Rogue's Tale - My Most Favorite Hardcore Roguelike

what's up guys and gals welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're going to be taking a look at my absolute favorite roguelike we covered this a couple of years ago and people seem to like it this game is called rogue's tale this is very much a traditional roguelike in the meaning of that is that it very much sticks to sort of the pretenses that were put out by the original game rogue this is a very difficult game and this is a game that expects a lot of you as a player this is a game that you have to sort of like intrinsically understand before you're going to start doing good it has rules and if you follow those rules you will do a really good job and you'll continue to advance and get better at it but if you don't dedicate yourself to kind of learning the rules of the game you're going to have like a bad time so anyways today i'm going to dive on in and hopefully i can get you situated so that rogue's tail doesn't have such a difficulty wall and you can get through that and enjoy it the same way that i do if after watching this you like the game you can look down below in the description you can check that on out you can get the game for yourself it just had a recent dlc and then on top of that you'll also find a link to my discord and my twitch stream so anyways let's go this is my character you can actually design what he looks like to a certain extent there's not a ton of customization but there is some you've got your stats that you get to allocate over here you get like four points at the beginning of the game i've put it in seven seven eight six because i'm going to be doing a strength build today i've noticed that a lot of the videos that are up for this game are almost exclusively agility builds and like i get it agility builds make for easier recording because agility builds are really really consistent and i'll talk about why that is a little bit later uh but anyways for a strength build uh strength this is your first stat right here it's gonna dictate how much damage you deal with melee weapons it's gonna dictate your hit chance with medium weapons in one hand or a heavy weapon in two hands um agility over here is going to dictate how well you dual wield it's gonna dictate your attack to hit and also your damage bonus on small weapons like daggers if you're wielding a medium weapon with two hands it will also do the same thing it also determines how good you are at like jumping and kind of reflex saves we've got stamin over here which is far and away the best stat in the game stamina controls a whole bunch of stuff from your hp to your endurance points that you spend on special abilities it also controls your ability to search for traps it controls your chance to resist things this is the stat that keeps you alive and so i tend to go a little bit heavier on stamina at the beginning of the game than other people like a lot of people will go like this for a strength build so they get the plus one out of strength at the beginning of the game but i feel like the beginning of the game is random enough like so this game you're gonna die randomly to things that are not your fault from time to time it's just a part of the game and that's part of its traditional roguelike roots but putting a little bit of extra into stamina i feel like helps that extra survivability at the end at the beginning of the game because if you can get to like level 9 or 10 and you've built your character well chances of you dying drop precipitously uh and so like that stamina helps you get there we've also got charisma which is your spell casting stat and also dictates the buy and sell prices at the shop most people use it as a dump stat unless they're doing like a very specific magic build but even in that case you're going to need to survive the early game where you have no magic in order to get to magic and so usually what you'll find is that people still go with a normal stat spread and then they fix their charisma later we've got heritages on these sides every there's so there's like 150 achievements in this game and they're called heritages and they are all kind of difficult actually like most of them are they require considerable work but if you can do them they permanently make your character stronger and so at the beginning of the game where you have no heritage is unlocked that is the hardest the game will ever be and then from there it only gets easier as your resistances your hp your damage gets permanently buffed uh so anyways i've unlocked some of these i've got the sword and the buckler i've got a leather armor set that i start out with i've got a potion of antidote which is probably the best starting item because a poison can absolutely wreck you in this game i've got a potion of healing just in case we get ourselves into a bad situation and then i start out with a pet as well so let's dive on in uh we'll talk about the basic controls here because i do think that you need to have a grasp on that if you want to play the game successfully you can click to move uh sometimes selection can be weird in this game like i've gotten myself killed by wanting to click a monster that was right here but like i was slightly upwards so the game countered it as me clicking the wall and i kicked it and then he killed me like sometimes selection can be a little odd in this game but you get used to it as you play it more right clicking on yourself will make you rest until all of your health and stamina's back so long as your hunger and your thirst are satiated and then left-clicking on yourself will make you bypass one turn at the bottom of the screen you can see your stats we've