Poetic Elements 4: ROOT (marauder)

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Welcome back to the original Spaceship Frost! In this episode, I reprise my Root poem that I submitted earlier this week, but I add on an extra coda for the information about the Kickstarter that we didn't know at the time of its writing. If you're wondering why I shot this at such a bad hour, I do go over it in the video, but the 10-cent version was to celebrate the first day of the new expansion on Kickstarter as well as to give myself a break from long-distance night driving to get a Covid vaccine. You know, you're regular garden variety win-win. This is a weekly challenge for myself, to use the medium of poetry to convey my love for board games... particularly the ones that require at least two humans to play (and in whichever style of poetry fits the bill for that game). I talk a LOT about solo games on this channel, but honestly, just like many of you, I'm really starved for get those multiplayer games off my shelves in the After Times, while meanwhile really enjoying the great two player experiences out there with my wife (when the kiddos allow for such indulgences). Enjoy! If you're _really_ in a hurry for the poem: 0:00 - Title card & pre-poem 3:37 - ROOT POEM (text below) 5:04 - The Marauder Expansion Coda (text further below) 5:38 - I geek out in detail about the Kickstarter stuff I made a faction flowchart, With decisions to be made. Is war the biggest thrill in life In mountain, lake, or glade? Are you a crafty craftsman, Making tools to fill your shelf? Do you yearn for group adventures Or explore all by yourself? When mistakes are made and down you fall How deep are your frustrations? Will you wheel and deal for piles of gold Or follow higher machinations? I made this faction flowchart for those times it’s hard to pick. The factions range in fluff and style So I want the choice to stick But I also made this flowchart To help us to remember, The time I sold dominance to moles Or when so-and-so got dismembered For Root’s a game of character Of push and pull and grit Of lucky rolls, of subtle ploys, Of politics and wit And when the rats and badgers Come gallumphing to the table, I’ll gladly revisit these lines and words And add them, best I’m able. MARAUDER CODA: Hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, Keepers in Iron, Hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, Lord of the Hundreds, Hirelings, hirelings, Landmarks, Hirelings, hirelings, Bots, Hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, hirelings, Hirelings Box! And in case you're interested in getting the soon-to-be-outdated flowchart, you can still head on over the BGG and download the same file I printed off for the inside of my box (and I'll still give out major props to Tom Teaches for the better icons): https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/196837/root-faction-flowchart ALSO, in case you’re really interested in my headspace with regards to Root... here’s me singing a spoof on a different Broadway musical for each of the current factions. I’ll have to update this, too! https://youtu.be/8M9mha1xuL0 MY THANK YOUs: MUSIC! "Onion Capers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Heroic Age" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Call to Adventure" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Majestic Hills by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4013-majestic-hills License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license VIEWERS! Thanks for being here!