Quinns, you once did a fantastic video on how to teach board games to your table. Could you also do a video on how to teach a new RPG to your group?

@Quinns_Quest

Ай бұрын

Noted!

@minicarbonara

Ай бұрын

Damn that's a great one.

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

@@Quinns_Quest my favourite method has always been "let's do a one-shot!" which inevitably is actually more like a three-shot to finish, and by the time you're done either the group has or hasn't warmed to the system and you can move on to the next one-shot or pitch a campaign! the process of teaching new RPGs to a group necessarily involves games that won't land with enough people in the group to go ham on a big time investment, but if you're just low pressure one-shotting your way through systems, eventually you strike gold with something that has everyone agog and chompin' at the bit for more

@AJAlkaline

Ай бұрын

@@Quinns_Quest Yessssssssss

@daLoerdchen

Ай бұрын

That's actually great advice! First I did a "One-Shot" of CoC and after that I rushed head over toes into a campaign of The One Ring. Now we're about 7 sessions in and while two of my players seem to be having a good time the other two seem to be just "ok" with it and I myself haven't got half the fun I expected, mostly because none of my players really knows anything about middlearth (which I only got to know during session 1), which makes explaining the lore quite exhausting to me. The "one shot" approach seems to be a great way to circumvent that.

When I got my copy of Heart it had been sitting in a shipping container all summer and baking, so when I opened it first, the fumes coming off would mean I couldn't read it for more than 15 minutes or I would get a headache. Everyone I knew who had played heart I mentioned this to basically went "That's fitting, lol"

@thegeekclub8810

Ай бұрын

That’s hilarious but also horrible.

@ZedAmadeus

28 күн бұрын

fumes????

Ah, Heartest Dungeon! ...or is it merely a trick of the light?

@drillerdev4624

Ай бұрын

The art certainly reminded me of fun times getting stressed by the quips from my party members :p

@r.p.5140

Ай бұрын

A moment of respite. A chance to steel oneself against the coming horrors.

@Dehalove

14 күн бұрын

Horros brought low and driven into the mud.

I love this channel. It is the perfect balance of fun and informative. Best TTRPG Journalism out there!

@keremmadran

Ай бұрын

Quinns reviewing TTRPGs is absolute S-Tier material, but do you know about Rascal News?

I dropped this in the ttrpg chat and in response got “We have too many tabletops” and I blame!!!! This channel!!!! I’ve already accumulated so many Must Plays from the pay it forwards lmao

@karlcollins2361

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@thegeekclub8810

Ай бұрын

I know, right? I got a huge TTRPG bundle a year or so ago that had like a hundred games in it, of which I have played exactly 1, and guess who just bought even more TTRPGs?

'Production assistance provided by "Dad".' All the little details in these videos are fantastic XD

Double voice tracks at 3:51. Also: Love the channel

Keen-eyed viewers will note that the book Quinns has set fire to in the opening credits is in fact the D&D Dungeon Master's Guide. WHAT COULD THIS SUBTLE SYMBOLISM MEAN?

@paulsharke

Ай бұрын

Big "Joel Hodgson flashing an OK sign and saying 'IT STINKS'" vibes

@crushingit5128

Ай бұрын

Though while Quinn several times points out he doesn't like d20 DnD clones, I think that message is still lost with the viewers. For example; his Lancer video. He clearly doesn't advise people to get it, but reading the YT comments that message wasn't properly understood. D20 brainwashed viewers.

My girlfriend keeps asking me, “haven’t you already watched this already?” Yes. Yes I have.

One minor detail I deeply appreciate about Heart: The City Beneath is how one of the skills is "Kill." A statement wholly by itself about how being able to commit murder is not something the game assumes you as a character are immediately capable of, nor does it come inherent with other combat-related capabilities.

@feruspriest

Ай бұрын

The decision to make kill a skill is interesting, until you have to roll "kill" four or five times to complete the deed against an enemy, because an enemy is just a delve. It's evocative, because Spire has "fight" instead of kill, but the game's one-tone conflict resolution system doesn't reinforce the narrative and semantic distinction. Amazing vibes, until you roll to reduce the fight-delve's target number/health and don't actually kill anything.

@coynelaundry

Ай бұрын

​@@feruspriestyoure... complaining about dice rolls in a ttrpg?

