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8 days left for our upcoming campaign on Kickstarter for 12 Realms: Bedtime Story. New plots, mechanics, realms, rules come to be added to this fairy universe. Pinocchio and Geppetto survive in a steampunk realm, Atlantis is sinking, Dr. Jekyll terrorizes Horrorville and an emperor rises in the far east. Unlimited replayability, customizable scenarios, variety of game genres finalize this project. Social Media Stretch Goals, and free shipping worldwide are some of the changes we prepared for this campaign. We launch the campaign on May 31. If you want to receive a notification as soon we launch the project, click on "Notify me on launch" on KS preview page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/195747538?token=b51519b0.

Count me in!

thanks for the support!

6 days left until the launching day and we work currently on the stretch goals, especially on one that includes transparent minis that have a different ability.
Subscribe here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/195747538?token=b51519b0

Dark Lord: Lucious Vain



Dark Lord: Rita Swanson

Project is live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Guardians of the Realms!

Bedtime Story was funded in 6 Hours, thanks to all of you. Let's discover more in this fairy world.



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story


Your support has been great! Your effort to save the Realms is amazing, but more dark forces come your way. The Atlantis Dark Lord: King Neptune and Euryale are now added to the villains you have to battle. Don’t let your guard down protectors! King Neptune does not come alone – he is a king after all. When things get difficult, he summons Triton the invader: exploit 5 talents to defeat him or drown in his waves. Euryale should not be underestimated either. A gorgon-like foul creature, who will curse you as soon as you enter her realm and 3 talents of your choice, will be lost.

Guardians of the Realms!

Your quest until now has been successful! Atlantis has been saved and now the Realm of the Clockwork Shire needs you, for the new Dark Lords have arrived. Steam Baron might look a simple old man but beware of his unyielding ability. You might think you have killed him, but have you really?



The Abyss Hunter is tricky. The Automata will blast you away if you are not careful. Roll the area die 3 times before you challenge Abyss Hunter. If you fail, you lose your turn and Abyss Hunter remains in the Realm







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Let's begin with the first two social stretch goals:

#1: Help us reach 250 fans of the 12 Realms BGG page and 150 fans on Bedtime Story BGG page. As a reward you receive the 1st metal badge for the Forest Fairy Realm and the 2nd one for Kievan Empire.

12 Realms: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68606/12-realms
Bedtime Story: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/174469/12-realms-bedtime-story

#2: Help us reach 100 thumbs up for this photo and this one! As a reward you receive the 3rd metal badge for Clockwork Shire and the 4th for the Cherry Blossom Realm.

Image 1: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/2542495/12-realms-bedtime-story
Image 2: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/2542496/12-realms-bedtime-story

The badges will be revealed as soon we reach our goals. And more will follow

Guardians of the Realms!

The latest reports have shown that the Realm of Clockwork Shire is now safe, but alas! Horrorville is doomed! Maila the Vampire will fight until there is no blood left in you. She summons werewolf the invader who will terrorize you. Even if you send him back to his world, the invasion marker will still increase by 1. Dr Jekyll is right behind them. Crazy and he is unpredictable – Changeling is his ability and the Talent die will determine the Talents you need to destroy him!





Do not forget the upcoming stretch goals! At $70000 the Tang Dynasty Dark Lords stretch goal is unlocked,



and at $80000 help is coming! The Ghost Town heroes Br’ Er Rabbit and Lassie are close by!

Keep up the hard work protecting the Realms!

Until we reach our next goal, here is something we were preparing and we would like all of you to be part of it. We started a thread on BGG regarding Wild Boar and Panda Warrior. This thread is our third Social Stretch Goal. Help us get 100 replies and the Bone's Island badge will be unlocked.

So who you think these Heroes might be? They belong to the Tang Dynasty Realm. You can find the thread here: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1380008/who-are-they




We made a change in the Stretch Goals and we hope you find it good. Instead of reaching the $70000, we changed it to 500 backers, so 10 more people and two new Dark Lords will be available. Feel free to share the news on your social media and invite your friends. We can do it with your support: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Guardians of the Realms!

The peace in the fairy world is yet to come. The Tang Dynasty Dark Lords have awakened. Azure Lion is growling to intimidate you. And his intimidation might work. If you challenge him and destroy him, he blasts you away with his growl and you lose four Talents: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story



Bull Demon King is tough as hell – you cannot yield him, so you play with your chances. Roll the area die 4 times and pray to avoid the I or you will have to face him again since he returns back!



