Hi all, one of the designers here. The drafting flow which Rahdo showcased in the video is our advanced variant for players looking to deepen their experience. Of course it will add to the overall time of your game, so use it with care. I personally recommend it when playing with 2 players :) The usual drafting can easily occur simultaneously and that greatly speeds up the game.
@@landscaperben Thank you so much for the praise! I'm super grateful for everyone's support and humbled by your reactions. Hoping that Monsters on Board will bring you hours of fun!
Yesterday I played another match at Monsters of Board and then I thought to rewatch old preview videos about it. Watching this rundown I noticed that I always played a rule differently: when the blue dice is activated at 14:54 it is said that "the blue grunt make a step", but the rulebook doesn't specify that the moving grunt must be the dice color one, as any other action like feeding spider jack can be take on any pumpkin dice, not just the one on the row the dice is placed. Now, I don't know if at the time of the preview the rule was the one showed and then has been modified during the campaign, but do you agree that the final rule doesn't require that the action take is associated to the dice color or row?
I've been trying to get into board games and start a collection the same as video games and your videos have helped me out a lot, keep it up. :) P.S love your commentary, could listen to you all day tbh lol.
See, this is why I like seeing the game rules in action instead of only hearing them. About halfway through your first dice placement phase I could already start to see how the cogs of this system works, and my brain started working out possibilities. Definitely look crunchy but in a good way. Definitely a backer! As with most drafting games I'm a little concerned for the two-player experience. Hopefully it will work out.
Art by The Mico?.......check. Overproduction that brings great table presence?.......check. Flooding with variety.......check. Waiting to see what kind of stretch goals will be added to the game?..........check. Backing?........check.....Seeing cobb webs in my wallet?........check. Final Frontier Games is on fire. Anxiously waiting for Merchants Cove. Coloma was indeed great but had to trade it away. My wife didn't care for it. I usually trade away games that my wife doesn't care for despite it having a solo variant. Definitely a publisher I'm keeping an eye on.
I like the small ludo aspect of racing the monsters to the end and dice drafting puzzling is always fun. My only criticism for what has been presented would be that the town board is hard to read and the art lacks clarity; just a blur of purple on the table. I would have liked to see a "Zombies Ate my neighbours" art style on the town at least. The mini's wink at that style.
I just postet this on their KS page; I was thinking a bit about the Player board! Besides looking awfull exiting, its kinda a messy thing! its hard to make out, whats what at first glanse, and might add to some confusion for beginners. Would it be an idea to.. 1) Down tone the colours, surrounding and defining the 3 different main spaces on the board? (Between the first dice holding place, The Town, and the score board (where you place the dice at the end)) 2) Make an Red bloody snake-line thru the town, to better visualize the road thru all the spaces, towards the end space?
Glad YTube pushed this as it is about to hit stores in Canada. I'll keep a look out for sure this week (one French store has it but no other stores). I love all the other Final Frontier Games and fell in love with most of them here on Rahdo. I'm just sad some people bi?th and moaned about the insert and dissed the whole game because of it. Designers had to make tough choices as mentioned on the Updates of the KS. They probably barely made any money off this due to crazy freight and production costs hitting record highs right after they closed on KS. I think they did a great job if the only thing they sacrificed is the insert compared to other companies. I am just grateful the game made it cause it could totally have flunked due to that. Kudos to the team! Makes me want to support them more.
By the way, if the cars are similar to Merchant's cove and you get this game: Be careful when folding, these can be tricky. Take your time! I'm good at craft and still had issues putting together my Merchant's cove boats. But nothing Elmer's glue couldn't fix ; ) It's still only cardboard afterall.
Man I was thinking this would be a light family game, but it looks thinky as hell. Never ended up getting roll player, this looks like a much better replacement.
One can certainly see Russian Railroads and Ganz Schon Clever in the DNA of this game.... My only issue is it seems rather solitaire (apart from the dice drafting)... I wonder if they considered doing a common main board with all tracks, so as one player monster advances, it could take someone's spot or even skip over another monster and go further. I am concerned that after the drafting each player will simply be looking at its own board, doing its own manipulation without any need to look what other players are doing (or even if they are following the rules well... aka cheating).
Looks like a very interesting game! I saw that you had a minor setup glitch. The 3 Summoning trackers should be placed into the first space on the track below each Spider Jack row, not on the symbol.
