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Well I sold my Survivor Pledge unopened. A year or two ago I would have been all over this but life and new games have sucked the time I would have put toward it so it's funding my other hobbies.

I bought Alpharius's pledge, worked out to being about $150 more than the kickstarter value I think, but I dont care, worth it

From the newsletter look like it's out of EU customs

Quick EU Fullfillment Update

Just wanted to let you know that the games and survivor levels have safely reached our partner in the EU and they are working as hard as possible to get everything processed and out for delivery ASAP. There is a good chance things will ship before our estimated window of October 15 - 30th. Official updates will be posted to kickstarter as soon as we know.

Thank you for being patient.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Well I sold my Survivor Pledge unopened. A year or two ago I would have been all over this but life and new games have sucked the time I would have put toward it so it's funding my other hobbies.

I almost sold mine, and boy am I glad I did not. I would be kicking myself. To be fair though I have quit a lot of games recently and have the time to dedicate to Kingdom Death. We will see how the game holds up over time.

 DaveC wrote:
From the newsletter look like it's out of EU customs

Quick EU Fullfillment Update

Just wanted to let you know that the games and survivor levels have safely reached our partner in the EU and they are working as hard as possible to get everything processed and out for delivery ASAP. There is a good chance things will ship before our estimated window of October 15 - 30th. Official updates will be posted to kickstarter as soon as we know.

Thank you for being patient.

Happy, happy, joy, joy

Oh yes, it is now officially a race between wave one and two around here.

My wave 1 shipping notification email arrived today. Meaning my Wave 1 package will arrive Monday........

When I get shoulder surgery

And will go 3 months without the ability to paint.

Joyous occasions

Trust me, the 2-3 days wont make a difference in how much youd be able to paint...

A little off topic, but I'm a preorder guy and have yet to receive my box.

Are they're any colored art pics of the Phoenix in the rulebook or on the cards or at least a harrowing description of it or am I just free to go to town on this thing color wise?

(FYI I usually try to stay close to the fluff with a gameworld like this so I am aware that I could just go to town any way, also I'm looking into demoing this thing to a few groups so the closer to the art it looks the better.)

I'm pretty sure we've seen at least some phoenix art during the updates, here's one I found but I'm sure there will be more



but feel free to go to town on it anyway (after all like all the monsters it comes in 3 power levels and we all know from video gaming that a different power level means a different colour, so if the phoenix in the art does not suit you paint what does, and then it can be the level 2 phoenix while the one in the book is a level 1 or level 3)

 BrookM wrote:
Wave one or wave two?

If the small no game box is wave one, then wave one.

Well that's awesome, and my new wallpaper.

An update for those of you who are worried about a balanced, slightly easier (but not hero mode) version of the game. We've been refining our house rule, and have been playing with the following cost to prevent death (and all associated positive outcomes) in random events:

All survival, min. 2, and skip the next fight (hunt or otherwise).

It's felt pretty thoroughly balanced.

 primalexile wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
Well I sold my Survivor Pledge unopened. A year or two ago I would have been all over this but life and new games have sucked the time I would have put toward it so it's funding my other hobbies.

I almost sold mine, and boy am I glad I did not. I would be kicking myself. To be fair though I have quit a lot of games recently and have the time to dedicate to Kingdom Death. We will see how the game holds up over time.

Yeah. I just can't see myself having the time to dedicate it before the next decade is up so I figure I have better places to put that cash and since it went for a substantial amount I'm ok with it. And I've still got more stuff to offload once the additional expansions come in. I'm keeping my promo pin-ups I ordered but that's pretty much it.

I understand that Hulksmash; as I look around my ever-growing mountain of shame I should probably be thinking along those lines more. As it is I find myself thinking I did not order anywhere near enough armor kits during the KS, which means the mountain will likely rise higher.

Question for the US-based backers: How long after you received your wave 1 shipping email until the tracking info updated? I received my email Thursday, but as of yet FedEx hasn't updated any information and still has it as "pending." I figured I'd poll you guys to try and establish if that became the norm and the box will show up today/tomorrow or if they just pre-printed my label in anticipation of shipping it out this week. I could obviously ask KD, but that's just another thing they'd have to respond to which slows down everyone else who doesn't have their stuff and also the build guides that I want much more than yet more mountain materials.

I received my email last monday, then the tracker updated friday to say it shipped. Slated to be here this Thursday...

