Story of Many Preview at Spiel 2024, , an Adventure Board Game for a Lifetime of Play.

0:06 we're here with Thanos at the stand for story of nenny at Spiel 2024 we're at the final day and we met you guys last night and you told us about this incredible project that of course Matt already knew about because it's like an adventure game and that's his thing but I was like this sounds amazing so tell us all about this project what is it well certainly Wayne so basically story of many is a co-op solo open world exploration game but you it's a legacy setting you're venturing forwards into a like green dog world full of like enemies perils mini dungeons Dungeons and Adventures you can play on your own as I said you can play with your party against the game itself like a DM lless DND if it makes sense cool yeah there's a lot of different elements uh that incorporate a sort of many from like uh like a ttrpg elements board game elements I I always say this it's like a sky Skyrim on your table but with like fighting fantasy and DND D elements in it so it's like a lovely lovely combination of things amazing stuff so in terms of the game play itself what stands story of many out from other games in its type of genre is there anything specific that it does so yes of course like basically what we have and we are take tied on this is the our adventure system basically our exploration and is a very unique element so you can see those little adventure maps you have in front of you yeah they all of them are have this fog of wall

1:37 mechanic so every Adventure has a different deck it comes with a different deck so you're never going to play an adventure that looks exactly the same thematic stays uh towards the actual Adventure you're playing so a snow Cape let say Adventure we have snow Cape tiles like if you're in a settlement that is destroyed the actual tiles themselves going to be a destroyed settlement enemies are specifi to the adventure they on and there there a lot of thematic in this it has a very fast-paced unique combat system we invented will take pride on you can get really nice and tactical it gets really lovely as soon as you progress onwards in know more difficulty levels and it what also is unique to this is a true sample experience you've got like a full on over open World um that you can explore if you don't want to go into an adventure there's three major campaigns 60 plus hours each there so much hour G play play amazing so let's talk you hooked me with this combat system what's so what's different about it why is it so Snappy what what you do yes of course I I'll show you if you want to show me yeah let's talk about Ito here let's go so basically you got your combat breed your combat bre is like a device on like this like little like thingy uh the board L me so You' got Zone a Zone B and Zone C so you got your crevices here where you are ocate your enemies health bars and then there's a little circle in the middle that you engage your cars in assuming now you've got your sear and a

3:08 Reaver witch so you allocate your uh desired like classes and desired positions by using Zone a Zone B and Zone C uh rotation format so like assuming now you're fighting I'd say um let me see a few of the these bists here some bees down here there's beasts right so they go to the unengaged pile our system works like this the enemies will encircle uh the our engaged character starting from Zone a to Zone B and they will go again Zone a Zone B if I had a character in zone C for example if I had a sorry if I had a character in zone C for example I say that I have this um pirate here in zone C they will also go to they also envelop around there and they will envelop around there so the enemies play first they attack by having let's say this card here you have a specific enemy die and they D6 ah custom dice cool custom die indeed they will CH choose the attack by Rolling the six they will attack with dis sperm and they will do a Zone attack meaning they will attack any character in that zone ah this applies to all enemies this di applies to all enemies there can be Max eight enemies engage in the zone as soon as they do this you roll your defenses assuming like let's say river which has six GDs we all the D6 I failed obviously my

4:39 rolls are [ __ ] sorry so not the best but then what you do let's say you subtract the damage or in this scenario you get your conditions and then you roll now so the differences and saves in it enemy so you got slashing piercing and and bling defenses ah different types of damage and okay exactly physical and nonphysical basically Dam take you got your great reflex and will saves on your left non- physical attacks now assuming that I you rolled a five you pass one damage if you do twice as much that is two damage twice as much and three damage like crits like yeah critic not really cuz like Critical Hits is in completely different are you are you doing that different yeah basically so if you roll a 10 of your rolls that will do like plus your bonuses and stuff that will do two damage on the actual uh specific monster let's say uh if you do um like 15 on your old that's like three damage under slashing for example slashing uh defense if you do a seven and if it's not covering it it's it rounds down so you'll still do one damage you need to cover that that is very fast-paced there's so many abilities that you can play as well like free actions like get really really good as you can also move around tactics wise in the board moners can also move around as well it's really nice it's it gets really really really exciting yeah super in depth as well it's amazing so in terms of so this is like a a deep complex Adventure it feels like how long has this been in development for this been developed uh since 2018 actually

6:11 way W since July 2018 way was started completely different game back then oh really yeah we we used to have like a lot of pen and paper um elements in it like from even designing the map was like a a random area um like you areas and everything is now you can see there's like tiles for as I said earlier tiles for every Adventure there's like dashboards um for your character SE by the way this is still um under production we're just changing a few aspects of the uh of the dashboard it's not going to be the final version of it even the combat system has developed developed a lot because it's our unique combat system yeah of course like I don't know like even the adventures themselves like can I show you this to you because like this is my favorite video of the game personally and I I think everybody takes pride of this every Adventures come with a text um so every Adventure like you have to choose when you're in settlement basically you have to choose the adventure you want okay by going through the we little like um abstruct let's say here all the instraction are still being polished so we're still under a production phase it's not the final art by the way but by the we in a polishing phase anyway so assuming that you want waystone you've got the waystone adventure and as soon as you say yes I want that you turn around read through the adventure then you've got your story there yes there's it's if heavy game as well anyway yeah lots of so lots of narrative going on as well lot of adventuring fantastic stuff and you have some choices to be made and and what ex choose your own at the end of the day fantastic so in this particular example it says Place Adventure stick in one so

7:43 you place a stick Adventure Place sorry the adventure sticker one on your designated area in the map and then you can choose if you want it to interact with it or you just roam freely on the worlds okay nice you can literally do whatever you want just go wherever you like open world sound almost like I play Witch of 3 and when I was used to play Witch of 3 I did not play the main game for hours yeah you just side absolutely basically the same thing applies to this game amazing assuming that you want to go and delv in it you go and read through everything and then you play the game fantastic stuff so this is available still to back right the the the campaign is ongoing it's ongoing it's ongoing until uh next week like until the October 14th actually till October 14th fantastic and will there be late pledges available there will be PL available we will announce them because we're not like exactly sure what will we announce them for but they will be announced as soon as we complete uh the the main campaign phase fantastic and you've already smashed your target right we destroyed your target we really proud of destroyed it fantastic we're really proud of have you got anything you can share with the backers that you could maybe any exciting news you could maybe tell us about any new artwork coming anything like that well I may not disclose this but there's a potentially potentially a new race coming up ah you heard here first so fantastic stuff Thanos thank you so much for spending time apprciate thank you much your amazing new project story of many do check that out if that sounds interesting to you check that out and back it while you still can or indeed late bedge if you've seen this

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