red bitches edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop minature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: [YouTube] Kingdom Death: Monster - Prologue (https://youtu.be/FNLc8dHv0Ac)The Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.A successful game campaign takes place over the course of 25 to 30 'lantern years' maximum, marked by completing one full phase cycle. Watch as your settlement grows and witness the survivors write their own narrative as they age. Hone your strategy and learn from your mistakes to overcome the immense odds in this cruel and twisted nightmare scape.▶tldrFinal Fantasy Tactics meets Dark Souls meets Monster Hunter meets Civilization with the setting of the eclipse in Berserk but shit just stayed that way.▶Official Siteshttp://kingdomdeath.com/https://kingdomdeath.com/newshttps://kingdomdeath.com/rules/living-glossaryprevious lantern year:>>96382884
I think the person that painted this posted here but I can't remember.Was the effect on the cloth made by drawing really thin lines of paint horizontally in increasing brightness?
>>96481796Yeah, its basically this method except with off-white highlight instead of skin tone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqtXK3NLk1cThe texture will show up more if you apply a matt varnish afterwards. Also make sure you use a brush with a very good tip for the lines.
I want to get into this game, but MAN is it pricey, any cheaper alternatives guys?
>>96483088There's the simulator they made.
>>96483088You can try the core game and most of the expacs on TTS via workshop mods, its recommended you do that before you're sure about buying a physical set.There's also an official digital version that's WIP and currently lacks some features TTS has.There's a sale every black friday with 20-50% discounts on most items, including the core game and older expansions.
>core game finally arrived yesterday>box inserts and card protectors are on the way>will assemble the starting models todayYup, it's gaming time
>>96484712congrats friend, do you have anyone to play it with?
>>96484712Enjoy. As stupid as it sounds, one of my favorite things about KD:M was first time opening that behemoth of a box and then repeating that feeling with Gambler's Chest. It's like you're a child on Christmas morning each time.
>>96484772Most likely notMy wife expressed interest in the game so we're going to play the tutorial together, but I have doubts that she will stick around afterwards tbqh>>96485025Same, the box is absolutely amazing
Just got done with a 9 hour session with friends. I absolutely had no idea this game had so much depth past the opening fight. We pulled the event where we got fucking lost and had to start a new settlement. The hilarious narrative potential akin to dwarf fortress.
>>96483088there's one boardgame café in France that has it
>>96484712>Sleeving the full boxSo sorry about your broken back anon
whats scan anons link?
>>96485409Might not sleeve everything in the end, but I’d rather have sleeves for all the cards just in case
>>96486023just go to the previous thread
>>96485343>9 hour sessionJesus Christ, how?
I could just play KDM on Tabletop Simulator, but I'm considering owning it physically because the models are hot glue-inducing and I have a need to paint them.Coom and pandering does work.
>>96486291>areola peek
>>96486259Not him but when I was between jobs I would pick up coffee and donuts for the bros and they would come over around 8. We'd play until 6 or so and then order dinner. I miss NEETdom
>>96486259>>96487903We finally has schedules line up, no work the next day, got a ton of take out and some drinks and just never looked at thw clock. The resetting of the settlement definitely added some time. The game scratches a particular roguelike itch for me and my buddy, but my girlfriend who's usually a pokemon fanatic with a (tolerable) amount of autism latched on and kept wanting to take her favorite dagger goblin survivor on hunts . I haven't had a gaming session like that in a while, made me feel young again.
>>96487944Wholesome. People of the lantern?
>>96488427Yea just core for now, though I immediately started looking for a well priced gamblers chest on ebay. I honestly only got core on a whim years ago because I paint as a hobby and these models have the perfect aesthetic for horror and whore-er without being obnoxious. I think our groups going to be abusing this game for a good while. Next week we are having a paint session to paint the year 10 survivor box i got us.
>>96488668>and whore-erlol, stealing that
Keep the bases as they were for a nice statue base aesthetic or give the bases some life? I was really digging the Greek statue style but a fully painted monster/survivor seems a bit off. I am undecided. Also a world devoid of color and life might not translate well I dont think. I've got black sand I might use for the bases but not really sure what to do.
>>96490139I like to keep the bases as they are because I like that statue aesthetic and this has nothing to do with the fact that I suck at making good looking bases.
What are some nice boxes to have besides the expansions and vignettes?
>>96492322anniversary survivors are nice.character boxes are pretty cool.anything with Aya on it.
>>96492322Anything with Lucy!
