Watch “Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the Second Era Session 1,” a gameplay video for The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Ready Steady Play on YouTube:
Mike and Mark find themselves in Valenwood during Tamriel's second era; a time of great troubles and continental turmoil. A Valenwood local and popular figurehead, the Wood Elf Deslandra, is known for her altruistic acts, but, as our adventurers uncover increasingly suspicious activity in the area, signs keep implicating the Bosmer. Is there a deeper agenda underlying her charitable mission?
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a 1-4 player cooperative tabletop adventure. Each adventure in the game takes place over the course of three gameplay sessions, with sessions being roughly one hour per player in length. Players customize and control a single hero throughout all three sessions of an adventure as they manage multiple skill lines, classes and experience the many regions of Tamriel, each with their own unique flavor and mechanics. Experience points are handed out generously, allowing players to build interesting and unique characters in the consolidated timespan required in a tabletop experience.
Elder Scrolls Session 1 Chapters:
00:00 - General Introduction
05:20 - Campaign and Session Overview
10:39 - Narrative Introduction
12:34 - Valenwood Mechanisms
15:05 - Ways to Play
16:03 - Character Creation
28:39 - Choosing our Guild
33:00 - Guild Quest Introduction
35:56 - Intro to "Day Structure"
39:19 - Day 1
1:05:04 - Day 2
2:09:31 - Day 3
2:16:21 - Day 4
2:24:47 - Day 5
2:32:51 - Day 6
3:38:05 - Day 7
3:46:34 - Day 8
4:15:20 - Day 9
4:25:33 - Day 10
4:46:55 - Day 11
4:59:43 - Day 12
This video is sponsored by Chip Theory Games: https://chiptheorygames.com
Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the Second Era on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/356080/the-elder-scrolls-betrayal-of-the-second-era
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Players:
Michael Dennis (Ready Steady Play)
Mark Dainty (@NotBoredGaming)
2025·Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, Josh Wielgus
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Mainly playthroughs and how-to-play. The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 52 reviews, 68 how-to-play guides, 92 recorded sessions, 23 unboxings, and 19 other videos.
1 - 4 players
120 - 240 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions
About The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, from BoardGameGeek:
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel's Second Era - specifically during the events of the Planemeld, as the Order of the Black Worm plots to secure the Amulet of Kings. As the dark cult schemes, however, one of its members is planning an even darker betrayal, one that will tie Tamriel in with Oblivion forever. Adventurers work to uncover her machinations and stop her plot amid a bevy of endlessly replayable content. As in The Elder Scrolls video games, players will travel on an epic journey, balancing exploration, character building, dungeon diving and close quarters combat.
Each adventure in the game takes place over the course of three gameplay sessions, with sessions being roughly two hours plus an additional half hour per player in length. Players customize and control a single hero throughout all three sessions of an adventure as they manage multiple skill lines, classes and experience the many regions of Tamriel, each with their own unique flavor and mechanics. Experience points are handed out generously, allowing players to build interesting and unique characters in the consolidated timespan required in a tabletop experience. Session to session progression is meaningful, but players are not required to remember complex narrative points or play with the same group forever.
Designers
Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, Josh Wielgus
Artists
Chris Beck, Yoann Boissonnet, Anthony LeTourneau, Federico Pompili
