Hi!
It's Ryan from Nights Around a
Table, and you're not going to believe
this,
but one of my backers on Patreon has
pulled through for me again,
and has sent me a game to play!
How wonderful! i gotta tell you: i have
the greatest Patreon backers on the
planet, and this game, The Taverns of
Tiefenthal,
comes to me, uh, courtesy of BigDeuce72
- AKA "Don" - who is a regular on the Discord
server, and if you want to meet some of
the nicest,
finest folks you'll ever have the
pleasure of running into, join me on the
Discord server.
They're there all the
time,
and now they're arranging games with
each other!
So if you want somebody to
play with online,
that's something they're regularly doing
in, like, a game scheduling channel.
You'll
be able to play with
BigDeuce72 - AKA "Don" - and all the rest.
Now, if you're following along,
you might recall that another of my
patrons, DMExplains sent me a couple
of games as well: Pulsar 2849, and Res Arcana,
which we adore.
And what's really cool about this is
that those folks like the channel,
i think, because they like what i'm doing,
and and maybe because we have similar
tastes in games?
It's always nice when
the host likes the same kind of stuff
you do.
So what's cool about this
is that this comes courtesy of Don, and
recommended by Don.
He's got this on his
own game table.
He plays it with his family, and he says
it's great!
And the super coolest thing
of all
is that when i was recently at the game
store, feeling a little bit like
Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory, having found a dollar, and ready
to spend it on a game -
one game - and really stewing over which
one i should get, this actually made the
short list! i was looking it up and down
thinking "Hmm!
That's a pretty good idea!"
But i went
with something else instead that i'll
talk to you about in another video.
However, isn't that cool that this is one
that i was already considering on my own?
The Taverns
of Tiefenthal which is, i'm assuming...
"Schmidt..." you know... all the clues are
coming together.
It might be German.
i don't want to alarm
anybody: this might be a German game.
Um... what do i know about it?
Uh... precious
little, except what
BigDeuce72 tells me.
Uh... it's a
game where you're managing a medieval
tavern,
and one of the reasons that i think it
made the short list but didn't quite
make
the even shorter list - the one game list
of the game i was going to buy - is
because
the theme... i get confused.
There are a
bunch of different games with the same
theme, and if you're not interested in
one, but another game has a similar theme,
you might overlook it.
So what's going on
in my head the entire time when i'm
looking at The Taverns of Tiefenthal
is The Red Dragon Inn, which is a game
that i've looked at a big pile of times.
There are a boatload of expansions, and
that's possibly one of the reasons why
it's kind of turning me off?
Because i don't really like games that
look like they were made to just
sell a million expansions.
So The Red
Dragon... i think it's called The Red
Dragon Inn?
Yeah... i'll throw up the graphic
in the corner...
uh... sort of is a similar theme to this
one, which is why this one i kind of went
"Nyeah... i don't know.
i don't know."
But - you
know - BigDeuce72 says it's awesome!
The other interesting thing here is it
says it includes four expansions,
and i haven't quite figured this out yet:
is this because... it's one of two things...
is this because the developer thought "Oh
crumbs - we've made the game
too complicated, so we should split out a
few of these
feature sets into modules so we don't
overwhelm new players when they crack
the thing open"?
Or is this just, like, a marketing thing
where they're trying to make the game
look more attractive?
It's like "Look!
You
don't even need to buy the expansions -
they're in there!"
So i asked, uh, BigDeuce72 about it, and he
said that those expansions aren't even
available separately.
They're... they're... you
know.
They come standard in the box.
Uh, so it could be the latter.
It could be
a marketing thing.
But let's
let's take a look!
Let's open it up! (utter, devastating silence)
Nary a box fart.
Friends...
can we talk about box farts just for a
moment?
If you watch
previous unboxing videos, you might be
tired of this plea already, but listen:
i'm making it
from the heart.
If i could afford to
license
In the Arms of the Angels by Sarah
McLachlan and have it playing and
slow pan across these board games, i
would, because here's the deal:
i have made repeated pleas for you.
If you have boxes that make dirty noises
when you open them,
i want to know about it.
i want you to
film that and send me the video - give me
permission to use it -
and i will put it in a most glorious box
fart compilation.
Please!
Give generously!
Let me... because
it'll make a pretty cool video.
Maybe.
i don't know.
i haven't made it yet, but
i'm sure it'll be... entertaining as all
heck.
Uh... but if you've got one, send it, and
then...
let me see.
Here
is the... i think this is the very first
North Star game i've ever...
that has ever graced my collection.
Uh...
"In the the small village of
Tiefenthal..." and i think the game's...
the name's different in German.
It's
"Tiefen," and "Thal" are two different
words,
and it strikes me that it might be a
play on words in German?
