shadows of brimstone board game

[master of read]

anyone here play SOB? if so, what core sets do you have?

[BeastieRunner]

anyone here play SOB? if so, what core sets do you have?

Is that the Western RPG dungeon crawl thing?

It looks really cool and fits a niche I want to see more of in board games (dinosaurs being the other).

What are the mechanics like?

[master of read]

Is that the Western RPG dungeon crawl thing?

It looks really cool and fits a niche I want to see more of in board games (dinosaurs being the other).

What are the mechanics like?

it is a western dungeon crawl but it also has a japanese version too.

so you can have a gunslinger and a samurai working together to fight zombies.

once you know the mechnics, the turns flow well.

[Robotech Master]

My friend and I have both the cave core set and forbidden fortress, plus multiple expansions

[BeastieRunner]

it is a western dungeon crawl but it also has a japanese version too.

so you can have a gunslinger and a samurai working together to fight zombies.

once you know the mechnics, the turns flow well.

My friend and I have both the cave core set and forbidden fortress, plus multiple expansions

How does the game play? Do you have an example of the mechanics?

[master of read]

How does the game play? Do you have an example of the mechanics?

basic set up: you pick your character, name them and gear them up on their character sheet. the fortress/mine/swamp comes with these cut out boards. you start at the entrance and go through the mission.

1: hold back the darkness. at the start of a new turn, you roll 2d6. this is to go with a small depth track with two markers on the ends of it: one to represent your party and the other, the darkness inside the place. depending on where your party marker determines what you need to roll. example: if the party marker at the start of the marker, you have to roll 7 or higher. if you succeed, then nothing happens. if you fall, the darkness moves up the track. sometimes, if you fail to hold it back, it can trick you drawing a darkness card, creating some kind of effect to benefit the monsters you will have to fight. if you roll doubles, you trigger a depth event that goes along with the number rolled. most of it is damage and sanity stuff.

2: movement. next, going initiative order (all characters and monster have a initiative stat), you roll a dice to determine how many spaces your character can move. if you roll a 1, however, you earn a grit token. a grit is used to re-roll dice for almost any kind of skill check in the game. grit is hard to come by so you have to be careful with how you use them. once you are done moving, you can do one of two actions: if you are on a map tile, you can "scavenge", which is just you looking around on the ground for useful stuff. you roll 3 dice. if you roll any 6s, you succeed and can draw one card from the scavenge deck. somtimes it can be something good or bad or nothing happens at all. if you enter a door, you can do the second of the two actions, "look through the door". when you do, you draw from the map deck and attach the next section of the map to that piece. then you place down a exploration token. once all party members go, you flip over the token.

3: exploration. when you flip over that token, it will show you if you found one of the clues to complete the mission, how many doors are in this room, if there is a encount or if you have to fight. if there are less doors shown on the token then there are on the tile, you have to roll to see which way is open and which are dead ends. encounters are skill tests you take when you draw from the encounter deck. you can get gear, XP, dark stones or money from these. if you drew a fight action, you draw from one of the threat decks which are seperated into 4 decks; low, med, high, and epic. the threat will depend on the size of your party.

4: fight. when fighting, you roll either your melee or ranged dice. (if you have a melee of 3, then you roll 3 dice). each character has a "to hit" stat which tells you what you need to roll to hit your foes. (if you to hit stat is 3, you have to roll 3 or higher). once you confirm that you hit, you can assign the damage and you can spread out the damage to whoever is in range of your attack. for heroes, they have a def stat, meaning what they need to roll to block the hit. (if their stat was 3, then they need 3s or higher). you roll as many dice as the number of hits you take. for enemies, their def stat just means you subtract whatever their def is from your damage roll (if your roll was 4 and the monster's def is 2, then they take 2 damage) if a character has armor, then they have one last chance to block any more hits. you keep this up until all monsters in the room are dead. after you do, you "catch your breath": either roll a d3 to heal that much or just gain a grit. then you can draw a loot card and get some money, swag or dark stone.

the mission ends when you complete the objective for the scernio. then you get rewards, heal your damage and leave the dungeon.

then you can go into town to do whatever you want: sell gear you can't use, heal injuries, buy new weapons and gear, gamble for more money etc.

dark stone is the major loot to get. it sells for a log of cash and can be used to upgrade your weapons and gear for the next mission. but on the flip side, holding darkstone can lead to mutations and madness for your character.

one great thing about SOB is other world portals. sometimes, portals can open up in the dungeon and it can take you to different worlds across space and time. one minute, you are in a mine in the old west and the next, you are in feudal japan or the pits of hell or an alien dessert.

that's just the basic gist of the game. there is more to it than that but i don't wanna go to nuts.

[master of read]

My friend and I have both the cave core set and forbidden fortress, plus multiple expansions

i got swamps of death, fofo, the temple of shadows, and a few enemy packs. took advantage of the 3 for 2 sale on the suppliments.