If you retain a card, you still draw 5 new cards at the start of your turn. At least that´s how it works in the video game.

Yes please! Make Act 3 and 4! You made it very well, Collin. Thanks a lot! 😊

Great run, excited for Act 3! A few notes from the boss fight relating to "Omega": 1. The damage from Omega is not considered "Attacking Damage" because it doesn't have the red sword symbol on the card. Therefore, it would not trigger vulnerable on the enemy to do 2x damage. (This is also the case in the video game). 2. Because bosses are treated as being in all rows, Omega's damage would be able to hit both the bronze orb minion AND the bronze automaton boss for 6 damage to each target with a single Omega activation. 3. Similar to above, Omega is not affected by the damage increase effect from being in wrath. So, Omega wouldn't do extra damage from wrath stance. Also, as others have mentioned, Retained cards don't act like "Dazes" and reduce your draw. They simply stay in hand until ready to be used.

Very good. Of all the people I've seen making StS board game playthroughs, your videos are the best organized/easiest to follow.

This is the right approach. I got carried away and recorded all 3 Acts in one go (I was having too much fun and got carried away). Next time I'm definitely following your example and breaking up the Acts

We nead Act 3

Yess. Act 1 was so fun to watch. Can’t wait for my pledge to arrive.

I believe Colin that Omega will deal 6 damage to the entire row. So near the end when you hit the boss you would have hit the bronze orb as well. Also, and I could very well be wrong here, I think the dealing damage and attacks are treated separately. Vulnerable only works with card affects with the sword icon. So the six damage to the boss couldn’t be 12. (If I’m reading the rulebook right). Awesome video again and I hope you’re doing ACT III!!

YESH! ALL HAIL COLLIN! Can't wait for my copy.

Thanks for continuing this EPIC series. Watcher is OP as usual haha

Been waiting for act 2! Thanks for posting! My game arrives today and I cannot wait to dive in

Yes please! Would like Act 3 and 4 for sure! Thanks Colin, that was really cool. Wish I had backed Slay the Spire now! lol

Keep the playthroughs coming I can’t wait for my copy. Just some rules clarifications: Omega should hit all enemies in entire row. Moreover it doesn’t work with Vulnerable as Vulnerable only affects Sword icon hits

Health is a recourse. When you constantly heal to full hp because you’re scared you’ll die it means you’re not strong enough. You should be smithing at almost every campfire unless you get dicked by an extreme draw order but at ascension 0 you should literally never have to rest. Not using your health as a recourse will make you lose every single run in high ascensions. You only need 1hp to live.. utilize that early so that you don’t lose when the game actually gets hard….

That was great, yes please do the other 2 acts!

Act 3!!!🎉

I want my copy to arrive so bad.

At the first encounter, when you play deva form, couldn't you have gained mana from the mummified hand?

It’s “bronze uh tama tahn” for future reference lol

23:40 you can’t choose to retain a retain card. It’s forced on you. Just for future knowledge unless they specially said that they changed it for the board game which would make no sense.

Thank you! Do you know if frozen core or holy water is class specific? For instance, in the video game you can onky get black blood if you play the ironclad

15:24 2+2 is for -1 is three QUICK MATHS he did not say that🥲🥲🥲

Colin... are you sure you aren't misunderstanding what "row" means? At least in the game, Omega does damage to every enemy in combat, and I assume here it would do damage to every enemy attacking one player (every enemy in solo). Although getting Omega out in the game is a bit more of an involved process ha. However, Omega is a Power, not an Attack, so it wouldn't be boosted by being in Wrath nor is it's damage increased by Vulnerable (it wouldn't in the video game either). Overall, I think this is a good implementation, although unfortunately it carries over the mixed feelings I have about this game from the video game version. Ultimately I'm just not a fan of roguelikes I think. I will say Watcher is the character I've always had the hardest time with, largely because she's the one who's most easy to get screwed over by card luck (something which also seems true in this version). She does have lots of retain to essentially try and make up for that, but she's the only one I haven't beat Act 4 with.

not sure, but pretty sure you cannot discard Retain cards =) as others have said you still draw 5 cards, it do not fill out a card draw. else good game =D Omega deals 6 to all enemies in any row =)

I definitely would like to see Act III and IV. It's such a well constructed game. If you have 2+ players the enemies have more health, but do they do their damage to both players?

Gameplay looks great, very interesting. Unfortunately, I don’t like campaign games, and with so many other games out there and considering that no human being can consume it all, this one is a pass for me. Still, I enjoyed watching, great job as always.

nah i hate the watcher, i'll be back for some silent or clad on act 3 if you do that

transform is so risky in the video game since complete random I never do it

She's my least favorite character in the videogame. I must have played her once or twice. Not sure I like the boardgame gameplay that much, but I'll try her when I get my physical copy.