Kingdom Death Monster

>played this game with a friend on TTS
>thought he was enjoying it, but every time I ask to play more, he doesn't want to

Should I just bite the bullet and play solo? I like the game, but I usually enjoy things like this more with friends.

>>53142809
Might as well try it, but take your time. I've fucked up in solo play more than I would like to admit and made myself redo a fight once because I just didn't notice something with my single set of human eyes.

Does anyone still have that template for making new Kingdom Death stuff? I remember it being posted months ago, but I cant seem to find it in the archives.

I'm planning on writing up Kingdom Death stats for some of the monsters in the recently released Dark Souls boardgame. Probably Titanite Demon, Belltower Gargoyal, Frost Knight... Maaaaaybe Ornstein and Smough if I can figure out a good system for them?

can buy dis game soon please?

>>53142809

I got a friend like that, too. You'll be better off playing solo, unless once per seven months is good enough pace for you.

>>53143690

Geologically speaking, yes.

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>>53143690
How the fuck did you miss the KS?

>>53143855
I prefer playing solo, and I have a really good group. Both ways are fun though.

>>53143019
>>53143855
Gonna have to try it, then. I'll try not to suck too hard. If I'm lucky, we might all make it home from the first fight.

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Someone redpill me on The Lonely Tree. Everyone seems to hate it, but for extremely vague reasons. What makes this thing so shit?

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Daily reminder that breeding the Anonymous Survivor doesn't make you gay.

Also, updates when? Fuck, it's felt like months since we got any concrete updates after poots showed off his 1/8th scale Cock. Where's the Male Manhunter pinup? Where's the full sculpt of the Oblivion Mosquito? Where's the Parasite Queen from the Wailing God expac? So many unanswered questions!

>>53142809

The hardest thing to do aside from tracking everything is resisting the urge to fudge rolls when your favorite dude suffers a head explosion

>>53145347

"It didn't roll properly, it just slid."

"Whoopsie I did not mean to roll it just yet."

"Ah, the dice fell on the floor. I cannot accept that."

"Ah, the dice fell on the floor. I guess it's as good result as any..."

>>53144361
It's less that it's shit and more that it costs more money than it adds to the game.

Lion God is more shit than it is, but people are only backpeddling on it because of the Expansion-expansion it's getting for 1.5 to make it more than an unfun difficult boss with no worthy reward.

The tree has a terrain piece mostly, but is also a nemesis encounter that you fight via a random hunt event. The fight is interesting and rewards minimal but not a total waste of time. (which is much more than dickbeard has going for it)

If you ever find it going for $40 with its gameplay content included, it's worth that price.

>>53145418
>>53145347
You're better than me at rationalizing that stuff, anon.
Bone Eater eate my best? Nope, fuck that, that's not happening.

My TTS save fucked up enough that I'll have to start a fresh file and import stuff, but there's so much to reset, I think I might just start a new campaign, knowing more and playing more honorably.
How messed up would I be though, in the current campaign? I've fucked around a lot in the first several years because I didn't really know the game, so I only got a full rawhide set by like year 8. I was at year 13 when things went wonk.

Also, if I'm starting fresh, is it worth adding any expansions in, or should I do at least one whole campaign vanilla?

>>53144406
What comic is that from?

>>53144361
It's a stupid fucking tree.

link to prev thread??

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What do you think is the origin of some of the weird events that happen in-game? Is lights in the sky a sunstalker eating its settlement?

>>53147130
>>53086497

>>53147163

Its almost certainly a Sunstalker doing SOMETHING. Hard to say what.

>>53147336
Tricking you into setting up a Murder down the road is what it's doing.

>>53147163

This also triggers when something specific happens with Lion God. But then again, no-one plays Lion God.

>>53142809
I-I'll play with you, Anon.

>>53147648
>>53147845
what do either of you mean?

>>53147163
it's what i really enjoy about the setting. Poots has allowed for this much mystery. All you know is there is light in the dark and it's inspiring.

>>53147928
We were playing blind. Had no idea what any card we hadn't drawn was.
Two of us went for the Inner Lantern endeavor of Lights. One of us got a fighting art of our choice, woo!
The other got +1 understanding and set up Skull Eater for next year.
The one with the fighting art became the Skull Eater. The Skull Eater roll result was 'get some stat bonuses, also MURDER next year'
Proceeded to get the guy who caused Skull Eater killed...in the battle. By accident. Stupid antelope trap. And then Murdered the NEXT best person in the settlement.

>>53148096
This fucking game, man.
>that's xcom, baby!

>>53148161
Then comes the Butcher, and the same guy who'd died to Antelope gets killed by me activating a trap AGAIN.
And my newly-legendary lunged murderous cannibal bites it a turn before he dies in the scrag. By hitting ANOTHER trap.
Fucking traps.
Only four deaths so far even. All of them directly because of this one bitch with a knife. And because the settlement's wiseman stared at the sun too long.

>>53145842

I'd say at least get comfortable with the core game before you start throwing expansions in.

>>53145893
Hellblazer, dunno which volume.

I want to play with another /tg/bro.

I own the game, but my copy is in another state with my brothers. We never got very far, getting totally decimated pretty early on a few times, and then schedule conflicts keeping us from continuing a game we managed to get a few years into.

My brothers don't have the time to play, I now live in another state, and I don't have my physical copy with me.
So I was wondering if anyone would want to play with me online? Semi-regular, like every Saturday morning or something? Or whenever we both have time?
My Discord is Chad#3441 if anyone is interested.

I just really want to play this damn game more.

>>53143628
This one contains most of the card types but it's missing a template for settlement events
http://www.mediafire.com/file/s77iif8jtcjyvb4/Template+Pack+Updated+December+25.rar

But i found some blank cards that contain settlement events unlike the other pack this one it's just blank cards not psd templates
www<dot>an0nfile$<dot>cc/file/71ed27614ebb298651935c31b877d0dd

>>53144199
Isn't there a KS open right now for v1.5? It looks like the backers will get their stuff in 2020. Any idea how long the KS is going to be open? I'm short on cash and don't start my new job until August.

>>53144406
If you know the sculptors to look out for, they might post some cheecky snippits of progress on their blogs or personal sites.

A lot of the current work is probably negotiating reprints of core materials.

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>>53150717
It ended back in January.

>>53150987
Well, fuck.

See you guys in 5 years.

>>53150717
Also backers will be getting their stuff between later this year and 2020 in a series of waves, the biggest waves outside of the main game which is this year will be for the expansion reprints in 2018 and the new expansions in 2019.

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>>53151007
There might be some on sale during Black Friday. Just stay the course and you should be able to pick a copy up. Good luck friend.

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>>53142341
So, what are those bars actually made of?

>>53151369
Thanks Bro. I guess I'll just play the waiting game.

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>first time getting a savior
>deck her out in the best shit i have and go hunt a level 1 lion
>takes event damage to the head in the hunt
>first attack crits the testes, giving the lion +1 damage
>second attack triggers a basic action with +2 damage
>both hit the head
>dodge one
>lion's turn, claws
>both claws hit the head
>dodge one but the other injures her
>my first savior gets decapitated on the first turn of her first hunt

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>>53152124
If you're into the models, I'd recommend picking up some of the smaller ones with in game components on the store. I'll be purchasing Allison the Twilight Knight in a few days to get my feet wet on building the models and to see whats in store once the game arrives over the summer (hopefully).

And if you're going to GenCon, Poots should be there shilling the product. I believe he said that he is going to try and have some product ready to sell by then but he isn't sure.

>>53150465

Awesome, thanks.

In that case, a question for the thread:

How would you rather I implement monsters? The hope is that I wont be the only one using these.

