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Mantic Games have launched a Kickstarter for Dungeon Sagas: Dwarf Kings Quest.

Link to the Kickstarter Page

This will be a tabletop dungeon crawler game, conceptually similar to Heroquest or Warhammer Quest, but building on the gameplay mechanics established in the Dwarf King's Hold series of board games.

Mantic Games wrote:Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King’s Quest is the dungeon adventure board game for 2-5 players. The heroes must battle their way through 6 exciting scenarios, growing in strength and acquiring magical items, before eventually facing off against the Necromancer in a final exciting showdown between good and evil.
Will you fight back against the hordes of darkness, or will you let evil prevail?

The basic game will centre around 4 heroes entering an undead-infested dungeon, playing through a narrative series of linked scenarios, fighting skeletons and zombies and eventually facing tougher monsters such as Zombie Trolls and the Undead Dwarf King and his bodyguards.

- Core game will include 4 heroes and a horde of Undead to fight, along with the rules, scenario book and game tiles.
- In addition to this, the game will have a false bottom with a trapdoor which opens up to reveal an advanced rulebook and other interesting things that expand the game beyond the basic scenarios, such as rules for every Undead model in the Kings of War model range, generating dungeons and levelling up characters, using their gold to buy new items etc.
- Advanced rules will also include rules for new heroes, and rules for different classes that each race type can pick.
- There will be lots of different heroes, huge variety ranging from Halfling Thief to Warrior Nun to Lizardman Shapeshifter.

Current contents of the $100 "Dungeon Master" pledge level: (63 miniatures total)




List of stretch goals:

$50k: Game Funded.
$75k: 3 Armoured Zombies added to boxed game.
$100k: 3 Dwarf Revenants added to boxed game.
$125k: Undead Dwarf King added to boxed game.
$135k: Undead rules added to boxed game.
$150k: Kickstarter Exclusive Female Human Wizard added free to pledges of Dungeon Master.
$175k: 3 Ghosts added to boxed game.
$200k: 4 alternate resin heroes added as $25 optional add-on.
$225k: 3 Zombie Trolls added to boxed game.
$250k: Zombie Troll Shaman added to boxed game.
$260k: Halfling Thief added to boxed game.
$275k: Human Paladin added to boxed game.
$290k: Halfling Fighter added to boxed game.

Those models do look nice.

I'll be there!

Hope to snag an EB "all the things" pledge...

If there's one thing Mantic do well, it's undead models. Love the skeletons and zombies

Do we know if there's going to be an "all the things" type pledge, like they did with Dread Ball Extreme?

I'm wondering what the EBs will look like this time. I know there was talk of mixing up the EB incentives, but I fear that was all it was- talk.

Anyways, I'll be all in on this one. I hope it plays as smoothly as the original DKH and taps that old Heroquest spirit.

Sweet spot should be $100, so a bit easier on the wallet than usual.

Not sure what's happening with the Early Birds.

Only 6 scenarios sounds bit too low.
That's only 2-3 board gaming nights for my group!

6 to start remember stretch goals, add ons and Mantic have a habit of doing backer no. related extra scenarios

They will probably add more missions in the stretch goals.

 adhuin wrote:
Only 6 scenarios sounds bit too low.
That's only 2-3 board gaming nights for my group!

In the video Ronnie mentions that the 6 scenarios are for introducing new people to the rules of the game. Hopefully the advanced rulebook will have some more.

PS Love the Avatar - Day of the Tentacle was a classic!

Count me in! Really looking forward to this, I assume we can expect at least 100 plus figs by the end of the ks.

 Daemonslave wrote:

 adhuin wrote:
Only 6 scenarios sounds bit too low.
That's only 2-3 board gaming nights for my group!

In the video Ronnie mentions that the 6 scenarios are for introducing new people to the rules of the game. Hopefully the advanced rulebook will have some more.

PS Love the Avatar - Day of the Tentacle was a classic!

Yep! The 6 scenarios are tutorials/beginner campaign rather than the full game. I don't know what the plans are for additional scenarios, but I would be extremely surprised if there weren't regular backer/$ stretch goals for additional scenarios. The "Book of Depravity" will also be a toolkit for making your own scenarios.