The first wave of terror and doom has come to an end. Help is near! At $75K Ghost Town will offer its heroes, Br’Er Rabbit and Lassie but its Dark Lords are also close. Rita Swanson and Lucius Vain will bring new havoc in the Realms at $90K. At 90K you get the 2 Dark Lords Minis but also 2 Transparent Minis as well! Help is close guardians. Your forces will grow!

Support us by sharing our Kicktraq page to your social media and we can reach more people. You can find our page here: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story/





Don't forget our Social media goal. You can find them under the Stretch Goal in the main page. You already have unlocked one of them and you got 2 metal badges - pins for your clothes. Two more goals are currently running!

The legacy continues, bringing new scenarios in this co-op multi-genre fantasy game for 1-7 players with 60+8 legendary minis! 15 days left!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

The Grand Pack at $140 includes free shipping worldwide and includes the following components.
The same pack comes at $300 and includes all the miniatures hand painted including those that are available through the unlocked stretch goals.

12 Realms is a cooperative game for 1-6 players, which is constantly expanding. The expansions that have been published by now are 12 Realms: Ancestors Legacy, 12 Realms: Ghost Town and the latest expansion is Bedtime Story currently funding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

All expansions add new features to the gameplay change the experience offered by the core game.



The beginning

All the villains of the fairy tales decided to unite because in the fairy tales they always lose. Therefore they decided to destroy all the fairy tales as we know them and make themselves victorious. What the villains desire is to change the ending we know saying "they all lived happily ever after".



Where

12 Realms take place in the world of the fairy tales. Little Red Riding Hood, Siegfried, Frankenstein & Andromeda, everything you have ever loved and can possibly imagine is there. The reel holds 12 different stories:

The Silver Kingdom: Is a world of fantasy. Knights in shining armors, innocent princesses with rose cheeks, well-fortified castles and powerful kings all of them exist in this realm.

Fairy Forest: As the name implies, the Fairy Forest can travel you to the world of fairies. Nature is green, the trees are high and in the deep forest you can find fairy like creatures like goblins, dryads and more.

Cherry Blossom: This is the pink realm. And what is more pink than the perfect cherry blossoms in Japan? As you can imagine, here you can find several far east and humanoid like creatures, such as red oni and raccoons. Don't let them defeat you!

Bones Island: Arrrrggghhh! Drinking rum and safekeeping the treasures is what you do in this island! But don't you think you'll pass so easily! Pirates, parrots, pirate pigs, ghosts and corsairs are just some of the creatures you will have to battle when you enter this realm.




Olympia: A realm devoted to the Greek mythology. Here a sense of divine lurks in the air. Mythological heroes and creatures, like satyrs, centaurs, harpies and Perseus await you for your doom.

Kevan Empire: A cold world with creatures lurking in the Kevan Empire's land. Do you think you can get past Baba Yaga and the rest of the human-like enemies?

Nile Valley: The realm of the Nile might be great, but the curse of the Pharaoh might be upon you. Can you battle the power of Egypt? Scorpions, mummies, pharaos and mighty gods are just a few of your enemies.

Golden Caliphate: Is at all its glory! Caliphs, wizards and djin travel across its land ready to cast their spells.




Apart from the previous realms, other newer realms have been developed in the Fairy World. These will be available in the Bedtime Story expansion. Here's a sneak peak of the new realms.

Clockwork Shire: A Steampunk touch was missing from 12 Realms, and the Clockwork Shire has come to fill this gap. Robots, mechanical and automaton creatures will be hunting you! Are you afraid of the robot shark and the robot cannons?

Horrorville: Who said there is no room in 12 Realms for movie horror and urban legends? Do you remember The Hand from the Adams family? The headless horseman? Frankenstein? Well, pair them with ghosts and warewolves and you have the setting of Horrorville ready.

Atlantis: The Mythic land of Atlantis is full of mystery, so is this realm. In the depths of the sea, you will find sea gods, sea dragons, water spirits ready to fight for this realm.

Tang Dynasty: The Far East has yet another dynasty to offer. Creatures of the eastern lore, like evil spirits and demon monster will be among the creatures you will have to win. Demon rhinos, demon pythons and others will reveal their secret abilities.

Game structure

The invaders: The core mechanism of the game is that every player chooses one hero, and in collaboration with the rest of the players tries to save the realms. At the beginning of each round the players draw cards equal to the active realms and add invaders. It is key for the game that you use your heroes' talents in an efficient way in order to be able to defeat the invaders, while at the same time you will have to tackle their abilities. Beware though, because as long as they stay alive, the invasion marker moves to a higher number on the invasion track and when it reaches the top level, you all lose the game.

The Dark Lords: When the invasion marker reaches level 16, then the Dark Lords come in the game. The Dark Lords are bosses that the heroes have to defeat in order to be able to protect the realms.

