Fulfilling Dark Souls board game from Steamforged

[Leader of the Rats]

Easy one for me to skip, extra content to buy after its sold to stores (which I'll have to buy online I can bet), $160 converted fee, not so interesting miniatures. No idea of what the game is like or what quality the product will be = nope.

[CashWiley]

As someone without an FLGS, the pandering to them at the expense of those not lucky enough to have one continues to bother me. Anyone can back KS, not everyone can head down to the local game store.

 

If enough cool stuff goes to FLGS, I'm ok with voting with my dollar. Should be another Zombicide coming up soon, anyway.

[Jeneki]

Has it been stated anywhere what material the models will be made out of? I have to wonder how much the Smough Mega Hammer Of Doom will droop in softer plastic.

[Werkrobotwerk]

So... they're adding the gaping dragon, but no sign of the lord souls, or the spiders. 

 

So not interested. Maybe once they get more stretch goals out of the way

[ced1106]

This may be true for every project that does not offer lots of exclusives, but it was never so obvious to me before ... or am I mistaken, did I overlook something?

 

Nah, you got it right. I know Cthulhu Wars KS funding was also to fund for expansion copies for retail. Shadows of Brimstone created additional non-KS content available in stores (?) or at least the company website.

 

DS campaign shot past 1/2 a million on day one. I don't think they're gonna worry about pulled pledges.

[Bathory]

As someone without an FLGS, the pandering to them at the expense of those not lucky enough to have one continues to bother me. Anyone can back KS, not everyone can head down to the local game store.

 

If enough cool stuff goes to FLGS, I'm ok with voting with my dollar. Should be another Zombicide coming up soon, anyway.

You can get it from your flgs or order it directly from the company. doesnt exclude anyone and allows retail shops to carry the game without worrying about it not selling.

[ungoreatstefan]

I want to know more about the materials for the miniatures because the game doesn't sound like it would be my type of board game but I love the Dark Souls aesthetic and would possibly back just for the miniatures

[ced1106]

It's the usual KS boardgame plastic, similar to what CMON uses. Ludofact posted a comment on the Dakka "News and Rumors" forum in the DS thread if you want more info.

[cmorse]

 Should be another Zombicide coming up soon, anyway.

 

Probably the summer of 2017. Next from Guillotine is a dungeon crawl built (loosely?) off of the Zombicide rules. 

[ced1106]

Three expansions unlocked in two days. Enjoy shelling out that cash at retail...!

[Jeneki]

The stretch goals are so weird.  Unlock new boss, then later unlock that bosses damage dial, then later unlock behavior cards for that boss.  Seems like they're spreading things out for the sake of spreading things out.

 

If I back this it will be mostly for the human sized stuff.  I do like the general look of armored dudes.  None of the retail-only stuff interests me at all; they are either dragons (which I don't need more of thanks to Bones), or "blob of stuff" type bosses that are fine in the video game but don't appeal to me as physical models.

[Orlando_the_Technicoloured]

Presumably it works better for keeping the momentum going

 

(example with random numbers

 

Boss 20K then dial 20K then cards 20K

 

means 3 goals hit, the crowd goes wild and none of the targets look unachievable

 

but Boss with all the bits 60K looks far more intimidating, people think about waiting to pledge until it unlocks, things slow down, people are less likely to pledge/add on etc

[cmorse]

I can't say I'm a big fan of this.

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/dark-soulstm-the-board-game/comments?cursor=13088064#comment-13088063

[Dan d'Lyon]

The comment that they are going to be doing price controls at retail?

[cmorse]

Yep. Price controls combined with kickstarter content that you can only buy at retail with those price controls will probably be enough to keep me away.