Limited mode: use mashups of cards from different Kingdom Death creatures as much as humanely possible, with very few (or perhaps even none at all) new cards.
Pro: doesn't require any extra work for anyone beyond sorting
Cons: very limited customization and inability to represent certain things not already in the game, requires players to have all of the same expansions I do.

Tryhard mode: mock up new cards for EVERYTHING
Pro: looks cool
Con: lot of effort to print out and turn into a useable deck even after all the work is done. End result may not look all that good or shuffle well.

Poorfag mode: use a deck of simple playing cards as a proxy, and assign replacements to each card. Aka, a big table that says "Ace of clubs = tail swipe, 2 of Clubs = overhead smash..."
Pro: quick and easy to do, cheap and easy to implement. A single deck of commonly available playing cards can be reused for all of the new monsters.
Cons: probably kind of slow in play, since you will have to look up what a card means every time you draw it.

>>53152790>>53152124

At least high five him in the balls for making such an awesome but boutiques limited game.
Ask him why he seems so hollow in all the pictures.
Is the scribe real and poots is paying his humanity to make the game?

>>53152847
Most of the custom content I've seen has been garbage cause people don't know what the fuck balance is or understand why people hunt certain monsters on certain year milestones etc.

Like the dude that made that lovers encounter. Neat idea, but holy shit the showdown sucked sunstalker dicks and the rewards were worse.

>>53152856
Man if I was going I'd see if he was selling the Guts figure. It was my favorite of the extra figures and I wasn't able to put more money into the kickstarter to pick it up. I'm hoping that with the money he got from the kickstarter he will be able to produce the game more reliably now. I think a lot of people would like that.

I'd probably ask him how much sleep he gets on a daily basis. And how it feels knowing that everyone following him on kickstarter saw him back a vibrator. maybe not that last one, but it'd be pretty funny.

>>53152893

Yeah, that will take some work.

The one I have put the most thought into so far is the Belltower Gargoyle, where the goal is to beat the Garg and ring the bell. Ringing the bell grants a random permanent buff to the survivor who rings it, with increasing effects based on monster level.

On top of that, if I can do custom cards I hope to do stuff like cutting off the Gargoyles tail giving you the axe, like in the game. So you hope to score crits in combat and get free gear that way, rather than introduce unique Gargoyle resources and a settlement location. Lastly, Gargoyles drop scrap when they die, with a chance of dropping Iron. They do have a lot of metal on them, and the rock they are made out of is presumably useless.

Which I figure makes them a decent mid to late game quarry for farming blacksmith materials and making your already good dudes better faster, with the hope of scoring a Gargoyle helmet or free shield.

>>53152847
You're welcome.

Services exist that will print custom decks on demand. so i would not worry that much if someone wants proper decks they can pay for one (just remember to make you're cards high res enough for this option to be possible).

Don't forget that TTS exist you or someone else could do a expansion in it with the decks so the effort of printing and the problem with shuffling would be solved.

Anyway good luck with the expansion either way.

>>53147163
Doesn't lights in the sky trigger off of something in the silver city? If so, it might be the death of the lion god or opening some of the tomb objects.

>>53152678
KDM in a nutshell

>>53153034
>And how it feels knowing that everyone following him on kickstarter saw him back a vibrator.

Story?

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>>53153256
If you follow a creator on kickstarter, you'll be sent a notification if they back a project. Poots uses the KDM account on kickstarter as his main account, so naturally a lot of people follow him. During the 1.5 kickstarter campaign, he kickstarted a vibrator here is a link to the KDM kickstarter profile. The vibrator is on the second row. https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/poots as a gift for his wife. He completely forgot that everyone would be notified about his, so 6000+ people saw that he was getting a vibrator for his wife.

>>53153089
You should do a full souls expac where you can't hunt the first nemesis (Kweelag) until you ring a level 2 bell.

Or something.

Bonus for including a skeleton hoard/wheel encounters. Kalameet is a bit like the nuclear dragon with a pull mechanic and more tail whips.

>>53153317
That's funny but also kind of humanizing. Maybe.
Let be the harbinger of the magical realm and ask if there's vibrators in KD?

>>53153466
We only have a sentient breast pump so far.

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>>53153466
It's the only question we need answered. >>53153034
Forgot my picture of the best boy.

>>53153418

I'm only planning on doing stuff that has model support with the Dark Souls board game.

Currently, counting models big enough to matter, this includes:

Ornstein and Smough
Gargoyle
Frost Knight
The Dancer
Titanite Demon
Winged Knight
Giant Guard, I guess?

There are more monsters to come in the followup packs I backed, but I don't think wheelskellies or Queelag are among them. Kalameet is, though!

>>53153483
Can women actually feel their mil glands?
desu the monster wetnurse is hotter. I get a rise from all of it except the bald head part.

>>53153483
I'll bet you the honeycomb weaver will give us something like an aphrodisiac and sexual escapades will be on the rise.

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>>53153552
I'm just as aroused as the suit of armor at the though of basically becoming a honeypot ant.
my expanding belly constantly pushing against my erect dong

>>53153317
Right. "For his wife"

>>53153583
But it kills you first. Explicitly.

>>53153699
Just let me have this anon.
Otherwise what's the point of the armor

>>53153513
>I'm only planning on doing stuff that has model support with the Dark Souls board game.
LAME

>>53153513
Find an appropriately-sized toy spider.
Cut some naked girl with long ponytail miniature at the waist, glue to spider. Throw a sword in there.
There you go, Quelaag

>>53153317
>Backing: Starfighter Visual Novel
I'm both ashamed to recognize what this is and terrified to realize Poots is backing it.
Also if the implications are anything to go by, this guy >>53153596 is probably right on the money.

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>>53153785
Would you... uh... care to divulge what this visual novel is about? And also yeah, >>53153596 you're probably right.

>>53153774
>Find an appropriately-sized toy spider.
You can use real spider shell. When spiders grow they change skin and leave behind the old empty shell mostly intact, you just need to glue back the top through which they crawled out. At least that's why roommate's Tarantula did. Made great prank prop.

>>53153842
It's made of drama and homosex.
Art is pretty neath though.

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>>53153903
I don't know what else I could have expected. Agree with you on the art though. check out the megatokyo vn, still waiting on it to come out, but its pretty cool .

>>53153842
Please tell me you have this reaction image as a .gif The face is priceless but it just feels too static.

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>>53154000
I fucking wish. It's one of my favorite reaction images and having a .gif would make it perfect.

>>53153987
>>53153903
Didn't he back that because the artist drew some of the male pinups?

>>53153774
>Throw a sword in there.
Quelaag was holding a sword? I'll be honest, her hands weren't really the part of her body that I was looking at.

>>53154416
I wanted to say I fail to realize how you could have passed that fight if you were not looking out for the sword, but I guess you can let Mildred facetank it and just keep spanking her ass.

>>53153730
> What's the point of armor
> It doesn't grind my chub

Thanks, I almost forgot where I was.

>>53154416
Yes. If you'd paid attention to anything else in that fight, you'd have noticed she's wielding a flaming sword.
The same one you can make later on.
It's a nice sword, I used it most the game.

>>53154460
Izalithbro. Did you wear the robes, serve the white lady, apprentice under the master, and acquire all pyro?

>>53154481
...there are people who don't?

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>>53154532
Just thinking about that makes me sick.

>>53148256
Sorry to hear that.
I played a recent game where between the plague and some poor rolls, I only had 3 survivors face off against the butcher T-T

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Innovations!!

