How to Play: Paleo

Description from BGG:

Paleo is a co-operative adventure game set in the stone age, a game in which players try to keep the human beings in their care alive while completing missions. Sometimes you need a fur, sometimes a tent, but these are all minor quests compared to your long-term goal: Painting a woolly mammoth on the wall so that humans thousands of years later will know that you once existed. (Okay, you just think the mammoth painting looks cool. Preserving a record of your past existence is gravy.)

What might keep you from painting that mammoth? Death, in all its many forms.

Each player starts the game with a couple of humans, who each have a skill and a number of life points. On a turn, each player chooses to go to one location — possibly of the same type as other players, although not the same location — and while you have some idea of what you might find there, you won't know for sure until you arrive, at which point you might acquire food or resources, or find what you need to craft a useful object, or discover that you can aide someone else in their project, or suffer a snakebite that brings you close to death. Life is full of both wonders and terrors...

At the day's end, you need food for all the people in your party as well as various crafts or skills that allow you to complete quests. Failure to do so adds another skull on the tote board, and once you collect enough of those, you decide that living is for fools and give up the ghost, declaring that future humans can just admire someone else, for all you care.

Paleo includes multiple modules that allow for a variety of people, locations, quests, and much more during your time in 10,000 BCE.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Start
1:54 - First Game Prep
3:22 - Key Concepts
4:33 - Modules
4:56 - Goal
5:40 - Setup
9:17 - Day Phase
12:01 - Cards
16:15 - Example Turn
17:48 - Cards (Continued)
19:48 - Crafting
21:07 - Rewards
21:35 - The Night Phase
22:38 - A New Day
23:01 - Game End

[Senteri]

Calm, clearly explained with good background music. Not too fast, enough repetition to make it click in my mind. Great visuals and nice voice to listen to. With some small subtle jokes to keep the audience from losing focus. A sublime video.

[monki]

Thanks for a great explanation, really gave a great basic understanding before our first play! I just have one remark: you mention that, after choosing a card from the top 3 cards of your deck, the other 2 can be put back in any order you wish. As far as I understand from the rules and several sources, you CAN'T change them and have to keep the original order...

[Skarpo]

Just bought Paleo, didn't expect to have such a good rules video available. Excellent work!

[tryshchenko]

This is by far the best video I’ve found about this game on YouTube. Thank you!

[rhodesnbgg]

Best Paleo video I've seen! Glad I found your channel. Definitely subscribed and looking forward to more.

[alexandersnider]

This is a great video, how are you not huge already?!

[gthdmaiden]

Great how to play video!!! Easily the best explanation of the game on youtube without spoiling any of the content

[BoardGameHangover]

This is why our channel most likely will never get in to "how to play's". There are so many good videos out there already. And yours are really outstanding.

[UnjoyerPlays]

Here. Have a sub. This video is perfect to go along with the included materials for the game. Started Paleo today with my wife and your video helps us explain things that the included books are kind of hazy about. That way we can get to our fun faster and I do thank you for that as for family people time is limited :) I saw you also have a Jamaica video up which I have my eye on once Paleo gets dull. If you have any other games to suggest I'd appreciate that. Our req. is playable, but not limited for 2 people :) TRPG's are out for the time being.

[babyrne]

Great video. Really helped a lot. Played this tonight for the first time and made a good few mistakes, so this video really helped me answer some of my questions. Thanks!

[Emily_VT]

Wow, just found this channel. Freaking awesome teach!

[luisc]

I see it has been said. But I need to say it myself. My god what an AWESOME video. Thanks for this content.

[rad_sci_guy]

Love the use of the Age of Empires music. Loved that game. This game also caught my eye because of the theme. Your how to play was great.

[royvalstar]

Thx for the how to play video. Was a bit hesitant to go through the rule book because i was reading online that it was not that good. So i watched your video and i thought “thats not that difficult”. Read the rulebook and its not that difficult 😅 if you have some experience with gaming and action symbols then the game plays quite smooth. I won the first game we played yesterday (2P). Good game.

[smoogums]

Hey great video I hope you keep doing more board games it's a great resource.

[marks]

Great video, very clear, thank you 🙏

[poguemike]

Amazing teach! The music is so groovy!!👍

[FranzBazar]

Excellent how to video. Subscribed! Personally I prefer your how to video over the Rodney Smith videos. He’s a nice guy I’m sure, but I like your style better!

[jhowd]

I just here for the rise of this channel

[MikeSiggins]

Really enjoyed this. Where do you get the music?