TheKingofAverage

I will never complain about another rulebook again.

Hey guys! I hope you are all healthy and safe from this craziness around the world. I am thankful that I can work from home, and that my employer is considered a necessary business and can remain open.

As you can see in the main image, I've been busy working through some new videos! I've recently been playing Wolfenstein for review and have finished reading the rulebook to Limbo: Eternal War.

Rules

Speaking of which....it's really bad. The worst I've ever...

Busy work

Heya guys! Thanks so much for voting and letting me know what you might want to see in the future Cage Match videos!

Speaking of which, how perfect is it that I'll have both Reichbusters and Wolfenstein in my hands? Sounds like a perfect next entry in the series to me! :D

I gotta hustle on these reviews. I like to play the game quite a few times before a review, and my reviews are fairly involved when it comes to figuring out good examples to give when speaking about what I like...

Help me decide

Hey guys! So as you might know, I want to do more Cage Match videos and there are a lot of options to pick from. I need your help deciding what the setup should be for the next one :D

For those not in the know, or that just need a reminder: In the Cage Match series I'll be pitting 1 game versus another in a 1v1 video talking about the similarities, differences, pros and cons. in the end I'll pick just a single winner.

If I do enough of these I'll do an "All Star" or "Championshi...

A new painter joins us

One of my favorite aspects of running this channel is learning that I've introduced the hobby (board games in general or miniature painting) to someone who ends up trying it out and enjoying it.

This is actually especially true with miniature painting. So often people assume they won't do a good job, that it'll be too difficult. That's a large part of why I started this channel in the first place and was monumental in my decision for a channel name. My entire goal is incredibly modest...

Early Access Minis

Hey guys! Not a long post here but I finished my next video and figured, what the heck why not share it with my awesome patrons and YouTube members :D

So here's Monday's video a bit early for ya. As an FYI, I already have Nefetat (the lady sitting on the throne) prepped, primed and planned :D

Also I will be getting a review copy here soon so I'll be sure to let you guys know exactly what I think of the game itself once I get a few play sessions with it.

Also also, going t...

It's Official

A picture's worth a thousand words, but I'll write some here anyway :)

As you probably heard, I'll be going to Gen Con this year! I've already booked the hotel and will have the plane tickets soon as well. THIS IS ALL THANKS TO YOU!

Really, I couldn't be doing this without you guys. It's rather expensive to fly 2 people there and stay at a hotel during this time, plus dealing with child care while we're gone and needing some new equipment to handle how mobile we'll be during the...

Kickstarter Video Early Access

Hey guys! I got done with a video early so decided to go ahead and let you guys watch it a bit early - hope you like it :)

By the way, what do you think of the format?

Gen Con, pregnancy painting & playing games

It's hard to believe, but Gen Con badge registration opens up soon and I plan to be right there when it happens. While I wasn't able to go thanks to losing my job I had already made plans to personally meet and speak, 1 on 1 with many game developers and designers - even had a few exclusive previews in the works along with interviews and showcases.

Thanks to ALL OF YOU that won't happen again. Regardless of what life throws at me (financially) I plan on utilizing Patreon directly to en...

Good enough

Earlier today I was joking with some of you guys on Discord about the names of my Patreon scales and the term good enough game up. Incidentally, it's something I, and I think many of you guys also struggle with.

What is good enough? When is it good enough and should we be okay with that? Later on my friend came over with some of his pathfinder minis to paint with me and the minis are honestly pretty terrible.

Again I found myself saying "good enough" about my paint job. Is it th...

Resolutions and changes

Hey guys! I'll be honest, we're not big on celebrating New Year stuff - however, when it comes to setting goals for work stuff I'm a big supporter of it. So with that in mind, here's some of the things I've been wanting to really do more of with the channel, but first, some stats!

Those are my YouTube stats for 2019 and I couldn't be happier with them. I love the connection I'v...

