Hello eveybody and welcome back to Geek Robot d'Acciaio channel
Today we are here with a friend of mine, Sofia. Say Hello Sofia. Hello!
not to show you a game but to play it together
Dungeonology The Expedition
as you know and if you don't know please
check our previous video on this board game
The history of this game is about Rocca Civetta, the magic university
and about is dead Dungeonology professor
and you could be the perfect successor
to become the new professor
but you are not the only one
so you need to eneter the dungeon
and collect informations
so take information cubes
about the inhabitants
but the inhabitants
will not be so happy to see you
a stranger enter in their home
so they will attack you!
.....but the theme song?
 
 
 
 
 
 
the first thing to do to start play
is choose our character
I will be Sofia, the scum
and you Sofia?
I will be Rebecca, the apprentice
every character card has a normal face and a powerful one
the powerful version will be active
when another player gather more stars than ours
the camping is the starting tile of the game and there we will be protected
do you feel protected?
yes, a lot
every character has different abilities
who is more agile and who is more intelligent
who starts with more cards
and who starts with more students
every character has different special abilities too
for example mine is great at steal information cubes
while her character is great at study
TA DA DAAAANNN
At the first turn the first player start with only a card
while the second player start with two cards
Is it ok for you if I start?
yes!
PUFF!
we take the cards
I start with only two students
I start with three students instead
So I have more of them to sacrifice
the character card show the movement points too
mine for example can move up to four steps
instead mine just three steps
my character is more agile because she is a thief
i decide to move outside the camping
and so I reveal a new dungeon tile level I
and move!
on every tile of the dungeon that we will reveal
will be shown some automatic effects
that will be effective as soon as we reveal the tile
in this tile for example
when you step in you loose a student, so I return it to university
here we need to put
two red information cubes
and the alert score of this tile is two
what the red cubes mean?
into the dungeon we will discover different information cubes with different colors
for example the red cubes give us military informations
how much points are the cubes worth?
every colored cube has a different value in points
for example the red one worth three points
the green cubes only two
the blue ones four
the yellow cubes five points
and the purple ones six points, because are the most precious and rare
At the start of the game we need
to refill the university bag with a certain students amount
in this intro game we need ten grey
and one red
As soon as I enter the tile I try to collect the information cubes
to collect the information cubes
the first thing to do is check the zone allert value, in this case is a two
and then check the bonus, in this case we don't have any bonus yet
to collect the first information cube
the stealth value, that we can find on the card played
will need to be equal or greater than the zone allert value
Is it possibile to collect more than a single cube with a single action?
Can I collect all two of them?
Yes, you can do it but the zone allert value change
if I decide to take both the information cubes in this zone
the zone allert value
will be two plus one
I choose to play a card with a stealth value of three to try to collect both the information cubes
I can't play versus
because I'm still into the camp
So I collect the information cubes and I place them on my hero sheet
naturally we place them into the red column starting from below
When my turn ends I need to refresh my hand with new cards
up to the number shown on my character card
so now that I played my only one card I will draw five cards
because five is the value for my character
Now is my turn!
Now I explore the dungeon, I draw a tile and I place it near me
No you can't place it there because there are no entrances and exits that match
entrances and exit need to match so you can move from a tile to another one
Can be a good solution like this for you?
Yes!
Now I enter the tile
Gaia please I need a green cube, a red cube and a blue cube
green, red and blue
I can continue to explore or stop in this zone
I don't wat to stay too much near a thief so
I continue to move
I move again in a new tile and I need three green cube
The effect on this tile are "the stairs" and "the secret passage"
with the stairs we can change the dungeon level
and so try to explore a more deep dungeon level
I need a green cube, a red cube and a yellow cube
ok, do you want to place them on tile?
We finally find the first yellow cube
I cna't move inside this zone beacause here is a red door
and we can move inside only we have collected a red cube
and do you have a red cube?
No
I have two of them
The red sign on the tile means that I activated the dungeon boss
DA - DA - DA - DAAAANNN
Every boss card has two versions, one serious and one funny
at the start of the play we need to choose which one to play
and which one are we playing?
naturally with the funny version, the drunken faun
this specific boss random acts every time that interact with the players
when the boss is activated for the first time he doesn't interact
but only for the next turns
I choose to study in this tile to collect the green information cubes
Attention! There is the boss in your tile!
