Dolmenwood Unboxing

The Moment Has Arrived

Dolmenwood just got delivered, but this box is torn up. I’m a little worried about it—it’s also wet and it’s not raining here. I’m going to get it open because I’m worried it’s been sitting soaked somewhere. This is the one with all the limited edition stuff.

The moment I’ve been waiting for two years is finally here. I made some mushroom soup to celebrate.

The Cloth Maps and Extras

We’ve got the cloth players map and cloth referee map. There’s a cool patch for eventually when I get a battle vest made. The dice pouch is great. And the XXL t-shirt—when I Kickstarted this, it would have been tight on me, but I’m almost at a 2X now. Hopefully by this time next year I’ll be down to at least a 1X.

The Dice

I was worried about readability since I’m a high contrast kind of guy, but seeing them in person they’re pretty solid. This d20 feels like a Dice Baron d20—definitely heavier and chunkier than base Chessex.

The important thing: the mushroom is the 20, not the 1!

First 3d6 roll is an 11. I’ll take it. Let me write down this first character: 11, 7, 17… we’re just rolling. 13, 14, and then the 6. There we go—balanced out.

The Dice Bag

This is like wax canvas feel. Not super thick but very high quality with great embroidery. The string part is a little cheesy, but I’ll probably make my own leather catch. The bag itself is awesome.

The Books

Anything Exalted Funeral does is amazing. High quality. Gavin Norman is a genius—anything from Necrotic Gnome. I was never worried about getting it or the quality, just excited.

There’s charts and tables in the back, a maps book with gorgeous art, and the players book. I intentionally haven’t spoiled Dolmenwood for myself, which has been very hard. I have big dreams for what I’m going to do with it.

Special Edition Comparison

The special editions have the same art as the standard covers, which I like—special editions should be special but shouldn’t make the normal copies feel bad. The special editions are embossed with that finish on the text.

These will be my “look at on the bookshelf and make me happy” books. The standard ones will be the ones I actually use and bring upstairs to read.

The Adventure Books

Same size as the Necrotic Gnome adventures I already have. These adventures are so awesome—they make them so easy to run and reference with maps at the front.

The Miniatures

I wasn’t too interested in the miniatures initially—I don’t typically like pre-assembled miniatures of this style. But they’re not flimsy plastic. I’m going pretty hard on bending them and they’re not giving.

Some standouts: the guy with the mushroom shield, this dude with the heavy Reaper vibes, and the archer with her dog. I said I wasn’t excited about these, but some of them I actually am pretty excited about.

The Maps

The referee’s map has a felt feeling—just like the Dragonbane cloth mat. Not too thick but stitched on the sides to keep it from fraying. I like how big the hexes are—you could fit a party of four without too much struggle.

I love this art on the players map. So awesome.

What’s Next

There’s going to be some Dolmenwood content coming for sure. I don’t want to talk about it—I want to be about it. Stay tuned.

Transcript

Dolman wood just got delivered, but this box is tore up. I’m a little bit worried about it. Almost dropped it. It’s uh it’s pretty busted up. It’s also wet and it’s not raining here.

So, I’m going to get it open just cuz I’m worried that it’s been sitting soaked somewhere for a while. And this is the one that has all the limited edition stuff in it. So, I’m going to get it open and then I’ll go through it. So, it won’t be like a cool unboxing video, but I just got to get it out of this. >> Okay, everything’s out and safe.

Look how well packaged this was. Uh crazy. The moment’s finally here. I’ve made some mushroom soup to celebrate and commemorate the moment I have been waiting for for two years. All right, we got cloth players map and cloth referee map, which I should probably put so you can see.

Um, I think I can’t remember. I think the the it came with a refere referees map, but maybe not the cloth players map originally. I know I had to add one of them. Uh, cool patch for eventually I’m going to get a battle vest made and I’ll definitely show that on the channel. Uh, dice pouch XX t-shirt.

What’s crazy is when I kickstarted this, I this would have been tight on me, a trip XX, and I’m still a big boy, but I’m This almost I mean, it’s going to fit me for sure, but I’m almost at a 2X. And hopefully by this time next year, I I’ll be down to at least a 1X. Oh man, it’s so cool. Dolmanwood little dwarf boys. Dwarf nomies.

I don’t know what they are. I uh I intentionally haven’t spoiled I’m making Let me make sure I’m in frame here. I intentionally haven’t spoiled Dolmanwood for myself, which which has been very hard. Uh one I I’m going to I have big dreams, you know. I’m not even going to talk about what I’m going to to do with it.

I’m just going to do it. And just know I have big dreams about Dolan war that for things I’ve been waiting to do. So, let’s move on. Wow. It’s uh this is like wax canvas feel.

