Watch “He Made 40+ Elder Scrolls Videos | BGSS ep_019,” a board game video for The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era on BoardGameVideo.
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Daniel from@thinkgaming fled his country in 2022 with no job, no money, and no plan. Three years later he's running one of YouTube's most dedicated nerdy strategy channels — 500+ hours into Elder Scrolls, the official How-to-Play creator for Too Many Bones, and somehow he's never missed an upload week.
We talked about losing everything in a single day, sleeping on a friend's couch in London, why he treats his channel like a library instead of a newsstand, and what it actually takes to build a niche board game channel without selling out to the algorithm.
If you've ever been told "the only way to grow is top-10 lists and preview videos," this episode is your permission slip to ignore that advice.
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Chapters
0:00 — Cold open
1:24 — Fleeing Moscow with nothing
6:15 — The bus across the border
9:14 — Discovering the Global Talent visa
10:25 — Falling into board games (Mice and Mystics → Gloomhaven)
14:23 — Finding purpose during visa limbo
16:11 — The first (failed) YouTube channel
20:03 — "A library, not a newspaper kiosk"
23:26 — Hobby vs. business: the Ali Abdaal scale
31:55 — Ikigai and the why behind the work
34:17 — The two things he's most proud of
35:50 — Two jobs, never a missed week
44:30 — Watching metrics without serving them
49:58 — Only covering games he actually loves
57:44 — Family, Cheltenham, and the introvert problem
1:04:08 — "I have to do this. This is my mission."
1:14:15 — Going deep on Grimcoven
1:24:03 — Too Many Bones and the Wave 2 wait
1:29:15 — Filming the official Too Many Bones tutorial
1:32:41 — Elder Scrolls vs. Too Many Bones
1:39:17 — Why he still hasn't reviewed Elder Scrolls
1:49:03 — Advice for aspiring creators
2025·Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, Josh Wielgus
Videos
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Creators
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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
