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Dwarven Forge Kickstarter 4 is now live. This time the theme is castles.

Add-on sets are listed here: http://www.dwarvenforge.com/kickstarter-4-add-on-sets/

p.5 Mountain pack, Mountain floor, Stone bridge add-ons

Now live:











Preview pix:

More teaser pix in the spoiler:
link to more pix: link

Over 100 different sculpts of pieces (this probably includes miniature soldiers)
It sounds like it will not be cheap. Stefan's own words from the DF forums: "I think $1500 is what I personally would want to invest in this upcoming feature." and "$300 or so will get you at least a kewl modular tower"

Price aside, the walls sound cool. Again from Stefan: "the walls are really, really kewl, much better than the improvised use narrow passages to make city walls...these are true City Walls with passages in them." He describes the walls as "massive."

It really puts the Miniature Building Authority castle kickstarter into perspective, doesn't it?

DF just posted a second teaser pic that I added to the first post. It shows some new walls next to the DF village from KS3.

New teaser pic. I don't have time to resize it so I'm sticking the giant image in a spoiler tag:

Another snippet from Stefan (from a few months ago): "the gatehouse will be as modular as we can manage it It will have massive doors, portcullis, and Drawbridge with chains"

Email update:

Live.
I'll update the first post.

I...I just realized that even their big sets do not come with battlements. Battlements are...extra?

http://www.dwarvenforge.com/kickstarter-4-add-on-sets/
Added link to add-on sets in first post.

Mountain cliff add-on set. I'm putting it in a spoiler tag because it's a giant image.

 Forar wrote:
As a mediocre painter, being able to get the pieces pre-painted is in fact a big part of the appeal.

Just an FYI, but it is ridiculously easy to paint DF. You don't even have to be mediocre. And unlike minis, you don't have to concentrate too hard or use a magnifying lamp. You can do it while watching a movie or netflix or whatever.

$20 Add-on pledge level (no stretch goals) added.

Three new add-on packs: Stone Bridge, Mountain Pack, Mountain Floor

Two new mountain add-ons: a mega-pack (with an earth elemental) and an elevation pack (mostly in case you missed out on cavern elevations from KS2).

The elevation packs are useful. It's cheaper and easier to use foam core or gatorfoam for the bulk of your height and stacking needs, but then you still need frontage to hide the foam, depending on what you're building.

(For comparison, if anyone cares, the elevations pack in caverns during the kickstarter was $45/60.)

Looking back at that kickstarter page (here) is really something. There is an economy of sculpts to address a variety of options. I always thought this should be the model. And then maybe have one KS to do a variety of add-ons to the previous handful of KSers. What do I know.

I'll start putting these in spoiler tags so it's easier to scroll through the thread.

Now at $925k ish. Average Pledge Per Backer: $759 (yikes)

Latest update is 6" Large Fortified Towers (how is this distinguished from the regular tower? It looks like this is an add-on to add a few floors to the tower), Batter Base to the tower, 12"-long walls, a straight wall pack (with inside walls), and a corner wall pack (with inside walls).

4" towers coming later today, according to the comment section.

Note: DF KSers are so add-on intensive now, sometimes the only way to look at them is the add-on page. Add-on sets are listed here: http://www.dwarvenforge.com/kickstarter-4-add-on-sets/.

New round of add-ons.
* Small tower - palace
* Small tower - fortified
* Large tower - palace
* Ramparts double thick wall pack
* Castle double thick wall pack
* Citadel double thick wall pack
* Long inside walls

1.2m now.
$800+ per backer (!)
32 different add-on packs.

The latest ones are crenellation packs. (I'm just adding one pic below. There are just too many add-on packs. See them all here.) There are packs for large round crennellations, small round, straight, etc.


Motorized drawbridge is next at 1.025m

They added one-click pledges for a small castle and a big one:

Suspended Parapets:


Battlement packs for straights, corners, and towers (not shown)


Balconies (large tower balcony shown here, but there are 3 different ones because...you know...DF has gone from 3 core pieces per set to everything-is-a-special-piece)


Tower bridge (which can integrate with the balconies above)


28mm Castle Defenders


There are so many different add-ons, no forum update can give you the complete picture. DF has a page of updates here.

Other news: a Wicked Alleys set coming either during the KS4 pledge manager or sometime next year. (This is ridiculous. I wish DF would just focus.)

I leave this here without further comment:
According to Kicktraq:
KS4 Average Pledge Per Backer: $946 from 1351 backers (~48 hours to go)
KS3 Cities: $868 from 2718 backers
KS2 Caverns: 542 from 3949 backers
KS1 Dungeons: 354 from 5396 backers

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

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.

More stretch goals unlocked: wood shutters, gargoyle.

At 1.75m an LED Orb thing.

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

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 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.)