The boss presence increases the difficulty
adding two to the zone allert value
so the total zone allert value is no more two but four
but I'm brave so I will try to collect a green cube
I play a card with a stealth value of three and I need a toal value of four to success
After that the scholar played her card(s)
the other players have a turn to decide to play versus
after that all the other scholars played or not one or more cards to play versus
the active scholar has a last turn to increase his stealth value
I very kindly decide to give him trouble
I play this card that increase the zone allert value by one so now it is three
and so adding the boss malus the final value is now five
Do you will success in your study action?
Yes, because I play this card with the divination power
I draw two cards from the cards pile
I take the one with the highest value
and I add it to my stealth value
I draw these two cards and I was really lucky
I find a fatue card that give me a great bonus: four!
so my total is now seven
I studied!
but now the situation is serious because there is the boss!
He will run after us into the dungeon!
I have finished my turn too so I need to draw cards
It's again my turn and I decide to move
Can you please pass me the tile?
Thanks! And I place it......here!
I move and we can see together the effects
the first effect tell me that if I fail into a study action I need to draw two students from the university bag
It's not a good thing
The second effect is a positive one
It's a divination effect, like the card that Sofia used the previous turn
All the effects that we find into the dungeon if are in red numbers are negative and if are in blue numbers are positive
the cubes inside this tile are a green one and a blue one
and the zone allert value is three and this tile doesn't active the boss
I wanna try to take both the information cubes so I will need a four
So I choose to play these two cards that give me a stealth value of four
Do you wanna play versus me?
Yes!
I use the secondary effect of this card
I give you a malus of four  but I need to draw two students from the university bag
I hope that....
bad luck....bad luck.....bad luck
RED!!!!!
Noooooo!!!
I was unlucky because I draw a red evil student
and so I need to draw a bad luck card
It will be active at the end of the turn
So the new total that I must beat is three for the tile, plus one because I want to collect two cubes and plus four for the card that Sofia played versus me
Will I manage to do eight?
now I play this card that give me a bonus of three
and then there is the tile divination effect
that give me a bonus of one
So the my total is now eight and I success
and I collect both cubes
I ended my turn and I draw new cards
up to five
It's your turn
The students draw by Sofia go to a special area
the red one especially go on this card to raise up the alert level of all the dungeon
but for the first one is zero
Oh no, I got a cold as bad luck card!
ACHOO!!!
God bless you!
Thank you!
The unlucky card rise up the zone alert level by one
So it will be more difficult to collect information
To enter into the near tile
I need to collect a red cube
so I try to collect it into the previous tile
The red cube is the second one so it will be a little more difficult to collect it
The final alert value is: three for the tile
plus one to collect the second information cube
and another one because you have a cold
ACHOO!!!
so....five!
I play these two cards
and their total stealth value is five
Do you wanna play versus me?
Oobviously yes!
This card give you a malus of two but I need to draw one student from the university bag
AH! We forgot to setup the university bag when you draw out the red student
The number of the students to put inside the university bag
is listed on the card where we put the red student
we need to put inside six grey students and one red
six grey
Thank you!
and a last one red
I would be happier without it
I draw out one student!
red....red....red...
and the color is........grey!
Noooooooooo
Look at him!!!
So now the alert value is seven
I use again the divination power
I use this card that a divination power of three
so I draw the first three cards
and then I can use the most powerful one
one.....two.....three....
and the value is........?
THREE!!! I success!!!
so now my stealth value is eight
a value more than good to collect the two cubes
now I take them
and I put them on my board
so now you have two green cubes too
correct!
I discard the used cards and I draw new ones
wow you used a lot of them in this turn
one....two....three.....four....
it's my turn
I move again
so I take a new tile
that NATURALLY active the boss
in this tile we have two green cubes and a red one
the zone alert value is two
and we have some stairs too
when we find the stairs we put immediately a new tile near the one explored but of the next level dungeon
and now we need to active the boss too
to discover where the boss move inside the dungeon
we use the random cards deck
we draw a card from this deck
and we discover the boss movement direction
Purple!
The boss move three steps in my direction because the purple is the color on my board
but during his movement meet another player, Sofia, so he stop here
now we check the boss action
Green
The green color means that the student take a stunned token
so Rebecca...
.....take a token
(italian words joke)
I decide to move again
and collect the information cubes
inside this new tile
in this tile the alert value is four
and we need to draw out two students from the university bag
if the study action fails
I wanna collect the first two information cubes
so the alert value is four plus one....five
at the moment...!!!!
I check my cards
I play these two cards for a total of five
Do you wanna play versus me?
