Learn to Play: Dark Souls the Card Game
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2018
- In this video I will teach you how to play including: components, setup, enemy activation, player turn, and boss battle.
I will also give you my thoughts and opinions on the game, and would love to hear yours.
Game type: co-operative deck builder
Run time: 60-90 mins
Learning Curve: medium (few turns get the the basics)
Number of players: 1-4
Designers: David Carl
Publisher: Steamforged Games Ltd.
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@15:30 talking about spawning enemies... if there isn’t enough space in the row then you can place the enemy anywhere on the board.
Thank you so much. This was very helpful, instruction manuals are very confusing for me so seeing a video just like this helps!
Yeah I have noticed that manuals for games these days are not always clear. There are grammar issues in some games which makes it very confusing and hard to understand. How to play videos like these are the way to go as they're clear and faster than reading and trying to understand.
I'm half way through the first play and I love that game yet. Highly underrated. Thanks for the gelp
Your welcome. Thanks for watching and posting. Hope you have a great time with the game.
I just bought this game 2 days ago, this really helped me to understand the rules, since i just quickly read them over without thinking too much. Thanks for the guide!
Your welcome, I had a good time with this game but the rule book was rough. Thanks for watching and commenting;)
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This is the BEST video I’ve seen yet to learn how to play. Thank you! ✌️😎✌️
Thank you for posting and watching, always great to hear that my videos are help people learn to play their games.
Thank you! Great job explaining the game! This is so much easier trying to learn how to play the game then trying to read the instructions and figure it out.
Thanks, so happy to hear this video is helping, Let me know what you think of the game and what your favorite character is, and the monster you fear the most seeing come up? Have fun and stay safe;)
Your tutorial for Dark Souls board game was excellent and really helped me learn the game.
I'm not a Dark Soul video game fan at all but it's my favourite 'kill everything' dice chucker :)
I've been thinking about getting this too because it apparently plays faster and is also soloable.
I'll be watching this video and trying a copy with a friend to see which one I like more ☺
Thanks for the feedback and in my opinion the card game is very good and does play well solo. I will be covering some of the expansions for both games in the near future as well.
Really good demonstration, thanks!!
Thanks for watching and posting.
Very well done video. It was detailed, easy to follow and nicely presented. Thumbs up from me, keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment;)
@@LearntoPlayGames Least I can do!
Also, I explained the game to two players (one experienced, the other with almost no card or boardgame experience), for the first time. It worked great and I think it's because of your tutorial.
So, again: Thank you very much :)
Thanks for this, my wife and I recently got this game and routinely get our asses kicked. By the time we beat Vordt, the bonfire is usually at 4 and that leaves us with very little time to tackle the other boss. I was convinced we were doing something wrong.
I guess we just suck. Lol.
By the way, we've found the assassin feels slightly underpowered compared to the other three characters. We've houseruled that the assassin can move diagonally provided there isn't anyone in the space, given that they're supposed to be nimble.
Hey TalonSky thanks for commenting and you don't suck at the game it is challenging and suppose to be hard. Also thanks for posting your house rules it is cool seeing what people change and how it helps them play the game. I will have a video soon covering the expansion as well and it adds some cool new features.
I'm gonna implement this one for sure!
Also had the idea that, in case you want to play in easy mode, you could have 8 cards on your hand and/or have the amount of enemies downgraded like you would play with 1 player less, but keeping the amount of treasure the same.
I mean, no one will kill you if you come up with house rules to fit the game to your playing abilities. In my opinion it's always better to make a game easier and to play it on the regular and have fun than to leave it on the shelf.
Very helpful! Great tutorial!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and posting;)
Great tutorial! made learning the game very easy! Once again steamforged did a good job of capturing the essence of DS. I still really enjoy the board game but the card game was way easier to set up and clean up. Both provide a great experience
Thanks, I think the board game missed the mark on some of the rules but I really enjoyed the card game. Thanks for watching and posting stay safe;)
Thank you. Just got my copy of the game and the rule book gives me a headache. It's so cryptic. Your explanation is easy to follow and examples are spot on!
Thanks so much, It was a challenging rulebook;)
Thank you for making this video. My brother and I started the game for the first time and discovered how woefully inadequate the instructions are. We had no idea how many cards we were supposed to have in our hand and with a game that counts your cards as your life, it's kind of important!
Another thing you should consider for future videos: if a game wants you to have a "starter deck", explain what that means bc it may be different per game or the game might not explain it properly to begin with (as was the case with this game).
Thanks for watching it is great to hear my video helped. Ya the rule book was very rough on this one. Thanks for the suggestion as well I will look to add that in future videos;)
Excellent tutorial.
