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What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?
- Disgustipater
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- Virabhadra
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Jackwraith wrote: many people get turned away from spending hundreds or thousands more on models because they're asked to throw down that much on a collection of nice pictures and about 800 words of needed text before they even roll a die.
I was pleasantly surprised that the Dominion set's gorgeous hardback Age of Sigmar Core Rulebook is 245 pages of lore and about 30 pages of rules; on the other hand, I didn't pick up that box with any intention of playing Age of Sigmar. I haven't seen an army book in a decade and keeping up with the rules churn is real, but I remember digging every last page of the Eldar Codices back when I dabbled in 40k. It's still a high price point if you only want the rules, and the GW model doesn't really support engaging with only that aspect of the "hobby. "
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A couple of recent ones I have skipped on are The Dark Quarter by Lucky Duck games, this is based on the same system as their Destinies game that arrived last year and I found it so simple and unremarkable that I traded it without even playing the two expansions, and Anastyr by Mythic Games that was just too expensive to get something similar to what I already have.
Only ones on the horizon are Silver Coin: Age of Monster Hunters later this month, just looks like a well designed and fun adventure game, and Awaken Realm's Tainted Grain follow up Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin sometime later this year.
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southernman wrote: Awaken Realm's Tainted Grain
Tainted Grain: Ergot Fantasies, witch-hunt simulator.
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So I suppose I’m part of the problem.
But I do think it is a problem and when I realized that my expectations of what a game costs started to shift to hundreds of dollars, I came to the conclusion that this is not a good trend for anyone.
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Ended up doing the same - for the cost, but also because I have so many games on my shelves and then arriving that it would just not get played for literally years (not kidding, the 8 big KSers arriving this year will take a couple of years just by themselves) ... plus the core game isn't really blowing me away at the moment.charlest wrote: I had backed the Waste Knights expansion and then cancelled. It's a great game, but it's difficult to justify the $30-$40 shipping for an expansion which will be at retail.
And I have been as controlled on other recent kickstarters, The Breach looked a cool game but it was way over what I would pay for a single core boardgame, yes costs are going up everywhere but that still doesn't trump what I am prepared to pay for a game.
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update: after more investigation, and talking to Charlie... this one just seems like a bungled opportunity with too much content, and while there are surely some diamonds in there, I'm not willing to buy the whole mine to find them.
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I've backed Season 1 and about half of Season 2, and I'm going 100% on sunk cost fallacy and picking up the rest of the board game content for Season 3. However, I also generally agree with your paraphrasing of Charlie above. There is some really good stuff in this game, but there's so much in the way of enjoying it. I've had some enjoyable games of it, though I've been willing to tweak the rules a bit to make the game less of an optimization puzzle for the heroes. But the game is not worth $x00 that you would need to get the core game and some expansions. I wouldn't back it now starting from scratch. In 2 years when Season 3 hits, I'm sure the market will get flooded with cheaper copies when backers discovered they didn't read the fine print and the rules/scenarios aren't actually improved with the new books.hotseatgames wrote: Has anyone played the Batman game that uses the Conan system? It's back on KS for season 3 (!). Looks cool but as usual, there is so much in it that you'd have to be really dedicated to enjoy it all. They also have a proper pen and paper Batman RPG this time.
update: after more investigation, and talking to Charlie... this one just seems like a bungled opportunity with too much content, and while there are surely some diamonds in there, I'm not willing to buy the whole mine to find them.
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I blame Charlie for piquing my interest…
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