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Silence was a pair of male and female survivors with the gender swap belt.

They were originally a Black Friday set, but may have shown up during Gen Con sales.

I love that my painted ones here on Dakka are one of the first things that show up if you search for them on Google!

My Gambler chest shipped. 28 pounds and arriving early next week. That's a bit earlier then planned as I thought it would be post Gencon.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
My Gambler chest shipped. 28 pounds and arriving early next week. That's a bit earlier then planned as I thought it would be post Gencon.

I've received nothing since the email to update my address. :/

 Breotan wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
My Gambler chest shipped. 28 pounds and arriving early next week. That's a bit earlier then planned as I thought it would be post Gencon.

I've received nothing since the email to update my address. :/

Did you get the notification/email to make sure your payment info was correct in the PM for the shipping cost? Plus I wouldn't be surprised if they're going by backer number or pledge level as I have one of the super early bird lantern pledges.

Also some people on the east coast have already gotten their shipment so things have been going on for a bit already.

I've just had a shipping notice for the crossover Possesed Twlilight Knight that the took over the manufacture from Ninja Division so those are going out now too

 Breotan wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
My Gambler chest shipped. 28 pounds and arriving early next week. That's a bit earlier then planned as I thought it would be post Gencon.

I've received nothing since the email to update my address. :/

Not sure if it helps you Breotan, but I got my tracking notification today, am out towards your neck of the woods, got the Black Friday Gambler's Lantern pledge and am backer 626 (should of waited 40 more backers...).

I had nothing in my emails beyond the initial one for shipping charge, and mine arrived today. no idea what backer # i am.
Its a damn nesting doll of boxes in boxes, so i haven't taken a chance to look at all the content as of yet, but it is a heavy beast to be sure

No emails or anything aside from paying the shipping and it showed up the other day. Huge box - crazy - its a bit overwhelming lol (Midwest USA, backer # around 1600...)

I should note that I have Fedex delivery notifications setup so I get an email as soon as a label is created for Fedex (from fedex directly) for my address before the sender usually notifies me.

I did get something from Backerkit several days after the Fexed notification but not one from KD themselves.

Okay, this was the hint on FB. The backerkit may have your shipment listed, along with a tracking number even if you haven't been notified via email. I saw my shipment there and the tracking info said delivery was set for Monday er, make that Wednesday. Looks like it slipped a few days.

Atnas build guide warning

Got notification in Australia about 2 days before the actual GC showed up yesterday.

I made the mistake of assuming that I could carry it the 10 minute walk from the post office to my flat . Turns out it's heavier than the 6yo child I didn't have when I backed this

Yep. Heavy. I opened the box on my driveway. There's an inner box you then open for the the miniatures box and the game box. Made two separate trips.

Hundreds of dollars for miniatures I'll never get around to assemble for a game that I'll never get around to playing to be stored in space I'll never find.

BUT ITS MINE.

 ced1106 wrote:


Hundreds of dollars for miniatures I'll never get around to assemble for a game that I'll never get around to playing to be stored in space I'll never find.

Oof. You perfectly described why I gave up on the hobby.

Probably been asked/posted a dozen times already, but has anyone made a relatively up to date "collection manager" type utility for this? Occurred to me as I was checking out my purchase for todays sale that I am starting to lose track of what I have and don't have.

there's this https://kdm-collector.com/models but i've no idea how complete it is

BGG has a good list of released stuff: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2359740/master-list-released-game-content-promos

Unrelated but from the latest updated - not in the least bit surprised Poots has decided to be one of the few people to carry on working with Quackalope, a content creator who has had some very recent public issues with conflicts of interest.

I'm not sure Poots is even aware of those issues, he's a bit "checked out" on events in the broader game space

Great googly moogly, that Butcher's Bust is expensive!

Unless it's life-sized I guess.

Error.

Black Friday sale this year is actually a sale (rather than just a "sale" as in - we have some things to sell to you).

Core game the cheapest it's been in a while ($266 - about a 40% discount) and similar discounts on all the original expansions - individually or get the lot for $528 - was $800 last year's Black Friday "sale".

And if you already have everything, well you can spend $130 on six small mins and three booklets, because yeah it's sensible for them to making new content and selling it at silly prices instead of finishing the KS

Yeah, apparently the campaigns of Death book has also grown from a book into a massive boxed set, but at least the end is finally in sight.

I think the Narcissistic Barbarians is the point where Kingdom Death stopped tiptoeing the line of self parody and sashayed over it.

They reopened the Backer Kit and it has some new content in it - available individually or all together (no discount).