@feruspriest

Ай бұрын

@coynelaundry no, I'm complaining about how the vibe conveyed by naming a skill, "kill" is being focused on, when the underlying mechanic of the skill doesn't reinforce the weight being placed on its name. Put another way: I'm complaining about how the mechanics undermine the vibe. When, how, and to what effect the dice are rolled do not match the game's ethos.

@TheNerdySimulation

Ай бұрын

@@feruspriestIf you think the only solution to an entire delve is using only one skill _and_ doing so 4-5 times without any significant change, that's not a design issue.

@feruspriest

Ай бұрын

​@@TheNerdySimulation​@TheNerdySimulation that's not what I think, though. That's what you're attributing to me, but it's not what I wrote or what I'm arguing. You resolve *all* conflicts with the delve mechanics. It's the only system to resolve a conflict. Conversations, fights, seduction, etc are all just delves. A player *could* choose skills other than kill in a given situation. There could be significant changes as a result of rolling kill multiple times, too, or not--that's not the criticism I'm making. The mechanics do not support the vibe. The grammar of play, as expressed through the system, doesn't reflect the grit of the vibe. The world deserves a better system. "Kill" is a great skill name. In Root: the RPG, if you pull off a Backstab, you can straight up kill an enemy if the context allows for the skillcheck. 1 success, 1 death. That's a result of the system. In Heart, you have to overcome the Resistance of the Delve or Delve equivalent to kill someone in a combat. You can diminish the importance of killing that someone in the delve as one of many things that can happen along the route to beat the resistance, but it sucks narrative momentum to remove enemy avatars from a story without making the confrontation the crisis of that scene. The GM advice in Heart is, "stop planning," (109). That makes sense until the first time players say, "I don't have domain/skill/item to roll more than 1 die" and your team of badass freaks, due to a 50% fail chance on 1 die, implode before they do anything they envisioned when they made their characters. I backed Dagger in the Heart because I'm gonna translate the game into another system. The beats can stay; the progression system can stay as milestones. The abilities might not convert easily, but that can be done with description. A more robust system would make Heart play as cool as it reads.

Dagnammit, my heart sank at 22:48. The build up, the tension, the payoff. Wonderful. Perfectly fitting for the game and video.

@grayseeroly

Ай бұрын

The most stressful f*cking thing I've ever seen

Aaaaand cackling laughter for minutes when he spills the drink.

"What if magic was addictive? And what if that addiction was destructive or degenerative?" were the questions that inspired Robin Hobb to start writing her Realm of the Elderlings books. Sounds a bit like the wizard class you described, but holy-moley can any two fantasy settings be more different?

9:23 that's because Hex crawls _are_ point crawls, they're just usually not very tightly designed ones.

@Quinns_Quest

Ай бұрын

🤯

@googiegress7459

5 күн бұрын

All sandboxes are point crawls with some "empty spaces" much like dungeon crawls are supposed to have a significant proportion of empty rooms. Likewise, point crawls only feel different because the person populating them isn't including pause/break/rest/"empty" points.

Babe, wake up - new Quinns Quest just dropped

@charleswoody8655

Ай бұрын

The very loud and ecstatic "YEAHHH!!" I yelled out this morning

@LeMayJoseph

Ай бұрын

Seriously. This is far and away the finest RPG review channel I’ve ever seen. I get so antsy waiting for the next video!

@ishotmyboss

Ай бұрын

I'm not your babe, sweetie.

I guess this is the difference between a games journalist who knows how to entertain and an entertaining KZreadr who doesn't really knows how to review/explain the characteristics of a game. Thank you Quinn's, this is what ttrpg fans have been waiting for. And I guess it should bring new fans to the hobby! :-)

Quinn’s I have been rewatching all your videos, what a stunning channel! Keep up the amazing work man!

Your show is the Garth Marenghi's Darkplace of the rpg world with the added bonus of being super insightfull! Keep up the great work!

I was one of the playtesters on Dagger in the Heart and it truly was an epic, deep adventure that was shaped by our characters in such a wonderful, weird and emotional way.

@coldstream11

Ай бұрын

What was emotional about it?

@Liveforfilms

Ай бұрын

@@coldstream11 The various things our characters went through involving family members, friends, secrets from the past and so on.

