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'''Trogdor!! The Board Game Rulebook EP''' is an album of twelve [[songs]] performed by various [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] [[characters]] for [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]. Each song is roughly one to two minutes long, and briefly summarize the rules for playing the game, from the actions that can be performed on each turn to the movement behaviors of the [[peasants]] and [[The Red and Blue Knights|knights]]. The album was revealed in a Kickstarter update on April 15, 2019, and is hosted on the official [[homestarrunner.com|Homestar Runner website]] with its songs made free to download individually. The Kickstarter update states that videos may be made eventually, and the songs will eventually be added to the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game Website#Soundboard|Trogdor!! Soundboard]].
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'''Trogdor!! The Board Game Rulebook EP''' is an album of twelve [[songs]] performed by various [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] [[characters]] for [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]. Each song is roughly one to two minutes long, and briefly summarizes the rules for playing the game, from the actions that can be performed on each turn to the movement behaviors of the [[peasants]] and [[The Red and Blue Knights|knights]]. The album was revealed in a Kickstarter update on April 15, 2019, and is hosted on the official [[homestarrunner.com|Homestar Runner website]] with its songs made free to download individually. Some music videos have been made, and more may be released in the future. The songs can also be found on the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game Website#Soundboard|Trogdor!! Soundboard]].
==Track Listing==
==Track Listing==
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*'''[[#Quickstart Overview|Quickstart Overview]]''' ([[Strong Bad]]) — 1:52
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{| class="sortable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5  style="border-collapse:collapse" width="85%"
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*'''[[#The Actions You Can Do|The Actions You Can Do]]''' ([[Homestar Runner]]) — 0:56
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|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
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*'''[[#Keepers of Trogdor|Keepers of Trogdor]]''' ([[theme song|Some Variety of Neville]]) — 1:06
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! width="10%"|Number !! width="35%"|Title !! width="30%"|Artist !! width="10%"|Length !! width="15%"|Video
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*'''[[#The Wraparound|The Wraparound]]''' ([[Coach Z]]) — 1:07
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*'''[[#Surround the Cottages|Surround the Cottages]]''' ([[Cool Tapes]]) — 0:38
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*'''[[#Peasant Spawning (is Confusion)|Peasant Spawning (is Confusion)]]''' ([[Strong Sad]]) — 1:13
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|'''[[Quickstart Overview]]'''
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*'''[[#When The Knight Moves Thru Ya|When The Knight Moves Thru Ya]]''' ([[Limozeen]]) — 0:49
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|''[[Strong Bad]]''
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*'''[[#The Archer|The Archer]]''' ([[Bigg Nife]]) — 1:09
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|1:52
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*'''[[#Don't Forget to Recharge|Don't Forget to Recharge]]''' (Strong Bad) — 0:44
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|[[Quickstart Overview (video)|Video]]
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*'''[[#The Troghammer|The Troghammer]]''' ([[Taranchula]]) — 1:00
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*'''[[#Forget the Rules|Forget the Rules]]''' ([[sloshy]]) — 0:58
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*'''[[#Trogdor's Fiery Rage|Trogdor's Fiery Rage]]''' ([[Brainkrieg]]) — 0:42
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|'''[[The Actions You Can Do]]'''
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|''[[Homestar Runner]]''
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==Transcripts==
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|0:56
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===[[Quickstart Overview (video)|Quickstart Overview]]===
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|[[The Actions You Can Do (video)|Video]]
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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This is the quickstart overview<br>
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I'ma tell you all the things that you're supposed to do<br>
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|'''[[Keepers of Trogdor]]'''
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The facts are many, the details are few<br>
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|''[[theme song|Some Variety of Neville]]''
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So come on and listen to my overvieeew!
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|1:06
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|''None''
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''{rapping}''<br>
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Now Trogdor is a game that's cooperative<br>
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You can play it by yourself or with your stepmom's kids<br>
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|'''[[The Wraparound]]'''
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And if you wanna find out what the object is<br>
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|''[[Coach Z]]''
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Just remember all the awesome stuff that Trogdor did!
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|1:07
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|''None''
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Number one!<br>
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Burninate the countryside!<br>
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Flip all the tiles to the side that's fried!<br>
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|'''[[Surround the Cottages]]'''
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Number two!<br>
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|''[[Cool Tapes]]''
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Burninate the peasants!<br>
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|0:38
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Clear the board of the presence<br>
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|''None''
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Of these persons, in order to defeat 'em<br>
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You can eat 'em or burn 'em!<br>
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That'll learn 'em!<br>
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|'''[[Peasant Spawning (is Confusion)]]'''
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Number three!<br>
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|''[[Strong Sad]]''
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The thatched-roof cottages!<br>
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|1:13
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There's only three of these but the problem is<br>
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|''None''
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You gotta inundate these domiciles with burnination<br>
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Before you can incinerate them from creation
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|'''[[When The Knight Moves Thru Ya]]'''
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That sounds easy... for Trogdor anyways<br>
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|''[[Limozeen]]''
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So what's to stop his beefy arm from winnin' the game?<br>
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|0:49
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''{singing}''<br>
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|''None''
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You got the knights, the archers, and the Troghammer<br>
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Wanna steal all the peasants from your Trog-Meter
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|'''[[The Archer]]'''
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''{rapping}''<br>
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|''[[Bigg Nife]]''
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And undo all your hard-earned burnination<br>
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|1:09
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Fixing tiles and roofs of peasant habitation<br>
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|''None''
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And if they hit you when you're all outta energy,<br>
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Just watch what happens when Trogdor gets angry!<br>
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|'''[[Don't Forget to Recharge]]'''
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''{speaking}''<br>
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|''Strong Bad''
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Oooh!<br>
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|0:44
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I'm talkin' rage quits... table flips...<br>
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|''None''
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Takes his toys and splits
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''{singing}''<br>
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|'''[[The Troghammer]]'''
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This is the quickstart overview<br>
