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I'm a huge fan of the bases of these narrative sculpts. Press-molding a dozen of the base set's stone face base inserts started to look same-y after a while.

I only use the face bases for pin-ups and such. Everything else goes on the plain bases unless they have their own.

The Frogdog is soooo ugly, but the armour sets look like they're gonna be really cool.

Is anyone able to post the latest update, and especially the picture of the frogdog?

Dislike the monster, love the armour sets.

So is he making the ugliest monsters early game must-haves on purpose? :(

Wasn't it mentioned that the armor sets will be independent of the expansions? I love the Mongolian-looking concepts, but I'd like to see a render before making a final decision.

I'm loving the armor. Passing on the Frogdog.

Nightmare Ram? Yes.
Weird goat-god? Yes please!
Frog...dog... ugh.

The new teaser looks interesting!

I don't quite understand the Frog dog hate - I feel the 3 monster expansions revealed so far have all been rather dull on the actual creature, being just mutated animals with the usual hands/lanterns/nipples/genitalia. What's amazing about the goat/sheep that's horrible with the frog?

As an additional note, how are people feeling about the universally higher expansion prices, adding content to expansions they may already own, and no longer giving 50℅ off RRP? I'm... genuinely reconsidering if I can afford these multiple $50 expansions that may see minimal use.

The new expansions are 50% off the expected retail prices as the prices of the expansions in KS1 were a drastic underestimate

(and I wouldn't be surprised if the ended up retailing even higher, after all the dragon king is $150 and the content seems similar, even without sprue cost all those cards with uniqure art on them aren't cheap)

as to the Lion Knight expansion getting extra content I think it's pretty cool.

I've got the original so I can either live without the character sculpts (they're fun, but hardly essential), buy them for $25 for 4 which for KD prices is cheap (a single pinup is $15 at KS prices)

or most likely grab the whole expansion again for $35 (an extra $10 for the chance to build and paint the Lion Knight and his retinue again seems pretty cool and I might even be able to sell off the cards etc to one of the BBGers who wants the game but not the minis)


As to can I afford it all this time.... I know I can't (probably not even all the game content), that does make me a bit sad, but some KD is better than no KD (and maybe Adam will cave and offer another opportunity to throw money at him before the new expansions ship some time in 2018 even if the prices are higher, we can but hope)

I'm not quite sure how swamp dwellers make fancy suits of Mongol-style armour out of scraps of wrinkly, slimy Frogdog skin, but it's made this another expansion I must have.

Wish I'd set aside more money for add-ons.

I'm wondering if I could sell the frog dog model and sub something else in. Love the armour sets!

Not taken with either this or gorm sadly as an early year expansion.

Frog Dog is $50 KS, MSRP $90, so about...44% off?

Not horrible, really, if you like the thing!

Funny thing is the frogdog was $115 on 1st run so it's cheaper.
Wish we saw a model for the pin-up also wish they were a bigger scale for them.

Also seems like most of these new bosses seem to be underground or some such as a theme

Closing in on $7 Million. My mind is officially blown. If Adam handles the production side more efficiently than he did the first time, this could prove quite a windfall for his company.

Yeah, presumably they can leverage what they learned the first time around. That plus the fact that he's not including free shipping this time means things are going to be a hell of a lot easier for them financially.

Not only lessons learned but all the production elements for the first KS still exists (molds, print layouts, etc.) and the infrastructure already exists (plastics production, cards/box printing, shipping & distribution centers) so that will save a great amount of time and costs delivering the 1.5 boxes to pledgers. New product only needs R&D done as all the rest of the pipeline is in place and ready to go.

They'll also have a nice bonus to their margins just based on the amount they print, the more you print the cheaper it gets. If they planned on like 5000 copies originally and end up needing 15-20k, the cost per game is gonna be a whole lot cheaper.

They should add a special stretch goal at $8,782,572, to beat Exploding Kittens. Was there any other tabletop game that was higher than that? I think they'll beat that.. still a month to go plus the last 48 hours are prolly gonna be nuts.

Most funded Tabletop games no. 2

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/tabletop%20games?recommended=false&sort=most_funded

I never felt Exploding Kittens fit in tabletop games, there is a playing card game category but it probably doesn't fit neatly into either. KDM 1.5 should beat it anyway.

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/playing%20cards?ref=discovery_overlay&sort=most_funded

Most funded ever - no. 8

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?recommended=false&sort=most_funded

I like Frogdog's armor sets, but I'm not sold on the monster. Decisions, decisions...

The sculpting is top notch; you can tell from his expression that the frogdog has a favorite brand of energy drink. I'm pretty sure it's Rock Star.



Anyway, the armor is a must have for me. The costs are adding up, though. I hope the rulebooks, tiles and chits go for a decent amount.

"I promise an update a day" unless I decide to make a game not everyone can participate in and stop doing updates....

A dumb smartwatch that will be obsolete in 6 months is #1? no fair. We need some army men in the top spot. Here's hoping

What game is that? Mario Maker?

Sad Panda is amused (sad but amused)

it was a 1

I think we got off easily (I was expecting all content in the chest is lost, reshuffle hit location deck and start again like a trap card)

Same. Lol, the wife and I are trying to convince our WiiU owning friend to purchase the game so we can drive the hour to their house and take a crack at it.

Chopxsticks wrote:
"I promise an update a day" unless I decide to make a game not everyone can participate in and stop doing updates....

Indeed. A little diva-ish, perhaps?

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
"I promise an update a day" unless I decide to make a game not everyone can participate in and stop doing updates....

Indeed. A little diva-ish, perhaps?

Yeah, just a little!

Overall, it is a rather baffling way to run a Kickstarter and conduct oneself BUT...look how much money he's made already doing just that, so...who am I to...judge?

 DaveC wrote:
Most funded ever - no. 8

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?recommended=false&sort=most_funded

I can't believe that smartwatches are in such demand, especially given Apple's failure in the market.