Love how you've played each game you review! So many RPG channels just don't do this. Madness!

That face at the end credits though. It’s a big part of why I love this show.

Ok so you totally sold me this. Definitelly going to be my first RPG - already trying to convince my friends to join. CANT WAIT TO BUY IT!! I'd love to see more videos about how to approach being DM, teaching RPGs to your friends and playing RPGs overall. You're the best, Quinns!

@Quinns_Quest

Ай бұрын

That's my favourite thing to hear! Plenty of tips on the Quinns Quest patreon, plus I've done an older video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gG2C1sZ_ZZSth6g.html

@wasaby123

Ай бұрын

​@@Quinns_Quest OooOoh seen that one and I LOVED IT. I never DMed before and after seeing Heart's I totally wanted to go and check that masterpiece out again. Guess I have to suscribe to Patreon cuz Im enjoying this channel more and more. What a blessing for my mind! Ooh, also - now that I have your Atención, is there a way you could tell me which is the mystery song that's sounding on your past life's Mind MGMT's review? I totally loved it and I wanted to be able to set it on my Mystery Games Playlist. Oh and that video review also got me buying Mind MGMT - you built tons of Persuasión on your character creation I guess?

Genuinely very excited to see this in my alerts, every one of these videos is so well put together and genuinely insightful

As a ttrpg fan, I think I'm continuously looking for new stories to tell and new ways to tell them. This channel has been an endless delight as I think about fabulous ways to make my friends and loved ones laugh, cry and squeal with delight. Thanks, Quinns. You're fabulous.

The game gets an automatic +1 from me for being one of the few new RPG books out there that actually uses *justified* text.

Man, I can not stop coming back to this video. Excellent work and can't wait to see where you go. Subscribed and liked

This is such a cool series/channel! You know you're on to a winner when the setup and the writing of the show are just as engaging as the product it is recommending

Loved hearing you on the Yes Indie'd Podcast! This is a great episode, looking forward to the next one!

Really cool to see you carry on the conversation about why anyone would go into a dungeon that you had in the Silent Titans episode of Between two Cairns!

Holy crap, the Beats are sooooooo amazing! Imagine the players having a whole system to tell you how they want the story to go, and then giving them incentive to bite those hooks that you come up with after you’ve put in the work to make it happen. B E A U T I F U L !

Brilliant idea to keep the screen interesting while the interviews play, you really are talented.

the drink at 22 minutes got me, and for a just a second it felt like a livestream gone wrong.

Aw man, I just love this channel and the format that you're using. The silly bits are as great as the review itself! I'm so glad, that I archive these television programs to VHS tapes. Don't worry, it's for personal use only, no funny business with rental or anything...

Just backed Heart with the expansion on backer kit… what pleasant timing. Friggin love the channel!

Love the channel! The work on the edit and atmosphere really shows! Going to try heart for sure!

The Beats system reminds me of one of the playbooks in MASKS: a new generation, called "The Symbol". As in most PbtA games, the XP track is short and filled one failure at a time, but this specific playbook also chooses 4 "motivations" at character creation (stuff like "earn the respect of an older hero" or "punch someone you problably shouldn't"). Fill a motivation? Earn an XP. Fill all four? Pick another four. Mind you, there's no tiers for Motivations, nor they unlock different things depending on how hard it was. Still, do check out MASKS' progression system because it is all tied into character arcs. It's a pretty good game at what it does: superpowered teenage drama.

These reviews are my favourite content on KZread. Amazing work, love it!

This is the exact type of channel I was looking for. And I'm so happy you're doing it. Great videos, great reviews. Can't wait to see the rest of the season, and what other games you go over! Personally I'm excited to see a Legacy review, I got it to run and the idea sounded so interesting to me, but running it was exceptionally hard for my play group.

This channel is so great - I have already checked out "Heart" because it was recommended by one of the authors in the previous episode.

Excellent quality in every aspect - I enjoy every single one of these videos.

Brilliant! Absolutely love this channel! Another incredible review. Keep them coming please.

Great review, thank you so much! Added the game to my wish list. Would be great to see Symbaroum reviewed on your channel, I saw the book in the Wildsea review :)

I love these concepts, and the physical presentation is beautiful. I seem to have reached an age where it’s hard to impossible to get the group together. But maybe I should get this now, so someday I can be a hit at the old-age home.

