Kickstarter: Launched

Here it is!

the crowd goes wild

I cannot tell you all enough just how excited I am about this.

If I actually had money to spend a bagillion dollars on this to get what I wanted, I would so pledge the five hundred for Character Elaboration and choose the Hippo Man from Haka’s Savage Mana card… Hopefully someone else will get around to it.

Edit: Fingers crossed for stretch rewards return with the New Baron Blade

What are the chances of us getting a peek at the artwork for the HP and damage modifier counter tokens?

I’m in. I see there’s no new alt hero card this time, which is a shame (I love stuff like that), but I’m pledged for a new copy of the core game and the new expansion. It will be a long summer while I wait for it to be delivered.

The Hippo Man is absolutely my favorite small-time villain.

I say we should start a Hippo Man fan club and demand a Hippo Man card. With your connections you could surely push them into it.

Haha, we could make a sub Kickstarter. All the reward levels will be “If this gets funded, we ask >G to make a Hippo Man card”.

Also, I am incredibly excited for the theme of this expansion. Those tentacles behind the pyramid! That tree person! I think mah heart’s a-splodin’!

It’s genius! I’m sure we’re not only two who desire Hippo Man to be there. I’d be happy if he was just be a stand alone promo villian card that can be used awkwardly with all villian decks.

I wasn’t too excited when I heard it was a arcane expansion, but after seeing the cover it got my blood pumping. Both heroes just look amazing, especially the female one. Not too mention the villians and it is only half the those. So glad I will be a playtester, going crazy just waiting until next month let alone in August.

There will be alt heroes.

That’s all I’m saying on this right now.

If there will be alt heroes but no alt heroes are part of the Kickstarter, then does that mean that to get said alt heroes, you need to physically go to a convention and be handed one? I’m hoping not.

Stretch goals?

You will have no trouble getting the promo cards…

Come on, guys! I’m trying not to spill the beans too much here!

You will have no trouble getting the promo cards…

I am satisfied now.

Very awesome! My girlfriend and I have been playing the game a lot since PAX East, and I am excited about backing additional expansions, and love that the second printing of the main game is going to be so improved.

Don’t scare me like that! Seriously, I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the news! But now I’m just really excited again!

I will need more details on the Enhanced Second Edition before deciding.

1. Will the card back of all the decks be updated?
2. Will any existing art be updated?
3. Will the new box hold just the base game plus 2 expansions? Will there be space for a third or fourth expansion?
4. Will the storage solution be sleeve friendly?
5. Will Young Legacy be re-released with thicker card stock? This is just for OCD me.
6. What will the HP counters look like?
7. Will there be damage count modifier counters? Damage type modifier counters?
8. Will the pdf for existing first edition owners include the remastered environment decks with new art?

Thanks!

I’m just really glad that they added a new level of support because I wanted the 2nd Printing of Core, Relics, and the Promo cards, and they introduced a new support level! I was so happy about it since I was pondering which level to get in the first place since I wanted all 3.

I literally said the exact same thing to my roommate earlier. I say we should round up a group and have everyone chip in to get Hippo Man more “screen time”!

And I’m trusting you with the fate of the promo cards, Chris. I’ve already done my pledge, so if we’ll have “no trouble”, I’m assuming anyone who at least did the $30 will get them. I hope. Because I want every single card. Ever.

But if it’s like last time and getting the promo card is an extra $10-$15, no hassle. I can handle that.

I completely agree with you, if only we know someone who is actually trust worthy enough to have them put the pledge in for that. I sure know I don’t want the responsibilty for it.

I think the thirty dollars was the lowest amount you had to pledge to get all the Rook City bonuses so you should hopefully be good in that aspect. I also want to have all the cards it’ll be pretty sweet.

If they ever offer that reward again, I honestly say we start a group and somehow pool our donations to get Hippo Man his time in the spotlight. Either him, or the orangutan with the lazer gun on Tachyon’s Lightning Reflexes.

Maybe we can get enough people to get together this time around. And if we succeed we can speak to the boss peeps of >G how they would recommend use going about this. Heck i’d be willing to pitch in another $50 to see Hippo Man come to life. Guess a topic needs to be started to get it going. Though I am fairly bad about getting things organized.

Edit: Ehh… Maybe more like $20, thinking I may be spending too much as it is.

We’ll see. I don’t think I’d have enough money this time around to add to that donation, and I’d really love to help, but I’d have to save money for next time if we put this off. But if we wanted to do anything right now, we could just ask people what background characters they’d want to see. If enough people are with us, we know we’ve got the support. I honestly think the >G guys knew if they’d offer this, we’d try and pick the silliest character. Maybe they’re prepared for this.

So next time then! Sounds like a good plan indeed. I think they offered this because of a old topic of people wanting certain characters to be a card and Hippo Man was even brough up several times in it. So they surely knew people would want that one. They may even decide to make him just because the hype about him, thus no money spent at all! Which will be awesome if it were true.

Well, now that they know our plan, they may do something with him. Or someone else, seeing as at least one person at some point or another asks about the strange background characters. And we wanna see them all. I wanna see a deck where we have to fight all of those look-alike people (I call them the Other Heroes). But we’ll hold a “council” and decide which background character gets the spotlight.

That would be really cool, especially if Hippo Man is voted to be the villian character card. I wonder how effective a villian deck would be with twenty-five minions though?

Okay, maybe not every single Other Hero, but how about the OHs of just the Freedom Five? Plus one more, to be the main villain. So it’d be the Freedom Five vs… Sinister Six?

(Which is also the name of a rather obscure video game rap group)

I think it sounds like a really awesome idea. I’m just wondering why they haven’t commented at all about it. Maybe they are having trouble coming up with something due to the fact they were already thinking about making a deck like that and are now freaking out that their plan is ruined!

Just to mention Kickstarter again, can’t believe it is already nearly funded in less than 24 hours.

I know, right? We’ve got like two hours left, and just about $1300 to go! Can we make to fully funded by the 24 hour mark?

I think so!

Chris was right. I have been satisfied. Two alt heroes = muy bueno.

We can totally make it in two hours! This kickstarter is already much better than the last. I think it took about a week to reach the goal and not too mention in last two weeks to even reach twenty thousand.

Love the idea of two alternate heroes. Now if only Baron Blade is brought back as well.

They probably haven’t said anything because either they haven’t seen this yet, or they’ve got some other plans for them, or just no plans at all.

Or, as usual, this is just one of those things we don’t get spoilers for. Which is fine. We can’t exactly ask for all the answers. I mean we could, but I’m starting to understand why Chris always says: “Where’s the fun in that?” Besides, we’ve already got another entire expansion to dig for spoilers!

Very true. But i’ll have all the answers about this expansion soon enough so even more future is more exciting. And hey, if the >G peeps don’t mind i’ll even be up for playing a few of the playtesting decks with you via skype or something.

Eight hundred away, my gosh by golly.

Are you going to be a playtester for this one? I mean, if they’re cool with that, that’s fine, though I doubt it’d be allowed. I don’t wanna insult >G by tapping into privileges I didn’t pay for. I could always just start a forum topic like last time and ask you guys how it’s going.

Oh yeah i’ll be a playtester again. They encouraged us to play with our friends in such so I don’t see why they would. Besides I won’t reveal all of them and their playstyles. Maybe just one of each or something. Besides with my awkward work/sleep schedule, my son, and other game addiction I probably won’t be online to play much anyhow.

Maybe we can find one time though. I’d totally appreciate a little taste of the expansion. Send me a PM when that time comes.

As soon as I do get confirmation that it will be acceptable and actually have the resources then I will totally PM you and try and arrange at least a few games. So I got my fingers crossed that they ok it. It’d be helpful for myself as well considering 90% of the Rook City playtest games I played were solo.

Alright, we made it! WHEW! Excitement is in the air! Now, just $10K left to go and we’ll have our promo cards! It’s barely even day two, so I’m sure by the end of the month, we’ll have our promos. Hooray!

Love the idea of two alternate heroes. Now if only Baron Blade is brought back as well.

Agreed. Alt versions of villains would be suh-weet as well. Don’t forget about those guys.

For our last kickstarter, we definitely had a group of people pledge together for a reward, so if a bunch of you wanted to get together and force us to bring the hippo man back, more power to ya!

Just kicked in for the new expansion… with the remastering I’m mostly interested in the new enviroments (they look really nice) so hopefully they will be available for sale like all other replacement decks… I’m one of those “practical guys” who is in no rush to upgrade editions yet.

Hopefully we get some alternate heroes out of it, but some alternate villains in the future would be HUGE.

Puzzle Strike Kickstarter mentioned on BGG news, but not Infernal Relics. :’(

More stretch rewards announced… but one might be a bit difficult to get

$50 K - Super Secret Awesome Bonus Time!!! Each backer who pledges at least $30K will receive something super awesome.

For $30K, yeah I expect something super awesome!

I really want those alt villains. $45k is $17k away, which is about $630/day. I have no idea if that’s possible or not.

We’re actually in the “Staff Picks” section today.

We already have art prints for 20k. I would really prefer if Omnitron is at 35k, Baron Blade is at 40k, and new art prints at 45k instead.

I mean, I’m a gamer, and I’m always excited by new game material. I’m pretty sure the new Omnitron and Baron Blade will bring me more enjoyment than more art prints. That’s my opinion.

Oh boy oh boy. Both a Omnitron and Baron Blade cards? I’m so looking foward to it. Will they both be keeping their original flip mechanic or are we supposed to expect something entirely new?

I think the reason being that the Art Prints come first is because they are the cheaper thing to have made. At the rate their going they should have no problem clearing Omnitron at least if not more.

3 roughly A4 sized art prints vs 2 standard size cards… I know nothing about printing but I’m not convinced that the art prints are cheaper to produce…

But I do hope we get Baron Blade. Mad scientists are awesome!

Woo, Fanatic alternate card! I’m very excited about getting that.

I’m excited about the new Fanatic and Ra cards. I wonder what the >G guys came up with for them. It will have to be pretty impressive because their current character cards are great.

I’m pretty sure the new Omnitron and Baron Blade will bring me more enjoyment than more art prints. That’s my opinion.

That’s my opinion too.

