Nice to watch one of your early videos. Really great demo. Really enjoy your new improved videos too 😊

There may be many LoW videos, but I like watching your play through videos. Thanks for another great explanation. I am hoping to play this soon.

Awesome video. I look forward to seeing some of your other play-throughs.

So I bought this last week based on your run through and we love it! Most importantly of all my main gaming partner (wife) really likes it. 33 AMAZON moms liked this game also and they were not wrong. My wife Jenny is not a gamer but when I give time to the things she likes then she spends time with the things I like. In her own words LOWd is fun! Lots of options with out being overwhelming. No over analysing every move. Very balanced even for 2 players. Provides different ways to score a win. Easy to learn and jump right in.

I like that you play against an unknown opponent (for our point of view), I it adds to the excitement of watching the video. :)

Bought this game thanks to this play through and my wife and I LOVE it. Thank you so much for your videos, they're wonderfully helpful to someone new to the boardgaming addiction (oops, I mean hobby).

Great video!! The best and simplest explanation of the rules and gameplay I've found :) Played this game for the first time tonight and I really really like it! And I agree I would make more sense if the half moon coins were worth four gold. (Btw, sorry for my bad English :)

Great tutorial. I think you just sold me on the game.

Hi Richard, You state at 34:07 that you get 2 points for very dollar leftover. The rules state that it is 1 point for every 2 dollars remaining (rounded down). -Mike

@PauloRenato23

9 жыл бұрын

noted... thanks

btw, we just picked this up at PAX East over the weekend with 16 other board games. can't wait to play it!

@ChekhovsGun_

10 жыл бұрын

16 other? holy crap how much did you spend

Another great runthrough, we usually take out the manditory quests cause they do suck a lot. No one likes them and the game is basically the same without them.

Blast from the past this video! A couple of years ago I was convinced to play this by work friends. I was winning slightly, but a massive take that card going into the last round completely destroyed me. It was really upsetting.

@rahdo

5 жыл бұрын

fyi the designers have stated on boardgamegeek that it doesn't hurt the balance of the game to remove the mandatory quests if you find them ruining the game :)

Thank you! This is really helpful, and it keeps my interest.

I have the meeples and love them! You need to get some, Richard, if you have not done so already.

Great review sir, always enjoy your videos. /salute

Wow, great walk through. it was funny and kept me watching

I have had chance to give this a couple of plays with 4 now. I am struggling a little because I get a dreadful "Am I just playing Bingo" feeling creeping up on me. I feel as a game that it is missing one dimension, perhaps just an extra mechanic to give the control of buildings or placement take on another angle. Perhaps if you had to place the resource tokens for soldiers etc, back into income generating locations over the long term, so not just a case of placing your three agents each turn. I wanted to like it more because of the theme and potential intrigue but we ended up not really caring too much what other players were after. A shame really.. Must give it one last try with the expansion to see if I can shake that Bingo hall cry of "House" whenever I filled a quest card.

You can really slow people down with the mandatory quest on 2nd turn if your opponent were to go to get the cleric first only play the intrigue

22:52 i thought you said "They took that job!" Southpark Reference! Great video btw! :D

I like your running commentary for explaining why you are doing certain moves. I also like your common-sense mod that the half moon coin should represent 4 gold. Good job!!

Good job mate, that's a great appetizers! I would have bought it if you were presenting it at a con both

He sounds a little bit like Jeff goldblum.

Hello Rahdo and Paulo... I realise this has been a long time and it's a bit of a persnickety thing but anyway, here goes... 14:10 - "you do get something out of [a mandatory quest] anyway" - well... not quite, because in this instance you gave up 3 points worth of cubes to score 2 points, so all in all you lost a point when you completed it! When you recorded this video, did you envisage people would still be enjoying it 6 years later? :)

at about 8:15-ish, Jen gets 4 coins but you give her a crescent, which is 5 coins, not 4; not a major mishap but needs to be pointed out.

@rahdo

8 жыл бұрын

+void_Presence we've always thought it was dumb that the crescents are 5, so we treat them as 4 because it makes more sense. the expansion meant we had to stop doing that though :(

I'm curious how you feel the game has held up over the years, Richard. I initially had a very high opinion of it as well, but found over the eyars that I don't feel as strongly about it. It just seems like, skill relatively equal, whoever gets luckiest drawing the quests that match his lord wins the game. I've yet to see someone lose who didn't have the most matching quests unless it was the building lord. The expansions have helped with this a little. Just curious if your opinion has changed at all.

