Learning The Law of ROOTbotics (ROOTbot Academy #0)

I’d like to imagine that I’ve gotten better at a number of things since the last time I brought this sort of content to you (you know, the filming, speaking, editing, and rules stuff, that is), and I wanted to put a new coat of paint on the series in preparation for the forthcoming Clockwork 2 expansion.

This first video had a decent amount of global considerations to go over as well as the backstory and me talking about my plans for future editing I may need (hopefully minimal), so this will hopefully be the longest of the ROOTbot Academy videos… no promises, but I’lll do my best to keep them under this length 🙂

So whether this is your first time learning about the ROOTbots or you go way back to the spring of 2020 with the first-ever video on this channel, thanks for being here and have a great time!

———-TIMESTAMPS…
0:00 – Greetings & Intro
2:52 – A note about future edits
3:44 – What’s the deal with GIVEPAUSE?
4:10 – The Law of ROOTbotics starting with the Law of ROOT
———-SETUP WITH BOTS: ROOTbotics section 3…
6:29 – 3.1 – Priority Markers
7:05 – 3.2 – Assign Factions
7:55 – 3.3 – Difficulty and Trait Cards
11:46 – 3.4 – Draw Starting Hands (and Dominance Cards)
———-NEW RULES: ROOTbotics section 2…
14:34 – A few comments about the rules
15:38 – 2.7 – Order Cards
16:40 – 2.1 – Clearing Target Priority
18:35 – 2.2 – Faction Target Priority
20:24 – 2.3 – Target Legality
22:22 – 2.4 – Action Order
22:58 – 2.5 – “Such a…”
24:07 – 2.6 – “Humans” and “Bots”
24:51 – 2.8 – Abilities
———-CHANGES TO THE LAW: ROOTbotics section 1…
27:14 – 1.1 – Crafting
28:30 – 1.2 – Battling
29:16 – 1.3 – Dominance Cards
———-OTHER STUFF…
29:36 – Fully Cooperative Play
32:59 – Debrief & Goodbye

MY PLACES…
LinkTree:
Website: givepausehobby.com
Twitter:
Instagram (this is new!):

MORE ROOT STUFF…
BETTER BOT PROJECT
If you’re interested in this or any of the other free-to-print BBP factions, head on over to Board Game Geek to get the most up-to-date files as well as read any discussions that might be taking place:

MY FLOWCHART
And if you catch a glimpse of the inside of my Root box cover, my homemade Root faction flowchart (with major props to Tom Teaches for the better icons) is available to print and have with you at all times, in case you or other players need some help with faction choice. Also, this will be getting a total overhaul with the new factions sometime this spring once I’ve had more time to play around with them:

MY POEM ABOUT THE FLOWCHART
This was my entry to the 60-Second Root competition to help celebrate the Marauder Expansion, wherein I confess my undying love for the game in the form of prose, referencing the aforementioned flowchart and what it means for a game to inspire _this_ much creativity in its fans:

MY TRUMPET EXERCISES
Speaking of undying love and creativity, here are the eight exercises I wrote for trumpet inspired by the eight factions currently in print (the rats and badgers will have to be added soon!):

ROOT THE MUSICAL!?
Okay, now I’m just being ridiculous. This was ANOTHER creative project that sort of lit my brain on fire for one weekend… I made a spoof on a different song from a different Broadway musical for each of the currently published factions… I know… usually this is when someone says “get a hobby” but clearly I already have one…

MY THANK YOUs:

MUSIC!
“Onion Capers” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

LEDER GAMES!
For the incredible work that every member of the Leder team puts into titles like Root in order to transport us to the ruthless, wondrous woodlands, from the bottom of my heart I thank you. I also additionally thank Kyle Ferrin and the Leder team for making some of his ridiculously good Root artwork available for the 60-second Root competition so I could make this new venture look that much prettier (all rights reserved to Leder Games and Kyle Ferrin as applicable).

VIEWERS!
Thanks for being here!

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