This sounds so interesting and cool. 8-ish session campaigns are a really good sweet spot, and I love the idea of having a built-in conclusion. Reminds me of the mood in Slay the Spire a lot!

Another banger, these reviews just get better every time, can't wait for the next one!

I endlessly love the artwork of Heart. It has such a strong Mignola-like vibe that my Hellboy loving heart really adores

Woohoo! New Quinns Quest!! I was wondering when the next one would surface!

First time I stumble with your channel, this video hooked me up to subscribe. Great video, went to see more before subscribing.

Great video. Quins is really a master of the KZread review format.

I am so happy that you are doing these vids man. ...don't be afraid to do the fate system!

I’ve been following you for a couple years from susd and people make games but THIS, this is a completely different beast. Love it with all my heart ;)

Razbuten brought me here and as a GM (still in my first campaign going on in a stellar 3rd year and nowhere near the finish line) I have to say: Curse you Quinn! Never has it been harder to not just start a new adventure. Jokes aside, I love this format. You are doing a great job and your Patreon is starting to become really enticing. All the best of luck to you and I will see you next time:)

I think I've found my new favorite channel..!

I absolutely love these videos, please keep up the amazing work. Thank you!!

I didn't know how much I needed a Darkplace + SUSD crossover!

Best new RPG channel on YT. Great review as usual.

Ever since I saw your Spire video I've been waiting to hear your thoughts on Heart, thanks for a great video!

Just watched your spire video yesterday, great timing

Rowan, Rook and Decard are one of those few RPG companies that are simply incapable of putting out a bad game. Spire? Awesome. Heart? Awesome. Eat the Reich, Ork Borg, DIE (ohmyGod, Quinns, you have to do DIE!)? Awesome. Hollows? Looks awesome. Chris and Grant (and Maz) are creative geniuses (genii?), and I really wish more people would give them a try. They're so good.

This, an your other videos on this channel, has been a great introduction to TTRPG systems. I'm normally kind of eh on TTRPGs but this review and the setting is just so freaking cool that I ordered a hard copy to run a game for the first time, in any system. Cheers!

Amazing review, I'm so keen to run a game of Heart, but also Wildsea as well... I hope next months game isn't equally epic else I'll never get anywhere!

Holy crap I'm in love with the style of your videos. I bought Heart and Lancer because of your videos they day i found your channel. Make more soon! 👍

The spilled drink around 23:00... OOF. Felt that. Nice bit of slapstick.

"the child has made themselves their own version of the knight's armour" - no, the knight has made additional armour of the child

@clickingsensorthing

Ай бұрын

Ah, the dark tower strat

That 'Thanks mum' line caused me to take mental stress as I realize my own reason for defaulting to female authority figures in my TTRPG campaigns.

Heart aside I'm loving the style and theme and vibe that QQ is designed with, that's essentially a review but oozes with flavor. Love it. ❤

Ugh I want one of these reviews for the 2nd edition of Torchbearer SO BAD. Great reviews, keep them coming!

A few hours ago I was thinking: I wish there was a new Quinns' quest video. Today is a good day

More! More! More! I don't even play ttrpgs that much, I just love watching your vids about them

If anyone wants to hear a table playing Heart in a homebrew settings they need to check out Friends at the Table's Sangfielle campaign. It's so good and really shows how the system of Heart allows you to tell stories in such a way that you can focus on the increasingly intense world reactions to player actions as they take bigger and bigger swings.

What a great review. Masterful as always. Will definitely check it out. Can we ask for next RPGs you cover? If yes, then you NEEd to check out the Burning wheel, it's like heart, but training wheels are off (in terms of mechanics and design). Hands down best rpg I've seen Thank you again Quinn!

Don't think you could get away with using that bluepring map in the intro unnoticed! Played that campaign once, run it once and now running it a second time. "Along the shore the cloud waves break"

The book on fire in the intro cracks me up every single time 0:34

I read the whole book for this game and I'm not sure I'd ever want to play it (too fatalistic and bleak for my tastes) OR run it (some of my players could not handle the roleplay) but it is really cool. And the art is amazing.