Baron Blade has been my favorite since the first time I played, so that’s very exciting to me. To be honest, it’s been an idea of mine to put together a Hero deck for him, Megamind-style. Just one more project on the stack…

They will have entirely different flip mechanics and everything!

I, too, am excited for an alternate to Fanatic. She has one of my top powers (both alive and dead), plus a great deck, so I’m very curious how she’ll be changed up with the alternate. Of course, Ra will tickle my fancy as well!

I further the joy at alternate villain cards, too. Just an FYI.

The alternate villain cards are a trick to get us to spread the word about this kickstarter. So… Let’s spread the word! I want my alternate villains.

Five hundred away from the Art Prints, with twenty-six more days to go. Guess this time we will find out what the Super Secret Awesome Bonus will be and even get it.

Why not reveal new info and stuffs on Sat?

Thu to Tue is a loooooong wait. :’(

Totally agree, I want to see more characters and all their awesomely glory as soon as possible. But I guess if they did it three days a week it’ll get revealed even faster than what would we have to look foward to?

It is my belief that GtG holds an infinite number of reveals that will excite us.

Too true

Just a thought that may help boost the success of the kickstarter campaign even higher:

Additional pledge level(s): Currently, there is a huge gape between the $105 and the $250 level. Really, the gap goes from $105 to $500 since the $250 is sold out. This gap will get even larger when the $105 sells out. Adding a pledge level in the middle might entice some people to up their pledge. One way this could be done is with the battle mats. A new pledge level ($145 - Everything from the Maximum Completion level PLUS the play mat) may help more people realize this is an option. While $50 for the playmat is too rich for my blood, other items thrown in to create more steps on the ladder could possibly entice me to go higher.

More incremental extras:
This is something ZPocalypse did to entice backers to increase their pledges. Adding $10 for extra custom dice, tiles, etc. induced a lot of backers to up their pledges significantly. Currently, sentinels is doing this only with the $50 play mat (see suggestion for that above), but some smaller items (maybe something like extra punch sheets of the hit point counters from the Enhanced Edition) could entice a lot of backers to up their pledges by $5 or $10.

I’ve already made my statement about custom deck boxes/sleeves for the heroes, villains, and environments. Though I can see how that would be an unrealistic goal.

The playmat that is already designed is alright I suppose, I would really like one that has some art of all the heroes on it though. Or the heroes clashing with the villains!

Thanks to the little tour Christopher took last weekend, I got to see some peeks of the alternate Fanatic and Ra. I must say that the duo are pretty impressive (especially Fanatic, but, y’know…I’m a FAN-atic of her! A-huk a-huk a-huk!) in appearance (manly breasts! Metal visors! MORE WINGS!!) and I am not greatly curious as to what their new powers shall entail.

Wraith went from a shadow cat (with weapons) into an environmental controller (with weapons). Her HP changed, too, if I recall? Will these two get even MORE violent with their powers, or take some new approach? Fanatic uses divine retribution to cast radiant light on herself, compounding even more with her ability to strike fear in the hearts of those against her, all the more as her life slips away. Maybe she can throw her cards away or gain them?

I mean, those two have great combat-oriented powers: Slap one target in the face. Hard. What’ll they do in the future-land? Mystery, eh?

Things are getting REALLY close for Omnitron promos. I know the momentum couldn’t have continued as it was the first few days but I really hope Baron Blade comes to pass this time. Lots of time, as long as the buzz keeps spreading.

Oh…and on BGG they posted a cover pic of the enhanced edition and the NightMist pic in the core game and Infernal Relic photo galleries…how many thumbs does it take to make the front page of BGG? That could help spread the love if any of you are BGG and haven’t added any thoughts there.

I think the new addition of the “upgrade” level to the Kickstarter will help us hit the Baron Blade stretch reward in no time. I’ve already got my eyes on the super secret $50k reward.

Would I really be thinking too big to think that $50k or something past that could be the inclusion of the 3rd expansion? Too big? Yeah, probably so…but wouldn’t that be awesome!

Woohoo, Omnitron has been reached. Looking foward to taking on the new and improved robo-menace. Now to wait for Baron Blade to try something else since he failed at bringing the moon to the Earth.

Whoa, there’s some kind of cosmic entity out there that brought Omnitron back to life, and doesn’t even care about the implications of destruction? That’s a scary thought. I certainly hope there won’t be any adventures into space that bring us face to face with this entity… That’d just be frightening.

And allow me to take the joke:

OMNITRON IN SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE

This just in, Omnitron was brought back by Baron Blade! And the two alternate cards are actually only one sided, so we need to get Baron Blade’s alternate as well to complete it. And how combat works is you shuffle Baron Blade’s and Omnitron’s deck together and have to face the evil wrath of Omnitron being Piloted by Baron Blade himself!!!

Edit: I wonder how much HP this Omnitron will have?

That sounds terrifying! What if the next expansion has a Voss promo, and he leads an army of gene-bound Citizens of the Sun?!

Cool, I’m looking forward to Baron Blade’s new villain plan(s).

The one after that The Chairman wearing the Mask of the Matriarch? Then after that Spite mutated into a monster… Oh wait he already is, then Plague Rat on drugs! Oh… That’s already him too… Eh, fun while it lasted.

On a serious note, it would be fun to have a cross between two current villians. Whether they are on opposite sides of a card or something else.

These miniatures are cool. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/1242828/sentinels-of-the-multiverse

Any chance GtG will produce them?

Although they serve absolutely zero game function, but it’s just cool seeing miniatures on the table battling against the villain.

Btw, if they do ever produce them, we’ll need promo miniatures as well (i.e. Young Legacy, Rook City Wraith, etc).

New promos can be packaged with a character card and a miniature and retails at about the same price as Wing of War miniatures.

The board game Guardians of Graxia had miniatures that served absolutely no purpose. I use them as a replacement for BV trackers, but they are really just there to be pretty, or attract miniature lovers. Strictly card-based games generally don’t have a use, other than noting who is who, which is noted with your deck.

But those custom Heroclixeses are pretty nifty!

But then I’ll need to buy the Deluxe Enhanced Edition in order to get a box big enough to fit all of my cards AND the minis.

I’m not so sure I would want SotM miniatures, since they would be sitting around collecting dust. I prefer them use that money for more alternate cards and such.

Yeah, I’d just rather get more alternate cards than mini-figures. They’d be neat and all, but I don’t see them serving too much of a practical purpose. I wonder if we’ll ever see an alternate Tempest or Tachyon, since we’ve already passed up their nemeses.

Maybe their promo cards could be another 'nother Stretch Reward here? I’m really looking foward to a Tempest Promo, being my favorite character and all. Granted since it probably won’t be a damaging power I probably won’t use it as much as his base card, kind of like I still haven’t play Wraith’s. It’s still a nice option though.

Yeah, I like them for the different options and what they’d be good for in different situations. I know I’ll be using the new Wraith when I grow the stones to take on Chairman in Rook City. You really gotta keep control over that environment. I’d like to see Tachyon’s new power be something like “take any burst card from your deck and put it immediately into the trash.” Or would that just make her too strong?

Maybe Tempest’s alt power would just be a focused attack, “Deal one target two/three lightning damage”

Yeah that would make Tachyon way too strong since it is the innate power after all. Now if it was a card then it may not be so bad.

That would work at pretty well, especially with Hailstorm in play you could still deal damage to multiple targets.

Yeah, Tachyon can go through her deck fast enough as it is. Then maybe she’d take Tempest’s old power and just do one damage to everything. Then again, she’s got a ton of cards that let her do that already.

There could be miniatures for a SotM board game. I can see that working out.
Great. Now I want a SotM board game. Stupid brain.

Maybe it’ll be the samething, just with the villian deck isntead? Hmmm… It’s so hard to think of a good alternate innate power for her since the one she has now is just so good. I guess instead of discarding the card she could play it would help out a bit more, but that would make her old power obsolete…

Yeah, she’d have way too much power then. I’m feeling it’ll just be a simple attack. That is, if we ever get those promo cards.

While we’re on alt powers, what do we think Ra’s and Fanatic’s will be? Since Ra is so based on dealing damage, what could he have? Maybe he’ll boost his next attack? Since that’d be a power, it’d take longer for him to attack, but he’d be stronger. For Fanatic, I could see it either being a small healing power, or more likely, a defense power. I’m thinking either “heroes heal 1” or “prevent 1 damage on each hero until start of Fanatic’s next turn”. That way she wouldn’t actually be giving everyone a permanent +1 defense. It’d just be a single negate.

I wonder if Dawn and Voss will get some promos too. I’m totally cool with alternate villains, especially if it means giving them a new way of playing their decks. Which I’m assuming they will be. What’s CosmiTron going to have different? Maybe he’ll start the game with a couple of drones in play? What if Blade starts with a Blade Battalion or a turret in play? (Along with his MDP)

I’ve been thinking about Ra and Fantatic’s promo card quite a bit and it isn’t ringing a bell. Ra may have a power that helps control environment in some way since he does so already and it’ll allow him to be played more of a support/control type character that can still squeeze in few big swings once and a great while.

I like both of your ideas for Fanatic and have none myself.

Dawn is already scary as of now, I would hate to see what an atl. card of her that makes her stronger would play out. Omnitron I can see having a healing factor added in, a lot more HP, and even some kind of cosmic attack. As for Baron Blade, not sure but I hope he is going to still have some kind of win condition because his last one was just awesome and that whole things is just an awesome idea.

Yeah, I hope Blade has some kind of other doomsday thing that has a timer of some sort. I like the suspense and dread it gives the game. And as scary as it sounds, some kind of “cosmic beam” from Omnitron does sound awesome. Let’s just hope all of the promos have good and interesting changes.

I think it’d be cool if Alt Baron Blade was his daughter, just like Legacy and his. So you could battle Young Legacy vs. Baroness Blade

I believe it was stated that Baron Blade is very, very old school. As in he would prefer a son to carry on his, dare I say, legacy.

Does Baron Blade even have kids? There’s just so many questions about all of the characters’ families. But I’m pretty sure the alt Blade is the same guy. A while back (I think during the last kickstarter), I’m pretty sure it was mentioned that an alt Blade is still him, but with a new plan to destroy the world. So I’m just assuming they’re sticking with that promo they talked about back then.