Only 7 minutes into game but if I buy this it'll be retail and won't have pawns so if color so important and the cardboard pawns don't have colors how will I know what color for which spook? The base?
19:43 Paulo, I agree. You should encourage Rahdo not to manipulate the pieces when he talks through other possibilities. It would make your job easier and also lessen the cognitive load that viewers have trying to remember where the pieces should be. But to be clear, one of Rahdo’s greatest strengths is that he verbalizes his thought processes.
tribalguy2 I see what you mean, but does it really impact what Rahdo is actually trying to do? I guess mistakes in these types of play throughs really don’t bother me because I am really just looking at the mechanisms of the game and Rahdo is constantly walking through the whole game playing process.
@@Therisktaker3 It's not as if these mistakes affect the outcome of a game, so they don't bother me either in that sense. But I know they bother Rahdo and as a viewer I empathize with that, so in that sense they "bother" me too. I'm just suggesting a really, really simple way to decrease many of them.
tribalguy2 I get that, I know Rahdo gets fidgety with the pieces, but watching him for soooo many years I have gotten used to it. It is sort part of what makes Rahdo, rahdo. ;-)
Rahdo for some reason I thought you did a play through for DWD lol. I just notice that these two monster themed games were in kickstarter and both caught my interest. MOB seems more heavy though, like you said. Thanks for the play through. Really love the art, color, and game pieces on MOB. If you get a chance to look at DWD, it would be cool to hear your thoughts. Although, it’s kickstarter is about to end.
My friend play tested Dining With Dracula, and wasn’t massively impressed with it. Felt the theme was very pasted on, and wasn’t really doing much that was new or particularly interesting.
Just got my KS copy yesterday and I can't wait to get it to the table. Personally though I think I will flush the market (both ghosts and monsters) in between rounds, so as to spice it up a bit and bring a sense of urgency to the Gain Malice action. You better watch how you manage your economy, 'cause the thing you want may very well be gone next round!
Does this theme make any sense to anyone? I'm getting children's drunkard horror optimisation, and no two of these four elements seem to cohere. But everyone here seems to love it. I guess it's just me? :-}
Stephen Spackman i mean it is a medium weight euro so from that perspective it probably has more theme than most. At least it isn’t a typical theme and something a bit different than the Mediterranean or more interesting than farming. ;-).
Could that cover be any more of a rip off of Hotel Transylvania? The car, the blob, frankenstein, wolf man, the composition, are all a straight pull from that film.
i don't remember a poster for HT with all the monsters in a car, but my memory is faulty. I've got a stronger mental image in my head of Transylvania 6-5000, and it's true they could use more goldblum here! :)
turns out, apparently what i demonstrated is an advanced variant, and the standard rules do support simultaneous drafting. the prototype rulebook i've got as a few vague bits like that!
@@rahdo thanks for the clarification. It's too bad dice don't lend themselves to the Fields of Green 2p draft design, as it's quite awesome - as you mentioned when you reviewed it.
You cheated. You can't do that! You can't just change Jen's move like that. And you did it after only reading the first card. You legit change her dice move so you could buy the card and it could be a take that towards Jen. That's called cheating. No matter how you spin it it was not fair. You didn't even read all the other cards before taking that one. Imunch inside you tell her that I think you cheated I didn't even get to end the whole video. That Karthik should have been scrapped.
![Noob To Max With DRAGON REWORK In Blox Fruits [FULL MOVIE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LnBMOinoOvA/mqdefault.jpg)
Hi all, one of the designers here. The drafting flow which Rahdo showcased in the video is our advanced variant for players looking to deepen their experience. Of course it will add to the overall time of your game, so use it with care. I personally recommend it when playing with 2 players :) The usual drafting can easily occur simultaneously and that greatly speeds up the game.
Ivo Neskovic looks like an amazing gameo, well done!
@@landscaperben Thank you so much for the praise! I'm super grateful for everyone's support and humbled by your reactions. Hoping that Monsters on Board will bring you hours of fun!
@@fingerK4 no worries dude. I'll back it! It looks like something I'd really love man!
Thanks for the reaction, love it when designers 'follow up'! ... Backed !!