Catching Up

Friday's video is recorded and ready to be edited today. After editing that I hope to read through the Death May Die rulebook so we can play that tomorrow. Hope it's as good as what people have been saying!

Saturday I hope to spend a lot of time painting Fade so I should have some pictures of her in my next update here - excited to start!

Another goal I have is to actually start painting my Conan minis up more for future use with the new Conan Kickstarter :) It's been long overdue...

Sneak Peek of "the big one"!

That's right guys. Feast your eyes on the list so far! There's still a couple of checks I want to make but by and large this is the bulk of the soon to be live video of upcoming 2020 Kickstarters. I was sitting here thinking while setting up the script: "Why don't I share this with my Patrons for a bit of an early access view?" and I couldn't think of a reason not to :P

I wanted to also give you guys a quick update on me on a personal level. I've been fairly candid with you guys here a...

All systems go

Have you ever just gotten really pumped and felt you've hit your stride? I regret to say that I tend to only feel this when my videos are doing well mainly because it's a huge downer to spend hours on something and find that most people don't care much about it...a topic for a different day perhaps. But that doesn't matter because my videos are and so I feel pumped! It's also nice just to really hammer away at what I want out of the hobby :D

As you can see in the image above I painted s...

This can't happen again.

I'm in quite the pickle. It's no one's fault really, but I need to guard against it happening again.

My Dawn of Madness review is going to be difficult. Not because I'm conflicted or anything like that, you guys know me, I tend to have a pretty definite opinion about most things. Instead it'll be difficult to word.

Again, not because I'm afraid of saying anything negative, but instead because I want to ensure I communicate things properly. So often even if I say something, viewe...

Picking Just One

Hey guys! I'm just wrapping up my first 3 weeks at my new job and it's kind of conflicting. On the one hand the company, team, environment and general attitude is a breath of fresh air compared to my old job, but at the same time I'm highly stressed and worried constantly. I know I shouldn't be but I can't feel "comfortable" anymore at work. I hope in time that passes and I can once again feel confident at work. Until then I'm pressuring myself into staying late, working from home and just ge...

Scheduling

This is pretty much the bane of my existence here on YouTube. I suppose I should be thankful but it can be hard to deal with as well: I have too many ideas.

There's so much I want to do! So many videos I'd love to make for you guys. I just got done scheduling the next two months of videos (I swap them fairly often though) and it's really hard to keep my list of perpetually-not-filmed-or-published videos. Here's a small sampling of some of them.

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What's up?

Hey guys! First, right off the bat I want to welcome everyone new to the group! We have such an amazing community here and I'm thankful for all of you. Heck just before coming to write this update I was gushing about the community because someone asked a question on my latest video and 2 separate people took the time to write detailed responses to him. That's really, really cool and I do firmly believe you guys make up the best darn community in this hobby.

I could shower you guys with...

What's up?

Hey guys! Life has been pretty hectic as you well know by now but I just wanted to say how happy I am to finally be able to make that behind the scenes video for you guys!

I have a video coming up shortly and hopefully another play session for a future review later today but tomorrow I'll put in my A-Game to write a proper lengthy update telling you guys all about it.

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend - make it a point to play a game with friends/loved ones! :)

Changes

Hey guys! I wanted to sync up with all of you and give you a little insight into this side of things currently.

I'm behind. Not behind in releasing videos. I'm still doing my best to pump out at least 2 a week, but of what I want to do.

I feel on one hand it's a good thing to always want to do more. I have so many other ideas, so much more I want to say. I have entire series of videos conceptualized, planned, and continually delayed FOR MONTHS in my Trello (a cloud based task pl...

The Truth

Those of you on Discord have known there was something up in my personal life for several months now, and those here only on Patreon might only just now be getting inklings about it.

It's time I told you guys everything. Please know that I wasn't trying to hide it from you all. I'm normally a very open person and generally don't understand the whole "private family matter" when it's just someone being sick or something like that.

But in this instance I've felt such a huge mix of e...