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Well I'm not gonna argue with that.

Survey email is out

Been pretty pleased with the communication and progress on this one. Looks like soda pop is keeping things pretty tight.

Yep - very nice. That leaves me with an extra $10 in my pledge and 6 free tiles to boot.

And yay - Von Drakk Tiles!

Von Drakk tiles? I am so in. Good deal all around, and the Wyrmclaw models are looking pretty nice.

I like what they've done, so I'll get 'em bundled.

The bundles are great ideas. I wasn't about the tiles, but was about the creeps. So combining them for a lower price will mean they will sell way more.

It's a really, really good price - 12 models + 6 tiles for $20 = just over $1 per model/tile!

It also makes getting all of the 'major' expansions not an insane prospect - 3x$30 warbands + 2x$20 tile/creep packs. $130 isn't a terrible price for all of that - especially not for the UK, where the line has been...a touch pricey under CMON.

Update #43 Jun 13 2014

Mushrooms Attack! — Forgotten King Walkthrough

Well, it's Friday...I just want you to know that I had to suppress an overwhelming urge to lead off with Loverboy's Working For The Weekend. I resisted. You're welcome.

Forgotten King! That's what we're here for so lets get to it:

Pledge Manager

The pledge manager will be ready by the end of the month. We're working on uploading some "thank you" credits to our Relic Knights backers at the moment. Once those are all done we will begin creating the pledge manager accounts and providing you with information on how to use it.

That said, we still have a surprising number of surveys that are still outstanding. Please complete your survey! At the very least fill it out so we have your personal information so we can contact you for things like delivery. You do want your delightful toys right?

Princess Coin

We received a sample of a shiny gold version of the coin and decided the antique looking one we showed you last week was way cooler. So we'll be sticking with that one. Some of you were hoping we'd go that route so there you go.

Arcade Rules

We know many of you are very excited to see previews of the Arcade Rules. Arcade is a big mode and it is built off of the Classic rules. This makes it so many things in Classic need to be as set in stone as possible to prevent endless revisions to Arcade. We also want to make sure we get it right, because we're all really excited for it. As such, it has gone under a few revisions. (A few more than I was hoping it would, but such is the way of design.) Nonetheless, it is progressing and we should have some previews to show before long.

Words, words, words...it's time for a–

Mushroom Attack!


Fungal Growth Spawning Point


Okoshroom

Kinoshroom


Truffle Pig

These guys are insane and they want to eat you! Alongside the Kodama and Chimera you will truly have a living forest of Super Dungeon Explore. We can't wait!

Model Walkthrough

We have steadily made our way through all of the core box models and now it is time for the mighty dungeon boss himself: The Forgotten King.



*Note: We still haven't plugged the new icons into his card so the face will change slightly.

First it is important to note that as a Dungeon Boss, The Forgotten King does not spawn like a normal monster. Instead, he spawns for free after the last spawning point in the dungeon has been destroyed.

Like all Super monsters The Forgotten King may be activated for free in addition to the four skull points worth of monsters the Consul may activate during the turn. Obviously having a monster of such power activate every turn can be devastating for the Heroes, lets see just how devastating.

The Forgotten King has an average number of movement points at 6. That said his mobility can be increased by way of his Forestwalker support action which grants Teleport. A model that teleports may be placed in any square within 10 squares of their current position and in line of sight. While the 2 action points is costly it is a powerful ability that can both keep The Forgotten King in combat or get him out of it when he needs to retreat to nurse his wounds.

His Immune: Poison also lets him move to Bramble squares and not worry about their poison effect, using them as an effective shield against Heroes.

Speaking of being wounded, The Forgotten King has 8 of them which is a nice healthy chunk of damage. However, his ARM of 2 blue and 1 green dice is relatively low when facing a fully equipped party and a Consul that isn't careful can find themselves in a tight spot quickly. Fortunately this is made up by a combat potential that is arguably second-to-none.

The Forgotten King possesses a standard (for dungeon bosses) number of action points at 4. His STR of 2 red and 1 green dice is respectable and will break through most equipped Hero's armor.

That's good, but The Forgotten King is a vain king. After centuries of nursing old hatreds and growing more and more embittered by his perceived right to rule The Forgotten King is filled with hubris. When confronted by Heroes bedecked in gleaming treasures he is thrown into a rage, and the more he perceives a Hero to be a threat to his own petty pride the greater his rage.

