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It does look great all put together. I wish it could be in my price range :(

Currently SIXTY EIGHT add on packs. And rumors of more to come...

Wow. That's more add on packs than all other KS projects I've backed combined...

From what I'm reading, it seems they won't be adding any more add ons during the campaign (26 hours that are left of it), but that some might come up during the Pledge Manager. Some things that have been teased like Ruins and other things people are clamouring for.

But for now it looks like stretch goals will be pieces added to the tiers that qualify for them.

Which brings me to another thing; they may be sorting out the add ons as a purchase in the Pledge Manager, so the pre-built tier folks have an option to get some if they want without buying entire tiers just to qualify alongside with their giant pre-designed castle or whatever.

Basically they're trying to appease thousands of voices and I wish them luck at it.

They confirmed: People will be able to change their pledges (and add funds) through the end of the PM period.

They cracked 1.5 Million, and still going.

Alleys will be released in the pledge manager.
T's, Dead Ends and 4 ways

...and the KS has officially eclipsed $1,000 per backer. I am priced out of this one. Wow.

1.68m with 113 minutes to go. 1.7 will obviously go by unless something tragic happens (a bunch of pledges are just troll 10k's to remove at the end, etc), 1.8 might even be in reach (perhaps even higher, but I don't think there'll be hundreds of backers joining in the last few hours, there's been plenty of time to gak or get off the pot as it is).

Guess we'll see in two hours where things land.

$1000 per backer average?!?

WOW!

Just...wow!

More stretch goals unlocked: wood shutters, gargoyle.

At 1.75m an LED Orb thing.

Hovering around 1.775m with 17 minutes to go.

At 1.85m there's a random grab bag accessory added to people's pledges, but 75k in a quarter of an hour isn't seeming likely.

Wraps up at 1,688 backers for $1.78m.

Wow.. great haul for them. So I guess this is more for the RPG crowd in general? Do role players have more money cuz they don't spend it all on GW like we do?

A look at the comments seems to say it's a lot of RPGers. Some people were dropping $ approaching the price of a decent used car. That's a lot of discretionary income for RPG terrain. Good for them I guess.

I would imagine in a lot of those cases it's probably a whole gaming group pitching in for something they'll all share.

I think there's some of that, but there's a lot of "I'm getting this for me and my kids and it'll last forever." (This is just my impression.)

That's me... I'm getting it as a silly playset for my boys (they're young) and then it'll become the RPG awesome playset it's meant to be when they're older!

Also, they said they would add the crenellations from KS3 to the pledge manager. None of the current crenellations are interesting to me (too narrow) and I didn't add any from KS3 to my pledge.

This stuff is great for Mordheim, Frostgrave, and Bolt Action.
Nothing like a firefight in a european village, or a skirmish through the dungeons.

Yeah, I intend to use my city builder stuff for skirmish terrain, anachronisms be damned. There are low tech planets that need fighting over too!

A castle would be a great centerpiece/objective, but yeah - it's pricey as hell. The Castle pledge, which makes a smallish castle, is $410 USD. If you want crenelations, and you need crenelations or it just looks silly, that's another $88. If you want the inside walls, which you might as well, another $86. So you're looking at $584 for a pretty basic pledge (that's all painted of course, but I learned my lesson getting unpainted in their first kickstarter).

Of course, what I'd REALLY like is a castle with a tower attached. That's another $260 for the tower, and $49 for the extra bits you need to attach it seamlessly to your castle.

You want your castle to have a drawbridge, don't you? That's a showstopper when you pull it out on the table. 77 for manual, 89 for motorized.

Those mountains sure do look nice. $385 for the megapack.

And then there is all sorts of cool extra stuff - a few small towers, a parapet pack, you have some really nice flair you're adding to your castle!

Good thing too, because you're going to need to live in it by the end.

At least the stretch goals filled in a bit by the end, although it's all purely ornamental.

I'm not complaining about the prices, really - this is just what this stuff costs, and obviously people want it. Hell, I want it. I just need to stay rooted in reality.

Teaser pic for KS5 :

While I do like the raw diversity of options we've been getting in these campaigns, I do hope they step back a little towards affordability. 3 unpainted sets of Dungeons from KS1 brought a fairly sizable footprint of terrain at a reasonable cost, with later campaigns producing more elaborate pieces at a higher price or smaller quantity for similar prices.

Not that I'm expecting a barnstormer, but a couple square feet of terrain at the base tier would be nice.

They haven't announced when the next campaign will be, aside from it launching after KS4 delivers. I'll definitely be back for #5, but if it's another super expensive one I might just be in for an add on or two (the LED elements they've been working on are a huge hit at my table).

I really liked what they were doing with the town streets .. I'd love to see them do something more modern like asphalt and sidewalks and stuff. But I think fantasy is their thing...

I think this deserves its own thread once there's a little more info out about it! If anyone is willing to keep such a thread updated, feel free to make a new one here in the News & Rumors section, and PM me and I'll move this one out

Please link to it here if you do create a new thread, too!

Found some more info about KS 5, so here's a new thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/712060.page#9096654