DungeonQuest Solo Playthrough | Let's Play an Old Game | Classic Dungeon Crawler

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  • Always Board Never Boring plays through DungeonQuest, one of the meanest and most deadly dungeon crawler games ever devised. This is the classic 1987 edition from Games Workshop, which is truly a thing of beauty.
    (Apologies for the tinny sound at the start. It only last for about 30 seconds so please stick with it.)
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  • @thepardoner2059
    @thepardoner2059 2 роки тому +6

    That may well have been the most unbelievably uneventful game of DungeonQuest ever played. You drew more Empty Rooms in a row than any player in DungeonQuest history.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому +3

      Tell me about it. After filming it, I considered not uploading it, but then I thought, "Well, it happened, and it was weird, so why not?" For people who know how absolutely deadly the game normally is, I thought it might be funny to show that one in a thousand game where the dungeon is sleeping. There are other playthroughs on the channel where a lot more happens. The Rildo vs. Thargrim playthrough is the most eventful, and shows what can happen when the dungeon just decides to say, "no," to a player.

  • @gridash645
    @gridash645 3 роки тому +20

    When people survive this game, there are some who would write their name, date and amount of loot on the inside of the box. Not saying you should but yeah. It's like a leaderboard and a tradition to some. I have the Fantasy Flight Games version. Enjoyed the video. ;)

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +5

      Thanks for watching. I won't be writing on the box, for sure; but I might print off a little league of legends sheet to slip into the box to mark those occasions where the stars align.

    • @obscurecult
      @obscurecult 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring heyy did you do the complete break down of the game? If not, could you do it?
      I actually have no way to acquire this game, so I'm thinking of DIYing my own.

  • @darinlagarry3091
    @darinlagarry3091 Рік тому +2

    We like to allow a dead player to just pick another character and start from any entrance. The dead character loot is out there for the taking.

  • @soob99
    @soob99 3 роки тому +9

    What a delight to see a new DQ video pop up! I've played this game since the 90s and I could probably count the amount of decent wins I've had on my fingers and toes.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +2

      Thanks for checking out the video. I'm probably going to run another solo game at some point soon, to see if I can get a more horrific outcome.

  • @stephengarforth2753
    @stephengarforth2753 9 місяців тому +2

    Played this in 2008-2010 loved it and miss it

  • @catholicphoenix7969
    @catholicphoenix7969 3 роки тому +3

    The minions' Union had a dispute with the dragon over poor wages. This is why there's absolutely nothing in the dungeon besides a few traps.

  • @allanrjackson
    @allanrjackson 4 місяці тому

    WOW, freaking awesome! I have the modern replica as a replacement for my 1990's version. I love this game, because mostly everyone looses. I play this with my children - no arguments with this game :0)

  • @jreicher
    @jreicher Місяць тому

    That's the startlingly exciting! Thanks for the play-through!

  • @NodtheThird
    @NodtheThird 3 роки тому +4

    Ah yes the game of dying.... got pretty good at staying alive when I played it back in the 90s.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +3

      Once you know the decks (and remember to watch what comes out of them), and learn the behaviours of the monsters, you can certainly improve your odds. However, the only thing I seem to be good at is falling down bottomless pits.

  • @SprocketWalker
    @SprocketWalker 6 місяців тому +1

    I really enjoyed this playthrough. Thank you!

  • @jonathandavidwest
    @jonathandavidwest 3 місяці тому

    I was actually on the edge of my seat!

  • @RainBowChild4
    @RainBowChild4 2 роки тому +6

    Amazing! I almost beat this once (Well, the original Swedish version)! Not too many traps, a few monsters. Was 1 space away from the exit when the sun went down and I was trapped.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      Yeah, it's actually not that often I even get to see the dragon's treasure, never mind escape!

    • @UnciaAmethice
      @UnciaAmethice 11 місяців тому +1

      I used to play the original (Swedish) version back as a wee child in 1988 or so after school. A vicious game but so much nostalgia even if the English names are a little unusual. The card art in the original was so good - all the traps looked so painful.