>>96492322Biomech Butcher is a sweet model. It doesn't have any game content, but it just looks neat.
any dutch people her looking for someone with the game?>>96488668should add at least 1 node like the dung beetle
>>96492322echoes of death 3 is by far the main onehttps://kingdomdeath.fandom.com/wiki/Fiddler_Crab_Spideralso krelle
>>96494059We talked about adding gorm or somthing, but wanted to get through a core game campaign before starting the expansions.
>>96494069what do echoes of death even tho? it says that they have unique survivors and a prototype of the stain system, aren't they obsolete since the strain system is completely out now?
>>96494199the extra vermin card is fun and strains are not obsolete.if you refer to knowledges and philosophy's ? these are something new. strains are achievements that give a new thing, like fighting arts you can use.
>>96494098what i meant is that the core game is literally missing 1 monster, so its not really completed. it needs a lategame node 4 for after phoenix. best so far is dung beetle knight, or lion god for masochists.i dont know how king would be implemented.
So it looks like my purchase list for the future is>core game (already owned and currently playing)>then gamblers chest>then allies and adversaries bundleThat sounds about right for getting the most out of everything? I know there's a bunch of single model expansions but I feel like the math favores the bundles.
>>96494332if by "most out of everything" you mean having a replacement for every core game monster then no, you still need black knight
>>96493635>>96493775>>96493882>>96494069thanks frens
>>96494332>That sounds about right for getting the most out of everything?what does that even mean? you mean the more bang for your buck or what?
>>96494373>>96495774Just meant bang for buck on getting some of the bigger expansions. As it looks, most of the others are just single models where GCE, Red witches and the other one seem like bigger picture stuff.
>>96495993almost all expansions are worth it IMO and very few only come with one model.
>>96497267Sounds good to me. Would you say the preorder for A&A is worth it? I just found a decently discounted sealed GCE on ebay so I gotta hold off a bit, but overall im pretty excited to collect and play more.
Why there are so many KDM chink recasts on Aliexpress and Ebay?
>>96483097Can i play solo with AI?
>>96497555yup.thats how i've been playing it.
>>96497357>Would you say the preorder for A&A is worth it?is only worth it if you don't have a pile of shame.
>>96497633Fuck, had to go there. Guess it's not necessary right now. Didn't know if there was some sort of preorder discount or somthing. Almost done with core monsters to paint, so Gamblers should keep me busy for a long while.
>>96493882>>96493775Some of sci-fi models are quite cool. Butcher and Flower Knight especially. I had a sci-fi savior that I'll use for Dream Form with new Snow box.
Just built the red witches armor kit, they're very neat though I expected sexier designs based on the red witches
>>96500070I think the female with a sword has a slightly oversized helmet? Maybe its just me
>>96500077Guy with sword and shield is my favourite
>>96500085dude with the bow looking like he's about to snipe someone off a ledge in Anor Londo
>>96497433It's a popular game to recast for, especially with the resins being very limited run so you can't buy legit copies even if you want to. I've been happy with my Taobao recasts.
>>96500140they feel very dark souls-yI dont think the red witches colour scheme even work with these minis, they're not as cultish-looking like the concept art
>>96500275yeah that concept art obscuring most of the black armor with the red cloak with those gold parts make him look more mysterious and threatening.
>>96500070plot reasons, they need the thick armor in order to actually use the red cloaks. If they touch the skin bad things happen.
>>96500070armors are sexy tho.
I wish tactics cards were a little different. They aren't bad to have, but by and large I find that the tactic presented isn't actually useful enough to try and make happen.
>>96505631I'd like them if I didn't had to DRAW A RANDOM ONE instead of choosing what tactics I wish to use.
>>96505631>>96505841good idea but poor execution, I wish it was more...tactical of a choice instead of just being a thing that you can do if you feel like it.
>>96505841>>96506244homebrew it then?
>>96500182>taobaoCan you recommend some good KDM recast shops on Taobao? Thank you.
>>96506244>>96505841>>96505631did you know that you can play however you like ?
>>96505631>>96505841>>96506244Maybe a homebrew item like >Lexicon: may imprint one of your tactics and use it as a consumable that refreshes each turn/showdown/event/whatever the fuckTakes up a gear slot for the freedom to take a tactic you learned previously. Though an on demand version might cause huge problems with the AI just unable to function correctly. Agreed it's a neat idea that needs some more work.
