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Mar 24, 2022·Review·15:27·4·Watch on YouTube

Everything You Need To Know: Monster Pit | 5 Things

Liege of Games

Liege of Games

Watch “Everything You Need To Know: Monster Pit | 5 Things,” a board game review for Monster Pit from Liege of Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Liege of Games on YouTube:

#LiegeOfGames #boardgames #monsterpit Hands on playing a copy of the prototype of Monster Pit from Elzra Games. This different style tableau bulider worker placement(ish) game of fending off monsters from the city you're sworn to protect in the Catacombs universe. What are my thoughts and what do you need to know about it? Thanks for watching! Campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elzra/monster-pit/description BGG link - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/241726/monster-pit Please send media inquiries to cmeeusen@gmail.com Support me on Patreon for $1? https://bit.ly/3soIpV2 Subscribe to my channel https://bit.ly/2GsSGM8 Time Stamp: 00:00 - Monster Pit 01:52 - #1 - Bosses 03:04 - #2 - City 04:28 - #3 - The Stuff 06:54 - #4 - Locations 08:21 - #5 - Dice 10:31 - Final Thoughts Monster Pit is *not* a dexterity game! It features tableau building, dice drafting, and hand management. Monster Pit marks the start of a new dungeon crawl experience from Elzra, with this first installment being a fully co-operative, fantasy adventure game set in the world of Catacombs. During the game, loyal Captains must rally their forces to defend the Citadel against the emerging threat of a creature from the deep. Think Gandalf rallying the forces of Minas Tirith in Return of the King. This is not a tower defense game, but blends several mechanisms including dice drafting (there are custom dice and rolls can be mitigated), tableau building (the player boards are extra large to organize the various cards), and worker placement (in terms of the various buildings your Captain will visit). Your Captain’s tableau will include soldiers, wizards, heroes, mounts, and wyverns. Some of these characters are for offensive purposes (attacking the Monster etc) and some for defensive purposes (building your resources including your dice pool). During the game player will also complete quests for the King, buy items from the Town Hall, ride a Mount, fight creatures in the streets of the Citadel, upgrade their Captain at the Armoury, visit the Dwarven Grotto for gold, and find helpful trinkets in the Fountain. The game supports "true solo" (a solo player need only control one Captain), fully co-op multiplayer against the Monster, one vs one (one player controls the Captain, the other player controls the Monster), or one player (controlling the Monster) vs up to four Captains. All play modes feature long or short variants. There are five monsters included in the game (Dragon, Enchantress, Behemoth, Vampire Queen, and Orc War Chief) both featuring "A" and "B" sides for greater challenge and variation. —description from the publisher

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Monster Pit

Monster Pit

2023·Nick Seddon, Aron West

Videos
18
Creators
13

Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Monster Pit is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.

1 - 5 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About Monster Pit, from BoardGameGeek:

Monster Pit features tableau building, dice drafting, and hand management in a fully co-operative, fantasy adventure game. During the game, loyal Captains must rally their forces to defend the Citadel against the emerging threat of a creature from the deep. Think Gandalf rallying the forces of Minas Tirith in Return of the King. This is not a tower defense game, but blends several mechanisms including dice drafting (there are custom dice and rolls can be mitigated), tableau building (the player boards are extra large to organize the various cards), and worker placement (in terms of the various buildings your Captain will visit). Your Captain's tableau will include soldiers, wizards, heroes, mounts, and wyverns. Some of these characters are for offensive purposes (attacking the Monster etc) and some for defensive purposes (building your resources including your dice pool). During the game player will also complete quests for the King, buy items from the Town Hall, ride a Mount, fight creatures in the streets of the Citadel, upgrade their Captain at the Armoury, visit the Dwarven Grotto for gold, and find helpful trinkets in the Fountain. The game supports "true solo" (a solo player need only control one Captain), fully co-op multiplayer against the Monster, one vs one (one player controls the Captain, the other player controls the Monster), or one player (controlling the Monster) vs up to four Captains. All play modes feature long or short variants. There are five monsters included in the game (Dragon, Enchantress, Behemoth, Vampire Queen, and Orc War Chief) both featuring "A" and "B" sides for greater challenge and variation. The game engine can be further adjusted with Difficulty Tokens. -description from the publisher

Designers

Nick Seddon, Aron West

Artists

Carly A-F, Kwanchai Moriya

Publisher

Elzra

Categories

AdventureDice

Mechanics

Cooperative GameDice Rolling
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