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from facebook

Sweetheart Candy is a limited edition Super Dungeon model that is only available for order during the month of February. Preorders will close March 1, at 12:00am MST. We will then do a special made-to-order production run of this adorable new version of Candy, just for you!

Sweetheart Candy is only available during the month of February. Don't miss out, order yours today!

Sweetheart Candy will be made-to-order after preorders close March 1. Anticipated delivery is April 2018.

Click the Link to get her before she's gone!
http://sodapopminiatures.com/preorders-29/sweetheart-candy

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we've got a render for the valentine's Candy (available till the end of Feb only)

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Each Tusk Raider must strike out on their own to harness their mount, and most simply never return. Those who succeed gain a powerful ally to combat the Dark Counsul But the walrus is only loyal to its rider, and may turn on others who come too close!

This new resin, multi-part model is a must-have to anyone's Super Dungeon collection! This raider is sure to dominate any field upon which he enters, bellowing his war cry as his massive mount does the same! Their noise will echo through the dungeons and their presence will fill any board or display case!
The Tusk Raider has arrived!

oh and the Twilight Knight crossover with Kingdom Death is back in store too

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Not if they hope to use the factory or those affiliated with the owners again (and they might as they did good work depending on why they couldn't use them this time)

especially since they hope to become a big time publisher

game companies are never going to be big enough to make turning down their business something an offended owner can't afford to do

(not that I necessarily think you're wrong in your analysis, just there are other options)

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I'm not as fed up with them as many are (despite waiting for stuff and being part of the European debacle of Rail Raider)

but they really did need to mention their own incompetence as well as backer anger as a reason for stepping back from KS

but as DaveC says it's not as if they're going to be able to float a new project on there without at lot of $1 pledges being made just to complain/ask where their undelivered projects are so it's a sensible move

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Third in our masterclass resin miniature series for Super Dungeon Explore is Randy, Lrod of Spiders! This made-to-order offering is available for pre-order throughout the month of April only! Get yours now!

"The last galaxy is a place where mighty knights clash with the forces of the void, and a battle for survival rages. But that doesn't mean that the arcades will manage themselves. Randy has been charged with the sacred duty of managing one such arcade. Annoyed at customers who continually vaporize his place of work with high tech weaponry, Randy decided to program himself into his favorite game. But a typo prevented him from being a proper lord, even in a game..."

What's more terrifying than a mini boss roaring down at you with clear intent for destruction? One that is laid back in a hammock eyeing you with mild annoyance for having disturbed him.
We all know it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for.
Includes: •1x Randy, Lrod of Spiders Resin Model (Assembly Required)
•1x Mini Boss Card (Classic)
•1x Mini Boss Card (Arcade)
•1x Cheese Head Treasure Card

Randy, Lrod of Spiders is only available during the month of April.
Don't miss out, order yours today!

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https://ninjadivision.com/shop-by-category/new-releases/mistmourn-warg.html

"The wargs of the Mistmourn Coast grow exceptionally dangerous. Unlike other wargs, they are not pack hunters. Instead, each one strikes out on its own to claim its territory. These beasts grow to exceptional size and are frequently manipulated by the Dark Consul against the heroes of Crystalia. When a warg leads the Consul's minions into battle, its howl emboldens those around it, driving them into a frenzy with the warg at their backs."

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Hmmm, i'd rather suspect its Prodos being unreliable again?

It's not plastic (I don't think?) and if they'd arranged 5000 units and needed 10000 for example it could easily mean a resin producer couldn't provide it in timely fashion (after all most are pretty booked up)

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It might well have made sense to use PVC, but they advertised resin

Pathfinder devotees will want to take note of the all-inclusive $45 tier, which will provide all of the items in the Humble RPG Book Bundle: Pathfinder Worldscape Ultimate Crossover, including our new finely detailed resin miniatures of Red Sonja, John Carter, Tarzan, and Tars Tarkas that will transport fans of Pathfinder Worldscape into the world of mystery, magic, and adventure! Scroll down for more information, and for a breakdown of each tier and all that’s included in this great, limited-time only bundle! Hit the $45 threshold for everything and be one of the first in the world to have these great playable figures from our friends at Ninja Division!

and the old material switcheroo is never good especially when the direction of travel is from higher to lower quality