If you speak German... i know i've got at
least one backer on Patreon who does...
uh, let me know what, uh, what "Tief" and
"Thal" means
in German.
Uh... right, then.
Lots of pictures in an instruction
booklet.
Lots of examples.
Um...
BigDeuce72 - AKA "Don" - says this one is
no
problem.
Slap it on the table.
He said don't even
bother with not incorporating the
modules.
He says put all four of them in and have
at it.
Go nuts, because it won't be hard,
he says.
So it's not a difficult game at all.
It's
a dice worker placement game,
so that's a game where - oh!
Here's a
little write-up on the modules.
"Modules:
Module 2, Module 3..."
you know, a couple of extra supplementary
pages about those modules.
It's a dice worker placement game, and if
you've never played one,
dice worker placements are among my most
favourite game
styles of all time.
That's where
you have... there's a gnat flying around my
head.
Almost went up my nose.
That'd be good for the blooper reel.
You
have a bunch of dice, and you roll them,
and you generally have worker placement
spots where everyone's vying to do a
thing, and depending on which pips you
roll, you get to do the thing.
But what's neat about this is i'm a real
sucker... if you if you watch my,
uh, Top 5 Things i Love About Board Games
video, i love
games that puzzle piece together, and
look at this: we've got literal
puzzle nubs!
There's a word for "puzzle
nub,"
i'm sure of it.
It's a weird one, and
it'll probably get you a lot of points
in Scrabble.
If you know the word for puzzle nub, uh,
please let me know in the comments.
So it's got a little puzzle nub!
So these...
these... these game pieces, or the board
pieces,
actually snap together depending on
what's going on in the tavern - the
medieval tavern that you're managing.
That's pretty neat!
So some of these
customers,
look... oh.
UH-oh.
Oh dear.
Oh... that nub came clean off!
Was that
supposed to?
i think maybe it was supposed to?
Maybe
they used... okay.
What i'm hoping is
they use the same die for multiple
sections, and it's okay that that thing
came off, because look: we can see, like,
a
little...
there's a little... line across there, so
i
think that's supposed to pop right off.
i
hope.
We'll see as we dig in deeper.
Whew! i
hope i didn't wreck the game!
Aaand i'll pop one more of these out.
i'll
give a little, uh...
a little bit of a close-up... there - you
know - close-up camera, so he looks like
he's...
he or she?
Is that a lady dwarf, or a male
dwarf?
i don't even know!
Are there fantasy creatures in this? i
can't tell! i think it's all people.
But i'll throw him/her up there, and
this one...
right.
Okay.
Back to it.
So lots and lots
of card to punch out...
stack about that thick... uh, and it's got
customers....
You can tell these customers
are going to be here a while, because
they puzzle piece into the table.
So, yeah... there's, i think, the same die
that's been used to cut this, but i'm not
sure why those nubs pop right up,
and am i supposed to save this? i'm... not
i'm not sure.
hopefully not.
Aaaand...
a... this looks like a common board, i'm
guessing, because it's a unique piece.
Now i can't tell if everybody gets their
own... their own pub that they're managing,
or if we're all managing the same pub?
Whoa!
Look at... oh. i just saw something
cool, and i'll show you in a second.
Alright: back to this.
Looks like a
common board.
Bits that pop out.
Very
small.
i'm definitely supposed to keep
this.
And i hope i was supposed to pop it out.
i'm not sure.
And...
a couple of... looks like... i'm going to
guess these are menu
slash maybe mission cards or scoring
cards?
It's cool.
It's all very thematic,
and i love thematic games!
So these are shaped like little books.
They're adorable.
i'll throw them one on
the old
close-up cameroo, so you can see some
of the symbology in the game.
Alright!
Nice little crowns...
crowns are points, maybe?
Maybe?
i don't
even know.
i don't know.
If you played, you know, and
you're yelling at your computer screen
right now.
And the very last one...
look: it's got a
lovely little... this
must be - you know - something along the
lines of a first player marker,
i'm guessing.
It's a... beer stein.
Uh-oh. i... i was... indelicate about popping
it
out.
Now there's a...
a piece that i got to get out of there.
Whatever.
That's boring.
Here we go: smunch!
Put it
together.
A little... cute little... cool!
Little beer
stein.
That's got to be first player
token.
i'm... gotta be!
Come on that's gotta be.
And then
there's something similar over here, so
if that's first player token, i don't
know what this little
moon thing is doin'.
i... i gotta be a
little bit more...
the die did not exactly cut all the way
through the
cardboard.
You know what?
i'm going to
leave that.
i'm going to have to go at
that with my...
with my craft knife, but there's a little
another standee that...
that hitches together.
These are little
little drinkypoos.
Cute.
Cute. i'll throw
a little drinkypoo on the old
close-up cam.
There: a little tiny
drinkypoo.
