Kingdom Death: Monster is a cooperative tabletop miniatures game for 1-6 players. Set in a unique nightmarish world devoid of most natural resources, you control a settlement at the dawn of its existence. Fight monsters, craft weapons and gear, and develop your settlement to ensure your survival from generation to generation
Includes plastic minis for the game and has options for high-quality resin versions. They look gorgeous.
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Omg! I love Pathfinder, so amazing to find this here!
That's so nice, and already having made the first couple of stretch goals in 24 hours. Amazing.
It really shows that co-operative board games with lovely minatures can easily find a large niche.
EDIT: Oh are mini's 28mm?
Good call on the scale, DSXMachina. I thought I'd previously seen a comparison where the KD figures looked about right for "heroic" 28mm, but now I'm not so sure. Their main website lists the resin figures as 35mm, but I've also seen people note that the plastic figures are a bit smaller than the resin.
Even if the figures are too big to comfortably stand alongside Reaper and WizKids figures, it's still stunning as a self-contained game. But now I'm interested to see a better scale comparison.
Edit: Here's a comparison between their resin and PVC figures. The PVC figure is just a bit smaller, so they might squeak by as plausibly 28mm(?)
This thing is just ticking right along. Funded within hours and now pushing 10x its original goal.
A "Dragon King" stretch was just achieved, really looking forward to seeing what he looks like.
Wow, so they are upto 59 high-quality mini's AND the game for a Survivor level pledge. Whilst hitting the targets frequently; if this could keep up momentum it'd easily clear $1 Million.
Out of the 59 mini's most are fully poseable & customisable, there are 2+ large and 3-4 Huge mini's.
Good call on the scale, DSXMachina. I thought I'd previously seen a comparison where the KD figures looked about right for "heroic" 28mm, but now I'm not so sure. Their main website lists the resin figures as 35mm, but I've also seen people note that the plastic figures are a bit smaller than the resin.
Even if the figures are too big to comfortably stand alongside Reaper and WizKids figures, it's still stunning as a self-contained game. But now I'm interested to see a better scale comparison.
Edit: Here's a comparison between their resin and PVC figures. The PVC figure is just a bit smaller, so they might squeak by as plausibly 28mm(?)
I wish they had not made them so large. Here is a picture of one next to a couple of GW figures they posted. While I do understand they ment for this to be a stand alone game, it would have been great to have them closer in size to the figures I already have in my collection.
But they do look good, that is for sure.
But so many extra's, they have hit yet another goal. This time for a high-quality figure, painting guide, expansion, comic and story.
And at $500,000 there's another huge mini planned.
And there it is the Gorm, that's nightmare inducing....thus must be bought.
Now there's a game-play thread up too. That seems slightly more like a role-play game than I thought, mechanics wise.
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This looks incredible now: they've blown the roof off the initial goal and all of the upgrades mean you get a lot of cool stuff for $100.
The pledge guide lays it out pretty neatly.
$300 gets you everything except the 'pin-up' models: they're an extra $140 for the lot.
I don't have a spare $300 but if I did I would be all in.
Also, if you like to paint, go Survivor. You'll get an extra 24 minis for the $55 extra. Another MASSIVE phoenix, watcher, 3 complete sets of armor kits (each kit is 4 minis worth of bits), Snow the Savior, Paul and Aya the survivors, and 5 extra King's Men!
ETA: Oh, and I forgot the KS exclusive Adam and Anna minis, and the extra heads as well :D
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I never went in.
I'm the kind of person who wants all of the expansions so for me I either had to drop $400 on this or buy nothing.
Money always gets tighter after Christmas and my RPG indulgence this month is Razor Coast.
I'll have to see how much this costs when it goes on general release, might be worth saving up for.
It said it would be $115, $10 more than the KS. Of course the KS had T-Shirts and extra's.
However there are some quality mini's in there and it'll allow you to see what the response is to actual game-play.
The Shipping
It has begun
Got my Wave 1 Shipping Notice
1 x White Speaker: Plastic
1 x Rawhide Dame: Plastic
1 x Lioness: Plastic
1 x Spider Silk Assassin: Plastic
1 x Allison the Twilight Knight: Plastic
1 x Messenger of Courage
1 x Messenger of Humanity
1 x Thsirt
It sounds like they are bit larger than standard Minis, so not sure If I'll be able to use them in my Pathfinder games (maybe as Giants) but I love Figure painting so I'll be able to enjoy them regardless. I've seen some of the images of them and they just look gorgeous
Plus Tshirt. I always get the Tshirts
Core box arrived today, before my Wave 1 box surprisingly. Did not even know it had been shipped yet.
Damn this game is gorgeous looking. Setting out initial survivors and White lion. With any luck I can start playing this weekend.
I take it you are in US/Canada? Not in Europe..... :whistle:
I take it you are in US/Canada? Not in Europe..... :whistle:
Canada
First run went....interesting
The First Story prologue went nicely enough. Some bleeding, few bruisies but no fetalities.
first real hunt....not so well
Firstly we got infested by some sort of insect that laid eggs in our ears. Drove us into a frenzy but also brough about brain trauma.
When we found the lion it was already hunting something else so it was lying in wait. Killed the first hunter to go after it instantly smashing his head to pulp. Had to throw a founding stone to wound it and get it out of it's crouch. Managed to sever some tendons and knock it down but that was a trap, Broken ribs for one hunter. Got in a lucky hit crushed it's wind pipe. Dies at the end of it's next round.....still managed to decapitate another hunter.
On returning to the village our hunters decided to reinact the hunt. One played the hunters, the other survivor played the lion.
Apparently the guy playing the Hunters got a little too excited and smashed the skull of the one playing the Lion.
Endless screaming in the night singles the arrival of the Antelope. Our voice of reason however kind of freaked out, tripped and shattered his jaw.
Lantern Year 2
Death count 3
Survivors remaining: 7
Year 3
Screams heard in the night, one of our villagers stepped up to be a voice of reason but he paniced, ran, tripped and smashed his jaw to pulp on the stones.
We set out to hunt the Screaming Antelope. It was going will, we surrounded it, injurured it badly and then
It began to charge, over and over and over again. Both men on the hunt died leaving only the women to kill the beast, and one of them driven mad by the beast's cries.
They dragged the carcase home just in time for a small earthquake. One pair of the surviovrs drew closer, but decided the only hope their love could have was to wander into the darkness hand in hand to their inevitable deaths. There was hopin in another couple but the mother died in childbirth with her infant. Her mate (Mushjaw) went mad from the loss
Year 3
Death Count 8
Survivors: 2
1 Survivor refusing to go on the next hunt for....reasons (Secrecy derangement) leaving only Mushjaw to provide for the two of them
Nemisis Encounter: The Butcher.....
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Goodbye Mushjaw
If anyone is interested, I am currently working to convert all of the monsters from Kingdom Death (the base game) to Pathfinder.