got strength which has a plus zero we have agility which has a plus zero we've got stamina which got a plus one we've got charisma which has a minus one we've got our physical resistance our fire resistance our ice resistance our lightning resistance our poison resistance and our disease resistance and you'll notice it's divided up into two separate numbers one is for your head one is for your body so every time you're attacked there's two places you can be hit your head or your body a head is automatically a critical hit that can cause all kinds of like side effects and bad things and so having good head defense is usually a good idea if you get hit in the body this is just flat damage reduction right here effectively and so anyways other keys that are important uh pressing the w key will allow you to swap weapon sets you can have two different weapon sets pressing the d key will allow you to drop things on the ground e will allow you to use things or equip them s allows you to search your surroundings for traps and w i'm sorry q lets you jump so that you can move two tiles at a time in exchange for one stamina which can be nice if you're playing range characters to get a gap because everybody else moves one space you move two spaces so let's start the game on off at the beginning of the game there's a couple things you need to know in order to increase your success chances in this game uh leveling up so what a lot of people do when they start this game off is they kill everything and they try to level up as fast as possible that's a mistake in my opinion don't do that apparently that's the entire dungeon i'll talk about that in a second so if you're killing everything this game has level scaling and it begins around level seven or eight in the sense that your enemies will begin to get new abilities that make them much more difficult to defeat you want to forestall that for as long as possible by getting as little xp as possible as you move through the game until you have a gear set that you're really really happy with and so like i try to avoid hitting level seven or level eight until i'm immune to fear and i'm immune to curses that's usually like my first goal is to get to there because at level seven level eight that's when enemies start to get curses that's when they start to get fear and you can just get one-shotted by a curse or you can get feared and just cc'd to death it becomes like you really gotta manage your resistances in this game uh we completed the dungeon so whenever a dungeon generates it can be between one and seven floors this one was one floor and so we're already like done here it was that easy we got 20 xp for completing the dungeon i'm gonna put my stat point into strength uh leveling up in this game follows a sequence so level one you get nothing level two you get a stat point level three you get a talent point level four you get hp and then it repeats from there on level five you'll get a stat point level six you'll get a talent point and then it just repeats forever until you hit level 20. um we are satiated right now we did get so we stepped on this trap right here and that gave us dungeon fever uh dungeon fever can kind of be a problem and so i'm gonna wait it out and see if i die uh dungeon fever is bad because every single turn you make a stamina check and with that stamina check any status effect in the game if you fail it can be spawned on you and so that could be anything from like coughing yourself to death to just getting like your strength nerfed and so i'm just gonna hang out for a minute and hope that it goes away it did indeed go away uh we had to make two stamina checks in order to make it go away but our stats are still pretty nerfed and so we're going to want to hang tight until all these debuffs fall off of us the dice system in this game is very very simple it's a 2d6 system so every single time you do anything the associated stat is tested with a dice roll of two six sided die if you score a seven or higher you are successful if you score a six or lower you are unsuccessful so you can see how the bonuses in this game actually really really matter like a plus two is like a big deal because it considerably increases your chances of getting a seven and so anyways that's kind of where we're at i'm just kind of waiting for this all to fall off there we go it finally all fell off now i need to eat food because we're like starving to death because dungeon fever apparently makes you really really hungry it's kind of a bummer we didn't get a whole lot done in this dungeon i wanted to explain more things to you unfortunately and i'm not going to get to do it because the dungeon was so short so this is the town inside the town you can reset the dungeon if you've cleared the previous dungeon or if you've sealed the exit to the dungeon i'll talk about that a little bit later you can rest in the end that will give you a free reset of the dungeon no matter what so if you go down into a dungeon and there's way too many monsters and it's basically suicide always keep like 50 gold on you so that you can come back rest in the end reset it real fast and give it another go when you reset the dungeon it's going to give you a choice of quests over on this side i wouldn't worry about quest too much until you're like familiar with the game otherwise some of the some of the quests can be really really difficult there's a potion on the ground right there you can right click on things to pick them up another nice interaction with the ui is if you hold down out you can loot things that are at your feet uh so if you get disarmed that's how you pick your sword back up in case you were wondering or you've lost a