While publicly I've been standing tall and proud of all my super complicated 2hrs+ monstrosities, somewhere deep down all I ever wanted was Shut up and Sit down to appreciate a game of mine for exactly the right reasons. :) Thank you for adding Rome and Roll to the list, and thank you for the honour of calling it a "logical conclusion".
I'm gonna have to be the person that says it: I don't understand why it's there, and paused to come to the comments to find out why. Did I miss something? I know their review of it was good, did something else happen that I missed?
A note to Matt on Cartographers - if you order directly from the publisher they will include the Skills mini-expansion. This allows you to spend the coins you've generated to do additional actions, and it's just enough extra to put the game over the top. BGG sells it as well, and if you're a fan of the game, I'd really suggest acquiring it. It's the extra bit of "crunch" that the game needed to stay fresh between plays.
As a standup pinball player, can confirm with Tom that intentionally dropping a ball in Multiball for any supposed reason is punished with exile from the community.
@@stumbling I think it means standing at a pinball machine to play. As in "playing actual pinball" and not simulated on a boardgame or in the computer.
The irony of pointing out the advantage of magnets for the astronaut players on the box of a game that requires rolling dice. Genuine smile there mate.
And when it takes off, someone can write the novel, which will turned into a script which will in turn become a big budget action film (featuring the Rock), which will have have a Saturday morning cartoon, which will eventually be used as the theme for a Pinball machine.
@@rhoddryice5412 Kissing stem to stem?! Keep that filth out of this Christian Boardgame Review Channel Comment Section. (I Couldn't Work Out When To Stop Capitalising Things.)
@@stumbling I think it's quite easy. You only press shift when you should. NOT WHEN YOU FEEL THE URGE. Oh and I know it's gard to stay away from CAPS LOCK.
i like the idea that this review is an exquisite corpse-style collaboration experiment where each lad only got to see the last portion of each others' videos and had to record their own based off of that
I hereby ban all crunch chunk for ya'lls vocabulary. No more crunch. No more "has some chunk." No more crunchy-chunk. Love ya'll! This channel's great!
I love roll and writes. My favorites: Cartographers and Let’s make a bus route Also really enjoy: Cat cafe, welcome to dinosaur world, welcome to, gans shön clever, twice as clever, railroad ink, avenues of the Kodama
I got cartographers for my birthday recently. Found it in tabletop simulator and it worked well as a game for friends who were sharing a laptop or not particularly adept at moving stuff in game. It is nice and breezy. Easy enough that my parents could pick it up and enjoy it but your choices do matter enough for it to reward you for good play.
I came here to say just that! His comedic style is starting to match Quinn's and Matt's while still being his own spin on the brand. It's been fun to watch his growth.
Just came back to watch this video for the second game after getting into roll and writes myself recently. The Sherlock pipe joke killed me just as much the second time around.
Cartographers is pretty sweet. Easy to teach, well implemented on Tabletopia and TTS, and is either straight forward or a strategical wonder as you set yourself up to score big points in fall and winter. Until someone puts some goblins in that spot that prevent you from surrounding a mountain and give you -8 points at the end of the round. Been using it as part of the online weekly board game club that doesn't have hardcore players.
On the plus side its payday! Why are your reviews always so tempting! The natural charm of all of you I guess. Thank you, thank you and thank you again!
I think SU&SD need to rethink their employment policies, it seems they've managed to give a job to a danger to society, what with all Tom's Train Crimes.
Apparently, Fleet: the Dice Game is one of the strongest contenders in a genre overflowing with mediocre-ness. Would have liked to hear the SU:SD take on it. Alas, too many games, too little time.
Good luck getting it. I ordered the sheets and customized my dice to play it. Has a lot going on and takes at least an hour to play. Not a quick to pull out roll n write but ther are so many bonuses which are satisfying. One of the harder roll n writes to get my partner to play with me only due to its duration. I played it solo last night and stopped after 2 rounds because I felt it was better with 2
@@bestatstartrek6695 The solo game against Captain Ruth is great. But yeah, Fleet the Dice game is easily the best roll n write I've played. It really is great.