>>96506288>>96506799how would you homebrew tactics?just choose the one you want at will? then I would always use the same handful of ones.make my own tactics? then I might as well change the entire game and redesign everything in the name of "homebrew">>96511219this is just trading problems for new ones, like I said: good idea poor execution.
>>96512009maybe you make your own decision then
Sorry, can't let you die just yet
>>96512009Thinking on it, I think I would have it that you would draw a single tactics card when you get a knight badge. The card stays tied to that specific badge, so you always have that tactic available with that badges. More knight enemies, more knight badges, more tactics available. It's still randomized, but locked in for the campaign instead of random every single fight, and if you get a tactic that's bad for the monster you want to hunt, you just don't bring the badge.
>>96512009Homebrew/Fudge rules or suffer/die is the name of the game. Core game is practically straight RNG.
Are most of the models this fucking wonky? Both the hand and the butcher have some insane object stretching in some parts making the painting process a nightmare. Which sucks because I love this company.
>>96519497>insane object stretching?
>>96519587Some of the butchers lanterns are crazy stretched out. Im trying to get a good pic of it but cant seem to. But it's the same on the saw and some of the Hands belt tassels.
>>96520006I have never seen that and thats not suppose to be that way, you got a bad cast.I would contact customer service and ask for a new one.since you were so kind as to red circle it, I did the same.
>>96520269Well that does make me feel a bit better, knowing it's just a mishap. Now that im looking at other models, seems I got a dud box. But I got this years ago and just started using it, so no refunds.
>>96520006Same for me, I think it's just the mold
>>96520287unless you got off a chinese recast I would still try, they are usually pretty cool about this kind of stuff.>>96520391probably an entire batch or more came out fucked before they notice.
>>96520419I think it might have always been like that, here's a pic from 2016, and here's another one https://kdm-collector.com/models/butcher#mini-15-13It's hard to find more pictures online because everyone else seems to suspiciously skip that angle
>>96520436>>96520391>>96520269>>96520006some old model could really use a reworkthe King was really bad sculpt-wise compared to the rest of the GC, the butcher is really static and rough on the edges, same pose problem with the kingsman and handthey progressed a lot, and i WOULD buy a set of resculpt of these guys
>>96520436yeah, mine looks like that too. They fucked up.
>>96521291>The KingTrying to make those bigass pieces fit together was a nightmare.
>>96520269Is this perhaps resin?>>96520391And this plastic?Injection moulding uses steel dies that don't allow for any undercut worth mentioning. Resin is cats in flexible rubber moulds that does allow a bit of undercut.What's in the second photo doesn't look like a crumbling rubber mould, and a steel one certainly shouldn't loose a chunk like that without the detail being softened into oblivion first.
>>96520436they are all like this.
>>96521291Trust in 2.0, poots will update and scale up all the core sculpts>>96522504I was thinking the same, making that lantern properly rectangular with injection molding would require either turning the lantern into a separate piece or turning the cloak into multiple pieces
>>96524153>Trust in 2.0do you think we are gonna get a legendary pack like with 1.6? or would we have to buy it all over again?
Hello all, Scananon here. Philosophy of Death - Gatherism is uploaded.
>>96525755noice, thank you scananon.
>>96525755i got this set and the minies are fantastic, especially the plant details on the base. also good to have a digital version to look at, thanks scanon.
>>96525524poots has always been good to the peopleI don't usually trust creators and I even talk shit on poots for his online simulator being a faffle narffle fuck of a money grab but he has ALWAYS been decentish to his fans and delivered for us
>>96525755Thanks, I was just beginning to wonder if you'd forgotten us.You're a real one, based scananon.
>>96525755What a cool philosophy. Shame it's so expensive. That tenet knowledge sounds like it could come in handy quite often.
>>96527500>tenet philosophyMeant Phytologist, although the tenet is also pretty cool.
Is anyone working on uploading or scanning the GCE models for Tabletop Sim?Would love to sink my teeth into POTDK/Black Knight but I can't stand the placeholder minis lmaoI'd buy it all IRL if shipping wasn't 150 USD
>>96487944women really love grimdark pikmin
>>96529481no one that I know off, poots ask personally for people to stop updating the TTS version so if anyone IS doing it they are more hush-hush about it.
>>96530917Man that sucks.
>>96530917I get that poots doesn't want competition for his simulation but he has to understand that it is horrible overprice.
>>96530917the last time it got updated people (nogs) stole it and put it behind some patreon paywall lmao
>>96535783Damn.
