Epic Encounters: Lair of the Red Dragon Review - Steamforged Games
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Review of the Lair of the Red Dragon adventure and unpainted mini from Steamforged Games' Epic Encounters! Click "Show More" for timestamps, corrections, and other links.
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Special thanks to @Steamforged for sending us this preview copy.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Turntable view of packaging
0:53 Ancient Red Dragon mini
1:20 Size comparison with dragon minis from WizKids
1:31 Assembling the wings
1:43 Tokens in the box
2:05 Double-sided lava cavern dragon lair battle map
2:21 Battle map with minis on it for scale
2:31 The adventure booklet and review of product
8:33 Upcoming Epic Encounters products
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10:44 Conclusions
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These looks really cool. I also love this idea of creating small box sets around specific and reusable situations for gameplay. I could only image someday having a shelf of options to just pull from depending on the adventure situation.
Right? It's brilliant! And there's enough variety in the book so that you can make each red dragon battle different. -Theo
The dragon looks terrific !
Ooooh, that looks so nice! Thank you for the review!
Thank you for watching and commenting, Gamarishi! -Theo
This looks awesome, thanks for the review guys!!! I hope you both are staying safe and not overworking yourselves, for us!
*nervous laughter* -Theo ;-)
@@TheGallantGoblin well I hope you know that we appreciate everything you both do to keep us informed and entertained !
Thank you kindly! We have some plans behind that scenes that should help! -Theo
Wow that is much better than I was expecting. I might just have to pick this up with the kobold set. Great, thorough review!
Thank you! It's a very good set. Better than I was expecting too. Lots of props to Mr. August and his team! -Theo
Loving all your reviews, Theo - comprehensive, inspirational suggestions and totally enthusiastic - wonderful stuff, thank you!
Hey StellarX! I really appreciate that! Thank you so much for your support! -Theo
Wow, that Dragon looks awesome
I picked this up at my FLGS, and was not disappointed the Dragon is large and very detailed. You could probably get away with just a couple of washes to make the details pop from across the table. I plan on painting the whole thing though and adding some gems to the base, as well as picking out things like swords and shields to give the treasure more variety. The booklet for the encounters is great as well. I think I’ll end up buying this whole series, so I hope they do lots.
Nice! If you want to share your results on social media, we’d love to share your work with our audience! -Theo
@@TheGallantGoblin I’ll share my work with you, no problem. The only roadblock I have right now is I need to pick up some brush on primer as I don’t want to overspray onto the treasure.
Don’t care what it is, I always love to see more dragons. Great stuff guys.
Thanks, Devin! I think it's about time my adventuring meets a dragon. They haven't had a good dragon fight in quite awhile! -Theo
Cool Sounds like a nice kit
Pretty excited about the Orcs/FrostGiant - This is such a cool product
Right? Me too! I'm really curious what they do with that set! -Theo
I love the sculpt. I don't undestand why there is no D&D licenced painted Red Dragon in a huge base yet.
We should get them next year.
This looks like some great value....
Really fun set! -Theo
Dang looks really nice can't go wrong with more dragons, and Kobolds.
Right? Very useful set! -Theo
Really wanted to be done with Steamforged after the way they handled guild ball but damn definitely have to get these
What did they change about it? I always wanted to try it out because the models look phenomenal!
@@josephskiles they just killed it. And kinda put the blame on the competitive scene for killing the game instead of making changes to fix some of the more negative experiences in it. The last year or so it seems their focus has been on licensed board games instead of what brought them to the dance. I loved Guild Ball and I'll still use the models wherever they can because with a few exceptions they are great.
@@jeremymagsamen3265 man that sucks, I guess at least I didn't invest a bunch of money into it before they dropped it. That the biggest problem with fledgling games they can be truly innovative and look like they are amazingly fun to play but gamers are often like me , ie leery to invest in something that might go bye bye after a few years, still I thought GB had a big enough fanbase it would be around awhile.
Having been raised up a farm boy of course the farmers were my favorite guild ( though I liked butchers guild a lot as well), what guild did you main bud?