Also, in true Mantic style - the pictures don't do the models justice. The pictures merely show that the models look very nice, when in reality they are absolutely amazingly stunning.

Just making sure I am chiming in as i'll surely be a part of this thread for the weeks to come.

For what it is worth, I can drop one piece of info which is that a mid-run stretch-goal will likely be another fiction anthology (marking the first set in the KoW universe), as the normal slate of writers + editor are already talking (and so far every time I have gotten to work with Mantic, it has been an absolute blast. They are a joy to interact with).

Off we go again then guys!

Definitely enjoyed the previous KS threads, hopefully this one will be fun too.

As an opening point, I wonder why they have only artwork of the barbarian, dwarf and elf? The miniatures of those do exist, they were shown on the Beasts of War interview with Ronnie Renton the other day.

 Pacific wrote:
As an opening point, I wonder why they have only artwork of the barbarian, dwarf and elf? The miniatures of those do exist, they were shown on the Beasts of War interview with Ronnie Renton the other day.

Maybe the painter isnt done yet?

Anyone else having problems logging in?

Anyway, last I heard about the EB's were that anyone who pledged during the weekend received a free miniature. Any confirmation? Thanks.

Well it starts on a Monday so the weekend idea is out but it's never been confirmed if they are going to go with a different form of EB in future just ideas that got bounced around.

Maybe they couldn't put photos of the models on the website since Ronnie still had them.

Maybe he'll share and give them back at some point in the future.

Curious as to just how much plastic will possibly end up in the box (even just the base retail box).

One to keep an eye on. I wonder if the Undead in the base game will be the KOW Undead, or new models.

I assume everything new will be the new board game plastic they used for Mars Attacks (and maybe LoKa)

willb2064 wrote:
One to keep an eye on. I wonder if the Undead in the base game will be the KOW Undead, or new models.

I assume everything new will be the new board game plastic they used for Mars Attacks (and maybe LoKa)

All new sculpts from what I hear.

They acted like the sculpts would all be new.. I think. In the video, from scratch was mentioned.

Sounds neat, especially the combo platter of easy learn-to-play and book of depravity. I'll probably hit up the sweet spot pledge on the first day and see if they'll keep my interest.

I'm concerned if they do a warpath kickstarter this year I'll have spent money here that is rather spend there.. but we'll see.

Battle systems fantasy terrain, which should be coming up soonish, should end up fairly synergistic with this... except in terms of my wallet and affording both!

Found bigger pics of the skeleton and zombie:

I daresay they top even the renedra plastic skeletons and zombies.

 DaveC wrote:
Well it starts on a Monday so the weekend idea is out but it's never been confirmed if they are going to go with a different form of EB in future just ideas that got bounced around.

Thanks. I'm not able to post on the Mantic blog, either. Can someone ask about the EB's?

http://manticblog.com/2014/07/25/dungeon-saga-kickstarter-launching-monday-4th-august/

Something must be up with Mantic's site/forums, too.
I had my password jacked up when I tried to log in.
Had to go through bother of requesting new one and I'm still locked out.

On another note, will these undead be hard plastic or restic?

Same style of PVC like Mars Attacks.

 Cyporiean wrote:
Same style of PVC like Mars Attacks.

Is that good or bad?

Looking good, and I'm looking forward to this. I've been wanting a non-Descent intensity Dungeon crawler for awhile, and while I enjoyed the D&D games (Ravenloft, etc) I'm also after something else.

MYTH was an epic fail, and HQ25 was too much of a landmine to go in for in the end. With Mantic you also know they'll actually deliver the fething thing, too. Hoping that it stays modest here actually, without too much outlay, but I'm also willing to go in big.

I would like to stay right at the sweet spot. I just hope they don't do too many fantastic fantasy sculpts that I can't skip... or open up KoW stock for use with the book of depravity...

 Eldarain wrote:

 Cyporiean wrote:
Same style of PVC like Mars Attacks.

Is that good or bad?

PVC has unfortunately proved being always bad, they will fix it one day but compared to plastic on sprues (aka real plastic) it's crap.