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Gear Grids: The System that More Games Should Use
I'm working on a few videos in the background (Literally working on the next episode of A Choice Cut right now) and while writing up the details for the armor video, I realised that while I often cover various cookie cutter builds and analyse gear, I don't think I've written about the system as a whole. The...
Deathmas: Cockroach Queen | White Box | Kingdom Death: Monster Review
The guest had arrived and they felt merry and bright despite the gloomy frost that descended on the settlement. Their joints ached and their blue-tinged skin stung in the biting winds. Barely audible above the howl of the wind and the glad tidings bellowed by their guest, a papery tune emerged. They gathered, pressed t...
People of the Lantern with Justin of Playing Board Games | Lantern Year 5: Screaming Antelope (Level 1)
Time for another Antelope. Paint, wherefore art tho?
The Froskrafter: A Breakdown and Analysis (2 of 2)
Part two, you know the drill, let us get into the remaining seven gear cards and then look at what expansions have the most interesting synergies to explore with the Froskrafter!Spiked BucklerCrafting Cost: 1x Ironclad Spine, 1x OrganAs the Gorm's Knuckle Shield has shown in the past, a Node 1 Shield that has Block...
Analysing and Ranking Armor Sets in Kingdom Death: Monster
I intended to come back to the videos with a short, simple video. This was not it. This is the longest video I've done and if I do another one of this length it'll be a miracle. I couldn't edit this one as much as I would have liked because beyond a certain file size it started crashing with each edit. So I...
The Froskrafter: A Breakdown and Analysis (Part 1 of 2)
As we start the new year it is time to begin moving towards a review of the Frogdog; which I will say at the moment is an expansion I do not have a completely clear final set of thoughts on. Usually when I am in this position, working through all the individual elements with detailed analysis helps clear things up and ...
People of the Lantern with Playing Board Games - LY 4: The Butcher
We made a positional error in this one that turns out to be very costly!Also missed the deathblow bonus and a bold trigger, because Justin's still learning and it's late evening here when I'm recording. Whoops, oh well.
My Favourites 2024 Edition
2024 has been a rough year for the world overall, one can only look towards 2025 and hope things may trend better. However, in the world of games we've had a fantastic year, with not one, but two expansions from Adam Poots Games. While the Black Knight expansion is easily my preferred expansion of the two, both it ...
People of the Lantern with Playing Board Games (Justin) LY 3 - Screaming Antelope
Here we go again! Plague is fun card to draw early.
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year
Hi all, as always I will be taking two weeks off, the first week for rest and the second week to return to work and write/record for the following week as I usually work one to two weeks ahead of writing (apart from shop review releases, which I put out as soon as I've crammed enough games in with them to form hope...
Sunlantern Armor Aya White Box Review | Kingdom Death: Monster
Aya donned the mask, motes of energy hidden in the extinguished lanterns of her armor vibrated with new life. Constraining and directing her range of motion, the armor put an impossible parabolic dimension to her aim, sending her weapons sailing back to her.Aya sojourned with the people of the sun. The cold light illum...
15th Anniversary Survivors White Box Review | Kingdom Death: Monster
In celebration of 15 years since the release of the first Kingdom Death figure, we revisit the starting survivors of Monster, Allister, Zachary, Lucy, and Erza. Fifteen lantern years into their existence the pursuit of survival is replaced with a quest for perfection. Life and death still remain balanced on the edge of...
Seed Patterns - Monster Era III & IV Patterns
Last stretch for the the Gambler's Chest Expansion (GCE) Seed Pattern cards and we're going to cover both Era III and IV here to get this series wrapped up. That'll let me get back to the Philosophies and the Frogdog Expansion Review.With these two Eras we expect to see pattern cards that; regardless of the...
Kingdom Death: Monster - Overview and Review of People of the Lantern
Early release for Pillar Patrons and above.I'm tired boss.
Seed Patterns - Monster Era II Patterns
As mentioned on Wednesday's post, I have a rather large video to edit which means I need to get ahead of the writing portion in order to try and get that published asap, so for the next two weeks we'll round out the Monster Specific patterns, with Era II this week and Era III after that. I'll review the BF ...