Hey guys I live in a country where we're back into a pretty strict lockdown and my partner has been in hospital for a couple of weeks now and I can't visit(not a COVID hospital stay thankfully) Going through your old videos has really cheered me up and I want to thank you for helping me get through a pretty tough time Thank you for being so amazing :)
“If you’re looking to play a game while socially distanced (and arguably roll & write games are great for this)” Can confirm, got to game with my boardgame starved parents playing Railroad Ink and it was AMAZING.
Best ones: Corinth, Qwinto Cards (not the dice one, the cards one!), Trails of Tucana, Silver and Gold, Railroad ink blue, La Granja No Siesta, and.... the best one.... Welcome to... (or New las Vegas if you want a medium weight R&W game that works).
@@kyleweeks2941 I am in the same boat. Some day, once things have returned to some semblance of normalcy, I look forward to celebrating by breaking the shrink wrap on this one.
Great writing and delivery. I laugh out loud many times when I watch your reviews. There were a few good ones here, but my favorite is when Tom was reviewing and ridiculing himself -- hilarious. Always informative too of course. On that note, I respect your unbiased tone as always. Thanks.
I purchased the pinball one because of this video. I collect and restore real ones and I hope this will be a good time! I might make a few tables of my own as well.
as someone who spent all of their free time pre-pandemic hanging out in my local pinball leagues and arcades and tournaments, I am absolutely losing my mind that someone has made a pinball roll-and-write to get me through the rest of the pandemic. Playing digital pinball is fine but just isn't the same! This feels like it could be a really engaging translation of all the pinball mechanics I'm used to IRL!
Thanks guys for another entertaining episode. I’ve heard mixed reviews about Copenhagen but you make it sound good. I feel like there will be many more good till n writes to come. Especially since they are so easy to get to the table. That’s clever gets the most play at my house right now
One of my favourite categories of games!! Plenty of these are ideal lunchtime games for a workday, or to use as a filler between meatier things. My favourites include: Qwinto, Welcome To, Ganz Schon Clever, Railroad Ink, Cartographers, Can't Stop Express, Silver & Gold.
I was literally thinking "This MetroX is clearly not a fav..." when Quinns popped up and finished my sentence for me! Great video. I'm a big fan of Cartographers. Surely it's a crime though that Roll Through The Ages isn't on here?! Great video chaps!
As soon as i heard "add that to the list" i knew The Teach would feature. I think about The Teach often. Im sure i heard Tom drop it in a podcast recently.
So very glad you all promoted Rome and Roll. It is among the best games I played this year. How is Gonnen Konnen (Divvy Dice) not a part of this list though? It is a great game, and one that deserves more positive press.
In the Cartographers set up, the water/field should always be the B scoring option and the pattern one should always be D. It would be pretty impossible to meet some of the pattern requirements if it’s the first thing you’re trying to accomplish.
Cartographers looks really good. I do kinda wish it was played with erasable markers instead of disposable paper, but I'll still give it a second look.
@@demonicbunny3po That can work, and I've done it before for a game that has drawing on the board (but is definitely not roll and write), but it's a hassle I wish I didn't have too through.
OriginalPiMan I understand that. I have done it with a few games myself and it can be a bit annoying to go through the process. In my case, it was more due to rubbish components.
@@demonicbunny3po The game I did it with has a kinda big board, so I needed the lamination done professionally using A1 sheets. The little sheets of a roll and write game seem easy compared to that.
@@OriginalPiMan While I usually like dry-erase stuff, I think Cartographers would give you issues due to the nature of the game. Since you're writing stuff all over the board there would probably be a lot of smudging.
