Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora

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Hopeless Games set sails for the stars in an attempt to find another species more deserving than our own. The search takes us deep into the lush jungles of Picole and far across the volcanic hellscapes of Paleo. Will we find what we are looking for? Or will the hubris of our species refuse to surrender the torch to those who deserve it more? The Voyage of the BSM Pandora is a pioneering space exploration game designed by John Butterfield in 1981. It fuses logistic planning with psychedelic experience and somehow gets away with it. Also, it practically invented the genre of paragraph-driven board games which remains massively popular to this day. For an in-depth history of branching story games, check out our other video here: https://youtu.be/S8im00sNXmQ 🕰️ Timestamps: 0:00 Welcome Aboard! 1:21 Ares Magazine Games 2:28 Paragraph-Based Board Games 4:05 Voyage of the BSM Pandora 8:31 Overview 10:56 The Crew 15:30 The Voyage Begins 21:59 Toward Picole 35:02 Planetside 39:32 Into the Wild 52:30 Bloody Encounter 1:06:02 Desperate Return 1:17:42 Onward to Paleo 1:31:09 Descent to Hell 1:36:10 Through the Gorge 1:37:54 Pulsating Monolith 1:43:25 The Living City 1:45:12 Infected Herd 1:52:27 Pillar of Flesh 1:58:12 Amnesiac Hypnosis 2:07:30 The Tattered King 2:14:06 Long Journey Home 2:20:25 Final Thoughts 2:30:18 Second Edition Coming Soon! Join this channel: / https://youtube.com/@hopelessstream Twitch: / https://twitch.tv/hopelessstream Instagram: / https://instagram.com/hopelessgames Facebook: / https://facebook.com/hopelessgames Hopeless Games dive into the weird and wonderful world of niche gaming. We dig up forgotten games, wrestle with impossible rules, and spin it all into epic tales of triumph and tragedy. We also design our own special brand of games in the nebulous borderlands between ritual and play. Check them out here: https://www.hopelessgames.com/ #TabletopGaming #BoardGames #TabletopRPG #StoryDrivenGames #SoloBoardGame #ScifiGaming #SPI #Ares #JohnButterfield #VanVogt #SpaceExploration #Psychedelics