The town: Every realm has its town, and this is the source of power for every hero. There you can spend your gold in order to buy several items that can grant you power in order to defeat the villains.




Game structure using expansions

Ancestor Legacy, Ghost Town, as well as Bedtime Story, which is currently funding on Kickstarter, add new elements to the core game. Here are some of the changes that you will encounter in the game expansions.

Plots: Are different scenarios created for every realm, that add a new story and mechanisms, as well as new components per realm and alternative game endings. Therefore with these expansions, both the core story and the plot apply to the game. This is very important because plots offer alternate winning conditions to the game.

Companions: The companions give the opportunity to each player to take control of 2 heroes in every round, by adding some rules which are slightly restrictive in terms of using this feature. Essentially it is as if one hero is the mind and the other is the body.




The characters

12 Realms offers a wide variety of characters: Snow-white, Nutcracker, Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood are just some of them. Each character has their own two sided board. One side features the hero talents, and the other features less talents and one ability, thus increasing replayablity.




The variants

The core game offers a lot of variants except the basic rules, variants that you can try if you wish to test the game in different modes and levels and adjust it to your taste. In other words, this is another feature that adds to the game replayability, since the variants mostly alter the game difficulty. So in a more family friendly environment you can try the easy rules and so on.

Black Fortress: The Black Fortress appears once in each realm when the invasion marker reaches a specific level. The heroes then need to destroy the Fortress first, because it casts a curse to the realm and they cannot fight the invaders who are there.

Promo invaders: The promo invaders are enchanted creatures that have been turned into stone and increase the game difficulty. Their difference compared to the regular invaders is that a hero must spend double the talents to defeat such a monster.



Inn stable and Bazaar buildings: These are buildings that are placed in different realms and provide heroes with items (cards) which they can buy in order to make it easier for them to defeat the villains. In general it is suggested that players who try the game for the first time, or who want to play on easy mode, add these buildings to their game.

VISIT OUR CAMPAIGN HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

New Realms - New Abilities: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Guardians of the Realms, here are the new Realms where you must defend!

HORRORVILLE: As you can imagine, in this Realm you will have to face urban legends mostly like Werewolves, Ghosts & Spirits. The Dark Lords of this Realms are: Maila & Dr. Jekyll.



We designed a new ability for some of the Invaders, like Werewolf: TERROR

When you see on the Invader card the Skull Icon, it means that this Invader has the Terror ability. When you destroy such an Invader, the Invasion Marker still move 1 space forward. The number you can see on that Icon states how many spaces you will move the Invasion Marker.



CLOCKWORK SHIRE: A steampunk realm. You will have to be more careful here since you must face Robots & Automaton and in some cases to defeat them is so difficult like the Invader Gremlin. When you bring Gremlin into the game then you add four more Gremlins cause this Invader has the Horde ability!





TANG DYNASTY: We could not miss an eastern Realm. In Tang Dynasty you will have to face warriors and legendary spirits. You will find some of them a bit... poisonous.. Like Spider Demon. When you destroy this Invader, you get 2 Poison Tokens and place them on your Hero's board. You choose 2 of your Hero's talents and you lose them until the end of the game. The only way to recover is to find cards that protect you from Poison, Curse, Dark Magic etc.





ATLANTIS: Atlantis returns and this time more powerful than ever. You must defend this Realms against Giant Turtle, Gods and Sea creatures like Siren. Siren for example has the Summoning ability. If you don't destroy her until the end of the round, then at the beginning of the next one, you place a new Siren on the board and that happens in each round that Siren remains on the board.

Br'Er Rabbit & Lassie Unlocked! Western Alliance

Guardians of the Realms!

The allies sent reinforcements. A new stretch goal has been unlocked – new heroes are now unleashed. The ever blowing winds of the land have kept them secret, but you have uncovered them and now they join your forces: the two mythic heroes of Ghost Town, Br’ Er Rabbit and Lassie are here! Br’ Er Rabbit may look innocent but his skills are great and can catch your enemies by surprise, while Lassie’s marksmanship is quite extraordinary.







Let's unlock the next goal. The Ghost Town's Dark Lords are waiting! 2 Dark Lords minis & their transparent version: Lucius Vain & Rita Swanson. Don't forget our social media stretch goals. You can read info in the main page under the Stretch Goals: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Badges, Thunderclap and Stretch Goals

Your support is awesome! We reached our goal on Thunderclap and now 2 new metal badges are unlocked: Atlantis and Olympia!