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>>53152678
>Playing KDM with my buddy, gf, and gf's sister
> buddy and gf are super into killing the monster
> sister prefers to run around the map collecting acanthus
>gf gets super pissed that she won't help us kill lion but I just laugh
>sister collects all the plants, fight with lion is going okay, a few injuries but nothing crazy
>sister finally decides to help after being cajoled
a little background: the sister is really prudish and easily gets flustered by anything remotely sexual
> rolls her first hit in the game
>draws hit location: its the ding-dong
>crits
> her face when I hand her the lion testes card
I had to excuse myself from the table

>>53153785
didn't the artist behind that do a ton of recent work for KDM?

>>53155268
The funny thing is?
We got the plague the year we got the Butcher as well.
But we got ammonia and a very lucky roll meant nobody died from THAT on top of the murder.

>>53155296
Do you want wheel skeletons? Because that's how you get wheel skeletons.

>>53155296
So THAT'S how blood paint and paired weapons works!

>>53155296
>I have no arms and I must hunt

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>>53155380
She sounds like kind of a ball-buster.

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>>53157102
>>53155380

I remember during the kickstarter, there was a guy talking about expansions/custom expansions and saying that there has to be a reason/purpose behind each addition, rather than just "it would be cool if..."

I somewhat agree, so my question /kdm/ is what sort of thing do you want a new expansion to solve? I'm working on a custom campaign right now set in a desert-like environment, currently have 3 quarries and a nemesis in mind, one of which is fleshed out with full AI/HL cards and such. But I'm trying to decide how to tie things together and what I can do differently from the base game that makes it worth playing other than just "more things to fight/craft."

I like the ideas of your settlement learning to sand surf and "fish" in the desert, and also of uncovering lost tombs to explore. And I have some ideas as to how to implement that. But I still think I need some sort of overarching gameplay theme. People of the stars is super survivors with constellations, people of the sun is a gauntlet into a boss rush. What else do you want to see?

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>>53158165
Lucy a best.

>>53158179
That sounds like an idea I had with a "Caravan" type settlement.

The idea behind it is that there's a limited amount of gear and/or locations you can craft because you have to keep moving on the caravan.
As a tradeoff some of the hunt events could be mitigated. Or larger groups on a hunt so if someone dies you can "swap in" another guy. Like the Scout of Death mechanic.

I didn't really think of monsters at all or anything like that. I feel like that's the last thing I would get around to when designing new stuff.

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>>53158179
Well with some of the new dungeon mechanics (for the tombs), you could use the constantly shifting sands to create some funky situations with changing the dungeons in the middle of a fight and having unpredictability of the board be something interesting.

Can't really think of anything else I'd want to see, but I think it's an interesting idea that I'd love to hear more about.

>>53158283
I like that idea. I only have 1 monster really fleshed out. Two of the quarries are more ideas than anything...the white lion equivalent is a scorpion, while the pheonix equivalent is a giant burrowing sand worm. And one of the nemesis is a whirling dervish type fighter who can control sand.

The one fight I DO have really fleshed out, is something I was originally calling the sculptor until I realized that's an actual thing in the KDM universe and I wouldn't want to co-opt Poot's characters, so I'll have to rename it. But it's a quarry fight for its level 1 and 2, where the "sculptor" stands in the center of the board without moving, and it summons 4 statues that fight in its place. Each statue performs the actions of each AI card at the same time, so there's lots of attacks being made. But one hit destroys a statue, and once all 4 are down, the sculptor is open to attack for a turn. I've tested it out in TTS a few times and I definitely need tweaks to its overall design and balance, but it came out better than I thought.

The level 3 version would be a nemesis fight thats triggered once you've fought a certain number of quarry versions. He's pissed you've been destroying his statues, and he shows up to stop you. This version of the fight is a lot more brutal and has him actually moving around.

I worked a lot of stuff out for him before thinking about how he could be included in the game, and then I thought of a desert based landscape, and then it just kind of steamrolled from there.

So I guess we're opposites; I went right for the monsters. I definitely think a caravan type thing could work though, I like the idea of constant movement, perhaps limiting available hunts

>>53158386
Since it's the desert you could do something like;
>Man of Salt,
Make the pillars salt pillars, when they get destroyed they exploded and damage your consumable gear (because of salt). Or something. I feel like destorying them in melee should be risky.
And maybe once you kill him you get a free cooking recipe or something cause you can now preserve bugs and food with the salt.
But it's your dance, sounds neat though.

Yea the whole caravan idea is to make the survivors travelers instead of making a static settlement and the tribulations that would come from that. Limiting anything and everything would be pretty fair game imo.

>>53158423
Maybe a sort of "push your luck" sort of deal, where packing up and moving is something you control. So you can stay in one location and gain whatever benefits it gives (such as in this case, being able to hunt the nearby monster) but the longer you stay, the more negative effects start to pile up. I'd love to work with cooking more, it's definitely underutilized. So a salt man could work.

As far as fighting the statues go, I mixed up their HL to be a pretty large amount of "stone" locations and "fleshy" locations. The stone locations have higher toughness and usually have a reaction or two while the fleshy ones are easier to wound and give resources on crits, but there's fewer of them. I also gave them an instinct called standstill which is a reaction on a lot of HL: they move next to the closest survivor and stand guard, increasing their toughness, and if a survivor takes an action next to them they either suffer brain damage from the statue staring them down, or they have to cancel their action.

Also the trap is a statue exploding. So fighting statues at close range isn't necessarily the best thing in the world. I don't think I would want to punish people for successfully destroying them though.

I like the idea of making them salt or something though so that they have something extra to add in besides just parts for gear. I think I'll work with that.

>>53158509
Maybe if a different quarry was at each location and took a year or more to go down levels. If you hunt them too much back to back only the strongest will remain.

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Reading through the dragon info, so were they a fallen civilization like the lion people? Are they constructs? (nuclear cores)

>>53136348
>tfw your survivor gets the Sweet Battle ability that lets you surge for free every turn
>but you're playing Sunstalker so you don't have surge

>>53139672
>What should you do about this? Just ignore it? Or should the survivor actually be allowed to use surge?

I'd say yes. Surge isn't part of Sunstalker via innovations, but the Suneater ability allows you to use Surge regardless of that, so it's part of the Sunstalker campaign. If a Sunstalker ability allows you to use it, and this other ability allows you to use it too, then use it.

i love this game but the RNG sometimes just takes a giant shit in your mouth. Feels bad losing a campaign to a series of shit hunt/settlement events.

>campaign going great.
>hunt event kills 3/4 survivors in the hunt party.
>lose the hunt with the last guy
>Plague settlement event
>3 more dead and more plague next year.
>go hunt an antellope because sun campaign and can't wear heavy gear.
>Haha jk it's a lvl2 lion instead get fucked nerd
>We haevn't innovated dash yet.

ZZZZZZZZZZ

I like KDM but the fact that the early game is so bottlenecked and similar makes starting a new game such a chore.

Did future expansions help this at all or is it still the same basic choices.

>>53161817
Early game still pretty similar.

However the other campaigns can change things up a bit. People of the Stars feels a lot better than vanilla overall.

You can still get fucked by certain hunt/settlements events that are only mitigated by lategame innovations though.

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Post your favorite KD paintjobs.

>>53151007
Black Friday is big on KD. Likewise, Adam may sell the game earlier similar to last KD kickstarter. Sign up for the newsletter to keep in the know

>>53162268
Do we have any idea when the 1.5 update kits are supposed to ship?

The KS website says 2020 but I've heard the updates are coming this year. Has there been any official or rumored release dates?

>>53162368
>>53162268

According to Poots on the kickstarter comments, he's hoping to have everything ready to ship for wave 1 before GenCon. So hopefully that will mean that everything will be good to go and shipping around mid-July if we are lucky.

