Streaming After Mythwind

I’ve covered Mythwind a lot. But I’m getting close to when I’ll wrap up streaming it. I like to show a game like this off, but there are so many campaign games or adventure games that I can play. Which is the one that I should play next? Here are a few that I’m considering.

Tales form the Red Dragon Inn

This one actually got talked about on the stream. Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is supposed to be a fun and lighter dungeon crawling game. You play as characters from the Red Dragon Inn board game. Whereas that game is about what you do after an adventure, this one is the adventures, or at least them being retold. I feel like I shouldn’t trust the narration in the game for what actually happens, but we’ll see. Plus the game uses a map book which makes set-up and teardown a whole lot easier.

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

I already did a play of Sleeping Gods on the channel, so continuing with the sequel to talk about what is new and different, I like the sound of that. Plus, I’ve watched some of the game play over on the Meet Me At the Table Channel. A lot of what it changes in the game are things that I got wrong in the first one. Or at least one of the main items is. I want a chance to experience that from the game, plus I want to see what adventures it has to offer that I can find.

Wild Assent

Wild Assent got added into the collection recently. This one is going to be a monster hunting type of game. If I had my Primal in, it’d take this place. But I do want to play Wild Assent and see what the game is all about. Th is is about taking hunters out and defeating monsters/creatures in a boss battling sort of experience. I haven’t done too many boss battlers so that element is very intriguing to me. And I think less heavy campaign elements could be good for me as well.

Hoplomachus Victorum

This one is going to be less of a story driven campaign and more just a campaign. The story is going to come from the locations that I choose than narrative prose. But that sounds intriguing. And like Distant Skies, it’s going to be a shorter campaign. There are a set number of combats and events to play. So it hits my list of potential ones for that.

Others

Let me know if there are other games you’d be interested in seeing me play. I have mentioned Nova Aetas Renaissance recently. That one I left off the list, for right now, because I think there is more to get ready. And the sessions might take longer to play, so it’s does it fit into my evening time slot.

Aeon’s End Legacy of Gravehold is another that I’d love to play. Like Distant Skies, it is a game that I’ve already played on the channel. Well, it is kind of. I went through Aeon’s End Legacy and I love that game. So my hesitation comes from doubling up on that one. I expect that that there will be new elements, so the game might be different enough.

Let me know which one sounds the best to you? Or, checkout my games over on Board Game Geek and let me know which one you want to see played?

Upcoming Streams

On Monday I stream at 9 PM Central. That is sometimes a bit hit or miss, but that’s the goal. And I do small solo game plays. The schedule is, right now, going to look like gaming every other Monday. A chance to see people in person came up for Monday and as much as I like streaming, it’s good to socialize as well.

On Wednesdays, well, I said that I plan to play at least a few more games of Mythwind. This is going to continue how I play my solo campaign games on the channel. The reason for that is with how many campaign games I can play solo, I want to try more. That is at 8 PM Central time for the campaign games.

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Top 5 – The Campaign Game I Want to Play Next

5. Agemonia

The order of the list doesn’t matter much, if it’s a campaign game, I want to play it. Agemonia is the most recent campaign game to come in and this one is a big box of fun. So I want to get it to the table. I didn’t back it all in for the minis, but I do have the giant core box which gives you the monsters as standees.

But Agemonia looks like a unique world with fun characters to play as. And while it doesn’t look, to me, to be the most complex game on the campaign game scale, I like what it offers. Card overlays that will change if you don’t interact with something in a certain time, or depending on what action you take. So it shows you want you need to know on the board and who you might be interacting with, but throughout a play, that can change and get covered up.

4. Aeon’s End: Legacy of Gravehold

This is a tricky campaign game to put on the list. Mainly because, though it’s not as obvious, this is a legacy game as well as a campaign game. I really enjoyed going through Aeon’s End Legacy on the stream. And Aeon’s End is a system that I really like. I think as a solo deck building game it works amazingly.

And a legacy game is always fun to play on Malts and Meeples. Or just to be one that I want to play in general. The idea of an emergent story and changing rules is fun. The original one I really enjoyed, but it was very basic in what it did. Some fun twists, but mainly basic. So I want to know what this one is going to offer and how it can play around with the story of Aeon’s End.

3. Wild Assent

Next up is Wild Assent. I recently got this one from a local game story that buys and sells uses games. I was selling some games and I came back with the same number of boxes, but fewer games. Wild Assent is the reason for that.

But this isn’t as heavy a campaign game. So while I talk about Agemonia that meant that from what I remember the game play is lighter. In Wild Assent I mean that it’s not as long as other campaign games. The commitment to it isn’t there because it’s mean to be played over a few sessions and that is a campaign. So it’s resettable you grab new characters and go again. That is an intriguing option for a campaign game experience.

