What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

Msample wrote: I backed the High Frontier Kickstarter and the last few updates ( keep in mind it funded over a year ago ) are starting to give me Up Front flashbacks.

Same here. I thought the KS would be a pretty safe bet with Ares/OSS having published other titles, but it looks more and more like they just don't know how to manage the production. It's not even their design, they just need to put together decent components and rules. Both of those things -- the decency of the rules could be debated -- were already available in the 2nd edition and expansions. I don't understand how putting together a 3rd edition package could be so problematic.

Villains & Vigilantes 3rd ed(Mighty Protectors)
After a long legal battle, the 3rd ed sees the light of day. I played this a whole bunch back in the late 80's, great memories. They say they streamlined the rules and made other revisions.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffdee/vil...otectors/description

Giant board game from the Cthulhu Wars guys with the creatures from Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods? Yeah, I'm in for that.

I think I'm doing something wrong because I backed this:

Herbaceous - A Flavorful Card Game

and it's not a bunch of plastic soldiers on a board.

Legomancer wrote: I think I'm doing something wrong because I backed this:

Herbaceous - A Flavorful Card Game

and it's not a bunch of plastic soldiers on a board.

Nah, it's a card game with a twee theme so you're good.

www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1615351/thr...gs-know-backing-game

Have we reached peak kickstarter?

Side note, it's awesome that the OP was voted down and hidden. The level of denial in the thread among many posters in unreal.

Gary Sax wrote: www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1615351/thr...gs-know-backing-game

Have we reached peak kickstarter?

Side note, it's awesome that the OP was voted down and hidden. The level of denial in the thread among many posters in unreal.

Oh, that thread...

This comment typifies everything horrible: www.boardgamegeek.com/article/23419204#23419204

Even if every single thing in this is factual and not overstated, the only way I'd give this guy any money is if the actual drugs are already in my hand. For boardgames? You wish. Climb back down in the cellar.

What a fucked-up hobby we slum in. So many people so desperate for games that they'll throw money at people like this, and KS gives them a funnel.

Mutant Chronicles Siege of the Citadel is live. If I thought it would see the table enough, I'd get it. But it won't.

TECH?NO! Bowl launches on Monday. I'm pumped and hope it does well. I think he's including pixel blocks (the square cube pieces) as stretch goals which is huge. The two pixel block teams I have are great.

hotseatgames wrote: Mutant Chronicles Siege of the Citadel is live. If I thought it would see the table enough, I'd get it. But it won't.

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Great setting and original game, but it looks like they're doing that crappy modern design thing where they have cubes and crap on the character roster. It's like some desperate move to look modern or to hopefully draw in some euro fans. The new Conan game had it as well. So does the RuneWars miniature game. Don't put some symbol or cube to represent a resource,attack or spell. Just write the damn name! Heck, other places on the same sheet list '3 dice' not a picture of three dice. These sheets aren't language agnostic.

Lame

charlest wrote: TECH?NO! Bowl launches on Monday. I'm pumped and hope it does well. I think he's including pixel blocks (the square cube pieces) as stretch goals which is huge. The two pixel block teams I have are great.

Awesome. I'm in for this one. I watched his twitch stream of a game; I was really impressed at how much it seemed like real football plays.

Don't forget to check out this unique and artisan solution to the never-ending problem of sorting components:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/698904772/board-game-bowls

^YES

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

"Designer" wooden bowls...motheragod...

"Plastic bowls are cheap and nasty"

I didnt realize the sound of a bowl on the table was an issue.

But you can get them steampunk-themed!

They should have called the one on the left "Euro Theme"