Here's the quote from Poots in March for the lazy: "Our goal is to get Core Game fulfillment underway or finished before Gencon, so that we can bring units for sale. I have no intention of selling Core Games before Backers are shipped theirs. We'll see how it all goes over the next few months tho!"

>>53162368
Adam said in KS comments that 1.5 update will go out at same time game 1.5 ships. Not going to wade through comments to link.

>>53162559
See anon, get a gencon ticket, then Adam can sign your copy...On a natural roll of two lanterns, of course.

There been any digital copies of any of the expansion rules?

>>53162765
Does he kick you in the dick if you roll a 1 too?

>>53162937
Only if you hand him your copy of the lion testicles to sign.

>>53161817

Not out yet, but The First Hero expansion is designed to let you skip the first 10 years for pretty much that exact reason.

>>53162919

Not official ones, no. And all of them are missing AI, hit locations and hunt events anyway.

>>53162919
>>53163407
You can fuck around with the tabletop simulator mods to see the various rules/etc for the expansions, at least

I want to make a lantern. Like, cosplay-style. Does anyone have good reference pics of the lanterns the survivors carry? Especially the scruffy "we are just starting out" survivors, not like >>53153583 with their fancy custom lanterns

>>53164849
I'll post a few from the rulebook.

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In most of the pictures, the lantern is so glowy that it's kind of hard to make out what the proper shape is.

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Some of the images seem to show decorative leaves woven into the frame.

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In others, the frame is more intricate and there are 4 legs at the lantern's base, while the lantern itself is more of a rectangular prism than a cylinder. I happen to like this design better.

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Here's another close-up of style 2. All of these pictures so far have been from the prologue story

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In this one, the lantern seems to be more of a hexagonal prism

>>53165313
It definitely seems like there's a lot of variety in the lanterns, even in the "basic" ones that survivors receive upon their birth.

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>>53165410
Yeah, that should make it easy to find a base to work with if you're going to make a lantern prop.

>>53165146
It looks like there's actually 6-8 faces in that frame. Not really rectangular.

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I kind of like this one, with little bones forming the vertical posts in the lantern.

If you do end up making a lantern, you should post it in the general

>>53165594
Why so S?

>>53142341
Hey I got a full powered True Blade/Fencing survivor. What's the best sword to go with her? And should I try for the Otherworldly Luck on her too?

>>53165594
I'm probably going to use this as my primary reference, which means my lantern will probably end up with an opaque top and a hexagon cross-section.

>>53166926
Gorms black sword is generally the best.
Adventure sword is pretty good if you're sitting on see the truth, but other than that it varies based on what permanent upgrades your character has/what affinities you want to get.
>TFW sitting on a gormite since LY1+
>Have not a single survivor with sword experience anymore
It Hurts.

>>53167169
Thanks. Also clarification, does DBK's Scarab Circlet count as head armor for the purpose of Narcissistic Beauty?

>>53167242
Haven't actually played DBK, but if it doesn't say Armor as a keyword, it does not.
All masks work, for example.

>>53167278
Neat, that's armor taken care of then. Get those pads and greaves calcified and its +9 armor all locations with the pieces, the circlet and the set bonus with a chance for an nulled hit with the shoulder pads' Ripple Pattern.

Man I fucking love DBK's armor set. It looks so non protective and ridiculous its the fucking best.

>>53142341
Weird, why is everyone nude in that game?

>>53168081

People spontaneously come into being in the darkness without any equipment, memory, or language.

Lore wise, some godlike being literally just writes groups of full grown people into existence from time to time, which is also why everyone is physically a 10/10.

>>53168081
They're not nude, don't you see the lionclothes?
The guy >>53168213 is talking about is so generous he gives them LOINCLOTHES and LANTERNS!

>>53168268

Whats hilarious is I am pretty sure that, in the eternal darkness, those lanterns just attract nearby monsters. Which is why you get jumped by a lion the moment you wake up.

The loincloths, presumably, are just because the Golden Entity saw the plans for the human farm and was like "Gross. Cover that shit up, Scribe."

>>53168384

> the Golden Entity, god of the holy lands and creator of all kinds of gigeresque
monsters, is super easily embarrassed by genitals and sex in general.

Hilarious

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So, here's the most important question of KDM:
what deck should you pull from for rolling a 7-10 on monster corpse

>>53168723
Too variable to have a specific answer. It depends on what you need, what you're currently hunting, HOW you're currently hunting it, what expansions you're using if any, etc

>>53168213
>godlike being literally just writes groups of full grown people into existence from time to time

Is that why they wake up with ink on their eyes?

>>53168268
The plural of "loincloth" is "loincloths." And they're more like kilts or togas anyway.

>>53168900
Yes. Congrats, you've discovered why that is, and why babies are explicitly stated to not be born with ink.

>>53153520
Yes we can. But you have to press down a bit. It's not really something you feel all the time unless you have boob pain.

>>53168268
LIONCLOTHES

They should rename the game to Loinclothes and Lanterns

>>53168723
If I'm hunting something, then I want resources from it. So I always go for that one's deck to increase the chances I get what I want.

>>53168723
If you're People of the Bone, you might as well try the Phoenix to see if you can get the black skull?

Otherwise it's pretty situational...

Oh, do the fruit from the Lonely Tree count as monster resources? Because those are pretty good.

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>>53162241

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>>53162241
Lots of bright colors, yet doesn't look like a five year old painted it.

>>53169850
The lonely tree fruits are strange resources

I've got Gorm and Flower Knight added to my current solo campaign in TTS, what else should I add?
I'm breezing through stuff due to some pretty good rolls and card pulls, but I'm still worried about lvl 2-3 nemesis monsters.
Any part of expansion that can be added to ongoing that helps me get more population would be great, wanting to get more use out of collective toil.

>>53172164
I mean... you can fight Spidicules and have a... 20% chance to get +1 population for each survivor that gets to the showdown, but then you have to juggle the whole Taken event.

A late game enemy might be interesting. Sunstalker or Dragon King, Lion God or Dung Beetle Knight.

>>53171154
Looks fucking regal. 10/10, would slave away on his fiefdom

How's lion god? I know basically nothing about that one.

Also- does DK have you barely ever hunt it in the people of stars, like sun?
If so, since I want to run a stars campaign next I might add DK now, so I can get the urge to fight it out of the way.

>>53142341
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1WRucUXlIaL
OFFICIAL KD THEME MUSIC IT CANT BE DENIED I WAS FIRST

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Well the one bright side to having completely missed every opportunity for this means I'll have plenty of time to set a growing pile of money aside for it.

Is the TTS version worth the trouble? I figure half the fun is the miniatures and I read that a lot of the rules are unclear in that format

>>53172638
You just have to read the rules. And I mean, you get over 1000 bucks worth of stuff for 20.

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Why hello boys. May we ask what is going on in this thread?

>>53172720
Normally, I don't have any qualms at all about pirating, but I usually don't do it when it would hurt an indie dev.

However, if it was going to be like over a year before the store would have copies of the base game in stock, I would seriously think about turning to piracy.

>>53172847
>over a year
Anon... randos might not be able to buy the game before 2020.

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>>53172842
Nice try. We're good Christian boys in here, Satan.

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>>53172638
>>53172720
>>53172847
I've found the TTS mod to be kinda shitty.
BUT it is the only alternative you have and it's the only way to play the game if you missed out.

>>53173078
What about it is shit? I think both the scripted versions are pretty high quality.

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>>53173040
But where's the fun in that? How can you enjoy all the pleasures lie has to offer if you all you do is act like a bland, unthinking drone?