During Rook City when we were all hoping for Baron Blade they gave a picture as a teaser to The Spiel…the link is to the episode in question and scroll to the bottom for the pic.

http://thespiel.net/?q=node/746

It looks like he’s going to blow up the pike industrial plant. Question is…will this still be the direction they are going. Frankly I hope so cause that picture is awesome!

Oooh, great catch with that Baron Blade art from The Spiel. I agree that it seems like blowing up Pike would be so last season, though. Maybe he needs to blow up a pyramid or something this time around. Although hell, I want an alt version where he blows up Pike AND an alt version where he blows up a pyramid. Bring on the alts!

Man, I can never keep up with these villain fads. I thought pulling the moon into the Earth was still cool. No wonder all my friends were laughing at me…

Yeah, he’s definitely got some kind of chemical explosion thing, and I’m going to have to assume there’d be some additional nuclear blast from his explosion. Since he goes for maximum destruction, I’d guess he’s in a nuclear plant or something.

But yeah, nice catch there.

I’m a bit surprised that after they added the “Upgrade Mode” pledge level, which was supposed to address the concerns of the hordes of people who wanted the new Expanded bits but didn’t want to have to pay for new cards, there seems to only be one person who’s pledged at that level. If just one person wants the bits without the cards, that’s hardly worth the expense and trouble of producing them separately, I’d imagine.

I’ll likely be an additional backer, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Also, I wouldn’t doubt if some people already pledged a certain amount didn’t just add $10 to their existing pledge for the upgrade mode stuff (which wouldn’t show as a backing in such case).

I didn’t know they even released art of the Alt. Baron Blade card. It’s looking really cool and can’t wait until we have it.

They never did release the alt Baron Blade back in the Rook City Kickstarter days. That one piece of art is all we know of it.

I’d imagine a lot of people added a $10 to an existing pledge (pledge to get the expansion, add $10 for the box?

First time I’m seeing that art! Was Rook City mentioned in the podcast? If so, I’ll listen to it all over again.

Baron Blade! Baron Blade!

We demand Baron Blade update now!

I think we may have to wait until tomorrow for the Baron Blade update with how late it is. I’m sure it’ll be well worth the wait though.

It sux that I’m 12 hours away. It’s morning here. :-\

The Baron never looked so delicious before. I’m oddly attracted to his insanity.

RIGHT?! He’s hot in that “I’m crazy and would totally blow things up for the person I love” sort of way. Of course I’m a huge Harley Quinn (Who needs to kick Joker to the curb and just stick with Ivy) fan and have a thing for slightly twisted relationships in my fiction.
That said, I also really love normal, functional relationships in COMICS because they’re so rare. People are always getting kidnapped or murdered or whatever. It’s kind of nice to see out heroes get long term happiness with their partners.

They proved you wrong! Baron Blade is released. ;D

And, for a lot of us, it is now tomorrow.

And that too.

I wouldn’t of been able to see it until today anyhow, since five minutes after posting that I went off to the wonderful world of working, woohoo!

Baron Blade does look super awesome in this and I am so stoked to take him on again. Probably will fight the original first then take on the newer one to add a story feel to it.

Yeah, Blade’s promo sounds really cool. I guess it’s assumed we’ll fight him only in Megaopolis (when using promo rules), but that’s fine. But now, it says he doesn’t use any of his old defenses or minions, so how are we going to use his deck, which has lots of defenses and minions? Will they just not count?

Yup… in the meantime play vs Baron Blade with 3 heroes, we seriosly came seconds away from the moon being dragged into the earth, like the damage that flipped his card would have triggered 2 cards going into the trash, which would have triggered us losing… had he not flipped. Curious how he will work since the text claims “no minions or gadgets”. New deck?

New Ra looks great… although did he lose a nipple in combat? I swear that is what the art looks like, LOL. I’m curious how he will be different, the current Ra is already a powerhouse. Maybe damage to EVERYTHING in play as a power?

No, he will still have his same old deck. It says using them as a distraction. So he probably just won’t have anything start out in play from the start, but they could still be drawn and cause some sort of chaos.

Edit: It works just like the promo cards for heroes, same everything besides character card.

That’s an interesting direction for the new Ra to take, which I like, but will it be fun to play a superpowered hobo? Not sure. I was hoping for a hawk-headed look more along these lines: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/071/5/2/Horus_by_Matt9.jpg.

It would of been pretty sweet if it could of been a hawk-headed if it was a part Ra. But I dunno, this Ra is really awesome, ready to kick some of The Enead’s butt. I wonder what the other heroes will say after they see Ra again? Because he sure didn’t age well and any other hero will look exactly the same.

I wonder if the Baron Blade interacts with the environment deck somehow. Putting his cards under environment cards as a timer mechanic, perhaps? X cards under the environment and BOOM!…damage to all heroes. Maybe he even starts with several environment cards in play?
I’m hoping he works in a completely different way than anything we’ve seen so far.

It was nice of Blade to put those labels on the containers. Apparently whatever’s inside is extremely toxic (deadly), such as a carcinogen, mutagen, or teratogen, has a respective flash point below 73 F, and is capable of detonation. And is also radioactive, though that’s a non-standard symbol. I don’t think there’s such a chemical, though one could presumably mix Cyanogen (4,4,2,-) or Nickel Carbonyl (4,3,3,-) with an explosive, radioactive material of some sort.

And now I know more about the NFPA 704 Hazard Rating System than I ever wanted.

God I love you nerds so much, you don’t even know! <3

This really contributes nothing to the conversation, but it had to be said.

And the Super Secret $50,000 bonus is…Unity!

Fun reveal with an interesting twist but mild disappointment as the only way to have her have a nemesis and not piss off people who can’t get in on the kickstarter is to have the villain also be a promo. (or to sell the deck outside of kickstarter, which is what I would favour)

Based on how tech-based she is, though, it would be very likely that her Nemesis is Omnitron. :-\

For the record, if I ever am faced with a bomb, I’m sending you a picture so I know what I’m up against. Which is more common than you’d think; some mornings I just wake up and there are barrels of explosive chemicals all over my room. I don’t know why.

But hey! Check out this Unity girl! I was seriously not expecting an entirely new hero. Is she Omnitron’s nemesis? I was expecting someone in a robot suit, but this makes sense too. I wonder what she’ll play like. Maybe she can summon some mech golems to help her.

Wait, what’s the problem with her being Omnitron’s nemesis? That’s not a bad thing.

The main issue that was brought up is that this would mean that only people who chipped in the extra $5 would be able to access her and thus Omnitron’s nemesis would be out of reach for most people.

Unless, of course, there’s going to be a way to purchase her from the store after the Kickstarter is over.

Well I assume she will be. They wouldn’t leave everyone hanging like that. If she’s Omnitron’s nemesis, they’ve definitely had plans to release her anyways.

Yeah, I bumped up my pledge… I decided I do want the 2nd edition after all (enough significant changes) and that extra little bit might push into the “secret” territory.

Could it be possible that different versions of a villain have different nemesis? Blade will always be against Legacy (the two of them) but what if basic omnitron has a nemesis but cosmic has another? Haven’t really thought this through…just throwing it out there. Could Unity be the Nemesis of Cosmic Omintron specifically?

Two things:

1. Unity will be available from our website after the Kickstarter is over (for as long as we still have her in stock).

2. She is not Omnitron’s nemesis.

Damn it! More teasing (And thank you very much for confirming she will be available to non-pledgers)

Will she have a nemesis?

Of course!

Oh good. I wonder now if it will be part of a future expansion or if it too will be part of a stand alone deck like her.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t make Unity available for one-off purchase on their website if you didn’t get her through the Kickstarter. You can get replacement decks for all of the other heroes that way.

I think she’d make the perfect Omnitron nemesis. Huge robot vs. nerdy girl? Yes please, I’ll have some of that.

My understanding is that they’ll be doing this on a “while supplies last” basis.

Oh, I just read on the kickstarter that someone said she was, and they said it as if it were totally true and not a guess. I gotta stop believing everything I read. So, if we’re getting an extra hero, I’m assuming we’ll eventually get another one so that by the 4th expansion, we’ll have an equal number of heroes and villains? That’s nice. Though now I’m sad there won’t be any “final bosses”.

If all it takes to get a new hero is $5, I’ll take ten more heroes, please. Just show me which button I need to press to get them.

(I suppose the $50k kickstarter might have something to do with the math though…)

I once again use my cleric-like powers to resurrect a topic passed, but I simply had to note that Harley Quinn has been one of my favourite characters in the world of comics ever since her birth into the Batman universe. I…I have the Barbie version of her… She was the mascot for my Freshman year of college.

I regret nothing!

Side Note (Or, rather, relevant note): I did not expect, at all, that the SSAB would be an additional hero deck. Also, this expansion officially is collecting everything I would want in heroes. We have magic, unity (hehe) with nature and music, AND technological telepathy? Now to find out what Ra and Fanatic are up to with their new powers…hmm.

HINT: Check the “Guesses and ideas for the 2nd Expansion” topic in the General Discussion forum

Funny story: I just did that, and I am in no way displeased! Woot!

Unity looks fantastic. can’t believe they are going to be squeezing another five dollars out of me, but oh well it looks like it’ll be worth it.

Sorry about the $5 thing. We wanted to make it free to everyone, but printing a separate 41 card deck that’s not packaged with the game costs us more than we anticipated. Even with the $5, we’re still taking a loss on Unity, which is fine. We’re just trying to not make it a major loss.

Thanks for the support!

I completely understand the decision. So if you’re going to take a bit of a loss I bet that means she is going to have some awesome mechanic?

I see what you did there.

She’s awesome and exciting. Maybe my favorite hero yet.

Oh boy, that has gotten me all sorts of excited. She needs to under go the playtesting process like the Infernal Relics characters, right? I know it may be asking a lot out of us for you to add in a extra hero, but I am sure we’ll be able to find someway to put up with the pressure.

You rock.

Will Unity’s deck fit into the Enhanced Edition storage system?

They said yes on the Kickstarter comments.

Whoa, making Unity will cause a loss? Yeah, hopefully it won’t be too bad. You know what? I’m gonna donate enough to be a playtester, so at least I can help lessen the loss a bit more.

