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On the other hand, It's that SF version (and the others to follow no doubt) that will probably see me pledge for it

 Moopy wrote:
I wonder if we'll even see stretch goals. Right now, I don't think we will in any traditional sense.

Pretty sure he's said that we've unlocked everything he planned, and then kept on trucking. He's just pacing out everything because we still have 40 days to go.

The last time Poots randomly added something at the end, he offered the Lantern Festival, and we all know how that turned out...

It's a little freebie above and beyond the 30 spots that were on the chart for the Box though.

Yeah, but a "surprise & delight" freebie would normally be something that one can normally play in the game. Like an alternate (female?) sculpt of the Twilight Knight - that would have been great!

I think the sci-fi angle is pretty cool!

It wouldn't make me buy the game or not, but nice that the artists can flex their creative muscles on this kind of thing.

Totally happy with the sci fi freebie.

But I do take issue with the 70s inspiration.

If anything that design looks like early 90s Masamune Shirow-eque designs more than anything out of the 70s.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't mind that he's making SF counterparts. I just don't think that they're executed nearly as well as the Fantasy originals, nor do they match the other components in the core game. For me, it's a worthless add that I would desperately love to exchange for just about any other plastic pinup in the fantasy range. Even a male pinup.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't mind that he's making SF counterparts. I just don't think that they're executed nearly as well as the Fantasy originals,

The sci-fi versions are better than the fantasy versions.

Adam throws in a few more in the Advent Calendar and I might have to buy it. ~sigh~

Iain.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
If anything that design looks like early 90s Masamune Shirow-eque designs more than anything out of the 70s.

+1.

Makes sense, given all of the clear japanese influences in the broader aesthetic and occasionally subject matter.

 Krinsath wrote:
A handful of pin-ups may have a gear card or similar promo item that a collector may want, but no other gameplay purpose.

The game itself, however, can be quite graphic. How good/bad that is depends on your friends of the fairer sex there; the one I played the intro scenario with managed to hit the lion, draw the groin hit location and rolled a natural crit. For that specific hit location doing that castrates the lion, gives you a special resource of his removed gonads and makes the lion very, very angry. The next round it decapitated her survivor, and the lion died shortly thereafter. Without delving too much into the story, since a survivor died we had to choose how we treated the dead in our settlement, to which she quite vociferously shouted down one of the options and the campaign could begin.

Little synopsis of the game there; the amount of storytelling that occurs just from playing is quite remarkable.

Meant to say thanks for posting this

I'm.. lost for words Honestly, this sounds like simultaneously the worst and best game that I have ever heard about!

It sounds tremendously entertaining, even if some of the content is a bit close to the line of being acceptable!

I really really love the sci fi versions, I do hope we get an option to purchase them because going to GenCon is almost an impossibility for me at the moment.

So someone on Boardgamegeek found this buried in a May KS comment from Adam Poots.

Since stuff like the Nightmare Ram is coming up next in this KS, it probably gives away a fair amount of what we're amount to see...

"So! In the vein of embracing the insanity, Here are some things I am excited to see on the horizon of Kingdom Death. Consider it a soft-announcement of the things that inspire me to work every morning.

KDM - Nightmare Ram Expansion
KDM - Ringtail Fox Expansion
KDM - Black Knight Expansion
KDM - Gryphon Expansion
KDM - Frogdog Expansion
KDM - Lantern Festival (being reworked from the ground up, might focus on towns instead of settlements)
KDM - Storm Knight Expansion (how a survivor can become a hero)
KDM - Custom Campaign Book (for mixing our current expansions, supported with new story events)
KDM - Rust Ocean (area where Architects are from)
KD:Q - Kingdom Death Quest, a PVC game for mass market (gonna try distro with this!)
KD:T - Titan, a deck building game, its perspective far pulled far back to the greater entity level.
KD:L - Labyrinth, the game that highlights Twilight Knights, White Speakers and other hero level classes.
KD:2D - A retro cinematic platformer, with GORGEOUS hand made sprite animation.
MALE PINUPS

Of course these are the far off projects that loom large and don't include the resin releases that I have the pleasure of working on everyday!

Will all of this see the light of day? Will the team rebel and overthrow me first? I certainly can't say for now, but it should be a lot of fun either way!"

I'd definitely be interested in a Black Knight, Storm Knight, Gryphon, and Nightmare Ram expansion. Nightmare Ram expansion is pretty much a given based on the last update.

The frogdog is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.

Labyrinth and quest are both interesting.

Of course all the game content are interesting too.

Quick FYI: KD: Hero is KD: Labyrinth. Basically Hero was the rough working name when he started mentioning it, but then it later firmed up about the time of the quoted updated (which was KD Update email #15) to Labyrinth.

UPDATE 7

As if there was any doubt, it's the Nightmare Ram expansion.

$30.



Also the Gambler Chest gets a pretty cool looking Axe-dude. Would work great as a typical "Barbarian" in any other game.

Shocking amount of typos/ spelling mistakes in that Nightmare ram blurb.

No not really, he is renowned for them.

Could this be survivors/ settlement dashboard?

I'd hope it was an improved box insert because the original one was as much use as a pile of wet tissue. Plus it was even less suitable if you had any expansions.

A settlement or suvivor dashboard would be great.

Looks more like a new plastic storage thingee for the box.

Interesting that the Ram will have narrative static figures rather than armor kits.

I wonder if we'll see new armor kits, or more of the posed figures going forward.

Or heck, maybe a bit of both? I wouldn't mind a few odds and ends to add to my never ending pile of armor kits....

A new, better storage solution would be awesome. Mine was cracked in a few places, plus would be great if he figured a way to increase the height at the edges to allow for the box to be set up and the game board back in it (without having to jury rig something).

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
A settlement or suvivor dashboard would be great.

Looks more like a new plastic storage thingee for the box.

Interesting that the Ram will have narrative static figures rather than armor kits.

I agree that a way to organize settlement & survivors would be good.

I also agree that it's almost certainly an improved box insert, rather than the excessively fragile thing that broke during shipment. Hopefully, it's multiple parts / modular, to better organize things...

I like the "narrative" static figures better because they are better sculpted and posed than the armor kits. For a game that trades so much on its looks, it's a good move. Or split the difference with fixed legs & torso with swappable arms & heads.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

Loopstah wrote:
I'd hope it was an improved box insert because the original one was as much use as a pile of wet tissue.

It's almost certainly an improved box insert, rather than the excessively fragile thing that broke during shipment. Hopefully, it's multiple parts / modular, to better organize things...

Yep, mine was broken upon opening the box as well. Considering the quality of the rest of the components and the game itself, it was like buying a £100,000 sports car with wooden wheels.

The KS page comments move soooo fast.. I ask a question and I truly wonder if it will ever be found. Is anyone aware if the 1.5 change log will include any possible changes to expansions? Or is it purely the core game only?

I'm just hoping I get the opportunity to fill out the things I missed from the first KS.

Chopxsticks wrote:
The KS page comments move soooo fast.. I ask a question and I truly wonder if it will ever be found. Is anyone aware if the 1.5 change log will include any possible changes to expansions? Or is it purely the core game only?

The expansions aren't changing, I read somewhere.

 Sirius42 wrote:
I'm just hoping I get the opportunity to fill out the things I missed from the first KS.

Having seen the Dragon King and DBK, it's pretty much a given that 1.5 will reprint *all* of the 1.0 stuff.

Oh damn. I was on board for labyrinth ram before any news on an armor set.

So is the Dung beetle knight expansion an extra scenario thing to be played with the game, like the Ram one?