TableTop: Wil Wheaton Plays Eldritch Horror w/ Patrick Rothfuss, Stef Woodburn, & Jess Marzipan pt 1

[Music] sometimes people come up to me and they say Wil Wheaton tell me the truth what would you do if you found out that an ancient elder God was about to break through the veil of reality and devour our world and I always say this is an oddly specific question that I get asked much more frequently than I'd like and it is beginning to make me feel a little uncomfortable but since you asked here is my standard answer I would scream hysterically and then run through a brick wall like a terrified panicked cartoon character leaving a perfect Wil Wheaton shaped outline on the wall however I would not leave any Wil Wheaton shaped holes in any brick walls if the entire thing played out in my imagination among my friends inside the world of a game today on tabletop Patrick Rothfuss Jessica merizan and Stephanie woodburner here we're going to play an epic game of adventure and terror we will be globe-trotting investigators tasked with keeping the worst kind of ancient horror at bay there is evil everywhere and though some of us will certainly perish we must work together to prevent the destruction of our world by an eldritch horror [Music] [Music] eldritch horror is an epic heavily themed cooperative race against the clock game designed by Corey Khanna Zeca and Nicky Valens it combines all the things we love about Arkham Horror with all of the things we love about elder sign we are investigators we've realized that something isn't quite right in the world and we'll be working together as a team to gather clues solve mysteries defeat unspeakable horrors and hopefully save the world from one of four different Elder Gods before it dooms the world and everyone in it to win eldritch horror players must solve three mysteries which will always be different depending on which of the ancient ones we choose we'll have to travel all over the world to discover and collect the clues we need to save it Oh we'll also have to defeat terrifying monsters close the transdimensional gates they use to come into our world and not go insane trying after we set up the game we will each choose a character who will most likely die at some point in the game it's tragic to be sure but the player who controlled that character will get to pull a new one out of the box and hope things go better this time around there are three phases in every turn starting with the players each player will take two actions starting with the lead investigator actions include resting to heal physical and emotional wounds traveling around the board shopping for useful items or doing a special character specific action after everyone has done their two actions we go around again and we encounter the space that were on we do this by drawing a card that corresponds to our location for example if I'm in Istanbul I would draw from this deck if I'm in San Francisco I would draw from this deck and so on when we have resolved all of our encounters the mythos phase will begin this is when the ancient one gets its turn and it is always bad for the players during this phase in play we draw the top card off of this mythos deck and we do what it says some of the bad things that does include up spawning monsters into the world or opening up new gates and damaging the players mental and physical health most of the time it will also advance this doom track closer to zero depending on the number of gates that are open if the doom track advances to zero the ancient one wakes up and we're probably going to lose the game what has arisen may sink and what has sunk may rise loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men it is time for us to face eldritch horror my name is Pat Rothfuss and I write big fat fantasy novels and I run a charity called world builders I'm Steph Woodburn I'm an actress and a twitch host on geek and sundry and also my own channel I'm Jessica marzipan by day I'm a community manager by night I am a costumed crusader before we do anything stuff you're closest to as a Toth trader yeah I would love it if you would flip over the mythos and another that's the mystery flip over the mystery and and tell us what first mystery must be solved our first mystery is the seed of the daemon Sultan Oh Lord a strange green comet has fallen from the sky even after the impact the meteorite continues to slowly burrow itself deeper into the earth when this card enters play placed the mystery token on Tunguska okay as an encounter an investigator on Tunguska may attempt to search for signs of the impact in the dead forest okay if he passes he discovers the strange green meteorite he may spend two clues to place two clues to place one eldritch token on this card okay at the end of the mythos phase if there are eldritch tokens on this card equal to half numbers so that's all mr. it's great in the story of the game we're investigating these mysteries so that we go oh it's as etat and then we save the world that's basically outwards stuff I am Lola Hayes the actress she seems very comfortable using her influence and powers of persuasion which is what I always wanted to do but I'm too afraid to do in real life and I start in Tokyo because I had previously gone crazy and checked myself into an asylum with all of the demands and the paparazzi and just the way things were in Hollywood at that point in time she went crazy and now I checked myself out of the asylum ready to fight monsters I know you're hysterical and I've decided that my new role is to help save the world yeah yes cuz your life had no meaning no meaning Lola has to make a big comeback because I'm pretty sure she did something embarrassing like