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The elf really doesn't look bad, especially compared to how pozzed MTG got with it's women.

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50% funded in four hours, that is nuts. Shows that a lot of people have a spot in their heart for this.
 
I have one big issue with this and that's I hope all the pieces aren't white, because that means you'd have to paint them and I have no experience with that.

I'm fine with just one solid color, brown for doors, furniture, green for orcs etc, just please, don't make everything white.

Other than that it's really cool looking.
 
When it was just the Witch Lord and the countdown timer it screamed "Mobile Game" but this looks pretty cool, the dungeon decor looks pretty detailed and those rat skull's are the first thing everyone will lose somewhere.
 
This looks good, not completely free of current year politics though, the dwarf hero and heroine are black instead of angry drunken scottish people with axes, which is what dwarves are supposed to be dammit. 😡 It's a pretty trivial thing overall, most likely done for silly marketing reasons, but it still annoys me a bit. The sexy elf chick and the variant sexy wizard chick easily make up for it in any case.

Shield Breaker said:
I still own the original and we play it with my kids.
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I just want you to know that I find this wholesome. Have a nice day.
 
FunPosting101 said:
This looks good, not completely free of current year politics though, the dwarf hero and heroine are black instead of angry drunken scottish people with axes, which is what dwarves are supposed to be dammit. 😡 It's a pretty trivial thing overall, most likely done for silly marketing reasons, but it still annoys me a bit. The sexy elf chick and the variant sexy wizard chick easily make up for it in any case.


I just want you to know that I find this wholesome. Have a nice day.
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Ethnicities have always been weird and all over the place in Glorantha. They're rarely direct analogues outside of the East Asians - the Orlanthi are otherwise the closest, having major similarities with Germanic barbarians, but even then they have major Greek influences (the art often emphasises the more familiar Western Euro aspects). These dwarves may have had their ethnicity affected by PC concerns, but there's probably a reasonable in-universe reason that was already there.

Also, dwarves in this setting are rather inhuman in mindset and are pretty generally awful.
 
Twinkletard said:
50% funded in four hours, that is nuts. Shows that a lot of people have a spot in their heart for this.
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memes and nostalgia. by now there are better games out there in one aspect or another, but of course they're not OMG BRAND NAME RATED HIGH ON BGG, so....

Dom Cruise said:
I have one big issue with this and that's I hope all the pieces aren't white, because that means you'd have to paint them and I have no experience with that.

I'm fine with just one solid color, brown for doors, furniture, green for orcs etc, just please, don't make everything white.

Other than that it's really cool looking.
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to not have white blobs on the board or to make it easier to see them? could always only paint the base or use one of those colored rings. smarter kickstarters offer you a second set of minis as addon you can mess up at your leisure without having to worry about the game itself. seems hasbro still has to figure that one out.
 
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to not have white blobs on the board or to make it easier to see them?
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Both, it's gonna look really jarring if they're all solid white and I may not even bother if that's the case, because I'm not skilled enough to paint on stuff that cost me 100 dollars.

Like I said, brown for doors and furniture, green for orcs, red for bad guys, I'm not seeing what would be so hard with having colored plastic when literally every other board game in existence does.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Both, it's gonna look really jarring if they're all solid white and I may not even bother if that's the case, because I'm not skilled enough to paint on stuff that cost me 100 dollars.

Like I said, brown for doors and furniture, green for orcs, red for bad guys, I'm not seeing what would be so hard with having colored plastic when literally every other board game in existence does.
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There are various miniature painting services out there, if you want to spend a bit more money on this stuff. These guys for example, https://miniaturepaintingservice.us/. Although I don't know how reliable they are, maybe search around on the internet for various mini painting services?
 
Aw, HQ was fun. vaguely remember another old game kind of like HQ but it had a big ass plastic tower that lit up/made sounds, ”dark tower” board game or something. think that one has a kickstarter for a remake now, too. Guess the 80s had more dnd type board games than I realized.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Both, it's gonna look really jarring if they're all solid white and I may not even bother if that's the case, because I'm not skilled enough to paint on stuff that cost me 100 dollars.

Like I said, brown for doors and furniture, green for orcs, red for bad guys, I'm not seeing what would be so hard with having colored plastic when literally every other board game in existence does.
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because it costs more. might just be pennies but it adds up - although given the price for that not!kickstarter I assume it already has a pretty good margin, they probably want to squeeze as much money as they can out of the nostalgia trip since you can't repeat it very often. and from the looks of it they seem to want to milk it for what it's worth making it a whole "system". means there's hope they get smart and sell the files for 3d printing at some point and a cheaper standee-version to get people into it that don't want to spend 100 bucks.

if you just want monocolor you could always ask your friendly neighborhood wargamer to prime + coat it, shouldn't take that long and is easy enough to do. if you want a bit more, basic color with quickshade should do the trick. I know a lot of people that get hung up on display pieces that take 100h to paint, but just for playing that's excessive (I mean, I get it, ofc you'd want to look it best it could, but if the only other option is grey blobs...).


EDIT: something I forgot, depending how busy the map/board itself is, sometimes monocolor or grey is preferable because anything painted just disappears.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Both, it's gonna look really jarring if they're all solid white and I may not even bother if that's the case, because I'm not skilled enough to paint on stuff that cost me 100 dollars.

Like I said, brown for doors and furniture, green for orcs, red for bad guys, I'm not seeing what would be so hard with having colored plastic when literally every other board game in existence does.
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Because part of the nostalgic fun factor is painting your own minis. People pay absurd amounts for Warhammer figures that aren't painted..so they can paint the things themselves.
 
Anja Din said:
Aw, HQ was fun. vaguely remember another old game kind of like HQ but it had a big ass plastic tower that lit up/made sounds, ”dark tower” board game or something. think that one has a kickstarter for a remake now, too. Guess the 80s had more dnd type board games than I realized.
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This one. I backed it. Looks really good.
 
Its hella cool but its a lot for somebody like me who plays d and d online. Luckily theres over a month to decide.
 
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