@@wallyvdb87 same here
Yesterday I played another match at Monsters of Board and then I thought to rewatch old preview videos about it. Watching this rundown I noticed that I always played a rule differently: when the blue dice is activated at 14:54 it is said that "the blue grunt make a step", but the rulebook doesn't specify that the moving grunt must be the dice color one, as any other action like feeding spider jack can be take on any pumpkin dice, not just the one on the row the dice is placed. Now, I don't know if at the time of the preview the rule was the one showed and then has been modified during the campaign, but do you agree that the final rule doesn't require that the action take is associated to the dice color or row?
I've been trying to get into board games and start a collection the same as video games and your videos have helped me out a lot, keep it up. :)
P.S love your commentary, could listen to you all day tbh lol.
See, this is why I like seeing the game rules in action instead of only hearing them. About halfway through your first dice placement phase I could already start to see how the cogs of this system works, and my brain started working out possibilities. Definitely look crunchy but in a good way. Definitely a backer! As with most drafting games I'm a little concerned for the two-player experience. Hopefully it will work out.
Yup, I'm on board. Me wants now! Thanks for the rundown.
Art by The Mico?.......check. Overproduction that brings great table presence?.......check. Flooding with variety.......check. Waiting to see what kind of stretch goals will be added to the game?..........check. Backing?........check.....Seeing cobb webs in my wallet?........check.
Final Frontier Games is on fire. Anxiously waiting for Merchants Cove. Coloma was indeed great but had to trade it away. My wife didn't care for it. I usually trade away games that my wife doesn't care for despite it having a solo variant. Definitely a publisher I'm keeping an eye on.
I like the small ludo aspect of racing the monsters to the end and dice drafting puzzling is always fun. My only criticism for what has been presented would be that the town board is hard to read and the art lacks clarity; just a blur of purple on the table. I would have liked to see a "Zombies Ate my neighbours" art style on the town at least. The mini's wink at that style.
I just postet this on their KS page;
I was thinking a bit about the Player board! Besides looking awfull exiting, its kinda a messy thing! its hard to make out, whats what at first glanse, and might add to some confusion for beginners. Would it be an idea to..
1) Down tone the colours, surrounding and defining the 3 different main spaces on the board? (Between the first dice holding place, The Town, and the score board (where you place the dice at the end))
2) Make an Red bloody snake-line thru the town, to better visualize the road thru all the spaces, towards the end space?
Looks fantastic. I really love games like sagrada and roll player and this seems like a step up in complexity for that genre of game.
Great preview! Can't wait to try this game!
Glad YTube pushed this as it is about to hit stores in Canada. I'll keep a look out for sure this week (one French store has it but no other stores). I love all the other Final Frontier Games and fell in love with most of them here on Rahdo.
I'm just sad some people bi?th and moaned about the insert and dissed the whole game because of it. Designers had to make tough choices as mentioned on the Updates of the KS. They probably barely made any money off this due to crazy freight and production costs hitting record highs right after they closed on KS. I think they did a great job if the only thing they sacrificed is the insert compared to other companies. I am just grateful the game made it cause it could totally have flunked due to that. Kudos to the team! Makes me want to support them more.
Really wish I knew of this sooner. I would have backed the deluxe version, or late pledged this game.
By the way, if the cars are similar to Merchant's cove and you get this game: Be careful when folding, these can be tricky. Take your time! I'm good at craft and still had issues putting together my Merchant's cove boats. But nothing Elmer's glue couldn't fix ; ) It's still only cardboard afterall.
The presentation is gorgeous
Man I was thinking this would be a light family game, but it looks thinky as hell.
Never ended up getting roll player, this looks like a much better replacement.
Im actually a bit worries, how Im supposed to explain the rules for my family!
They are adding a "kids" variant, so maybe we will just start there :-D
One can certainly see Russian Railroads and Ganz Schon Clever in the DNA of this game.... My only issue is it seems rather solitaire (apart from the dice drafting)... I wonder if they considered doing a common main board with all tracks, so as one player monster advances, it could take someone's spot or even skip over another monster and go further. I am concerned that after the drafting each player will simply be looking at its own board, doing its own manipulation without any need to look what other players are doing (or even if they are following the rules well... aka cheating).
How would you rank the games of Final Frontier (Coloma, Merchants Cave, Monsters on Board)?
3) cove 2) monsters 1) coloma :)
I'm really excited about this game!
I missed the KS but just pre-ordered on their site. Awesome!
Looks like a very interesting game! I saw that you had a minor setup glitch. The 3 Summoning trackers should be placed into the first space on the track below each Spider Jack row, not on the symbol.