I don't know maybe light her underwear on fire or something what I am good for is gaining getting things okay great so you're gonna go shopping in Tokyo we are gonna go yes [Music] big shopping Oh one-stop so basically you can get a sanity helper or a strength helper what do you think oh well I'll go for this strength helper I only have a stool with bullwhip bullwhip in real life I get cast as people in power such as the dominatrix so is this fitting yes and so I have a little whip and I will get a trained token so that I can move I think you actually have to get a boat talking about what boat ticket please and then just I am Diana Stanley a redeemed occultist but am I really am I don't know I'm a reformed koltes definitely reformed that's past I don't know how much I trust Jessica's character Diane I'm over it I'm done with that new chapter every time there's a reformed cultist in this game they end up being a traitor which is really weird because this game does not have a defector mechanic so I I have a really high lore because my brains real big and I have absolutely no willpower because because you were in a cult I've been brainwashed I was in a cult we had to eat a lot of cookie dough we had to you know sit around and watch romantic comedies all the time so Diana we're gonna win us I mean it is cooperative but yeah I don't believe in judging people based on their previous you know professions I think I think she's got a heart of gold so incredibly uncomfortable with you right now I think that she's going to be a valuable member of the team the easiest way to eat a bunch of cookie dough is having a bunch of tentacles so easy you can have more hands to show up things in your mouth so I think I want to prepare to travel all right so I need a boat ticket okay all right and your second action so I mean I should probably just head over there now are you going to San Francisco I am for sure flowers in my hair I'm here with the like grandmothers of the future hippies is Charles Manson there cuz I kind of want to you know just say hi no reason reformed cultist Pat please introduce yourself to the world okay I have been typecast as the beardy dude and I'm not sure why norman withers norman it was very appealing to me from the beginning not because of the beard right i picked him despite the beard I hate being typecast as the beard guy I have got a lot of sanity for now yeah a lot of willpower for now astronomer pursuer into the dark arts the lore pretty much I can foretell that my character arc is going to be a very quick descent into madness I figure I could play that plus like crazy old man yeah yeah I can I can get behind that my first action will be to prepare to move yep with the boat yep and then I'll take my movement which is one yep and then I'll spend my prepared to get to Buenos Aires to be honest there's there's a lady down there that he has a bit of a relationship with yes I'm gonna look into the paranormal yes I'll fight a Suge off but really you know it's it's Susan hello everyone my name is Lily Chen she is a martial arts expert when I was an infant an obscure sect of monks believed that I was born for a special purpose to face a great evil according to her character she she is a woman of few words and flying fists little did they know that great evil was in the mirror will has the sense and capability and incredible powers to be a Asian female it's great we can't just have all bunch of white dudes is it too late for me to be a white dude so the first thing I'm gonna do is prepare to travel with a train ticket please okay and then I'm going to actually travel that that down to India and hopefully pick up that clue one of the infuriatingly great design features of this game is that you never really have exactly as many actions as you want you always wish you could move one more space or do one more thing so at the beginning of this game if I can move myself close to getting a clue right away so that we can resolve this mystery I will be helping out the team this is where we encounter the spaces that we're on so Steph you are in Tokyo which means that we'll be drawing from a purple deck because Tokyo has a purple thing around it the reigning emperor has been plagued by nightmares his advisors ask your opinion and you assure them that these Horrors are real please make an influence test I want to see your most influential face what kind of influence are we talking strange but also good that was amazing yeah it looks like two successes if you pass they act immediately one monster of your choice on any space loses two health yeah yeah guess it it's probably this riot happening over here since that's the only monster on the board yeah so let's find out how many health are on this monster - damage on that right so we only need one damage put down that right all right yes okay so I'm here in San Francisco so I'm going to encounter the San Francisco space the examiner hires you to spend a night in the Winchester Mystery House I've been there it's a real place oh my god our Chris Hardwick and Lydia Hearst there right now they probably are yeah that's why they're honeymooning they provide you with experts in detecting the supernatural nation there you go what just happened so the odd architecture and the building's history threatened to unhinge your mind as the evening passes I just want to open that door that goes to nowhere so it's will minus one oh wait what all right here we go oh my god big will great I believed in myself and you know the Winchester rifle well well done Thanks alright Pat so I I mean Norman now I don't encounter witness Ares I encounter a clue yeah scientists report that their sample of radium was stolen your