>Get the Elder Council SE>Male Survivor gets +1 Accuracy due to it>Brand new Survivor so no other stats besides the 1 survival from naming him>Like to think he was inspired and thought Hunting a monster wouldn't be too difficult>1st random hunt event rolled turns him into a statue, killing himIt do be like that sometimes.
>>96538461>It do be like that sometimes.it be like that most of the times.
>Group starts lion hunt>we just want to farm it, we know how to cheese it at this point>lion 1 hit away from death, buddy wants to try and gain proficiency for his brand new twilight sword and we give him the floor>triggers a failure, hits his only unprotected spot with buffed damage>dead first roll on chart>next player gets sloppy, trapped to a death injury>me and the last player kill it quick>get back to settlement, pull the hunt reenactment event>roll like shit, the bait character kills my +1 str and eva sword specialistThe surviving one was also had only one arm, to add insult to injury
>>96539238you got cocky
I think the answer is obvious but I just want to double check.When I hunt and kill a monster of a certain level, do I have to progress to the next level if I choose to hunt it again? Up to to max of level 3 of course. I could have sworn I read somewhere this was the case but I might have misread that from a custom campaign or something.
>>96538461>Send randos against lv1 butcher>One guy manages to survive and kills it, even after rolling half a dozen times on the severe chart>Next fight against a weak white lion>Reaction: turn toward attacker>Reaction: full move forward and grab>Monster turn: MaulIt sure do be like that sometimes
>>96540173>I could have sworn I read somewhere this was the caseIt's how it worked for nemesis monsters a while ago.But no you don't have to fight the stronger level unless you want to; but if you want to fight a level 3 you need to have fought a level 2
>>96539238Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
>>96539238accept darkness
>>96540290>It's how it worked for nemesis monsters a while ago.That was it!I'm still pretty green to KDM so I think I accidentally applied that to quarry monsters as well. Thank you anon.
Group is excited to have a painting night before our next game. Gamblers chest got delayed but I still need to paint the phoenix anyway. Can't fucking wait. Also have to figure out how to just add expansions to the game or just wait for GCE to start a new campaign.
>>96540290I think this is still how it works for nemesis monsters, unless you're doing a doot doot on the heart flute.Are any nemesis besides the Slenderman worth fighting more than is necessary though?
>>96541435>Group is excited to have a painting night before our next game.did you all buy it together? or are they just helping you paint it or what?
>>96542112Im a hobby painter so I like to get the boxes anyway, but they are excited to paint their own models they will be using during the game, so they decided they will just help me paint theirs. I think it's nice, seeing everyone on board for a campaign and such. But the monsters will all be mine when GCE comes in.
Cough
>>96547577maybe the real kingdom death were the threads that died along the way
>>96547577just let it die and wait for BF
>>96547577>>96547787Im trying not to spam the board with my new obsession. But this just got here in record time. I haven't played any expansion other then 1.6 yet so I cant fucking wait.
>>96548742Nice! Curious what you think of the philosophies. That was the first thing I jumped on when I got mine, and they're all so cool and weird. There is something truly wrong in a great way with the brain of Poots.
>>96551226The sheer depth and perfect implementations of random events of this game is fantastic. I got this before work so ive been planning out color schemes and will probably be up till sunrise trying to sleeve/read all these.
There are only four left in the Australia warehouse, do they do restocks for the sale or should I bite the bullet and get it now?
>>96548742I went directly from the base game to GCE, you can really feel how far Team Death have come in terms of design and storytelling.People can call PoTL "soulslike" in its narrative all they want but at the end of the day the surface narrative is just random shit happening. It lacks any kind of overall thread between the different nemesises and story events. And the ending is complete ass where some dude shows up and farts your campaign to death. Unless you're some sperg who combs through every random event and store page description of a mini that sold out 15 years ago none of it makes even remote sense.PoTDK meanwhile actually feels "soulslike", in the sense that you always have a vague intuitive sense of how events connect to each other and what the general motivation of the different characters are. You'll still have to autistically comb through all kinds of random event descriptions if you want to understand the DEEP LORE but the surface plot is comprehensible an intriguing - these superpowerful beings have some kind of bet going and this one guy is using you to stack the odds in his favour. Also I love how neither the Hand nor the Gambler are really malevolent
Man fuck the phoenix, what a tedious buildhad to go ballistic with putty to fix all the gaps and seamsAt least this was my last non-optional assembly from the core models, only the generic armor kits are left and I'm not planning to assemble them any time soon
>>96554888Is there a set in stone plot for the setting now? I always kind of liked the idea that it was so vague we had to make our own theories. I had the idea that the players are just meta gods/ancestral spirits directing the lowley humans to ascendancy, and we jump into the lanterns of survivors brave enough to fight the dark and guide them. That's why using meta knowledge on fights works. Oh well, the setting and aesthetic are great.