Presumably not a $30,000 loss, though, so they’re still coming out ahead overall.

Well, hey, we’re at $50K! Hooray! We’re gonna see some Unity among the heroes!

(Attempted pun)

If one were interested in making their Unity deck not a loss, how much more would this hypothetical person need to add on?

Greonhal, that is a hypothetically super awesome question. However, I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s a cost that we had factored in when we originally planned on this stretch reward. We’ll only lose a buck or two per Unity deck, though the more people that buy them, the more that goes down. So, the biggest thing people can do to help is convince all their friends to back the Kickstarter and pick up the Unity deck!

Also, they should do that because she is totally awesome. Seriously.

Maybe this is a silly question but…you say it is a loss when printing the cards separately. How about adding her to the infernal relics expansion? The production costs of doing so are probably much smaller…and we get to enjoy one more hero for free

That’s not at all a silly question! The issue there is three-fold:

First, we want to make her available to EVERYONE who might want her on the Kickstarter, and there are a group of people who are just pledging for the Enhanced Edition of Sentinels of the Multiverse that would not be able to get Unity as a result. We considered adding her to just the Enhanced Edition of Sentinels (because that solves for issues #2 and #3), but that runs into the opposite problem of not making her available to people just pledging for Infernal Relics/the Upgrade Mode package.

Second, she doesn’t really thematically fit with Infernal Relics, which may not be as huge of an issue to some, but that’s a big driving factor for us.

Lastly, and probably most importantly, it would actually create a TON more work for us to do so. Here’s why: anyone who has Rook City can tell you that, with the plastic insert in the box, there’s not room for another 41 hero cards. Were we to include another hero, we would have to make the Infernal Relics box bigger, which would mean a bigger insert, which, between all the changes that brings on, would cost significantly more than just doing a separate run of Unity.

So, I hope that helps give you an idea of where we are and why we are doing it this way. Thanks for your question!

Question for SotM folks: I’ve got a couple of friends with the core game who are not participating in the Kickstarter (shame on them) but who I’d like to get the Unity decks for as a gift. I’ve already added +$5 to my pledge. If I added another +$10, could I get a total of three Unity decks sent to me?

Totally! Just tack on the extra and send Paul a message through the Kickstarter.

Thanks!

done. thanks.

Another question about production. For Rook City, I feel that the box is too big for just 3 packs of cards. For Infernal Relics, why not reduce the box size and save some money? Could it be it cost more money to make a smaller box?

That was actually a standard box size the printing company had on hand and suggested to us for use, complete with the plastic insert. It was one of the most affordable and useful options, and we would only save money by going to a smaller box if the smaller box was just the exact size of the cards, which wouldn’t be much use.

Any new podcast interviews since GFBR? I want to listen in on exclusive spoilers!

I’ll just leave this here…

Is that… our second hero in the expansion?

That. Is. So. Cool.

I can’t wait for Squeegee to be a villain in an upcoming set. ;D

Yes that’s him, along with Fantatic trying to take the big beast down of Akash’Bhuta. It’s nice to see them so close and just how big she truly is.

I see the pledges jump whenever there is concert information about the kick starter. I suppose that’s because people want to know what they are getting in to before committing the pledge. That said, I fear this slow release of information (I.e. releasing info only every tue and thu) might work against the favour of GtG. Maybe releasing all the attractive information such as the names, art and stories of all the heroes, villains and environments in Infernal Relics, as well as the new stretch unknown villain, wayyyy ahead of the end of the KS campaign would be a better idea.

So the updated info on the main page of the kickstarter names the Fanatic promo as Redeemer Fanatic. Can’t wait to see this and learn the story development between versions.

Yeah I agree bring on Squeegee! Maybe I am just trying to will what I said on the podcast into being true, but you never know!

Loving that new exclusive picture. Akash Bhuta is huge! Now we have an answer to the existence of the pyramid on the box art: it’s just a reference point. It’s just a normal size pyramid, and she is huge. Scary.

Looks like she can be any size she wants, according to the new update… Wonder if that’ll factor into her mechanics at all.

New villain released!! Ambuscade? Sounds like a trap to me.

Sounds like a trap to me.

Well done.

Alright! We called it! Haka’s nemesis revealed! I’m liking it. Didn’t we actually see a brief picture of this guy when the kickstarter began? There was a picture of some of the new environment cards, and one of them was Hostage Situation, with a guy in a blue mask holding someone over a ledge. Looks like it’s him! Didn’t actually except him to come back.

Good memory! I went back to check, and there he is!

Oh my… I take a look at Kickstarter right now at this exact time, $59,995. One more Unity anyone?

That image is actually cut off on my computer. Wanna downsize it?

…Or was that intentional?

And hey! FrightTrain is there too! He was too small to see before! So he’s important enough to warrant being on another card?

Could I have been onto something a while back when I said he might be Bunker’s nemesis?

…Nah. Probably not.

But there we go! Someone chipped in $5! $60K is here! Do we get to see some cover art of Freedom Four Annual #1?

Not for a while yet, I’m having to focus on Infernal Relics for now, but you’ll be among the first to see it.

I will be? PT stuff? Cool, thanks man. Don’t feel rushed. I’ve heard you’re doing mainly water colors for this expansion. I can really see it in Akash’bhuta’s art, and let me say, it looks awesome. I look forward to seeing the rest of the water colored art.

It’s too bad Ambuscade won’t cost another $5. That would make me pay more which would help boost us to actually get to $75k. (sure, hate me for saying it should cost more money. but if we don’t reach $75k, we get nothing, man!)

The only thing stopping you from pledging more money is yourself, of course.

Well sure, but me pledging another $5 will net SotM $5. If everyone did it in order to get Ambuscade, that nets them 600 x $5 = $3000. And before you suggest that I just pledge the full $3k myself, let’s just say that Ambuscade looks cool, but probably not that cool.

You should pledge $10K so you can get your name engraved on the plaque to be displayed at Greater Than Games headquarters, heheh.

That offer still stands from the last kickstarter. If you pledge $10,000, we’ll gladly put your name on a plaque.

Better be a $9950 platinum-plated plaque.

They do promise to dust it once a week as well. If I was a petty man I’d pledge 5k to make them deliver a copy of the game to my friend in Hawaii.

Ambuscade looks awesome, I really hope the goal is reached. It’s only fifteen thousand away. Maybe I should buy some extra Unity decks and this time next year they probably would be sold out and I can sell them for double the original price. Then everybody wins! Woohoo. Ehhh, that would take too much time.

It’s like we planned it all along . . .

. . . ;D

Well, technically you did…

And if that’s the case, I’m gonna be looking pretty hard at this FrightTrain guy. I mean, I asked about him a long time ago and even back then you had a name for him. And now he’s back? Suspicious. :o

At this rate it seems like Hippo Man and the Orangutan with the laser from one of Tachyon’s cards are obviously nemeses in the works. Obviously. Like seriously obviously.

I can totally see FrightTrain as Bunker’s nemesis. Look how spiffy he looks and stuff. And he appears on more than one card which is always I good sign. Granted some nemesis don’t appear on any card at all until their own deck comes out. I may have to hire The Wraith to solve this mystery.

FrightTrain is one of a group of characters I’d created long ago, several of which have made Sentinels appearances. From 2008:

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Well I’m guessing Ambuscade is in the works so I hope it hits $75k but if not I’m sure he will be in the store for $5 regardless. Looks like a fun villain, but no match for me as Haka (he was the first character I used, so I’m a little attached).

This picture is awesome! The little guy in the front has me intrigued. Gives me a ninja vibe…and there’s currently no ninja heroes in Sentinels so…$90k stretch reward? ;D

He’s made an appearance also. Special no-prize to whoever can spot him (though you may need to dig deep as this picture doesn’t have his front.).

I’ve got it! Without even looking through the cards! I remember him; he’s the yellow-clad guy on Shock Rounds, isn’t he?

Oh, but FrightTrain is from long ago? What was he originally supposed to be a part of?

Challenge accepted.

D’aww beat me to it.

It was just a comic I drew for fun, nothing of any substance. I’m a mediocre writer at best, so the plots were crazy, but I liked a lot of the ideas I’d had and I grew attached to those characters to some degree.

I see, so serveral of the characters are just characters you had drawn in the past and I making a cameo appearance then? Well doesn’t that making speculation even harder if mutiples can also mean they are characters you enjoy drawing. Hmm…

Huh. What do you know? It DOES make speculation harder, I hadn’t thought of that…

Sure you didn’t think of that… Or maybe! That is just what you want us to think and in truth the characters you do create, such as FrightTrain, will have a very important role in the future!!!

WILD INTERNET SPECULATION.

Oh God, the pain of speculation now…

Nope, don’t hate you for it at all - I completely agree. I think it would significantly help the Kickstarter continue to increase (if not accellerate it) by adding things that motivate increased contributions. (It definitely worked for Order of the Stick and others!)

And I’d kick-in another $5 for another deck without hesitation.

Rabit

Yeah, If Ambuscade cost another $5, I’d do it too.

ditto.

Don’t give us stuff for free, guys! We want to give you money!

Well, I put my $5 in for Ambuscade, the fact that he’d be free be damned!

Erm… any more podcast interviews? evil grin

Yup. Jennisodes and GMS Magazine. One has already posted, but the other hasn’t yet…

That’s… That’s a great idea! :o

Turns out that you can put in an extra $5 to get a second copy if you so desire.

Sure, but that gets people paying after we hit $75k, rather than getting them to pay in order to hit $75k. The latter is the thing we need.

Updated with The Argent Adept! Looks like instruments will be a bunch of equipment or ongoing cards… I remember Chris saying that his mechanics were unique, so I wonder how his musical magic works. Maybe the powers or one-shots flow into each other like notes to a song?

He’s incredibly fun. Tachyon is still my favorite hero, but this guy will most likely become my second. Sorry Ra.

I’m really glad to hear that. I can’t wait to start playtesting. I really like how both heroes seem to be using different mechanics compared to the others.

I for one am hoping that there’s at least one card involving the Argent Adept melting faces with an amazing drum solo

I’m a big fan of the Argent Adept. He’ll be good for people who like a little more complicated play style, without the fiddly mathy bits that come with Absolute Zero.

