Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms

[hepcat]

Of course, in the "right" example, you're most likely tearing the back off the two-sided chits next to it.

I will say that the battle system chits have never been an issue to any significant degree on that particular front. It's just the precut slots for inserting pieces into other pieces that can sometimes be miscut, causing me to now be unable to use any fingerprint readers due to the build up of glue on my fingers.

However, I am now prepared for a heist as my fingerprints are also unreadable. If anyone is planning one, please let me know.

edit: looks like I'm not the only one with issues surrounding the quality of some of the items in Maladum.

The other thing I noticed that they mention in that link is that the doom track is too long to fit in the doom tracker. You can trim it to get it to fit, but I kind of like having it a bit longer as it's easy to pick up and slot the other side if you wanna up the difficulty. But I still believe it's something they should have caught during quality assurance.

Also, just an aside, but if you need reading glasses to see really small print, you'll want to have them handy for the reference cards in this game.

[Fardaza]

This is also the way I punch out cardboard chits for board games. Seems to work better than pushing them up from the bottom.

[$iljanus]

Yeah, I completely missed that season 4 was a separate add on and thought I was getting it all with the Fear of the Unknown pledge. I'll have to pick up season 4 too.

Just got notification from Amazon that my season 4 order shipped and should arrive next Monday. Feel bad for those poor fuckers who kickstarted it and won’t be getting it in the foreseeable future. Then again, I’m also one of those poor fuckers since the stand alone season 3 Fear of the Unknown that I backed ain’t showing up in the foreseeable future either. I went back and looked at all the KS extras that I should be grateful for. There’s a lot of plastic and should be fun but next time around I think I’ll opt for retail. After the umteenth KS bonus investigator or monster all the “unique” abilities, flavor texts, etc start to sound a bit repetitive. “Plucky Park Ranger Investigator has a special ranger hat which gives you…1 extra bonus green die. And if you’re fighting a fire monster or putting out a fire you get…two extra bonus dice!” Now aren’t you happy you threw money at CMON on Kickstarter so you can bitch about not getting your game until the Year of the Pig or whatever it is while Miniature Market has it in stock?

[Smoove_B]

Trombone Champ - The Card Game

A game of Trombones, Baboons, and Hot Dogs. Based on the award winning video game!

[gbasden]

A little bit of self promotion is anyone is interested. DinoGenics: New Arrivals just launched on Gamefound today and is fully funded!

I almost missed this! Backed!

[Punisher]

I'm hoping the QA isn't bad. I did see something (I think) about making sure you push the bits out from the correct side, though now I can't remember which side that was.

I’m probably just grumpy because I have a mouse super glued to my right hand currently.

You now have a free pet. Remember to feed it. Hopefully the glue dries before it poops.

[Punisher]

Of course, in the "right" example, you're most likely tearing the back off the two-sided chits next to it.

I will say that the battle system chits have never been an issue to any significant degree on that particular front. It's just the precut slots for inserting pieces into other pieces that can sometimes be miscut, causing me to now be unable to use any fingerprint readers due to the build up of glue on my fingers.

I usually slice off my fingerprints before a big gluing job for just this reason. Just make sure you put them in a wet palette so they don't dry out.

[Blackhawk]

This is why God made super-glue applicators.

[TheMix]

In other news - I got a giant 32lbs box of Stalker: The Board Game stuff. No time yet to go through it.

Did you get a shipping notice? I was out of town for the last ~week. But my Ring never went off. So I'm wondering if it was dropped off without triggering the Ring, and subsequently filched, or if is still to-be-delivered. But I've gotten no emails.

[hepcat]

In other news - I got a giant 32lbs box of Stalker: The Board Game stuff. No time yet to go through it.

Did you get a shipping notice? I was out of town for the last ~week. But my Ring never went off.

Is there a chance that a very small child or perhaps a baby was used to deliver it?

[TheMix]

In other news - I got a giant 32lbs box of Stalker: The Board Game stuff. No time yet to go through it.

Did you get a shipping notice? I was out of town for the last ~week. But my Ring never went off.

Is there a chance that a very small child or perhaps a baby was used to deliver it?