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The latest masterclass miniature for Super Dungeon, the Furious Fungomancer! This new Kinoko Mini-Boss is sure to terrorize the field as his magical powers turn heroes into MUSHROOMS! This unique new mini-boss is sure to liven up any game in the Super Dungeon line! This item contains two masterclass resin models, one for the Fungomancer itself and another for any hapless heroes it changes into mushrooms. Unassembled and unpainted

https://ninjadivision.com/products/ninja-dvision/super-dungeonr-explore/furious-fungomancer.html

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Ninja Division Publishing and Soda Pop Miniatures are excited to announce that the ninjas of Ninja All-Stars are coming to the popular Super Dungeon line!

Beginning June 27, clan boxes, heroes, and ronin for Ninja All-Stars will be reissued as expansions for Super Dungeon, beginning with: Clan Kitsune (Warband), Uzumaki (Hero), Hanzo (Hero), and Jorogumo (Dungeon Boss), with additional expansions reissued monthly. These expansions will feature new Super Dungeon packaging and all of the cards necessary to play in Super Dungeon: Arena, Super Dungeon: Explore, and Super Dungeon: Arcade.

Additionally, each wave of releases will be accompanied by Super Dungeon x Ninja All-Stars Upgrade Deck. Each quarterly upgrade deck will contain the cards necessary for retailers and distributors to upgrade their existing stock and for customers to play using their existing Ninja All-Stars collections, for use in Super Dungeon. Monthly releases and upgrade decks will be available through ninjadivision.com and all your normal retail and distribution outlets.

These exciting new releases will be accompanied by a series of web articles and a richly detailed new storyline, Island of Shadows, that tells the tale of how these two kingdoms discovered one another and what adventures have arisen because of it. Fans will be thrilled as they read the story of how the citizens of Crystalia discover the island continent of Kagejima and its inhabitants. The rest of the story will be created by the fans as shadowy ninjas of Kagejima and the mighty Heroes of Crystalia clash within the Super Dungeon range of board games.

The Ninja All-Stars board game will continue to be available while supplies last. [ie if you want it grab it now]

https://ninjadivision.com/info/news/article/bringing-ninja-all-stars-into-super-dungeon
background info on where Ninja All Stars fits into SDE

https://ninjadivision.com/info/media/Ninja_All-Stars_x_Super_Dungeon_Upgrade_Deck_1.pdf
1st set of cards for SDE

https://ninjadivision.com/info/news/article/the-future-of-ninja-all-stars
Rules downloads, legacy NInja All Stars & SDE

whatever the reason for this it's no doubt a good thing as it give SDE a new area and bunch of new minis and removes potential confusion

(Speculation, People always wanted the crossover right from the point of the original KS? NAS is no longer selling ? Streamlining their offerings, Option to convert 'dead' stock to saleable stuff (probably not as unpacking and repacking stuff in new boxes in the USA is probably not cost effective))

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(poor angle on the mini, she's a centaur)

3 new SDE resins available tomorrow

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In great choruses the Rock Singers call to the heavens, with the Song of Stars. Their song awakens the spirit of the stars, and draws fragments of starmetal to the earth. In her lifetime a Rock Singer may only ever succeed in calling a few ounces of this precious metal, but with it the guild works wonders.

The Star Guild Rock Singer is in stock and available today!

Occassionally a gnome inventor or miner goes a bit...mad. Lobbing explosive shells and driving over hapless Heroes, these bizzare dungeon bosses bully lesser monsters to collect raw materials for their inventions.

The Gnomish Excavator is in stock and available today

Fighter's rejoice! Two new opponents have arrived for your games of Way of the Fighter. In addition to their own unique moves, this fighter deck includes the Brutal technique pack for Hard style decks, and the Lock technique pack for Wrestle style decks.

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and previewed for release at gencon is the crystal weaver

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The newest Takoashi x Super Dungeon Masterclass Miniature, the House Phoenix Pugilist's sculpt is ready for battle. Due Aug 2nd
http://ow.ly/khNj50i5QRW

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Future House Publishing Brings the World of Super Dungeon to Life as a Five-Book Series

Future House Publishing (FHP) has partnered with Soda Pop Miniatures (SPM) to produce a five-book series based in the Super Dungeon world of Crystalia. To promote the launch of the series, Future House Publishing will be running a Kickstarter to provide fans with the opportunity to pledge for the books and limited-edition miniatures of the main characters.