And the canvas it’s not it’s not like super thick canvas, but it feels very high quality. This is very good embroidery. This is awesome. Probably the string. I I’ll probably put some like make my own leather catch like that cuz this is just this part is cheesy but the bag itself is awesome.

Saw these first. I was worried about readability cuz as you know I am a high contrast kind of guy. I seeing them in person uh that they’re pretty solid. These feel this D20 feels like a Dice Baron D20. I don’t know if they made them, but I’m just saying quality-wise, that’s what it feels like.

Uh, it is definitely heavier and chunkier than like a a base chest. Let’s see how she rolls. Oh, the important thing is the mushroom. The mushroom is the 20, not the one. All right, there’s the the d20.

And I love when dice sets come with 3d6. First 3d6 roll is an 11. I’ll take it. This is the lucky one. 11 7.

Woo. An 11 7. I should write this down. This is going to be the first character. Let me grab any scrap piece of paper.

What do we have? 11 7 17. We’re just I’m totally blanking on the character sheet right now, which is embarrassing. Uh these dice these dice are some character makers for sure. There’s a 13.

Uh hey, I I’ll take it. This one is that the one cuz that’s consistently low. One of these I’m getting a six like every time. So there is 14. Hey, this character Oh, there’s a six.

There we go. We had to get balanced out there. All right, we All right, this D4 is a big D4. Like, it’s just as big as the other dice, which is pretty cool. Um, as you know, I don’t use these percentiles too often.

Uh, but these are awesome in the pouch. Uh, the pins, I’m not really too sure uh what I’ll do with these. These are pretty cool, though. I’ll say these were the thing I was least interested in. If they were magnetic pins, it’d be cool because I could like use them to track like where people were on the map, but it’s pretty they’re pretty obviously not.

So, I don’t know. But they are they do feel nice. They look nice. Very cool. The case is definitely nice.

Uh patch. I’m going to keep this in here so it stays nice. Pretty straightforward. Um, maps. I think I’ll wait to open the maps up just because I’m definitely going to need more room than the current setup.

This campaign book, man. Nice open map on the inside. It’s uh anything Exalted Funeral does is amazing. High quality. I knew it.

I mean, Gavin’s also just a genius. Anything from Nicot. anything from Exhausted Training Roll. I’m was never worried about actually getting it. Was never worried about the quality of when I got it.

Uh was just very excited to get it and I’m glad it’s finally here. Charts and bat in the back. Um again, I don’t want to spoil it cuz I am going to go through it myself. Oh man, if I contents wise, I’m sure there’s tons of like fliproughs and stuff. This is more of just kind of quick overview.

A maps book. Oh, look at that. I like everything about this is so great. God, I love this art. God, it is so awesome.

I can spend so much time just flipping through here. Players book. Same thing. probably the cat is in the love these guys. So cool.

So cool. All right, so those are the normal books and then I’ll do um I’ll do the special edition books just so we can kind of compare them cuz I actually don’t I don’t know if they have if the books themselves have different covers or if it’s just a slip case that’s fancy, you know. Oh, this is awesome. It’s like that leatherrett. Oh, they are different or kind different.

Okay, so there’s normal monster book. Oh, am I crazy or did I not have a normal monster book? Oh, here it is. Okay. So, it’s it’s the same art, which I kind of like because you shouldn’t get the special editions should be special, but also like shouldn’t make normal people the normal copy feel bad.

So, I I like how it has uh this is this is embossed. Very nice. And the text on here is uh like has that finish on it. So, it’s different. Probably can see it.

This feels great. probably. Yeah, I’m I’m fairly certain the inside is totally the same. That would make sense. Back cover.

Very cool. Comparison of back cover printed in Lithuania. Campaign book. Campaign book art. Same thing.

So, I don’t think I mean I’ll do the comparison, but it’s the the a little bit shinier. What I really like is is the goat These will be like my look on my bookshelf and make me happy books. And then these will be the ones that I probably go hard in. The ones that I bring upstairs to actually read through on the couch and not scared to have around my children. Very cool.

And uh also the most important thing there are there are bookmarks in all these. That is one thing that I’m always constantly looking at. and double checking. Um, one, I have a straight line straight down my binding that I just realized on the campaign book. Um, I don’t know if it’s come through.

It’s very faint. Like, it’s very nitpicky. I don’t know what that’s from, but again, don’t. This one doesn’t have it, so I’m guessing it probably just got scratched, but that’s okay. It’s not that huge deal.

Now, I say that one, I’m just going to keep looking at it. All right. So, those are the books. Oh man. Which I I’m gonna read through.

They’re they’re thick, too. It’s like the campaign book is insane, which I guess is I think effectively the DM DM guy. Uh let’s look at referee screen. I just love this art style. I mean, there’s different art styles throughout the book, but I just really love how this looks.