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|''[[Taranchula]]''
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I'ma tell you all the things that you're supposed to do<br>
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|1:00
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The facts are many, the details are few<br>
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|''None''
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So come on and listen to my overvieeew!
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''{speaking}''<br>
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|'''[[Forget the Rules]]'''
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Ohh, the overview!<br>
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|''[[sloshy]]''
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It's like the view from above!<br>
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|0:58
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Where you can see everything in...<br>
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|''None''
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Uh... broad strokes.
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===The Actions You Can Do===
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|'''[[Trogdor's Fiery Rage (song)|Trogdor's Fiery Rage]]'''
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'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing out of key and rhythm}''<br>
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|''[[Brainkrieg]]''
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These are the actions that you can do<br>
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On your turn when you're playing the board game, Trogdor!!<br>
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|[[Trogdor's Fiery Rage (video)|Video]]
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The Board Game. You can move or chomp or<br>
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Hide or burrow or even burninate!
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''{speaking}'' Hey, that was great! It was ''super'' catchy! Everyone's gonna remember this one! Again!
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''{continues singing}''<br>
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These are the things that you can do<br>
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When you go into your house and inside your house<br>
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You have a couple friends and maybe a snack<br>
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And then play a board game, called Trogdor!! The Board Game<br>
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And these are the actions that you can do, they are<br>
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Move and chomp and hide and burrow and burninate!
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''{speaking}'' What'd I tell ya? ''Super'' catchy!
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Super catchy!
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Never forget!
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===Keepers of Trogdor===
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'''SOME VARIETY OF NEVILLE:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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They're the Keepers of Trogdor and they're livin' their lives<br>
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Tryin' to make sure that Trogdor survives<br>
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A mysterious bunch, but soon you will learn<br>
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They each have a power that you can use on your turn!
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Keepin' for you! (la la la la)<br>
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Creepin' for me! (la la la la)<br>
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Keepin' for Trogdor like a family!<br>
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Hegeltha and Brovelade, Yubbitz and Stonklar<br>
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Each of them has a great power that you don't have to recharge!<br>
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(I said-a party, party!)<br>
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(That you don't have to recharge!)<br>
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(I said-a party, party!)
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'''TV ANNOUNCER:''' The Keepers of Trogdor is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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''{applause}''
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'''KEEPER 1:''' Who left the lid of the peanut butter jar up?<br>
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'''KEEPER 2:''' I think you mean toilet seat, yes?<br>
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'''KEEPER 1:''' There's a difference?
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''{laughter}''
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'''GRUFF ANNOUNCER:''' Weekdays at 7:30.
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===The Wraparound===
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'''COACH Z:''' ''{rapping}''<br>
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Now here's a praeblem Boardelectrix had to contend with:<br>
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How you make a five-by-five grid seem endless?<br>
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Can't have the bad guys stuck in the ground,<br>
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So whaddaya do? You give 'em wraparound!<br>
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Wraparound! From the east to the west!<br>
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Let's wraparound! From the right to the left!<br>
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Got to wraparound, narth to south,<br>
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I'm rappin' wraparound with my invisible mouth!
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Let's say I'm a peasant on the far left of the board:<br>
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I want to move west, but I can't be ignored!<br>
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How I'm supposed to reach my desired destination?<br>
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Wraparound the map around with no hesitation!
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Oh, wraparound! Archers and knights!<br>
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The wraparound! All the peasants unite!<br>
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They do the wraparound, sisters and brothers,<br>
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Let's wrap around the map from one side to the other!
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''{speaking}'' Ohh, dag! I give a shout to Wormdingler!<br>
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Roberta Williams, the King's Quest!<br>
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The wraparound...<br>
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Sorry, Tragdor! You can't do it.
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===Surround the Cottages===
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'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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Surround those cottages all the way around<br>
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Even the diagonal tiles! (Whoa-oh!)<br>
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Don't forget the tile that the cottage is on<br>
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And then you can set it on fire! (Hoo-ray!)
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Burninate the thatched-roof cottages! (Yeah-yeah-yeah!)<br>
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Burninate the thatched-roof cottages! (Yeah!)
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If a cottage lives on the edge of the board<br>
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It's easier to burninate! (Whoa-oh!)<br>
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The cottage in the corner is a good place to start<br>
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Everything will go real great! (Yeah!)
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Burninate the thatched-roof cottages! (Yeah-yeah-yeah!)<br>
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Burninate the thatched-roof cottages!
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Cool Tapes!
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===Peasant Spawning (is Confusion)===
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'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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Flip over a movement card<br>
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Count the peasants in the corner<br>
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If that number is more than what's on the board<br>
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New peasants will be born<br>
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One per unburninated cottage, is the maximum wattage<br>
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Of peasant spawnage<br>
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On a single turn<br>
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Peasant spawning is confusion<br>
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Peasant spawning takes some getting used to<br>
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Peasant spawning is confusion<br>
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Peasant spawning takes some getting used to<br>
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''{voiceover, speaking as chorus repeats}''<br>
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Exceptions: If a peasant is already on an unburninated cottage, then no peasant can spawn there. If there are no peasants left in the Trog-Meter, then no peasant can spawn. If all the cottages are already burninated, then you just can't spawn any peasants!