@@josephskiles it had a huge base until about a year, year and a half ago. Definitely enough that it shouldn't have died but even before they killed it, it felt like it had been just about abandoned a few months before covid happened. And I have everything except for the last 3 captains and the Shepards. My main were Butchers. They just fit my play style. But I think from a visual point the Hunters really hit the spot
@@jeremymagsamen3265 well maybe enough fans will get together and the game will see a revival once all the craziness totally goes away, would be a damn shame otherwise.
What is the book on the back shelves next to islebound? Great video and review!
That's our DMs Guild supplement The Gray Merchant of Asphodel, which contains over 100 magic items inspired by Magic: The Gathering and Greek mythology for the Theros setting! You can get it as a digital supplement or a Print on Demand hardcover: www.dmsguild.com/product/315634/The-Gray-Merchant-of-Asphodel-100-Theros-Magic-Items?affiliate_id=1398733
That thing looks good just needs a little paint
I really want to see how people are able to paint it up! -Theo
@@TheGallantGoblin It seems like an unfortunate choice by Steamforged, to make the golden base non-removable. Those who want to paint the mini will either need to awkwardly mask off the treasure hoard, or prime over the gold color and repaint it.
Painted mine came out pretty good for a first try at painting bus as said the tresure is a pain had to force the black base to pop for more angle but i could not remove the tresure so i had to prime it and repaint it but if you look closely it is not only gold in it there is sword ac shield helmet anf gems so i had to prime anyway
@@ronjames1153 cutting the feet from the base should be easy enough, if theres any damage to them you can easily sculpt them back with greenstuff.
Nice pack. Seems like a cool idea for packs like that. Especially with dragons :)
Right? Very good idea! I love it! -Theo
@@TheGallantGoblin it must Just explode Player mind when dm put down boss pack like that
Looks great. Are there any tips on how to connect this to the lair of the kobold queen?
Not really in the book included in this set, but in the Kobold Queen book the red dragon encounter is pretty much fully set up. You shouldn't have any trouble linking the two. -Theo
Look forward to the next boxes. My most memorable games of D&D came from NPC'S who were original in the ways they acted, I learned a lot about this from the various supplements released for 2nd ed Ravenloft , I highly recommend any who who like to make your villians truly unique check out the Vanrichten guide
Great suggestion, Joseph! Thank you! -Theo
@@TheGallantGoblin if you guys have never had the opportunity to check them out I highly recommend them as my all time favorite supplements. I believe drivethrurpgs has them for download since the originals and the compilations go for a hefty price these days but I can honestly say they taught me more about how to be a good DM than anything else I have ever read ! But since there were so many different settings in the 90's they all had to do something special to set themselves apart from their siblings.
@@TheGallantGoblin I would also add Theo, one of the guides deals solely with hags, I know from your videos you love them as much as me so I think you would definitely appreciate it because the guide does a wonderful job in making the reader have pity for them because of the awful transformation that gets forced upon them.
Yeah, I haven't checked them out yet. I'll go take a look. Sounds intriguing! Especially if they feature hags in a robust and complex way! -Theo
How difficult do you think it would be to pry him off the base of gold? I’d love to prime it up to paint it
I have this figure, and I think it will be nearly impossible to do so without destroying the base. The claws are curled on the gold in such a way that you can't see how it is attached. The bottom of the black base has larger circles directly under all four feet, which makes me think that the feet have solid plastic pegs that sink all the way through the gold pile and glue to the base. If you have a replacement base of the right diameter, I guess destruction could be a choice. Or figure out how to (awkwardly) mask off the gold pile while you prime and paint the dragon. Final choice, just prime the whole darn thing and repaint the gold pile. If I ever decide to paint this thing, I will probably take the last option.
just tape it off or brush on primer, or just paint it up. Varnish helps more than primer for keeping paint on (according to some Goobertown Hobbies videos)
Ok I wasn't going to buy this. But after seeing that battle map, those tokens. Yeah. No I want that......
It’s a great set!!