Lockup: A Roll Player Tale Review - with Tom Vasel 

I would argue they both exist independent of one another, with one being worker placement and dice combat, vs straight up worker placement with some area control and bluffing

I'd skip em. I'd buy Tuscany or Energy Empire.

Champions with both expansions is epic and awesome.

Valoisian yes!

It looks like this has almost nothing in common with Waterdeep other then very broadly having workers you place on the board. The theme is different, you don’t buy special spaces in this game like you do Waterdeep. In Waterdeep spaces are first come first serve while here they’re area control where the more you put on a space the better the chance you’ll get a first place reward. Corruption isn’t mechanically the same as Suspicion even though they’re both kind of like penalties for being too aggressive on the board. Really they’re completely different games that both happen to use a worker placement mechanic.

ABS. Always be sleeving.

So eventually how did this go for you? This game looks interesting but I find it strange that Tom didn’t include this in his top 10 workerplacement of all time

Did you ever try this solo? How was it?

@ncreson, Yes, I have played it solo. It isn't bad but not anyway as good as Roll Player. The latter is quite addictive, but it isn't fair to criticize it that much as a solo because I didn't play it more than five times. Must say: the board is gorgeous and for multiplayer the stands are really great. So, if I had tried it solo before buying it I would probably not but it !

depends on the family, I suppose. 😂