Our Thunderclap campaign ends in 3 hours so if more people want to support us, here is a good chance: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/27406-fairy-tales-revival

Thunderclap will spread the word for our current project. Yet, we have more good news. Based on our estimations with the other campaigns we prepare, we are able to bring closer two stretch goals. At $80K you get the 2 Dark Lords, and their Transparent version and yes.. Ghost Town will be complete. And at $85K, the first plot will be unlocked: The Master Dark Lord plot!

So we are about $2K away from our next goal. Spread the news!

Ghost Remnants. They are here... run! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Now that the Ghost Town heroes are by your side, the Dark Lords are out of the shadows. Rita Swanson owns the town bar and no-one ever thought she’d be a master villain. Beware stranger, for this is the Ghost Town, a cursed place. After you destroy Rita, her Ghost will haunt you and you have to destroy it too if you want to survive this Realm. Lucius Vain…He and Rita are this Realm's bosses. Beware of his automatic weapon; it does not disappear even when he’s a ghost.











We are very close to reaching $85000 and smashing our next goal and the first Plot will be unlocked!

Halfway to our next stretch goal, about $2.5K and the Master Dark Lord Plot and the Magic Mirror miniatures will be unlocked.
Are you ready to face the ultimate enemy of the 12 Realms? 1 week left, a lot if time to unlock more stretch goals.
Visit our campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Mirror mirror...it is time to destroy you!

The Master Dark Lord is here and you must face him. But can you really defeat such a magic entity? The Magic Mirror can control the Towns of the Realms, the Dark Player's events and command Invaders attack the Heroes. Aw, yes almighty Mirror! You can even turn Heroes into Dark Lords and then bring them on your side. What would really happen if the Heroes had to face Magic Mirror, Dark Lords and their Minions?

You cannot destroy the Magic Mirror at once, but you can eliminate its abilities by completing tasks such as to find objects-cards. You have a little time though to succeed on this Plot. The Magic Mirror is powerful but not perfect! He can use only 1 of his abilities in each turn, and that can buy you some time to find the way and destroy him once and for all.



Next Stretch Goal at $95K and the 2nd Plot will be unlocked. Jade Palace, the Tang Dynasty Plot. This is not a common plot since some basic rules change as movements, drawing of the cards, battle. Prepare to face the Evil Emperor, his Archers, and the Magic Walls!



Don't forget. You can help us spread the word:

Help us reach 150 comments and shares on our latest post on our Facebook Page and the Ghost Town Badge will be unlocked. It's the first post you will see on the top of the page, for the Magic Mirror. Leave your comment and share the post on your wall or a group of your choice.
https://www.facebook.com/magecompany/photos/a.314306028594804.96400.231533276872080/1194285920596806/?type=1&comment_id=1195014557190609

We also posted the photos of the Evil Emperor and the Magic Mirror on BGG. Click on each image and thumbs up! More votes, more exposure for our project. The Ghost Town badge is almost unlocked!
https://boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgameexpansion/174469/12-realms-bedtime-story

Interesting artwork, that's for sure.

 Grot 6 wrote:
Interesting artwork, that's for sure.

thanks!
art is one of the strongest points of this project.

Last 3 days for 12 Realms: Bedtime Story on Kickstarter. We already unlocked several stretch goals: All the 8 new Dark Lord Minis, the Ghost Town Heroes and Dark Lords, The Magic Mirror and first plot and now we unlock the Plots of this expansion. The basic game plus the expansions include 76 Minis and 10 plots so far and we continue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Here is the updated components list of the grand pack pledge level:

What material are the miniatures made of, please?


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I see "PVC" - Is that in the same style as Zombicide miniatures?

Stretch Goals... stretched: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

Heroes of the Realms,

In order to make sure that all the stretch goals will be available for everyone, and also that the combined funds from all 3 campaigns will secure that, we had a long talk with our manufacturer so we can get also a little better prices and we changed the stretch goals value. So, the final list is way better than before and in order to make sure that the Companions will be available to everyone, we made a stretch goal where we need the funds just for the tools and then you will be able to add them as add on item. This is the only way to make sure that this big pack will be unlocked and is more possible to reach it. We had to choose on this matter and we tried our very best. Now we can even unlock all the goals here in this campaign before the end. We still have 40 hours left so we can do it.

IMPORTANT: If you have chosen a pledge level with painted minis then ALL minis, ALL, from the stretch goals including the Companions will be also painted!

Please check the list with the goals here:

Breaking $100000.. Atlantis is Sinking!

The time has come to face the Realm of Atlantis. King Neptune and Euryale have been sent to destroy Atlantis. They want to sink not only Atlantis but all the Realms. You must stand up and face both Dark Lords in this plot. Beware though! When a round ends and you let Invaders on the boards, then you start sinking the Realms, starting from Atlantis, area by area placing the Aqua Stones. As more Invaders you let alive, as faster the Realms will be lost under the seawater!