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While publicly I've been standing tall and proud of all my super complicated 2hrs+ monstrosities, somewhere deep down all I ever wanted was Shut up and Sit down to appreciate a game of mine for exactly the right reasons. :)
Thank you for adding Rome and Roll to the list, and thank you for the honour of calling it a "logical conclusion".
Magyarok nagy találmánya, híresek leszünk!
Which game was that again?
@@frankharr946611:36 Rome & Roll
@@drewchamberlain54
Thank you!
LOL at "Blood on the Clocktower is my favourite game" being on the Things To Never Say Again list.
One day we’ll get you playing it...
I'm gonna have to be the person that says it: I don't understand why it's there, and paused to come to the comments to find out why. Did I miss something? I know their review of it was good, did something else happen that I missed?
@@JoshuaBost I don't know either and I am curious as well.
I am also in the "I don't understand" boat =/
Read the comment section of that review. The backlash was overwhelming.
I don't know who Roland Wright is, but he's got a lot of games.
I wonder if he's any relation to Roland Mouve?
He has a less well known brother, Phillip N. Wright
I hear he's collabing with Penny Paper on a big project, and they might bring in Yuri O'Gaim. Exciting stuff!
He's like Knizia and just keeps on putting out games. It's astounding.
Roland Wright may be one of my new favorite designers.
Unfortunately for mr wright there will soon be an “updated” board game review
A note to Matt on Cartographers - if you order directly from the publisher they will include the Skills mini-expansion. This allows you to spend the coins you've generated to do additional actions, and it's just enough extra to put the game over the top. BGG sells it as well, and if you're a fan of the game, I'd really suggest acquiring it. It's the extra bit of "crunch" that the game needed to stay fresh between plays.
As a standup pinball player, can confirm with Tom that intentionally dropping a ball in Multiball for any supposed reason is punished with exile from the community.
Death or glory, there is no middle ground.
I have no idea if "standup pinball" is a variant of pinball or you are a reputable pinball player.
@@stumbling I think it means standing at a pinball machine to play. As in "playing actual pinball" and not simulated on a boardgame or in the computer.
Matt: This box is just loving life horizontal today.
Me: Same.
Tom continues to be a gift. And a criminal. An illegal gift.
I saw Qwinto on that player card before I realized it was the name of the game and thought Quinns was coming up with weird names for himself again
Qwinto likey
Tom rolling a dice into a card might have been the greatest cut ever
I legit laughed out loud at the coping, hugging joke. It's so true...
The irony of pointing out the advantage of magnets for the astronaut players on the box of a game that requires rolling dice. Genuine smile there mate.
Suddenly that feeling we all get when entering Doncaster makes a lot more sense, thanks for that
Omg I love that someone came up with a Pinball Roll and write. Taking a game that exists and changing it into paper based version! Who does that!?
Can't wait for the arcade version of the mobile version of the table top RPG version of this roll and write game.
And when it takes off, someone can write the novel, which will turned into a script which will in turn become a big budget action film (featuring the Rock), which will have have a Saturday morning cartoon, which will eventually be used as the theme for a Pinball machine.
I don’t know... some kind of..... pinball...... Wizard?
Goeff englestein is some sort of damn pinball genius
@@JustJoeBlogs too damn real 🤣🤣🤣
Are we gonna stay silent on that horrific "8" at 0:28 ?!? IS THIS AN INFINITY SYMBOL OR A NUMBER?
WRITING ON-CAMERA OFTEN MEANS DOING IT AT A WEIRD ANGLE OKAY
@@shutupandsitdown I thought it was two happy 🍐 🍐 forgetting all about social distancing and kissing.
@@rhoddryice5412 Kissing stem to stem?! Keep that filth out of this Christian Boardgame Review Channel Comment Section. (I Couldn't Work Out When To Stop Capitalising Things.)
@@stumbling I think it's quite easy. You only press shift when you should. NOT WHEN YOU FEEL THE URGE. Oh and I know it's gard to stay away from CAPS LOCK.