When asked about the partnership Dietrich Stella, co-creator of Super Dungeon, said, “We have always focused on creating Super Dungeon as a living breathing world, so the opportunity to expand Super Dungeon’s story and world beyond the games is tremendously exciting. We cannot wait for fans, new and old, to experience Super Dungeon as never before!”

Future House Publishing has assembled a team of six authors to bring the Super Dungeon world to life. Creative Director at FHP, Adam Glendon Sidwell, is co-authoring the first book in the series with Zachary James.

Sidwell founded FHP after the enormous success of his debut self-published book, Evertaster, in June 2012. Since then, FHP has published more than 50 science-fiction, fantasy, and middle-grade books, sweeping the 2016 Utah State Book Awards in the Young Adult Books category.

Past Future House authors Christopher Keene and D.W. Vogel have seen their own success through FHP. Vogel’s Horizon Alpha series sold over 5,000 copies in the first year of publication and reached Amazon’s Top 100 Best Sellers List. The third book in the series is slated for release next month. Both Keene and Vogel are authoring books in the Super Dungeon series.

These authors will be joined by Dan Allen, author of The Forgotten Heirs Trilogy, and David J. West, who is best known for his paranormal Westerns and horror fiction.

Adam Sidwell said, “Super Dungeon is so rich with lore, it was practically begging us to write characters and plot out storylines inside its universe. Each author has really grown into the story and conveyed important elements of the existing lore in compelling ways. I couldn’t be more excited about this.”

After its month-long Kickstarter, the five-book Super Dungeon series will be available in print wherever books are sold, including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Indie bookstores, as well as on all major ebook platforms. The special edition mini figures, designed by SPM and manufactured by FHP, will primarily be sold during the Kickstarter with limited stock available afterward.

Sidwell, Vogel, and Allen will also tour schools with their new Super Dungeon releases in addition to their other titles. For more information on having these authors visit your school, follow this link: https://www.futurehousepublishing.com/assemblies/

Now Future House Publishing is an independent real company (ie it's not something set up by Ninja Division) with a successful publishing track record

So on that score I'm not bothered by them running a kickstarter to promote these books

but I doubt those that are screaming for Soda Pop/Ninja Divisons blood over Legends etc are going to give them an easy ride

and the inclusion of LE minis no doubt made by Ninja Division is going to make it worse, (and here I do have worries simply because they're having trouble getting the Starfinder stuff produced fast enough either because of logistics or cash flow and adding another project to fulfil is unlikely to speed that up)

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I suspect your right, probably more a 'we've got books for our IP, just like GW, Privateer Press etc' than any significant payment (or even any upfront payment)

and the Amazon top 100 is fairly easy to manipulate with 'deal' pricing if all you want is a quick splash appearance

but still they'll have SDE books and that's probably a good thing even if they're fairly bland licenced book stuff (and if they're actually good even better, Black Library has done fine with loads of fodder and the occasional gem)

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkspace-Calamity-Relic-Knights-Christopher-ebook/dp/B079P8F9MS

Relic Knights novel up on Amazon (Kindle only so far anyway). Can also be read free if you're part of the Kindle Unlimited program

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While the desire to be all Ninja Division branded which seems to be the choice going forward is plausable not transferring over the data for outstanding orders is stupid,

but maybe it was less a case of choosing to move and more a case of being pushed if they'd had trouble paying the company or individual who ran the previous version of the store for them on time? (do we know if the back end of the new store looks like the old one)

If they have switched store provider that would be a good reason for no data transfer as getting 2 sets of software to reliably talk to one another is a pain in the backside

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I don't necessarily think it says the funds were miss spent (although they might have been), but they're certainly gone and delivery looks unlikely at present

I can only hope they can get Relic Knights out and so on sale giving an income stream), and Starfinder completed (showing they're a viable partner for design... I actually can't imagine pathfinder didn't insist the KS money for manufacture/shipping for this wasn't held separately)

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Reapers SF mini sales are always a lot lower than fantasy

but whether that's truly reflective of demand (after all I bet most of reapers sales are for D&D or pathfinder), o

are whether people who want SF stuff are less likely to think of reaper or shop in places that stock them is harder to tell

