Oh my gosh, this is super intricate. Dang, hopefully all of the stories are completely original since they look like a fun read, given a quick scan. Thanks for making a video on this!
I drew and colored my own board game adventure sheet, then played the entire campaign with my siblings, it's was rather confusing but really fun, and I haven't even gotten a single s13 set yet
I think the idea with the whole skull vs heart thing in combat (and in some of the adventures) must relate to an earlier version of the dice. I think that the idea is that rolling a heart is similar to how rolling a critical 20 in D&D works, where it’s automatically a fantastic success, while rolling a skull is like rolling a critical 1-total failure. If people still want to use these rules, you can probably get away with using the heart side with 3 dots above as a critical success and the skull with only 1 dot above as a crit fail :) :)
Thank you for your research into the Nijago game! I'm very surprised that LEGO doesn't have this more polished. So many children would enjoy playing and I"m sure they'd sell so many more sets in this series. I'd love my grandson to leap into D&D through this series.
I was going to use Heroica rules to play through the dungeon, after watching this I do like that they tried to make a full DnD short module, but yes there are a lot of things that need to be ironed out. This download must be the Beta, and they will release the defined rules in July hopefully. Also adding Skill rolls to attributes has a Talisman feel to it as well, maybe that’s another game I’ll try and use.
I will have to really modify this to get it to work for me like extra rules. Such as enemies, friendly NPC's, more bosses and attributes. I will also put a lot more depth into combat with different weapons and skills.
Am I the only one who thinks Lego made the rules up AFTER releasing it? Marketing the sets as a game was a huge pull, only to find that there was barely a game to be played. The D&D element feels like the result of a crisis meeting after everyone wrote to them saying “this one piece of paper is incredibly vague, any more details please?” - “uh… we got nothing. Someone think of something!”
Thank you very much, I just got two of the sets and I agree the rules included were very vague. My only guess is that they were saving paper and wanted to tell in the least amount of languages as possible, pictures over words, as they've done before.
Thankyou for the video, tried to play with the kids this afternoon after my son built the dragon and it was very chaotic with the mismatch with the rules and the set etc :)
Mind I already played the game before the rules were published and I actually had fun. I mean, a board game made out of lego? In my favourite lego theme of all time?! Count me in.
Wow this looks sweet. I tried D&D a while ago and while I liked it I found most missions way too long and then there was map making etc. It was just too much. This looks mush more complete, I have been thinking for a while why lego doesn't do something like a role play game. Going to give it a try.
I think it's pretty easy to fix the dice by assigning {1,2,3,heart,skull} to five sides and picking the last one to be one of those (depending on the desired complexity), or making it a reroll. Other inconsistencies are more frustrating, especially given that LEGO failed to fix the rules before Xmas.
I think this is really complicated, so younger kids might have trouble playing this, but I think they can figure it out. With this many rules, I think they should have made a free app that manages what abilities and lives etc that the player has. Because doing all the math for each time you attack would be frustrating and time consuming, in the app you could just roll the dice and it shows animations of fighting and the points adding up to the attacks and whatnot. The app could also eliminate the need for instructions, but could also have a section where you could read them if you want. Overall, this game is way more than I expected, and I think it has great potential to make Ninjago even greater than it already is
This is really cool they really did put a lot of time and effort in this, I wish they included the manual in the sets so people would know how to play it
Might have to use a die from the lego board games and give it 1, 2, 3, colors to denote heart and skull, and maybe a reroll? That seems like it'd fix the die issue.
Thank you for your video. I read the rules too and I saw there too many mistakes. I read rules of boardgame really often and this rule book is definitely the worst in this year. I had to look three times on article about dice. I am curious what they will do with this. I hope, that it was just error and they uploaded only rules ver. 0.67 because it needs a lot of errata. For example, I don't know why there are not any skills for toughness? And at the end of the rules is a character log without space for toughness. It is pure amateurism.