investigation indicates a connection to worshippers of as a thought and this is going to be an observation okay and they can I cannot make anything magical happen here yes that's success you discover signs of cult activity gain this clue go and now we're up to Lily who will also attempt to uncover a clue the thing is there's a lot of dice rolling in this game and I am very afraid that I am just gonna be a terrible liability to this team through every fault of my own a team of geologists have disappeared after said studying a chunk of rock that was retrieved from a nearby crater you visit their lab and fuel waves of strange energy emanating from the stone eroding your body from the inside oh that's not good strength check so good news strength is my best thing yeah okay that's a success you safely examine the green stone and none of you falls off oh great gain the clue fantastic I have a clue hey that wasn't bad for us here's the thing that's bad for us [Applause] you drop a penny into the peculiar mechanical device the automaton waives its hand and turns over a card bearing the words good luck is with you this is an omen of good fortune we've got Sounion got a phony n' they kind of look like if a nautilus was crossed with an unspeakable nightmare and it sort of hangs around and just flails at you relentlessly with its icky tentacles oh man I hate that thing it doesn't really hurt you as much as it just grosses you out so much like if you stepped on unlike a slug in just your socks - definitely for sure this catonian has a green symbol on it so it's gonna have an effect right away when this monster is spawned move it to the heart of Africa Oh heart of Africa and this is an omen of good fortune so the lead investigator may move the omen to a space of her choice on the omen track without advancing doom yeah we'll move it back because that would I think that's a good choice the least effect of all these yeah great okay that was a very friendly mythos Oh why'd you say it out loud welcome to our second turn everyone as far as I can tell none of us have died that's great at the moment Lola is the lead investigator although we can't change that would it be helpful to have you go first then because you you probably have the you have the most action going on right now alright I'll be lead investigator so I would like a train ticket please thank you and now I would also like to travel by walking now I'm walking along this train thing here we go hey we'll get the works alright Wow I'm in Tokyo yep I'll go shopping first okay chop it up for three you can get dynamite and then the only other new card is holy water for two I'll take that one good the dynamite guys all Lola Hays take off of this dynamite I've got a gun and dynamite we are an actress in the nineteen stuff is really coming into her own as Lola the disgraced actress who is out to prove everyone wrong gonna come back to her I love it who's also recently checked out of an asylum haha she's my leader I'll follow her I'll follow anyone I'm a cold test you're travelling by boat by boat there's a boat ticket and we are travelling you're walking the Himalayas nice okay not not a cultist what are you gonna know I'm in it to win it and I'm gonna destroy everyone oh this is a co-op game I could go to bring winter saris and try to get a spell you're pretty good with the spell all right I'm gonna do that yep so I'm doing Oh shopping shopping not very influential people don't trust me I can't imagine why why not one okay yeah the holy water seems like a really good spell it's not the holy water I really want holy water for someone else not for me I mean I'm really afraid that it might touch me and I might start sizzling or something because no well [Music] so I'm not gonna get it but I hope someone does because it seems like a cool card yeah I'm gonna do this all right get my whiskey okay so that's me all right everyone is Norman back to Norman beardy what are you gonna do and I think if I rushed off to help here by the time I get there you guys will have killed everything is my thought yeah I think it's great that is the man in the game you're staying behind the scenes and improving yourself while the women go out it's super great you should yeah you should definitely do that you know when you have three super effective attractive young women running around the globe acquiring artifacts and destroying evil and then you have a differently effective older gentleman with kind of a scraggly beard yeah as some hurtful things might be said about the patriarchy I could send telegrams out to y'all and Internet I want fanfiction so I will prepare to travel you have to boat yep and then I'll spend the travel yep and move okay [Applause] the underworld you find yourself surrounded by ghouls however they don't seem to be antagonistic toward you in fact you believe you could persuade them to help you through influence oh that was a bad choice on my part I was born to fight evil and yes the ghouls direct you into the Tower of coffee in the city of the Gugs yeah as you ascend the tower stairs an enormous GUG chases after you the sound of the monstrosity rattles your nerves which tests your will okay nah if you pass close this gate close this gate I don't know if it's worse to fail early on in a cooperative game or to be kind of like catastrophic ly successful early on in a cooperative game because just the part of me that's been working on this show for four years just knows this is not gonna last all right Lola a horrifying beast suddenly attacks you almost as if it had stepped right out of your nightmares spawn a monster on your space and immediately encounter it in Oh guys the GUP care yeah you're gonna make a