  • @nanodave1980
    @nanodave1980 3 роки тому +5

    Looks like a fun game. Keep up great work

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks. It's great when you're in the right mood for it, and all you really want to see is a story unfolding.

  • @matthewjarvis3103
    @matthewjarvis3103 3 роки тому +6

    Love this game. easy to learn, easy to play but hard to stay alive. I still hvae this and play it with the 2 expansions (Heroes & Catacombs). I have played this game to intro friends into board games and dungeon dives. Some of those friends progressed to Kickstarter addiction. Also it is a quick game, good for keeping the kids tiny attention span to play

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +2

      Yeah, it has a lot going for it, and is very easy to teach people due to the nature of the game and how you only need to know something when you need to know it.

  • @davidpepin3017
    @davidpepin3017 3 роки тому +3

    First time seeing this (well, I was 7 years old when it came out)! It was fun, what suspense! Thank you for the video.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks for watching. There are a few more playthroughs on the channel as well that you might like, including a fun head-to-head between a thief and a chaos warrior.

  • @damodubhdar
    @damodubhdar 2 роки тому

    Great video. I had this game when it came out and still do. Played it for years.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому +1

      It's really great. I was lucky enough to get the two expansions since this playthrough, and the variety in heroes is fantastic. Thanks for watching.

  • @JonPadfield
    @JonPadfield 2 роки тому

    Seems like a good game, which I hadn't heard of before. Thanks for the video :)

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for watching. I absolutely love this game, and I hope it gets another reprint one day.

  • @Koneller
    @Koneller 2 роки тому +1

    I literally printed myself a copy of this game like 12 years ago cause i didnt have money. It was a blast with friends! fun video, nostalgic feels. Like!

  • @kaninersynger
    @kaninersynger 2 роки тому

    Thank you for the adventure :)

  • @Vlad65WFPReviews
    @Vlad65WFPReviews 3 роки тому +1

    Glad I found this. I'm lucky enough to also own this edition - and now I hope to quickly design a "fighting and finding" variant employing monsters, weapons and items from the 1st Ed of the Pathfinder Adventure card game. With some work I think it could yield great results.

  • @layedout778
    @layedout778 2 роки тому

    AMAZING! So good. Smashed the LIKE!!! :)

  • @EriktheRed2023
    @EriktheRed2023 Рік тому

    Any dungeon expedition that you can walk away from is a successful dungeon expedition. I'm sure the blue trousers helped!
    Great playthrough, thank you!

  • @Khaiell
    @Khaiell 3 роки тому +1

    I have played a lot of the „Deathmaze”/„Citadel Of Blood” game in the early 80s. I didn’t know that it was later reimagined in this form. Very interesting!

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +2

      I believe it has some similarities with Citadel of Blood, but that's a game I've never actually played. Games Workshop published DragonQuest in 1987, reworking a version of the Swedish game Drakborgen, which was published in 1985. It was later republished by Fantasy Flight Games, who lost the rights a few years ago when they parted ways with Games Workshop. Thanks for watching.

  • @1000jjwalker
    @1000jjwalker 3 роки тому +2

    well played mate

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks. This was fun, but it was a poor show in terms of the loot I got out with.

  • @DavidGreen_au
    @DavidGreen_au 3 роки тому +1

    Bah Humbug!
    There was a promise of character death, and it didn't happen! :(
    Really though, interesting play-through.
    Looks like a very good game, from back when Games Workshop was not just a Warhammer factory.
    I think I need a copy for my library!
    Excellent video.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      I really thought it would end in death, and that cave-in was a tense moment. It was pretty exciting getting out on the last turn. I did briefly consider exploring a completely new route out, just to show off a few more tiles, but I'm pretty sure I never would have made it. It's a great game though, as long as you accept that it is often quite unfair, and no matter how good a player you are, sometimes you will get hosed.

