Asking YOUR Questions | Elden Ring the Board Game Designer Interview

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- Don't Miss the Elden Ring KS Launch - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/elden-ring-the-board-game?ref=clipboard-prelaunch - Join Patreon to support what we do - https://www.patreon.com/Quackalope - TimeStamps - 00:00:00 Hello, hello 00:01:10 Elevator-pitch 00:04:20 Pricepoint 00:06:08 Will this tempt me to back? 00:07:31 What makes this stand out from KDM and Gloomhaven? 00:11:50 What is the experience of Elden Ring you are capturing? 00:14:43 Favorite and least favorite part? 00:16:48 Who is this game wrong for? 00:20:40 Solo mode 00:24:33 Is the board game as difficult as the video game? 00:26:30 Re-playability 00:28:08 How big is this game? 00:29:36 Upkeep and maintenance during game? 00:31:00 Time between player turns 00:31:22 Ranni or Patches miniatures? 00:34:33 Thanks for everything you do 00:34:58 Boss battling or exploration focused? 00:35:35 Narrative storylines 00:38:50 How does this compare to Dark Souls? 00:40:40 Inspiration from other games? 00:44:00 Let me solo her 00:46:09 Language options 00:47:02 Character building and stats 00:49:02 Retail availability or KS exclusives 00:51:25 Development time? Play-test time? Delivery time? - Check out the game on BGG for more information - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/373107/elden-ring-board-game - Quackalope's PO Box - 5120 Mayfield Rd. PMB 305 Lyndhurst, OH 44124 For media inquiries - Quackalope@gmail.com This video is not a sponsored video This game was provided by the Publisher - Our Approach to monetized Content Video - https://youtu.be/hg3qXYDyxn8 Welcome to the Lands Between, a mysterious and otherworldly realm where the landscape is rich and varied. As you explore, you’ll build out a hex-based map of your surroundings, with unique locations to visit, resources to gather, NPC’s to interact with, and enemies to fight. Your progress is tracked by a narrative story that provides objectives as well as guidance on how to achieve them – and, depending on your decisions, alternative side-quests and emergent narrative to experience, too. Diceless and with strong elements of deck-building, combat is both deadly and personal. As your Tarnished character levels up, you must carefully build your attack and effect decks to best optimise with your equipment. Although exploration takes place on the zoomed-out hex map, each player has their own dedicated quest book on which combat encounters will take place face-to-face. When you enter combat, you’ll open your quest book to the indicated page. There, you’ll find a battlefield grid that raises the level of combat from one of simple physical positioning to state of mental readiness. Using rows and lanes, this unique system means your position dictates not only your physical position in the encounter, but your battle stance: aggressive, neutral, or defensive. Each battle stance has benefits and drawbacks to exploit and avoid with the changing state of battle, which can even vary from one encounter to the next. Understanding enemy attack patterns is key, helping to inform when to expose an enemy weakness and press home an attack, and when to play defensively while your stamina returns. Drawn at random but possible to manipulate, the marching order will determine which characters act when, and give you the vital opportunity to plan ahead, just as you’d learn ‘tells’ in the video game. A single bad decision can mean death to the unwary, sending unlucky Tarnished back to the nearest Site of Grace to respawn. Because combat takes place in your individual quest book, your encounters also won’t disrupt play for everyone else. After making the three actions in your turn — and enduring any enemy attacks — your combat will pause while the other Tarnished continue exploring the overworld, with combat resuming once your turn comes back around. When your party locates a dungeon, your quest books will be joined together, allowing you to take on bosses together on a much larger stage while still being up close and personal. But boss encounters aren’t the only time you’ll fight side by side. If one of your fellow Tarnished is in trouble, there are also ways to join their personal combat book and lend a hand — or a sword. The official tabletop adaptation of the hit video game that sold over 13 million copies in its first month after release, ELDEN RING™: The Board Game features huge and lavishly detailed miniatures, as well as close to a thousand cards, four large quest books, and a towering stack of exploration tile, all in the core box alone. It’s a big box cooperative campaign game for 1-4 players, where each session is playable in 90-120 minutes and core box campaigns will span 30-40 hours, increasing to 90 hours with the expansions. And your Tarnished can make the entire journey with you, from one region to the next… - Secret Hidden Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/QuackCo?sub_confirmation=1 #Boardgames #Quackalope #eldenring