sanity test first to encounter the monster [Music] here we go yeah okay great we did so now you get to fight it regularly and you get an extra one every turn that's your special ability so I have this I get one re-roll and I get an additional one to the result of one die so I need a four or above so that's four but minus two minus two so it's gonna be two [Music] be strong yes so there's a damn success but it does one damage to you if I get to re-roll one oh you can be rollin over you Rwanda yeah all right know that so she kills it no don't kill it because it needs three needs three this monster must not have watched my earlier movies where I was awesome and I couldn't defeat it I dealt two blows still alive unable to overcome the threat you run away after being a badass and look for a place to hide please make an observation test Lola's been doing fairly well since she checked herself out of the asylum but here in the Himalayas perhaps near the top of Mount Everest she has maybe literally just gotten a little too close to the Sun we have nothing to help our observation it's just - we are successful you succeed so doom retreats by why that's it that's actually a great fail congratulations a good fail so and now this investigation moves to the pyramids not a cultist yes I am going to do an encounter with I don't know what green a student has been studying the university's copy of the Necronomicon like you do an idea yeah and is eager to share what he's learned in exchange for hearing what you know I mean I know you may spend one clue to share what you know I don't want to tell you yeah so I get nothing sorry professor okay I am in San Francisco you find the husk of a squid light creature in a tunnel just seeing it terrifies you yeah so you have minus one to your will what is an astronomer doing in the sewers he's an odd duck I think is what we call people like him in 1928 a lot of people think astronomy only happens in observe Hattori's but that's conventional astronomy I am cutting-edge 1920s bleeding-edge astronomy and sometimes that does involve going into the sewers so we'll - two - one little you get to reroll I don't have any rerolls but I can spend a sanity in place of Splenda spending a clue so I can reroll a dye all right the astronomer is making some very poor decisions astronomers running into tunnels your your Phil Plait astronomer doesn't know how to use a telescope you run headlong through the tunnel and you gain a leg injury condition ha ha so that's gonna be here this is like exactly what happens when you get off the boat and try to do something helpful this does not bode well for us as far as like bad conditions - get in the game this isn't madness it's not hallucinations this is this is just a hurt leg are you the best at this game I got a one in three chance of recovering any time I rest I'm gonna rest anyway because I need my sanity back it's not a big deal I can I can do what all my angels do so let's find out what as etaf does this turn across the globe headlines announced terrors that threatened to engulf humanity individuals everywhere take action against those horrors and assist those who have already been fighting the ancient one the world fights back this is another one that's not bad for us event each investigator may do one of the following recovered to health recovered your sanity discard a monster from the space choose no I'm fine with i will stay all gimpy and crazy and we get rid of the monster yeah I will also treat the monster all right if I want to go to London I have to go through Rome and I'm gonna have to deal with that riot or you could try to close that gate yeah so I think that I should probably do that so I'm gonna go shopping guys Oh little influence thing that costs - if you're gonna be fighting stuff being able to stop take the Vatican dude lily has picked up a Vatican missionary which is great because the missionary is gonna spend a lot of time trying to convince Lily to convert to Catholicism and she's like you know let's just talk about it later keep giving me bonuses but we'll eventually get to it and then I'll do my travel to room great well what would you like to do I'm going to move yep action and go shopping oh and one of those bazaars we hear so much about oh yes in the popular newspapers and newsreels of the day it's going to be lovely yes don't they know who I am oh no maybe they've never heard of you in in India I walk into the store and don't pretty woman me I am Lola Hays you're not gonna let me buy anything fine Oh Stef welcome to my world come join us at the plebeians table where no one knows you Jess okay I feel like I need to like strengthen up like overall before I fight stuff so I think I will prepare to travel yeah both and then I will travel to Arkham if I might neckbeard a minute Arkham is based on Danvers State Hospital which is a super spooky place because it was built on the grounds of John Hathorne the original magistrate who never said sorry for killing all those witches in Salem so perfect for you that was terrific history I am having fun while learning lessons a podcast that teach me things uh cool all right what are you gonna do astronomer herbs in the sewer he says he's astronomer but I have never seen and outdoors looking at the Stars I'm gonna I'm gonna buy a boat ticket yeah I'm gonna rest because I'm resting I get a chance of getting rid of my leg in our own which would be awesome and Pat come on we need you two legged I'd be getting a few bad rolls and but the odds will come around there haven't been any really huge negative repercussions for this it's mostly it's just flavor text it's good flavor text for the character I like it I'm gonna fight this riot