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===When The Knight Moves Thru Ya===
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'''LIMOZEEN:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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When a knight steps to ya <br>
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Ya move a peasant into the void!<br>
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When a knight moves through ya <br>
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Trogdor's gettin' annoyed!
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After all the burnination<br>
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And peasant snacks<br>
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Get ready for consternation<br>
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As the countryside fights back!
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When a knight steps to ya<br>
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Ya move a peasant into the void, void, void!<br>
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When a knight moves through ya<br>
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Trogdor's gettin' annoyed, -noyed, -noyed -noyed, -noyed...dah!
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===The Archer===
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'''BIGG NIFE:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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The archer shoots in the direction of his last move<br>
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Forward and backward across a column or row<br>
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But the arrow doesn't hit the tile that he's standing on<br>
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Arrowed!<br>
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Remember their involvement<br>
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Haldo!<br>
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It's Mendelev and Dongolev<br>
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Arrowed!<br>
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Remember their involvement<br>
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Haldo! Arrowed! Haldo! Arrowed!<br>
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The archer himself cannot damage Trogdor<br>
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Only the arrows shot from his bow<br>
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Arrowed!<br>
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Remember their involvement<br>
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Haldo!<br>
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It's Mendelev and Dongolev<br>
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Arrowed!<br>
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Remember their involvement<br>
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Haldo! Arrowed! Haldo! Arrowed!<br>
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===Don't Forget to Recharge===
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking}''
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Item powers! Let's go!
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''{singing}'' Don't forget to recharge your item powers<br>
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Those item powers, they need to be recharged!<br>
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Once you've used all your item powers,<br>
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Turn it sideways until it gets recharged!
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Tonight we're gonna make it happen<br>
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Tonight we're gonna make it happen on this tabletop tonight!<br>
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Everybody!
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'''STRONG BAD, COACH Z, HOMESTAR:'''
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Don't forget to recharge your item powers<br>
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Those item powers, they need to be recharged!<br>
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Don't forget to recharge your item powers<br>
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But your Keeper powers don't need to be recharged!
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===The Troghammer===
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'''TARANCHULA:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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I'm the Troghammer<br>
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I might move multiple times in one turn<br>
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I'm the Troghammer<br>
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I repair the cottages Trogdor burns
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Set my cards aside (Set my cards aside)<br>
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Before the game begins (Before the game begins)<br>
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When Trogdor first takes damage (When Trogdor first takes damage)<br>
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Shuffle them in!
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I'm the Troghammer!<br>
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I might move multiple times in one turn!<br>
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I'm the Troghammer!<br>
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I repair the cottages Trogdor burns!
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''{evil laughter}''
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===Forget the Rules===
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'''SLOSHY:''' ''{singing}''<br>
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Doesn't matter if you (unh!) forget the rules<br>
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Doesn't matter at all (It doesn't matter)<br>
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If you forget, for instance, (unh!) to move the knights<br>
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Just move 'em on the next turn (Yeah, I don't break a sweat)
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Make up your own house rules<br>
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If you think that it would make it more fun (Oh, it definitely would)<br>
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If items recharged on anyone's turn<br>
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It'd easier to get the job done (Yeah, that's the way my friend Doug plays it)
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Doesn't matter if you (unh!) tear up the rules...
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...'Cuz I was never coming over to your house to play it anyways.<br>
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Stop calling. (I won't.)
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===Trogdor's Fiery Rage===
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==Fun Facts==
==Fun Facts==
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===Trivia===
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*Strong Bad is the only artist credited twice.
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*This album marks the first song ever heard by Bigg Nife.
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*The video for Trogdor's Fiery Rage includes an unlisted bonus song by Homestar Runner, "Did You Win?".
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*"The Wraparound" was previously posted in the February 21, 2019 Kickstarter update, and "Quickstart Overview" was posted in the Kickstarter update that revealed the album.
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*"Don't Forget to Recharge" is sung in the same style as "[[Trogday 08|The S is for Sucks]]"
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===Inside References===
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* According to Bigg Nife's song, the Archers in the board game are [[Mendelev and Dongolev]].
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*"Trogdor's Fiery Rage" refers to Trogdor as "Troggie", which he was also called in [[Happy Trogday]].
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*One member of sloshy refers to his friend [[Douglas|Doug]].
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*Brainkrieg ends their song with a phrase beginning with D-E ("deck of cards"), followed by "jugga jigga wugga", as they did in [[death metal]].
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===Real-World References===
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==See Also==
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*"The Keepers of Trodgor", like Some Variety Of Neville's previous song, is patterned after sitcom themes. Announcers at the end of the song resemble real announcements that would come after these theme songs.
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*[[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]]
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*Coach Z refers to [[wikipedia:Roberta Williams|Roberta Williams]], designer of the original [[wikipedia:King's Quest I|King's Quest]], which featured a wraparound map.
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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[[HR:rulebookEP.html|View album download page]]
*[[HR:rulebookEP.html|View album download page]]
*[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1999933720/trogdor-the-board-game/posts/2480512 View Kickstarter post]
*[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1999933720/trogdor-the-board-game/posts/2480512 View Kickstarter post]
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*[http://trogdorboardgame.homestarrunner.com/soundboard/ View soundboard page]
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*[https://open.spotify.com/album/3njh4xekbwIT1kduIuuRCE?si=9ouU0Y3eQ5uIxEkB41_YNQ Listen on Spotify]
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Revision as of 03:49, 26 October 2019

