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hah hah! Oh you.....

I promise I will get a picture up later today. Which piece first? The Atoan Hero? The Undead Hero? Lizardman minion? Mutant minion? Empirial Minion??

mutant

Tre, on that note you mentioned you would be uploading pics of the Orcs which are in your store now... I would really love to see that, as I don't think I've seen a comprehensive pic of the pieces and it would help show what the difference between the two sets offered in the store is, for folks deciding between them.

Yep those are goign up today.

 tre manor wrote:
hah hah! Oh you.....

I promise I will get a picture up later today. Which piece first? The Atoan Hero? The Undead Hero? Lizardman minion? Mutant minion? Empirial Minion??

No, now this is harsh...
If you have all these ready, we would like to see a pic of each

Yep, all of them, just to make my day a better day.

The mutant or the lizardman who be cool.

but to join in with everyone else, all of them

If I'm only going to get one, it'd be the Lizardman minion.

I'd love to see more than one though!

I was going to say the armored one, which I think is the Empirial Minion?

But then I read this:

 Ken Oakley wrote:
Yep, all of them, just to make my day a better day.

and find myself agreeing with Ken!

If I truly have to settle for only one sneak peek, it would probably be the mutant; I'm really interested in seeing what direction that faction will take.

But why have one when you can have ALL THE PICTURES?

It's so hard to make everyone happy. I know you don't want to disappoint anyone. Soooo, you should show one of everything. This way it takes stress off of you and makes everyone happy. Problem solved.

hah hah Ken. I tell you what.... I will preview two figures tomorrow. I accidentally broke the damned weapon hand off of the empirial grunt today so I am fixing that.

I am not sure how far off I am from launching this effort though so I am uncertain how much I want to show off just yet. I am fairly confident in this effort now and I am on fire sculpting and concepting but I do not want to screw it up by jumping the gun in my excitement for it.

I am going to nail this one it is just too dear a project to me.

Lizardman if we must choose one.

One human and one non human maybe? I am really looking forward to this!

Ok Y'all, here are the new preview pics...... I am not sure I am 100 % sold on the lizardman design. It is still a little too anthropomorphic for what I was aiming for...BUT this would be one of the lesser lizardman warrior minions. This kit would be part at the top of the neck and at the waist and at the left elbow IF I go modular. There would be 2 options each for legs, torso, head, shield, and weapon at least to start out with.

Then there is the Beta Mutant warrior. This kit would part at the top of the neck and at the waist. There would be 3 options for legs and torsos and four options for heads and weapons as at least one of the torsos would have a two necks. These guys are going to define bizarre. The entire faction will as a matter of fact. This head option has one eye, there will be another option with three eyes, and another with four eyes, and another with two. This torso has three arms, there will others with four, or just two, or three with one on the opposite side. Their skin textures will each be unique as well.

That may be going out on the limb a bit too far but the hell with it, I want to create an opportunity for artists to really just go berserk and truly be creative. That is really the overall driving ethic behind the design of the project as a whole. I really want people to feel encouraged to write their own visual stories in this game / world. I want to see artists REALLY being artists free from the constraints of " painting by the numbers " so-to-speak......That really comes across wrong...... what I mean is to say that I do not want to confine artists to the standards of the " real world". I want people to feel absolutely free to paint the skin of their barbarians Purple with green hair if they want. Freedom to be freaky and have FUN with their creations.

anyway these are the candidates for the third faction in the first KS. It may be that both fo them get included btu I am goign to concetrate my efforts on one or the other first and once that one is done, if the funding allows the opportunity then the other will be included.

Ok here they are..........

Whoa- that mutant is very cool!

But you knew I'd have to poke you about the below

 tre manor wrote:
Yep those are goign up today.

(regarding the pics of the orcs due up in the webstore)

Really awesome, I love the mutant.

I really hope that shipping wont kill this for me when it hits kickstarter.

Wow!

You're going to make a LOT of money on this line - and a lot of that LOT will be coming from me!

Can't wait for this one to launch!

Wow! Very cool stuff Tre! This range seems to be coming along extremely well.

 tre manor wrote:



Ok Y'all, here are the new preview pics...... I am not sure I am 100 % sold on the lizardman design. It is still a little too anthropomorphic for what I was aiming for...BUT this would be one of the lesser lizardman warrior minions. This kit would be part at the top of the neck and at the waist and at the left elbow IF I go modular. There would be 2 options each for legs, torso, head, shield, and weapon at least to start out with.

The lizardman looks amazing to me!!

BTW I have to admit something.
The lizardman's face reminds me of Godzilla (and a TRex also) and that of the mutant the infected from the "I am legend" film

great stuff. i really like the undead. I'm a bit confused though, you said you want the undeads to be really powerull, yet you also said that they will be a horde faction, Wonder how youll be able to pull this out

I think that was a "mutant" and not an "undead"?

Unless he was referring to this pic (but it's all the way back on page 4):



I'm not a huge fan of the lizardman above, I agree it's a bit too anthropomorphic. I'd love to see future ones branch out a bit more from the norm, as the mutant does.

As for the rules, it would rock if theyr was a stance mechanism, like in confrontation (you would divide your combat dice between attack and defense).


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yeah, was referring to this guy Ritides

Yes the Undead are going to be very powerful indeed, just not quite in the way that you might imagine hearing the word " powerful ". Dangerous might be the better descriptive.

Shipping costs...... I am actively trying to work out a foreign fulfillment point that will all but eliminate the import fees for the UK an EU, MAYBE Australia as well.

Glad you guys like these. After getting ht epics taken I though better of the shape of the mutant's head and bulked up his cranium a little bit.

I am still on the fence over the lizardman though.

DON'T CHANGE THE LIZARDMAN!

In fact, I like the 'anthropomorphic' LizardMAN look.

Yes, mostly because I'm an old school 1E AD&D kind of guy, but secondly, because it is awesome as is!

I like both the lizardman and the mutant. My best guess is that the Lizardmen and Amazon faction will pull in more backers than the mutant faction.

If you want to make the lizardman less anthropomorphic, you might consider narrowing the shoulders or even have a bit of a pear type shape ( I really like the meatiness of the legs and tail). If you look at many lizards, their shoulders are about as wide as their hips, so that may be an idea to make them look more "lizardy" but I think most people will be looking for what you sculpted- a "Lizard Man."

Tis an awesome lizard man.

Wow, I honestly love them both; the lizardman is a real brute and that mutant is frickin' insane! Awesome stuff.

Pics of the orcs are up: