What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

I believe the printer they went with in the end was Panda, which is generally regarded as pretty legit and hardly a problem to work with. From the updates I read it seemed like the publisher wasn't getting files in the format they wanted from Eklund and they were not being exactly pro-active in fixing the issues. Given the time it has taken, and the examples of (in my opinion) much improved graphics for Greenland 2nd edition, Neanderthal and Bios Genesis, I wish that Eklund hadn't stuck so rigidly to his guns on not updating the graphical design. It seems like he "saw the light" of improving that for those other games, but after HF 3rd Ed was under way.

www.beastsofwar.com/wreck-age/vehicles-coming-wreck-ageyes/

UM, YEEEES!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1470715003/...?ref=category_newest

If you've been ignoring the Shadow War Armageddon thread, this is MDF terrain made in the Necromunda style. It's chugging along nicely, and supposedly anyone who pledges before he hits $10k will get delivery in July.

JEM wrote: Also at $100 I expect there to be some retail expansion(s) included, basically like Blood Rage. If it is like Blood Rage, you may even wait for retail discounts down the line- there's nothing vital in BR exclusives at all, unless you really, really like purple.

Speaking of Kickstarters I am not backing and why, I cancelled my pledge for Rising Sun. I'm pretty much done with the CMON tactics. If I want a complete, matching components game, I have to put down $170 (with estimated shipping) to get the game plus the foreign clans. Alternatively, I can let it go, and buy the base game at retail for $60 six months after release. I don't want to get the KS edition now, and then find I don't have little plastic houses for the expansion clans from buying those retail. A silly argument, maybe, but a silly argument that convinced me to save $120 for something else.

I'm also not at all a fan of the KS exclusive monsters in The Others (I think the Mayor kind of breaks the game in one scenario), and ditto the Blood Rage ones which I almost never played with. That seems to be the CMON way- find a way to up-sell over-sized minifigs by finding any reason to throw more of them into the games.

Agreed that CMON is irritating with their exclusives. Strongly disagree that the KS exclusive monsters in Blood Rage are fluff - the mountain giant and wolfman especially. I went for the big pledge on Rising Sun even though the price is too high.

Probably going to back the new Impulse kickstarter. This is another one that bothers me though. I have no problem with the design in the original Impulse and really like the game. But this seems like the only way to get the actual expansions and it will bother me if I don't get a chance to try them.

Sigil is one I hope funds. Monster army vs monster army on a hex map with factions. No minis just standees like Gloomhaven. Looks like a straightforward battle system with room to expand. If I can summon or recruit some type of demon in a game and have it attack my friends I'm pretty happy.

Edit for the link. www.kickstarter.com/projects/392906378/sigil-powers-of-war

I was tempted by the new Impluse as well, but I had to be honest that I rarely get to play the base game, so the expansions would surely never see the light of day.

I did succumb to Empires of the Void II, even though I promised myself I wouldn't.

The new Impulse looks great, but yeah,I rarely get to play the original.

Another that I'm conflicted about is the (proposed?) KS for a new edition of Bios:Genesis so soon after the game just came out. They are offering an upgrade pack for original edition owners, but that's going to cost almost as much as the game did, with the new edition being something like $40. It feels like too much, too soon for me. I hope it's successful, even so.

I meant to mention on my Rising Sun gripes that I've already rented CMON over $200 with no fee awaiting Massive Darkness, but I see that getting 10x as much play.

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I just backed this because a dear friend and fellow fattie has a dream to publish a CD of his tunes. I have also stated that he will be the recipient of an FCC complaint if he doesn't put a Keasby Nights cover as a hidden bonus track.

BACK A FELLOW FATTIE'S DREAM.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1116304284/...-trigger-debut-album

Dropped my pledge to $1 for Rising Sun. I'm still not convinced that this one will be all that interesting, but hey, maybe a rulebook will change my mind (and purge the memory of those hammy/dumb gameplay videos from my memory). Or, I may be distracted from it entirely once Zombicide: BP: Green Horde comes along:

cmon.com/news/zombicide-green-horde-is-coming

Gloomhaven is back for $99. I paid $245 and have no regrets at all. It's amazing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1350948450/...inting?ref=discovery