  • @rodgertoner5705
    @rodgertoner5705 Рік тому

    2000 gold coins and killed by a giant centipede with a D12 1 space from the tower. Meanwhile, my son finds 10 gold coins on a room search and jumps into the tower on 1 life point.....great game! Great video.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      Some days the dungeon hates you... most days, actually. But occasionally it lets you live. You are normally poor, but you are alive. Thanks for watching.

  • @magnoliamike
    @magnoliamike 2 роки тому

    I remember I was on another previous nostalgic trip down memory lane. And I remembered Hero Quest, and Dragon Strike, then I was looking into other games that I never played and I seen you or someone else play this game and I couldn’t find it until now. I had to go on Google and look up some kind of Wikipedia for every kind of dungeon crawler ever made lol and it looked familiar and it seems like I was right!! Haha

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      I love these old classic board games. DungeonQuest is one of my favourites. I hope you enjoyed the wander down memory lane.

  • @danstampe1665
    @danstampe1665 Рік тому

    You just have to love dungeon quest when you are on the best run of your life towards the treasure chamber and the first card you draw is an awakened dragon🤣🤣🤣
    I recently bought my own copy of the game after watching your videos and I just want to thank you a lot what a great game! First time playing it at an age of 42! Its never to late to get started i guess😅

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      I'm really pleased I helped you to find a game you are enjoying so much. DungeonQuest is my number one game of all time. It's so much damned fun. Indeed, awakening the dragon when you are already loaded up with riches and have survived the dungeon unscathed to that point is a clear reminder not to take life too seriously.

  • @Jackthetattedone
    @Jackthetattedone 3 роки тому +1

    Great playthrough. I adore this game, although it can be very lethal

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks. I'm planning on putting the ranger through the dungeon next. He's so squishy one giant caterpillar can end his career.

  • @elementalgamer9879
    @elementalgamer9879 6 місяців тому

    fun fact about dungeonQuest, the game is the an english version of the originally Swedish game "Drakborgen" and was the first board game exported from sweden (last part about it bein the first exported board game from sweden I'm pretty sure about bt can't seem to find the exact source)

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 2 роки тому

    HeroQuest brought me here. I've never heard of or played DungeonQuest.

  • @magnoliamike
    @magnoliamike Рік тому

    Yes this is it! My favorites were heroquest dragon strike with the VHS 📼 and this one. I knew I remembered you had to try the exit before the sun came up but this is a different version the one I remember the board looked different like more modern

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      Are you remembering the remake from Fantasy Flight Games which came out in 2010? The version I’m playing here is the original GW edition from 1985.

  • @robins5314
    @robins5314 3 роки тому +3

    Yes please, I would like to see that. Someone on BGG made some teleport tiles, which are good.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      Teleporting would have made my life easier!

    • @robins5314
      @robins5314 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Yes indeed, definitely worth downloading.

  • @garrapato
    @garrapato 3 роки тому +1

    I've seen your videos on Space Marine Adventures and I also love this small, silly, light-hearted games from GW. You should next get Chainsaw Warrior, wich is very cheap on ebay. Lost Patrol is another impossible one to beat.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for checking out the videos. I've covered Lost Patrol quite a bit on the channel already, playing with both the new and original rules. Chainsaw Warrior is on my list, but there are other titles I would rather pick up first.

  • @jonathan2950
    @jonathan2950 Рік тому

    I haven’t played this since the 80s/90s when I was a kid and I remember enjoying it loads. What I didn’t realise was how much I would enjoy watching a video of someone playing it solo in 2022, but I did, thanks! 😀
    I’ve managed to get myself a copy so will definitely be playing this with my family when my daughters are a bit older. I’ll probably have a few solo playthroughs as it still looks fun on your own.
    I’m wondering whether I implement a house rule where I add a few extra turns, as I don’t recall the number of turns being so tight. It would be nice to be able to spend a couple extra turns in the centre. But maybe taking away some of the urgency makes it less fun. I’ll experiment!