>>53173078
Really? Damn, man. As somebody who owns everything from the first Kickstarter and plays with flatmates a few times a week, I really love playing solo on TTS because of all the conveniences. Holy shit, automatically shuffled and duplicated fighting arts, disorders -- being able to craft gear from a catalog instead of flipping through my gear binders (I use a 3 ring binder full of coin collectors' pages to store gear cards in) -- being able to drop the fucking quarry onto a tile that populates the hunt board, and then on another tile that pulls out the correct amounts of random terrain -- goddamn, man. It's so convenient, and I really, really wish the physical game were this convenient.

Constantly shuffling around decks and all that shit is tiring and annoying. Doesn't stop me from having fun -- I do love the game -- but man, those conveniences.

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>>53173040
Speak for yourself, fag

>>53173078
>>53173086
You could actually run the game yourself with the scans, no? With TTS, aren't you just paying 20$ to pirate it anyway?

>>53173186
>gets tired shuffling decks of cards
You should join a gym my dude.

>>53173389
TTS has mods that do so much shit for you

>>53173020

That's what I thought at first, too. But if you look at the FAQ section on the KS, he says that 1.5 is shipping to backers in 2017 before gencon in August. It's just all the extras you get for higher-level backing that aren't going to be completely released until 2020.

The past few years, Poots has had extra copies of the game made and sold on Black Friday, so he'll probably do the same again this year.

>>53173389
>You could actually run the game yourself with the scans, no?

My copy of the scans doesn't have a scan of the field for hunting and showdowns. Is it just a grid of 1"x1" squares?

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>>53173783
Yeah the scans are not complete for whatever reason i searched and found what was missing tho'
Huntboard i<dot>1mgur<dot>com/nrtPs3F.jpg
Showdownboard i<dot>1mgur<dot>com/p4mfHP5.jpg

The settlement board is the same that is in the rulebook

If i remember correctly the Weak Spot acard for the Ai deck for the Kingsmen was also missing >pic related

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>First time playing KDM on Table Sim
>Hop in the midst of a teaching game, playing a survivor with a bow and arrow
>Fucking decimate the white lion were hunting, going so far as to tear it's jaw off with an arrow
>Later on we get our shit kicked in by the Butcher, lose our toughest survivor, but win by the fucking skin of our teeth
>Hooded Knight shows up, somehow I am the one with the most EXP
I was once an archer, now I must take up the blade.

>>53175273

Have fun getting that thing to not suck

>>53175273
I love shit like that. You're playing along, you think you have a good idea of what kind of survivor you're going to end up with, then suddenly one event card and dice roll later, and everything's changed. That or they just die.

>>53175281
>>53175337
I'm hoping I don't just die outright from an event, since it's like year 5 I think. I can't quite remember, we just finished the Butcher battle. Likely we'll hunt a level one lion and I'll take my first step down a road of blades and strife

>>53175404
Do you at least have the white lion chestpiece, anon? You should get that shit made asap if not.

>>53175446
I think another survivor has that. Likely I will take all the hide armor the dead survivor was wearing and deck out full hide until I can get something better.

Is there really any end to the suffering? I hear that even if you win a game, it ends with total death

>>53175522
Pretty much. There's that one version where your survivors steal a village from some guy who solos monsters, but yeah, just surviving seems to be the best you can hope for.

I always kinda liked how the decided "rape" was gonna be the main horror element in this game and kind went balls out with it

>>53175559
But there isn't any.
Murder, cannibalism, lion balls, pointless death, transhumanism (followed by pointless death), tons of 'roll a 1 and you die' charts, penises and vaginas slathered everywhere, an obsession with faces, but there is zero rape.

>>53175559
Literally zero instances of rape in the game, not even implied rape.

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Been playing this in the TTS and gotta say, hell of a lot of fun. First hunt went swimmingly, I critted every other hit and the lion hit me once, then the second go the lion killed one survivor with the attack that does bleeding on the survivor that cut off it's balls and basically nearly killed the other three.

Good times.

Ran into a problem though and as wondering if anyone here knows what to do when a deck disappears. Can't find the white lion resource deck anywhere and it's kinda needed.

>>53176263
It should be in either the Lion's chest (if you're playing unscripted) or on the sideboard (if you're playing scripted.) It's bright yellow -- pretty hard to miss.

>>53150355
I'd love to /tg/bro I get off work at 2pm eastern standard time, been trying to find a group of adults for this

>>53151007
Also when the first wave launchs this summer the KDM store should have a few copies there champ

>>53142341
GOOD, fucking dick head ate my whole squad in less then three 6 turns.

>>53152678
She'll be alright. Drag her back to camp an force intimacy.

>>53155380
KEK

>>53172842
Is that side cape thing made of penises

>>53176551
Only yellow deck is strange resources, isn't in the white lion box. Gone through every other box and poured over the board looking for it.

>>53176887
Tongues.

>>53177102
Oh. No. Penises. Yep.

So question, from someone who only loosely follows this stuff, and mostly for the great art: Why the fuck is this game near impossible to get ahold of? Is it not made by a company or something, just some dude in a basement or some shit?

>>53177264
The creator is an autist who insists that every version have the same level of graphical detail as the original.

He was okay with not causing a ruckus when people originally pirated the game system, but then some people gave him shit over pirates so he felt obligated to shut that down. He's stated that he's looking into how to digitize the game, but that was two years ago, and there's been no comment on it, since.

>>53177264
The game is made by a very small company that gets all it's funds for large print runs off kickstarter.
The first Kickstarter although successful was so aggressively priced they barely made their money back and thus the second Kickstarter happened which hopefully should help them get the ball rolling properly.
In general though the first run of the game was made in very small quantities, there's maybe 10000 copies of this game in existence right now.

>>53177404
Nah, he just put up a show for the backers, there's like two version on TTS right now. poots doesn't mind about KD on pc.

>>53176263
2 rules about playing in TTS you need to constantly remind your host to follow:
1) Always save at the start of every hunt, showdown, and settlement phase.
2) NEVER take things out of the box. Right click the box, click search, copy the deck or bag you need, then paste the copy onto the table. The same should probably go for equipment cards, but those don't get deleted as often as monster decks.

>>53172842
>Not today satan
Get out of here you dong caped skank

>>53172842
How strong is Satan? I feel like nemeses named that must be complete survivor mulchers

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>>53178376
Satan is not a nemsis monster It's the final boss

Pic related is the true form

What principles do you guys think are best? What do you usually pick?

>>53179336
I like to play things safe and go: Protect Young, Accept Darkness, and Romantic. Then Accept Darkness because I like the Guts face and am a coward.

>>53179377
What about cannibalism / graves?

>>53179431
Oh I'm dumb, Graves. I like their starting event more.

>>53142341
Can someone explain this game to me? All I know about it is that it's got some very lewd (but also very high quality) models, it's complicated, people like it, and you can't buy it at all if you didn't back a kickstarter that ended in January. Also, how is there a kickstarter for a game that is out and people are playing?

>>53179633
They didn't make a profit on the first run of the game (that was also kickstarted), so they turned to kickstarter for a second run.

Most of the lewd minis aren't actual game pieces, their bonus guff for people with too much money.

The game itself is about managing a little settlement and hunting monsters to survive in a world of eternal darkness where everything is out to kill you, think Monster Hunter meets Darkest Duungeon with an almost stone age setting.

There are three phases of the gameplay, the settlement phase where you resolve events, do settlement stuff and spend your resources, the hunt phase which is mostly just rolling on random tables to see what happens while you track down some huge monster and the hunt phase where you actually kill the thing (or more likely it kills you) which is the meat of the game. There's videos on Youtube that go into more detail just search for Kingdom Death and you should find them.