Great video! I'm caught in the same pickle as you - seemingly 5 months later. If you read this I'd super appreciate any input! However I'm very well versed in d&d so the whole dice thing actually drove me crazy. It is NOT 5 sided! The concept of it is but I think from the standpoint they setup in the initial explanation of these PDF rules...it's up to the gamemaster. So I think the idea is that the game master calls the shots based on the hearts and skulls - kinda like a way for them to call up random 'crits' when they so choose to keep the game moving. That's how I read it. Like literally as is, it seems you have a few ways to play. A. Pick-up board game described in the Insert/Comic. Basically use the Lego Set only, Use the numbers for movement and the heart/skull for success/fail in combat. 3 fails your character loses. X marks the spot and you win/get the sword/etc/up to you. B. RPG Adventures where you adhere to the DM making the calls like 'give me a roll for perception' or what have you. Then, combat would be numerical as well going by stats - I just think the skull and heart are totally a GM call. Characters start in the center of the map and the 4 sets are connected on the corners. The party moves through the map to play the adventures - which take place in the imagination and dice rolling and role play. Then the map extends to the Lego sets where the RPG rules still apply but are now using Minifigs to play a more physical game. C. You can kinda just nix the map, play the adventures as you wish and connect the board how you want and use as much or as little of the RPG rules as you want.
@@AlexanderPotapenko I had the exact same question! one 'how to' on youtube shows moving directly from Scene to Scene in a railroad fashion and as a D&D player I said "that cannot be right"... you must be able to move around the maps, but do they move as a party or as individuals? Or I guess the players could decide whether they stay together or separate (just like in D&D). It's completely unclear how the dungeon map RPG integrate with the actual Lego sets which seem to have their own Board Game super simple rules - and while the maps shows them 'connecting' those connections aren't explained in any way in the RPG guide - based on my reading of the RPG rules you never move off the map onto the Lego sets, so then my assumption is that you use the sets as settings for the various Scenes described in the adventures as the GM decides. But I wish it was all spelled out much more clearly.
Would love to see a video of this actually being played if anyone can figure out HOW it's done. Seems like the rules leave some areas pretty vague and could really use clarification.
Hey mind, do you think the game will be replayable, because there are only a certain amount of adventures, which makes it seem like you can play only a certain amount of times.
The five-sided dice is referencing five different sides of the dice (heart,skull, 1, 2, 3) which appear (more than once) on the dice so the instructions are correct. You just misunderstood what 5-sided means in this context
I don’t think so, because you’re always rolling a heart or a skull, no matter what you roll. Specifically in the attributes section, it talks about how if you roll a skull it’s a failure, a heart it’s a success, or if it’s a 1, 2, or 3, you add that number to your skill level to determine the result. You’ll always be rolling either a heart or a skull, so it makes the number rolls pointless there, whereas the instructions have a specific use for them.
@@BricksByMind Hi, I totally agree. There are bits where it implies you add the number to see if you've won the activity but then the heart of skull will over-ride that if you are lucky or unlucky enough to role a symbol. If every roll throws up a symbol the numbers become pointless. It just plays out like the comic strip which isn't what the instructions suggest.
Oh my gosh, this is super intricate. Dang, hopefully all of the stories are completely original since they look like a fun read, given a quick scan. Thanks for making a video on this!
I drew and colored my own board game adventure sheet, then played the entire campaign with my siblings, it's was rather confusing but really fun, and I haven't even gotten a single s13 set yet
Good idea I might do that
@@anythingqwack5145 make sure you put it over cardboard
@@yeetus_reetus_deeleetus ok
tbh I hope lego keeps doing this (even though they 99% won't)
I think the idea with the whole skull vs heart thing in combat (and in some of the adventures) must relate to an earlier version of the dice. I think that the idea is that rolling a heart is similar to how rolling a critical 20 in D&D works, where it’s automatically a fantastic success, while rolling a skull is like rolling a critical 1-total failure.
