To Back Or Not To Back – Tainted Grail, Harrow County, Terraforming Mars Dice & More!!!



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In which I talk about the latest batch of Kickstarter games, brief overviews of the campaigns and whether or not they are games that will hold their values. A whole bunch of links below 🙂

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:00:13 – Cult of the Now

Board Game Adjacent
0:01:00 – Naturopolis
0:01:50 – 2070
0:02:45 – Heart of Ice
0:03:44 – FlipDie

Cancelled & Not Funding
0:05:50 – Frozen Frontier
0:06:50 – Mine Your Business
0:07:25 – Rone Invasion
0:09:02 – We’re Sinking
0:10:52 – Turczi Promo Pack
0:12:12 – Biergarten Second Edition
0:12:45 – 911 Operator
0:13:41 – Heroscape

New Campaigns
0:14:55 – Ghosts Love Candy Too
0:16:10 – Terraforming Mars The Dice Game
0:18:13 – Temple of Horrors
0:20:21 – Dice & Divination
0:21:00 – Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin
0:26:13 – Elevenses: The Guilty Party
0:25:54 – Draft & Write Records
0:28:48 – Lunar Rush
0:30:31 – Leaf
0:32:15 – Redwood
0:34:33 – Harrow County
0:37:40 – Archravels
0:39:35 – Patriot
0:41:20 – New Avernus
0:42:00 – The Stifling Dark
0:43:38 – Picks of the Week

Links:
Cult of the Now – https://www.miniaturemarket.com/board-games/new-releases.html
Naturopolis – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239309591/naturopolis
2070 – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanrydergames/2070-a-cooperative-graphic-novel-adventures-game
Heart of Ice – https://gamefound.com/projects/otherworlds/heart-of-ice
FlipDie – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasmundi/pieces-of-fate-immersive-dice-coins
Frozen Frontier – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmodrome-games/frozen-frontier
Mine Your Business – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/854354559/mine-your-business
Rone Invasion – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bonjour/rone-invasion
We’re Sinking – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ludamusgames/were-sinking
Turczi Promo Pack – https://gamefound.com/projects/david-turczi/turczi-junior-promo-pack
Biergarten – https://gamefound.com/projects/blue-wing-games/biergarten
911 Operator – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gameops/emergency-operator-board-game
Heroscape – https://hasbropulse.com/products/heroscape-age-of-annihilation-vanguard-edition
Ghosts Love Candy Too – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chadelkins/ghosts-love-candy-too-roll-and-fright-pnp
Terraforming Mars The Dice Game – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strongholdgames/terraforming-mars-dice-game
Temple of Horrors – https://gamefound.com/projects/giochix/temple-of-horrors-relaunched
Dice & Divination – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diceanddivination/dice-and-divination-a-roll-and-write-compendium
Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin – https://gamefound.com/projects/awaken-realms/tainted-grail-kings-of-ruin
Elevenses: The Guilty Party – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grailgames/elevenses-the-guilty-party
Draft & Write Records – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insideupgames/draft-and-write-records
Lunar Rush – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadalivegames/lunar-rush
Leaf – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdcitygames/leaf-1
Redwood – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sit-down/redwood
Harrow County – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindmgmt/harrow-county-the-game-of-gothic-conflict
Archravels – https://www.backerkit.com/c/xyz-game-labs/arch-ravels-magic-socks
Patriot – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/patriotboardgame/patriot
New Avernus – https://www.backerkit.com/c/publishing-goblin/new-avernus
The Stifling Dark – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sophcerb/the-stifling-dark

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38 thoughts on “To Back Or Not To Back – Tainted Grail, Harrow County, Terraforming Mars Dice & More!!!”

  1. The new Graphic Novel Adventures campaign is for the children's series of books including, as you mentioned, The Crusoe Crew and The Baker Street Irregulars. There have been 3 series/seasons (so far) of graphic novel adventure books NOT specifically targeted toward children. (I hesitate to say they are for "adults" because of what could be read into that terminology.)

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  2. I have massively reduced my crowdfunding board game purchases due to much higher prices, not only for the game itself but for shipping. Can buy 4 games on Amazon for the price of one average crowdfunding game. Never used to be this way.

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  3. You need to talk to whoever can fix the way to keep your place when you look at a game so it doesn’t put you back at the beginning of the game list so you have to swipe down to get back where you were it’s quite frustrating and turns me off from wanting to browse the list

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  4. When you do a KS update when you do your “Back not to back” videos next week check on Redwood. They will be coming out with a new deluxe pledge where you get the $140 big box but without all the add ons for around $100 vs $140 I believe a lot of people requested that

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  5. Heroscape made the mistake of not making a smaller core box which can then be added to with expansions. People can swallow a 150 core box with a couple of 50 dollar expansions. But 250 up front with shipping is a huge ask. Also no painted figures? What were they thinking? Its also leaning heavily into its sci fi theme when most play it like a high fantasy game. Its like they looked at their extremely successful Hero Quest Campaign and did the complete opposite. It smells of large corporation typical blundering. "Hey we have a success. Ok lets re-invent it and see if we can make more." Instead of re-package at affordable price to take advantage of new efficient manufacturing tech and expand later. Its a shame that Heroscape will be killed because of a large cooperate blunder. I still have it in my cart but I'm having such a hard time pulling the trigger on it.

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  6. Only 2 on my list this week. After watching the Patreon-exclusive Unfair & Unbalanced, I think I’m going to be able to wait for retail on one and get the smaller pledge level on the other. Thanks for saving me money, Alex!

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  7. Quite an interesting episode — October is turning out to be "too interesting" in terms of choices as to what to back 😉; thank you. One of the current Kickstarter campaigns that I was hoping you would cover is “Materia Prima – The Inquisition.” I love the art and theme (alchemists) and the gameplay looks interesting for the people that I game with.

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  8. Button Shy are sneaky monkeys. I've missed a number of their Kickstarters over time, or just not been interested in the specific game that they are funding that round. but in the last two campaigns they've run, they got me for a combined total of $100. which is pretty impressive for a $12 game.

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  9. 17:40 The neoprene mats for TM: The Dice Game are for people who wish to use the 3D tiles from the original Terraforming Mars. The tiles that come with the dice game are 9mm smaller.

    As of 10/12 they added a standard sized mat. Price is the same for either: $25.

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  10. Thanks for the mention of my campaign! I'm counting the days till the arrival of my kid, so any help in getting it funded is much appreciated.
    It's 7 new promos, but 8 promos total, because the Trickerion promo is a reprint of the long out of print Secret Workshop.
    And yeah, the funding goal is high, but because it's a real goal… If I get even 101%, I'm sorted, but with anything less the printing becomes not very economical.

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  11. No crowdfunding project run in USD will atm hold its value if backed from a non-USD country due to the conversion rates lately being through the roof compared to 2-3 months ago. No point in backing any campaign run in USD if you have to pay an extra 50% due to that and then VAT on top of that. It's just crazy expensive.

    Hope things go back to normal when it is time for late pledges.

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  12. Couldn't be happier that heroscape is failing. So fuckin sick of these bullshit prices. People not backing them is the only way they'll stop trying to get away with it

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  13. In the case of Leaf you missed the part where stretch goals won't be included in retail versions of the game while they are free for both Standard and Deluxe pledges, meaning this might still make the Standard edition worth backing.

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