Totally agree, The Argent Adept is indeed very entertaining. He may be one of my new favorite characters, next to Tempest of course.

I finished Jennisodes.

Well, very ‘un-revealing’.

Looking forward to GMS!

With the latest update to the kickstarter we see our biggest stretch goal: 100k gets us oversized villain cards, including the alternate promos and Ambuscade! Also, the image shows part of Akash’Buuta’s description card and Baron Blade’s enhanced edition advanced mode…

Edit: Looks like the oversized cards will have all the setup info on them as well!

The oversized cards sound awesome. So first side of Baron Blade is the same other than it now discards H minus two villian cards. Looks like things are going to get harder with four heroes in the enhanced edition with the scaling factor.

The oversized cards look great, but why stop with the villains? I play with oversized 4x6 hero cards all the time and I can attest that the heroes look fantastic when super-sized as well.

A full set of 16 oversized cards if we reach 100K…

1 Omnitron
2 Cosmic Omnitron
3 Baron Blade
4 Promo Baron Blade
5 Citizen Dawn
6 Grand Warlord Voss
7 Spite
8 Chairman
9 Operative?
10 Matriarch
11 Plague Rat
12 Akash’Bhuta
13 GloomWeaver
14 Infernal Relics Villain to be Revealed (Fanatics Nemesis)
15 The Ennead
16 Ambuscade

Assuming The Operative is one of these then that’s 16 with the Ennead only having 1 card. So I guess we won’t see 9 villain cards in the deck, they must all be in the deck like citizens…though they may all start out at the beginning of the game or something.

200 hp? Akash’Bhuta sure is healthy.

Yeah, according to what Chris said in a podcast she uses aspects of nature like forests or whatever to attack with, and when you destroy those aspects, she takes their max HP in damage.

Plus, she needs to live long enough for the environment deck to reshuffle so that she can flip (if I’m filling in the right words for her text). Of course, it looks like she’ll do a good job of speeding that along anyway.

Does anyone else find it as terrifying as I do that there’s the implication of the Environment deck cycling more than once in a given turn? Akash’s card seems to specify that she can only flip once per turn, giving the implication that shenanigans could happen that make the Environment trash shuffle back into the deck ridiculously fast.

No, you are not the only one terrified. I assume that she isn’t the only card in her deck that can discard or otherwise manipulate cards from the Environment.

Be afraid, be very afraid. Akash’Bhuta even eats people in their sleep, so keep one eye open.

Oversized cards!? Yes! I only have one official oversized card, and that is an objective card from Star Wars CCG I got from a box of Reflections boosters.

I don’t think the flip conditions will be the same on both sides. While we do have that on the Matriarch I think that’s a one shot.
I randomly guess that it’s “If there are no environment cards in play, Flip”

We’re getting close enough to $75k, and the amount-needed-per-day to reach it is dropping by enough that I felt confident in pledging an additional $10 to get two more copies of Ambuscade when we finally get there. Everyone should do that. Tell a friend!

I just broke down and pledged for playtester.

Just doin my part, I guess.

Ambuscade, you shall be OURS!

(Anyone else find it ironic that our trophy for a successful campaign is a trophy hunter? The trophy hunter become the trophy?)

Yeah, I also broken down and upped my pledge to help contribute. Figure I can give the extra stuff I’m getting to friends/family. It’s well worth it to help make this successful!

Confirmation: Black-winged guy, AKA Bezaliel, AKA Apostate is Fanatic’s nemesis. When Chris said that he’d challenge her world view, I hadn’t thought that he’d claim to have created her. Very interesting. I wonder just how similar his mechanics are to hers.

The bio says he summons demons, so maybe he will have minions. I didn’t think he would. I thought he’d be a direct damage dealer. I have a feeling he’ll have a lot of cards that clear different things off the field like Fanatic can.

Apostate, Argent Adept, Ambuscade. Do you think maybe Chris’ dictionary only has the “A” section and nothing more?

You forgot Akash’bhuta! I’m seeing some serious alliteration in this expansion…

The Argent Adept was aghast at the awful abilities of Akash’bhuta: an astonishing adversary of awesome admeasurement, attacking with atrocious animosity against all assailants attempting to stop her advance.

My gaming group will never refer to Apostate by his normal name. He will forever be… “He-Fanatic”!

Does this mean I’m a subconscious minion of the Infernal Relics expansion? >_>

They’re trying to hint that you need to get an A in school. Is it working, are all of you students getting A’s now?

It’s about two years too late for that, unless it was a retroactive effect. Can one get A’s at their job?

Why, yes I am, since this is finals week for me. And tomorrow is our break day, so I get another day to relax. I mean study.

I’m starting to think that Chris is reading the dictionary for inspiration and is finishing A. Next expansion is going to feature Betula and her bevy of boats.

The only character whose name began with “A” at their creation was Akash’Bhuta. We didn’t go through any name changes with her, and about 40-50 names per character otherwise.

I’m curious to hear why you guys decided upon “Apostate” rather than going with his real name “Bezaliel”. That one seems like a perfectly good name for a villain too. Tell the truth – it’s because it was a “B” name and would have broken your theme, right?

I can neither confirm nor deny my penchant for A’s due to the first letter of my name being such. But come on, people, it’s clearly the best letter there is.

Speaking as someone whose name starts with two of 'em, gonna have to agree here.

I’m starting to feel a bias against the first letter of my name, as I’m sure are the others here not part of this “A-team”, and it’s making me very uncomfortable. I demand justice!

$600 away from the $75k mark.
Excited

$220
Should get there tonight or tomorrow morning.

It official! We get a new villain.

And a ruined F5.

That was fast! $75k!
Woohoo!
$100k seems unlikely, even with the usual last minute Kickstarter pledges. But, here’s hopin’!

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If any of the designers are still awake, let’s upload an Ambuscade update!

Hey, a week ago, weren’t we at about $55k? Those oversized cards don’t seem that unreachable.

How the total pledge amount will jump by a chunk, then a few minutes later it’ll jump by another $5.

“Hey, this game is awesome! I want in on it!” pledges

A few minutes later…
“Look at all the awesome bonus stuff I’m getting for pledging! Alternate heroes! Alternate villains! And this bonus hero looks really cool… and… oh.” adds $5 to pledge for Unity

-CSR

Damn Skippy, that’s why I have two of em in my real name.

Alright! Awesome! We shot right over $75K! I’m definitely liking this. But $100K is just too far away. I’ll be seriously shocked if we even get close. But hey, we’ve done awesome. Now we just ride it out and bask in victory!

That is, until the new villains come and kill us.

100k is miles away, but it feels like it is actually picking up steam rather than slowing down. I think it will be a close call.

I’d like to see a couple of intermediate goals along the way to help get to 100k. It does seem like a huge leap.

Well I did some promotion on a couple of comics forums, but they are forums… you post a link and get 3 or 4 hits out of 100 views.

I agree - it would be nice to have something to step us up during the week.

Unfortunately, I think all the >G folks are insanely busy right now, what with playtesting (and dealing with the results of said playtesting), creating insane amounts of art for all these cards, prepping for cons, running a business, etc. :-\ I’m sure they’ll get us anything they can.

I’m trying to think of other venues I can post the Kickstarter information on… 8)

Rabit

Yeah, with this coming to a close, they’re probably swamped. Kickstarter has only six days left, and besides, I think we’ve gotten sufficient rewards.

and besides, I think we’ve gotten sufficient rewards.

You take that back! If my cheap American sense of entitlement has taught me anything, it’s that we can never be rewarded enough.

For what I’m paying I want action figures!

I’d love to see an optional promo environment as an intermediary goal, but I don’t think that will be added. 100k is definitely reachable if this recent momentum keeps up. Yesterday and today (with lots of time left today) are the busiest two day period since the first two days of the kickstarter.

A new promo environment (or two) would be fantastic.

Oooo… YES. I feel like environments are neglected compared to heroes and villains. Only 4 in the core game and two more per expansion? Based on the fact that there’s a whole multiverse out there, there’s surely a lot of interesting places for heroes and villains to get their showdown on.

Ah hell - now I do too…

Yeah, I believe they are adding things based on how much they cost and how much they’ve reached. The large villain cards are not cheap. I doubt they’d have enough to do another deck in addition to the large villain cards. :-\

Why can’t everything just be free?!? :

Rabit

Really though, being a low card count addition, a new environment probably makes more sense as a lower level kickstarter free addition. With Ambuscade and potentially the large scale villains being free additions (along with all the other promos and art), I wouldn’t get my hopes up for another free addition on this kickstarter. Maybe there’ll be a few new promo environments next kickstarter.

Hooooooooly crap. Redeemer Fanatic is today’s update and she looks really intense!

She looks totally badass. Okay Chris, you helped ease our anxious mind with Ra’s promo front side. Can we see Redeemer’s? PLEASE?

I second this request. REALLY wanna know what her power is.

For those interested btw… http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/801739/this-project-is-now-in-the-top-ten-boardcardgames

Oh, you mean this file I’m currently looking at on my screen?

What of it?

;D

I bet it’s awesome. SO CRUEL.

Sure you don’t have a “post Redeemer Fanatic card image” button near all the other ones you have?

Nope. No button like that. I mean, there’s this weird button here, but I’ve never pushed it, so I have no idea what it does.

Hmmm… should I push it?

Throw caution to the wind! Buttons are fun. And so are weird things. ;D

My Magic 8 ball says…

All signs point to yes

Do not go against the 8 ball!

Well, who am I to argue with all of you?!

presses button

Huh, what were the odds of that? Go figure!

It’s possible I may have just wet myself…

Pfft, you’re just the designer of the game, that’s all.

MAN. That keyboard of yours is amazing!

Well, I just wasted time typing out a short plea asking you to post the card so we could see her new power and HP, but no, you had to do it while I was typing! That was two minutes I’ll never get back!

I mean… Thank you. It’s pretty. And by pretty, I mean she’s awesome and looks deadly. My roommate and I just saw the picture on the kickstarter for the first time, and both of us had the same immediate thought that she reminds us of someone we’re familiar with…

OMG!

I loved the original Fanatic, but this version might have just catapulted her to “Favorite Hero” status.

Amazing! Fantastic! Brilliant!

