hit me in me i can discard one of these fire shield tokens i have four of them to deal one damage to an attacker that detects memory so that's my two utility and daily power done with and now i get an attack because that fire shield doesn't take up your action no no you just can't switch that on all right [Music] so now the question remains should i attack those two with acid splash or should i hold a chromatic orb at the unt just do the acid splash i think i would have done that to my brief [Applause] you know what because that way you probably at least do something i started here right yeah i could even fly behind being [Music] or during a flyby yep bumps away [Music] i wear pants i can't do that so which one did you target that's a good question give me that bye [Music] on 11 up it was the bear it was there so you had a nine that's um uh 17 and he's only got an ac of 14 and only one hp so he does so the bye bye bear unt that's two lessons but you get a treasure i get a treasure cart will it be a pouch of copper no it's the one the fireballs you take that and keep that you can probably use it next adventure or salad or something i'm not sure i want to keep it um i think i'll actually give that to dragon bait because it's a ranged attack and he could use one of those all right so uh that also um for those who have never played the games like these um whenever you find an item you can immediately give it to any other hero no matter where they are but you can't switch items once they are on a hero they're stuck there until the adventure is done so now that i found it i could give it to dragon bait but i can't take it from dragon bait anymore yeah just so get confused it's an encounter for you that's a shower down yep encounter please outnumbered it seems like there are monsters everywhere each hero takes damage equal to the number of monsters he or she controls that zorbo we've done that's not too bad i think no it's one damage on kawasa and one damage on the shower because technically that goblin is still alive yeah but we shouldn't waste our council on that we really shouldn't he's struggling to break free that's one web token done yeah two remaining um the board the bart she will try to get at the shinies in that treasure chest of course she won two and now she has cat's agility when she enters a square containing a trap she will not trigger that trap on a roll of five or higher she does not um so now i'll do i need to stand on the treasure chest to get it or do i need to stand adjacent to it yeah i need to stand on here so how this works is i open the treasure chest and i draw two treasure cards and keep one so i get a choice nice what do you get i either get to take a breath which would be a fortune and would hear one hit point or recharge one of my powers or items nice but she's stuck over there so probably not or i can find a luxe stone this bit of polished a gate brings good fortune i can use that after making a die roll and then i can reroll the die with a plus 4 bonus and i flip this card over after use so i can use that once each adventure it's a better reroll that's nice that's very nice just the question is do i want that onto boxy actually yes she has a few things where she needs to hit a monster to put an effect onto it yeah then that's that's a good choice also a nice thing if i use that to re-roll the trap she technically can't trigger the trap which is very nice yeah this can't be a treasure card please i just got the other treasure card and i activate an encounter it's a hidden tripwire but i use my utility power of dispel magic bergson is capable of suppressing magic the magic of other spellcasters in the area use when you draw an encounter card cancel that encounter card so that you're very lucky that this was a magical tripwire yes because someone probably put like a you can't see this enchantment on it so it technically counts as magical well she tripped it and she's good with traps so there must have been magic in there probably probably that just let's not question it or else and turn right and turn [Music] let's do this um dragon bait [Music] you can almost almost reach that guy can you give him a one to five side i did i could use it on the mushroom growth and attack every monster on that tire yeah i'm sure the bird isn't flammable the bird all the precious poisonous sporey mushrooms aren't flammable so i'll just cast fireball in that general direction um me i don't know what else you have maybe utility power or something you want to use instead nope nothing i could make a lunging attack move two spaces and attack the adjacent monster but but you won't play straw all right burn it burn it all hot um i will hit it for 16. is that enough probably does more than one damage three actually bye bye lizard it smells like victory and you get a treasure cart it's a pouch of copper probably was a precious artifact but now it's a massive copper in either case worth 100 gp right so my turn done encounter and counter that fall a heavy weight has been previously precariously positioned to fall onto you attack your hero rocks fall everybody does it's a plus seven attack with only two damage on the hero that still has the most hp left i think we don't need to cancel this no we don't that's a natural 20 so it hits me for two damage yeah it it can't crit monsters and traps don't crit i tell you these trees it's the stalker tree finally falling over all right um [Music] then it's kawasa's turn it is right ahead do i want to open up a new space no we have enough stuff to cancel just pick the mushroom please i'm just going to pick mushrooms so six or higher seven a bit close but there we are mushroom picked [Music] nicer oh and no he's a monster face monster face death curse the mysterious curse eats away at the vitality of those who have been magically restored to hag health roll or die on 18 or higher discard a healing surge if the heroes have no healing searches left this has no effect we actually have healing search we technically have two i think we oh nice i didn't uh put them on you didn't think we needed them that's that's i like it it's confident so that did nothing 18 plus yeah it wasn't yeah yes it was an 18 plus 17 is fine good well that's that done with uh ashara [Music] go ahead uh peek at those mushrooms or something like that [Music] six plus yep she did not eat the poisonous mushrooms and encounter yep lost [Music] i thought you had the map i never needed one i'm flying above the trees usually now you like this this is very very dangerous without looking at it take the bottom tile of the dungeon tile stack and put it on