I suppose. But it would have to be a very strong child or baby...

What worries me is that it seems like my Ring doesn't record if I don't have cell service. Which is odd. I thought I was paying for them to store the recordings on their "cloud". But the area I was visiting didn't have cell service for much of the time, and it seems like the Ring didn't trigger during those times.

[hepcat]

If you know who handled the delivery, you could reach out to them. I'm sure they have a record of deliveries.

[Smoove_B]

Most of the pledge management platforms now indicate your pledge (1) status and (2) tracking number, assuming you missed an emailed notification something was coming.

[baelthazar]

In other news - I got a giant 32lbs box of Stalker: The Board Game stuff. No time yet to go through it.

Did you get a shipping notice? I was out of town for the last ~week. But my Ring never went off.

Is there a chance that a very small child or perhaps a baby was used to deliver it?

I suppose. But it would have to be a very strong child or baby...

What worries me is that it seems like my Ring doesn't record if I don't have cell service. Which is odd. I thought I was paying for them to store the recordings on their "cloud". But the area I was visiting didn't have cell service for much of the time, and it seems like the Ring didn't trigger during those times.

I had it sitting in my FedEx delivery as "Giant" from "Sue" for a month. You should check there to see if it was delivered.

[TheMix]

Well, I don't know what "sitting in my FedEx delivery" means. Or how to check it.

However, I did notice on my pledge page that I had single shipment selected. I didn't realize that I'd opted for anything that would require a second shipment. So I won't be getting anything until phase 2 shipping. I think....

[Punisher]

Well, I don't know what "sitting in my FedEx delivery" means. Or how to check it.

However, I did notice on my pledge page that I had single shipment selected. I didn't realize that I'd opted for anything that would require a second shipment. So I won't be getting anything until phase 2 shipping. I think....

I assume he means logging into fedex to see your deliveries.
I also assume that we all have fedex and ups accounts setup for this since it's free.

[TheMix]

Well, I don't know what "sitting in my FedEx delivery" means. Or how to check it.

However, I did notice on my pledge page that I had single shipment selected. I didn't realize that I'd opted for anything that would require a second shipment. So I won't be getting anything until phase 2 shipping. I think....

I assume he means logging into fedex to see your deliveries.
I also assume that we all have fedex and ups accounts setup for this since it's free.

I do not. I also can't actually recall the last time I had something delivered by either of those... I am not a frequent buyer, I guess.

[Punisher]

Well, I don't know what "sitting in my FedEx delivery" means. Or how to check it.

However, I did notice on my pledge page that I had single shipment selected. I didn't realize that I'd opted for anything that would require a second shipment. So I won't be getting anything until phase 2 shipping. I think....

I assume he means logging into fedex to see your deliveries.
I also assume that we all have fedex and ups accounts setup for this since it's free.

I do not. I also can't actually recall the last time I had something delivered by either of those... I am not a frequent buyer, I guess.

It doesn't hurt to sign up anyway. They will usually alert me about a package before a lot of kickstarters alert me.

[hepcat]

I started up a 4 adventurer party for Maladum. I skipped the tutorial because I'm a grown ass man and went straight to the first quest in the campaign book.

So far it's a lot of fun. The new Rest rule is a VAST improvement over the Core Space rules and I do believe I'm going to just add that new action to any future games of Core Space. You see, my only real issue with Core Space (beyond dealing with all these damn little equipment tokens) was that skills seemed...underwhelming. And that was because you could only use them a few times during a game (usually only once or twice) and then they were done. With the new rest rule, you can forego your turn and regain one of those skill pegs. That's huge for me.

Other than that, magic feels organic to the rules. The advancement mechanic has a lot of choices. And combat is the same fun endeavor as Core Space. Oh, and the adventurers themselves all feel like fully developed characters. In Core Space, the captain of the crew had so many options for play, while the crew always had like very few actions and even less skills. That made playing co-op kind of crappy since the person playing the captain could do so much more than anyone else. But in Maladum, the alpha syndrome has been abolished. Now I can truly see playing this with others sharing characters in a party.

