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Out With the Old, In With the New Year - This Patreon in 2021 and 2022
So first of all, to everyone who has joined this year and those of you who have continued to support throughout the year. Thank you so much for your support; it's greatly appreciated - especially in such a lean time for content. We've pretty much had bad news one after another where the Kingdom Death kickstarte...
Sunlion Armor - Early Takes
First up, thank you to community members Charles and timberwolfl for supplying the details and scans of these cards so I could proxy them and get testing as soon as possible. Also, as always in these cases, this is something of an early hot take, my opinion could change. Though I think in this case it's always goin...
The Sultans of Swing - A Musical Hunt Party Primer
Bards are great, if given a choice as to what class I would play in any D&D based game I would choose between a Shifter, an Antipaladin or a Bard every single time. As someone hailing from Wales; bardship is just something that is in the blood, be it singers like Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey or bands like the Stereophonic...
Spiders up the Drainpipe - Spidicules in a 1.6 World
Not what you want to see in your bathtub.Few expansions in the stable of KDM sit on a razor's edge between being magnificent and 'Must try harder'; most of the time they will land squarely on one side or the other of this line. However Spidicules (pronounced to rhyme with ridiculous according to Adam) is ab...
Second Halloween Survivors Game Content
So on the discord pictures of the game contents of the second wave of the Halloween survivors was shared. For those of you who do not use discord, here they are.I'll be doing a full review of these when my own copies arrive, but provisionally it looks like most of these are bad 'shields'. With only the Big ...
Pagan Poetry – What's the Place for the Flower Knight in 1.6?
Several years ago, when Adam was asked what the plan was to solve the way that the Vespertine Bow dominated the games where it was crafted, he responded with the off-hand comment that he'd make it strength 1. Which of course, at the time had people feeling incredulous because such an action was an incredible overre...
Ranking the KDM Monsters on a Tier List post 1.6
Time for a fun light one because next week I'll have to comb through the Black Friday stuff and figure out what is worth commenting on.so, after reading around on the internet and seeing a BGG post about expansion priority; I thought it would be interesting to return to an overview of all the monsters in the game a...
Feeble Frustrating Femurs – An Exploration of Frail
Note: The power went out yesterday while I was writing the back end of this article and I lost a lot of work due to a recovery failure. I've re-written it, but something like this always seems to lose a bit of the magic on the second attempt.I gave you guys on the discord the opportunity to vote for what you wanted...
The 1.5 Sonic Tomahawk
The Tomahawk is a single-handed, straight shaft hatchet which originated from the indigenous people of North America. The root of the English word comes from the Powhatan word tamahaac, but it also shares linguistic cognates with tomhikon and təmahikan. It was the Algonquians who are said to have first created the tom...
Beautiful and Enduring – The Polishing Lantern
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. – Lord ByronI still remain with an overall negative opinion in respect to the Legendary Card Pack, but having such an opinion doesn't mean that all aspects of the pack are worthless. As we saw last time, the Scrap Lantern, despit...
The Humble Scrap Lantern - Builds for the 1st Transition
One of the items I felt had the most potential impact from the new ones released was the Scrap Lantern. This item provides a right facing blue affinity, +1 survival when departing and +1 accuracy if you have a red and blue affinity in your gear grid.Given that Rawhide as a default provides those two desired affinities,...
The “Legendary” Hot Take Part 2
For Part 1 go here.So we're going to continue this hot take, again I'll stop around three thousand words in order to keep things at a manageable length, so we'll have to see if we can get everything completed within two or three parts, but there is a lot to look at with a whole bunch of locations and change...
The "Legendary" Hot Take - Part One
So the 1.6 Update is starting to arrive and as is tradition for these things I will be taking my first 'hot take' look at everything. This initial take is with only minimal testing; use of the gear in proxy showdowns + based on my understanding of the game and the previously optimal pathways through the game.Th...
I'm Walking on Sunshine: The Sunstalker Showdown
The Sunstalker's quarry fight is easily one of the five best showdowns in the entire game at the moment; sitting alongside the Dragon King, Butcher, Tyrant and Dung Beetle Knight as an example of what peak showdown design can be. It's also very unique among the stable of showdowns because the Sunstalker puts im...
Legendary Card Pack Images Released
Yesterday the first set of images of the "Legendary" (excuse me while I go have a good laugh) Card Pack were put up on discord and BGG. I'm not going to be breaking them down today, the images provided are a bit too blurry in spots to be able to see the specifics - but this is allowing me to make a few judg...