If people still want to use these rules, you can probably get away with using the heart side with 3 dots above as a critical success and the skull with only 1 dot above as a crit fail :) :)
Thank you for your research into the Nijago game! I'm very surprised that LEGO doesn't have this more polished. So many children would enjoy playing and I"m sure they'd sell so many more sets in this series. I'd love my grandson to leap into D&D through this series.
It’s Ninjago
Finally the rules
Wow so many lieks
Hiiii I’m a fan
Woah I got one like!
Just bought and built every MOTM set; I hope they fix the beta version of the instructions soon!
This is the closest I’m gonna get to D&D because my school closed in the middle of a game because of corona
I was going to use Heroica rules to play through the dungeon, after watching this I do like that they tried to make a full DnD short module, but yes there are a lot of things that need to be ironed out. This download must be the Beta, and they will release the defined rules in July hopefully. Also adding Skill rolls to attributes has a Talisman feel to it as well, maybe that’s another game I’ll try and use.
Me: Being a DnD player myself am excited
5-6 Year old kids: Allow us to introduce ourselves
I probably will only get the Wu battle Dragon and Journey To The Skull Dungeon
I get journey to skull too
I'm getting journey to skull dungeons and skull dungeons
Same but im getting zanes mino creature
@@h_dragoonx3532 I want buy that but is expensive
I have almost all of the lego ninjago summer 2020 sets.
I will have to really modify this to get it to work for me like extra rules. Such as enemies, friendly NPC's, more bosses and attributes. I will also put a lot more depth into combat with different weapons and skills.
The plot thickens! THY PLOT THICKENS! It is thickening IMMENSELY!
Am I the only one who thinks Lego made the rules up AFTER releasing it? Marketing the sets as a game was a huge pull, only to find that there was barely a game to be played. The D&D element feels like the result of a crisis meeting after everyone wrote to them saying “this one piece of paper is incredibly vague, any more details please?” - “uh… we got nothing. Someone think of something!”
It’s disappointing because D&D is far beyond my kids at their ages
Ninjago and the return of Heroica. I love it!
3:46 "if we go to the How to Play document which is 26 pages long -"
Me: hold up what -
Thank you very much, I just got two of the sets and I agree the rules included were very vague. My only guess is that they were saving paper and wanted to tell in the least amount of languages as possible, pictures over words, as they've done before.
Thankyou for the video, tried to play with the kids this afternoon after my son built the dragon and it was very chaotic with the mismatch with the rules and the set etc :)
Yeeesssssss thank u I’ve been waiting for this vid
Hi I’m bac thx for showing this :)
Anyone have a recent link to the rules? The one leading to the website obviously doesn't work anymore...
Stranger things season 4 is gonna start with them playing this 😂
Haha I wish that where true, because I love Stranger Things!
I read the character bios and there are some insane spoilers in there
"Please note that ninja never strike to kill"
I got all four main one only thing I can think of is to 3d print a new die with 5 side so it works
Mind's mind power is bricks😁
I want to play as a villian and let the ninja try to battle me (although I would probably lose because the ninja always win).
Skull Sorcerer put up a fight.
I think that the numbers are for when you're moving and when youre battling you role for the skull or heart
Mind I already played the game before the rules were published and I actually had fun. I mean, a board game made out of lego? In my favourite lego theme of all time?! Count me in.
I wasn’t even gonna play the game and wasn’t interested but now I’m excited.
Wow this looks sweet. I tried D&D a while ago and while I liked it I found most missions way too long and then there was map making etc. It was just too much. This looks mush more complete, I have been thinking for a while why lego doesn't do something like a role play game. Going to give it a try.
I think it's pretty easy to fix the dice by assigning {1,2,3,heart,skull} to five sides and picking the last one to be one of those (depending on the desired complexity), or making it a reroll.
Other inconsistencies are more frustrating, especially given that LEGO failed to fix the rules before Xmas.
This is actually a pretty cool idea
Given that Lego is a small, independent start-up, I think we can give them some slack for inconsistencies in their own play guides.
