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

[Neldoreth]

...apart from the fact the painted miniatures glossed back after a year
Keeps me from painting more of them. Why bother?

This is likely through use! The flat top coat is not at all a protective coat and rubs off quickly with use... Hit'em again!

Thanks
n

[Neldoreth]

This was a big KS that I didn't actually follow that closely. It was a lot of fun though! Looking forward to it.... in August 2015!!!! That's a whole year! It will be a nice surprise though, and I'll need the time to finish off my current projects.

Thanks
n.

[robh]

I notice Jake is adding more thoughts on the AI and character experience/levels aspects of the Advanced rules on his Blog:

http://quirkworthy.com/category/dungeon-sagas/

Seems quite clear in the direction it is heading.  Hopefully we will get some revised rules to play around with soon.

[Elbows]

So, is this shipping yet?  Seen videos popping up on YouTube and a release date listed as "November 2015" on a number of sites.  Anybody?

PS: Shops showing pre-order at discount around $55 for the box set (MSRP: $80). 

[obsidian3d]

Yes it's been shipped to a lot of folks. Mine showed up in Canada almost two weeks ago. The one thing that a lot of people seem really taken with is one of my large dislikes. The 'book' boxes look nifty, but honestly I'd have rather had a plain old box.

[Elbows]

Hmmm...well that doesn't sound good for me then.  I think the gimmick book box is neat, but maybe not ideal for constant genuine use.

[Argonor]

Still no sign of mine... 

[Braxandur]

I did indeed receive it quite a while aog (around a month) and together with my wife and Duncan McDane played some of the scenarios over a weekend and we had a blast!

A shame that shipping has not reached everyone and if it does, you might think that the components are not the best you've seen in board games, but they are pretty up to the task and the rules are very nice. Every scenario so far was a challenge for both the GM and the players. I really like the way that the built in timer puts pressure on the heroes. I hope that you'll be just as pleasantly surprised as I was.

[robh]

I received my package a couple of weeks back.

It is absolutely bloody awful.

Missing components, bent, mis-moulded and wrongly assembled figures, a rulebook so full of errors it is unusable (literally every page reference in the rules is...."see page xxx"...no numbers just "xxx") , game counters that look as if a 5 year old has made them with play-doh. Loads of promised content is missing and just scrapped by Mantic without notification, other bits changed from printed to pdf only, cheap paper components, character figures provided with no rule cards......

Absolute disaster and Mantic's usual lack of communication and abysmal customer service is making things worse. Wish I had never backed this one and will certainly never buy any game from Mantic again.

[Duncan McDane]

The problem with bent figures is something most resin/restic models have, remember the flak GW got when they got into the finecast thing? Blood Rage also suffers from it, but with Mantic especially the Skellies ( and models with pole weapons ) are bent. I guess that's the price we have to pay for getting "realistic" sized poles instead of tree trunks. Nothing a hot/cold bath can fix, though. No miscasts here, and thank goodness quite clean casts, not too many disturbing mould lines.

The gaming material does the trick, it isn't the most luxurious, but considering the price I'm happy with it. If it were to be CMON level I'm sure the price would be 30% up, let alone if GW did it...
I do regret one thing, and that is I only settled for a basic pledge ( my first kickstarter, you know...  ). The game works fine, it's great fun and - as Braxandur says - the timing means you have to make decisions fast or you'll loose anyway. Some nice tactics are involved and I am indeed a happy customer who is considering to buy at least the Dragon add-on and probably more aswell.

Some time ago I got some Mantic Ghouls, discarded them quickly because the lack of quality ( imho ) and after that ignored Mantic until the Dungeon Saga PM went out, pledged - as said - carefully but now they have my fullest attention again and sure will buy more in the future ( Teraton, Plague Teraton, the big Plague Guy e.g. ).

( Jake, after this praise, I'm sure you'll need my adress in order to send me some free figures  ).

[Elbows]

I got an email from Mantic stating they would "sell" or ship corrected rulebooks or something.  I'll go take a look at it and report back.  I don't have my stuff yet of course.

[Zoggin-eck]

Absolute disaster and Mantic's usual lack of communication and abysmal customer service is making things worse. Wish I had never backed this one and will certainly never buy any game from Mantic again.

I decided the same thing before this kickstarter, so now I'm happy. I'll keep an eye out for discounted boxes on the chance it bombs, but I don't think it will get down to Sedition Wars prices.

[Too Bo Coo]

All I can say is I'm in for fewer and fewer untested KS games these days.  It's like watching a parade of failures....

[beefcake]

I generally just buy for the minis so if the game is crap, I usually don't know unless someone tells me .

[robh]

I got an email from Mantic stating they would "sell" or ship corrected rulebooks or something.  

Yes, their solution to the misprinted books......claiming that the "missing" content was not supposed to be there anyway and that the repeated KS images showing it were an error by a member of staff who has since left Mantic.......yeah right.

They are reprinting the rulebook with the page number errors, transposed text and cut/paste errors fixed and each backer can have one if they ask for it, as long as they pay for the shipping or include it as a special request in their next Mantic webstore order.