I spent too long debating to get The Wildsea, and it was sold out everywhere by the time I wanted it. I have not made the same mistake here. It showed up this morning. Thanks Quinns!

Oh man, you really got me with that drink bit

The quins quest guarantee is something really special. Playing everything you review sounds so simple but having watched a lot of RPG reviews, it's actually really unique!

This is literally the first channel with a Patreon that has actually gotten me to consider throwing money at it. Edit: I came back to edit this post just to say these are the best produced, best written TTRPG videos on the planet. Not only is the content gold but the games picked are obscure gems. I’m so happy they don’t post videos more often because my wife would murder me for buying so many books.

Still loving the style of these, still loving your earnest presentation of something we all love

The prodution quality of this video, the writing, it's eldritchly good.

Quinns please tell me a Legacy Life Among The Ruins video is in the works at some point? I keep spotting it in your intro vid. Keep up the good work!

Loving this series so much. I keep seeing that Unknown Armies screen and rubbing my hands greedily

Ah! My favorite RPG of all time, so glad to see it gets him love :)

This is one of the most interesting to me TTRPG concepts I've seen in a while, but also the darkest dungeon influence is incredibly heavy

I really enjoyed running Heart, finally an RPG I could unashamedly stuff trains into. Thought I wish there were more tools to help me run my campaign. I found the blocks of text in landmark descriptions difficult to digest and would have liked a short bullet point summary at the top of each of them. I also wish there were random tables to help prepare delves, though that is being fixed as part of the Dagger campaign

Oh god when he knocked over the cocktail! Soooo funny😂. Great review as always

I've been waiting for this since your review of Spire!! Thanks Quinns!!

I loved reading through Spire, so hearing Heart is streamlined to run makes me feel really excited to dive in!

I love the suggestions for some fantastic RPGs. My wallet does not... I do have one suggestion that might clash with the style of these videos, but I find I absolutely need. I feel like the videos are missing some sort of information on what players (and the DM) are actually doing from moment to moment. I get the themes of heart, but I have zero idea of if doing those themes is any fun (I assume it is). It is like someone was describing Settlers of Catan to me and said, "It is a game about civilizations competing to settle a mysterious island full of resources" without ever saying "you'll spend the next hour rolling dice and hoping your number comes up... and maybe trading".

Quinn looks alot beefier in these videos than much older ones and i think its a better look

Was that the Macalister Building map at the beginning? Would love a Quinns Quest on Delta Green Impossible Landscapes!

This has quickly become one of my favorite rpg channels

This sounds amazing! Also, Quinns, I would love to see you review Ironsworn (Free Solo/Coop Gm-less fantasy rpg) or Ironsworn: Starforged (Un-free Solo/Coop Scifi rpg). Thanks!

I find it funny that this was the first game you reviewed after your "I'm just not that into dungeons right now" appearance on Between Two Cairns. Great choice!

@Quinns_Quest

Ай бұрын

Look, dungeons are goofy, but a game that USES the goofiness of dungeons like it's turning a bottle of liquor into a molotov cocktail? Yes please

I was thinking during the SU&SD review for Spire that Heart solved a ton of your criticisms for the game.

Another beautiful review. Heart is in the shopping cart. Thanks Quinns. 📚 ❤

Great to see such a glowing recommendation, having just bought literally everything RR&D has produced for Heart in the recent campaign for the new supplement. This video does cause a question to be posed for me though: I've recently also purchased Die, which seems to be be covering a lot of the same ground, albeit in a more meta way. If anybody is familiar with both, how do they compare, where do they overlap and does one make the other somewhat redundant?

The Beats system vaguely reminds me of The Riddle of Steel, which you should totally cover if you can find it. (Or one of its successors.) It's a game that's tediously designed so that every single aspect reinforces the idea that your choices matter. You gain XP by being true to yourself, which makes the campaign player driven by design. You improve your skills with practice. Combat is a surprisingly elegant medieval combat simulator. It's one of the most fun and unique games I've ever played.

I love HEART so much the game is sweet. Also you're great for shining more light on non-D&D ttrpgs. Keep this up!

Aw, man - I love this show! I used to watch it in high school on Friday nights on PBS after my mom drove me home from my Dungeons & Dragons group! I'd stay up late and watch Monty Python and this would be on after.