>>96554888What is the deal with the Gold Smoke Knight, anyway? Feels like such a random boss of that campaign.
>>96555762in my headcannon, the "world" is actually a large artificial area of wilderness in the heart of a Borgesian city, where the Kingsman, Hand, manhunter etc come from...the survivor are pretty much pigeons in central park
Been playing here and there with a fresh settlement using expansions I hadn't gotten a chance to put on the table yet. I have to say, I'm sad the Flower Knight is kind of meh as it currently is. One of my favorite models, fun fight, good theming, but it just doesn't add anything substantive to your game. You only have to hunt it two or three times to get everything you'll ever need from it, the helmet and sword are gated behind a not at all fleshed out campaign for no good reason (I just house ruled it that they are patterns now that you get from beating a level 2/3 flower knight respectively), and you need to spend all the resources you get from it or they just go away for no real good reason.It feels like he should have been a bonus nemesis, kind of in the same way the lonely tree is. Personally, the worst part is that he takes up the same node as the Smog Singers, which have all the instruments that would mesh well with the Flower Knight's cello.Here's hoping the Oblivion Mosquito is a good expansion.
>>96557733rejoice then, because the True Flower knight aka Verant Lord has been teased as the hardest fight of all a while ago so i guess the abyssal wood and/or CoD expansion will give it a lot more fluff
>>96558003And that is great. I look forward to seeing the content some time within the next 10 years. Unfortunately, I didn't grab it in the kickstarter because it was supposed to be just a book of optional campains to run, and not full overhauls of expansions.
>need lion god just to fill the slot on 1.6>bought 1.6, GCE, and survivors pack already, so money is tight.>consider recast, but dosnt come with cardsDo they sell cards seperately? I mean i could just get sleeves and card stock but I still feel like it would stand out too much in a deck.
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>>96557694gold smoke knight use to be an expansion for the 1.0 version of the game, on the 1.5 version they just bundle him with the main game and very awkwardly made him the final boss, the watcher use to be the actual final boss of the PotL campaign and thematically he still is, gold smoke knight is just an extra boss at the end for no god damn reason.
>>96557725Manhunter comes from The Holy Lands though.
Anyone could post the Red Witchers models pic? I need to see their massive gap
>>96560960literally in the op bwo
>>96561017I don't believe bullshit instagram filter picture
>>96562396skill issue
>>96481625What's a good source of recasts for these KDM miniatures? The ones I'm always looking for always seem out of stock.
>>96560960some anon posted them last thread, maybe he can post it again, but the worst one is the leg and head/torso.>>96562396OP is the official painted models of kdm.
>>96565224With a lot of filtered
>>96566165>filteredthat's you m8
Today I got a Blue Saviour from a Love Juice drop off the prologue Lion; who then lucked me into a Gorm Riot Mace and Pulse Lantern by LY 4|I still miss my SotF rerolls
What's the best glue for putting together Deathgrey plastic models? I use the Tamiya cement for thr normal models, but am unsure if that will still work or if I should switch to normal super glue.
Finally got around to putting a coat of matte varnish on these. I underestimated how much these models are touched and moved during a game. Still working on good bases.
>>96568005Tamiya cement won’t work on resin. Use superglue, it’ll work perfectly.
>>96567813>dies the very next hunt to bad RNG
>have the urge to make a shield mastery survivor How shitty of a time am I in for?
>>96573173Isn't this something you should be working on in any game, along with a Fist/Tooth master? Having both of these available to all survivors dramatically improves your chances in encounters. You also only need to hit and wound once with a weapon you're intending to master, you don't have to be using the master weapon as the only weapon for the whole encounter on that survivor.
>>96569662for the love of god paint those bases black or something
>>96573173Reaching shield mastery is painful, but it's something you should try to get as early as possible (just like F&T mastery).Nightmare training is your friend, and like the other anon said, you only have to wound with it once.
I'd actually love to use this guy a my PC figurine in a TTRPG.Everyone else is >"OH I'M TANNER VATTERSLATE AND I'M A TIEFLING BARD!">"I'M EBONY STRIDELANDER AND I'M A DROW RANGER!">"Hohhh....Hohhh....Butcherrr....Hohhh..."