mob now getting -3 really so I get to get a strength oh all right Lily comes in and she sees this riot happening and she just in this like crazy flurry of kung-fu moves kick stick out of everybody just like pop out yeah now you encounter the gate okay great city of the great race you are horrified to realize that the body you are inhabiting in this world is not your own oh no but I like this body I've lived in it my whole life the shock of seeing yourself in an alien Co Nicole shell threatens to shatter your mind yeah it does so you want to test your will it's a good thing you got six breached yeah I'm gonna roll he's in the perfect position to help you I get to roll for the missionary the Vatican missionary is a pretty obscene sex move it's kind of up there with like the Cleveland steamer the Jersey Turnpike you started this the Chicago Fire the North Dakota planeswalker no you're right and of course the New England coral bleach no I mean no whammies no whammies and stop it success of the spoon yeah you steel yourself against the horror of this alien body yeah of that yeah and try to recall the knowledge necessary to build a device that will return you to your body yeah which is lore not strengthen the - okay that's cool that's cool oh I wonder do I remember no I don't but that's okay because I can reroll a die when resolving a test I feel like I kind of remember I don't remember what happens if you fail the machine malfunction lose to health and the gate stays open yes yeah I mean there's nothing I can okay all right that's fine it turns over what what are you gonna do there I'm just going to think kind of city very well okay a shady figure offers to sell you a weapon no questions asked you speak with him to determine his motives that would be an influence test ah let's have a talk about that weapon they've Levin big weapon oh yeah you got it so you get to take a random weapon asset from the deck no double barreled shotgun sometimes I use my influence to get ahead to get a date or a double barreled shotgun we are ready you're terrified okay and Jess the silver Twilight Lodge members asked you several riddles to prove your knowledge this is mine what you show up to the silver Twilight Lodge and and they're like like I'm sorry you were looking for the the copper Twilight lounge it's down the road good thing you have going on though are you gonna try to close up that gate there I am you find yourself in a familiar city but there's no electricity the only light comes from the greenish moon and the only sound is distant screaming you feel your reason being overrun by fear you are like such a scaredy cat if this is Peoria I've been there I was going to say it sounds like you're in San Francisco after the Giants and it's just straight up will I don't get extra dice bonus of some sort there's one success in a [ __ ] tied to it if all I needs one I'll just leave the [ __ ] die resisting the urge to panic he find a large metal and glass machine that has electricity sparking across its surface you try to learn how to operate this device so you need your lure it's pretty much you put your tongue on it that's okay no no we're good I'm gonna spend yeah a sandy to act as a clue yep yes yes you return to your own time close this gate woot nice yes gate closed Oh excellent I just feel good about myself okay here we go all the bad stuff this is gonna stay on the board there's a rumor and ongoing rumored ah rumors suck because rumors extend that mythos effect over lots of turns and you have to resolve them because if you don't they always do tons of damage to you or they stop you from doing something that you really want to do or in some cases they can actually cause you to just lose the game you dream of a life as an insane wizard thousands of years ago in Atlantis you also dream of that same Wizards to the live today on an uncharted island you know you have the ticking clock of the overall world game that are winning condition we have to take care of as a talk but this rumor if this goes wrong everything everything will be destroyed before that so it's like the necessary side quest the sudden unexpected also the world will end if you don't do that luckily I'm in the area luckily I think I have a shot at pulling it off so you're the lead investigator how will you spend your turn we'll go at the shop we'll go we'll go to shopping in Istanbul yeah super race we have to I will take the personal assistant offense yeah this is definitely me leveling up in my actor career I've got the calls got those 1920s emails alright and what will you be doing Diana okay so I could go to well you're going to London right ticket there's no reason you can't go also I want to try to shop in the reserve I think there are some things that are helpful okay there okay so okay you got one I got nothing I could just move on or I could go into debt to get a tome which I really want you so wanted you want so you'll be rolling 7 Lord ice whenever you cast a spell and I'm like I don't know and then Pat's like you should get it and I'm like I will listen to anything that anyone says to me so I do let's try to resolve this diet as quickly as possible I'm sure nothing bad could come of this nothing sounds very logical I am no well okay yet I need a bank loan debit condition doo doo doo doo doo there you go I wonder how this loan was actually handed out like I need you to complete these forms you were in a cult for a really long time okay I will rest because I really want to get rid of this leg injury it's got to happen eventually doctor professor doctor is a scientist like he should be able to heal that leg and then I spend my ship token move move Hanneman positions okay we're right