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Shadows of Brimstone Kickstarter : A Dark Weird-Western Fantasy Dungeon Crawler

It's a two flying Frog Boxed games, with add ones and stretch goals. It comes out in Aug, 2014 (estimated delivery) and has one piece 28mm soft plastic unpainted game pieces. It has tunnel and room tiles that snap together sort of like the D&D adventure box sets (like Drizzt, Ravenloft, and Ahsardalon) or the Dungeon command tiles. Currently available Tilests seem to include mines, subterranean lost city type ruins, lava, swamps, etc. and by "Western" I mean cowboys with six guns and such.

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Think of it as Malifaux meets Deadlands meets Descent: Dark Journeys.

The closest thing to a one of everything has gotten quite pricey at $475 USD but it includes dupes of every figure in the box sets, one of each of the optional add-ons as well as the stretch goals, and and additional $75 USD extra credit which I guess you can spend on a third box set, or some combination of extras of the optional add-ons.

It's a bit pricey for the big motherload "mine cart" option right now and I'd prefer a cheaper one without the dupes but a tile based 'cowboys in the lost city of C'thulhu' dungeon-crawl sounds like a hell of a fine idea.

It started on Oct. 22 and is going to Nove. 24. It's already about to pass Mars Attacks, and Flying Frog tends to do good work on board games.

So, I thought I'd pass this on.

Too bad they are using such an odd scale of 35mm. There are 54mm Cowboys & Indians figures, dirt cheap, which could be used in this game, to expand the Human troops, easily, and quite inexpensively. The 'army men' plastic figures can be painted quite decently, and easily, today.

I love the concept, though. It smacks of CoC games I played in, years ago. Neat concept, neat set-up. They're fully funded, and then some, so it looks like it's a go. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

It looks very nice.

Those sketches and figures look first class. Are the figures metal?

Flying Frog does plastic.

YEa. I was bummed out about the 35mm myself, but THAT didn't stop me from backing it!

It is the solo play that has me very tempted. I have a bit more than 20 days to decide. I have a few projects that went no where that I might sell off. Need to get rid of some clutter any way.

I think they went in depth instead of breadth which is weird for a dungeon crawl. They give you twelve corpses or spiders and you end up with only five creature types a box set. Yeah they toss you from freebies in the pledge levels but the base box set seems to have too many of things and not enough types of things. I thought that Descent 2nd Ed. was a little sparse with only nine creature types. Descent first edition had 13 ( think). Legend of D'rizzt has 18 types of creature including enemy NPCs. Wrath of Ashardalon has 17. Ravenloft has over 15 types.

Five, and one of those is a tentacle? So you can bring me 12 of the lowest type?

I dunno.

I just want the Doorways add-on for my own dungeons. Still hunting around to find anybody locally who is buying in on this so I can tack on the doorways.

It just occurred to me that the original Space Hulk without add-ons got by with a single enemy type.

The tiles look terrific. I am in no position to back one of the complete game options unfortunately but if there was a way to buy just the tiles I would be all over that like ugly on an ape.

Yeah, those tiles look fantastic. Figure too, but I couldn't retask THOSE at all, 35mm though for the figures is a no-go for me. (I like to hedge my bet, any games I back need to have components that can be used for other things if the game itself is a stinker)

I guess I'll have to wait to see if I enjoy the game before I decide to buy or not.