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      It’s a great game, and very easy to mod to make it easier or harder. I hope you have fun with it and enjoy experimenting.

    • @heathenhammer2344
      @heathenhammer2344 10 місяців тому

      Where did you get it from?

  • @hmtkgaming6095
    @hmtkgaming6095 2 роки тому

    I used to own this and the expansion that added a sewer underneath. I *lost* my copy when I moved between duty assignments in the early 90's.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому +1

      I have reviewed both expansions on the channel - Catacombs (the one that adds the second level underground) and the Heroes for DungeonQuest. Sorry to hear you lost your copy. It's a wonderful game.

  • @splatcave3145
    @splatcave3145 Рік тому

    You were very, very, very lucky 😂😂😂

  • @diddlydork5182
    @diddlydork5182 3 роки тому +2

    Looks like hero quest mixed in with castle ravenloft. I like both so that's a good thing 🤣

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +2

      I always felt like the D&D board games drew a little inspiration from DungeonQuest. The way you have to keep pressing forwards, laying out tiles based on the direction of the arrows, and then having encounters based on the colour of the arrows. Of course, the D&D games have a lot more monsters in them! I'm not sure where all the bad guys were on this playthrough. Drakon is another game that I felt lifted heavily from DungeonQuest, although that was much more confrontational.

  • @rlbink2498
    @rlbink2498 2 роки тому

    Just played this with my two teenaged daughters after it lived in my dragon’s hoard since the deep 80s. Absolutely hilarious, highly recommended. My daughter is a Harry Styles/One Direction fan so Harry “played” as fourth and we took turns rolling for him on his turn. Long story short, the dice conspired and Msieur Styles our “dummy fourth” nearly won the damn game by being first to reach the dragon’s hoard at the centre of the board. 🤣

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      It's a great game. You just can't play it expecting to win... or even expecting to survive. An untimely death should be considered its own reward.

  • @jeffcaird6801
    @jeffcaird6801 3 роки тому

    Oh, you evil man ... now you have me searching eBay again.
    I have a video suggestion/request for your 4K subscriber milestone. I really enjoyed your Warhammer Quest retrospective. How about a video that does some comparison of these various older dungeon crawl games, maybe with comparison to modern counterparts? HeroQuest, DungeonQuest, the various WHQ, maybe even a D&D adventure game. Looks at what mechanics you like and don’t, what works well thematically, how they play in practice and how they make you feel.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      That's a really interesting idea. I'll have a bit of a think about it. Thanks.

    • @glenndean6
      @glenndean6 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Oh, that's a brilliant suggestion. I've been on a dungeon crawler tear lately (tracked down WHQ:ST and WHQ:SoH this fall, backed the new HeroQuest and Bardsung for next year and the year after, and just bought Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion) so I have a mix of things, and really wonder what has the best balance of combat, exploration, and interaction. No D&D adventure games in my collection, oddly, though I have a massive amount of D&D stuff going back to the white box and I've always defined myself as a "D&D player".
      I like rolling dice so Gloomhaven will be an adjustment, and I wonder if the repeated combat puzzles will just get old. Silver Tower has been fun for the variety, plus I really like the dice-action mechanic.
      Also will echo the other poster's point about your WHQ retrospective -- it's probably one of the top three things I've watched on UA-cam this year (with the Bard's "Why HeroQuest is so great" :) ) and your coverage probably pushed me into the two WHQ purchases this year. No regrets there -- I'm one coat of matte varnish from completion of painting my Hammerhal figures and even have a box of skaven enroute to probide some more enemies to go with the Chaos Adversary cards.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      @@glenndean6 That's incredibly generous praise. Thank you so much. I'll have to ponder this idea and think how best to drill into the subject.

