Soda Pop Miniatures recently made the exciting announcement for an all new Super Dungeon® Kickstarter. As we run up to the Kickstarter we’d like to explore some of the items that will be debuting in the base pledge levels, as well as look forward to what we’re planning to bring to Super Dungeon® with each product, and the Kickstarter in general.

One of the items that inspired the most discussion from our announcement was Super Dungeon® Explore: 2nd Edition. This made it a natural fit for our first article. What is 2nd Edition, what makes it exciting, and, of course, will there be a pledge without it?

To answer the last question first—yes. The Super Dungeon® Legends Kickstarter will feature pledges for both new players and veterans, with a pledge level including Super Dungeon® Explore: 2nd Edition and an alternate pledge level without it. That said, lets discuss what 2nd Edition brings to Super Dungeon®.

Forgotten King, like the original Super Dungeon® Explore, is a massive box set! Filled with two modes of gameplay, fiction, tons of models, Forgotten King is a premium board game at a premium price. With 2nd Edition we want to introduce a whole new group of fans to Super Dungeon® Explore at an affordable price, while still maintaining a premium experience.

Super Dungeon® Explore: 2nd Edition is designed around smaller, faster games with three spawning points, a single mini-boss, and a fearsome Dungeon Boss. A wide variety of Heroes and multiple monster profiles help keep the game fresh and exciting. 2nd Edition introduces new players to Super Dungeon® and is wallet friendly, while still providing the beautiful models, art, and components that fans of Soda Pop Miniatures have come to expect. When it’s time for new challenges and bigger games, players can pick-and-choose from the expansive line of Super Dungeon® Heroes, Warbands, and Level boxes to enhance their experience.

For veterans of Super Dungeon®, 2nd Edition is more than just an updated rulebook that features the errata and clarifications from the last year-plus of play. New Dragonback Peak themed dungeon tiles make their debut and expand your existing collection of dungeon tiles. Both the Loot Deck and Treasure Deck feature completely new items, and can be added directly to your existing base decks to increase the variety of gear Heroes can acquire. Likewise, a new Explore Deck, featuring more beneficial exploration rewards, encourages Heroes to search every nook and cranny of the dungeon. Just like the loot and treasure deck, the Explore Deck can be used on its own or added to the Forgotten King deck to provide a wide array of exploration possibilities.
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Of course, it’s not Super Dungeon® Explore without a stunning array of models, and we’ve taken the opportunity to bring our only unassembled models to dynamic, new life. 2nd Edition features eight Heroes, Angry Bear, Starfire the Ruby Dragon, Rex the Kobold Ogre, drakes and kobolds. New players can discover these models for the first time, assembled and ready to play. Veterans can use the models with their existing collection to represent alternate profiles or, in games of Legends, as advanced monsters and epic evolutions of Heroes as they advance in class.

The Super Dungeon® Legends Kickstarter is poised to provide a huge amount of exciting new content for veterans and new players alike. Super Dungeon® Explore: 2nd Edition provides an excellent entry point for new players, while remaining an enticing option for veteran players looking to expand their collection

Soda Pop Miniatures has explored several of the realms of Super Dungeon, beginning with the Dragonback Peaks, then Glauerdoom Moor, and last year the Fae Wood. With Legends we knew we wanted to introduce another realm to players, and none seemed so fitting as the very center of the Dark Consul’s power—The Midnight Tower.

The Midnight Tower stands within the heart of the Nether Rifts, the mystical chasm which descends into the Dark Realm. From this portal, the Dark Consul summoned forth hosts of monsters to ravage Crystalia. Even now, with the Dark Consul banished, the Nether Rifts and Midnight Tower are the origin of much of Crystalia’s woe.

The new inhabitants of The Midnight Tower are the nether elves, lead by The Midnight Queen. Descendents of the Deeproot Elves who were swallowed by the creation of the Nether Rifts, their hearts have turned wicked and cruel. In order to survive, even flourish, within the Dark Realm the Nether Elves turned to martial might. Their society has been refashioned into a warrior cult, where only those who accept their strict codes of martial discipline and “honor” are allowed to exist. They will sweep any who refuse to submit to their new world order.

In your games of Super Dungeon, the nether elves are a cohesive fighting force which use stealth to augment their attacks and force Heroes to close in to engage. All nether elves possess the signature ability Dread, which augments their offensive capabilities when they are benefitting from Stealth. Unsurprisingly, several key nether elf models, including their spawning point, possess the ability to generate auras of Stealth. The Midnight Tower includes two spawning points of nether elves, each consisting of a Tower Stalker which can teleport into other models’ shadows and deliver debilitating status effects, Tower Arbalists whose bolts chill the very soul, and Tower Blackblades whose martial discipline ensures their fellow Nether Elves are always in the proper position.

Some elves developed the gift to communicate with the demonic spiders which lurked in the Dark Realm. These Spider Speakers spawn swarms of poisonous spiders into battle alongside the nether elves. Key among the abilities of the spiders is the capability to weave webs which create difficult terrain hazards, allowing the Consul to control the dungeon in an all new and dynamic way. The sneaky Shadow Spinners can even weave webs of pure shadow, granting stealth and perfectly synergizing with their nether elf allies.

Should the Heroes make it through these devilish minions they must face The Midnight Queen. A cunning illusionist and powerful mage, The Midnight Queen is a powerful foe in her own right. Yet, Heroes never face The Midnight Queen alone, for she is protected by a magical guardian, Daemonus, who attacks any who come near and defends her with its life.

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Of course no Level Box is complete without three mighty Heroes. The Midnight Tower introduces the Hearthsworn Tincan, Riftling Warrior, and Cat Burglar. The Tincan is melee fighter focusing on crowd control. Able to gain the ability Grabby, the Tincan can pull foes in close and prevent them from moving away. Whereas the Tincan focuses on defense and board control, the Riftling Warrior is all about damage. With a powerful charge action which grants extra movement after a Lance action, and the ability to generate blue dice (and thus Hearts) on a never before seen scale, the Riftling Warrior punishes any who stand in his way. The Cat Burglar specializes in fast movement and treasure acquisition. Be careful though, when she gets cornered she can throw a flurry of daggers which poison anyone they strike!

The Midnight Tower is only the beginning of our journey in the Nether Rifts. It provides a first glimpse at the true might of the Dark Consul, and establishes a rich source of monsters for your games of Super Dungeon Explore and a wonderful realm of adventure and storytelling for your games of Legends. With your help we plan to reveal many additional horrors spawned from the Dark Realms.