Man, after waiting this long for the gambler's chest and still waiting for campaigns of death, I don't care how bloated this content is to justify its massive delays, I'm not happy that they're trying to sell me on compatibility. To be able to play the Sunstalker and Dragon King campaigns with fully updated rules for just those two models now looks like:

Core game ($420)
Gambler's Chest (advanced) ($400)
Campaigns of Death (1.6 update supposed to make this stuff compatible) (I think also $400?)
Dragon King ($175)
Sunstalker ($125)
$130 for these philosophy update cards
generally high shipping

...for about $1600 before generally high shipping prices, and I don't care how much bloat and added stuff there is, I think it's absurd to charge another $45 per campaign to make them compatible when we've been waiting more than half a decade to get them updated and compatible for this edition, and this isn't counting the 1.5 and 1.6 updates that are also about compatibility. Also, these are being sold before campaigns of death ships, which is supposed to be what makes these compatible.

No, I didn't get this stuff at retail, and no despite my interest in the new philosophies, I'm not going to spend another $150 or whatever with shipping on FOMO nonsense designed to make the game compatible when everything above hasn't already. Yuck. I wish this game weren't locked into this cycle of absurd bloat that gets subsidized by overpriced DLC...

I didn't read these new philosophies as being mandatory or anything. Just more content that can be slotted in if desired. Yeah, they're designed around existing content and the philosophies alone probably should have been in the already bloated campaign box.

I figured I was more interested in the figures anyways, and knowing how this game goes with its bloat, I figure if I plunk down for them now I'm sure I'll get my money's worth down the line.

I'm happy I held off on getting the newest Echoes of Death as it was half price this sale. Can't complain about that.

I wanted those naked armor kits by themselves rather than bundled with the Goblin stuff. One of those looks to be enough and there's no telling when I'd get around to painting it, versus I would totally get those survivors done.

Will say it again, he really needs someone to reign him in and keep him on target, he is giving off the same vibes as say, Michael Cimino, not wanting to compromise on vision and artistry, cost and consequences be damned. I do wonder how well the company is doing this far down the line.

But I doubt he cares, or even listens for that matter. He put out an email address aeons ago where he promised to listen to feedback and get back to you on that. Never heard anything back from anyone on my questions, I guess they just set it up as a place for people to dump their grievances and complaints.

But wahey, campaigns of death has grown into a massive expansion, we got that for $50,- and bloody hell, finally a render of the Hyper Light Drifter mini, you know when that game was still hot? At this point, KDM has long died in our gaming group hehe.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I didn't read these new philosophies as being mandatory or anything. Just more content that can be slotted in if desired.

The Gambler's Chest goes out of its way to specify that the philosophy system is basically incompatible with the dragon campaign. I don't know how else to read a dragon campaign philosophy sold on its own than presumably the thing that makes it compatible with the philosophy system, that exists outside the campaigns of death which was sold as the thing that would make the old expansions compatible with the core and advanced rules (without nearly so much emphasis on new campaign bosses).

 BrookM wrote:
Will say it again, he really needs someone to reign him in and keep him on target, he is giving off the same vibes as say, Michael Cimino, not wanting to compromise on vision and artistry, cost and consequences be damned. I do wonder how well the company is doing this far down the line.

It's an interesting shift from "we've made some new philosophies so now we're going to include those and six new minis in Campaigns of Death" to "we've made some new philosophies and you can buy them for a huge amount of money".

It's also the first time we've seen stuff on Black Friday cost less money that it did on the previous Black Friday.

I think the reality is the Kickstarter money is long gone, the last of it used printing the Gambler's Chest, and they're on the hook for so much content in "Wave 4" that they can't fund. The company is entirely dependent on it's ongoing income which I think has worked okay to this point - with the tons and tons of promos and aesthetic minis and dice sets bringing in regular income, along with the annual Black Friday re-opening of the pledge manager to get people to put more money down.

But this year has seen a definite shift. It's the first time we've seen real gameplay content made and sold separately (the new philosophies) - which to me reads as a way to get more money out of gameplay completionists who pledge a couple of grand so many years ago and thought they'd get everything.
Then next to that you have an actual discount on the main game and the old expansions. Significant discounts as well. It's the first time I think maybe ever, that stuff has been cheaper on a Black Friday than it was the previous Black Friday.

It definitely reads to me as a way to trying to bring in additional revenue.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I wanted those naked armor kits by themselves rather than bundled with the Goblin stuff. One of those looks to be enough and there's no telling when I'd get around to painting it, versus I would totally get those survivors done.

Yeah, the mystery box was a bit of a weird one this year.
Still picked one up but I would've preferred another armour kit or two (Like my precious Mushroom Dudes, I do not want to have to buy an entire Campaigns of Death set just for the minis) over the Goblin Bird.