Um, so I I do my roles in public. Uh, just because like some things like if something’s not important and I just need to know certain things or if it’s stuff that like it the players don’t necessarily need to know about it, uh, I’ll roll it where the players can’t see it. But any like attack rolls or anything like that, I roll in public. Uh, just because it’s more fun that way. Um, this is cool.

I guess I should lay out the full art so you can see the backside. Very cool. So, I’ll set this here. Uh, adventure books. These are like the same size as Necronic Gnome one.

Oh, wow. Interesting. So, these these Let me go check. I got to go check. Okay.

To my knowledge, I have every OSC adventure book. And I just got the one that came out on Black Friday, too. Are these the same size? Okay. Yeah, they’re the same size.

For a second, I thought it might be taller. So, I don’t understand number convention because like I me their print runs. 20 21 22 23 missing 24. What’s 24? Because now now that I know these all go together.

What is 24 and 25? because there’s 26 26 27 and 28 is Dolmanwood and then 29 and 30 are adventure anthologies. What is 24 and 25? I don’t know in the comments below. Let me know what is what’s necrotic known 24 25 and what goes from 02 to 20.

Oh, wait. Maybe I do know. We’re going to waste a little bit of time. That’s what it is. 20.

This is 24 is 25. So, I’m not crazy. Uh I I don’t know why that would have bothered me so much, but as far as I know and book format, I don’t have the combined books cuz I just like the little guys. As far as I know, I’ve got everything. But also, like what takes us from 00112 to 20?

Did they start at 20? Is it the magazines? What does what’s what’s their skew below 20? I’m done being silly. Maps at the front.

If you don’t know, if these adventures are just so awesome. They make them just so easy to run and reference. Boom. Okay, the miniatures. Uh, again, I’m actually not too uh interested in the miniatures.

I don’t typically like miniatures of this style. So, my hopes Oh, the box. My hopes aren’t too too high on them. So, I’m going to get this open and then I’ll get them on the turntable cuz I finally got it together. I’ll get them on the turntable so you can get some closeup views of them.

But really, let’s let’s see how they feel. So, these usually anytime something is molded to the base, I don’t like it. But this is it’s not flimsy plastic. Like, I’m going pretty hard on that and it’s not bending. It’s not It’s a little soft on the arms.

Mold line’s not too bad. Like, I’ll be And I I usually just hate pre-assembled, but this is not um not too bad. Cool, actually. Yeah. like it’s just a little little tiny mold on her.

The scale seems kind of small or at least smaller than what I was expecting it to be cuz like that’s at least maybe I mean again I just I just because I haven’t spoiled it but I thought that these would be bigger than humans. Um like so like I said I won’t make you look at all of them now but I’ll pull out some ones that I do I do love. This guy’s awesome. I definitely got to use him with his little mushroom shield. This dude is sick.

Um, I feel like this guy should be or this this looks like Yeah, this guy should be bigger because this is supposed to be a beast man. A goat a goat person. A goat individual. And then like in terms of I mean, yeah, he’s hunched over, but he’s just as tall as a Grimulkin, which is a cat. I don’t know.

This guy’s got heavy heavy reaper vibes. Like that one. I think this one could be my favorite except for the mushroom. I’m not sure you guys definitely my favorite, but I love how her dog’s there. That arrow is not terribly straight, but very cool.

Actually, I I said I wasn’t too excited about these, but some of these I actually am pretty excited about. So, I’ll get these on the turntable so you can see them. And that just leaves the maps. So, let’s take a look at them. I I kind of want to keep these in the bags.

Oh, cool. They’re ziplockc bags. So, I’ll just Which one is this one? This is This is referee’s map. Oh, I’m going to spoil some locations.

And I’m not going to rip the whole I’m not going to pull the whole mat out. I’m just trying to give you an idea of the quality of it cuz I think all of this you can go purchase on Exalted Funeral. Oh, it’s like it’s felt spelt feeling. It feels very good. It’s uh it feels like it feels just like the Dragon Bane cloth mat.

So, uh it’s good. I think thickness-wise it it’s probably not too too thick. Yeah, like that. That’s not folded over. That’s the thickness of it.

But it is stitched on the side, which is awesome. That’s the important part for masks like these. So, that’ll keep it from fraying. Um I like how big these hex’s are because you can actually like you can fit a couple different party like you can actually fit figures on it. you know, um, not very many.

Actually, how many can we put on here if everybody’s on the map to make everybody you could you could put fit a party of four uh without too much struggle. Pretty cool. But I usually um I use like symbols for the whole party. But anyway, that’s cool. I just I’ve just been looking at this.

I love this art on the players map right here. So awesome. All right, I’m going to get these figures on the turntable. So, give you some close-ups, and then I think that’ll round us out. Uh, there’s going to be some Dolmanwood content coming for sure as soon as I figure out a few things.

So, I don’t want to talk about it. I want to be about it. So, just wait. You got to stay tuned for that.