character to that uh there are gonna be people that play this game a lot and they're like why aren't you searching every time you take a step for traps don't you know you can get one-shotted i do i do know that i can get one-shotted the thing is i find that mechanic to be really really tedious so i tend to just ignore it and then once i get my first talent point i get a talent called keen eye that allows me to auto detect traps and then i just accept that my is character's to die until i get kenai it's not that hard to make a new character in this game takes about 15 seconds the time investment is not that bad that's a friendly archer right there if we talk to him he can teach us archery skills but we're not doing an agility build that's a magic shrine right there you can learn different languages so that you can cast out of books and off of scrolls there are a couple different nodes that you can spend your talent points at oh i stepped on another boobity trap feels bad my leggies my leggies they're busted oh my god it's an orc and a rat all right well the rat is dead and the orc is busy right now fighting with a snail so on hitting level three we've got a talent point now i'm very very interested in using that talent point oh a plate cap i'll take a plate cap yeah let me get that it's a little bit better than what i have right now so this orc is gonna come after us and there's not gonna be a whole lot i can do about it oh he killed my dog what a jerk oh i have a i was like why is he not counter-attacking me i've got a heritage that makes my weapon at the beginning of the game spawn enchanted and i've got a sort of paralysis and so like i was like why is he not attacking me back like an orc this early in the game is usually like a significant threat and like i was like all right he's not attacking me what's going what's what's going on here i was per i was chain paralyzing him all of the op stuff that the ai can do to you you can also do to the ai in this game so like everything is fair uh open this on up and i'm just gonna take it kind of slow we need some water so i'll drink that real fast there's a gravestone there's a heritage for seeing every single name on a gravestone in one run and i think the bonus is actually pretty good so i've been trying to get that one completed but no such luck so far i didn't see all the gravestones that i needed on like a full like 12 000 turn level 20 run and so i guess there's a lot of them out there there is a booby trap right there but it doesn't look like there's any enemies in this area that right there is useful later on in the game it's not going to be useful for us right now oh a plate him nice i'll put that on we don't have a dodge bonus right now uh wearing plate mail completely and totally negates your dodge bonus but we don't have one so like plate mail is actually a decent early game option for us provided we don't fall into any water pits oh nice dude we've got a training thing right there it's a bummer because like we could learn a couple of warrior skills right there that i actually think would be pretty good but i usually like to use my first talent point on getting kenai which i think is the best talent in the game personally let's see did i miss the stairs i must have missed the stairs where are the stairs at oh there's the stairs i did indeed miss them so you see this boulder over here uh if we go down these stairs and there's like a hundred devils down there or like some challenge that we can't complete you have one turn to go back up the stairs before you get locked out from going through the stairs and so we can take this boulder and we can push it onto the stairs and it'll seal the dungeon we'll be able to go back and reset the dungeon and try again and i i definitely recommend you play this game like a coward at the beginning that orc could be a problem i don't know if i want to fight him i'm gonna do it i've got a sort of paralysis dude like the sword of paralysis is gonna hard carry us on this playthrough it's actually really really good i'll take his sword i'll take that potion items in this game by default are unidentified that means that every single item that you pick up there is a significant chance that it might be cursed and so cursed items modify your rolls and give you bad luck basically and so you know don't put things on until you've identified them unless you're really really confident that you understand the mechanics of the game another booby trap dude i have stepped on so many bear dude who's hunting for bears down in a dungeon bears don't live in dungeons i mean i guess it might be a cave i don't know but we've lived this far so let's just keep on carrying on uh that snail is in the way so i'm gonna have to kill him unfortunately even though i don't want the xp and i don't want to over level myself those are fine arrows so the one exception to the rule that all items are unidentified by default is ammo ammo is identified by default which actually means that ammo carries value better than like most of the items in the game because you can just take them back up at the surface and sell them there's another orc okay i suppose i'll fight you hopefully i paralyze you though if i don't paralyze you i'm gonna have a bad time orcs are dangerous in this game oh those are bats i don't like that that might actually kill us uh bats get like double turns so i don't know and our paralysis is not going off okay healing i want to kill you please die oh my god i am deeply and intrinsically unlucky yup there it is we missed all of our attack rolls what are you gonna do it's possible that one of our items was cursed on us and it was giving us like a minus one to our