Hexplore It Preview Video

hi everybody I'm John Carlo cavano and welcome to bth to death previews today we will be doing explore it which is currently on Kickstarter right now check it out explored is an epic adventure where players are trying to stop the dead King from plaguing the remaining cities to start this adventure each player will create a hero you will select a race and a role here are a few examples of race cards they have a favorite opponent racial modifiers racial abilities and food rating now these are the role mats you fill the mat with scores Modified by the race you selected using the dry erace markers you can write your characters's name stats food carried Health energy and what is in your backpack your starting gold is based on the number of players the more players the less gold each player has your starting food is equal to two times your food rate shown here the red stat is your attack and the orange one is your defense the purple and blue are special masteries assigned to each role and these cost energy to use these skills used are usually rolled out of combat after the movement phase the green is navigation the yellow is loot find and the blue is survival in food your health ever drops to zero you die your energy is used for masteries but can also be damaged by certain enemies each player also gets a green yellow and blue Dy now to set up the board place the four main tiles any way you choose to create the real place the circumstance in quest bars along the top and bottom of the board like so Shuffle both deck respectively and reveal five cards from each deck place a quest marker on any Quest location on the board roll the six-sided die to see which city your group starts in and place the group Pond there Shuffle the power up deck and have it ready to the side and place a pool of unex hex tile next to the board you're now ready to play before we go into turn order and phase let's look at the map you have your obvious terrain hexes like mountains water Forest Etc now the white icon here are cities and are numbered 1 to six the red icon here means there is a boss there and the higher the number the harder he will be to defeat these blue shrines are where you can heal for free find a new Marketplace or even gain a blessing and finally these are ruins players can visit these to press their luck hoping to find adventure and loot now let's take a look at the starting City here players can spend gold to buy items listed on the chart certain cities have good deals on certain items you can also upgrade your gear if you look around each stat there is the cost to upgrade your gear if you pay the lowest number there in gold black it out with the marker and increase that stat by one you can spend your gold in the starting City at the start of the game now let's take a look at location markers these are used in various ways to Mark things on the map hex styles are placed on cleared area Quest markers are placed on your current Quest location the red skulls are placed on cities and shrines which have fallen to the dead King the dead King's marker is where the next Target will be now the black market is a special Market which moves around the board this is the cave token which shows up during circumstances the magical portal is tied to the eighth box but we won't spoil that for you and finally you have this fortification token that can be used to fortify your homebased city now let's finally jump into game play the first thing you will do on a player's turn is to move as a group up to four hex's if you land in a city Shrine or boss location skip the skill and Circumstance phase and go on to the event phase if you move to an edge you draw a tile and place it however you choose now you can move cautiously which is beneficial to do so you must move along rivers or roads for the entire move or only move one hex doing so allows you to discard a circumstance card that was drawn during the circumstance phase and also prevents you from getting lost which is called wandering after moving if you did allign on a city Shrine or boss you need to roll your skills each player must roll their three skill Dice and try to roll equal to or below their stat let's start with navigation half the player rounded down must succeed this role to avoid wandering skip this if you moved cautiously if any player rolles a one it is always successful for the group if you fail as a group you are wandering and must roll the six-sided die to see where you wandered off to then you check your exploration skill if you are successful here you gain two gold if you happen to roll a one on this rooll you find a nice place to camp and each hero heals one Health finally check your survival skill if you fail this role you must consume food equal to your food rating if anyone rolls a one here each player regains one energy or removes an Affliction that affects the group if you start to starve you will be weaker and eventually die so stay fed After Rolling the three skills We Roll for a circumstance roll the D6 to see which one is played if you roll A6 the top of the deck is played these can be afflictions to the group encounters weather and that good old role playing Adventure stuff now for the dead King's turn when players are done their turn they roll a D6 to see if he appears now he will appear on the board on a roll of six if not the next time you roll he will appear on a five or six and then the next on a four five or six and so on until you roll the number needed for him to appear if you do roll to see which city comes in from and has already destroyed on the following turns he will Mark you targets and walk towards them at a speed of 2 per turn as he destroys cities he gains one movement speed each beware though if the dead King has enough movement to reach the players's group instead of his Target he does so triggering the final boss battle now if he has already destroyed all the cities the new Target becomes the player there is a way to bring back destroyed cities by claiming a Talisman from the shrine and bringing it back to the city defeating dead King's Lieutenant there in the process now let's take a look at combat one player will be writing the outcome and numbers of the battle on this battle mat the players will choose what action they will take attack defend use items or use a Mastery then opponents will do the same these can be encounters bosses traps and other things you would encounter in a regular RPG to figure out what the encounter's actions will be roll the six-sided die they might attack use Mastery or even use their special abilities here's what an encounter card looks like and its Anatomy feel free to pause the video to read all the stats bosses are similar but they have six different actions depending on what you roll for them again here is the anatomy of a boss card once both sides have chosen and rolled their action we check the resolution the enemy will do its action before the players do resolve the actions and damage and proceed to a new round until the enemy is defeated if a hero reaches zero health and is not healed before the end of the battle that hero dies some races have favored opponents and do more damage to them and can also roll exploding dice to do even more and once you kill an enemy or boss of course you will gain its rewards The Spoils of War some rewards are for certain Heroes depending on their role and other rewards are for the group you might even be able to open the black market allowing you to buy some extra cool gear once this Market is opened it will stay in play and move around the board finally let's look at quests these were set up at the start of the game the top corner of each Quest will tell you where to place the quest hex on the map and on which terrain or area the quests range from challenges escorts skills and enemies when you complete a quest you can turn them in at cities and each hero will get one power up per Quest PowerUp cards increase your stats and feels like you're leveling up if you feel strong enough as a group to defeat the dead King try it and see how this epic story ends defeat him and you'll win the game as a group or fail and be destined to join his Undead Army explor it also comes with optional rules for quick play multi-roll play running from battles giving players mantel and also having a player play as the dead King yep that one even comes with its own dead King dec of cards for the players to use during the game these are a powerful friendship ruining cards you can't wait to play we can also see a lot of good gaming inside the box there can be over 500 different hero race combination and the initial setup of the game offers huge replay value some of the artwork is really cool and some of it is unfinished but so far we really like what we see the buildup at the end of the game when the dead King moves faster than your group is tense and you're never quite sure if you'll be strong enough to beat him 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