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So, the wait for the core game to ship was too heavy a burden to bare, so I ordered Alison the Twilight Knight and the pin up version of the Order Knight off of the KD store. Gonna paint them up and keep the cards and game content safe until my core game gets here.

Does anyone have any painted pics of these 2? I have a general idea of how I want to paint both of them, but I'd love to seem some other anons works as well.

>>53179932
There's actually a really in depth tutorial for her on the Kingdom Death site http://www.kingdomdeath.com/wp/painting-guide-twilight-knight-pinup/
The formatting has been somewhat mangled so you should probably check the wayback machine for a version with better formatting.

>>53142809
I'll play with you Anon, legit, I been looking for people to play with on TTS. You can email me at [email protected] if you're interested

>>53172638
The rules are pretty clear in the achromatic scripted. It's like tabbed, with buttons for sections like rules, hunt events, and the like. Glossary.

Haven't found it to be unclear. Maybe people are just stupid mongs. Maybe you are, anon.
The unclear stuff is how the mod functions, but the important stuff isn't that hard to pick up, once you see how everything is layed out.
What the big colored tokens above each survivor are and the Next Round solo tool thing is, I have no idea.

>>53173078
Mong alert.

>>53179165
Rise again, if you would, for that is our curse.

POOTS IS BUTT TIME
I rolled 8 on the Clinging Mists event, and now I gotta decide whether to hunt again without passing go or start over. It's Year 3, so we're modestly kitted out, a bow, an axe, but we're down one survivor.
The clarification in the FAQ says to not heal and to not generate endevors, but if you're following RAW like the First Story and Settlement Phase tells you, you've already done so before turning over the card.
What. The. Hell.
That's what I did, and I don't remember the wounds I had because I'm using scripted and hit the button.
I hope 1.5 moves the event card to the start of the settlement phase, if that's how Poots wants things to be, but for now I'm going on a three man hunt and keeping my goddamned endeavors. I just got nightmare training last round.

Wish me luck, I need those double resources

>>53179932
That's probably one of the most painted KD models out there, browse CMON for a bit and you'll find multiple really nice paintjobs of her.

>>53177542
>The first Kickstarter although successful was so aggressively priced they barely made their money back

I thought that Poots walked away with something like 6 mil from the first KS

>>53182023
Nah the first Kickstarter only raised 2 mil. Came with a ton of extras, core game was like 150 bucks or something.

>>53180731
Those are to mark that you've taken an action that round.

>>53172638
TTS sucks

>>53173020
Naw, early next year for base game.

>>53173096
Really good face.

>>53183462
I think it's pretty cool, Anon.

>>53183462
It's not ideal, but I don't have many other options to play the game.

>>53183304
Okay, that helps.
What about the solo tool?

>>53183678
No idea, I don't use achromatic.

>>53142809
>>53180115
I'd be up for playing as well, but I don't have reliable internet for the next 5-10 days.
If you're still looking for more/someone drops by then, hit me up.
[email protected]

>>53183678
flips the all the colored tokens face up.

Face down:act over

Face up:Haven't taken act yet.

>>53183735
>not using the one with significantly less errors/bugs
but why?

>>53184139
Mostly momentum, by this point.

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>>53173040
What a coincidence, we're in good Christian boys here!

>>53184189
Ah, I can understand that.

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>>53184198
You can't tempt me. I already know where my heart is.

>>53183462
It's really good for playing with people in other states/continents.

>>53180115
>>53184002
Messaged both you guys, if anybody else is interested, my email's [email protected]

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>>53142341
Of the 'class' minis, which class would you think is most interesting in terms of looks and/or backstory?

I like the ranger. A chick hunting down the thing that took her spouse, having to learn to become quieter and quieter until she eventually becomes so quiet she puts lotsa jingly shit all over her to accentuate her silence is a neat idea IMO

>>53185383
The mage and necromancer imply some interesting things about what humans can accomplish.

>>53142341
No.

>>53143019
If only we had two sets of lion eyes. Too bad they're endangered.

>>53185383
>them pupils
I want to turn them heart-shaped. By any means necessary.

>>53185831
Yeah when they're not constantly fucking hunting and being hunted by -insert anything here-!

>>53186821
Get in line, bucko.

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>>53186821

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>NG+
>rolled really low
>voluntarily killed off survivors to have under 7 for armored strangers for maximum gear increase

>later
>Heat settlement event
>on the kingsman settlement fight
>everyone has a scavenger kit, heavy gear return can't depart
>all my good survivors were the ones returning
>Fight kingsman
>scrape the fuck by

>next settlement, waiting for next armored strangers to pay me back for kicking my ass
>Stranger in the dark settlement event
>+1 population
>am now at +8
>timeline
>Still can't depart with good survivors
>have to fight a second kingsman for no goddamn reason after the first nearly fucked me

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>>53188202
>image didn't work right
Pic still related.

>>53186821
I'm surprised we havn't seen some super lust lady monster with heart pupils yet

>>53189001
There'll be a pin up of it soon, I'm sure.
Also wasn't that Satan kappa

>>53188202
Scavenger kits are unique, friend.

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Wait, does bone witch immediately force anyone not deaf to endeavor at her?
Cause it goes 3 Insanity>everyone is now insane>returning insane survivors Must endeavor at the witch camp
So in addition to immediately fucking over your endeavors for the year unless someone died and you have graves, there's a pretty much guaranteed (you have to not roll 1-4 4 times) chance she'll show up again three years later, and if you get a "good" option she fucking steals an innovation you have to have already been failing at the game to get?
And then accept darkness gives you a Massively higher chance to be completely unable to use survival/trigger traps more often on brain traumas rolls, in exchange for brain traumas being unable to kill you directly?
What the fuck, why would Poots make two completely shit options?
>>53189471
Fuck.
I don't even know what resources I got when for having these. I've only had more than 1 for 2 years.... I guess I'll just delete 3 of them and say fuck it it evens out.

>>53189536
>>53189471
Oh, but they all had heavy gear that wasn't scavenger kits as well, either the only copy of a item I knew was unique, or a weapon, so this >>53188202
still happened no matter how far I would have to turn back time to have not created the kits.

>>53189536
Sorta. Being deaf protects you from her.

Depending on how you think the game works, you could potentially consume resources you are carrying in order to lower your sanity after the witch spikes it, as it is ordered actions with periods (in other words, stops) between. Lonely Ant can let you do this, from the top of my head.

There's also, I think, a Fighting Art that keeps you from being insane until you have 7 insanity.

>>53188202
Don't automatic events happen before random events?

>>53190269
What are you referring to?
Cause it's Settlement card>update deat count>timeline, in the order they were placed.
It wouldn't make sense another way, there's a bunch of cards that work with just the returning survivors, and others have 'lingering effects' meaning they explicitly continue on into development.
For example, clinging mists wouldn't make much sense in the reverse..
>>53189675
So she basically just shows up every 3 years, does 2 or potentially 3 awful things, until you have some combination of death, insanity countering, reduction, and deafness for every survivor?
Jesus.
I missed the *gives everyone insanity* the first time, she only nabbed 2 people and I got "lucky" with her only taking my guidepost and tried to teach another.

>>53190417
There's gear that causes deafness, probably specifically, to counter her.

Satchels can be used to bring lonely ants into the fight with you... but yeah, it's a rough event. Some people purposefully tank the fight to dodge her. You could presumably use the Run Away event to do that too, since survivors who run away aren't technically "returning survivors," I think.

>Even in the unforgiving, inhospitable, unrepentant cruel world there are individuals who still seek to help the vulnerable survivors

Are there any happy endings in KDM? Most of it seems to be "You lose" regardless
>You beat the final boss, you all die
>You lose to the final boss, you all die

>>53191294
Depends on how you define happy, I suppose. With the Hoard of Lanterns you have a chance of surviving and starting another colony somewhere, but that settlement is screwed because you no longer have protection against the nasties that the boss was keeping away.