attack or something like that it's impossible to tell though until i went back to town and identified everything and we didn't have any money to identify anything and so if you're having like a very very skimp run where you have no money uh randomness tends to affect you a lot more than it affects characters that are like flush with cash the second they get in here uh that's a dragon hide helm i will take that and put that on it's got an extra dodge modifier it's not going to be that good oh chainmail nice take that yeah throw that chain mail on my body that chain mail probably would have saved us in that last fight apparently we got a one level dungeon again i really wish that would stop happening it's really really bad for keeping my level low but that's life i've got a sort of strength oh dude we started out with a plus two nice hell yeah brother well that's gonna help out with a plus two to our attack roll i feel like we're in pretty good shape let's go ahead and enter nope that's a lava level i hate this we don't have any money to reset the dungeon either so this is problematic normally i automatically reset any level that has lava because every time you walk across these bridges there's a chance they'll break or snails will just sit on the other sides of bridges and stuff and like there's no way around it um all right snails i need you to go away i need you to clear out like right now and so anyways lava levels it's instant death if you fall into the water and you don't or if you fall into the lava and you don't have maxed out lava or fire resist and so i don't normally play these levels i just ignore them entirely and pretend like they don't exist the orc is dead that's good we killed him off my dog is standing on the loot and not allowing me to get rich i feel very very poorly about that uh there's a giant horde of spiders down here i don't know where my dog ran off to but apparently he's decided that he doesn't want to be a part of this adventure anymore i don't blame him because lava is like no did he kill my dog where's my dog at where'd my dog run up there he is woof what are you doing dude like what are you what are you doing all the way over here like why have you done this realistically i should be jumping whenever i cross these bridges but like dude i'm like the laziest rogue tale player on earth i promise go ahead and get him woof he's all yours he's stuck in a bear trap this guy right here we could get heroic charge which is definitely an ability that we need for tackling mages and archers um i'd like to save my talent point for kenai though 14 more gold right there i'll take that almost enough for a dungeon reset getting closer um nothing down that way you can light the torches to get one xp i usually start doing that later on in the game once i'm established and i'm ready to rock uh it's a rat swarm okay i don't know where my dog is he should really be over here ow okay healing potions and the healing potion allowed us to pull through and survive very nice don't you just love utility gear uh where's my dog dude where is my dog and b what is he doing apparently my dog is just not following me anymore i i've proven to be a poor leader and he's not following me into this situation any longer uh there's a damage digger right there that is a pretty good piece of equipment but it's damaged which means that its roles get modified negatively there's a ring rings are nice rings usually sell for good money and there's a couple of rings that i look for at the beginning of the game that really sort of guarantee i'm gonna have an amazing run uh those oh a chopper nice dude uh yeah let's go with the chopper so here's a fun fact about two-handed weapons in this game two-handed weapons give you a 1.5 x bonus to your attack and also to your damage uh in accordance with your strength in case you were wondering about that it's pretty good oh apparently we're just gonna fight with like a thousand spiders over here yeah dude it's like spider fest 2021 inside that room all right don't love the sheer volume of eight-legged horrors that are running around but what are you gonna do you don't get to pick the denizens of your dungeon um i would like to eat some food you can combine these stacks too there we go save some inventory space don't fall in the water pit when you're wearing heavy water or when you're wearing heavy gear water pits can be sort of bad for your health it looks like the snails finished off this guy down here so we don't really need to worry about them and we've got a helmet inside of there so nothing truly special that we wanted to look at oh good we've got a maze dungeon and i don't have kenai beautiful so maze dungeons i usually skip these as well as water levels a because these levels are a pain in the ass to navigate but also because everything is reduced to like one tile um unfortunately you're gonna step on traps on these maps and it's gonna suck we got an archer over there who's throwing stuff at us but he's fallen into a water pit i'm gonna capitalize on that to run up and kill him real fast and then i'm gonna take a nine in strength so we now have a plus three to our rolls uh that's gonna make it so that we hit most of the time so things should be a little bit less headachy and risky from here on in in addition we should be dealing a lot of damage if we can pick up a ring of carnage or whatever it is so there's a ring in this game that allows you to reroll any missed melee rolls it's pretty good i like it for low-level characters there's an amulet of ghost form which is a best in slot item there's an amulet of free action which i think is a best in slot item there's a number of things that i'm looking for