Which expansion(s) should I teach? (Patreon)
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Hey Rules Lawyers, new thing! After putting out tutorials, I often get asked when I'm going to teach (insert expansion) for it. If it's out when I do the original, I try to cover it then, but otherwise I haven't been able to revisit any games. I've always felt a little bad about that, so now I'm going to work towards fixing it, and I want your help in choosing where to start. I've picked four games that have had one or more expansions come out since my tutorial (there are more, but I'm exercising some personal preference as well), and I want to know which one you'd like me to cover. The poll will end next weekend, and as always, feel free to vote on multiple games.
SPIRIT ISLAND got a big box expansion called Jagged Earth with a ton of new spirits and a few new mechanics. I absolutely adore this game, and the expansion is a ton of a fun. It's not too hard to learn, so this maybe doesn't neeeeeed a tutorial video, but I dig it so much I wanted to make sure that people had the option to vote on it.
ROOT has had a couple expansions since I taught the original and Riverfolk. The Underworld gave us two new factions that both look very cool, and there was a recent kickstarter for the Marauder expansion which has two more factions and a bunch of other additions, BUT because this was so recent, I probably won't be able to get my hands on a copy. Publishers don't often make more prototypes after a kickstarter is successful, and the estimated delivery is January so while I'd try to get a copy, I can't give good odds on that.
ELDRITCH HORROR has put out a staggering amount of expansions since it's release (it's Fantasy Flight, of course they did) and while I wouldn't be afraid to cover all eight of them, I'm pretty sure about half are out of print, so I'd teach as many as I can get a hold of. Eldritch was the second game I ever taught, so honestly I think it would be pretty fun to come back to it.
DUNE is such a strange game that people often love it or hate it. The Ixians and Tleilaxu expansion came out shortly after I covered it, meaning I've gotten a lot of youtube comments about it. These factions seem super weird and I'm all about it, plus a few new cards and mechanics seem to have been thrown in, and I'm curious to see how it all works out now.
Now I don't know exactly when I'll have this out. I can guarantee that it'll be this year, but I'm doing it in addition to my regularly scheduled games, so we'll see how it fits into the schedule. If Oath takes longer than I was expecting, I might do this first, but more likely it'll come up after that. I'm also still planning on teaching the War of the Ring expansions. I'm waiting on Kings of Middle Earth to be released so I can get them all in a set, but I need to contact the publishers again to see when that might be.