Thanks
Thank you for your time well explained. 😀👍
you are welcome , thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Hi, great video. Only started now enjoying card games and. Just one question. I understand we can do all of the mentioned actions 1 time. But do we need to make them in order? In the rule book it doesn't specify. Can i attack then move then use my heroic hability?
I don't think you mentioned that if you use a bonefire you remove all encounter cleared tokens except for cleared bosses and have to clear them again and that after clearing an encounter you keep your current hand for the start of the next encounter.
Nice intro. I skipped a few chunks, but you explained parts better than anyone else did! The rule book really is terribly thought out...
I think you didn’t spot you could have prevented damage by discard at one point instead of just discarding due to taking one point, but otherwise I think you did better than I managed.
Thanks for watching and for your feedback this was a challenging rule book and even though I try to get everything correct sometimes something slips through.
thanks for everything bro
Your welcome, thanks for watching and commenting.
Great tutorial, thank you! Two questions: couldn't you have moved the assassin 1 tile left and attack from the bottom row? (enemies have to be in the same row as you, you don't have to be right in front of them as long as there's an empty space in front of you as far as I know). And the other question: shouldn't you remove the frostbite off of the Herald after it has been activated and the damage has been done? I know that the boss has a startingg effect that each character in the front row gets frostbite, but that is in the boss's phase.
To your last part of your statement. I would believe the frostbite happens on the players turns. The way its worded "when a player character starts its turn in the front row. It suffers frostbite." So it sounds as though it happens on the players turn not the bosses phase.
As I understand, enemies have to be in the same column, so the assassin could have been moved to the left and attack. If he could only attack an enemy that is right in front of him you couldn't attack enemies in the back row unless you have a ranged weapon.
Darth Vadder Range only matters where line of site is blocked if yr in the same line. Otherwise it allows attacks in other columns. If this wasn’t the case there would be enemies the knight just couldn’t kill!
Hi there :o can you MIX 2 player's decks at bonfire... or only mix inventory cards/cards bought at stamania marker? Like can I take out assassin's staminia and add it into sorcerers? ...I imagine no lol
I don't remember seeing anything in Dark Souls called "The Deeps". Is it a misspelling of "The Depths" from DS1 or "Cathedral of the Deep" from DS3?
it is, it shuffles multiples souls ref
As I can't find the answer anywhere, does condition damage ignore armor? I.E. if I inflict poison or frostbite on an enemy, and the enemy has 1 armor and 1 health. Would it kill the enemy when the poison/frostbite does its damage? Or is it soaked by the armor?
Can you always redraw the whole hand after not having an attack (example: you use your attack after the first activation and then draw until you reach 6, but you only have stamina cards)
The Talisman can heal other characters too?! Wish I knew that on my first attempt :D
Can the other sets be played together with the original set or are they their own game
It’s a good game. Very difficult
I agree, still one of my top deck builders.
Since the rule book says all attacks happen at once, does that mean you can dodge multiple attacks with one response?
It does but it also shows the order that they are resolved in otherwise it would make things crazy hard. So each enemy attack will have to be resolved separately. This is also how I have seen demos run by Steam Forged at conventions. Hope this helps if not let me know and I will explain it differently. Thanks for the question and for watching.
@@LearntoPlayGames on the French rules, it is not indicated, but it seems logical to me, that each enemy attacks separately. Remember, you cannot use a reaction card to encompass the damage of multiple enemies that will target you.
so if the enemys attacks me can i use a quick attack that deals damage as an reaction to the enemys attack if i have the right amount of stamina and the weapon card? and if i am allowed to deal damage and the enemy gets destroid do i get the amount of damage the enemy deals?
or can i only use block and dodge actions when an enemy attacks me?
My understanding is that you are only about to use the block and dodge actions when enemies attack. Thanks for the question and for watching.
Those cards are so close to looking quite nice
True it seems they have some problems with art direction Resident Evil 2 has some of the same problems good games though.
23:15 could the assassins move behind his teammates to attack one the in the back, since his teammates defeated the one in front?
When Healing, is the order of placement of Cards important? If so, in what order are they placed?
Yes and no, in the rules it states you simply take a number of cards from target discard to the bottom of their deck face down so you don't get to choose the cards you are returning but if you are playing more hard core strategy you could be mindful of how you place cards in your discard pile so when you heal you will get better cards back. hope this helps thanks for watching and for the question.
If your healing is 5, you have to take the last 5 cards of your discard pile as they are, without shuffling them, you turn over this small deck of 5 cards, and you place it at the bottom of your deck, face down.
i got both games and i like them
That's great, Thanks for watching and posting;)
So much better than reading the rulebook.
Thanks so glad to hear my video helped you play the game;)
What if we have six cards in our hand at the end do we lose?
Hello, when we eliminate a boss, we get the indicated souls? (4 + 4 souls + 2 transposed treasures), OR we simply get what is indicated on one side only (4 souls + 1 transposed treasure) ?? thank you
What does reanimated mean
During the player attack phase, how does the shield value work if 2 characters attack the same monster, given that they do not ignore the shield value?
