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Join Frank for another instalment of Wondrous Lands, a live play series of Earthborne Rangers. This is the first campaign, Lure of the Valley, solo. As this is recorded live, slips and errors are sure to creep in, so please extend me your understanding - I hope you enjoy the journey alongside me! If you want more of an explainer of the game, check out the first Wondrous Lands episode, where I offer more of a rules explainer.

You can view the map here, the campaign log here and my deck here.

Timestamps:

0.00 preamble
2.00 setup steps
11.27 gameplay begins
16.35 on we stride
29.55 oh and I remember to add some strides...
38.55 and on we stride
48.55 and again...
1.00.20 lending a helping hand
1.01.35 and on we stride once more
1.17.25 campfire cheffing
1.21.25 and on we stride once more

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Join Peter and Frank for another tangential episode. We've been playing a smidge of Spirit Island so we figured we'd dig into what we've been enjoying about it, how it works, what tension in games means to us and how - if at all - it all links back to Arkham for us. Enjoy!

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode. Here we're tweaking our Tommy Muldoon deck to take on New Horizons in the middle of the night!

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

Timestamps
0.00 preamble
2.35 the 'new' deck
5.20 xp choices
6.10 the blood blight
7.50 scenario set-up
10.05 a random question
12.05 location arrangement
13.05 opening hand
13.58 gameplay begins
42.30 post-game review - what would a new Tommy list look like?
44.35 post-game resolution

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode. Yet again, we step into the unknown, with an unplayed-before deck and an unplayed-before scenario. Let's go!

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

Timestamps
0.00 intro and spoiler warning
1.35 question to the listener - what do you want to hear in ToyF?
2.10 investigator selection and deck discussion
4.30 campaign intro including chaos bag
5.45 prologue
8.55 scenario intro
10.30 map description
13.45 what are blood tokens?
15.00 act and agenda
16.55 stats and opening hand
19.15 gameplay begins
31.35 Tommy tips!
36.10 what is the Predator keyword ability?
48.30 what must I do with 'must'?
1.24.10 end of scenario and wrap-up, including looking at reward cards

1.07.15 I take an attack from Julia and forget that she is elusive-keyworded, but I spot it shortly afterwards.

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Join Frank and Peter for a riff on this question: where are you at with Arkham? How do you feel about allocation? How is chapter two hitting? What impact does that have on casting? And what else is catching our attention?

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Join Frank and Peter for a head-scratcher: is Carolyn the new Daisy? What does that mean? And if it means what we think it means, what does that say about chapter 1 Arkham in comparison with chapter 2 Arkham, if anything?

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Join Frank for another instalment of Wondrous Lands, a live play series of Earthborne Rangers. This is the first campaign, Lure of the Valley, solo. As this is recorded live, slips and errors are sure to creep in, so please extend me your understanding - I hope you enjoy the journey alongside me! If you want more of an explainer of the game, check out the first Wondrous Lands episode, where I offer more of a rules explainer.

You can view the map here, the campaign log here and my deck here.

Timestamps:

0.00 preamble + where's the arkham?
2.10 setup
4.30 our first location
6.15 gameplay begins
8.00 I don't need to avoid the buck to avoid fatigue - I spot this at 8.25 though!
14.00 a new location...
26.50 I forget the mountain effect on Rising Waters - I catch this at 31.10 and add rain to accommodate it.
41.35 some damp business
44.50 a bit of scheming...
50.20 a set-aside card (please write in thoughts!)

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Join Frank for another instalment of Wondrous Lands, a live play series of Earthborne Rangers. This is the first campaign, Lure of the Valley, solo. As this is recorded live, slips and errors are sure to creep in, so please extend me your understanding - I hope you enjoy the journey alongside me! If you want more of an explainer of the game, check out the first Wondrous Lands episode, where I offer more of a rules explainer.

You can view the map here, the campaign log here and my deck here.

Timestamps:

0.00 intro
1.40 spoiler warning
2.01 setting up
2.35 opening hand
3.45 set-up continues...
5.10 a new entry for the day...
8.39 arrival!
10.15 start of round 1
36.00 a little retcon
45.55 travel time (I did my refresh first, but I spot that misplay)
52.35 travel time again!
59.45 travel time the third!

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Join Peter and Frank as they tease apart two related but not quite the same things: environments and chapters. What are they both? How do they impact the game? How do they even work? Should we care? All this and more in this episode!

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Join Frank and Peter as they look at some of the hits and misses of the chapter two core set - aka the 2026 core set - for Arkham Horror The Card Game, and specifically the highs and lows of Brethren of Ash, the core set campaign. We're looking at what we love, what worked for us, and what left us wanting more.

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode. Here ends our Brethren of Ash solo playthrough!

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

My deck: third scenario

0.00 intro and audio stuff
1.35 xp options
3.42 note from previous scenario
5.10 scenario intro
8.20 setup
10.50 act and agenda
11.50 opening hand
12.50 or so: gameplay begins
45.20 a little codex interlude
45.50 resolution and wrap-up.
49.00 design notes

At 30.10 I defeat Servant of Flame and forget to trigger its codex - I remember at 45.10!