a ring of shielding is really really good in the early game it won't scale with end game but in the early game it'll carry there's a little bit more money which we could always use i'm gonna say where'd that snail go dude that snail's out here zooming bro that thing got a double turn i don't like that you die please and that's a spike trap in my butt thanks for that dungeon you're my best friend nothing says best friends like spikes in the butt all right well let's carry on back over this way and see if we've got anything good going on well there's the stairs to the next floor i mean i think we could pretty safely just say like forget this level and go down to the next one uh there's a bandit right there which kind of sucks i don't like that i'm gonna apparently the bandit is being attacked by something oh the bandit's being attacked by the dude with the spear i'm gonna stick my attack dog on him oh he killed my attack dog feels bad i wish that he had not killed my attack dog that dog was my friend now i've got to go straight goku on him and just he was my friend and just like lose my absolutely lose my on him uh let's see here i need to heal that's what i need to do let's do some healing unfortunately because that lava level is such a massive risk to our character i can't go back to town oh there's plate mail i like plate mail i'm gonna put the plate mail on for right now that'll give us five resist which is like if we fall in a water pit though we're gonna have a bad time that's a schematic as you get further on into the game you'll unlock crafting recipes so that you can build your own gear building your own gear can be really really useful actually if you end up not getting the drops that you need for your build to be efficient and so that's a new crafting schematic that's the entire dungeon right there so we survived our first dungeon uh don't don't don't scoff at that that's rare uh surviving the first dungeon can actually be a lot more challenging than you would think let's identify some of this stuff so we got a sword right there that sells for more than it identifies for identification costs 10 gold ah see i'm glad i didn't slap that armor on it's cursed i'm glad i didn't slap that armor on i had a feeling dude there was just something about that armor that was like it was sinister looking it was looking at me in a sinister fashion and i didn't like it uh we can go to the crafting table turn that in we learned how to make a plate helm so that's good plate helms are sick we can identify this ring it's a ring of shielding nice dude so what the the ring of shielding is in my opinion one of the must-have early game items uh it insulates you from losing and so basically for every endurance point that we have right here we get a three hp shield and so like when we start buffing up our stamina very very soon this is going to get up to like 21 extra hp to protect us from dying now this ring is not going to be that good at end game where the enemies basically one shot you anyways if you don't have your resistances sorted out but for the early game where the enemies don't have crazy abilities like that you might just be okay i'm wearing plate mail and like i don't feel good okay it's 40 to fix my plate mail all right i'm gonna do it against my better wisdom but i'm gonna keep enough money to reset the dungeon again in case i need to i don't like stepping into the first room and being surrounded by every evil thing on earth just let them sort it out there's something up there and in this game frequently monsters will fight each other is he like oh that's why he's not coming over here oh he jumped over it what a champ okay a couple of daggers a little bit of money um we're not very good at agility so this could potentially end our game i'm gonna take my armor off and jump oh we made it dude hell yeah all right put my armor back on he already killed the other thing that was on the other side so i don't know what we have to worry about uh looks like he killed a friendly character over here i would actually like to wear chainmail rather than wearing plate mail but we're gonna swap over to the chain mail once we actually have a dodge modifier and we don't have a dodge modifier right now don't worry too much about min maxing this game you should be min-maxing this game this is a game that expects you to min max it so you know don't don't uh don't feel terrible about really really really eeking out every single millimeter of performance that you can out of your gear and out of your loadout the ai is super op and so in my opinion you should endeavor to be as op as possible to counter that i'm gonna take my plate mail off jump across we fell into the water pit but it's not that big of a deal because climbing out is easy if you're not wearing 90 pounds of plate mail i kind of use that's not good that's unfortunate so undead enemies undead enemies automatically cost fear cast fear on you every time you try to attack them we are not immune to fear right now and so these guys could potentially be a very very real stop gap in our playthrough that could wipe us out like instantly i am of course conflicted about this oh dude he fell into the water he keeps fearing me all right so let's see if the orc tries to close the gap oh he fell into the same water pit that he saw the last guy fall into i guess there's no one counting for there's no accounting for intelligence i guess oh my god he just hit me for nine damage but that's okay because i hit him for 15. um none of that looks any good to me i don't care about it as you can see the ring of shielding saved our life right there that would have been instant game over so if you see a ring of shielding