Does the shield deplete for the turn after the first attack or do you need to account for the shield on every attack?
As example: the monster has 4 shield and 1 health, your characters can both attack, one for 2 damage and one for 3 damage. Is the monster dead if neither of the attacks ignored the shield?
Thanks for watching and for the question. I play and remember it being explained to me by one of the Steamforged developers is that you will reduce each attack that does not bypass shields by that value so in your example both attacks would fail to wound that monster. It is critical to attack matching the monster's weakness. hope this clears it up for you.
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It's exactly that.
Wait, you can take more than one action per player turn as long as its a different action? 😮
That is correct there are a number of different actions you can do during your turn which are found on page 18 of the rule book;)
This game is pretty sweet. To bad no one I play with likes it. 🙃 lucky it plays solo.
Ya it has a good mix and is not too hard to manage playing solo. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Very good guide, but in my opinion there is so many bad explanations in guide it makes game confusing. When you play it in single player it´s good idea to play for 2 characters, because with 1 only game is so punishing i.e. each normal enemy hit yuo everytime and you can´t hit them from everywhere, so small amount of weapons with low damage even for knight no way... bosses can jump between attacks and push you to sides that you are not able to withstand that. In two players there is usually harder or extra enemy only and bosses (like vordt) has +1 health only and you can plan how to attack him... like the game but for single player it´s not very well balanced.
Or I´m doing something wrong, because lot of people writing game is soloable..... but if yuo look that vordt has10 life points min.... and basically yu have few weapons only.... even if you use 2 bonfires and get few better equipment you will loose. Played 3 games and everytime finished on vordt, once I was lucky and he was only 1 HP left..... :)
Can normal treasure pack be modified in same way as players pack? so you can choose what you want in them? if yes even solo will be playable probably but read rules twice and nothing about it...
Thanks for watching, I have never tried it with just one player even when playing solo I will use two characters. Not sure in the treasure deck being able to modify that.
@@LearntoPlayGames Hi, thanks for reply :). Yeah with two character in solo mode it will be playable...with just one character it´s real hardcore :) try that at least once....you can modified your main deck as well so there is possible to do the same with treasure deck... with one just one player it has no idea to getting only spells with knight :)
I found it easier to play solo. At 4 there is somehow 4 times more chance that a character will die. In terms of weaknesses, it is clear that it remains complicated, if you come across an enemy with an armor of 3 who has a weakness that you do not have, you have been unlucky. But overall, solo I find it easier I won 9 of my last games, but I prefer to play with 2 characters in terms of playing pleasure !!
1 to 4 players
I think the game is somewhat poorly designed, mainly in that life deck area.
All cards that go into your discard pile is basically damage. So if a monster is attacking you for 2 damage, and you spend 2 stamina to block it... you literally took 2 damage to prevent 2 damage.
Or even worse, when you spend the equipment+stamina to perform a dodge... you took 2 damage to dodge an attack, thus completely eliminating the purpose of a dodge.
Then when you attack, and you spend like 3 stamina to do 2 damage.. you just took 3 damage to deal 2 damage.
Not to mention how this completely misses the theme of the actual video game, where taking damage is something you want to avoid at all costs. But here, attacking, blocking, item usage, and even dodge rolling deals damage to you.
This is why we houseruled the game, where you get a smaller deck, BUT have two different discard piles... the 'used' and 'damage' discard pile. Cards that you use to attack, defend, pay costs go in the 'used' pile that when the deck runs out gets reshuffled to form a new draw deck, and whenever you take damage from monsters, you send those cards in the 'damage' pile. They cannot be retrieved normally, and require a usage of a healing item to get back. With a few more minor tweaks to keep the difficulty.
Thanks for sharing, I love seeing how others adapt their games and make house rules to enjoy them more. I would be interested in checking out your house rules and you are more than welcome to post them in the comments as well so others may check them out as well. Have you found the game to be as challenging with your house rules? Did you get the miniatures Dark Souls game as well and if so did you house rule that one?
@@LearntoPlayGames Well, the game was indeed a bit easier, but dodging and blocking felt more meaningful. There were some more rules thrown in to even out the difficulty, but yeah we did have a lot of fun with it.
boardgamegeek.com/thread/2063932/alternative-card-consumption
Seems like other people had the same idea :D
I understand what you mean, I created a PvP mode, and I realized that, you lose 3hp, to inflict 2 damage on the opposing character, I also reworked some details. On the other hand, for the exploration mode, I find it of little use to change the battle system, since the damage, the hp, are not proportional with ours, they are different damage, different lives. It is normal to lose strength in a fight for example. Our characters use their lives and their weapons to defeat dangerous adversaries.