>>53191361
Thats what I don't get. Some of the expansions don't seem to take place in the same settlement as the Watcher, and some characters can survive in the darkness without the Watcher's influence, like the fucking Bone Witch. How is it one exile can survive with fuck all, all alone in the darkness, but a settlement of hardened, skilled hunters can't. Fuck, I'd expect monsters would still steer clear of the settlement if the Watcher dies, since they realize something there killed that nightmare.

>>53191538
>Implying the bone witch acts alone.

>>53191538
That requires the monsters to have more upper brain function than "food" and "danger." The Watcher, as something the other beasts know is dangerous, kept them away but now that he's gone they just see your settlement as they did before they got close enough to know the Watcher was there: a gathering of delicious peoples ready to be nom'd.

They don't understand that you killed the Watcher, they just know he isn't there anymore.

>>53192542
Weird thing is: the White Lions and Phoenix are supposed to be intelligent.

>>53192991
If White Lions are so smart, why do they get killed by 4 vagrants wielding nothing but rocks?

>>53193069
Because they are magic stones that can be willed into Fuck You Rocks of Wounding That Never Miss When You Throw Them But Apparently They Break When You Throw Them.

>>53193367
Makes sense.

>>53193069
I'd probably be killed by four dudes with sharp rocks, if they tore my scrotum off me.

>>53193535
Getting your scrotum torn off is actually more beneficial than it is harmful. I use my cat eye circlet to specifically avoid critting that card all the time because I've just been fucked over so many times by cutting his balls off.

>>53191538
I thought it was implied somewhere that the Bone Witch survives by ditching whoever she's with the moment shit goes down.

>>53193762
Plus she's strong enough to pluck the Halberd "effortlessly" and never fail (which means she's strength... 11?) and knows both
Extra Sense and Monster Claw Style. Plus as noted, she is very good at running away. To the point where if she rolls on it, she has no chance to die. Additionally, I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be associated with actual magic use.

Also the Bone Eaters event will apparently include humans that survive in the darkness... and maybe are associated with the Bone Witch?

>>53182866
Core game was 100 bucks actually, pretty absurd when you think about that the msrp for the final product was 400.

>>53191294
Fucking spoiler that shit

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>>53191538
Bone witch huh, ever try a People of the Skull campaign? Glass Cannons, but effective skull monster eaters. Easily see how things can get out of hand for the poor monsters. And in 1.5 bone minions come in packs.

>>53193069
The same reason the Huntsman, the Flower Knight, the Lion God, and the Pheonix all get killed by four vagrants with a bunch of garbage in their hands

They just that fucking sick.

>>53196186
I can kind of see this settlement possibly getting a 'happy ending' where they aren't devoured by monsters without any way to save themselves.

Or they just become monsters themselves and go on to murder other settlements as some roaming band of bone munching fucks

Whats with the sky in KDM. Some descriptions mention that there are lights in the sky, some descriptions mention theres enough atmosphere up in the clouds that something as big as the Pheonix can pass through without being seen, theres also giant fish monsters up in the clouds, but when the sky is revealed, it's just a ceiling of stone faces under a thin layer of clouds. How can there be lights under it, or enough room for anything to live in the clouds

>>53196338
The ceiling is REALLY REALLY REALLY FUCKING HIGH UP.

How to fix Lion God? I hear rewards are terrible when compared to difficulty.

Now, after all it's the LION god... would getting a random White Lion resource fix anything? I doubt it would make Lion God a preferred quarry, but would ease the chore of "farm the white lion" that tiny little bit if you actually choose to take your chances with this particular god.

>>53197222
Lion God is devastating. I dunno if one WL resource cuts it.

So what does the TTS module come with?

>>53198668
I guess I should be asking which modules do I need to learn how to play this game before buying it?

So what's the deal with the Twilight Order. They are supposedly out to defend humanity, and the hooded knight even shows up to help the settlement, but mastering the twilight sword causes you to up and abandon your home and leave your friends and family in the dirt.

>>53198668
The TTS version has all the rule books and everything you need to learn to play.
The starter scenario will give you most of what you need to play. It starts with your first fight, then it walks you through the settlement phase.
As somebody who's new to the game, I think I managed to get a pretty strong grasp after the first couple of hunts. Just make sure to read through everything a couple times as you go and pay attention, and you'll have no trouble.

>>53193890
That raises a question. The guidepost is left behind by the kings men, and it can help the settlement, but it is also a clear mark that tells that the kings men were her and will return. So...is the Bone With trying to help by taking the halberd, or is she trying to hurt the settlement.

>>53199394
It's possible she just needs the halberd and how it affects the settlement isn't even a concern for her.

>>53199446
True, but then she would just grab it and go, but she takes it when she's leaving, like its on her check list. Also other visitors take the guidepost too, from what I understand

>>53197222
Being able to get multiple instances of the Knowledge Worm might do it until the Silver City gets released.

Hell, even if it's just 1 Necromancer and 1 Knowledge Worm, it'd be pretty good.

>>53199347
Because your Twilight Acolyte is going to go off and do more important things than hiding in a settlement. They were chosen for a great and powerful destiny!

Your settlement is just the tragic background for your Twilight Sword user. They'll go off and be a big hero in Kingdom Death: Labyrinth, or something, assuming we get there.It's a trope in RPGs that heroes lose their home towns early on in their stories, you know?

>>53200085
Oh, I never considered the thought that the settlement if the base game isn't THE settlement, but another tragic story of struggle in the Kingdom Death world

>>53196186
>Skull Eater event for People of the Skull isn't about being a sick freak who eats skulls, it's that you aren't sharing, you jerk

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>>53200389

So, ran a PotStars campaign awhile ago with nothing, and now I want to try again with expansions. Any suggestions? I was thinking:

Flower Knight
Lion Knight
Sunstalker
Spidicules
Lion God

>>53199381
Gotcha. Which one is the actual module you use? I hate using the steam workshop because you have to shovel through piles of shit to find the one thing unless you know exactly what you're looking for. The one I've found doesn't have the rulebooks.

>>53200985
Isn't the reason given for not running other expansions with Stars so as to not dilute the fighting arts and disorders decks, so that you can actually GET the dragon ones via random chance and not just 'get this one automatically/choose one'?
I'd think adding that many expansions would make that part of it a lot harder.

>>53201433
Nevermind, I think I found what I need.

>>53196186
This picture makes me curious about four things:
what monster has the most bone ratio to other types?
Naming survivors, the first 4 won't get anything since they don't have a skull totem yet, right? So that auto +1 strength isn't as useful.
And then IMO luck is the best stat bar none, but am I actually correct in this, especially for a skull campaign where I imagine the list of weapons with deadly would be much smaller?

>>53201781
The name thing is part of the overall variant. It doesn't require hitting first year, I'm guessing it's just there so it's easy to remember.

>>53201616
>>53201433
Not the same anon, but I've found Achromatic the easiest to work with.

>>53201781
I think the antelope is pretty high in bones.
I'm not sure if it makes sense.
Considering your low defense options, evasion is probably pretty important, maybe higher luck once you start generating black skull resources.

>>53151397
Donno.
I'm never eating one again. It might be tit sperm or some shit.

>>53154850
>>53154532
>>53154481
I didn't wear the robes, or acquire all the pyro.
What I did do, however, was a whole bunch of suspicious ass shit to get that damn cripple spider millions of humanity.

