What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

Sure would suck to have a game you've worked on for 6 years about to go on Kickstarter. I'd feel bad for idiots in that situation. Those poor bastards, maybe named Mark and Pete.

Trump just announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for every country except China. This has caused a jump in the stock market, but doesn't really offer any longer-term assurance to investors or consumers.

LOL, Trump could end that pause tomorrow.

Old and busted: Plastic minis
New hotness: Cardboard standees

I ended paying way too much for a used copy of uprising because who knows if there even will be a kickstarter for it again with how fucking crazy this shit has been.

Is it worth tracking down the second printing for the errata?
Everything I see is from the first Kickstarter.

bendgar wrote: Is it worth tracking down the second printing for the errata?
Everything I see is from the first Kickstarter.

It's not too bad, there are two rules changes that aren't hard to remember: 1. All Druid cards are revealed up-front, 2. All player setups start with 3 skeletons, with a new setup picture. Updated rulebooks are available online. I'm not aware of anything else substantive, as I have the first KS plus the second expansion. Some component designs changed a little (the resource tokens), but I'm fine with it. There might be other differences, but that's all I found when I went hunting around. I wish my copy had come with the updated resources from the second campaign, but beggars can't be choosers.

Oh, this may be a first, but Portal Games has decided to go forward with their upcoming crowdfunding project next week ( gamefound.com/pl/projects/portalgames/race-to-berlin ) with one major difference: they will not be shipping to the US. US backers can back at $1 to follow along, and if sanity returns by when it's time to manufacture/ship the games, they can jump on at that point. I'm curious how this will turn out for them, since you're cutting out the largest market, but when you're only other option is to sit on your hands...

Maybe if the tariffs stabilize, even at stupid levels, creators can actually add the tariff fees to shipping charges ahead of time. I feel like the volatility is the bigger impediment rather than the higher $$ amount to import...I mean, people continue to pay CMON's stupid shipping prices.

I lucked into a 2nd printing "Ultimate Pledge" for the same price as if I had funded it. I'm pretty excited.