@rahdo

9 жыл бұрын

TheGreatHamEl well we haven't played it for probably over a year now, but you have to understand, that's in large part because we're *constantly* playing new games, and we rarely get to go back and revist ones we love. i've never even gotten to try the skullport expansion, even though I've had that since it came out! would like to revisit it though, because we really loved it. i got a lot of use out of it playing with co-workers at lunch, and it's been great for novice gamers too, as it is a great gateway (one of the greatest gateways actually)

@EclecticCamel

9 жыл бұрын

I definitely agree with it being a great gateway, though I found you had to sorta emphasize the theme a bit so it wasn't just passing around colored cubes. I really should get the meeples that look like adventurers. Thanks for the response. :)

@rahdo

9 жыл бұрын

TheGreatHamEl those meeples are awesome!

@EclecticCamel

9 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

i am curious about the metaphor that you didnt say @35:11

@rahdo

9 жыл бұрын

cindy tang hehe, sorry, you should have asked 2 years ago, and i might have remembered! :)

@1981dardar

9 жыл бұрын

hahahaha,,,tatz too bad.

I don't own this game personally, so I may be wrong, but aren't the moon pieces 5 gold?

With so many neat looking markers and coins, its disappointing to see they are using plain blocks for other stuff :P

wait. Is the walls of that room marble???

@rahdo

10 жыл бұрын

limestone, actually :)

@rahdo

10 жыл бұрын

Christopher Ramsey that house was hundreds of years old, in the Maltese city of Mdina. but we're not there now... we live in a small flat outside of Marsalforn in Xwejni Bay. we couldn't afford the rent in Mdina after i stopped working...

I think the game is just alright. I don't feel it stands out in any aspect whatsoever, but playing it has just enough of a "fun factor" to not completely stink. I am not a fan of Compounded and I wonder if Lords of Waterdeep is its spiritual inspiration. I find LoW to have a bit of a runaway leader issue just as Compounded does. Also, rather than gathering elements to place on compounds, we're gathering adventurers to allocate to quests. The game scores in spurts and I find that if someone gets ahead far enough, it's terribly difficult to catch up. You can focus on Intrigue cards, hoping to get the annoying mandatory quests, but that can take away your agents who could be helping with finishing quests. A nice game, if not a bit underwhelming.

@RottenMechGaming

9 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you on this. I sort of feel the game is a bit like Bingo, filling up quest cards and wanted more from it.

@TyphoidBryan

9 жыл бұрын

Yep. Perhaps if I were new to Euro games or the worker placement mechanism, I'd find it to be a very compelling game, but as it stands, it's a bit on the bland side for me. What I do like is going to the harbor. Having a second chance to use your agents for a last placement is neat and makes using Intrigue cards more... intriguing? :)

also.. damn you :P ~Adds yet another game to the wishlist xD ~

Did you forget to take an intrigue card @21:00

@PauloRenato23

6 жыл бұрын

It was already noted... Please turn on the Klingon subtitles to see where Richard goofs up… Thanks :)

Yeah, I bet they are. Too bad.

Random Question: Since you are a game designer, why on earth would the expansion for this game contain a grey faction? It has to be the least fun colour ever, and the game board is basically grey so they dont stand out at all. I would even recommend a pink faction since a lot of females play board games more and its even becoming a unisex colour because of fashion. I just cant figure out the psychology behind their decision, unless grey paint is cheaper than any other colour, thus saving them money.

@rahdo

9 жыл бұрын

trickykid3000 i can't tell you... it's a good qustion though :)

@joegans4022

9 жыл бұрын

trickykid3000 Pink used to represent Britain in the Diplomacy boardgame! Agree 100% with the boring grey colour, no imagination; but I do luv this game ... still in my Top 10 all time favorites!

@trickykid3000

9 жыл бұрын

Nice! I still love the game too, I will just buy the exapansion and paint it my self i think, or buy custom ones.

Can't see the attraction of this game really. You go around repetitively collecting cubes & then fulfil 'quests' simply by paying the right cubes? Def not one for me.

Is it possible to limit players to playing one mandatory quest only? Also what are your thoughts on this game being like bingo. In a way any worker placement is like bingo: place worker - hope for good return.

@rahdo

9 жыл бұрын

Joseph Garcia i suppose. you can also just remove the manadatory quests from the game completely. :)