I like how Tom says he's afraid to hold the box sideways so the pieces don't fall out but then he proceeds to literally dump the entire contents of the game out onto the table. Well played Tom. Well played.

Wasn't that excited by the reviews of this game, but bought it on a whim. It is now easily one of the best games in my collection.It takes about 5 minutes to teach, and will appeal to most people.

8 years, wow. I still love to play this game!!

(Melody smiling) Tom: We're in disagreement. (Melody scowls)

Amazing attention to detail on the map aswell, a D&D Amiga game Eye of the Beholder was set in Waterdeep, and you can see in this video that the city maintains the same shape/coastline/structure. So from 1990 to 2012 the same fiction lives on. Thats pretty incredible.

Great review. Thanks for having the younger player put her perspective from a kid. Awesome work.

Got the game today at my local game shop that price matched amazon. The review convinced me to make the purchase. Thanks Tom & Melody!

Melody is getting better and better at reviewing. Watch your back, Tom! Melody could have your job as the lord and master of the Dice Tower!

I am so glad to hear that you and Melody give this game 6 thumbs up! Thank you for this very timely review. Nice to see its complexity is in a comfortable range for more people. By the by, curad makes some nifty bandaids these days. Outstanding review!

It's been over 7 years since this video came out, but that's okay. I wonder how most people would compare Lords of Waterdeep, Stone Age, and Champions of Midgard to reach other. They all have something going for them.

Seriously Tom, your new microphone is wonderful. When this review started I briefly believed that you'd gone back and re-dubbed your own video with high-quality audio.

Awessome work again Tom, and Meldy too :) I was eager to view your review before buying this game.

I saw a copy at my FLGS and dismissed it as just another euro, but after seeing this video I am much more interested in it. Thanks for the great review, Tom and Melody!

Melody making reaction faces when Tom is talking is so funny 😂

Tom savage af disagreeing melody XD

This game is great. I bought it on a whim the day it came into the store because the price was right (under $40), and it turned out to be a really good game. I've played it a half-dozen times now with varying amounts of people (3 to 5 so far), and it has been really good all times. Only takes an hour to play, too!

It is up for $31.45 on Amazon right now, and has PRIME shipping available. Thanks Vasel, another awesome game added to my collection.

It's a really fun game, and after you've played it once you know everything you need to know about how to play.

I just bought awesome custom made meeples for the game....yes, wish they came with them already....but the main game is fantastic!

Ordred this earlier this week.. Gonna be AWESOME!! :P

It just came out. The game store I work at just got it Friday. I'd say call them and ask them when they're getting it or if they can order it for you if they weren't going to get it.

I'm not usually into these types of games, but I must admit, I am quite tempted. Excellent review, sir.

A very well done review i would have to say.. Good job and keep up the good work :)

EXCELLENT EXPLANATION!!!

Really great review, I am now sure that this is a must buy for me : ) Thanks!

The box is so well designed that you don’t need to be afraid to hold it sideways. Nothing will fall out of place.

wow i entered the bgg contest and didnt seem to care about this game but after watching this review its actually gathered my interest...kinda wanna give it a shot

this video just made me buy this game! thanks!

Just ordered this game. Looking forward to seeing how it plays! Crazy this is a 10yr old review!

Love the dice tower and a lot of the games, just wish I could have a gaming group

Can't wait to try it. Are there custom meeples to replace the cubes?

Learned this today and got in 3rd of 5 with 104. I think this was the best way to show I demonstrate beyond kill 2x but sell 2x colored cubes but not lost too. Ohyeah and a stray kitten was adopted by the store and tollerated to the point "it made its mark" on the inside of another table's boxlid as well as kick and scatter active board-pieces.

This game is pretty awesome, I bought it based on the faerun name and was happily surprised. I think the last 10 of our gaming nights have ended up being this game.

After listening to your Top Ten and watching this review... well I could not resist and just bought the game. The Caylus feel to it convinced me, as well as the theme.

I waited too long to pick this up. However, once I did it was worth it. Also Wizards of the Coast is a subsidary of Hasbro. Wizkids and Wizards of the Coast are two separate companies.

It wouldn't let me post the video link, but you can search for amiga eye of the beholder intro if you want to see it.

This game set the standard for inserts. I've yet to find a game that even comes close to this one.

Wish FFG rereleases it with more theme (for example: cardboard tokens with images instead of bland wooden cubes, etc.)

First WotC game I am actually interested in for a long time.

Great review! Thanks!

The expansion is due out in August.

So far I haven't found a worker placement game that looks all that interesting, but this one seems to be bubbling to the top for me. I do wish you could bling it out with something to replace the cubes. They seem however, much like just another form of currency. Has anyone found something to use for a cube upgrade of this game?

Euro games tend to be a bit more thinking, and less thematic. Theme can be there, it is just not main goal. For example, Settlers of Catan tends to be the most well know "Eruoish" Game due to its more "thinky" mechanic of plotting out your settlements. Games like King of Toyko on the other hand focus more on being thematic, and less about removing the "luck" element.

Looks really great, but I have to wait for the German Release. My tight buddies and I could play it on English, but in our Group sessions are often new players and not everyone is very good at English. It's brand new anyway, so I can wait and hope for a Release in Germany in 2013 or something like that. Looks like a hell of a lot of fun ;)

I was wondering what you would think of this one. Will definitely be checking this game out when I get some monies in.