for my action you know I'm gonna do firm action I'm gonna spend one health and recover one sanity okay yep and now as my rest action I am going to gain one health and one sanity yep which makes this obviously right what makes that happen which lets me come all the way back up to full people from every walk of life can be found enjoying the cleansing steam of the Turkish baths inside you'll eventually find an expert in any given field you may become delayed to improve one skill of your choice I don't know that would be worth it to become delayed this at this point while we're still moving around so I'd rather leave myself no tarnish baths no Jagger's bad you know they're full of bacteria what will you do Diane you peruse the scoop a tabloid that specializes in strange and lurid stories you roll your eyeball minus one so you gain a clue whoa I've never had so much responsibility are you going to Atlantis to try to resolve the rumor yes in the 1920s right you don't have a lot of submarine technology I do think you have diving bells finding Atlantis is pretty easy that's just getting on the guest list is a nightmare all right so make an observation test I would like to imagine this big brass diving bell but you know I'm a gentleman of sophistication and means right so I like to think of this as very Victorian it's it's got a lot of mahogany in there there's perhaps like a gramophone does my leg injury help me with this I would think it would make me more introspective yeah which it turns out it did it really impresses the ladies it's like hey you know want to go to Hawaii not a big deal Atlantis that's you know it's a panty-dropper rumors gone spending that clue plus a C and a sanity yeah okay this comes off the board oh here we go Great Hall of Celino oh yes I've been there in other games you are forbidden to enter the library yeah I am unless you berieve a necessary sigil uh-huh you draw the symbol to the best of your knowledge and lore you know or it could be something that I don't suck at yeah the library sounds great you can reward you got to be able so I'm right where I expected to be right in the tabletop comfort zone rolling like failing all over the place you're drawing proves insufficient and you find yourself back on earth struggling to retain cuz we've left Earth struggling to retain your memories of what happened gained an amnesia condition unless you spend one clue I do think in narrative terms that the only way Lily can deal with this epic failure is to give herself amnesia I'm gonna take amnesia are you sure I'm not spending a clue we need close the gate won't close can I borrow that frying pan bonk bonk bonk bonk bonk bonk Who am I I have amnesia dawn dawn dawn you had told everyone the parchment was indecipherable but you were lying you know the ritual necessary to summon and bind the dark power you could strike a bargain with it the situation is desperate but you know that a solution is within its power but what will it ask of you in return a proposition the lead investigator may gain a dark pact condition to immediately solve one rumor in play no rumors we were way too efficient yes Oh what were your actions going I will go shopping me and yes shop shop shop shop shop shop roll with a reroll shop shop shop shop shop yes yourself but I can use this at any time yeah yeah so we're gonna keep we're gonna hold on to all right okay and then I will move here already prepared - Jess what are you gonna do okay I really want to get rid of my dad yep so I have to test my influence yep of which that hasn't gone so great yeah you learned the eye batting you actually had a tiny seizure but it worked out and what I was really just feel I'm not a cultist batting of the eye yeah yeah terrific so that's gone okay and then I'm gonna go to gonna go to room what are you doing I'm gonna move one and then I'm gonna rest yeah see if you can click see if you can fix your broken leg there okay you only get to roll one I'm going to spend a sanity so I can reroll that die okay here's the thing I don't think doctor professor doctor whose name is allegedly Norman actually has a leg to begin with I think that one of his legs is actually the discarded pieces of a broken telescope all right so I cannot shop here because of the monsters but I can travel and then I can rest here so I'm gonna try to get rid of my amnesia oh that's a [ __ ] die I get to re-roll it the rules are ambiguously clear about this and entirely open to creative interpretation if a die is cocked according to me then you got to roll it I mean that was totally a cognitive die that's a pocket dog I get to re-roll that I don't know love with you the dice have been for me for four years and it's time that I've back you dice it learned amnesia and leg injury but the worst super shape of a few hours before the performance of the Opera masa de Requiem pair shoe hey you have a chance to examine the libretto make a lore test wow wow you recognize that it's a ritual that honors as it hath and stop the for months gained this clue yes well done Diane here's what happens with cultists okay you have to fight them with your brains so make a make a will test that's a cocktail damage all right lose one health and defeat the monster cultist is defeated and now you get to fight the Warlock okay the Warlock is a wimp but you do have to pass the you have to pass another gift pass another will test nope great so the Warlock makes you lose a sanity and a health and now you get to fight it with your strength which is that a - one alright I've only got one spell right now but it's a wither spell and I feel like it's gonna be beneficial so the incantation takes effect with horrifying success lose one sanity