in the shop or you see a ring of shielding just randomly as you're playing the game i highly recommend you pick it up uh it will definitely turn kind of a fledgling run into at least a mid game oh my god it's chaos in here that guy's gonna charge me so i'd rather not deal with that there we go uh we're at level seven now so oh he's got poison on his chopper too well then i'm glad i one shot at him he deserved it let's go ahead and combine some of these rations if we can just to get some inventory space back they've already stepped on the trap down there it looks like there's a bunch of loot to be had inside of this room so i'll go ahead and i'm not going to turn that down ah wishing well kenai yay now i don't have to worry about traps anymore that's all fixed traps are no longer an issue i mean there's a chance we'll step on a trap and instantly die but as you can see it showed us that the spike pit was right there it's like an exceedingly low chance that while moving around we won't see traps and we'll get one-shotted um get the gravestone real fast some arrows over there but i feel like we're maybe past the arrows we maybe don't need them in addition kenai will also show you secret rooms and secret rooms are universally rad because they have chests inside of them and those chests will have rings and amulets and like 200 gold and all kinds of oh that's not hmm there's an elemental down there i'm not crazy sure so because of this one space right here i don't know if i can get a boulder over there i can't get a boulder over there looks like we're shelling out to reset the dungeon back to the surface i can't travel at the moment why there uh we're gonna have to rest at the end hate to say it but i feel like we're just too early on to mess around with fighting elementals i uh hey the chain armor's not cursed that's nice to see here take this plate mail also take this sword yeah take that armor take that helmet and crafting we can bank that right there in our crafting inventory which is listed up here just in case we wanted to craft something later on in the game we also got another schematic so that teaches me how to make a knockout bolt never really used the knockout bolts they might be great but i've never used them before we're kind of like overstocked with food right now we kind of have like a lot of food and water like that's okay i'm not upset about it like being able to eat and like your you know hunger is good but um we might want to try and enchant our armor a couple times to see if we can get immunity to fear i'll take strength immune to sleep damn do we have a plus five to strength that is revolting that is actually pretty absolutely beastly this early in the game that's a pretty ghastly amount of strength we're getting kind of lucky with our rolls here check that out anybody else down oh treasure chest nice there's an amulet inside of it maybe it'll be an oh my god okay that was uh extra strength painful didn't enjoy that at all if i could get like a campfire so that i can learn heroic charge i feel like we'll be so i need to get heroic charge and once i get heroic charge i need to oh my god okay so that room is not for me um i neglect this room and i pretend like it doesn't exist and i hope you get bit by a spider oh but yeah once i get well i need to get fear resist so that i cannot be feared and then once i have that we need to start looking for an amulet of free action i'm going to put that into stamina so that we get an extra temporary hp and that'll also boost up our hp a little bit another plate male right there it is worth like 50 gold but i don't want to hike it out of here it's so big and heavy that's a celestial cowl some of the so there's basically there's a special version of every single armor in the game so for plate mail i think it's called ebenheart for leather armor it's called dragon hide for robes it's called celestial they tend to sell for a lot more i don't know i think they just give you one extra dodge bonus in all honesty i think all the special named versions just give you an extra dodge modifier um where are the stairs oh there were no stairs because there's a door down here i didn't see this door ah fire elemental all right let's light this candle baby i feel ready to deal with elementals i feel like i can do it i feel like i'm ready previously i would have said that i'm not ready but like our character is definitely mid game approved right now if we can get fear resist and curse resist oh my god it is absolute chaos out here really wish i hadn't walked into whatever this is i'm just gonna hang out in the hallway my sword got damaged too so it might break okay i'm just gonna stay inside my little kill tunnel right here and pretend like everything is all right tell me that you're all right everything is all right please tell me that you're all right oh dude he's fearing me it's okay he's blocked off like he can't really move there's also a heroic guy down here so he's a friendly we might be able to do something with him oh my god there's a treasure vault i'm so happy for the treasure vault hmm it's concerning i've been blinded i've been blinded by poisons that were inside the chest from me trying to pick the lock not great probably could have been better but luckily we have an antidote so no biggie no harm no foul there's a tome right there that's worth a lot of money i'll take it looks like there's nothing inside that little treasure room right there nothing inside that one and there's a bookcase inside of here with some scrolls and a potion we actually have a lot of goodies on us right now we may be able to weasel our way into some resists if we sell all this stuff off i think we'll