>>96574317Love the idea, but doesn't his base size give you trouble?I wish the Butcher had better story integration. Because he's such a perfect fight
>>96574317better use killenium instead show everyone who's the edgeBVLL
>>96574330Stay outta my personal space.the base is wide and flat enough that you could just lean your base on top of it with minimal risk of tippageI was also considering the Flower Knight as a warforged fae paladin or something like that.>Greater Fae creates suit of armor to guard her glade>glade is magical and moves around several different forests>suit gets pulled a single step out of the glade, one time>it teleports without him>trying to find his way back to the glade
>>96574336if I really wanted to assert dominance I would use Pinup Butcheror walk in with Lion Knight and sperg out whenever someone says something about the ladies "THESE ARE MY HIRELINGS, THEY'RE LIKE MY DAUGHTERS, YOU'RE SICK!"
>>96574437>Pinup Butchersafe hornynow Bone Eaters on the other hand...
>>96574561>that's just what The Wetnurse would do in this situation, guys, don't be so dramatic, you're ruining the session
>>96573400They are each getting their own base and just have them on the temporary ones for now (we jumped right in before I had a chance to work on them fully). >>96573189>>96573872I guess we are just a bit gun shy because everytime we take a turn to farm points, we get absolutely fucked by rng. Also we only just got ammonia super late and just unlocked the first leather shield.
>>96574330Hoping for an intro event from CoD.Also, does anybody know of a good prologue Gorm setup? We're going to try that one in a new campaign.
What's a good way to get Courage? Spamming the activity at the weapon crafter feels safe-ish, but inefficient. Is there a better way?
>>96574561>safe hornyI disagree.
>It's your turn to tell a story for the weird dream settlement event>tell a backwards story about you chasing a giant butt
>>96578876
>>96579204>>96579212It wasn't my best work, but at least we get the fun nickname event later.
I didn't get Pariah and Red witches, but for those that did is it worth it? What's the verdict so far? And I've noticed a lot of indomitable models being published recently, is Poots planning some for every monster? Will some be in CoD?
>>96577140Getting the Hoarder disorder is pretty good for guaranteed courage.
>>96578876>a backwards story about you chasing a giant butt
>>96582287Pic related. Lucy's ass specifically.
>>96582337>picwhat the fuck does that even mean anon?
>>96582337Lucy birthed you through her ass?
>>96582337>>96582937Truly wretched...
What's the best TTS module right now?
Barbaric vs Romantic? We always pick barbaric for the thunder caller but im curious if romantic has better paths later on. It seems to have more narrative stuff (although I do love thundercaller).
>>96481625These miniatures look fun to paint. But they're either out of stock or overly expensive. What are some good recaster sources?
>>96582937Kek
>>96585357to my knowledge there's no "good" recast source, just the same old cheap chinese knock offs.
I honestly love these goofballs. Where can I see more of this artist? Most of my searches just give me the survivor boxes but no real leads. Even the official KDM Instagram dosnt have much.
I've almost caught up with assembling figures. Hadn't been playing the game over the past couple years, but kept buying promos and receiving expansions from the KS fulfillment. By the time I got back to it the backlog pile was the GC, all the new expansions, and like 40+ promo boxes... Finished Red Witches last night, got it down to just a couple more GC narrative sculpt sprues left, hopefully finish this week. And then it's time to paint them...
>>96538461I remember bringing a complete fresh survivor to a hunt, absolutely no stats on her whatsoever. Her first activation on her first turn I had her walk over to an herb bush to pick it. Rolled a 1, saw a bug with her own face on it. 3 brain damage. No insanity, so immediate brain trauma. Rolled a 1. Died.Her entire life was her walking to a bush, seeing a bug with her own face on it, and dying. She was not meant to survive in this world.
>>96559858>gold smoke knight use to be an expansion for the 1.0 version of the gameWhat? No, GSK didn't exist at all until they added him to 1.5. He wasn't even slated to be part of the cancelled expansion, or at least he wasn't publicly stated to be. I honestly think Poots just thought he was cool and shoved him in at the end of the story.
>>96574336>use killenium insteadStep aside, boy.That's a 100mm base btw
>>96590554>GSK didn't exist at all until they added him to 1.5.NTA but gold smoke knight came out in 2014 while the KS for 1.5 started on 2016.
>>96590801I meant as a game figure. Yes, it did exist as a standalone figure with no game rules, but it wasn't a part of the game until the 1.5 KS.