The Hubris ability is triggered whenever The Forgotten King makes a Melee Attack basic action against a Hero that is equipped with one or more pieces of equipment, and grants him +1 blue dice to STR per piece of equipment on the Hero. This means when attacking a fully equipped Hero he can gain an incredible +4 blue dice, making his STR 4 blue, 2 red, and 1 green dice! Your Heroes are going to be needing those princess coins.

Backing up his incredible melee ability is the offensive action Stranglethorn. Costing only 1 action point Stranglethorn is a Magic attack and uses The Forgotten King's formidable WILL of 3 blue and 2 red. The Burst 1 ability means it hits not only the target but every model within 1 square of the target. While any model that suffers a wound also suffers the Slow status effect halving their movement.

Primal Roar ensures Heroes never want to cluster too close. This support action doesn't deal any wounds, but instead causes every model within 3 squares to suffer the status effect Knockdown.

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But wait there's more!

ADVENTURE EFFECTS

All dungeon bosses come with an Adventure Effect that is unique to them. These provide thematic effects that slightly alter how a game is played. We still haven't laid out the new Adventure Effect cards but since they are all text, we can discuss them here nonetheless.

Lost Kingdom is The Forgotten King's Dungeon Effect. This ability allows the Consul, during setup, to place two spawning points in a single tile (instead of one per tile). This does not increase the number of spawning points the Consul gets, but does allow the creation of a little "fortress" tile perfect to represent the Forgotten King's keep.

Last Stand is The Forgotten King's Boss Fight Effect. Boss fight effects are triggered the moment a dungeon boss is spawned. Last Stand grants all minions and denizens +1 bonus star to their ARM and grants them immunity to all control effects (compel, push, and pull). No more bossing around the wee little monsters when The Forgotten King is around. This is a fight to the death!

Timeouts are triggered whenever a dungeon boss reaches half of their remaining hearts. During a timeout the dungeon boss removes all status effects they are suffering.

They then spawn a number of monsters listed under their Summon. These monsters are placed within 2 squares of the dungeon boss. In this case the Forgotten King summons 2 Frog Knights and 4 Billmen to his aid.

Next the dungeon boss may (if the Consul chooses) be moved up to 10 squares. Allowing him to escape from the Heroes or get in better position to attack.

Finally the dungeon boss resolves any timeout effects. Which for The Forgotten Kins is Royal Pardon. Royal Pardon immediately heals one wound on all Heroes. They then immediately suffer the status effect Ice, which prevents them from performing any unique actions. Then the Forgotten King really flips out and gains the ability Berserk which allows him to make one additional Melee Attack costing no action points every activation.

For those of you doing math at home, you are correct, that means he can now make 5 malice-filled Hubris melee attacks which is enough to kill a Hero in a single activation. Ouch.

As you can see, The Forgotten King is a boss not to be taken lightly. More than any other boss he scales to the level of the adventuring party. While he can suffer wounds quickly he also deals damage quickly, meaning a fight with this primal, cursed fae is always fast and brutal.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend, play some fantastic board games with your dad, and may you always roll stars!

Piggies and shrooms look awesome.

Update #46 Jun 27 2014

3D Prints—Kobold Exemplar

Happy, happy, update day!

3D Prints

Our 3D printers are churning out some new prints. These prints still need a little clean-up to remove a bit of roughness in places before they head out to tooling.


Goro!


Giri


Drake Hound


Wyrm Claw Templar

New Sculpts

Sculpting on the Stilt Town Zombies is finishing up with our disgusting mini-boss Gruesome George, and the dark power behind it all the Shamble Priest.


Gruesome George


Shamble Priest

Gencon Special—Kobold Exemplar

Gencon is coming fast and we have an all new model that will be making a debut: The Kobold Exemplar.

The Kobold Exemplar will be be a special edition resin-cast hobby model. He will include cards to run as a Kobold Exemplar Dark Hero, or as the villainous Mini-Boss Ser Snapjaw and his magic item the Exemplar Shield.



The Gencon edition will be coming with current generation cards which we just so happen to have for preview.