…

Should I be concerned as to whose blood is making the cross on the armour?

It’s obviously Apostate’s blood. She’s destroying his face with her new awesomeness.

I think it might be my blood because this picture has melted my face off…

Very intimidating hip thrust.

Poor little Bunker, only able to draw a card and here Fanatic is able to draw and heal. So now Ra and Fanatic can get into their decks a lot quicker, which is going to be really nice to find all their wonderfully good cards inside their decks. Fanatic may now even become invincible since she even has armor that will restore her HP by ten if she reaches zero. I wonder how fun it would be to play normal Fanatic and if she reaches zero and has the equipment on she then regains that ten and becomes Redeemer Fanatic. Might make things interesting.

That new power may be quite a bit helpful maintaining a low HP, since if it starts to get too low, just build it back up a bit.

I have a question about Ambuscade. Is it a villain? A nemesis for someone? If so, if I don’t get Ambuscade, will that hero ever get a nemesis in an expansion? Thanks

He is a Villain and near as can be figured he is Haka’s nemesis.

Oh…oh I’m so glad I popped in to the forums today. Ah, what a glorious moment, to see the dear Fanatic taking battle with even more zeal! I would try to repress my squeal of glee, but we’re among friends, right?

SQUEEEE!

Hmmm… This’ll make Fanatic longer-lived, but is it worth it to sacrifice her impressive offensive power? I suppose if this lets her use her self-punishment powers more, that might make it worth it…

Anywho, finally got my act together and pledged. Over $80K!

That’s a pretty cool idea

Well it isn’t too much better than “Absolution” unless she has a plus two to damage, but that doesn’t happen all that often. Now if you go into a battle knowing you want to buff her out than yeah you want the original Fanatic, but say she is with Ra, Expatriette, and Tempest. Only Ra will be given her a plus one if he has imbue fire, so it’ll bejust fine going in as Redeemer Fanatic. Now in a party of Legacy, Ra, and Visionary than it will probably be best playing as the classic Fanatic with how many buffs those three will stack up onto her. So it depends on the group if it’ll be worth it or not.

I don’t know why, but I feel conflicted about Redeemer Fanatic because her character power is just purely better then Bunkers now.

New Ra’s power is also strictly better than Bunker’s.

Practically any power is better than Bunker’s base power. Bunker makes up for it with Ammo Drop, though.

Gotta remember that all cards in SOTM are not built to be equal. Theme is what matters. And the way the card/power works with the entire deck.

Yeah, that’s really the core. You’re going to play Bunker for specific reasons - and his base power isn’t it.

Besides, once Bunker starts rolling, that base power will rarely be used, but Ra and Fanatic are frequently using their base powers at all stages of the game.

I just feel guilty. I run SotM for my local college’s Game Day, and I’ve been disappointed by the fact that no one plays bunker. I have a sheet where I keep track of other people’s hero selections and first time player selections and Bunker is clearly on the bottom.

You don’t need to tell me why he’s good, because I think he’s solid. On the other hand, other people don’t seem to have a good impression of him.

I think that part of that is that he’s visually less flashy than most of the other heroes. If I’ve got a choice between several things that are relatively equal, I’ll almost always go for the one that is prettier or sparkly or somehow more interesting.

But preferably sparkly

It’s true. The first game I played with a couple of my friends after picking the game up I chose Tempest because of his awesome lightningness. Another chose Fanatic because the angel thing looked really awesome and the other chose Absolute Zero because his innate power was a bit different. Sadly Bunker isn’t appealling to look at, innate power isn’t anything special, and he’s in a big robotic suit. And after someone has played him they also realize he is probably the slowest starting character there is. I’m not trying to bash on Bunker, personally I think he is really fun to play and is always a very valuable team member when he has all his cards ready for Turret Mode. He’s able to maintain his own health and still do some very powerful damage all in the same turn.

Also, his title is “indestructible” and he only has 28 hp. That puts him tied for 5th lowest so far (with Mr. Fixer) out of the 12 non-promo heroes. Maybe his base power should have been like his armor plating, reducing all damage done to him until his next turn…

Is it just me, or is hitting $100k seeming more likely? I don’t want to jinx anything, but it’s going strong. Fingers crossed!

It’s very likely, the amount of prledges usually jump uo quite abit the closer it gets to the end of the Kickstarter. My guess is it’ll at least get 110k.

I don’t share your optimism, actually. I don’t recall, for instance, there being an acceleration at the end of the first Kickstarter, but perhaps I’m misremembering.

I also find myself uninterested in the larger villain cards. Very excited for Infernal Relics, the alternate heroes and villains, Unity, and Ambuscade, but the larger villain cards strike me as cumbersome and add no new content.

I think the last one didn’t raise too much in the end, but it was not as well known back then as it is now. Now that SofM has been out a lot longer and more people have covered it should hopefully generate a lot of people. I am not 100% sure on it but I find it best to optimistic. Just think there are a lot of people who hold back their pledges just to see what all they will get in the end so they can opt in or not.

I am kind of mixed about the oversized cards. For the same reasons you said. But they will be pretty neat just to have, much like the HP trackers. But in anycase I think there will always be something bettter that could of been offered, so oh well. One thing the oversized villian character cards could do to make them a lot better is to feature different artwork.

Kickstarter also sends out a reminder about projects you are following when there is only a day or two left. I expect a bit of a surge from that. Plus the last couple of days have been higher than usual. It seems to have coincided with the Defenders of the Realm card game that Richard Launius made. So there are probably some people coming in from that.

We certainly don’t expect it this time, as we aren’t really sure what to expect on the Kickstarter, day to day, but we definitely had a jump in the last two days of the Rook City Kickstarter.

Proof!

But I don’t know if that was indicative of the sorts of things that happen on Kickstarter, or just a fluke. Remember, this is just our second foray in the realm of Kickstarter, so the only expectation we had for this was that it would work - we wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t think it would work.

We certainly didn’t expect it to fully fund in a day. Or for the funding to double in under a week.

Or for us to be at over $80k in the last week.

We’re pretty much blown away by all this. So, thanks!

Well, personally, I kickstart a lot of stuff. My standard practice when I see something interesting is to “star” it and then ignore it. As someone mentioned above, 48 hours before it ends, kickstarter sends me an email. Then I browse to the page, fully investigate the project, its pledge levels, and its stretch rewards and pledge appropriately if I’m interested. Obviously it was different for IR, which I pledged the very first day, but for most things I kickstart, I don’t pledge until the last 48 hours, so I would also expect a surge during that time. I’m not saying my practices are standard, but I’m sure at least SOME people do it the same.

Cool graph

3 days left and we still have 1 villain and 2 environments left to be revealed!

Just posted thison the Sentinels of the Multiverse Twitter account…

whistles innocently and goes back to playtesting

…SUCH TAUNTING! I can’t make out any of the text aside from names of cards. Ambuscade, NightMist, Argent Adept and Unity stuff being shown off, though. CURSE THE SMALL SIZE OF MY LAPTOP SCREEN!

Not sure who these belong to (I think a villain, actually…) but I see cards labelled, “Personal Cloaking Device,” “Custom Hand Cannon” (x2), “Automatic Drop Turret,” and something scribbly and unintelligible.
EDIT: These are all devices belonging to Ambuscade, actually. The hand-written one is another Drop Turret.
“Personal Cloaking Device” has 12HP and reads, “When this card enters play, flip Ambuscade’s villain character cards.”
“Custom Hand Cannon” has 4HP and reads, “At the end of the villain turn, Ambuscade deals the hero with the most cards in play [either 1, 2, or 7] projectile damage.”
“Automated Drop Turret” has 8HP and reads, “At the end of the villain turn, this card deals the hero target with the highest HP [3?] projectile damage.”
So I guess that helps to answer the questions about how he decides which hero is the biggest target.

One of the heroes (NightMist, I think) has a card called, “Enlightenment.”
EDIT: Interestingly, that card seems to have some sort of previously-unknown red symbols on it. NM also has 27 HP.

The Argent Adept has a card called, “Synchronized Or[something]”.
EDIT: Make that, “Syncopated Or[something].” He also seems to have 24 HP.

Unity has cards called, “Modular Workbench” and “Platform Bed” (?), as well as a card that looks like it says, “Fusion Foo…” before it runs off the edge of the pic.

Syncopated Onslaught is the Argent Adept card. The scribbly card looks like it says “Automated Drop Turret” too (not sure why there’s a printed copy and a scribbled copy).

It looks like Ambuscade’s cards all have hp tokens next to them, which must mean they’re all targetable.

Unity’s power is nearly impossible to make out, but I think the first line is “Power: Destroy 1 Equipment…”, which fits if it turns out that she can destroy equipment cards to get effects.

Argent Adept looks like he’s got 34 hp and NightMist looks like 27.

Christopher just posted on his Facebook, “Whew! This just in: I may have outdone myself this time. Ambuscade is TOUGH.” Then commented on his own post: “I’m not saying he’s TOO tough, just that he’ll give the heroes a run for their money.”

So… tougher than the Chairman? Oh dear. 0.o

I think I see Platform Bot rather than Platform Bed.

Unity’s cards are:
“Platform Bot. HP[#?]. Mechanical [Object? Creation? It’s got a round letter in front. :/].” The actual text is unintelligible.
“Modular Workbench. Equipment. Power: [Unintelligible].”
“Flash For[ward?].”

Her power, as Spiff pointed out, starts, “Destroy 1 Equipment card [three words, unintelligible] a Mechanical [Something, see above] [face-down?] into play.”

NightMist’s character card is completely obscured by glare, but her one visible card, “Enlightenment,” is pretty interesting looking. Its keywords are, “One-shot, Spell.” The actual text is, “Reveal the top card of your deck. NightMist deals herself that card’s [Symbol] infernal damage. One player may draw that card’s [Symbol] cards. Put the revealed cards into your trash. [Big Symbol].”

Guys… I think we’re dealing with a Mana system of some sort.

Oh my what in the world could they possibly say? Oh wait, I don’t have to wonder, got my own printed cards right here. That was so silly of me.

From my quick read over on the post and not comparing them to my cards, i’ll say some of you have some pretty good vision. I even opened up the pic on my computer and I can barely make out the words, which is pretty bad since I have 20/20 vision.