So yeah, diggin' it. Even if I have to refer to the rulebook every 2 seconds to look up yet another icon and what it means.

[Blackhawk]

That's good to hear. Mine is still stacked on the floor, waiting for me to figure out shelving space. I'm have yet to even come close to doing so.

[Lordnine]

A little bit of self promotion is anyone is interested. DinoGenics: New Arrivals just launched on Gamefound today and is fully funded!

I almost missed this! Backed!

Thank you!

[baelthazar]

Sorry, TheMix, yes I meant signing up for FedEx's delivery tracking system. It keeps me more sane when these crowdfunding campaigns start to ship.

[Zarathud]

Missed the Dinogenics expansion on Gamefound. Hoping there will be late pledges once the Pledge Manager opens.

[Lordnine]

Missed the Dinogenics expansion on Gamefound. Hoping there will be late pledges once the Pledge Manager opens.

There will be. Targeting December right now but it will be open a couple months.

[Zarathud]

Great, thanks. I usually watch Alex from Boardgameco to keep informed but stopped due to overload before GenCon.

[hepcat]

My first attempt at Maladum with a party of 4 ended...badly. So I took some of the 1500 bucks I made off the game auction I used to unload a crap ton of games to pick up even MORE Maladum add ons, and I'm now rejiggering my party with some new classes.

I'm telling you, if you play Core Space, back port the new action Rest from Maladum to it. It's easy to do and it fixes my biggest gripe with Core Space (skills suck because you barely can use them).

Other than that, Maladum is tough. I'm just playing the first scenario (not the tutorial though...I'm a real he man) and I JUST made it to the second section of the doom track before I lost two party members. Things can turn on a dime for you. Now I'm thinking I'm going to swap out my assassin for another brick as I need someone to step in between my Maladar and the inevitable melee swarm they're going to endure.

Two thumbs up so far though. I've been active on the BGG forums as I had a few questions while playing. But those questions were easily answered (and usually with "read the damn rules, idiot!"...but in a nicer tone).

The character growth is pretty dang cool. So many skills, tons of spells that feel different, etc..

[Smoove_B]

Yeah, I've read/seen it's very challenging. There's a new official tutorial video that dropped today too:

[Blackhawk]

I do wish that board games would get over the current trend of brutal difficulty - especially solo games.

[Smoove_B]

You can take what I'm going to say with a grain of salt because I'm still reading the rules and haven't actually played, but I get the distinct impression that people saying "this game is impossibly difficult" are pressing their luck.

Similar to Core Space, Maladum (I think) works best when you remember the game is on a timer of sorts - that you want to get to your objective quickly and efficiently. Yes, you want to grab treasure, but if you're not careful and end up pushing your luck too far, the difficulty (and random events) can really bite you in the ass.

That's what makes the game fun (potentially) - that overwhelming sense of danger and whether or not you think it's worth the risk to try and grab an extra treasure or just get the hell out and move on. Sure, taking an extra turn to open a chest might reveal a really powerful weapon or a valuable treasure, but in doing so you might now end up spawning extra enemies or have a random monster appear blocking your path.

Again, maybe I'm wrong but that's my impression. Either way I can totally see why people might not like that kind of design (the timers in most of the Fantasy Flight Games drive me nuts) but for some reason, I the thematic use of an escalating danger timer seems to work for me in these Battlesystems games.

[EzeKieL]

One of my friends has his game up on KS. Feel free to check it out

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/li ... =user_menu

[hepcat]

Again, maybe I'm wrong but that's my impression.

Having actually played it, I can say you’re right.

[baelthazar]

Again, maybe I'm wrong but that's my impression.

Having actually played it, I can say you’re right.

I am still going through my Maladum stuff (like an idiot I didn't back and then bought it anyway) but I am with Smoove on this analysis. Core Space is a pretty brutal game if you try to be greedy and not smart. Yes, it also hinges a bit on luck (like if you put in a lot of add-ons and end up with a wandering creature also terrorizing you as you get hammered by killer robots and ancient aliens). That said, you can also run to the objective and do a surgical strike and get out. But the chance to get better loot, more stuff, exciting weapons, and money will always be a temptation. Fall to it - the bigger stuff spawns and you are in for a fight.