No!
ok, so I take the first two information cubes
and I can active  one bonus thanks to the red ones
and I have now a bonus for the zone alert value
now is your turn
I discard the used cards and I draw the new ones
I move in this tile
entering the tile I active the boss because of the red symbol
I draw a card from the random cards deck and we check the boss movement direction
yellow
we continue to draw
yellow again
try again
purple
so the boss move three steps in my direction
one...two...three
I have the red cubes and so I can finally enter the next tile
now I study in this tile
I wanna try to collect ALL the cubes in this zone
the alert value is:
two for the tile
and three for the information cubes
I play these cards that give me a stealth value of five
and you what do you do?
I play a malus of four for you
but to activate the malus I need to draw two students from the university bag
ok.....and I find....an evil red student
the grey student go in the camp and the red one on the card
and the red student rise up the alert value of the dungeon by one
the final alert value is now: two for the tile plus three to collect all the cubes
plus one for the cold plus four for my card and one for the last red student drawn
for a total of......eleven
Can you do it now?
Unfortunately I have no cards to play
Rebecca fails the study action and so she take another stunned token
Damn....
...but the game is so good
I draw my new cards and pass the turn
Ops! I almost forgot, I find the red student
so I need to take an unlucky card too
this particular card negate to me the possibility to use my special abilities
I study in this tile to collect both the cubes
the base zone alert value is four
plus one for the second cube
but I have a bonus (-1)
so the value is again four
No, wait! the dungeon alert value have a malus of one because you draw the red student
then the total is not four but five
but using these cards I arrive at five.
Do you play versus me?
Yes!!!
I give you a malus of two but I need to draw a student from the university bag
with the second red student we prepared again the university bag
we used six grey student and one red student
Can you help me?
The final alert value is now five
plus two for the Sofia's card, so seven
I play this card that give me a bonus of two
and so I success
I collect the cubes and I place them on my board
with red cubes I reach a star
when a player have more stars than the others
the other players can use their powered up version
it is so beautiful be powerful!
I can now discard my magic cards to directly collect the information cubes
with blue cubes I've reached another bonus
and now my modifier is now two
I draw my cards and pass the turn
ok, now is my turn and with my new powers
I can play my magic cards to collect the cubes in this tile
so I discard this card and I take all of them
in this case Gaia can't play versus me
because I don't perform a study action or a stealth test
but my turn is not ended so
with this card I can take an Intern
I discard this card and I search for the bard card
it was the first one
the Interns are really usefull
in fact they give bonus to players
or protect our information cubes
the bard intern for example defend our purple cubes
but you don't have any of them
like me
I end my turn and I pass to you
I decide to explore for new cubes
In this tile we have one green cube, two blue cubes and one yellow cube
and the alert level is four
entering this tile I sacrifice one student of mine
I need to try to collect another blue cube
so to reach two stars
Why? What happen wwhen you reach two stars?
with two stars you can achieve the thesis
what is the thesis?
the thesis is a special card that is random chosen at the start of the play
the players don't know this card
but what is its meaning?
the thesis card give some important bonus and hide modifiers
every information cubes could value more or less than its normal value
achieve the thesis give a special bonus too
How much?
ten for the first one, seven for the second and so on
but achieve the thesis is not automatic
and how can I give the thesis?
you need to achieve equal or more specific score
but the specific score is secret too
and is there no way to discover it?
you can peek the thesis card
but how?
every player has a specific color cubes combination that give him the possibility to peek the thesis cards
I need two blue cubes and a purple one for example
but I don't have a purple cube so i can't peek the thesis card
I need two green cubes and a red one so I can peek the thesis card
and it is what I will do at my turn
be able to peek the thesis card is a great bonus
because so you can know the score to reach to give the thesis
if you fail to give the thesis you have a big malus
and so peek the thesis card is important
returning at my turn, I need to study this blue cube
the base alert value in this tile is four plus one to collect the blue cube
so we have a five
plus one for the second red student
so we have a six to beat
......and I play four plus two, six
do you wanna plya versus me?
no
ok
so I can take my cubes
and I finally reach two stars
the scholar Rebecca is in her powerful mode yet, so she gain no more bonus
the thesis can be given only at the start of the turn
so I need to wait the next turn
but always with the unknown of not having been able to peek
I draw the new cards and pass to Sofia
now I will do what you can't: peek the thesis card
please, can you pass the thesis card to me?
without looking at it!!!!