  • @phildevey6302
    @phildevey6302 3 роки тому +1

    Great video, I love this game, and am lucky enough to have the same original version and two expansions (Catacombs and Heroes of DungeonQuest). You were really fortunate with the room cards, I think there are 34 empty rooms out of 84 cards (40.5%), so your string of empty rooms was amazing. I also think you were lucky overall, because of the tiles that came out, the bad cards, not waking the dragon, it was pretty good all round. I have died on the first few tiles so many times, or been trapped in dead ends and unable to move forward, but that is the whole point of the game, as you said. Please do some more episodes of DungeonQuest - you could control multiple characters next time for a bit of a change.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks for watching. This playthrough certainly didn't showed how hilariously mean the game can be. I'm thinking of doing another solo playthrough over the next few weeks with the ranger, to show off his bow mechanism, and also to hopefully show a bit more of the dangers the game can throw at you.

    • @phildevey6302
      @phildevey6302 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring - I would definitely watch some more if you do them. You did well to get a near mint copy of the game after all these years.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Thanks for the feedback; I'll see what I can do. The copy I got is surprisingly excellent condition. The cards and tokens seem hardly used, the paint job on the miniatures is really nice, and it's complete. The only real issues are some very minor scuffs on the surface of one board, dishing to the box lid, and a bit of staple rusting in the rules book.

    • @phildevey6302
      @phildevey6302 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring - Very nice. You did well there, or rather your wife did well! Do you plan to get the Catacombs and Heroes expansions? I must admit that I rarely use Catacombs, it seems very fiddly and doesn't add that much to the game. The extra heroes do give a bit of variety, and some have their own rules.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      @@phildevey6302 I don't like the catacombs expansion, so I don't really have any intentions of hunting it down. If I ever find the heroes at a "good" price I'll pick them up (although I could just proxy them) as the variety is nice and there are some interesting characters like the elf with the dragon familiar, but I do feel like DungeonQuest really is a complete and compact little game out of the box and you can enjoy it forever without the expansion content.

  • @glenndean6
    @glenndean6 3 роки тому +1

    New one to me -- seems very Rogue-like (if anyone remembers that ASCII computer game in which it seemed like most outcomes were "die horribly"). Bet it's fun with a group, and beer.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      Yeah, it's basically a random dungeon generator that wants to kill you. It's the perfect beer and pretzels game really, as you don't have to really think about it too much, and it's just stupid fun to watch people dying.

  • @haazz6979
    @haazz6979 Рік тому

    You got lucky man. And with a couple sacks of gold!

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      Yeah, I was very lucky here. This is definitely not a "normal" game of DungeonQuest, although the joy of the game is never knowing what could happen. I played only recently and my adventurer got slowly beaten to death by drawing a combat in every single room he entered. It was brutal to see! There are other playthroughs on the channel where I don't have such an easy time.

    • @haazz6979
      @haazz6979 Рік тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I have loved this game for decades. Fastest game ever, 1st tile, Cave In, instant death. Lol

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      That's the way to play DungeonQuest! I have had a first-room death before, but mine was by bottomless pit (of course I was playing the knight!).

  • @joevespaziani
    @joevespaziani Рік тому

    What do the yellow arrows mean when you draw a tile?
    Nice vid : )

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому +1

      The arrows indicate which way you are entering the room from, and each arrow colour indicates the type of room you are entering. Yellow arrows indicate corridors you can move through quickly, effectively letting you immediately explore the next room.

  • @portland573
    @portland573 2 години тому

    I daren't let my kids (currently 10 and 12) play this yet, in case it puts them off boardgames forever 😂

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Хвилина тому

      Let them at it. It's the best game ever. Just make sure they know the aim is not to win, but to fail gloriously.

  • @Ben_Mdws
    @Ben_Mdws 3 роки тому

    I admit, not seen this game before and it looks good fun.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      I really enjoy it. It's not for every games night, certainly not for every player, but it really does make for unforgettable moments around the table.

    • @Ben_Mdws
      @Ben_Mdws 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I assume it’s out of print now?

