What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

I thought the retail packaging consisted of versus sets with two characters? My friend who is into it has a bunch of those and I agree, that slimmed down product is the way to go.

Dice Throne has always appealed to me, because it's in the category of games that I really enjoy, with multiple disparate factions within the same system; like Neuroshima Hex. It's also something that, like Hex, you could throw together for a game with someone for 20 minutes while you're waiting for the rest of the group to arrive. But I have that completionist's jones that makes me think it'll be another huge package of 20+ factions sitting on my shelf that doesn't see enough play and...

Yeah. Just can't do it. I should probably get on a couple of the local Discords and see if someone else has a copy.

charlest wrote: I thought the retail packaging consisted of versus sets with two characters? My friend who is into it has a bunch of those and I agree, that slimmed down product is the way to go.

It does, but it still equals out to $100 and a huge amount of space if you get an entire season of characters, and this is a game where you definitely want to have a bunch of characters to mix and match. The first ever release was 6 characters in a single rationally priced and sized box, and that is what this game wants imo.

Pledged for Damnation: The Gothic Game. This looks amazing and I've always wanted to try this game out. It's absolutely the kind of game we like in my house.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackletter...c-game-0/description

Awaken Realms latest extravaganza Lords of Ragnarok is out on Gamefound but I'm not going in, I was thinking about having both (I already have Lords of Hellas) but after watching a decent video on it I've decided that I dislike some of the rule changes (from LoH) enough that I probably wouldn't choose to play it for a change over LoH.
Mythwind looked very interesting but in the end I thought it would just be too nice and uneventful (not exciting) for me, City of the Great Machine looks a good game but (for me) there just isn't enough game in it for the price.

I'm still interested in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim so will give it a good chance to impress me when it launches early November, and Awaken Realms Lite Gaijin stays on my radar even though their design and play-testing has put it back many months.

Not many days left for Damnation: The Gothic Game, if you want to get in on the KS.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackletter...c-game-0/description

The Monsterpocalypse Kickstarter broke $1,000,000 with a bit less than two days to go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1162110258/...pocalypse-board-game

MP is an outstanding game that has suffered from terrible release strategies for over a decade (first as a collectible game, then as a hobby miniatures game.) This is, finally, a definitive "board game" version: non-random, expandable, no-assembly-required.

With the number of stretch goals that have been unlocked, the Core Set is an excellent value for the price and whole factions are available as individual add-ons. Backwards compatible with the older v1 pre-painted figures. I don't know much about Mythic Entertainment, but I can definitely vouch for the game itself.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964freeatl...t-last-0/description

Not sure if I’ll be backing it, but I’m glad Ted Torgerson’s Free at Last is finished. A good surprise as the last I’d heard was that he’d given up on the idea. Possibly because it was hard to find someone to play the segragationist South.

Anyway, it’s a card-driven game where players are the various factions fighting cooperatively for civil rights in the mid-twentieth century United States and competitively to be remembered. No gameplay videos, but Torgerson is donating his royalties to a charity fund and one of the stretch goals is donating the game to schools. Seems cool.

Oh, neat, I might do this one. Ted is a good designer and this is a good idea!

My blood ran cold when I thought someone was going to play Southern state governments at first! I have a hard enough time playing civil war south positions. Luckily, that is not the setup.

Virabhadra wrote: The Monsterpocalypse Kickstarter broke $1,000,000 with a bit less than two days to go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1162110258/...pocalypse-board-game

MP is an outstanding game that has suffered from terrible release strategies for over a decade (first as a collectible game, then as a hobby miniatures game.) This is, finally, a definitive "board game" version: non-random, expandable, no-assembly-required.

With the number of stretch goals that have been unlocked, the Core Set is an excellent value for the price and whole factions are available as individual add-ons. Backwards compatible with the older v1 pre-painted figures. I don't know much about Mythic Entertainment, but I can definitely vouch for the game itself.

I like big KSers but I can't really call $160 + a minimum $34 shipping for a Core 4 player pledge good value.

southernman wrote: ...
I'm still interested in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim so will give it a good chance to impress me when it launches early November, and Awaken Realms Lite Gaijin stays on my radar even though their design and play-testing has put it back many months.

Leaving Skyrim alone - the game doesn't really do much different to other games I have (or are coming), there's not that much to it and it doesn't pop at you, plus there a virtually no stretch goals for the Core pledge (and not much interests me in the expansions) so it will probably end up cheaper in retail if I do want it in 2 years time.

southernman wrote: I like big KSers but I can't really call $160 + a minimum $34 shipping for a Core 4 player pledge good value.

Keep in mind that 1) this a miniatures game and 2) the Core box isn't a "starter set", it's complete factions.

I was thinking specifically of the monster models, though. The Core box has 20 Monsters in it (they're pre-assembled versions of the newer 'hobby' miniatures). That alone would run you $600 if you were buying the minis at hobby pricing. It would still cost $120+shipping to get that many of the older pre-painted models wholesale these days.

Virabhadra wrote:

southernman wrote: I like big KSers but I can't really call $160 + a minimum $34 shipping for a Core 4 player pledge good value.

Keep in mind that 1) this a miniatures game and 2) the Core box isn't a "starter set", it's complete factions.

I was thinking specifically of the monster models, though. The Core box has 20 Monsters in it (they're pre-assembled versions of the newer 'hobby' miniatures). That alone would run you $600 if you were buying the minis at hobby pricing. It would still cost $120+shipping to get that many of the older pre-painted models wholesale these days.

At that price it had better be at least ten pounds.

1500 backers at $450.

CMON just announced their special project for their 50th Kickstarter - a Marvel product maybe, or keep with the successful Zombicide series .... a dilemma ... hey, how about .... Marvel Zombies - A Zombicide game

A couple of YouTubers have already previewed the huge zombie Galactus. Should take bets on what that thing will cost.