Only 7 minutes into game but if I buy this it'll be retail and won't have pawns so if color so important and the cardboard pawns don't have colors how will I know what color for which spook? The base?
yup, colored standee base i reckon
This looks truly wonderful.
I want to see more of this!!!
19:43 Paulo, I agree. You should encourage Rahdo not to manipulate the pieces when he talks through other possibilities. It would make your job easier and also lessen the cognitive load that viewers have trying to remember where the pieces should be. But to be clear, one of Rahdo’s greatest strengths is that he verbalizes his thought processes.
tribalguy2 I see what you mean, but does it really impact what Rahdo is actually trying to do? I guess mistakes in these types of play throughs really don’t bother me because I am really just looking at the mechanisms of the game and Rahdo is constantly walking through the whole game playing process.
@@Therisktaker3 It's not as if these mistakes affect the outcome of a game, so they don't bother me either in that sense. But I know they bother Rahdo and as a viewer I empathize with that, so in that sense they "bother" me too. I'm just suggesting a really, really simple way to decrease many of them.
tribalguy2 I get that, I know Rahdo gets fidgety with the pieces, but watching him for soooo many years I have gotten used to it. It is sort part of what makes Rahdo, rahdo. ;-)
Insta-back! Glad to seeyou do a playthrough though!
Which with you choose Dining with Dracula or Monster on Board?
i don't know DwD so i couldn't say...
Rahdo for some reason I thought you did a play through for DWD lol. I just notice that these two monster themed games were in kickstarter and both caught my interest. MOB seems more heavy though, like you said. Thanks for the play through. Really love the art, color, and game pieces on MOB.
If you get a chance to look at DWD, it would be cool to hear your thoughts. Although, it’s kickstarter is about to end.
My friend play tested Dining With Dracula, and wasn’t massively impressed with it. Felt the theme was very pasted on, and wasn’t really doing much that was new or particularly interesting.
Just got my KS copy yesterday and I can't wait to get it to the table. Personally though I think I will flush the market (both ghosts and monsters) in between rounds, so as to spice it up a bit and bring a sense of urgency to the Gain Malice action. You better watch how you manage your economy, 'cause the thing you want may very well be gone next round!
oh i'm glad to hear it's starting to arrive!
Thanks for this great video! Step by step, explaining everything 👍🏻🙂
This game looks absolutely awesome! I backed Coloma and am waiting for Merchant's Cove. This is definitely an instant back for me.
Own both and you are in for a treat :D
Does this theme make any sense to anyone? I'm getting children's drunkard horror optimisation, and no two of these four elements seem to cohere. But everyone here seems to love it. I guess it's just me? :-}
Stephen Spackman i mean it is a medium weight euro so from that perspective it probably has more theme than most. At least it isn’t a typical theme and something a bit different than the Mediterranean or more interesting than farming. ;-).
Rahdo: We don't like games that attack the other player
Also Rahdo: **makes moves only to damage jen even if he gains nothing with it**
do you mean hate drafting? we don't mind that at all... i've talked about it in the past. it's the difference between denial vs destruction :)
Just call him "Jack" :D
Wow 🤩
Could that cover be any more of a rip off of Hotel Transylvania? The car, the blob, frankenstein, wolf man, the composition, are all a straight pull from that film.
i don't remember a poster for HT with all the monsters in a car, but my memory is faulty. I've got a stronger mental image in my head of Transylvania 6-5000, and it's true they could use more goldblum here! :)
Yeah, my first thought was "Hotel Transylvania" as well.
it's 100% on those coattails
Serialized draft sounds like this game is a slog even at 2p, can't imagine 4p :(
turns out, apparently what i demonstrated is an advanced variant, and the standard rules do support simultaneous drafting. the prototype rulebook i've got as a few vague bits like that!
@@rahdo thanks for the clarification. It's too bad dice don't lend themselves to the Fields of Green 2p draft design, as it's quite awesome - as you mentioned when you reviewed it.
You cheated. You can't do that! You can't just change Jen's move like that. And you did it after only reading the first card. You legit change her dice move so you could buy the card and it could be a take that towards Jen. That's called cheating. No matter how you spin it it was not fair. You didn't even read all the other cards before taking that one. Imunch inside you tell her that I think you cheated I didn't even get to end the whole video. That Karthik should have been scrapped.