Yeah, but what’s the fun in that?

EDIT: Also, I see the word “damage” in NM’s power, so that’s something too, I guess.

AA’s “Syncopated Onslaught” is pretty illegible, but its keywords are “Ongoing Rhythm” and it’s sorted into two labelled sections. The second of which reads, “Ap[something]: The Argent Adept deals 1 target 1 energy damage.”

Aaaaaand I think that’s all the information I can squeeze out of this image.

EDIT: So, all the information I got from this pic is compiled below.

Ambuscade:
“Personal Cloaking Device: Device. 12 HP. When this card enters play, flip Ambuscade’s villain character cards.”
“Custom Hand Cannon: Device. 4 HP. At the end of the villain turn, Ambuscade deals the hero with the most cards in play [either 1, 2, or 7?] projectile damage.”
“Automated Drop Turret: Device. 8 HP. At the end of the villain turn, this card deals the hero target with the highest HP [3?] projectile damage.”
According to Christopher, “TOUGH” but not “TOO tough.”

NightMist:
27 HP.
Power somehow involves the word “damage.”
“Enlightenment: One-shot, Spell. Reveal the top card of your deck. NightMist deals herself that card’s [Symbol] infernal damage. One player may draw that card’s [Symbol] cards. Put the revealed cards into your trash. [Big Symbol].”
Presumably utilizes some sort of Mana system.

The Argent Adept:
24 [34?] HP.
“Syncopated Onslaught: Ongoing Rhythm.” Two labelled sections, the second of which reads, “Ap[something]: The Argent Adept deals 1 target 1 energy damage.”

Unity:
Power: “Destroy 1 Equipment card [three words, illegible] a Mechanical [Object? Creation?] [face-down?] into play.”“Platform Bot: Mechanical [Something]. HP 2[?].” The actual text is illegible.
“Modular Workbench: Equipment. Power: Discard[Destroy?] 1[2?] card[s?]. If you do, put [#?] Mechanical [Something] into play.”
“Flash Fo[rward?]: One-Shot. [Illegible]”

EDIT: Including ketigid’s interpretation of Modular Workbench.

I think Modular Workbench says Power: Discard[Destroy?] 1[2?] cards? If you do, put ? [Mechanical D***] into play. And that [Mechanical D***] seems to be the same keyword as the Platform Bot [HP:2?].

My eyes are tired… -_-

Definitely NOT tougher than The Chairman. Most certainly not. I’d say he’s Voss-ish. I’m just impressed as he’s a one-man-army with only 50 HP, but still manages to keep the heroes on their toes.

My toes? I’m on them. Definitely in a good way though.

No kidding! I’ve had the cards in front of my face and couldn’t read stuff in that pic. You folks are dedicated and eagle eyed!

Well there’s your problem. Try moving the cards out from in front of your face, then maybe you’ll be able to see the picture.

It’s fun watching people try to make out this stuff.

I think that’s why Christopher does it: he likes to torture them.

What makes it more fun is that we don’t have to try to make anything out.

I think he’s just tryin to get more people to sign up play testers. Must resist. No time. But…cards. But…no time.

Environment number one is up. Tomb of Anubis. Mummies, treasure, and the Lord of Judgment. Looks like a great vacation!

Wooo! 11k to go for oversized cards!
This’ll be a tense finish to another great Kickstarter

I said that the Kickstarter probably wouldn’t hit 100k. Looks like I’ll be eating my words, but with a smile on my face ;D

Likewise, though I think it’s going to be very close.

Both revealed enviroments are so exactly what I wanted… not just ruins but treasure in them (Egypt) and a Extraplanar adventure (Realm of Discord). This is going to be a lot of fun…

I will go ahead and say that the two new environments are really exciting and very unique. All and all Infernal Relics has some really cool characters and interesting mechanics.

I have to say, I’m absolutely loving these environments. There are so many things about them that never cease to entertain - even when they’re tearing me apart. Seriously, it’s really fun playing in these environments - I’m looking forward to when everyone else can enjoy them, also!

I haven’t particularly warmed up to NightMist, but everything else in Infernal Relics seriously rocks. I’ve been, honestly, a bit lukewarm about Rook City. There’s lots I like about those decks, but not a ton that I love. Infernal Relics is a whole 'nother level. It may just be, though, that I’m not really in to dark things, and Rook City is all about the darkness.

But you’re such a dark, angsty kind of guy!

Of the two IR heroes, I prefer The Argent Adept, but I like the flavor of NightMist, so I have fun with her too.
I’ve only played her a couple of times, but I’m REALLY enjoying Unity, who doesn’t fit with any of the expansions. I’m looking forward to playing her more.

I’m also kind of looking forward to the Kickstarter to be done, to be honest. It’s a little “All Kickstarter, all the time!” around here.

There really isn’t a whole lot else to talk about recently it seems.

A question about the Origin Story kickstarter level. I see that someone pledged there. So there will be 1 Origin Story comic produced once all this is over. Will that Origin Story ever be released online? Or will it be an exclusive copy only for the pledger?

If I pledged $25, would I get Unity, Ra promo, Fanatic promo, Ambuscade, Omnitron promo, Baron Blade promo, the art prints, possibly oversized villain cards AND the comic book? All for just $25? And the Upgrade thing?

Yep! Per the Kickstarter’s intro:

Stretch Rewards Currently Available

Thanks to all of the awesome backers on this project, everyone who pledges at least $20 will get a bunch of cool free stuff once the campaign is over. To date, this list includes:

[list]
[]Ra: Horus of Two Horizons promo hero character card[/]
[]Redeemer Fanatic promo hero character card[/]
[]alternate Omnitron promo villain character cards[/]
[]alternate Baron Blade promo villain character cards[/]
[]3 Infernal Relics art prints[/]
[]3 Enhanced Edition art prints[/]
[]Freedom Four Annual #1 pdf comic book[/]
[]Ambuscade Villain Deck mini expansion (27 cards) [/][/list]

I really like NightMist, her playstyle it just so interesting. She can really cause some true chaos and wipe all the evil baddies to oblivion with her onslaught of magical abilities. She is a little difficult to handle in some given areas, but that’s all fine and dandy, since after all she is a master of magic. Though the main reason I may prefer her over The Argent Adept is because I play solo too much and he can become complicated. As for Unity, I think she is a very nice addition to the squad and offers something new to the game.

Now I shall stop typing or else I may start going into things that’ll get me out of being a playtester since I want to so want to go into so much more detail about the heroes.

I’m with ya!!! I stop posting as much, because I’m too afraid I’ll give something away!

So much fun!!

Well then, we’ll all have to talk on the PT forums (I’ll be there soon). I’m looking forward to all these new things to play with! But wow, we’re at 94K on the kickstarter? remember when I said we’d never make it to 100K? Well, I hope I was wrong… There’s a good chance. I’m usually wrong.

Don’t say that! Now we’ll never make it!

And information on GloomWeaver is up! I can’t be the only one thinking his flip mechanic will resemble battling a Great Old One in Arkham Horror.

98K this morning.

I… I think we’re gonna make it!

I was so wrong! So very wrong! And I’ve never been more proud! We’re so close I can literally taste it! And it tastes like glory.

COME ON YOU GUYS!!! I did my fair share this morning and donated!!!

24.5 hours left. 1703 to go. C’mon last minute donators!

Kicking in an extra $15 to get the previous promos that I didn’t really want before. But might as well now!

It seems inevitable. I’m sure that if it hasn’t made it by the last hour or two, then several of us will add something just to make sure.

We need roughly 1.5k in about 24 hours. I honestly thought that we weren’t going to make it. But it seems like we will, and even if we don’t I’m impressed we came this close!

Passed the word along to the boardgaming thread in the Penny Arcade forums.

In less than 24 hours a new crop of playtesters will enter the playtesting forum…Let the hazing begin! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

$99K…

Will new playtesters really be able to intergrate well with us veterans? I mean we have been through so much training, with that whole one expansion we were invovled in. Now to have these new comers in our presence just will cause everything to go crazy with madness and cupcakes.

Paul posted on the Kickstarter:
“Actually, we will be asking for playtester info as part of the survey that should be going out tomorrow - the sooner we have your response, the sooner you get into the playtesting forum! So it’s entirely possible that you will be in as of this weekend.”
So my dream of being able to have everything ready Thursday night seems for naught. Oh well. I’ve waited this long, I can wait a few more days. It won’t drive me TOO crazy.

I was hoping the same thing, myself… My group meets on Saturdays, and we won’t be able to play the weekend after this upcoming one. Hopefully we can cut it close enough to that time.

Or will they just be so intimidated, they won’t post anything… I mean our skills are legendary. I mean we’ve done one entire expansion…

Bring it on, vets. Let the games begin.

$99.7K

Too early to bust out the trumpets?

less than $200 to go.

We just need 1 more person to donate the same amount I did, and we’ll have it!

Omg… that was a jump.

Darn, I missed the chance to be the person to get it over $100,000. Honors goes to someone named Patrick. Oh well.
This does put me at 600 posts though, making me The Chairman.

And we made it! yay~
victory dance

I didn’t realize we could pay extra to get extra copies of the oversized villain cards until today’s post, so that was an additional $10 out of me. Diabolical.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Woo, 100k! And I am definitely getting my survey done and turned around ASAP because I want to playtest with my group this saturday.

Wait, has a survey gone out? Or do you just mean that you’ll be responding quickly when you get it?

Once I get it. If the survey was already out, I’d probably be a bit more manic than I am now.

Considering my track record, I’ll have many many many fail stories to share with the other playtesters.

Yeah, the survey isn’t coming out until the kickstarter is over and accounts are charged. Basically tomorrow.

I wonder how close we are going to get to my estimate of around 110k? I guess there will only be one way to find out.

Sadly I don’t think we’ll see the promo environment, guess it’ll be added onto the next kickstarter if they continue with it.

I doubt they will pile on anything else, that said… it picked up a LOT of speed today, since people know for certain they are gonna get a huge pile of cool bonus items.

Maybe 105k includes “leftover candy from the holidays”

Surprise! Added stretch rewards for 120k and 150k! ;D

Is there any way more cameo appearances could be added? Or a separate cameo level to be in unitys or ambush adds decks…I personally don’t have the funds to do this but that sure seemed popular. I know there are only hours but I want more environments…oversized villains is fun…but environments add to gameplay.