Kingdom Death Simulator: Black Knight Expansion Review
Please accept this video in lieu of the People of the Lantern Primer video which I intended to come out this week. That video was supposed to be a simple, shorter one between Dark Bestiary videos. I spent four hours recording stuff and I'm working on cutting it down, I suspect it's still going to be around two ...
Seed Patterns - Monster Era I Patterns
With the Gambler's Chest generic patterns forming a broadly positive impression it is time to move onto the Monster specific ones, I'm going to again try and push these together as much as possible, but looking at them I can't guarantee less than two or three parts especially because these particular patter...
People of the Lantern with PlayingBoardGames - Episode 2
Justin's first proper level 1 White Lion. How will the people of Arkham fare?Edit: It's live now, I should have posted it 24h later. Fingers crossed I'll get it right next time. Sorry about that!
Brave + Hollow – A Kingdom Death White Box Review
Declining to wish upon a frozen star, Brave sets out to fulfill his own wish. He carries Hollow's husk upon his back, journeying to Dedheim to restore the spark of life to her twisted remains.Strange fires in the sky guide him to a pitted field of freshly dug graves. Brave steals curiously growing seeds from the ro...
Kingdom Death: Phoenix Hunt Reenactment Beta Box Review
The settlement celebrates the unlikely victory over the timeless Phoenix. A whirling dance of iridescent feathers sparkles at the settlement's center enshrining the memory of the settlement's perseverance.The ModelWhile I wouldn't want to use this model during gameplay due to the fragility of it, I absolute...
People of the Lantern with PlayingBoardGames - Episode 1
A while ago I reached out to Justin from PlayingBoardGames about Kingdom Death, something he'd expressed interest in. PBG do amazing deep dives into Arkham Horror LCG while also covering a bunch of other games. Even though they are mechanically very different, there's so much common ground between Arkham and KD...
Seed Patterns - Generic Era II Patterns
Era II makes up the remainder of the Gambler's Chest Expansion (GCE) generic pattern cards, this means that our foundational seed patterns halt around the Node 2 power level; and as we saw with Era I last time, there is not a large amount of rhyme or reason to how these generic era cards are organised. Jarngreipr a...
Dark Bestiary: Chapter Three - The Gorm Early Release for Patrons
Two hours of me rambling about how great the Gorm is as we dive into all its different cards and mechanics. I would have cut this down a bit here and there, but my editing software kept crashing due to some issue with the recording codec. I'll have to reinstall OBS and see if that doesn't happen next time. Next...
Seed Patterns - Generic Era I Patterns
We'll start our deep dive into the Seed Patterns with the Era I “generic” line. The generics are the ones labelled with just the “seed” keyword, meaning that they are present in every single campaign. That ubiquity means they are the foundational element of our seed pattern experience because they are alway...
Seed Patterns – An Overview and Review
As is tradition, I want to start this dive into a section of the GCE with a top down look at what Seed Patterns are, how the system works and dig into the various positives and potential negatives that such a system features. I find writing out in this method provides a solid foundation for my understanding and analysi...
How I Assess Gear
Except when reviewing new releases; I'm now going to get back into digging around in the Gambler's Chest while I finish out my thoughts on the Frogdog in preparation for a review on that expansion. I want to return to the philosophies, but gear is one of my all time favourite things, so for a little while now I...
Kingdom Death Review – Sun Claws Esther Beta Content
The weavers of mirages learn a solitary dance of intense passion, their posture embracing an absent partner. The lantern light shines off the polished teeth that adorn their costume, creating dizzying paths of light that cross and recross. A successful performance will create an illusion of the dancer in the embrace of...
Kingdom Death Review – Indomitable Survivor - Thumping Timpani Ledla
WARNING: REQUIRES GAMBLER'S CHEST EXPANSIONSpewing and hacking, Ledla stumbled out of the kaleidoscopic cloud crying many-hued tears. From within the obscuring smog, wretched cries of guilty conscience expired invisibly. She collapsed, clutching the flaccid face, the springy resonance of the waxy monster hide hitti...
Kingdom Death Review – Guinevere
Guinevere was born on the day of the lantern eclipse, as the darkness closed in on the settlement, her cries pierced the darkness. A warning to the lurking threats beyond.In her youth they wondered if she was a coward. She demurred when the hunters gathered to depart. When the monsters appeared at the settlement's ...
