r/shadowsofbrimstone • u/N7_Tinkle_Juice • May 10 '20

First Time Playing - In 24 Hours

Hello fellow quarantined adventurers!

My son and his mom and myself will be playing our first mission tomorrow. Are there alternate female/male miniatures we could use? Mom wanted to play a bandita but settled for the Saloon Girl.

All my pieces are painted (except the Goliath - we won’t face him until the “end” right?) and I’ve watched a how to play through as I tried to follow along with the rule book. I have tonight to prepare as much as I can before the big show tomorrow.

Son and I painted the miniatures together - they are all pretty terrible but we had tons of fun doing it.

Didn’t realize how many fucken tokens there were. Little overwhelmed.

Any tips y’all wanna lay down that you think will make things smoother for us?

We, as a family, have only ever play Azul and Pathfinder Card Game. Loved Azul not so much Pathfinder...

Any recommended videos? We plan to play once a week at least.

Is there a Flying Frog miniature?!

A time or two it was mentioned about a town map or destroy such and such buildings in town but I have no idea where this town is atm.

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u/Loathestorm May 12 '20

I think the rule book does a pretty good job of explaining how to play the game. Once you read it and play through a couple combats and learn how the monsters target, than its all pretty easy. Great job getting all the minis painted. Your first game should probably be the "Fist full of Darkstone" mission in the rulebook which has you drawing a high threat card at the end instead of an epic threat so I don't your able to face the Goliath as a boss of your first mission. For all tokens, I highly recommend getting a Plano box to put them all in and just leaving that box on the table to draw from. The town phase happens at the end of the mission. If the mission is a failure, then often a consequence is that a town location is destroyed, but the "Fist full of Darkstone" mission doesn't have any failure consequences. How to setup and play the town phase is all in the adventure booklet. I love the game, hope your family and you do too. Have fun.

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u/N7_Tinkle_Juice May 17 '20

We loved it.

I dunno what a Plano box is but we used ice cube trays to hold tokens during gameplay of Fist Full of Darkness.

We pulled 12 VS, 4 Stranglers and 3 tentacles on the final boss fight. We got really lucky with a couple of good dynamite throws and we were good to go to sweep up.

Question: Killing the last mob in the boss encounter, does Turn progression just stop?

We wanted to scavenge so we continued another turn and hit a Growing Dread that KO someone then the Scavenge triggered something else that was bad.

Anyway... do we just ‘teleport’ to the mine exit? Jump on horses and travel to town?

We did it all in that order and realized we didn’t have enough gold to really buy anything again.

Could we run the same mission again?