Are the survivor head peices always the same size? Im not really digging the Allister face on the 10 year with the lips and what not, but I probably have a ton of different ones from GCE and core. Just a thought that came to me at work.
>>96591130KD has had some pretty massive scale creep over the years. Core box and original expansion figures are significantly smaller than more recent content like the 10Y anniversary survivors. Swapping with a core box head would be really obvious.Doing it with a GCE head might be a better bet as far as size goes, but do keep in mind they aren't made to be swappable -- more recent figures are not supposed to be customizable, each piece is uniquely cut for that model. You might have to do some serious work to get another head to fit on Allister's body, and vice versa to get Allister's head on the model you took the head from.
Is there any way of finding out the stock level of the Gamblers Chest? I'm hoping to buy it on Black Friday but not sure if it will stay in stock until then
We ran into a problem as a group of new players: When you pick up a vermin resource on a hunt, when can you use it? And can anyone in the group use it? We were unsure because we got the ant and one of our members had 20+ insanity and was going to run into the dark after the antelope fight. Does it take a gear slot?
>>96597120Resources like vermin or acanthus that are gained during the hunt go next to the gear grid of the survivor that picked them up; they don't require an open gear slot to gain. Adjacent survivors can "hand off" resources during the showdown. The survivor holding a resource can use it whenever, in any phase.
>>96597424Thanks anon. Glad to know we didnt bend any rules.
>>96596539they restock it for black friday so you should be good there but it goes out of stock in about an hour if not faster so you gotta be there at midnight.sometimes it lasts longer so I guess you could say...it's a gamble.
>>96597424Totally forgot survivors can trade resources during the Hunt and Showdown! Could've saved a lot of survivors with acanthus the last few years of playing...
>>96596539do note that in my experience "68" actually means 100+
>>96599651>>96597424Can you take a vermin out of settlement storage before anything hunt and give it to someone?
Hey I’m new to Kingdom Death. Assembling Fade right now why are there two swords?
>>96601850Not normally, but the Flower Knight expansion has a piece of gear that lets you do so.
Down a player since one of our number left for college, but the rest of the gang got together to resume the campaign this week. Lantern year 22.
I sadly don't really get to play KDM much, but finally got this resin guy painted up for a skirmish warband.
>>96606605Ran out of steam a bit near the end, but I think he looks eye catching enough.
>>96606605>>96606608that's really good, care to share your method for the armor ? will you coat it in gloss to make it look like porcelain ?
>>96606722Cheers. White primer, glaze with very diluted pinks, purples etc for the shading, then lots of layered highlights with thinned white. Took a while compared to every other colour.
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Am I just fucked if I want to play this game on Tabletop Sim now? I'm tempted to just scan the Gambler's Chest myself so I can start a campaign with my Discord friends even if that takes time.
>>96590163The artist is Lokman Lam; you can look for his Twitter or pixiv
>>96610294Thanks anon. Also i bought the core game card sleeves from the KDM store. Am I an idiot for not waiting for black friday? Are they decent quality? With how varied the card sizes are I feel like they are the only option.
>>96612007Yeah, it was very dumb to a) buy the official kdm sleeves instead of something like sleevekings thats gonna be a lot cheaper and b) not even wait for black friday
>>96612180didn't the official sleeves got a massive price decrease a few years back that made them worth it?
>>96599651honestly, the way that player movement and combat works in KD:M is something other ttgs need to learn from.>able to strategize your turns and work simultaneously to prevent turn order fuckery from screwing someone over>coordinate attacks and actions for maximum effectI mean I guess it could be a case of "ugh these players are too good at min-maxing their turns" you just apply the same rules to the enemy turn, and make it a game where the DM can really work to challenge the players.
>>96612393Only on Black Fridays. They are good sleeves, just very expensive especially without the BF discount.
>>96612414are you talking RPGs or co-operative boardgames? There's no shortage of either that use group initiative rather than individual.
>>96612393They’re still 1.5x more expensive compared to sleevekings (although sleevekings are 60 microns instead of 100)But tbqh me personally I wouldnt sleeve all the cards into 100 micron sleeves, shit’d take up too much space
Hey does anyone have the link to a trove with all the rulebooks? I checked the sharethread, but the trove link there is dead :(
>>96613418I guess I've fallen for the oldest trick in the book: D&D
>>96614596Some anon shared a /folder/ a month or so agohttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/96382884/#q96402396
>>96481625Who is the strongest?
>>96618381One of them has infinite range, infinite damage attacks so...
>>96618381Satan
>>96618381I once saw Butcher hit 23 attacks with hack city. No real ability to avoid it at that point yet in that game.