I think the heart icons mean that it is done well or badly with the
1💀 being the worse and the
3 ❤️ being the best
I think the numbers are for combat in the more complex version where u ignore the hearts and skulls. The simpler version is for the hearts and skulls.
I think this is really complicated, so younger kids might have trouble playing this, but I think they can figure it out. With this many rules, I think they should have made a free app that manages what abilities and lives etc that the player has. Because doing all the math for each time you attack would be frustrating and time consuming, in the app you could just roll the dice and it shows animations of fighting and the points adding up to the attacks and whatnot. The app could also eliminate the need for instructions, but could also have a section where you could read them if you want.
Overall, this game is way more than I expected, and I think it has great potential to make Ninjago even greater than it already is
This is really cool they really did put a lot of time and effort in this, I wish they included the manual in the sets so people would know how to play it
Might have to use a die from the lego board games and give it 1, 2, 3, colors to denote heart and skull, and maybe a reroll? That seems like it'd fix the die issue.
I hope everything gets fixed quickly, this game seems so dope and a really good gateway for young people to get into DnD
DnD?
Thank you for your video. I read the rules too and I saw there too many mistakes. I read rules of boardgame really often and this rule book is definitely the worst in this year. I had to look three times on article about dice. I am curious what they will do with this. I hope, that it was just error and they uploaded only rules ver. 0.67 because it needs a lot of errata.
For example, I don't know why there are not any skills for toughness? And at the end of the rules is a character log without space for toughness. It is pure amateurism.
O god what a giant poster
I wanna celebrate that my country final has its online Lego shop,yei
Cool content mind!
All I have right now is journey to the skull dungeons so it’s going to be a short game
Where can I actually get the map thing cuz I have a bunch of season 13 sets but I still can’t find it😢
*CHOOSE ANOTHER PATH*
Lmao, Ninjago Discord?
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Great video! I'm caught in the same pickle as you - seemingly 5 months later. If you read this I'd super appreciate any input!
However I'm very well versed in d&d so the whole dice thing actually drove me crazy. It is NOT 5 sided! The concept of it is but I think from the standpoint they setup in the initial explanation of these PDF rules...it's up to the gamemaster.
So I think the idea is that the game master calls the shots based on the hearts and skulls - kinda like a way for them to call up random 'crits' when they so choose to keep the game moving. That's how I read it.
Like literally as is, it seems you have a few ways to play.
A. Pick-up board game described in the Insert/Comic. Basically use the Lego Set only, Use the numbers for movement and the heart/skull for success/fail in combat. 3 fails your character loses. X marks the spot and you win/get the sword/etc/up to you.
B. RPG Adventures where you adhere to the DM making the calls like 'give me a roll for perception' or what have you. Then, combat would be numerical as well going by stats - I just think the skull and heart are totally a GM call. Characters start in the center of the map and the 4 sets are connected on the corners. The party moves through the map to play the adventures - which take place in the imagination and dice rolling and role play. Then the map extends to the Lego sets where the RPG rules still apply but are now using Minifigs to play a more physical game.
C. You can kinda just nix the map, play the adventures as you wish and connect the board how you want and use as much or as little of the RPG rules as you want.
Can you elaborate a bit on moving over the paper map? Does the party move as a whole, or every player is moving individually? Do they roll the dice?
@@AlexanderPotapenko I had the exact same question! one 'how to' on youtube shows moving directly from Scene to Scene in a railroad fashion and as a D&D player I said "that cannot be right"... you must be able to move around the maps, but do they move as a party or as individuals? Or I guess the players could decide whether they stay together or separate (just like in D&D). It's completely unclear how the dungeon map RPG integrate with the actual Lego sets which seem to have their own Board Game super simple rules - and while the maps shows them 'connecting' those connections aren't explained in any way in the RPG guide - based on my reading of the RPG rules you never move off the map onto the Lego sets, so then my assumption is that you use the sets as settings for the various Scenes described in the adventures as the GM decides. But I wish it was all spelled out much more clearly.