top and now how long are we ever supposed to find the mushroom cap we're in [Music] right you temporarily might have forgotten that you already are in the mushroom grove but yeah yeah i think that maybe from picking at the mushrooms so it's over to birdsong yep go ahead and oh no it's not oh yeah the goblin still struggles with his weapon um i will walk right back over the trap that's fine no problem and i have a movement of five somehow i would have thought the cat would be more nimble than that but i do believe she's just do you want to spend your second action moving right right i can turn that into a move action three four five i think she could be also cooper louis moved back jason to komasha much faster but she's playing the loot while casually strolling through the forest there's a picture um encounter biting insects we had those already attack each hero within one tile of your hero for one damage with a plus four well that's just the dragon bait and the you know me and birdsong oh the pygmy but it's actually not bad if he gets devoured by insects thing is he just runs away and i can call him back next adventure right so get the um light spray all right um third song that's a 10 plus four doesn't read her ac of 15 no fleas on her no freeze on her um dragon bait eight ac of 17 thick skinned reptile and cooper lue yeah bad case of aphids no no not a bad case of aphids the biting insects are not interested all right and wasn't as bad that was a quick turn it was um tell you what we will just keep going yeah just keep going uh dragon bait dragon bait go ahead pick those mushrooms do not smell them they have nothing to tell you probably for him this is probably the rudest part of the forest so far probably episode 13 that's a mushroom and an encounter danger from the dark an attack is launched at your group out of the darkness take each hero on the tie with an unexplored edge for a plus nine one damage and disadvantage i say we cancel that because it's three heroes now we can take it probably yeah i mean yeah we'll just take it let's go ahead so um the druid yeah kawasa 17 plus nine that's it dragon bait that's a hit and shara [Music] plus nine wizards that's a hidden spoiler yeah so yeah um also it only disappears if monster rules i don't think that technically was a monster yeah so kawasa yeah pick the last mushroom and he does he does we're done and we're golden nice no healing starches needed all right that's no trouble at all just the mage going to one hp a couple times but that's half of the course really probably we'll see let's get back to port nyanzaru [Music] so aftermath we completed the scenario without using any healing surges or getting them eaten by encounters yeah which means we receive 200 extra gold pieces so it's nice [Music] and [Music] we're back in town port nyanzaru has these extra tokens that we can buy fun little things like re-rolls for a hero you use that once in an adventure flip it over but you keep it for the rest of the campaign regain two hp on the spot or plus one damage on a hit you already did so you try to hit the monster hit the monster and then decide i want an extra damage on this that's fancy and this is something you already know from the earlier games but things are a bit different other than that for example we will go through different cities and different camps uh during this game for the first few adventures we're in port nyan zaru which means we only get these tokens later they are more added to this and we can't buy a level up here i mean remember in the board games you don't use xp to level you use your gold and we can't do that yet here because this is the starting tone right um once we leave partner and zarro do we no longer have access to these um no they stay we bring the vendors with us yeah okay um but also something else we have a marketplace here the heroes collectively draw four treasure cards after each adventure perching purchasing any or all item cards drawn if they can afford for the prize listed on the card unpurchased items return to the treasure deck before the next adventure additionally heroes may sell any items they found during a previous adventure for the sale price listed on the card [Music] i think we just didn't find anything useful in the market stores looks like it um we have this lux stone here if i wanted to sell that it would sell for 400 gold pieces but i want to keep that same for the want to fireball we could sell that it would go for 600 but i like it yeah and something else um after the adventure we actually modify the decks the treasure deck the monster that the encounter deck things are removed things are added like the straw man goes away because it's it's a starting help no monster just something keeping monsters from you so these will get more dangerous as the adventure goes on and i would do that now but i can't because they messed this up royally all of these all of these hints are wrong you can't actually do them with the cards and they they tell you to add things you have already added or they do things twice i'll have to go to board game geeks and look they look these up there's a there's an errata for that but yeah we'll do that in between and maybe i'll even add in later what we changed like i think through that speech i already edited on screen it might have happened but back to the task at hand we have our gold we don't have anything useful in the market stance we could keep our gold but we can also spend it i like spending spending is good so we have going 100 gold seeing how this adventure went i my vote would be to buy this for the mage but it's your it's your call it's your bird i like getting bonus fruit for the bird not only because i like birds but also because i like fruit and because you went down to one hp twice yes this tells us i'm getting 600 gold out the window yep that's my characters and the party's gold done with well we still have 300 that we can spend because or rather we can't spend because we would need 400 that's the next cheapest thing yep and it's just reroll yeah sadly so i guess we'll just keep it and can split it between our characters i'm not sure if there's any event like the rubber event of the tomb of annihilation which you know temple of elemental evil yes i meant to say that um which took gold from you and if you didn't have gold it would place a monster or deal damage or whatever i don't know we we'll see if there's things like that in there but we'll just split that gold on the characters starting next time all right [Music] um [Music]

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Published: Thu Dec 02 2021