[Kickstarter] Mantic Dwarf Kings Quest. ALL DONE.$1.05 million final.

[beefcake]

  didn't see the other thread, went straight to this one as it's been running longest.

[Elbows]

Yeah I suggest we combine the two -- the title on the other one is now more appropriate, so I'm sure a mod can knock it all together.  I suspect it'll be a lot of conversation here when the KS starts running. 

[Momotaro]

With that in mind, when we launch on Monday we will do so with just one Pledge Level – the Absolute Depravity level. This is to make it really easy to identify which is the sweet spot pledge level that will get all the cool freebies unlocked in it! It will be available for $100.

There will also be a discounted Early Bird special offer available to those of you who get in first and help us break our funding goal. These Early Birds are highly limited in number.

From the Mantic blog.  The trick will be to stay steel-willed and not pick up all the extras...  But £60 for a modern Heroquest - looking good.  Might have to pick up the Statuesque characters though...

[beefcake]

Strictly limited in number  it will be 7-8 hours before I get to pledge, and that's if I can get in some time before starting work in which case it's more likely to be 16hrs+ it's not like hey need the earlybirds either. People will pledge for this regardless and it's only those people that already know about it that are going to be first on their and pledge anyway.

[nic-e]

£60 for a nice modern heroquest successor.worth it considering how much i saved on my real heroquest.
Mini's look great and i really do like the loka material, and the skeleton with the scythe is such a hard nod to heroquest i'm surprised ronnie didn't break his neck. 

[robh]

Disappointing change to what was mentioned before, at least on the other Mantic KS projects the step between early birds and standard KS pricing has been small.

[robh]

Now live:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest

Over 180 backers in the first 60 seconds and fully funded in a little over 4 minutes.  Mantic certainly have the art of launching a Kickstarter project well and truly sorted.

[axabrax]

I dove in. It's already a good deal even as it stands, and we are barely day one.

[Elbows]

I'm in.  It also looks like they went very subdued for the initial box - fully anticipating a KS explosion.

Expected delivery is August 2015 - so they also are planning this well ahead, and I bet they could easily deliver with 11 months to sort it all out.  (Oddly one of the reasons I do Kickstarters is that I enjoy forgetting about them - and randomly getting a huge box in the mail with goodies...).

[Timbor]

I took a look... I don't find the figures that appealing at this point.  Really, I have backed a couple mantic projects before just to find myself selling them off a few months after they arrived.  I will probably pass for now.

[robh]

Still growing at an impressive rate, $136k now and first 3 stretch goals already passed; new undead including Dwarves and rules for including ghouls, ghosts, werewolves, mummies etc now free in the box



(wonder how all undead Dwarves manage to keep their beards?)

[BigB]

I'm seriously thinking about this one, but I already have a massive Warhammer Quest collection.  My quick dungeon crawl needs with growth capability might already be met.

[AndrewBeasley]

Its the years wait thats put me off for now.

Unless something pops up as a stretch goal I cannot miss, I can wait till the normal set comes out.

[Elbows]

Its the years wait thats put me off for now.

Unless something pops up as a stretch goal I cannot miss, I can wait till the normal set comes out.

So we invest for 100% opposite reasons!    Like Hero Quest 25th etc.  I actually enjoy the idea of waiting, however I also hop on Kickstarters when I think we'll see expansive growth and a lot of bonus materials.  Because then, if a year from now it shows up and I'm not too keen on it, it'll sell for far more than $100.

If I choose not to play the game itself I'll sell off the components I don't need and keep the stuff I want.  However, as with HQ25 - I have a 7 year old nephew, and I sure as hell don't trust him with my painted minis and DF terrain.  So both of these will offer me a chance to see if he takes to games at all (he's already absorbed in video games!).

[nic-e]

As you can probably tell since i started this thread, i'm super hyped for this. I need to get paid on time to pledge for the absolute depravity level so i can get it all ..