Tom's Super-Skill Pinball 4-cade has the same energy as the cultural event known as Blaseball and I'm here for it.
Matt: "Can we put in a pipe in post?"
Tom: *Pipeline flashbacks intensify*
i like the idea that this review is an exquisite corpse-style collaboration experiment where each lad only got to see the last portion of each others' videos and had to record their own based off of that
I hereby ban all crunch chunk for ya'lls vocabulary. No more crunch. No more "has some chunk." No more crunchy-chunk.
Love ya'll! This channel's great!
Tom reeeeeally perfecting his style in this video and I absolutely love it. Great addition.
Every day I get slightly more concerned about Quinn’s sanity
"Quinn's Descent Into Crazy Goodness".
I don’t.
I don’t think he has any remaining.
what is this sanity thing?
I love roll and writes.
My favorites: Cartographers and Let’s make a bus route
Also really enjoy: Cat cafe, welcome to dinosaur world, welcome to, gans shön clever, twice as clever, railroad ink, avenues of the Kodama
thank you for all the honest laughs and gaffs and reviews.
The coping and hugging joke wrote itself, I saw it coming from a mile away, and still chuckled quite a bit.
I love how Tom has progressed in his reviews. Congrats!
“This box is just loving life horizontal today.” Same here, bud. Same here.
I got cartographers for my birthday recently. Found it in tabletop simulator and it worked well as a game for friends who were sharing a laptop or not particularly adept at moving stuff in game.
It is nice and breezy. Easy enough that my parents could pick it up and enjoy it but your choices do matter enough for it to reward you for good play.
Love a review with the word “orthogonally” in it 😍😍😍
Stood out to me in a nice way too
Metro X may not be a great train game, but Tom's shirt is a great train shirt.
Loved Cartographers and met the creator from where I live in Brazil, glad to see them pushing good games. He was super cool!
A Jet Set Radio sticker! Of course Matt has that on his laptop. I love Matt.
The "feel like pinball" and Sherlock pipe joke both made me laugh out loud. Really improved my day! Thankyou :)
30 minutes of informative and hilarious reviews which have you laughing from the beginning to the end. This is peak RUclips
Just wanna say I *love* this format. Great video, keep it up!
Feel like Tom has finally come into his own with this review.
I came here to say just that! His comedic style is starting to match Quinn's and Matt's while still being his own spin on the brand. It's been fun to watch his growth.
Not sure who's editing but they are killing it!
Just came back to watch this video for the second game after getting into roll and writes myself recently. The Sherlock pipe joke killed me just as much the second time around.
Cartographers is pretty sweet. Easy to teach, well implemented on Tabletopia and TTS, and is either straight forward or a strategical wonder as you set yourself up to score big points in fall and winter. Until someone puts some goblins in that spot that prevent you from surrounding a mountain and give you -8 points at the end of the round. Been using it as part of the online weekly board game club that doesn't have hardcore players.
Whoever put a drain pipe with a sherlock hat on owes me a jumper. Spat my dinner put all over the place in laughter. Comedy genius!
On the plus side its payday! Why are your reviews always so tempting! The natural charm of all of you I guess. Thank you, thank you and thank you again!
I think SU&SD need to rethink their employment policies, it seems they've managed to give a job to a danger to society, what with all Tom's Train Crimes.
And matt's puppy punting.
Been having a bad day today, that pipe joke was just what I needed. Pipe/10
I knew it was coming and still chuckled. Pipe/10
Apparently, Fleet: the Dice Game is one of the strongest contenders in a genre overflowing with mediocre-ness. Would have liked to hear the SU:SD take on it. Alas, too many games, too little time.
We've heard the same thing! We're awaiting our review copy with ba(i)ted breath.
@@shutupandsitdown I look forward to it. Would have been a shame to let it slip through the net.