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"We hope you guys enjoy these dumb songs!"

Trogdor!! The Board Game Rulebook EP is an album of twelve songs performed by various Homestar Runner characters for Trogdor!! The Board Game. Each song is roughly one to two minutes long, and briefly summarizes the rules for playing the game, from the actions that can be performed on each turn to the movement behaviors of the peasants and knights. The album was revealed in a Kickstarter update on April 15, 2019, and is hosted on the official Homestar Runner website with its songs made free to download individually. Some music videos have been made, and more may be released in the future. The songs can also be found on the Trogdor!! Soundboard.

Contents

Track Listing

Number Title Artist Length Video
1 Quickstart Overview Strong Bad 1:52 Video
2 The Actions You Can Do Homestar Runner 0:56 Video
3 Keepers of Trogdor Some Variety of Neville 1:06 None
4 The Wraparound Coach Z 1:07 None
5 Surround the Cottages Cool Tapes 0:38 None
6 Peasant Spawning (is Confusion) Strong Sad 1:13 None
7 When The Knight Moves Thru Ya Limozeen 0:49 None
8 The Archer Bigg Nife 1:09 None
9 Don't Forget to Recharge Strong Bad 0:44 None
10 The Troghammer Taranchula 1:00 None
11 Forget the Rules sloshy 0:58 None
12 Trogdor's Fiery Rage Brainkrieg 0:42 Video

Fun Facts

  • Strong Bad is the only artist credited twice.
  • The video for Trogdor's Fiery Rage includes an unlisted bonus song by Homestar Runner, "Did You Win?".

See Also

External Links

Trogdor!! The Board Game Rulebook EP
1 Quickstart Overview (video) 7 When The Knight Moves Thru Ya
2 The Actions You Can Do (video) 8 The Archer
3 Keepers of Trogdor 9 Don't Forget to Recharge
4 The Wraparound 10 The Troghammer
5 Surround the Cottages 11 Forget the Rules
6 Peasant Spawning (is Confusion) 12 Trogdor's Fiery Rage (video)
Retrieved from "http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Trogdor!!_The_Board_Game_Rulebook_EP"
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