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      @@Ben_Mdws This edition is from 1987. It was remade by Fantasy Flight Games, but since FFG and Games Workshop went their separate ways a few years back that version is out of print too. I don't know if Games Workshop is going to let another company print it at some point.

    • @Ben_Mdws
      @Ben_Mdws 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring thank you (and sorry to ask something I should really have looked up myself on Google!)

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      @@Ben_Mdws No worries. I'm happy to help when I can.

  • @farpointgamingdirect
    @farpointgamingdirect Рік тому

    Back when GW actually made GAMES! This and Chainsaw Warrior are favorites!

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому +1

      I'm a huge fan of vintage GW titles, but I also think GW have made some excellent games in recent years. I have a cupboard full of them. The new Warhammer Quest games are really good, and I enjoyed the first wave of Underworlds. Standalone titles like Betrayal at Calth and Deathwatch Overkill are good, and I love their bookshelf game series, which has stuff like Blitz Bowl and Space Marine Adventures and are more accessible to a mass audience like DungeonQuest was.

    • @farpointgamingdirect
      @farpointgamingdirect Рік тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I still have my original Warhammer Quest; I never did anything with it because my buddy had it as well so we always played with his copy.

  • @WisestMongoloid
    @WisestMongoloid Рік тому

    For playthroughs like this, I would like the edit to not edit out the pull of the card or tile, just to keep away any doubts.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому +2

      Not sure what doubts you mean. If I wanted to fake the card pulls I could just stack the deck so it doesn’t matter if you see me pull the card or not. I always present the game as it happens (why in my right mind would I, on purpose, rig a playthrough where most of the rooms are empty?). If you want to see bad things happen check out the DungeonQuest playthrough I did with Rildo, or the Space Crusade playthrough with the ultramarines, which is a hilarious disaster.

  • @grimlund
    @grimlund 2 роки тому

    I have the original of this board game. The game called "Drakborgen" from Sweden.
    I have thoughts of doing a play through on that game.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      Nice. I saw they kickstarted a new edition of Drakborgen last year as well. Did you back it?

    • @grimlund
      @grimlund 2 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring No. I didnt actually. But I got hold of both the original version and the expansion version up here in Sweden. There were two versions of this game. The first one came out in 1985 and the expansion in 1987.
      The ones that I bought was in nearly mint condition. Very weird for a board game that is allmost 40 years old.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      @@grimlund That's a really nice find.

  • @godofzombi
    @godofzombi 2 роки тому +1

    I like how bleak this dungeon turned out.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      Every time you play this game, you get a unique little story. The dungeons always seem to have their own narrative in mind.

  • @marksdicetales
    @marksdicetales 3 роки тому

    Howd you rate it compared to say talisman seem similar.. Well outdoor vs dungeon i guess

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      I would say it's very different. I enjoy Talisman, but I think DungeonQuest is significantly better. It's quicker to play (everyone can die in minutes), much funnier, and creates more interesting situations with the way that tiles and cards interact. DungeonQuest can be payed with up to four players, but you can also play solo, and it has a fun rock-paper-scissors combat system which is more interesting than straight dice rolling. Once you add in the Catacombs and Heroes expansions it gets even better as there's a lot more going on. I play DungeonQuest all the time, but Talisman is something I only roll out occasionally.

  • @imTakitos
    @imTakitos Місяць тому

    why the mini cut every time before u take empy card?

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Місяць тому

      There are lots of reasons why I might do cuts in my videos. I cut dead air, like when I am thinking through my choices or checking a rule. I cut the "movement" of pieces so they phase from space to space. Sometimes I will repeat a line because I fumble what I'm saying. Sometimes I pause the video to drink some water because the narration is making my throat sore. Sometimes I cut to reposition the camera, or to take a break because I am filming around real life. What you eventually see in the video is a considerably truncated version of the shoot, but every single dice roll, move, and card pull is left intact, you only lose the stuff that would drag the pace and make the video boring to watch.