VagrantSong by Wyrd Games: Review
The Cooperative AI Boss Battler (CABB) Game genre has in recent times seen an absolute explosion of games launched through kickstarter, upcoming and released. VagrantSong is the latest in this stable, choosing to follow the cartoon styling that Townsfolk Tussle went with rather than the more standard fantastical stylin...
September RoundUp
So as I hoped, I managed to hit three reviews for September, I'm still committing to doing two a month at the moment, but if I can squeeze out a third that would be great because ultimately I'd like to do between 2 and 4 per month.The reviews that went up in September were:Yokohama Duel: A two player version of...
VagrantSong First Impressions Review
Last week I received a copy of VagrantSong from Wyrd Games and I wanted to give you guys a first impressions review before I write a full one for the general public next week. This is because the game is still in pre-order stage and I think you should all seriously consider getting a copy ordered either directly from W...
Middara Resins Review
There should be no secret that resins are an inevitable part of the experience surrounding boutique games like the ones we engage with; Kingdom Death has them, Aeon Trespass has them and so does Middara.I think it's no secret that the Middara miniatures in the game are not great; they have soft details, and some of...
Sundiving: The Sunstalker Hunt
I do not often go into the hunt events in any detail when looking at these monsters while setting up for a deep dive plus visual guide, but in the cases of the Sunstalker and the Dragon King, they are just too interesting and important to pass up on. So, today, we are going to deep dive into the hunt events and look at...
Teeth & Scales - The Rest of the Sunstalker Gear
We've previously explored just how incredible and game expanding the cycloid scale armor can be, but as I wrote in the previous article the Sunstalker is a triple S platinum expansion extrodinaire because not only is the armor amazing; but there is not a single bad piece of gear in the entire crafting list. That...
If it Bleeds, we can Kill it: The Sunstalker's Armor
The Sunstalker is one of the strongest, most interesting and exciting creatures in the entire range of Kingdom Death's monsters, capable of holding the focus of anything up to ten lantern years worth of hunting with its wide range of different gear cards. It's also unique in that the Sunstalker is the sole mons...
August Roundup
This month I got two and a half games written up into review; which is a nice little push towards getting at that one game a week schedule I'm trying to reach. The games which did get published onto BoardGameGeek are:The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls (as voted for by the discord community)Castell by Aaron Vanderbeek...
The Sunstalker Part 1: Light, Limbs & Lifecycles
We're going to start off our deep dive into the Sunstalker with an extensive look at its physiology, the real world inspirations behind that and its lifecycle. The Sunstalker is one of three monsters we know a huge amount about and one of two that we know just about all of its lifecycles in extensive detail alongsi...
Kingdom Death's Official Survivor Tokens: A Review
So, they finally arrived in the post and as it has been a long time since I've had a game content Kingdom Death Product in my hands I wanted to give these an immediate spin.Survivor tokens are something which was thought up by the community initially and it is only fair to start there. We have seen several differen...
Input and Output Randomness in Kingdom Death
Fore note: I wanted to write more about this and tidy this piece up, but I got my second Covid-19 vaccination yesterday and it came out swinging like Mohammad Ali. So if there are unfinished thoughts or bits that could have been expanded on further, please forgive me. This is actually a super interesting part of game d...
Big Deno's Kingdom Death YouTube Series
Hello everyone, a little bonus content today. Friend of the patreon, member of our community, amazing artist and superb gamer (seriously, his ability at Spirit Island is staggering) Trent 'Big Deno' Denison has kindly allowed me to share the playlist of his Kingdom Death playthrough which he is slowly releasing...
Deep Madness Review live:
As per the link above, it took a bit longer than I hoped because it's around seven and a half thousand words. If you are at all interested in reviews of the expansions, which would be shorter, punchier and more targeted, please let me know in the comments below.It's still awaiting full approval through the mode...
Fully Grounded #18: Resin Dung Ball
This is part of the terrain series, other entries can be found at the contents page here.3D Terrain can be ordered from Emporium Miniatures (Not this as that would be illegal).Link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmporiumMiniatures Number: 1 Size: 2x2 Passive: Obstacle, Impassable Activate: Push the Dung Ball (see below for...
Fully Grounded #16: Silk Nest
This is part of the terrain series, other entries can be found at the contents page here.3D Terrain can be ordered from Emporium Miniatures (Not this exact print).Link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmporiumMiniatures Number: 1 Size: 2x2 Passive: Obstacle, Impassable Activate: 20% Gain a Spiderling on the board, 50% get Kn...