Good luck getting it. I ordered the sheets and customized my dice to play it. Has a lot going on and takes at least an hour to play. Not a quick to pull out roll n write but ther are so many bonuses which are satisfying. One of the harder roll n writes to get my partner to play with me only due to its duration. I played it solo last night and stopped after 2 rounds because I felt it was better with 2
@@bestatstartrek6695 The solo game against Captain Ruth is great.
But yeah, Fleet the Dice game is easily the best roll n write I've played. It really is great.
I had the Kickstarter version and sold it. The card game`s so much better, and has a pretty good solo mode as well.
Tom's reviews are golden new-age review styles.
OMG the list of things to never say again got me laugh at loud in awe. The clocktower's one is genius
Hey guys
I live in a country where we're back into a pretty strict lockdown and my partner has been in hospital for a couple of weeks now and I can't visit(not a COVID hospital stay thankfully)
Going through your old videos has really cheered me up and I want to thank you for helping me get through a pretty tough time
Thank you for being so amazing :)
I was deeply worried I'd watch this and have to buy lots of new games but lucky me, I've bought them all already! I don't have a problem, honest guv.
“If you’re looking to play a game while socially distanced (and arguably roll & write games are great for this)”
Can confirm, got to game with my boardgame starved parents playing Railroad Ink and it was AMAZING.
For the longest time, I thought that this genre of games was created by one man named Roland Wright.
Best ones: Corinth, Qwinto Cards (not the dice one, the cards one!), Trails of Tucana, Silver and Gold, Railroad ink blue, La Granja No Siesta, and.... the best one.... Welcome to... (or New las Vegas if you want a medium weight R&W game that works).
pretty sure Hadrian’s Wall and Three Sisters will take Roll (Flip) and Writes to a whole new level once released later this year
I was not expecting the first introduction to hit my feelings so hard ;-;
That intro might be the best thing SUSD has ever done. I’ve watched it too many times. 😂
I'm 60 seconds in and the puns... They just don't stop! This is gonna be a good one
23:08 is hilarious, perfect and made my day.
Most entertaining explanation of a Santa Claus figure by shut up and sit down since lowlands!
That pinball game is the thing i never needed but i am glad it exists so i can buy it..
That was brilliant. Tom's slightly off brand intensity was most charming.
Blood on the Clocktower is your favourite game, Quinns?
Things to never say again. There have been some conflicting comments around this one
@@kyleweeks2941 I am in the same boat. Some day, once things have returned to some semblance of normalcy, I look forward to celebrating by breaking the shrink wrap on this one.
Kyle Weeks a lot of people are playing it over discord - it works surprisingly well, if you’d like to join us?
Nonya Bidness Kyle Weeks a lot of people are playing it over discord - it works surprisingly well, if you’d like to join us?
Whats wrong with blood on the clocktower?
Great writing and delivery. I laugh out loud many times when I watch your reviews. There were a few good ones here, but my favorite is when Tom was reviewing and ridiculing himself -- hilarious. Always informative too of course. On that note, I respect your unbiased tone as always. Thanks.
I purchased the pinball one because of this video. I collect and restore real ones and I hope this will be a good time! I might make a few tables of my own as well.
Pretty sure this is my first time commenting, but holy hell, I lost my mind at the Copenhagen joke. Kudos to you, internet funny folk
@3:15 rolls the dice and results one of each color! Brilliant!
as someone who spent all of their free time pre-pandemic hanging out in my local pinball leagues and arcades and tournaments, I am absolutely losing my mind that someone has made a pinball roll-and-write to get me through the rest of the pandemic. Playing digital pinball is fine but just isn't the same! This feels like it could be a really engaging translation of all the pinball mechanics I'm used to IRL!