I imagine they do like one or two dropoffs a week, so you'll prolly hear something later this week

A couple of reports of wave 2 (the big box) now starting to ship in Europe, 1 in Germany, 1 in Holland so far,

The waiting is killing me!

I had to do extensive culling of the pile of shame in order to make way for this game.

Felt good. I still have an awful lot of stuff to shed off my collection, but it makes the wife happy, frees up more space for other games, and actually makes it more likely that I will get to play some of the stuff I've backed.

Now to finish building everything...

Think I'm going to put KD away for a little while. I still love it and am having fun, but realized in the last 24 hours, I'm starting to get a bit cranky with it. Just been overplaying it way too much and need to step away for a couple weeks I think. Up to the 18th Lantern year, so been averaging quite a few hours of play a day plus build time.

Had a wave 1 notification about a month ago and still waiting. I was one of the late backer pledges...

Has your track & trace activated yet? Because in my case it still doesn't work.

Didn't set up the cards in the tray before my first play through, spent at least half an hour looking for cards.

After using those dividers, however, this has to be one of the prettiest in box games I've ever owned.

Got through the initial hunt with no losses. Next lion hunt we lost an axe to a hunt event (damn fragile rule) and two survivors (to decapitation and a rib to the heart). Our third survivor suffered a spiral fracture for permanent -2 strength and has to miss the next hunt.

I think I love this game

 zedmeister wrote:
Had a wave 1 notification about a month ago and still waiting. I was one of the late backer pledges...

I was backer #405, but I haven't received any shipping notifications yet. Are you expecting any resin figures in wave 1, or all plastic?

I have a complicated set with 1 of each add on in both resin and plastic. I got my notification and it's in fedex's hands right now. It looks like they may be doing some of the more complicated orders right now (makes sense to get your stuff sooner if you spent a crap ton more).

Some have had items show up without a notice or tracking number too. If you are worried drop poots an email as he has always been great to work with (although I'm sure he is buried in work right now).

If you're overseas, I'd start be worried about 5 weeks after you got your shipping notice; 1 week for the order to actually have been picked up and then the standard month for delivery.

My tracking number began moving shortly after my post; literally 16 minutes based on FedEx's site. FedEx estimates that it will take them another 4 days to deliver it, or 3 times as long as the Postal Service themselves would take. I know it's their game on expectations management and that it is likely to be here Thursday (only a day slower than USPS, which makes sense for SmartPost), but it amuses me that in their efforts to hedge their bets they make themselves look dramatically worse than just mailing things.

BrookM wrote:Has your track & trace activated yet? Because in my case it still doesn't work.

Never worked for me. And, bugger me, I've got a missed delivery card with an eye watering £7 customs charge and an £8 Royal Mail feth you fee. Ouch

Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
Had a wave 1 notification about a month ago and still
waiting. I was one of the late backer pledges...

I was backer #405, but I haven't received any shipping notifications yet. Are you expecting any resin figures in wave 1, or all plastic?

Mostly plastic. My Wave 1 is thus:

1 x White Speaker: Plastic
1 x Allison the Twilight Knight: Plastic (ppin_12)
1 x Promo: Holiday White Speaker Nico (kss_2)
1 x Promo: Candy and Cola (kss_3)
1 x Promo: Kara Black (kss_4)
1 x Messenger of Courage (kss_5)
1 x Messenger of the Spiral Path (kss_6)
1 x Messenger of the First Story (kss_7)
1 x Messenger of Humanity (kss_8)
1 x Beyond the Wall (kss_10)
1 x Lantern Festival Girl Resin (resin_16)
1 x T-shirt Medium ( m)

Well I'll be, I just got a shipping notice. Interestingly, it said it is listed as Wave 1, even though I have an armor set in it.

 Barzam wrote:
Well I'll be, I just got a shipping notice. Interestingly, it said it is listed as Wave 1, even though I have an armor set in it.

Wave 1 is still shipping; it's just being done in multiple stages, so you could say it's the 3rd grouping of wave 1 that's going out now.

I just got my Wave 2 box in the uk without any form of shipping email. I knew today was a bad day to get the train to work!

The book is about all I've had the chance to look at so far and... it is gorgeous! The progression through is also really well done, though I do want a second copy (or an app) as this is going to get so much use with all the events and tables in here! I suspect a lot of this will start to be written up into little generator tools to avoid damage to the book

Got mine, and.....OK, when they said "Monster", I thought they were talking about the premise of the game, not the size of the box. I won't be able to open mine before I shoo away all the ape-men who are learning the secrets of civilisation from it.