I felt so guilty after almost every boss fight in dark souls. I wish I could have just been like "yo bro, it's chill, I'm just gonna set myself on fire" to gwynn.

>>53185383
I like the Great Game Hunters myself.

So is the Scribe the reason behind everything being so fucking shit in the game world? Would killing him change things?

>>53202683
Ya got pics of that? I can't remember which ones those are.

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>>53203385
>Everything?
No. The world is, and always has been, populated by monsters. The Scribe is responsible for a handful of those monster, but so are the Golden Entity, Satan and other high level god-like beings who rule various parts of the world.

>Would killing him change anything?
The original final expansion for version 1.31(?) involved killing or at least fighting, the Scribe. Considering how Poots has had the other "endings" work out, it probably wouldn't do much. Especially if you extrapolate the Kingsman's curse on a higher level. I'd guess you kill the Scribe and then he just takes over your body.
If you managed it permanently, then presumably there would be no more Kings, King's Hands, or Kingsmen. There also wouldn't be newly made humans scattered about. So you'd see a slow death of humanity in Kingdom Death, with a few bastions like the Great City or the Golden Lands keeping up their numbers thanks to the Entities behind them wanting to maintain their current status quo.

In the end, I'm pretty sure this is a setting without "good ends." Well, maybe that will change if we get Kingdom Death: Labyrinth, one day.

>>53203616
I live to overturn bad ends.
It's a border-line fetish at this point.
I await more expansions. Till the time I can cut every God-like power in Kingdom Death and wear them as new hats.

Thanks for the answer anon.

>>53203671
Well there's a story in Kingdom Death about a settlement of humans who became so powerful they could defy a great entity, they all died, cept for one, but he eventually killed that same entity. So it shows that even humans can overcome god-like beings in Kingdom Death, I mean he has to drink the blood of powerful opponents for the rest of his days because thats the only thing that quenches his thirst thanks to a curse, but he's still...mostly human.

I hope we get to learn more about the Great City

>>53203385
>>53203616
>>53203671
Kingdom Death is a playground for the various super-powered Entities, the god-like beings that inhabit it and the humans are the favoritest playthings of them all.

Getting a Good End for humankind would probably be something infeasible as you would have to cultivate humans to make some kind of Human-Entity or Human-God to coldcock the others or try to pull a Twilight Order.

>>53202480
Don't worry, he really deserved it. Also, he was too insane by that point to do anything but attack.

>>53203773
You know who else really deserved it?
The chosen undead.
That fuck killed sif and the spider titties.

>>53203791
>TFW you do the DLC before fighting Sif

Why did I do that to myself

>>53203801
I dunno man.
The hardest part of dark souls, to me, has always been feeling like a piece of shit for playing it.
And then getting lost/falling off of things.

Combat and all things related to it are a distant third, maybe fifth on the list of things that are difficult in that game.

>>53203863
>>53203801
similarly, in bloodbourne, after I killed rom, and it started
raining blood upside down while the moon shattered and babies were crying
I had a very hard time playing any further.
It's a very "Maybe I really shouldn't be doing these things" franchise.

>>53203898
No, anon. You were doing the right thing. Trust me. It will make sense in the end, but you are VERY definitely doing the right thing in Bloodborne.

>>53203741
>>53203671
Despite the IMMENSE amount of tragedy, horror and bad ends in Kingdom Death, there is actually a notable amount of kindness in the setting. The Tyrant, the Black Knight, the Lion Knight, the Flower Knight, the Twlight Order. There was even that White Speaker, who, despite her whole order pretty much being all about ending humanity, tried to use her last breath to warn the settlement of the Slenderman

Dragon = Angels

>>53203962

Wait, the White Speakers are evil?

>>53204015
A little. Not too much, but at least a little. The pre-KDM lore notes that they were harassing and wiping out local human settlements for their blood magic.

Not as much since the Twilight Order broke them in half though. Now they just sorta... survive, like everyone else.

>>53204015
Supposedly, long ago when the White Speakers were a single cult, their savagery threatened the few human pieces of human civilization. The Twilight Order slapped their shit, and are the reason the White Speakers are now a scattered mess of smaller covens

>>53204041
>>53204050
The lore of the twilight order absolutely enthralls me.

I really want an expansion dedicated to them, whether pre-setting, or rebuilding the order.
They're just that cool

>>53204119
Hold out hope for Kingdom Death Labyrinth, then.

Twilight Knights are supposed to be one of the player classes.

>>53203962
>there is actually a notable amount of kindness in the setting
Black Knight for sure but the Lion Knight is a massive dick to militaristic settlements.

>>53204119
It would be a nice change of pace to have an expansion involving the Twilight Order and growing into a hardened settlement truly capable of fighting the darkness.

I have a theory that the Twilight Witch has some connection with a settlement that had to deal with a Watcher, seeing as how she is dressed in a way to resemble a Watcher. It would be a neat connection to the base campaign to see survivors of a Watcher settlement

>>53204170
Well sure, but the reality behind the Lion Knight is pretty interesting I mean he is obsessed with learning about humanity, and doesn't try to slaughter the settlement, he just wants heroes who can put him to rest

>>53204200
True,

Honestly the thing that drew me into the setting was how hopeful the whole thing is in a weird way.

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Could this concept be included in the game? Perhaps a settlement event leading to stat increases but men being unable to hunt if used

>>53203912
I beat bloodbourne and saw all the endings, and I am certain I did the wrong thing.

>>53204365
The hunter just wanted to wake up, man. That's all it wanted.

>>53204406
The hunter should have never agreed to seek the paleblood is what the hunter should have done.

>>53204365
You ended the curse, anon. If you got the full, true ending, you free'd the old hunter from his endless torment, and broke the curse of the old blood, as well as becoming an Old One yourself, thus ensuring when you mature, you can watch over humanity. It's true all the problems in Bloodborne were a result of foolish humans trying to attain power they could not comprehend, and Old gods just trying to help, but what was clear is the Hunter's Dream was rotten, and it is through your actions that the dream ends, and the plague on Yarnham is lifted.

>>53204816
How about instead of all that bullshit I just don't accept the fucking blood mickie at the start of the game.

>>53204278
You could but you'll need to tied the stat bonuses to be proportional to you're male population or have a penalty on the intimacy to limit population increase after the event happens.
So people just choose all newborns to be females to have the stat increase and be able to hunt.

>>53204843
And leave Yarnham to be stuck forever in the mad dream of beasts and blood?

>>53204979
Dream alternate dimension time yarnham can be dream alternate dimension time fucked as much as it dream wants.
We have real yarnhams to buy apples in.

>>53204843

In which case everyone else you meet is still trapped in a hellish cursed nightmare, with an ever increasing chance of overflowing into the real world.

>>53205011
The true ending doesn't do anything to help that except kill like 75% of them along the way.

>>53204151
I don't want another lantern fest repeat anon
>>53204178
Agreed, makes it more like a game+ deal where you've managed to stay afloat with your settlement and can now actually create a minor city.
By far one of my favorite models is the twilight order weaponsmith.

Their asthetic and lore is cool and would add another dimension of play
Man v. Man

>>53203616
>>53203671
I feel they're only "bad ends" in the relative sense - would you consider the end of the Roman Empire a "bad end"? In the same way, you're going to die eventually.

All the campaigns end with the collapse of whatever fragile human civilization you've built, but the abstraction of Lantern Years in gameplay terms imply these are probably civilizations that went on for quite a few generations.

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Anyone got a sense of how the non boss fights will work? I'd hate if it was just random encounter cannibal hotties, borrow rules from shadows of brimstone or hero quest and throw dice until dead

>>53203801
>>53203791
You ever finish DS 5-3? Bitches don't know bout my suicidal tendencies.