But, "Wait!" You say. "I'm not going to Gencon, and the cards aren't the new Forgotten King ones so why are you showing me this?"

Well the answer is simple: As you know we like to make sure everyone has access to all our models. When the Pledge Manager goes live (which will be very soon) the Kobold Exemplar will be available to add to your pledge. In addition, the Dragonback Peaks upgrade deck will include his cards. Yay!

That Kobold Exemplar is a sweet model and he looks like a fun hero/mini-boss, definitely going to be adding. It's nice that there's the option to order him for those of us not going to Gencon. I'm loving the Drake Hound and the Wyrm Claw Templar models as well!

The Arena Mat is now in the store - $39.95



http://sodapopminiatures.com/super-dungeon-explore/pvp-arena-mat-privy-s-end

$20 international shipping puts it outside what I'm willing to pay but hopefully it can be added to the FK KS pack to reduce postage costs.

That would be good, but the fact the similar RK mat had to go in a separate tube probably means even if it is available the postage will be similar

but you never know

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
That would be good, but the fact the similar RK mat had to go in a separate tube probably means even if it is available the postage will be similar

but you never know

The SDE mat is a good deal smaller then the RK mat. The SDE mat is only 2' by 2'.

Update #47 Jul 4 2014

Preparing for Pledge Manager—Kinoko Prints

Happy Friday everyone! We know many of you are getting ready for some Independence Day fun (or maybe still nursing a Canada Day hangover) so we're keeping this week's update short and sweet so we can all get to the festivities.

Emerald Valley Prints

First up we have a few prints from the Emerald Valley warband. These prints are pre-cleanup so the light roughness you see around a couple features will all get smoothed out before they head off to mold making.


Fungal Growth


Okoshroom




Kinoshroom

The Pledge Manager Approaches!


Next week we will be opening the pledge manager to all of you lovely backers. We will also be making the Kickstarter pledges available to people who may have missed out on the actual Kickstarter. We will provide a full tutorial e-mail next week, but for now we wanted to give you a basic overview of what to expect.

The Pledge Manager is how you will finalize what rewards you want to receive. It is also where you will pay for shipping and provide us with your shipping address.

The Pledge Manager will be integrated with the Soda Pop Store. Next week, all backers will receive an e-mail with their log-in information. If you already have a Soda Pop Store account, and correctly informed us of the e-mail address it is associated with through the survey, you will simply log in with that existing account.

The e-mail with your pledge manager information will arrive from info@ninjadivision.com.

Please take the time now to make sure that address is cleared to go through your spam filters so that your e-mail is not lost!

Once you have logged into your account, you will have a number of Ninja Star Reward Points equal to the dollar value you pledged. You will then be able to spend those reward points on any Kickstarter items you want, including the cost of shipping.

If you want items beyond what you pledged for you may purchase them, paying the additional amount using PayPal or credit card during checkout.

While the pledge manager is open you may make multiple orders. Our system will combine your order on the backend.

Our current plan is for the pledge manager to be open for one month, until August 8th. At which point we will need to finalize all of our numbers so that manufacturing can begin. And yes, we will make sure Arcade Mode is previewed before that date.

Okay! That was a lot of crunch. Next week we will dig more into the nitty-gritty and give you some nice example photos so that you feel like pros. In the end it is a basic, spending your reward points in a webstore interface that you've likely done many times. Only difference is these are Ninja Stars rewards, which are far pointer and stabbier than other puny reward points. NINJA!

PVP Arena Mats

Before we go we'd also like to let you know that we have just released our first Super Dungeon: PVP Arena playmat, Privy's End.



The 24" x 24" playmat is made from 1/8" rubber with a custom-printed fabric top. While they are designed for games of PVP Arena they are also great as 4 tile dungeon maps for your games of Super Dungeon: Explore.

Due to the manufacturing time, weight, and shipping dimensions of these mighty mats they cannot be bundled with your Kickstarter pledges, and must ship out separately. Nonetheless, we figured many of you brave adventurers would want to make sure you got one. They are available now so if you want one you don't need to wait!

Okay, now lets go celebrate! (If you're not American go enjoy a delightful Friday and weekend!)

SPARKLEBURST!



