What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

Just received my copy of D-Day Dice. It was slow shipping but great communication from the team mitigated that. Everything looks great and in order. Looking forward to cracking it open when I have time! From all appearances this will be a Positive Kicking Experience (PKE) as opposed to Some Hissy Internet Tantrum.

I haven't kickstarted much (Glory to Rome, Zombicide, and Ogre). Thus far, Zombicide was delivered as promised and Glory to Rome has been a debacle. We'll see about Ogre.


But, Reaper is doing fantasy miniatures (plastic) and right now, you can get 133 (geared to go more as the amount increases) for $100. Quite a deal from a known company with good products

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/...lution-of-gaming-min

Oh crap! . . . Must . . . resist!

That Reaper one is seriously fucking amazing. I don't do miniatures but I'm super tempted to buy!

Notahandle wrote: Oh crap! . . . Must . . . resist!

I can't. Holy shit. That's *great* product. I just un-funded my Relic Knights kickstarter [the game looks kind of shite compared to Zombicide and the other one they just did] to buy this.

The next one on my list is this:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499165518/.../289279?ref=activity

I love Ukiyo-e art. Some of this stuff is kind of twee, and I'm *pissed* that neither the Donkey Kong-themed one nor the Pocketing a Wager made the cut for a proper woodblock print, but I'm looking at picking up a pair of the woodblocks (not the giclees). Probably Fox Moon and Soul Eater, though I may point my wife toward "Hero Rests" for an Xmas gift as it's a nice contrast in color to the other 2 very dark "night" prints.

I am backing The Resistance Avalon, though I'm not sure why.

The Resistance is one of my favourite games ever, but it seems that this incarnation is the regular game minus the plot cards, plus 6 special power role cards. I'm not sure how worthwhile 6 new cards are to me when the game costs $20. There's going to be a PnP "expansion" of 15 new plot cards included, developed by fans, which sounds awesome, but I would much prefer to just get the 6 special roles and the 15 new plot cards in a format compatible with the game I already own. I'm just not sure about this one. Also the new box is bigger than the old one.

I just kickstarted a biography on Carroll Spinney, the actor who has performed as Big Bird since the start of Sesame Street.

I will be backing Story Realms as soon as it goes live on Kickstarter. I've never kickstarted anything before, but this game has me pretty excited.

daveroswell wrote: I just kickstarted a biography on Carroll Spinney, the actor who has performed as Big Bird since the start of Sesame Street.

I backed that one too. I found a fantastic nearly-new stuffed Big Bird at a local thrift that my daughter took to immediately and has been dragging around every day for the last 5 weeks. (It pays to hit the charity shops in well-to-do neighborhoods for kids stuff; though some day she may ask why all her books have some other kids' names in 'em...) She loves her some Big Bird, so I couldn't help myself when I saw this. (Besides, the Muppets and Sesame Street pretty much defined *my* childhood.)

Gary Sax wrote: That Reaper one is seriously fucking amazing. I don't do miniatures but I'm super tempted to buy!

I'm in for the Reaper miniatures one - it IS amazing. At the $100 level, it's down to something like 75 cents per miniature. Gonna do some serious painting this winter...

Relic Knights didn't interest me in the slightest as it looked seriously overpriced compared to their previous offerings.

As for the Reaper one, my only use for them would be to pimp some games. If it'd all been fantasy stuff, great, but now they seem to be chucking in space marines, cowboys, and any other random stuff they can think of. It's a steal at that price, but I'm not sure I have much use for them.

I was hoping that my fiancee was going to talk some sense into my head about the Reaper Bones kickstarter, but I was wrong. One look at what was offered and the prospective Clockwork Dragon and she was all in. I think she is going to want the Jabberwork as well. Too bad it won't be shpping until March of 2013.

WOW, Glory to Rome is looking like a glorious clusterfuck.

Take your pick of any of the threads

Couldn't resist the Reaper one (plus some bonus figs).

Also backing the newShadowfist 4 fixed starter LCG type release (Combat in Kowloon) plus the first set of additional fixed decks.

And the re-issue of the boxed Horror on the Orient Express for Call of Cthulhu.

I resisted Reaper!

But then went for The Battle of Red Cliffs at the designer level (three different games).