Nemesis Rankings:Butcher - 10/10King's Man - 0/10The Hand - 9/10 the first time, 2/10 cutscene afterManhunter - 8/10Slendie - 7/10Atnas - 7/10, 3/10 if you ballad cheeseLion Knight - 4/10. 0/10 if you exploitThe Tyrant - 5/10Pariah - 8/10Red Bitches - 9/10Black Knight - 9/10In general, Node 1 nemesis are peak.
>>96619223Have you played against Pariah and Red Witches yet? Didn't they just come out?Agreed with most of the rest of them, Kings Man and The Hand really need a redesign. King's Man is just a gear check, if everyone has shields he's a pushover, if nobody does it's a TPK, and The Hand is super hype until you learn just don't attack him and let him do his thing and the fight ends.
>>96619232I've played against their LV.2 versions on TTS. I might change their ratings based on their final encounters but in general, their designs/lore/flavor are peak. Looking over and brainstorming their final encounters; they still seem good. Maybe RW are 8/10s since the final battle seems like a slog fighting all of them and minions.
>>96619223I like the kingsman better with the changes to his curse and the armor in I think the GC. Makes it feel a lot less like you lost a useful survivor, and I like that he encourages dagger usage and thinking about your positioning. I also dont think its bad to have a gear check sort of fight. Honestly thats something all the nemesis should do to some extent. Not my favorite node 2 nemesis, but not worthless.
>>96618381out of the 3 bitches in OP? the middle one.if you are asking about the entities, probably The Goblin.
>>96622511What? Did they change kingsman in GC?
>>96615185I found it, but it only has the 1.5 rulebook :( I guess nobody has the 1.6 one? Is 1.5 even that much different from 1.6?
>>96627936The GC replaced his armor set with new gear pieces that aren't actually ass, so now it feels more like a survivor gets a boon for a couple years before dying instead of a survivor just being instantly dead.
looks like kingdom death...died.
>>96574350damn thats a cool idea
>>96481625How's the quality of the official resin? I might throw money at Poots if they have what I'm looking for in stock.
>>96614904older editions of D&D like B/X use group/side initiative rather than individual as well. Have you tried playing D&D?
>>96639706Most of the minis are plastic, resins are only for limited release figures, and most of their resins nowadays are photoresin as well. That said, both of their plastic and photoresin are extremely high quality, especially recently. Their early photoresin models were a bit touch and go, you could see the print lines on them, but the newer stuff I literally cannot see print lines without a microscope. And for the plastic kits, they went through some growing pains so it does depend on how old the kit is but the newest stuff is honestly industry leading quality. (The recent release for the False Messengers is actually one of their oldest molds and you can see the difference in quality between it and say the Red Witches in the OP).tl;dr, quality good
>>96641127the problem is that when I pitched that to my old group, the DM went "umm no we do it my old fashioned way where everyone sits there bored as we go turn by turn"and then when I DM'd, that same person went "umm no this is too much for me to understand please do it the lame way instead"I don't run with that group anymore.
>>96639706Plastic kits are good, especially the later ones. But I'm going to disagree with the other anon about photoresin. While the details are magnificent, it's absurdly fragile. You might think well that's just the trade off for the convenience of resin printing at such high levels of details. Resins have come a long way and there exists far more flexible materials. But no matter how careful you are something is likely to snap like a thin piece of hair or a sword either in your hands or in transit which happened to my first run Sci-fi Pervical. My Lantern Armor Aya broke in 5 places and 1 of them was from the rest was during the painting. I've had better luck with deathgrey stuff, but at 39usd I better get my moneys worth of miniature tits and ass. If the resin kit comes with a "beta" card, you can just wait for it to come into the plastic eventually. The detail won't be as crisp and you might end up buying a more expensive kit because it might come with a painters scale model, but it'll save you from all the breakage issues. Maybe it's just my bad luck. And even despite all the bullshit with Aya, that model is still my fav in my painted collection enough to also buy the plastic kit to paint at some pointtl;dr excellent details. fragile material
>>96641366D&D is full of limp dick faggots like that, thats why I stop playing, can't get a decent group for shit on this day and age.
Finished Lucy, moving on to Allister. Ezra and Zachary will be painted by the other players after tomorrow session. We are going to try and add dung beetle knight when it comes in.
>>96641366>old fashioned waythat's really the thing, B/X *is* the old-fashioned way. Individual initiative is an AD&D innovation.
