A BIG AND RICH video for you folks this week – a labour of love for a game that frankly blew us away. Earthborne Rangers might look familiar, but it is WEIRD. Cooperative adventure fans take note – this one is unmissable.
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with the whole sustainablity shpeel is not that i do not care, its that i am skeptical of it being part of the marketing for it making it biodegradable probably incresed carbon emmisions by a lot and especialy if those specialized materials had to be shipped all the way twards those smaller scale local production centers, and even if all those individual concerns are not true and they found a spot to make the game that has local access to all the materials needed and with production methods that dont have an increse in emmisions compared to normal, IF the location ends up being in somewhere inland the carbon emmisions from shipping with trucks are hightly likely to eat up all of the benefit it might have caused. that is why i feel skeptical and will do more research on it because if it ends up causing more emissions than the standard method then it is a failure of logistics and (i believe) shouldnt be supported for it
Great review, I'm eager to check this game out when I can. Your bit on sustainability and how it ties into the values of this game was really good.
It’s Arabian nights! Yes!
Man I wish this had dropped when the second Printing KS was active.
But is it good for only two players???
As someone who only really plays games with my spouse, I'm always looking for that particular bit of information.
Great review ❤️
Hm. Exciting.
I like Matt's shirt. The blue one. Very nice.
Oh my god they have a demo on Tabletop Simulator I love these devs
Well this may be the most alluring review I've ever seen. And I've been in this boardgaming world for many years now. Congratulations, I knew literally nothing about the game when starting the video and I'm gonna check where to get it right now.
To be fair, the game itself sounds amazing and right up my alley. I do live Shadows of Brimstone because of its emergent narrative, and this sounds like it does the same thing in a VERY different way. Which is amazing 🤩
I'm @ing myself for Spirit, because I drink a lot of spirits!
I'm only halfway through this video and this is probably one of the easiest backs I've ever seen. I was intrigued when you said it deserves 2 SUSD recommend awards and convinced when you made the comparisons to Arkham LCG, but the stuff about the interactive ecosystem has me ecstatic to play because this is the kind of game I've wanted to create for years and now I don't have to because someone much more experienced (and whose work I'm already a fan of) did all the hard work already. 😆
Honestly i think i prefer Arkham Horror LCG. I think earthborne rangers doesnt have enough deck building. I also prefer the narratives in the mythos
Im so glad people are talking about sustainable practices. I commend you for bringing this to light, and I thank you. I am so glad I backed this game and I actually backed the expansions.
Great review Matt, but this boardgame is so complex that i´d like Emily to review it. I´d love to see her take on this one.
Sounds like a great game but.
Also:
27:50 random shot of the side hustle?
7:23 we should have a new segment in these reviews called "Tom disagrees" and then he does that
First impressions based on the review: this game does for overland travel and exploration parts of Old School RPGs, what Gloomhaven did for dungeon delving and combat parts of Old School RPGs.
i don't get the recyclable thing for something i don't want to recycle? I don't want to recycle my boardgame, i don't want it to decompose, i want it to last so my kids can pass it down even ideally? am i wrong with this idea?
What a wonderful and thoughtful review. It definitely peaked my interest in it.
Too bad the core game is like $100+ and good luck finding it. I hate how all these reviews suddenly come out and the game is always impossible to find.
Naaaah
The rules sound innovative as heck, but the setting, uh… the setting just sounds like Earthdawn? 😅 who else think it sounds like Earthdawn, just with fewer eldritch horrors and more t-rexes?
The moustache is coming along nicely Matt.
Where can I buy this
I definitely have too many campaign games that I have not completed and that are gathering dust, so I certainly don't need a new one.
Except, perhaps, this one.
fuck this looks so cool, but it's so pricey and i just can't seem to play campaign games these days! i have so many i haven't played yet…
I was totally blindly sold and pitched it to my legacy/campaign group, and one player was wondering about replayability. Did SUSD think Earthborne Rangers is worth replaying using new characters and making different early-game choices? Also, can you have multiple campaigns running simultaneously, or do you need to keep cards separated in a way that would prevent that?
This review made me so excited about this game that it's made me consider murder… It's a 4-player game and I have a 5-person group… someone's gotta go.
I hate to be that guy but… the reason the usb was one-sided was to reduce production costs and complexity, so that all electronics could have a comunication standard regardless of the production method. Usb-c requires specialised machinery to create the boards, thus excluding smaller manufacturers from it.
Of course, there is the argument of "who the heck buys tech from smaller manufacturers", but I would argue things like this are the cause of that.
Can this be compared in any way to 7th Continent? I see sandbox, adventuring etc.. items and such.. any thoughts?
Such a glowing review, but honestly I didn't hear anything in this review that I thought made the game sound interesting.
As a biologist and fellow board game lover, I gotta say, this looks fantastic. And seeing you get so pumped for it was a joy. Lovely review and I'm totally convinced!
where'd you park the aerostatic?
this sounds like someone influenced by rogue made a board game!
I was bored out of my wits with this game, and I gave it a solid shot solo and duo.
This sounds a lot like Unsettled from Orange Nebula, where you are using cooperation and skill sets to over come challenges. Looks very interesting.