VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted September 27, 2015 So yeah, I backed this good knows when and it showed up Friday. I immediately forgot about dinner and opened it. I was then quickly reminded by the wife that we were both hungry, grabbing the rule book we were off to dinner. We both looked through the book and were impressed by the writing and art work. After dinner I spent the evening building the introduction sprue. Yes that's right a sprue ladled as build all this first! It was 4 survivors, a white lion, and the butcher. With this built it was need time... Life prevented any further investigation until 2:30 Saturday afternoon when we had a couple of friends who are a couple over to play. The four of us named a survivor each and stayed the game... Oh my god the fight felt epic surprising and down right life or death! We learned so much on attack strategy from our initial mistakes but managed to over come the beast. Only losing one survivor, Beeblebrox, to a vicious chomp of the head that burst his skull like a melon. This so unnerved the remaining survivors that it took all they had just to remain there and decide to stay together. From there we were so enthralled we setup our initial settlement made some weapons from the bits of cat we chopped from the first corpse and went after more! The second fight went better as we were far more coordinated and better equipped. No survivor lost their life on the fight, however after returning or survivors put on a performance of the kill for the settlement. In this performance methusala playing the part of the hunter was killed in an accident where the claws of the beast drew to much blood. We continued to develop the settlement then discovered we'd been playing for 6 hours and ended the session. We are so looking forward to playing more so awesome so deep so many different choices to make with enough random elements that no progression will be the same. Wow oh wow so glad I backed. I'm also glad it took this long as my wife had been gradually getting more henning experience and was not overwhelmed by this game that really does need four people to start lots of details need that many learning to keep it all together! 3 Mach_5, Peanut and Romans832 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Romans832 796 Report post Posted September 27, 2015 Way cool! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mach_5 204 Report post Posted September 27, 2015 Jealous! I think Canadian's don't start shipping til mid-October. Can't wait! 1 Romans832 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dkieft 642 Report post Posted September 28, 2015 Pics or id didn't happen! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted September 28, 2015 Dear lord the auto correct/swipe of that post sucks! Pics soon building right now,, dry glue dry... 1 Romans832 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted September 28, 2015 And a couple pictures 2 Romans832 and Mach_5 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mach_5 204 Report post Posted September 30, 2015 Mine showed up yesterday. Sweet! Got the starting survivors, butcher, and white lion assembled. 1 Romans832 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indytims 632 Report post Posted September 30, 2015 Got mine yesterday as well - haven't even had time to open it! :( Heard many good things about it from folks who played it at GenCon, though, so am eager to see it in action! 1 Mach_5 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brother Glacius 1,441 Report post Posted September 30, 2015 Are there any penis skirts in this game? or has that been left out? 1 deadwing34 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shmitty 232 Report post Posted September 30, 2015 Played 3 hunts so far with a friend's copy of the game and I'm really impressed. Good, immersive fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted September 30, 2015 Are there any penis skirts in this game? or has that been left out? I have his Satan models but no rules in game that I have found yet... The white lion does have balls tho. 1 Mach_5 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mach_5 204 Report post Posted October 2, 2015 Not only that, you can loot his balls and use them to decorate your settlement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted October 3, 2015 Or make a frenzy drink! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ser Warwick 120 Report post Posted October 6, 2015 This one looks and sounds awesome. I would definitely want to try it out if at all possible. So do you play a persistent sort of campaign, or is each session standalone? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indytims 632 Report post Posted October 6, 2015 This one looks and sounds awesome. I would definitely want to try it out if at all possible. So do you play a persistent sort of campaign, or is each session standalone? From what I understand, you can do either. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted October 7, 2015 It is not intended for one offs. A single lantern year, or full game turn, could be a session but settlements will hopefully last 20 ish. I've seen settlements get nuked in as little as five. The wife and I have gotten to where the two of us can do a lantern year in around an hour. It involves hunting a monster, battling it, resolving some settlement stuff, building more things then repeating. 1 Mach_5 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mach_5 204 Report post Posted October 8, 2015 That said, you don't have to participate in a full campaign, the game is designed so that the same players don't have to be there each game, so if someone you know has a campaign going you could always ask to sit in for a game to try it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indytims 632 Report post Posted October 8, 2015 It is not intended for one offs. A single lantern year, or full game turn, could be a session but settlements will hopefully last 20 ish. I've seen settlements get nuked in as little as five. The wife and I have gotten to where the two of us can do a lantern year in around an hour. It involves hunting a monster, battling it, resolving some settlement stuff, building more things then repeating. Weren't they running one-offs at GenCon? I didn't think they were playing full campaigns there at their demo booth... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mach_5 204 Report post Posted October 8, 2015 From a few of the videos I've seen I believe they had a group pre-set as if they were part way through a campaign already, each group of demo-ers played the same fight over and over again. You could possibly figure out how to equip a group and fight a monster as if you were part way through a campaign (or just fight the first battle over and over, which would get dull as you don't have any equipment), and you'd get a taste for how the combats work, but you'd be missing a huge part of the game which is the struggle to survive, build a community, harvest animal parts, advance your society, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted October 8, 2015 Exactly, you could sit in on a single monster fight but the choices of what to build with what really make this game what it is. 1 esperatus reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Don't Panic 1,023 Report post Posted January 29, 2016 anybody in the pdx area playing this? i would love to hangout and learn this game sometime to see if its my next addiction... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jay 1,616 Report post Posted January 29, 2016 Maybe Obscure Reference will host and we get a game in. :) 2 Romans832 and Don't Panic reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Obscure Reference Report post Posted February 6, 2016 I could do that. 2 NakedPanda and Don't Panic reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VonVilkee 2,384 Report post Posted March 6, 2016 Oh dear god what have I done... My expansions showed up this week. I've been building ever since... 2 WarlordGhrom and Romans832 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shmitty 232 Report post Posted March 6, 2016 Been really enjoying this game. Felt like I've barely scratched the surface of the core game. Can't wait to use the expansions though. 1 VonVilkee reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
