Hellbreak

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Play — Players play minion cards that have icons, requiring matching icons to be available to use them.
• Damage dealing — Players can deal direct and indirect damage to opponents and their minions.
• Haunt — An action that typically involves placing tokens and dealing indirect damage.
• initiative bidding — Players secretly choose a card to play face down, and the highest cost card wins initiative, granting benefits.
• Jump scare — A special ability on some cards that triggers an additional effect when certain conditions are met.
• Location Control — Players can take control of locations on the board which provide benefits.
• overkill — When attacking, excess damage dealt to a defender's monster is transferred.
• resource collection — Players collect 'blood' and 'malice' tokens to spend on actions and cards.
• scheming — An action players can take, often involving placing tokens on locations.
• slumber — An action that grants the player a 'malice' token.

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• All right. Uh, in this game, it takes all of your favorite horror monsters and pits them in battle.
• So, look, we're we're going to explain what we're doing as we're playing so you can understand the gameplay, but just so you're following along about the basics, you know, we have the deck over here. We have 16 health.
• Some cards have an ability called jump scare that when that happens, something else happens. Spooky. That's why it's called jump scare.
• All right. It's time to enter the feeding phase. So, we just collected our resources and now we choose out of these cards one to place face down. And then after that, when we're both ready, we're going to flip it
• All of your favorite horror monsters and pits them in battle.
• Two cards equals two points of health.
• Some cards have an ability called jump scare that when that happens, something else happens. Spooky.
• The cards that we play, the minion cards will have icons next to them. And in order to use them, we'll have to have the icons down here, too.
• We're going to flip it. And whoever has the highest cost will have initiative.
• Mechanically Dracula has a lot of tricks that are hard to beat. Like it is a very like in the long game Dracula wins.
• This card costs one less for each bride in play.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Trading Card Game — Identified as a new trading card game.

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• If you go to Gen Con and you're not going through the artist alley, you're doing yourself a disservice. You really are.
• But it is ideal to try to be off hours with everybody else because they do get insane.
• If you've never used a badge wallet, they are so handy at conventions.
• And there's something for everybody, you know.
• It's a great place to go play games with people.
• Well, that is such a great way to end it cuz it's a game we reviewed not very long ago.
• The one thing that book did not talk about a lot that I didn't see was the entertainment acts
• Hey, if you really like what we're doing here at the Dice Tower, then there are different ways to support the Dice Tower.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Locations — Mentioned as a mechanic present in the game.
• Trading Card Game — A new TCG based on Universal Monsters.

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• This is Seven Wonders Duel, everybody.
• The competitive nature is tough in that game. I am not that good at it.
• my favorite way to play the game which is just dual decks.
• It definitely feels like a good soup of this kind of stuff and it was neat. I liked it a lot.
• I lost by two points. Relax game.
• Fits on an iPad screen just great.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Trading Card Game — Described as a new trading card game based on Universal Monsters.

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• This is I don't know if this is the best way to display your games, but it is certainly a choice here.
• I'd call that a 10 out of 10.
• No, that's not what actually happened. What happened is that Yoda came along and he destroyed everything in a good way.
• This is why we come to Gen Con.
• Gen Con, just like this world, is so much better simply because you are in it.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card game

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• So, as you can see way far down there, it keeps going and going on forever.
• All the new Arkham Horror scenario being played. Very nice. Very nice.
• People also just sitting around resting. It is Sunday so less people are in here.
• So, yeah, this is like the Asthma area as you can see from the little Asay hidden room there. Uh, people are playing games. That's all that's happening in here pretty much.
• Look at this stuff. Going to walk down this little this little row here. No one's around, so I can kind of get close up to some of these terrain setups that look better than anything I could ever put together.
• The con closes in like 2 and 1 half hours. So there's less people in here right now.
• So, pro tip, uh that that one was given to me by Janet uh shout out to Janet uh from our community for passing that one on to us a few years back.
• It's one of those things. Sometimes it happens at the con where like Thursday and Friday, no one cares about a certain game or a certain publisher and then by the end word gets out and then everyone needs to try it before they leave.
• So they did not sell as many as they thought, but I've never seen giant pallets of games in the exhibit hall just sitting on the floor before.
• The Emperor's Promise.
• It's like a tradition to see that here at the con. I don't know how old that thing is, but when I see them lugging CRT monitors, I kind of think it's old. But uh still here. People still come and do it.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Deck Building — build and deploy monster-themed decks and battle
• deck-building — build and deploy monster-themed decks and battle

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• We are going to be playing Sunderfolk today.
• these are games that you literally can play in 5 minutes.
• This is a great game using the art from the Writerweight Tarot set.

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