whatever and gain +5 strength during that encounter instead so +8 to strength now you're a monster great her rolling that seven lure on the wither spell as soon as she got that I knew that she was just gonna be unstoppable monster all the way through the game where you are you are unstoppable at this so - oh it's dead no reformed yep so that it's super duper duper dead you killed it now do you want to go and close that gate I only have two okay close the gate close the gate lost cars' Carcosa staring out at the cloudy water of lake Holly you are horrified to see the entire lake rippling as if something at the bottom is about to surface you are seized by a terrible panic that paralyzes you and you roll observation okay so plus four through sheer will you force yourself to run toward the door you entered through you find the doorway has been replaced by a blank wall you try to recall an incantation from your studies that will open the lost portal lore yeah one to two successes you close the gate you met up top okay old man there's a lot well in this city I'll just look around okay that right an old woman warns you that you've angered yeag and teaches you a protective chant game one ritual spell yeah I'll take it concerned that she may be right you learn all you can about you which is your lore you you got it I get plumb void no no no plumb the void yeah plumb void actually sounds like a really delicious dessert to me I would eat if I went out to a restaurant and they brought me the dessert I would order the plum void I'm gonna go investigate the pyramids you reach for the ancient relic when a small white cat jumps in front of you one weakness is that like tiny white kitten for a world of warcraft has appeared well to your horror to cat transforms into demonic feline creature that's kind of tax you must use your strength whoa my strength is a thing that doesn't suck okay great evil cat demon shrivels down to a husk bad kitty leaving the relic unguarded gained one artifact are you get an artifact examining the item you may be too distracted to notice the warning hieroglyph oh yeah that might be a problem observation - oh so well it's I mean come on that is not the amnesia Oh fantastic boom I got the cult dazed s Ghoulies you get a tome - everybody has a item tome action test lore if you pass you may spend one sanity to gauge ooh clues coz who's good at lore you good at war I'm pretty good and she's right now kid we got to get together alright like let's get to the same place once inside the lodge your host invites you to follow him upstairs several members stare in astonishment outsiders are rarely granted such access at the top of the stairs you are assured into a library filled with rare and exotic tomes now he says how can we help you silver Twilight aid each investigator may do one of the following gain a clue gain an asset gain a spell I'll be gaining a clue I won't be gaining a clue as well because then we will have to probably good choice I don't have any trick like everybody else has goodies i got nothing i got a leg injury and really me hanging with the witch doctor i think we would be buds okay well i can i shop no I can't you can you're in the city by some stuff so if you want to know what privilege looks like just go visit Lola I'll just take that one okay private investigator because she has everything in the world she could ever possibly need including stuff she doesn't need at all and if she wants a thing she just sort of like fiddles with her scarf and bats or eyelashes and maybe like your scarf across or does Lola want something I feel like I should give her a thing right now good okay so I think I'm going to travel and then use my second action to get rid of the coldest monster whenever I see a cultist and I want to just like not deal with this I just whisper into their ear and say could you doing Cthulhu are real bad for you yo you can just River I and then they're gone people need to know the truth now it's it for me what are you doing delay Z that's it that's my old diary so here's here's the thing I've got two clues we want to get me to Tunguska as quickly as possible if you play this game enough people will say well I guess I'll prepare to travel I guess I'll take a ticket I have train tickets which I can spend right but it actually ends up being really helpful and useful because you get a turn like this where suddenly you're like BAM I'm on the trans-siberian Express thanks Kraftwerk I'm going all the way to Tunguska maybe I should try to get rid of my debt so I'll test my influence and see if I can get rid of my debt yes I don't know what you're talking about Clark what's that I don't understand what the problem is that die was mostly flat everything's fine everything's fine it was clearly flat mostly flat yeah I mean that was mostly flat mostly flat is almost flat and I think it's a completely legitimate and entirely like look we could call we could send it upstairs what do you say upstairs fine great so no problem I shut up everybody shut up everybody shut up thank you it's been reviewed I don't know like shut up it's fine everything's great it's now it's on to you to encounter things I'm feeling really nervous right now we've been basically treading water we haven't taken a lot of setbacks but we've made virtually no progress toward actually solving this mystery now we have two characters in the location where the mystery needs to be solved with enough clues to solve the mystery and we just have to hope that the dice don't screw us we could solve this mystery by the end of this turn or we could be in a world of hurt and really fall behind [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Geek & Sundry