2. Tales from the Red Dragon Inn

Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is the next campaign game expansion. Red Dragon Inn is a game that I like and that I don’t like. I like it because it should be a fun, light, silly game with some crazy powers and cards for each character. It is that, but the issue is that it almost always takes too long. It might be a game that I’d only play at four because that’s the right amount of time for it to go on, it feels like.

But that’s not the game on the list, Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is supposed to be an easy to get into campaign game. It builds off of the world and some elements of Red Dragon Inn, but obviously changes it up some from being a free for all. What intrigues me is about the ease of set-up of the game. Everything you need for the map is printed on it. So it’s more of a grab what you need and go versus as intensive a game in terms of set-up.

1. Mythwind

Finally I have Mythwind for my list of campaign games. And this one is interesting in that it’s less of a campaign game and more of a persistent world. It’s not meant to take you through this epic journey that a lot of campaign games do. Instead Mythwind is meant to be a cozy game like a Stardew Valley where you can just play.

The game offers you a number of characters to play as. Each of them has their own mini game. What you pick and who you play as, that’s up to you. And you can change that any time. So you get to explore different characters all while leveling up your town, unlocking buildings, going exploring, and completing your own goals. I like the balancing nature of this and think, from what it shows, it offers some fun story and experience.

Which To Play?

Now these don’t have to be the only options. Kinfire Chronicles, Hoplomachus Victorum, and others, are all sitting on my shelf waiting to get played. Or even non-campaign games like Unsettled still offer a group of games to play through because there are different planets each time.

Help me decide what to play. Which campaign game sounds the best to you? And one of them might just end up being played on some Monday streams as well depending on what my schedule looks like. Is there a campaign game that stands out to you or one that you think is just so good I need to get it to the table?

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Pros

• Campaign
• Miniatures
• Price
• 3 Game Modes
• Aesthetic

Cons

• PvP
• 3 Game Modes
• Shipping
• Change in Miniature Size
• Add-Ons

The Page

The page navigates really well. Some of this is that Lazy Squire Games has previously crowdfunded two games. This is their first time on Gamefound though. And some of why this page is really so easy to navigate and find information on is because of how Gamefound is built. Lazy Squire Games, though, uses it to the best of their ability.

Honestly, the more stuff is on Gamefound the fewer negatives I’ll have with pages, because I don’t have to go searching for the game play section, that is linked on the side. So to give more props to Lazy Squire Games, though, they gives you a lot of game play information. They don’t shy away from it and just show you minis, which are amazing. And they do a good job of showing all three game modes.

The thing that I will ding them on most is the add-ons. They do have a few add-ons, but they could really leverage how Gamefound works to make it a whole lot more ala carte. They have a pledge for the base game, Lavon Rising is an expansion, and that’s great, but any sort of big box add-on should be an add-on as well as maybe a slightly discount if you pledge for a lot of it. ISS Vanguard and some others have done a great job of splitting stuff into add-ons, this doesn’t.

The Game

The game itself looks like a lot of fun. And the three game modes looks like they are well thought out. I like two of them a lot. The Hunt mode is like a mini campaign for the players, and then there is an expansion that adds a fully immersive campaign. Then, there is player versus player. Which I have no interest in that mode. I have my skirmish game, Super Fantasy Brawl, and while I’d likely try it, I wouldn’t back Wild Assent for the skirmish mode.

I also like in the Hunt mode how it talks about supporters. This idea that you have people you can recruit to your camp who give you static abilities. It’s a cool and thematic way that I feel like you can improve a character uniquely. A lot of games give you ways to boost your character and they can be really unique, but to give more of a common pool to do that is very cool.

Back or Brick

But, let’s get down to it, is this game a Back or a Brick for me? It is going to be a Brick. Now, Wild Assent has a lot of great reviews. That is one of the advantages of backing it now, but there are a few things that throw me off.

Firstly, the minis have changed sizes, so people who bought the original will now have different sized minis or get a discount. Secondly, I’d want the base game and campaign expansion only, and that’s probably just under $300. That is too steep with game and shipping. I get that the campaign is a lot of work, but I would imagine they can leverage a lot of what is already in the base box.

Now, if you have the money to throw at this, like I said, it has a lot of very good reviews. And if you want that smaller style campaign from The Hunt, which is tempting to me, you can get just the base box for about $165 to be shipped to the US. Even that seems a little bit steep to me, but for a proven game, not too bad and there are stretch goals so the value should end up being there.

But, is this game a Back or a Brick for you?

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