But what I love about the difficult of Core Space (and likely will love in Maladum) is the story it generates. One time, I ended up dragging a downed friend to an airlock, staying only one step ahead of psychic alien warriors and plasma spitting drones. You have to effectively use cover, hide, sneak around, stay out of line of sight. I managed to get close to my exit point when aliens erupted from the nearest spawn point. It was a tense fire fight and dash down the hall - and I made it.

In another game, I was sharing the alien infested vault with a bore-hole creature and a notable monster hunter. The monster hunter basically ignored me, as long as I did not get in the way of his catch. The bore hole monster lashed out at me and aliens alike. It was a wild ride.

You go in guns blazing and assuming you can just bowl through all the baddies to grab the loot and Core Space is also going to feel impossible.

[Fardaza]

Similar to Core Space, Maladum (I think) works best when you remember the game is on a timer of sorts - that you want to get to your objective quickly and efficiently. Yes, you want to grab treasure, but if you're not careful and end up pushing your luck too far, the difficulty (and random events) can really bite you in the ass.

That's what makes the game fun (potentially) - that overwhelming sense of danger and whether or not you think it's worth the risk to try and grab an extra treasure or just get the hell out and move on. Sure, taking an extra turn to open a chest might reveal a really powerful weapon or a valuable treasure, but in doing so you might now end up spawning extra enemies or have a random monster appear blocking your path.

This is also one of the things that bothered me about Gloomhaven. You couldn't even slow down to pick up a coin sitting there on the floor right next to you!

And forget about that treasure chest sitting over in the corner.

[hentzau]

Well, just started getting my shipping notices for Freedom Five. Once again, a board game i was incredibly excited about at the time, and now doubt I will ever even open the durn things up.

A person's tastes in what they want to play can sure change a lot in 4 years...

[Tao]

Well, just started getting my shipping notices for Freedom Five. Once again, a board game i was incredibly excited about at the time, and now doubt I will ever even open the durn things up.

A person's tastes in what they want to play can sure change a lot in 4 years...

Freedom Five received yesterday in VA, still sitting in the delivery box, same as Maladum, Harakiri and Tidal Blades 2. On going Oathsworn in on the downstairs table and Isofarian Guard is on the upstairs table.

[hepcat]

I'm surprised Isofarian Guard isn't strewn across both the upstairs AND downstairs table. That game is a certifiable table hog.

[Tao]

Had to put the leaf in...

[Punisher]

Got my Battletech Mercenaries pledge today.
Haven't opened it yet but it's here.

[Fardaza]

On going Oathsworn in on the downstairs table

Hope that campaign is going well! I loved it.

Still waiting on my shipping notice for Dungeons of Infinity.

Pledge manager for DC Super Heroes United closes on the 31st. It's a CMON game. I don't have any of their games. I seem to remember that some of you are not happy with them. Refresh my memory so I can make up my mind about DC. What is it that bothers/pleases you about CMON?

[hepcat]

Well, thank goodness I'm not the only one waiting on the shipping notice for Dungeons of Infinity. I was told in the comments by the company that they had 70 deliveries going out today, so we SHOULD get those notices soon.

...fingers crossed.

Pledge manager for DC Super Heroes United closes on the 31st. It's a CMON game. I don't have any of their games. I seem to remember that some of you are not happy with them. Refresh my memory so I can make up my mind about DC. What is it that bothers/pleases you about CMON?

For many, it's shipping. For the Marvel campaign, they exponentially increased shipping costs at the 11th hour to a ridiculous degree for many. Then they blamed it on a shipping crisis, even though the actual shipping crisis had already passed.

Right now I'm annoyed with them for holding up Cthulhu Death May Die but yet finding enough time to get retailers all their copies. So for the last month or two, I've been able to buy my damn game online, but I have to wait until Christmas or so to get my Kickstarter version. And this isn't the first time they've pulled that crap.

I'm going to avoid their stuff going forward based on these things. Sure, the extras are nice. But you end up paying for them anyway thanks to the shipping costs.