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode. The patrons have voted, so we're embarking on " versus Brethren of Ash"

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

My deck: first scenario | second scenario

0.00 preamble
2.05 first scenario intro
4.35 opening hand
5.05 gameplay begins
33.10 first scenario analysis
33.55 second scenario intro
36.55 what's the map like?
41.03 opening hand
41.26 gameplay begins

1.27.15 I forget to take a horror from a pursuing Whippoorwill but a minute later I remember it.
During the recording, I realise I may have made a rather major mess-up this playthrough, somehow internalising that Izzie's ability is once per test rather than once per round. I do spot this error at 1.01.25... and during the edit I've checked and I never in fact make the error! Phewee! Just shows how things can slip by. So even though I am not sure whether I used her ability multiple times per phase, it turns out... I didn't.

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode. After our last episode, in which Frank tried out two of the premade decks, here Frank tries another one (or two, or three).

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

0.00 preamble
3.57 who are we playing?
6.15 class overview
9.13 final setup
10.47 opening hand
12.05 gameplay begins - or at least scheming
49.50 taking a breath, resetting, class overview
54.05 gander in the rulebook
55.17 opening hand
1.09.45 resetting, class overview
1.13.37 opening hand

At 31.23: I say skulls are -2 on a 5 v 2 test. I'm wrong, skulls are -3s by this point in the scenario. Luckily, that doesn't matter! I spot it at 36.05 or so.
At 1.17.13: I miscount my handsize due to the assistant, but I spot it shortly afterwards.
Throughout: I keep calling Servant of Flame Servant of the Flame. Maybe it's because I'm so used to Drawn to the Flame rather than Drawn to Flame? Anyway, I spot it, apologise for it, and continue to do it pretty much indiscriminately throughout. Sorry!
At 1.26.00 or so: I kill two experiments and forget to be horrified by them, but I spot this and correct it at 1.32.40.

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Join Frank for another Think on your Feet episode - this time, it's tearing into the new 'chapter two' core set for Arkham Horror The Card Game The Living Card Game.

In Think on your Feet episodes, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too.

At 29.30 I get confused - I'd missed a damage from fire on the mutant from the previous turn, so it should've died at this point (and me with it).

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Join Frank and Peter as we preview half a dozen cards as part of the Survivor investigator deck preview season. We recorded this episode before we knew any of the other cards, so these are our time-capsule takes shorn of the context of the other previews. Thank you to FFG for sending us the cards to preview.

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Join Frank for another instalment of Wondrous Lands, a live play series of Earthborne Rangers. This is the first campaign, Lure of the Valley, solo. As this is recorded live, slips and errors are sure to creep in, so please extend me your understanding - I hope you enjoy the journey alongside me! If you want more of an explainer of the game, check out the first Wondrous Lands episode, where I offer more of a rules explainer.

You can view the map here, the campaign log here and my deck here.

Timestamps:

0.00 intro + rewards
3.15 setup + a new mission
11.25 gameplay begins
30.25 our first travel
50.30 our second travel
1.02.50 trade, you say?
1.07.20 I realise I've forgotten the weather - I punish myself by flipping to the hot sunny side.

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Join Frank and Peter as they look at the five announced 'evergreen investigator decks'. Who are these evergreen folks? What do they do? What might their decks contain?

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Join Peter and Frank as they take a moment to look at another (number five) of the new investigators from the chapter two core set and consider what impact that might have on the design as a whole and on specific classes.

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Join Frank for another instalment of Wondrous Lands, a live play series of Earthborne Rangers. This is the first campaign, Lure of the Valley, solo. As this is recorded live, slips and errors are sure to creep in, so please extend me your understanding - I hope you enjoy the journey! If you want more of an explainer of the game, check out the first Wondrous Lands episode, where I offer more of a rules explainer.

You can view the map here, the campaign log here and my deck here.

Timestamps:

0.00 intro
2.58 moments on the path / spoilers / couple of small corrections / the elder's book of uncommon wisdom
7.05 a question to the listener
7.39 setup and gameplay begins
27.30 what are aspirations?
37 or so: I fail the Remember test (0 vs 1) and still draw a card, which is wrong - I don't get to draw if I don't pass. It doesn't ruin the day, but definitely would've warped the final parts of it!
50.00 let's go travelling!
1.03.00 I have no clue why I kept in my coughing on the recording - but I can't edit it out without losing explaining what I'm doing. Sorry about that!
1.11.02 she's *not* an atrox. Derp! It's kind of obvious about three seconds later...

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Join Frank and Peter as they take a moment to look at another (number four) of the new investigators from the chapter two core set and consider what impact that might have on the design as a whole and on specific classes.

Little erratum note: 14mins in, Peter talks about how Daniela might help with the Black Chamber Operative, and talks about chapter 1 Daniela's ability rather than chapter 2. It's not a big boo-boo, but we wanted to acknowledge it!

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