Views: 1,419,979

Rating: 4.8778205 out of 5

Keywords: geek and sundry, geek & sundry, felicia day, the guild, charlie supernatural, fvid, tabletop, patrick rothfuss, stef woodburn, jessica marzipan, wil wheaton, star trek, tng, gaming, hp lovecraft, horror, it, stephen king

Id: 87B1Wlz8fMo

Length: 55min 25sec (3325 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 13 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Gotuso]

I was really looking forward to them playing EH as it's currently my favourite game. However I'm pretty disappointed by this episode.

As always the atmosphere, the props and the added effects are fantastic. What I found annoying was that the story they tried to tell (omg we're fighting a horrible Ancient One that's really hard to beat) wasn't matched by the actual game that they played. Will and Patrick mention a few times how the Mythos phase is really scary, that it's always bad and it can really turn the game upside down. Except in this case it's not. At all. They played this game on easy mode. Every Mythos card was an easy card (marked by the Sigil symbol) and had a beneficial effect for the investigators. As a result this didn't really feel scary, I don't have any doubt that the investigators will beat it.

More importantly, for me, is that this didn't really feel like Eldritch Horror. It doesn't really represent the game. Yes you can get lucky a hit a few easy Mythos cards in a game of EH. But most of the time the Mythos phase sucks, the consequences are terrible and it can actually turn the game around. Just like Will and Patrick described. If they said in advance that they would play the easy mode then I would have been more ok with it. Because I would know in advance what to expect. Now I'm just kinda disappointed.

For people that haven't played EH yet; know that if you randomize the Mythos deck the game is a lot more difficult. Sometimes the game is actually impossible to beat because you just trigger 1 hard Mythos card after another. For most people that's part of the charm, but it might not be for you.

[u/golfer76]

I hate the fact that every time i see Patrick Rothfuss' name i just think "Finish book 3!" I don't want to but it just pops into my head. It's like when I see a chili's I start signing "Chili's Baby back ribs! chili's baby back ribs!" See now you're signing it too "barbecue sauce!"

[u/[deleted]]

This table has great chemistry.

The reaction commentary of Jessica Marzipan was hilarious.

[u/XBlackBlocX]

Nice. I'm trying to get my girlfriend interested in Eldritch Horror and given that she got interested in Fury of Dracula through Tabletop (and I later gifted it to her), that's very good news for me. :)

[u/SexyJimBelushi]

I Looove the fact tabletop is getting some meatier games to the table. I remember when get bit, resistance, tsuro etc. we're the norm.

[u/MorriganBlackwood]

I was just saying a few weeks ago, "I wish Tabletop would do Eldritch Horror, so I can figure out if I want it."

[u/Kassanova123]

I really hope they don't over butcher this one down just to meet some perceived maximum play time.

[u/robaanrobio]

I liked this episode and the game looks interesting. I had never really looked into Eldritch Horror as I have Mansion of Madness and they kind of felt/looked the same. Now they seem different, but I still wonder if they scratch the same itch.
Those of you that have played both, would you recommend getting this too if you already have Mansion of Madness 2e?
I don't feel like replacing a game I still enjoy and/or making of them gather dust on the shelf. I mean, how many Lovecraft-themed games can you have? :)
For my game group, a game that takes several hours to play will be hard to get to the table. Most want to play several different game, or just not invest the time. So I'm worried one of them will be more interesting, and therefore leave the other unplayed.

[u/madusa77]

Now that my niece is old enough I've been wanting to get this game back to my collection. Traded it a while ago. Now she understands and has fun with these type of games.