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Very helpful thank you!

Awesome content. You need a better mic!!!!

Free League has really been killing it in the tabletop RPG space. I recently picked up Vaesen (another Year Zero Engine RPG) and it's just quality.

Oh i love the dropped item idea!!!

Not crazy about the having to roll 6's. My table played 3 games of about 4 hours each with dice pools from 3-7 and the number of times my players failed to get any 6's at all was frustrating to the entire group to the point that we decided to just use the book as a resource and use another system. This dice system just made the characters look incompetent at anything below 6 dice but I guess that's to be expected when you have an 83.3% chance of failure per die baked into every roll, it's like freaking amateurs wrote this system.

Really like the idea of rolling the players’ stress die for them and love the idea of not revealing what item they’ve dropped until they go for it! Also, great advice about constantly rolling dice to keep the players guessing and adding extra tension. This is the game I’ve been most excited to listen to actual plays and I can’t get enough of it. I’m even considering GMing for the first time to get my regular gaming group to play it. I love your excitement for this system throughout your videos! Thx for the tips!

Nice video, thanks! Those American walkers caught my eye.

Superb review and presentation. Can you play as Starfleet federation with the Klingon empire core rulebook, or the book is very specific to the Klingons?

Brilliant pointers. Just finished running Chariot last night and it's honestly the best game I think I have ever run, certainly the most enjoyable.

The game system is good... however it is a bit slow and very dependent of exhibition and narrative...on which some groups thrive... The group I play with would fall out of their seats in some of the sessions I have seen played on line... not that the dms were bad or anything its that my group is antsy... I have run other games with a shell of a story within a story and they have to engage in dialogue with other characters or situations... sometimes this takes a bit too long for their liking and they start to pick fights with the NPC or do stupid things to get the group into trouble... So, I would edit some of the scenes narrative or break it up with a bit of rivalry or banter on a ship or colony site. where the players can spar against each other while at the same time divulging data and plot points to them. If your group is say more patient than mine disregard... I just know they would be swinging from my ceiling fan if they have not shot their smart gun after an hour of play...

Excellent info but terrible mic.

Actually the dice do have symbols and they were misprinted. But Free League is sending replacements.

Awesome! Can't wait for my copy. Hope I find people to play with.

Free League know how to put a nice package together. Every one of their releases is something I want on my shelf. I'm looking forward to the review.

Really enjoyed this!

Thank you for that interview. The project had caught my attention after the Dice breaker coverage and Lizy and you did a great job giving us info on the philosophy behind the project and who it is for. That was an enjoyable chat. I'm off to back it. :)

Thanks for featuring Carved in Stone! The Kickstarter link is here if anyone's interested: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dungeonsonadime/carved-in-stone/

Really awesome advice! I would think the only thing I would check with players is the lost/dropped items idea. I could see some players having a problem with suddenly not having an item with little to no warning. Also it can be argued that you could be well aware of what you dropped but find you have no way to easily get it back and that could create tension as well.

Got my box recently and have been dying to go through it. They've done a great job with the set from what I've seen. Great unboxing!

Hmm, interesting, sounds a bit like classes, not really a fan of needing a particular style of PC in parties. Sort of puts me off trying it, been meaning to for awhile. How does alearner fair if they have no figher with them, or a fighter fair without learning? Should there not be routes for each to solve the mystery without leaning on the other?

Looks like a very good wee box. Quality of books looks better than some of the (also very high quality) Chaosium starter boxes. I like the fact they went with Card covers on the booklets, makes them more durable. Been playing Symbaroum for a while now and the combat can be brutal. Also magic is dangerous to the caster. Great game but play style best if RP heavy. If you like more fighty systems this may be one to avoid...or have a stack of replacement characters.

Nice wee review. Free League just keeps putting out top stuff with excellent production values.

This colonials marines RPG manual is only for very tough hombres; It’s packing state of the art firepower. 😉

Useful and inspiring video. New suscriber here ;)

Subbed. First time GM at any game. I love the Alien universe however. I am currently learning the rules with the starter set. How much different are the core rules? I will say that A L I E N is great for beginners so far.

What happened to the videos of the Box To Board live sessions of playing through Hopes Last Day?

Good concise explanation. I’ll be linking this video to explain play to new players in my campaign.

Commenting for the algorithm gods. When I saw the resolution and heard the camera mic I wasn't expecting much. But you told me exactly what I was looking for. Subbed.

When choosing equipment, rules as written you should only choose two items total, not one from each row. I find it weird, but the book says "choose two of the starting items below". I really want to know who's choosing the deck of cards over a weapon or armour, though.

Kinda cool

Thank you this is a great help

As someone who has created their own miniatures game, I hope that someone from Steamforged listens to the players like you. It would be amazing to have a thriving community with a heart and a willingness to make a video like this. It is so easy to make a video and be angry, it is much harder to have a heart-to-heart conversation.

That's my Dad!!! ❤❤

Really looking forward to playing the dice system, it sounds really great and I love the concept of both the focus, but also how wounds impact your capability.

Wow, that guy has a painfully Kiwi accent ;-)

Thank you so much for this! Great first look! We can't wait to start playing the campaign....

having a look at it myself and lots of goodness to be found

Its absolutely massive, they certainly have delivered.

Anyone else in the same boat as me wanting to play this but having covid in the way- the sets have been added to tabletop simulator by a very talented modder.

Good video 👍

I've been in a weekly campaign for a few months and we're having a blast. Our GM is also Irish! Your thoughts are bang on, in this review. The physical book is very nice. The cover and paper, fonts, and the ART! The layout makes sense and format follows other Free League products, using YZ rules engine. Plays great as an investigation and mystery type RPG. Since you rarely fight the Vaesen directly, having stat blocks isn't necessary - allowing GMs to create their own vaesen very easily - maybe using local folk lore unrelated to the Mythic North. ;) I hope your review helps someone else to try this system out for their table - thanks!

If you're looking for a new player for your next Alien game, I'd certainly be interested

Thanks for the review.

Having never played or heard of Vaesen before, I've enioyed meeting the characters. Now onto the campaign!

Vaesen has such an interesting setting. Wonder how it might translate to folklore from other countries.

Would have been extra excellent with a mic =) Thx

Creepy stuff. I like it!

I am hearing the game is surprisingly rules-lite.

Which tools did you used for this gameplay? I like the way you present the handouts to your players! I'm getting my Vaesen core rulebook next week. Super excited to play this game!

Englishman here, grew up with my grandmother telling me so many cautionary stories about fairies. During the Victorian era, we sanitized our folklore and made fairies into cherubic whimsical beings but there's a lot more authentic folklore out there that refers to 'the fair folk' as things to be avoided at best or placated at worst.