It's so sad that Wizards of the Coast doesn't license Lords of Waterdeep to be translated to other languages. As a brazilian, unfortunately I can't find people enough to play it in english since it is not language independent but I SO wanted to play it!

I just bought this Yesterday along with Galaxy Trucker (which i see in the sidebar there). Ill be grabbing a group of friends and do some 4 player versions of these games tonight and tell you how i think

I'm looking forward to getting this one :) I don't have a worker placement game yet

Looks great. Very nice review.

Dollars? In the dnd world... surely it is gold.

i'm not suggesting MrEleganza needs a store to play. i don't need a store to play, i'm a grown man and and can play in my house but it doesn't mean that i don't value the efforts of small businesses. Amazon has low prices for the same reason WalMart has low prices. they are a massive corporation that can afford to not only buy in insane bulk quantities but they can use their position as a power seller to force suppliers to give them product at super cheap prices.

I wonder what You, Tom, think of this game now in 2023, especially after just watching Mike, the Murph brother, saying it feels outdated now.

best box insert ever!!!

One of the best board games.

Top notch components, sure, great! BUT, how hard is it to do wood cubes any other way?

seems like a pretty basic worker placement game.

Is she his daughter?

lol "you wish you had four thumbs... all the things you could do!"

Hey there, just watched this review & am interested in a possible purchase. Do you feel like this game has held up over the years? Has it been replaced by a better variant? Thanks for your time!

I wonder why this is not in Tom's top 100 list..

I'm 5 minutes into the video and it's sounding a lot like Caylus.

After every turn, if no one buys any buildings do the buildings get discarded along with the victory points on them and a new set of buildings are placed or do the victory points just keep stacking upon the unpurchased buildings. Can someone clarify? There isnt really a great incentive to buying buildings

Awesome game and yes, best box insert ever.

Wow, four thumbs up.

That's WizKids for you. Hey! Anyone from WizKids listening!? GET! BETTER! CARDSTOCK!

I honestly wish Sword and Sorcery was this thoughtful -_-

so i recently just started watching and could use clarification you guys keep mentioning euro games what does that mean

Just bought a copy for 31.45

Why wouldn't you want to play the 2 player version? If I bought this I'd probably be playing it primarily with two people.

u know the price fot this ? im kinda intrested in this but as its barnd new i'm not sure to find it in my local hobby shop yet..

US only

def doesn't take 1.5 hours to go through a game. When I bring it to play with friends usually takes anywhere from 15-30 mins at most. the rounds go quick.

Hi Tom, I just started to play euro-style games and really enjoyed LoW, are there other games you can recommend that play similarly (other than Stone Age)?

I thought this game is published by Wizards of the Coast since they own the D&D IP anyway.

easy there shooter, i'm just saying when it comes to buying niche market products from retailers, i'd rather pay a bit extra to support the little hobby shop in my area than use Amazon's crazy low prices as a way to bully small businesses. i'm not suggesting MrEleganza1 did this, but it would be weak sauce if they did. all i'm saying is: support local businesses.

Although their insert would probaby suck.

Melody doesn't like Caylus, it seems.

I do think the theme is a bit pasted on as there are no cards making your adventurers unique or a dice roll to determine is they survive the quest. Also the factions don't add anything to the game rather than just using different colored agents. Great game but themewise I think is crying out loud for an expansion to bring more D&D flavour for those who like the whole fantasy setting.

I heard she gets 50k per Review appearance. :)

NOT TRUE!!! WizKids is its own company (MageKnight and HeroClix) WotC is a subsidiary of Hasbro (Magic the Gathering and D&D)

i think they did that intentionally to retain a euro style game aesthetic. conquest of nerath is slightly cheaper and comes with a ton of plastic minis...

do you think this game is expandable Tom?

i hope your local game shop wasn't a small franchise. don't forget Amazon can afford to drop their prices where as small franchises who sell board games don't have an easy time making profit. cough up the extra bucks and support local business. disregard if this is not the case

Oh, and it's $49.99 MSRP

oh. oh that's all they need to do? competitive pricing with Amazon? brick and mortor stores that don't belong to multi-billion dollar corporate chains can't compete with Amazon's pricing... that's the point of Amazon dot com. stores doesn't necessarily make a profit in price matching Amazon, in fact, they could be losing money. and even if they are making a profit, it's not enough to sustain a business and personal income, otherwise they would have sold it at the Amazon price to begin with

Koala bears have 4 thumbs

No such luck on Canadian amazon.

"Build this Yawning Portal". Not this, but THE Yawning Portal :P

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hey Tom, Melody is not pleased with you! 11:06

game seems too simple... well produced but no new mechanics? is there really any depth to it...

Because when I think about DnD, the first thing that comes to my mind is wooden-cube-worker-placement... Not!

Strange that you like that game, Tom, but you don't like Troyes. And Troyes has dice!!!!.....hmmm!!!!!!!!

is anyone turned off of this game becuase of the board?? is so drab. brown on grey, yawn!!!

The kid in this video is probably in college now

victory points as a win condition to this is just SO bad and uncreative. i wonder when developer come up with something more tangible