REAPER BONES - SLOW CRAWL VIDEO!

For those of you waiting til March for your Bones to arrive, meet your Doom! Here is the Vampire level pledge in one slow video crawl. And for everyone (and I mean everyone) who bought a bunch of extras, Oh my god!



When will I ever paint these. Man.

It looks very good, but check out the candle sticks on the candelabras. Bent over. I have been worried about how the bones material will work with slender things like weapons and such. Generally it looks like pretty good, but there will probably be a couple of issues. Rubberized plastic has memory, so if these are pulled out hot and the pulling distorts something it could stay that way. It will be interesting to see. On the other hand, if you are a kitbasher or modder, just look at the variety of stuff you get and the ease with which you can cut and snip it.

Looking forward to March.

Sedition Wars - Kickstarter continues to be a success

I just received Wave 1 of my Sedition Wars Pledge goodies. A boxed set of the game, plus the extras for Wave 1: Patch, dice, cards, signed print, bases, and a bunch of extra minis, plus a resin Kara that is sculpted in incredibly fine detail.

Nincely done McVey Studios(always liked Mike's stuff), Cool Mini, and Kickstarter.

Success number 2 for me on Kickstarter. Number three is awaiting the Reaper madness. I was very satisfied with number 1, Zombiecide. so overall, my experience has been quite good. Assuming Reaper delivers on their promises, it will be amazing in Value, and Quality. I am not as bent out of shape about any delays cause this is a drop in the proverbial bucket when it comes to minis. I just hope its a fun game to play.

Reaper Bones...This is crazy!

I haven't pledged yet, still deciding if this is what I want the Lady to get me for xmas. But Holy Crap! Look at this for the $100.00 level. Thats a lot of figs. I would really never need to buy many more fantasy figs again. Certainly not characters.

They are at $1.1 Mil now, they will hit 1.3 tomorrow. Its over Friday so in four days they could be at 1.5-1.8 dpending on the rest of the stretch goals. Holy Crap!

Kickstarter, Zombiecide and Sedition Wars

I am sure that most of my readers are fully aware of the great crowd sourcing sites Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The allow a company to put up a product or product idea and seek crowd funding to get it to happen. Some people get it when it comes to how to do this tool. Some do not. I want to focus on those who do (from a miniatures game, board game, or rpg persepctive of course).

I was really first introduced to all of this when I kept seeing the ads for Zombicide on TMP and TGN. I followed one of the links, and man it was pretty cool. A board game with high quality miniatures. Looked nice. Zombie genre. Different funding levels gets you different stuff. I then closed it and noted to check back later to see how much they raised.

Then the news updates started happening on TGN about stretch goals and adding more free stuff to the box sets because they were getting a good response. I followed more closely, and finally I bought in at the abomination level, which gave you all the great promo and free minis. The amount of stuff in the box over doubled because of the power of the crowd funding. With a prepaid funding source, the developer can put their money in those things that sold the product. Lowers the risk for producer and consumer. I am eagerly awaiting my game.

The second one that I followed was the OGRE kicstarter that ended up being the biggest Kickstarter for games in their history. I almost bought in to this one too. Big tanks blowing the hell out of each other was great, but the minis were carboard cutoouts, nicely done mind you and there were tons of extras, but not being a mini game and being really a blown up chit and hex board game sealed the deal for me. So I passed, but man it was temping.

Currently I am following the Sedition Wars Kickstarter, which has about 20 days left. Mike McVey of GW fame( I love you McVey era Eldar) and his McVey Studios have put together a Space Hulky kinda game with troopers and biozombieyuckythings called the Strain. Scuplts are amazing. and finally, the Stretch goals are starting to add up to some really great bonus stuff. I will be pledging, gonna wait to see for sure in a couple of weeks though. I see a lot of use for the Strain in my post apoc stuff.

I also bought a PDF of an RPG on RPGNow of a SciFi game called Bulldogs!. I was looking for a fun and easy SciFi game to play with the group and our kids. Looked like fun. Well, turns out it was a Kickstarter Game, and the quality of the book shows. I assume the art, layout and general improvements were made possible by the Kickstarter Funding. So Bravo again.

So what have I learned about these crowd funding sources for gaming?:

1. If you want to do minis, make sure you have plenty of opportunity to strat putting more in with the stretch goals. This was really proven with the Zombicide, Sedition Wars, and OGRE sets.

2. You really need to find a way to do some up front funding to get product and high quality art to sell your product. The ones that die on the vine are the ones that expect the Kickstarter to fund it all. You gotta spend money to make money, and it is especially true here.

3. Constantly do Stretch goals that give something away of value to the funders. This is what will start the wildfire that will fund your goals and then some. People like free crap, especially of its good free crap.

4. Follow through. Deliver what you promise. I haven't gotten my Zombicide stuff yet(it will be a while), but if I do, and its not up to par, and the Sedition Wars stuff is not up to par, I am done with Kickstarter and those companies. Simple as that. So don't ruin it.

5. $100 seems to be the sweet spot to get in on the full game and all of the freebie stretch goals. This is a manageable figure. Much higher ad most poeple will be out. I crapped when eurogames were $60-70. Looks like $100 is the next step. But you better deliver a lot of value for that price point.

Go check it out, I'm sure you will find something you like.