The super skill pinball review is the greatest 4 minutes or whatever on youtube
Thanks guys for another entertaining episode. I’ve heard mixed reviews about Copenhagen but you make it sound good. I feel like there will be many more good till n writes to come. Especially since they are so easy to get to the table. That’s clever gets the most play at my house right now
Man, i love a good roll and write, got so many and still want to buy more XD
The Sherlock pipe genuinely made me pause the video to laugh
"It's still a free country...for now." _Oof_ . Hits a little close to home, Quinns.
Tom sweet Shrigley mug!
Came to say the same thing.
Tom that was a great review!!!
One of my favourite categories of games!! Plenty of these are ideal lunchtime games for a workday, or to use as a filler between meatier things.
My favourites include: Qwinto, Welcome To, Ganz Schon Clever, Railroad Ink, Cartographers, Can't Stop Express, Silver & Gold.
Quinns: Today the world is in a resurgence of...
Me: oh no.
Quinns: Roll and Write!
Me: oh thank god.
CAN'T WAIT for Alhambra roll and write
The sherlock homes pipe was a nice twist XD
that rolling a... card pun had me busting up.
YOU ARE ALL AWESOME! ❤❤❤
Finally! Doncaster is mentioned in Shut Up & Sit Down! The recognition it deserves!
Matt is really good at this
I gotta get myself a Sprite hoodie like this. Looks comfy and refreshing.
I was literally thinking "This MetroX is clearly not a fav..." when Quinns popped up and finished my sentence for me! Great video. I'm a big fan of Cartographers. Surely it's a crime though that Roll Through The Ages isn't on here?! Great video chaps!
Things to NEVER say again. "Blood on the Clocktower is my favorite game."
Ouch
Someone should make a giant mechanical version of that Super Pinball game, they would make a fortune
As soon as i heard "add that to the list" i knew The Teach would feature. I think about The Teach often. Im sure i heard Tom drop it in a podcast recently.
So very glad you all promoted Rome and Roll. It is among the best games I played this year. How is Gonnen Konnen (Divvy Dice) not a part of this list though? It is a great game, and one that deserves more positive press.
LOL at “This box just loves being horizontal today”
Look, I normally wouldn't worry about this kind of thing, but is there any chance someone could, you know, give Tom a hug?
that music still gives me chills every since I was a kid, tales of the unexpected... ?
Super Skill Pinball is fantastic!
Roland Write is still my favourite designer 😁
Score the boogie bonus and reset to hokey pokey is probably the most insane thing I've ever seen in a boardgame.
"Multyball is the root of all evil" 🤣🤣
Was watching this on mute when my wife said you guys look like an 80s New Wave Band. You now have two new subscribers, LoL.
I had to pause the video to laugh at the Sherlock pipe. Carry on.
Copenhagen - you had me at "Satan's Tetris"
In the Cartographers set up, the water/field should always be the B scoring option and the pattern one should always be D. It would be pretty impossible to meet some of the pattern requirements if it’s the first thing you’re trying to accomplish.
23:07 "things not to say again: blood on the clocktower is my favourite game"
"What I am saying is... this game actually makes you *feel like pinball* " I fuckin' died XD
Lol the music in this video is great
I feel that if Ra: the Dice Game came out now, it would be a roll-n-write.
Cartographers looks really good. I do kinda wish it was played with erasable markers instead of disposable paper, but I'll still give it a second look.
Laminate the sheets?
@@demonicbunny3po
That can work, and I've done it before for a game that has drawing on the board (but is definitely not roll and write), but it's a hassle I wish I didn't have too through.
OriginalPiMan I understand that. I have done it with a few games myself and it can be a bit annoying to go through the process. In my case, it was more due to rubbish components.
@@demonicbunny3po
The game I did it with has a kinda big board, so I needed the lamination done professionally using A1 sheets.
The little sheets of a roll and write game seem easy compared to that.
@@OriginalPiMan While I usually like dry-erase stuff, I think Cartographers would give you issues due to the nature of the game. Since you're writing stuff all over the board there would probably be a lot of smudging.