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".
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.
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?
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.
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 :)
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.
“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.
A : What's your favorite type of comedy ? B : What ? What do you mean ? A : Dry humor ? Zany ? Monty Python ? Slapstick ? B : Oh. Board game. A : What ? B : Board game. A : I don't ge- B : TRAIN CRIME !
There's a PNP roll+write I remember finding YEARS ago but I've since lost its name ─ it was about exploring a world and finding pieces to construct a giant machine. I seem to think it was one or two pieces of paper, landscape. Any leads?
I love the Quarentine 2020 Video series of Quins alone in his apartment in sweats. Truly a historic period in which future generations can look back on if people start wearing their bloody masks.
Wait - does 23:07 mean that BotC is NOT Quinn's favorite game anymore? Or that he can no longer say it in public? To be honest, I'm not okay with either one.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
@@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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