  • @mcashed
    @mcashed 3 роки тому

    The only way to succeed at this game is to be lucky enough to avoid all possible danger.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      It's an exceptionally deadly game. Memorising card decks, minimising the risks you take, and taking the best ring for your character help a little, but I've been lucky in the playthroughs on the channel, so far.

  • @shawnfairbanks9339
    @shawnfairbanks9339 2 роки тому

    Somehow you managed to take the shortest path to the treasure, and a straight shot back, with virtually every single room being empty, yet you still barely made it with 0 turns to spare… it almost doesn’t make sense

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      A few corridors always helps to beat the clock, or being able to hop onto another player’s route out, or entering the catacombs when using the expansion. This was a very weird game, which was one of the reasons I posted it. There are some other playthroughs on the channel where there’s a lot more going on.

    • @shawnfairbanks9339
      @shawnfairbanks9339 2 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring yeah I hear you… I just got the game last week (the FFG version). Good fun, we had the most insane first run 😂

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      It's a crazy game. I'm much more used to the dungeon beating me to death than what happened in this particular playthrough!

  • @ndstone
    @ndstone 9 місяців тому

    You have to shuffle the deck if told to.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  9 місяців тому

      Correct. Like if you pull a reshuffle the deck card everything goes back into that deck.

  • @blackraptor311
    @blackraptor311 3 роки тому

    There is a game called Drakkon which is almost like this game. Choose a character and draw tiles to collect gold from wandering dragon.
    boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171630/drakon-fourth-edition
    However, this has the old school charm to it. You have a wonderful wife for giving you this.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      I used to have Drakon, and actually reviewed it on my blog a very long time ago. www.alwaysboardneverboring.com/2015/02/drakon-third-edition.html
      I definitely felt like Drakon was drawing some inspiration from DungeonQuest, but it was obviously a much more confrontational game.

    • @blackraptor311
      @blackraptor311 3 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Oh that's to be expected, otherwise it would be the exact same game.

  • @jonathagrangeiro9392
    @jonathagrangeiro9392 8 місяців тому

    Comprei a segunda edição faz dois anos, nunca consegui jogar. Eu fiz a tradução do jogo para o português, mas as regras são muito confusas. Não dá pra entender quando move o sol, quando move o personagem, quando atacar... Acho que somente alguém que já tenha jogado pra me ensinar. Se eu tivesse um amigo americano eu já teria aprendido.

  • @leanderquest
    @leanderquest 11 місяців тому

    You can...continue on your merry way? I guess the English version is merry as the German version is even more brutal.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  11 місяців тому

      I wouldn't know the German. It just means to carry on, often without change in your approach to something.

    • @leanderquest
      @leanderquest 11 місяців тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I know. It was a joke because the dungeon is not merry. :D

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  11 місяців тому +1

      @@leanderquest Oh, I completely missed your point. I thought something had been lost in translation! This playthrough actually was surprisingly merry for a change. Definitely the nicest the dungeon has ever been to me!

  • @johnmiddleton4291
    @johnmiddleton4291 3 роки тому

    Nice playing. You need to practice your shuffling it seems. I like adding the extra heroes in but the Catacombs expansion ends to mess things up more often than not. Pretty much the same story with most GW expansions, though in this case it's not really their fault since all they did is translate and redraw the game rather than design it.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому +1

      I was very lucky with the pulls. There are actually more empty rooms in the deck than I remember, but it's funny that despite my good luck, if all the traps I encountered had done maximum damage they would have killed me (or the cave-in could have killed me instantly). The game really can give you a false sense of security and then hit you for six out of nowhere.
      I played with the catacombs expansion as a kid and didn't enjoy it, and looking into it as an adult I can see why. I'm not planning on hunting it down. I've never used any of the extra heroes, but the cards are available online so I could always proxy them to give them a go. More options for characters is never a bad thing.