Wow amazing! Now I want all the sets this is cool
Day of the Dragon was an episode from ToE
Nice quarantine hair
Do more ninjago reviews
Does anyone think that this is like the those "Dungeons & Dragons" game?
Yes the golden rules
Oh lego hasn't made sets like this since 2012
Is it just me or do the ninjago sets (usually) slap while the show never interested me? I just looked it up to see season 13
Trying to find a video of actual gameplay
Does anyone have a live link to these instructions?
Johnny thunder : you did good kid you did good
You're awesome
Would love to see a video of this actually being played if anyone can figure out HOW it's done. Seems like the rules leave some areas pretty vague and could really use clarification.
Im Gonna make my own dice
Hey mind, do you think the game will be replayable, because there are only a certain amount of adventures, which makes it seem like you can play only a certain amount of times.
Make your own adventure
One question do I need the sets like can’t I use figures and sets of mine
You need the sets.
pls make a new video on you playing the game.
I am soo excited for season 13 cuz cole finally has a season
Same!!!
Okay, thanks!
Where is Mind's meme review?
Thursday probably
@@BricksByMind oooohhhhhhhhhh.........
Tbh I’m probably just gonna make my own rules cause I’m not a dog D&D fan
This is so epic thank you!
H9w can people afford all of the lego sets
imagine playing during quarantine
This is so awesome!
You have 3 ❤❤❤ and 3❤❤❤+3💀💀💀on the🎲.
i gonna use all my minifigures for this
Thank you for the video and info although the board game seems flawed I think it will be fun
Where do you start?
What season did u start watching lego ninjago
1-7 like
8-13 coment
I’m gonna put my custom figures in the game and make them have special stuff
Do you need that paper with the hexagons to play the game
When do they come out in North America
I am so excited!!!!
What did you use to search for a page of the pdf by typing the title in? (Is it possibly an extension?).
It’s just ctrl+f
Which set can you get the board game
Can you make a video where you play the game
0:1 hi, shaggy from scooby doo
Since there is four different paths/stories basically, what if season 13 is split into 4 parts, each with different outcomes, that could be cool
And they are good ending bad ending eh ending and canon ending.
Nope.
@@catalyst539 ?
@Phil the flippy flopper the season is out and that didn’t happen... sad
You looked like the old mylton dyer before you shaved your mustache
Hey Mind, do you have any spare Lego jay hair pieces from movie cus I can't find any anywhere
When do these sets come out in the U.S
August
Wait loot box..... Micro transactions!!
The five-sided dice is referencing five different sides of the dice (heart,skull, 1, 2, 3) which appear (more than once) on the dice so the instructions are correct. You just misunderstood what 5-sided means in this context
I don’t think so, because you’re always rolling a heart or a skull, no matter what you roll. Specifically in the attributes section, it talks about how if you roll a skull it’s a failure, a heart it’s a success, or if it’s a 1, 2, or 3, you add that number to your skill level to determine the result. You’ll always be rolling either a heart or a skull, so it makes the number rolls pointless there, whereas the instructions have a specific use for them.
@@BricksByMind A heart with a 2 above will add the 2 to the attributes. A skull will add nothing (the number above is not added)
@@BricksByMind Hi, I totally agree. There are bits where it implies you add the number to see if you've won the activity but then the heart of skull will over-ride that if you are lucky or unlucky enough to role a symbol. If every roll throws up a symbol the numbers become pointless. It just plays out like the comic strip which isn't what the instructions suggest.
This is way to complex for me😂
Where do i scan the barcode if anyone knows please answer this comment
He literally said 2 things in the video. 1. It’s a *QR CODE.* 2. YOU DON’T SCAN IT.
Cool
Im just gonna make my own rules, this is too complicated.
Try to play with your sister it could a cool video
So I need to buy all of the sets?
Yes.
But when can I buy them in the US? It’s killing me
August 1st in U.S.
@@deniserodden6079 go check out Albrickstudios channel. He has a video that might disappoint ninjago fans in the US.
rip wu
I- I didn't understand a word--
Can u gift me a set of ninjago??
Me too.