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Since they're listed as a sponsor they've probably paid out a bunch already,

so assuming they have product to sell (which might not be the case since warehouse space costs money stuff like Doomseekers may be going direct from factory to distributors) showing up and sleeping in the truck might be worth doing simply to generate some cash which can be used to pay for things (which product can't do)

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Good to have the info,

sad to see the state of the relic knights and SDEL are worse that i'd hoped financially,

and I guess Prodos/Archon unicast isn't as easy to design minis for as was made out (which would also explain why some of the starfinder stuff delivered was poor quality, the process just couldn't handle those particular sculpts as they were)

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Is it?, people were grumbling about SDEL already so the PM uptake may not have been huge

or it may be more likely that since they talk about the breakdowns being of money taken by crowdsource funding that any extras from the PM (not crowdfunding) isn't included

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warboss wrote:
They seem to be posting the same update across all their delinquent projects. In the Starfinder comments, one backer pointed out this interesting tidbit.

Ken Marable just now

Your cost overruns chart is inaccurate. I just checked my Game On Tabletop account to try to remember what I pledged, and it states that you collected an additional $190,000 there to put you just shy of $640,000 collected for the Starfinder Masterclass project, not the less than $500,000 shown in the chart, and which would put you at more revenue than costs to date for at least this project, but obviously deeply in debt considering other projects.

If true and he can actually see how much was raised (and not fulfilled in full obviously) after the kickstarter campaign ended, it seems that Ninja Division/Soda Pop have the same self serving and dishonest accounting practices as their former partners Palladium when they too "forgot" to include their post-crowdfunding and retail sales for the products that backers funded in their entirety in their financial calculations.

in that case it's certain what I speculated above based on the quote in the statement: the breakdowns being of money taken by crowdsource funding that any extras from the PM (not crowdfunding) isn't included,

so you can basically boost all the graphs collected income, revenue spent and cost to deliver by whatever the PMs took, the pie charts are probably still valid though

Edit: money taken in PM is also much more protected so more likely to have been returned as refunds or clawed back by CC/Banks etc

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I'd disagree there since development isn't finished its not going to be a fixed cost but an ever increasing one so I think the proportions will hold up

no whether their spend on it (or anything else) was sensible or even reasonable that's a different matter

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Nah, not WoTF, even if it is the cheapest to finish, the game there is done and out, the minis are just bling (and bling that those that wanted largely paid for via the KS)

the one they need to pump money into is going to be starfinder as if that can be completed they'll have minis to sell and a market (even if it is a small one) that wants them especially as a lot of them are fairly unique

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Monolith paid for and manufactured Claustrophobia prior to their KS so it really was just a pre-order with no extras or chance of backers influencing the game in any way (selling just over 70% of the units available, so probably in profit but not by a huge amount))

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And clearly the US government since ND have been paying them taxes with the money 'stolen' from backers...….

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Relic Knight update, full pdf to download for v2.0

note it expires on 7th May so if you want it download it soon

Greetings and happy weekend everyone,

We have been moving projects along, and while we continue the slow process of stoking our engines again, we wanted to give all of you access to a full PDF zip file with everything you need to play a full version of Relic Knights 2.0 right away.

Please follow this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x-uq6PCLOiV0Z0lxm2yRTQoDLZrMtWf1/view?usp=sharing

This link will be open until May 7, 2019 to download.

Download the file and unpack the contents. There you will find the following:
•Relic Knights 2.0 Digest rulebook
•Full set of esper cards for print and play
•Foldable Terrain from the core box to print and assemble
•A FULL set of unit cards featuring ALL the factions and units from the starter set and the main game. The new cards and some new artwork will be hidden in amongst the content
•A FULL set of print and play unit POGS to represent units and miniatures to try out and play with any unit combination and cadre build

Please check it out, we are proud of the work we have done so far. We continue to press on with our efforts to get al backers fulfilled as soon as possible. But want to be able to enjoy some of this content in an easy to consume package until your rewards arrive.

In May, Ninja Division, in efforts to add to our strategy of continuing to pull together resources, and to do a little good in the world, will be offering up some of our older games for a digital campaign on Humble Bundle. We will share more information as we get closer, and look forward to bringing more eyes to this product community as we get closer.

All our very best,

The Ninja Division Team