    • @johnmiddleton4291
      @johnmiddleton4291 3 роки тому

      There's some chatter about a new Hachette 40k sub called Imperium. Looks to be a new Conquest type thing. No info about armies or anything really yet, but likely primaris and necron.
      Also GW spilled more info about the Old World and a total of about 12 people seem to care on every forum I've seen.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      @@johnmiddleton4291 Interesting. Last I heard about the Old World was the post about Bretonnia, but I admit I'm only keeping half an eye on GW at the moment until they post something that really gets me interested. Thought that would have made a lot of people happy though, as it's a faction they can't play in AoS. I haven't heard anything about a new partworks. I'll keep an eye out to make an announcement on the channel, but I think I can safely pass on anything like that until such time as they roll out something for Middle Earth. The Star Wars Legion and Middle Earth card game partworks never seemed to go into full production. I thought the Star Wars one might have landed.

    • @johnmiddleton4291
      @johnmiddleton4291 3 роки тому

      Old World is shaping up to be a human centric warbandish game with 13 Brettonian factions and about 10 Empire with a scattering of other races. Something like 4-5 units and a few heroes. Sylvania looks to be still part of the Empire on their maps.
      The timeline hints are pretty screwy. Everything points to something pre-Magnus the Pious and around the time of the Vampire Wars, but the Brettonian stuff seems misplaced. It's before the false grail and fall of Mousillon though. It also appears to be pre College of Magic.
      People seem concerned that it will be a plastic box of generic Empire troops with a resin set from Forgeworld to customize the factions like Necromunda.
      The biggest issue people have is that GW will absolutely nail your for model cost and that many are not willing to jump back into that.
      I've said it before, but no one I ever played with ever did Brettonian. I have no idea where this fetish for them comes from. Same with Tomb Kings.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  3 роки тому

      @@johnmiddleton4291 When I was a kid I always loved the look of a Bret army, but didn't want to paint all the heraldry and liked ranged units too much to ever collect knights. When I dipped my toe back into the water, I picked up a starter box for Brets, painted all the peasants (you see them pop up in my D&D videos sometimes), and then painted a few knights before basically deciding I still didn't want to paint heraldry. I always loved the idea of the army though.

  • @stethespaniard2
    @stethespaniard2 Рік тому +1

    It bothers me how much you bend the cards when drawing

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  Рік тому

      It shouldn’t. The cards for this game are incredibly flexible. They are the old, super thin punch out kind.

  • @pessoa.2546
    @pessoa.2546 2 роки тому

    Eu tenho a versão revisada, este parece que é a primeira versão. A partida não foi boa porque teve muitas cartas de sala vazia. Teria sido melhor se tivessem aparecido mais cartas de armadilhas ou combates. Resumo do jogo: a ida e a volta foram fáceis, apesar do sol quase sumir antes que o aventureiro saísse da masmorra.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      This is the original Games Workshop version, not the version from Fantasy Flight Games which came out many years later. The cards were kind to me in this game - the dungeon wasn't very active - but that can happen and it's unfortunate that it happened on the game I was recording. I have since recorded more playthroughs, which have a lot more going on in them. It's just the luck of the cards.

    • @pessoa.2546
      @pessoa.2546 2 роки тому

      @@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring ok. Quando eu for jogar, eu vou diminuir o número de cartas de salas vazias que existem no jogo. Será apenas um teste, se não atrapalhar continuarei jogando assim. Porque muitas salas vazias, você somente anda e nada acontece. Acho que você poderia tentar também.

    • @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring
      @AlwaysBoardNeverBoring  2 роки тому

      To clarify, I had incredible good luck. There are already more deadly rooms than nice rooms. The game is brutal and I've never felt the need to reduce the number of empty room cards, because death happens so frequently anyway. Also, keep in mind that I was playing with just one character. With three or four players all pulling from the same room deck and tile bag, all the nasty stuff tends to come out of the deck at a rapid pace. Still, there's no harm in removing some of the cards if you want to give it a go. Expect more hilarity and even more deaths!

  • @puppethound
    @puppethound 2 роки тому +1

    5 mins of just talking, video actually starts here 5:00