And these are little tiny... i hope it
doesn't matter what these
say, because the writing on them is...
look at my finger.
It's gigantic!
the writing on them is itty-bitty!
These... what are these?
Contracts?
These are
bills, maybe, i guess, that the customers
are paying?
Tabs that they're racking up?
Little medieval bar boozers?
i'm not even
sure!
And you've got these absolutely gigantic
circles that are kind of... they're
reminding me of coasters.
i
bet they probably are! i'm sure.
i'll go a
little limb on that.
But what i saw out
of the corner of my eye that i thought
was really cool...
i complain a lot about games that don't
have but
very much attention paid to their
inserts, but look at this: this is cool.
So the... although it is the structure...
i
tried to wipe it... that's a rat, by the way!
It's a little tiny
rat on the box.
Cute!
Uh, and... (laughs)
i tried to wipe this away!
This is
deliberately printed schmutz
on the top of the box.
So i complain a
little bit about the well, but
look at how gorgeous... they've actually -
you know - graphically designed the inside,
and when you turn it, it's like the walls
of
the tabburn.
Did i say "tabburn?"
Did my computer just
beep?
There we go.
Really cool.
Really, really cool.
And
some tokens! i don't know what they mean.
Nothing too fancy there.
A couple cubes,
couple of disks, one for each player
colour.
They're the primary colours
plus green.
And same with the dice...
and white ones, which are probably
acquired, or common dice.
And they're all wood.
Aaaand a bunch of
plastic baggies, and some cards.
Great!
Let's get into those! (excited humming)
i really like that i have that close-up
cam now.
That's really exciting.
i gotta
thank
Rahdo for that suggestion.
Took a little while to set up, though.
i'm
not gonna lie.
Alright, so the backs of
these cards look like this.
i'll swipe this over and throw it up on
the
close-up camera.
That's what we're
looking at.
And the fronts of these cards
look like people... presumably
customers, that you're trying to
please in your tavern business.
And i read, i think on the back of the
box, you're trying to get
better and better clientele into your...
into your bar,
and they're presumably worth more points
or give you more powers,
so there's that.
That old barfly lady, and
here's
somebody wearing purple, so they probably...
they're probably loaded.
They probably
tip really well.
So that's what's in that deck.
Uh... probably
this next deck is gonna be more of the
same, but we'll see.
It's got the same backing, however...
we've got a chair, and we've got
somebody doing a thing.
The artwork, i got
to say, is pretty
european.
i mentioned in a game that i
unboxed recently that the artwork
looks pretty european, like Amiga 500
styles, where everything's
- you know - round and gradient.
There's just... i don't know.
There's a...
there's a distinct european art style to
certain things, and they all went to the
same
art school or something like that.
And
then the last
deck - i haven't mentioned, by the way, i
think there's probably about... if i were
to gauge,
i'm going to say 50 000 cards in these
decks.
And it looks like... oh!
They've got the
same backs here, so it's going to be
more of what's going on in the other
decks on this one.
Rich people, richer people,
people governing what you can do or what
you get in your bar, and then these ones
are unique: these ones with the blue
backs.
There's a blue back - wow!
Ah-ha ha!
Because my... because my
green screen is actually a blue screen,
it's a blue card, the the blue gets kind
of washed out there.
But it's a... it's a
lovely little gradient
of blue, and these are cards that looks
like governs how those
puzzle pieces get removed or
put into your
oh tavern.
Oh, i do love puzzle piecing!
Oh-ho-ho!
That's that's making something in my
in my brain tingle! i keep putting it
upside down.
There we go.
Very cool! here's one more i'll throw up
there.
Schwoink!
Very nice!
That looks awesome, and i'm
excited to learn it and play it,
especially since, uh, you know - Don himself
recommends it!
Uh... have you played The Taverns of
Tiefenthal?
Do you
like it?
Do you not like it? i don't know.
Let me know in the comments below!
i'm definitely going to play it, probably
this weekend with my family, if it's a
recommended one for
for families.
You know - families.
They like
to play games about
going to bars and drinking beer.
You know,
it's a family game!
It's a family.
It's
for families.
So i'll check that out, and i'll play it,
and i'll probably get to doing,
uh, a How to Play down the road for you, and
maybe a Find the Fun afterwards!
i know i haven't done a Find the Fun in
a little while.
i'm getting back to it!
It's going to be great.
i just
painted myself into a bit of a corner,
because every Find the Fun video, if
you've seen them,
ends with some kind of props joke, and if
i'm out of props jokes, i don't make Find
the Fun videos.
So if you're wondering
where they've gone,
that's what's happening.
i'm probably
trying to brainstorm a funny joke
for the end of it.
But i've got a big
queue of stuff that i want to make.
Great!
Thank you so much for watching
this one, and we'll see you in the next
video!
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