have a decent amount of money a bigger shield would not be a terrible idea either i'm a fan of that idea that's got a block modifier of five our current shield only has a block modifier of two and so we're getting a plus five now as a modifier to blocking ranged attacks so we pretty much can't be hit with ranged attacks at this point um i'm gonna fall back over here and wait for my shield to come back bro if you could just do me a solid and stop poisoning me that would be great what is that a paralytic poison okay i'm gonna wait for it to fall off our stamina is pretty good basically every single turn you make a stamina test you have to roll seven or higher twice in a row for the poison to go away and we've got a plus two to our our resistance roll so chances are we'd be hey there we go uh crushing blow is good i'll take that instead of charge you press c to go to your crafting menu or your casting menu all your abilities will be listed over here sorted by the different schools of magic and then you just press the hotkey that you want to put it on so now i've got crushing blow i didn't talk about what crushing blow does so it does an extra d3 of damage for every point of strength modifiers so we do an extra 5d3 damage basically uh that's going to be like a beef lord of it's it's we're going to hit hard it's going to one shot just about everything at this point in the game hey i jumped over spikes on my first try without impaling my bum bum ooh secret door i don't care about traps oh the secret door loops back around oh there's also more treasure rooms hold on i like treasure let me guess this guy probably teaches heroic charge right oh no he's a cleric weirdly i thought he was a warrior because he had a sword and he's a cleric he teaches turn undead which is actually pretty good but we don't know how to cast magic because we're illiterate so me these things happen these things do happen uh we're gonna go ahead and eat some food drink some drank i want to try out crushing blow it only did nine damage what oh it's cause my sword is damaged i need to go back and repair my sword i'm gonna use this sword for a minute so that i don't break my sort of strength i don't want to break my sword of strength it's good i really hope that uh oh dude i fell into the pit of water now i'm all ow he critted me with a rock oh my god he did like 14 damage with that rock and then promptly dropped his weapon apparently i'm just disarming everybody out here i'm gonna pick my sword back up we'll kill off this direwolf real fast there we go dude we are surviving some attrition right now i'll tell you what i think there's an achievement that i need to do for eating meat while wearing a red shirt well i did not know that that was going to happen so apparently when you complete that achievement um it summons a cave bear so [Music] um the bright side here my character now starts with an enchantment on his shirt the downside is i'm about to be eaten oh we survived no way oh we were definitely not cave bear ready like we just lucked out of that fight so hard so happy we killed him with a crit too because he dropped a bearskin uh crafting materials in this game usually only drop if you roll a crit on the final hit oh my i don't even know what to say about that i think i might be the luckiest boy in all the realm that right there uh some serious domino action a seal of silencing on that buckler huh it's tempting makes you immune to silence only really matters if you're casting a lot of spells but it's going pretty good this is rogue stale hope you guys enjoyed it this is my most favoritest roguelike in the entire world i've played this game way way way too much and typically what i've noticed is that people when they talk about this game they're like this is the most random game on earth and they get really really frustrated by it but like the game i'll i'll show you something here the game comes with a guidebook and literally tells you every single item every single spell every single monster every single stat every single everything in the game this is a game that requires some studying if you don't feel like studying go watch on fire o-n-p-h-y-r-e he's one of the better players in this game he's really really good at it he's usually frequently on top of the leaderboards and so anyways go watch him play this game and you will quickly find out that like most of the time when you die it's your fault like yes there are odd cases where you die and it's not your fault like for example that cave bear spawning on me i had no idea that was gonna happen when i completed that achievement by eating meat with a red shirt on however most situations uh you can either avoid or not participate in at all as long as you're smart and you manage your money appropriately so anyways roguesdale it just got a dlc i wanted to cover the game again and show it off because it is a game that i've dumped so many hours into dude like so many hours into this game i used to have it on desura before i had it on steam i think on steam i've got like 50 or 60 hours on desura i had even more like i really really liked this game on desura and so anyways it's a great game and it continues to get larger the developer continues to support it you can tell that it's a passion project and it's like a love project for him he just keeps adding more things to it and so anyways there's a lot of content here i'll see y'all next time thank you for hanging out with me and i'll see when we reconvene for something hot and fresh off the indie skillet tomorrow bye

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Id: 4yMCHY1jTyQ

Length: 40min 48sec (2448 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021