Innsmouth Travel Guide

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Roll and Write — This is also a roll and write game but the writing aspect of it is you are building a route and so it's a roll and write game. You're rolling dice, you're writing stuff, but the the what you're writing is is root building.
• Route Building — This is also a roll and write game but the writing aspect of it is you are building a route and so it's a roll and write game.
• Set Collection — And there are artifacts you can get and and there's hidden tourists.

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• I try to keep it to about 25 games and sometimes that slides to like 30 games, but I don't want it to be more than 30 games because I don't want this video to be crazy long.
• if you want a smaller box pretty game, then check out Parks and Potions.
• it's a really good introduction to strategy games.
• This is one that is going to be a huge hit with young kids, I imagine.
• So, if you want a lot of story in your solo games, that is a reason to play this one.
• It adds more player interaction to the worker placement game.
• I like that sort of fluctuating market aspect of the game. It makes it feel different than other worker placement games out there.
• I think a lot of gamers and just a lot of people in general really respond to this theme, right? I think it's something that's super relatable about having to charge up your social battery in order to go out into the world and do stuff.
• there's just a lot of intrigue on like, why are you moving that? What are you doing right now? How do I outsmart you?
• Vantage over the last month has been fairly divisive.
• if you like worker placement games or if you like visually interesting games, then that's, uh, for sure a reason to play T- Witches.
• It is a deck building game, but it has an interesting aspect to the deck building because every round you're going to shuffle your entire deck and then you're going to flip out cards in a 2x3 grid.
• I love Flip Tunes
• The OP is also releasing fountains.
• This plays 1 to five players in 30 to 45 minutes and it is a mediumweight game though at the lower end of medium weight.
• This is another sort of visually very interesting game.
• It is a deck building game, but it has a interesting aspect to the deck building because every round you're going to shuffle your entire deck and then you're going to flip out cards in a 2x3 grid.
• And so there is a real strategy to the deck building of the game, but there's also just these fun exciting moments where you're like, "Ah, yes, I got that where I needed it to go."
• I love Flip Tunes a lot. I really recommend it.
• I've been doing this Green Team Wins live show at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and it's been going super well
• Next night of that is Sunday, November 2nd.
• It's really fun. It's really interactive. It's memorable. It's different every time the show happens.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Hand Management — Managing cards seems to be part of the gameplay, possibly for actions or scoring.
• Movement — Players move around a map, exploring the locations within Innsmouth.
• Roll and Write — Likely shares the roll-and-write mechanic with Arkham Travel Guide.
• Set Collection — Similar to the other travel guide game, set collection is probable.

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• Factions that win that have their own abilities that have their own winning combinations.
• It's too heavy for me.
• Yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing.
• Yep. And nobody knows it exists.
• I played Circadian First Light and I liked it.
• Scrolling through this thing with you said with the 300 responses and the people arguing about this game and I s there and it's like it's so amusing. The best part about it is you have these people arguing about Marxism and and uh and democratic socialism everything like that and then you have the people that are just trying vainly to get answers about the mechanics of the game. How does this work with the tricks when you do the thing? And it's just people going back and forth about, you know, screaming about uh, you know, like like how they're going to fix the world or whatever, which I I get it, you know, just it's it's who doesn't do that? But that's that's the part it it reminds me of.
• I watched in disbelief as businessmen voted for a repeat bankrupt, laborers for a boss infamous for stiffing his workers. Evangel evangelicals for a serial adulter for an admitted sexual assaulter. Patriots for a draft dodger who would sell his country's secrets for trivial gain. educated men for an ignoramus. But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora's box. Yes, the old one filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and blood lust and infinite greed. and tell them that these things were the remedy for all of their grievances, that all their anger was justified, and most important, none of what ailed them was their own fault or ever had been.
• That is like the best paragraph I've ever uh Greg Isles in his book Southern Man.
• That is that is one of the that is uh yeah that was that is one of that is poetry.
• I played it and I could not remember anything. And that's it was such a quarter eater because they would like you'd be dead and it would like make you repeat the the move again and be like, 'Okay, is it left or right or up or down?' And you hit the button.
• No, it was free play, but it was like I played it and I'm like, 'Man, I really loved this back in the day and now I don't like it at all.'
• Everything but the ninjas is easy. The ninjas were like the the the And the ninjas just went on and on and on. You had to defeat like a thousand of them. It felt like
• Happy birthday, Bruno.
• It's just a It's just a It's just a virtual reality pinball.
• The elbow back. It was the most powerful move in the game.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice Drafting — Players choose from a pool of rolled dice each round to determine their actions, influencing route building and other game elements.
• End game scoring — Points are awarded based on final routes, objectives, artifact cards, and other criteria.
• Objective Fulfillment — Players score points based on completing shared objectives related to their route building.
• Route Building — Players draw lines on their board to create routes connecting various locations.
• Set Collection — Collecting specific types of tourists or connecting to caches for end-game scoring.
• threat management — Threat markers are placed on the board, increasing the game's difficulty and potentially penalizing players.
• Variable player powers — Players can choose different characters, each with unique abilities that modify gameplay.

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• So, we're going with this one. Okay. Look at the fish.
• The fish people. Okay. Yeah, why not?
• Makes my brain hurt already.
• This felt more themey than the last one.
• Riding the boats around worked better for me than the

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• caches and tools — Caches provide tools that improve defense and route options; accessing them requires visiting cache locations along the route.
• dice-driven threats and dice modifiers — Deep-one threats appear based on die results; special dice and bonuses modify results and enable strategic adjustments.
• endgame: continuous route requirement — Only a single continuous route counts for final scoring; non-connected segments are erased unless connected by bridges or ferries.
• Limited Points — Only a single continuous route counts for final scoring; non-connected segments are erased unless connected by bridges or ferries.
• Network/Route Building — Players draw a route on a map using dice-based coordinates and route segments, aiming to connect destinations and pass by tourists.
• route-drawing / map drafting — Players draw a route on a map using dice-based coordinates and route segments, aiming to connect destinations and pass by tourists.
• special abilities and bonus dice — A detective-style ability provides one-time benefits; a bonus die can erase/add segments or allow two-segment moves in clever ways.
• threat mitigation via routing decisions — Players must plan routes to minimize deep-one threats, using caches and route positioning to reduce risk.
• tourist placement and scoring by color — Tourists are placed on the map and score points when the route visits destinations they like; colors indicate different scoring implications.
• two main objectives with asymmetric scoring — Points come from winding routes and from visiting certain types of blocks; objectives offer up to 24 points each.

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• An excellent roll and write
• we're going to be using dice
• the objective of the game is very similar to in route
• I want to make a windy route
• it's going to be a pretty powerful move
• I really like the system, so we'll be playing it again

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