Just think, there is always next kickstarter. Just like in Rook City it didn’t reach the Baron Blade reward level but it made it in Infernal Relics. Not to mention that I kind of think that the 50k reward in Rook City may have also been Untiy, or maybe the playmats?

Probably Unity. Although I love the description of that one:

At $50k, we’ll be beside ourselves. That seems impossible.

And here we are doubling that (and change). This one hit $50K in what, a week?

EDIT: Within 2 weeks.

Unless there’s a ~$10K surge in this last hour, it looks like the new environment will have to wait. What an amazing run.

I’m just happy that my prediction that it’ll reach 110k was correct. You all shall fear the mighty seeing powers possessed by the man known as Ronway!

I do not fear them, in fact I welcome them.
Can you tell me where I put the remote all seeing one?

Give me a minute, I am channeling the positively negative energy of the deathly hollow jabberwocky from timbuktu. The picture is become more clear now. I see that it is inside your house.

Anyone have ten grand they are willing to toss in for the environment?

The wait is over… let the wait begin!

I’m already biting my nails, waiting for GenCon in August. This doesn’t really help. Lol

I would say that is a pretty good turnout.

Gotta say, great job on the Kickstarter. I always like seeing projects that I’m very excited about do well. The most exciting part to me is actually the number of backers, not the monetary total. The Kickstarter was essentially two projects for separate projects rolled into one, so it’s hard to say “Look how much more money it made than Rook City.” However, it was nearly four times the final backers. That means more people are playing, and more people who will be drooling for the next expansion. That’s sustainable momentum!

[Waits paitiently for the survey]

[two minutes pass]

[flips table, hulks out]

Yes! How cool is that?!

A promo environment would be cool, but I’m so excited for the Unity and Ambuscade (not to mention the alternate Baron Blade and Omnitron cards) that I don’t know if I have enough emotional energy left to be sad that it’ll have to wait for the next expansion’s kickstarter.

I’m already excited for the next expansion, even though this one hasn’t even been released yet. Just going to continue wait for the Red Legacy to show up, one of these days he just has to. And even Absolute Zero’s nemesis I can’t wait for. Maybe it’ll be a drunk behind the wheel of a car that has a heater to warm up when Absolute Zero tries to freeze him out?

This person knows the truth.

Surveys are out.

There’s several little hints and bits that make me think that one of the future expansions is going to have a time-travel theme (much like Rook City’s gritty-urban theme and Infernal Relics’ magic-and-mythology theme). It will probably contain the Visionary’s nemesis from the future (which may very well be a version of herself) and the speculated-upon Chrono-Ranger to take on Plague Rat. If Red Legacy shows up as a villain for the game, it will probably be in that set.

I wonder if Chrono-Ranger will be a time-traveler himself, maybe from some kind of Temporal Protection Agency (at which point the >G guys will have to fit some some reference to Torchwood or Jack Harkness on his cards “Oh, c’mon… I thought crap like this only happens in Cardiff!”), or if he’s a modern hero with time-altering powers and an affinity for Stetsons and revolvers. If it’s the first case, what the hell does Plague Rat get up to that warrants sending an agent back through time to stop him?!

Of course, I’m assuming that Chrono-Ranger would be a traveler from the future. Maybe he comes from a secret agency that has existed in the shadows for centuries and got stranded while scouting for threats his agency would need to be on the lookout for.

I’d die happy if one of Chrono-Ranger’s cards had something that looked vaguely like a blue police box somewhere in the background.

The majority of this post probably belongs in the “World” subforum. Apologies.

-CSR

Maybe – and this is just a hunch – maybe it has something to do with spreading a plague? Alternately, Chrono-Ranger’s future is overrun by giant mutant rats.

Or!!! Maybe he just plain out hates rats. You never know, wouldn’t you want to kill a giant rat?

facepalm If I’m missing things that obvious, maybe I shouldn’t be allowed to drive…

Still, Plague Rat’s nasty, but is he really a temporal-scale threat? In the game itself, he’s a damage-dealing beast, but sending a time agent to deal with him?

Maybe in one future timeline, Plague Rat infects and controls the majority of the current heroes, using them to lay waste to the Chairman and his Conspiracy, which drove Rat underground in the first place. Chairman Pike retaliates with extreme prejudice, turning Rook City into a blighted wasteland which claims the lives of its indigenous heroes. The remaining villains such as Citizen Dawn and Baron Blade seize the opportunity to strike hard and advance their agendas, with Dawn and Blade teaming up to help repel the threat of Legacy and the Freedom Five (Six?), leading directly to Pauline Parson’s death. This, in turn, forces Paul to desperate measures, leading him to put a permanent end to Dawn, Blade, and anyone else threatening the security of his world. With no one left able to remotely threaten him, Legacy declares a new golden age for the world, enforced by him at any cost. The existing transhumans either work for Legacy or are destroyed, the reasoning being that if they are controlled or eliminated, they can’t wreak unmitigated havoc on Legacy’s world. The world’s governments, rendered effectively powerless as long as Legacy rules, begin to devise weaponized transhuman programs that will allow them to throw off the yoke of Legacy’s rule; it is one such program that gives birth to the Visionary. The tension between Legacy and the remnants of national governments reaches critical mass. Then, Legacy’s most trusted lieutenant is murdered in his sleep, which ignites the powder keg, creating the future the Visionary is so desperate to stop.

Unbeknownst to anyone, the Visionary and Chrono-Ranger are actually working toward the same goal; the Visionary sees too much of a big picture thanks to her abilities, and feels that tempus is fugiting furiously thanks to the bleeding aneurysm, while Chrono-Ranger knows that as long as Plague Rat is stopped before a certain time, then the majority of the catastrophe will be averted.

Odds are that I’m completely wrong, of course.

-CSR

Even if you are wrong, it is a very interesting theory and applaud the story anyhow. One issue that has been revealed that you didn’t mention is that the back of Young Legacy’s card is where the start is switched to Visionary’s turn. So maybe Plague Rat killed Young Legacy and infected Legacy, maybe? Only time will be able to hold the answers and sadly none of us can time travel… Or can we?

Only forward.

.sulugeT, flesrouy rof kaepS

I completed my survey and am eagerly awaiting access to the playtesting forums! I am really excited and even pre-bought some card sleeves last week in anticipation of getting some good playtesting in. Any idea when those of us who are new playtesters from the kickstarter will get access to the files (assuming that the survey was completed today)?

And Congratulations to >Games and this community for getting 556% funding during the kickstarter campaign! You deserve it!!

Yeah I hope it’s soon. I would love to be able to start playtesting this Saturday with my group!

I’ve seen some new members (just signed up today) with green names, so I’m hoping it’s soon. I bet they’re going through the actual playtester pledge first, and then later getting around to bums like me who just tacked it on.

I’m going through and adding playtesters as fast as I can. Man, there are HUNDREDS of responses to these surveys already!

Have I missed anyone yet?

Well, if you’re asking, I did send in the survey and pay for playtester and don’t have it yet…

Completed my survey a while ago. Added Playtesting and Unity to my pledge.

Yeah, completed my survey a while ago.

What are you three talking about? You’re already listed as Playtesters!

grin

Why so we are! My mistake! XD

Sent in my survey a while ago.

EDIT: Woohoo! Thanks!

Yay!! I’m soooo excited!!! ;D

I completed my survey but my boxed copy of 2nd edition and Relics expanion have not shown up yet.

;D

Why I don’t know what I was thinking. cough cough thank you cough cough

Working on it!

Hahaha! I see no way that Dawn would put up with Blade’s unstable, crazypants antics. She wants the world to RULE, not to smash into uselessness! She’s too organized and planned out to let him get away with that stuff.

This made me giggle!

Swoon! Jack!

Zatanna! What are you doing here? This is the wrong comic universe!

Christopher,

I’ve sent back my survey but haven’t been added as a playtester yet. But then there are probably hundreds of playtesters to add.

Nakos

Hmm, do I have a playtester tag yet?

Edit: Booo, I do not
But I do still have those little yellow bubbles with my thoughts in them

Civi, I’m looking around for your backer report… growing concerned

Er, can you send me a PM telling me what level you backed at? I don’t need to know the final dollar amount, just the level you were in at. I want to make sure I’m just missing it and it’s really there.

Hmm, sent survey in a few days ago but haven’t seen playtester tag added to forum account as of yet… maybe I should actual create a post and see if it shows up eventually.

Backed under MAXIMUM COMPLETION PLUS ALLIES level if that helps.

Hmmm, just looked through the list and didn’t see your Forum Username among those waiting to be added to the playtesters. Could you send me a PM with your real actual human person name so I can cross-check that? Sorry for the confusion.

WAIT! Never mind! Found it!

Thank you for your patience!

wishes Kickstarter had a better way to sort through backer reports - there are a TON of these!

So… 1,200 is a Multiverse ton, then?

Just listened to the GMS Magazine podcast. Nice to hear from 2 designers on the same show.

But there were no spoilers.

There was a super tiny one. We knew that Gloomweaver’s minions try to bring him into our dimension by gathering three artifacts, but I hadn’t heard about how, if you kill the minions, they come back as zombies that are relatively harmless individually but are dangerous in groups, especially after GloomWeaver buffs them up.

You know what’s a long ways away? August. And now that the Kickstarter is over and the river of fun new reveals and content-ey type stuff has dried up, it’s going to be a long, parched summer. But you know what would help deal with the burning trip through that desert? Finding out what the new rules are for Vengeful Baron Blade and Cosmic Omnitron. Since you don’t need a new deck to play those alt versions, they would be useful immediately. Refreshingly, cooly satisfying and useful…

Yet again, I am inclined to agree with Spiff. I’m interested in a Baron Blade that actually poses a threat besides against 3 heroes on advanced. I really don’t like Omnitron that much, but it could be cool.

T_T I KNOW. Do they offer cryogenic freeze for shorter periods yet?

(The suggestion to reveal alternate Blade and Omnitron is nice, though I don’t have the base game yet, so now I’ll just go and look at card images and cry wistfully, like I do every day)