In order to win this plot you have to place the Bubble Marker at the maximum number of the scoring track. To do that you must destroy as many Invaders as you can in each round. And here is where the race begins. At the beginning of each round you trigger the hourglass and you must all play your turn and complete this round before the time runs out, otherwise you lose all the progress you have made with Bubble Marker and it returns to 0!

However there are two save points for the Bubble Marker: One is at number 7, the second is at number 16. For each Invader you destroy you move the Bubble Marker one space forward. More is coming.. At the same time you must face both Dark Lords in this Plot in Atlantis. When an Area is under the sea, you must exploit one extra swiftness talent to move. On top of that, you cannot use an Blue Talents in this Realm because of the Dark Lords' spell. And yet is not over. In Atlantis you will have to face new and dangerous Invaders!

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story

16 Hours Left and just 3 goals away to complete all the stretch goals:






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What happens when a Vampire and a Madman combine their forces?



Maila and Dr. Jekyll are here. Your purpose is to destroy Maila first, then destroy the Mad Lab and last Dr. Jekyll. But you must follow this order! When you destroy Maila, she is transformed into three different bats that you place in different Realms. Each one requires different Talents in order to send them to the abyss. However as long as Maila is on the board, you have to roll the Area die at the beginning of each round, draw the equivalent amount of town cards and discard the last one!

You must find a way and defeat Maila as fast as possible. As soon as you do that, you must destroy the Bats. When you destroy a bat, you take its token and when all bats are defeated, you must travel to Horrorville, exploit them and destroy the Mad Lab.

All this time Dr. Jekyll is on the board but you can't challenge him and the Invasion Marker is moving forward and doom is near! While you fight Maila, Dr. Jekyll gets more powerful. You roll the talent die in each Round, and you add that talent to Dr. Jekyll's vulnerability. At the end you will have to face a Dark Lord with many Talents!

4 Hours Left and 6K from our next stretch goal: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/12-realms-bedtime-story





Next Goal:

Thanks everyone for your support. 12 stretch goals were unlocked offering a total of 5 new scenarios, 90 minis (+8 from the add on Companions Pack) and a lot of new components. Our project raised over $115000 on Kickstarter and yet is not over. Yesterday we launched our campaign for Bedtime Story on Giochstarter and next week we launch the project on Spieleschmiede. You can still join us if you missed the KS campaign or email us at magecompanyinfo@gmail.com

Giochistarter Link: https://www.giochistarter.it/scheda.php?item=1000050&crowd=1&lingua=1

Defenders of the Realms,

We are back with a new update. The miniatures foams and the box are now complete. The box has size about 31x31x10cm and includes 3 foams inside so it can fit all the miniatures from all 12 Realms boxes. Some holes are different from the common ones. These are mostly for the buildings and some bigger in size, miniatures.



Foams





We also completed the new print of our sleeves - premium quality. Standard and Square ones. See below:





Everything is moving smoothly so far without problem. Is just too many items to be produced that's why we need time. Of course the whole project is delayed due to the minis production. We monitor the production on a daily basis and everything look perfect. We will have painted samples next year, on January. Soon will be ready the spinners rings, badges, badges case, and more. We will keep you posted

The molds are complete, and the first tests are now on process in order to be sure that the minis will look fine at the end. Here we post some pictures from the test and you can see that the details are perfectly visible, good for us. Yes there is delay, at least based on what we had in our mind, but we want to deliver a perfect game and we want to believe that each time we do it better. We really hope what you see here. NOTE: Do not pay attention to the material. This is sample so we can see if the molds have a problem or not. We keep produce the minis with the same pvc material we do so far and is quite good. All miniatures will be assembled as always as well as each miniature has its own base. Is really cool when you see them all together spread all over the realms. The mass production starts this month and will be completed at in 35-40 days. The paint work takes usually 40-50 days. So next month, we will start the print of the board game. We must deliver the minis to the board game manufacturer when the last one will complete the printing, like a chain. We could start the print earlier but the factory cannot give us space until the minis are ready due to the many customers they have, so they have no much space.



Currently we work a new project with Ninja Division and we will launch it on January 18th. We will not mention any details here, just post the preview link and you can check the page while we prepare it. Aether Captains by Todd Sanders. We are very happy for this co-operation as we will work with Ninja Division and in the next campaign of 12 Realms: Candyland that we prepare for June-July. Feel free to share the news. Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/967690815?token=cc430df6

Hmm missed this the first time. Not really looking for a new game but this does look tasty.

Thanks for the update and keep up the good work!