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Hmm I'm surprised they're printing in something that's going to require quite so much clean up rather than using a printer that gives a smoother result

I guess maybe for such 'chunky' sculpts the cleanup is ok and any stray stuff can be smoothed out post scanning

(and it's also interesting they seem to need to print and re-scan these rather than just cutting a mould direct from the 3D sculpt file)

Wonder if those playmats are going to be availalble at Gencon..

that looks really nice.

The playmats aren't grided?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The playmats aren't grided?

They are grided.

Well the store won't log me in. Says my password is incorrect, it won't send a "forgot your password?" E-mail, and trying to re-register says an account with my E-mail address already exists.

So... $358.00 for the Dark Consul "One of everything" pledge, huh? Well, there goes my Zombicide Season 3 pledge! Sorry CMoN!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well the store won't log me in. Says my password is incorrect, it won't send a "forgot your password?" E-mail, and trying to re-register says an account with my E-mail address already exists.

I'd start by trying a different browser or source (pc rather than mobile)

or making sure caps lock is on/off (I think their password is case sensitive)

(if you've not tried both of these already)

 Siygess wrote:
So... $358.00 for the Dark Consul "One of everything" pledge, huh? Well, there goes my Zombicide Season 3 pledge! Sorry CMoN!

I haven't bothered to add it up, but I'm pretty sure you'd be paying retail for everything but the base Kickstarter package.

I think you'll end up with some doubles if you get the one if everything pledge, since the rattle bones and slimes are included in the tile sets.

Interesting that all the "pledge manager" is completely available to anyone and not just KS backers.

In case it's missed the metal Sodamaster Candy is being discontinued so this is the last chance to get her.

http://sodapopminiatures.com/super-dungeon-explore/special-edition/soda-master-candy

This model will be discontinued once the new plastic version of Brave-Mode Candy is produced for the Forgotten King Kickstarter. Brave-Mode Candy will include an alternate Hero card to field her as Soda Master Candy.

The Relic Knights SDE heroes are now available as well.

http://sodapopminiatures.com/super-dungeon-explore/special-edition


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Also if you close your pledge and checkout now but decide to add something later you will be charged separate shipping for the later items - they are not combined for shipping costs purposes

Creator Soda Pop Miniatures 1 minute ago

Multiple orders will incur additional shipping charges based on the weight and size of the items in each order.

 Siygess wrote:
So... $358.00 for the Dark Consul "One of everything" pledge, huh? Well, there goes my Zombicide Season 3 pledge! Sorry CMoN!

I wouldn't get that if I were you - or, more accurately I'd say, be aware that one of everything is one of EVERYTHING - including some things you might not want/need like: Extra dice set, extra squirrels (included in the base set), extra slimes (included in the expansion tiles) extra rattlebones (included with the Von Drakk tiles), etc.

My pledge of "one of everything, no repeats" - was $298.

Schmapdi wrote:

 Siygess wrote:
So... $358.00 for the Dark Consul "One of everything" pledge, huh? Well, there goes my Zombicide Season 3 pledge! Sorry CMoN!

I wouldn't get that if I were you - or, more accurately I'd say, be aware that one of everything is one of EVERYTHING - including some things you might not want/need like: Extra dice set, extra squirrels (included in the base set), extra slimes (included in the expansion tiles) extra rattlebones (included with the Von Drakk tiles), etc.

My pledge of "one of everything, no repeats" - was $298.

What's that made up of, exactly?

I haven't been following on this in detail, and now being payday and up to the wire with this thing I just want to get it sorted out and over with - and are any of the Relic Knights heroes/villains worth getting?

 Azazelx wrote:
What's that made up of, exactly?

I haven't been following on this in detail, and now being payday and up to the wire with this thing I just want to get it sorted out and over with - and are any of the Relic Knights heroes/villains worth getting?

If you go the SPM web store, they have made it pretty easy. Click on the category that says "Black Smith" and it will only show you stuff that isn't included with the 'always super' pledge. There are a few new things that weren't in the KS. Most people seem to have opted not to get extra slimes, squirrels, or rattle-bones because they are included with their respective tile packs.

I guess what you add is up to you. Though I have a feeling all the models will be available for some time to come, just make sure that you at least get the 'always super' bundle.

Thanks for that. The BS link saved me a lot of confusion.