completed Reaper Bones 4: Enthusiasm and Commentary Thread

[Crowley]

30 minutes ago, trappleton said:

I guess the other thing to keep in mind RE: Chronoscope vs. Dreadmere is more of Dreadmere appears to be stuff that's already available in metal, while Chronoscope looks mostly like new sculpts. Seems reasonable that you could get a little more bang for your $50 pledges if a lot of the stuff is recast.

Unrelated, but Torlan and Bufo now live in my campaign setting, and they are best friends and have great misadventures.

Actually chronoscope is mostly old sculpts. 301-304 & 334-338 are the only new ones, I think...

 

Only 10 of the dreadmere minis are old. 

Edited August 17, 2017 by Crowley
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[daveismyhero]

Man, part 3 of Dreadmere is indeed huge, and looks great. I was on the fence before that dropped, but not anymore. 

[trappleton]

12 minutes ago, Crowley said:

Actually chronoscope is mostly old sculpts. 301-304 & 334-338 are the only new ones, I think...

 

Only 10 of the dreadmere minis are old. 

 

Er, whoops! That's exactly what I meant to say, I somehow swapped the two there. My bad!

 

Wait no I'm entirely wrong now. Please disregard me entirely!

Edited August 17, 2017 by trappleton

[terminalmancer]

Yeah. Even though I need dramatically more sci-fi minis now than I did last year, I need to start trimming my pledge a bit and Chronoscope is the least enticing of everything here. It's a little sad. But it also means we're getting some great stuff elsewhere, too.

[hungerfan]

Trim the pledge if you must BUT remember you can always add $50+ for it around Christmas time as a gift for yourself. :P

Edited August 17, 2017 by hungerfan

[Crowley]

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[Thrym]

A couple more badges online:

 

Also, on the score of what people are pledging for ... like most I have a LOT of minis.  20 or so. 

 

Here's the history of my pledging so far:

• Bones 1: Double Vampire plus most Add-ons ... this was because of the trade-in of Sophie and where I landed monetarily.
• Bones 2: This was a split buy between me and another family.  Splitting the core which we were so-so on, I bought all the giants, Mashaaf and Khanjira, and they bought most of the dragons and we split Expansion 2 because that's where the Shadow Bones were.
• Bones 3: Just myself again, I didn't get the Core set and cherry picked from it.  I bought all the giants (naturally), Goremaw, and the Armory stuff

 

I always get the Elemental, Ghost, Shadow Translucent Bones because they are friggin cool.  Which leads me to point out we haven't seen any YET in Bones 4

 

I always get the paints.  The usual two sets are listed already but the first set is literally already existing paints (not complaining, I don't have most of them).  So maybe we'll see a C set.

 

And now Bones 4:

• The expansion sets have been mostly misses for me in each of the previous campaigns.  Either they haven't had much I wanted (1 or 2 pieces) or they were just not interesting at the time.  BUT so far #1 AND #2 are both awesome.  I play Shadowrun, Firefly and Gamma World, so the Chronoscope stuff is very appealing this go around.  And Dreadmere is just amazing.  Now the question remains, what's Expansion #3 going to look like?
• The Core Set ... Bones 3 core set didn't really do much for me.  The initial batch weren't overly useful.  I didn't need Lizardfolk, etc.but so far in Bones 4, this has been awesome as well.  I have seriously been making plans for gaming based on the minis in the core set.
• Add-ons ... this is where Bones KS shine for me ... GIANTS!  No disappointment here so far ... Fire Giant Huntsman and Hill Giants so far.  Dragon Turtle, yup.  Skeletal Monsters, check!

So, according to the Pledge Manager ... I am up to the most I've spent for any KS so far ... already.  $380.

 

Naturally, this is the year I have even less money than normal.  Truck's transmission just ground to a halt.  Roof has a leak.  Taxes on the house went up!

 

So, a hearty thank you to Reaper for making it WAY TO EASY for me to add more funds to this endeavor after the KS is over.  Bastards!  God, I love you guys.

 

BRING IT ON!! I CAN TAKE IT!

 

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by Thrym

[NecroMancer]

Bufo, Bufo, Bufo, Bufo!!!!!!!!

[Crowley]

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[Chris Palmer]

2 hours ago, Inarah said:

"Clear" paints are not transparent.  They are single pigment paints, not color blends. This confuses people to no end. 

 

 

 

 

Well, that explains why something I was trying to do with some of the "clear" paint didn't work...

You'd think they'd call it "pure" or something else to avoid the confusion...

 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by Chris Palmer

[Disciple of Sakura]

1 minute ago, Chris Palmer said:

 

 

Well, that explains why something I was trying to do with some of the "clear" paint didn't work...

You'd think they'd call it "pure" or something else to avoid the confusion...

 

 

 

Yeah, I certainly didn't realize it when I got my "clear yellow" in Bones 3. It worked for the translucent mini I was working on, but I only used a small amount. 

[OneBoot]

3 hours ago, trappleton said:

 

I am surprised by the disparity there. It's not only that Dreadmere has more figures, but it has bigger figures, too. I almost wonder if there might be a fourth part to Chronoscope?

 

Reaper has previously stated that Chronoscope has only 3 parts, and that there will not be a 4th.

 

Huzzah!

--OneBoot :D

Edited August 17, 2017 by OneBoot
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[Pegazus]

2 hours ago, Pegazus said:

Bryan has stated that the Chronoscope is done at 3 parts. I expect Dreadmere to be done as well. A surprise for the sci-fi lovers would be nice tho, but I won't be holding my breath. 

 

Saw on the KS comments that Bryan has said that the expansions are "probably" finished. Just when I stick my neck out...

[JDizzO]

Nooo!  Need a third Expansion!  Although according to the PM I have plenty to buy already.  I was hoping they would do another terrain expansion like Graveyard in B3.

[trappleton]

On the subject of color paint names, I do wish "Scholar Flesh" had, well, pretty much any other name, considering its implications. It's not like it's a big deal, just causes me to make the  face in real life when I think about it.