Gaia close your eyes and clasp your ears
we need to reach a score of 25
don't tell her!!!
and the green and blue are more valuable
while the red and yellow ones are less valuable
Ok, I have done
what?
OK, I HAVE DONE!
please place back the card without looking at it
I explore and take another tile
I place it here
in this tile we have some stairs that connect to the 3rd dungeon level
so we take a new tile and place it immediately
the other effect stop my movement
which information cubes you need to place?
two green cubes and two yellow ones
no, I mean in the first one
two green, one blue and one purple cube
instead in the second tile
two green and two yellow
ok
and both don't active the boss
I use again my special power
I play this magic card
and I collect three cubes in one shot!
without giving to Gaia the possibility to play versus me
and so you collected your first star too
and I reached another bonus too that give me a stealth bonus of one
I ended my turn
I discard my used cards
and it is Gaia's turn while I draw new cards
I can't peek the thesis card
but I try to give the thesis the same
I place my scholar into the camp starting tile
and I declare to give the thesis
I look at the thesis card and check if I the right prerequisites
as said to give the thesis we need to reach a specific score, for this card is 25
but for the total you need to consider the modifiers too
we now check all together my score
now is your time to close your ears
the score needs to be a secret until the end
I have six for the green cubes
twelve for the red cubes
and twelve for the blue cubes as well
so I have a total of 30
but I need now to check the modifiers
I have +1 for the green cubes, so +3 and 33 as total
-1 for every red cube, so go down to 29
+1 for every blue cube, so rise up to 32
but I have an unlucky card too that give me a malus of two, so my final score at the moment is 30
30 is mor ethan 25 so I success in giving the thesis
I place back the thesis card,
though Sofia know about it already
you can put down those hands!!!!
when the first scholar give the thesis, start the panic phase
the secret panic card become active
we look at it
darkness
we need to setup again the university bag
these were yours
we need two for every scholars, so four for us
and only one red evil student
this is the new university bag and we have some special rules too
at the start of every turn you need to random choose a color
and you will remove all the information cubes of that specific color
and it will be really dungerous be alone in the dungeon
Why? What happen to me if I am alone?
if you are alone at the start of your turn you loose one of your cubes
Noooooo, my information cubes nooo!!!!
the darkness steals them from you
I draw a card from the random cards deck
so we will know which cubes remove into the dungeon
the color is yellow
so we will remove all the yellow cubes into the dungeon
there are two in front of you
and one here
now is my turn
I'm alone so I draw another card from this deck to discover which cube I will loose for the darkness
I need to remove a red cube
thank you
now I start to play this turn
I move three steps to reach the exit
but entering this tile I active the boss
the boss move up to three steps
draw a card and we can see in which direction
I draw a card
purple!
so he move in my direction
one.....two....three...
but I'm into the starting tile so I'm immune to every effect or attack
correct!
I continue my movement and I try to study
the zone alert value is three
plus one for the evil student, four
so you need a four
oh no, you have still a cold so you need a five
I play these two cards
one plus four, five
I would like to play versus you but in the starting tile you are immune to attacks but can't play versus other players too
I study and I place this blue cube on my board
and with that you have another bonus too to your stealth score
I ended my turn
discard the used cards and draw the new ones
I gave the thesis so I need only to check which cubes remove into the dungeon
Can you give me a card please?
Here it is
green! so we remove all the green cubes
they are the most ones
the play ends immediately if there are no more cubes into the dungeon
Sofiam, it's your turn
we check again which cubes remove into the dungeon
we need to remove the purple ones
there is only one
at this point I exit to try to give the thesis too
Gaia is exited already
we can check the thesis card all together
and we check my final score too
and now arrive the thesis card!
your score is ten.....thre.....twenty-one
twenty-six, your score is now 26
but now we check the modifiers
the green cubes worth one more point so...
....from 26...
...one...two....three....four...five...
....you have 31
this one point less, 30
32
32 less 2, you have 30
your score is 30 and so Sofia success to give the thesis
usually the Intern cards and the unlucky cards give bonus and malus to the final score
but in this case they give Sofia no bonus or malus
you are the second scholar that success to give the thesis
and so you will gain a bonus of seven at your final score
the game ends because al the scholars have given the thesis and exited the dungeon
the final scores are:
Sofia, 37! Yeeeehh!!!!
and my final score is instead 40!
good play but next time I will win!
and you win this one only because you choose the scholar with my name, Sofia!
we will see who will win the next one!
I bet....me
that you loose
I bet that I will win
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