"Kingdom Death Monster battle reports" Topic

Well, I've started a campaign for Kingdom Death Monster. You can see the results of my initial showdown with the White Lion on my blog:
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If you have any battle reports of your own, feel free to post them here.

Very cool…can you tell us a bit about the after game mechanics?

Nice looking figs

I can give a brief overview, but there's a lot that happens between showdowns. I wouldn't call it an "after game" thing, what you do with your settlement is really a huge part of the game.

To start off, you draw some cards to see what resources you gain from killing the monster. Then, there are a series of steps you go through in order, and I'm going from memory so this may not all be correct or in the right order.

You have a settlement event. Some of them are specific scripted events for certain years in the campaign. The first one, for example, has the survivors discover language (which is one of the Innovation cards, see below), and has you roll to see how many other survivors are in your settlement. If there isn't a specific event, then it is a random settlement event that you resolve.

Each survivor that survived the fight with the monster gets one Endeavor to spend. Endeavors can be spent to create new settlement locations (which ones you are allowed to create depends on the ones you already have, and you start with a specific one). For the first year you are required to create basically a leather smith, a bone smith, and an organ smith. There are some other things you can do with an endeavor if you have certain locations.

Then you craft gear. Each location has specific types of weapons, armor, and items that can be created there. Each of these has a cost in certain kinds of resources (such a bones, skins, organs, etc). So you pay your resources and receive the gear card for the gear you crafted.

You can also spend an endeavor (plus some resources I think) to Innovate, which lets you draw a card from an innovation deck. There are things like inventing music as a concept. The cards in the deck are based on what innovations you already have. So the deck starts with the innovations that are based off the initial Language innovation that you start with, then grows as you get new ones.

I think that covers most of it. When you're ready to go hunt the next monster, you decide which survivors are going with, and assign gear to them. The gear belongs to the settlement as a whole, not a particular survivor.

Cool thanks!

At long last, here is Year 2:
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The Tale of Olympus, Year 3:
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Olympus Year 4: link

Olympus, Year 5: link
See how the survivors do when the first encounter the Butcher.

Olympus Year 6: link

Olympus Year 7: link

Although I am indifferent to the models the nature of the game is brilliant. Thank you for posting.

Olympus Year 8: link

Olympus Year 9: link

Feeling pretty confident after the last couple of showdowns, I go after my first level two monster.

Olympus Year 10: link

The survivors of Olympus tangle with a King's Man.

Olympus Year 11: link

Another level 2 antelope.

Olympus Year 12: link

The legendary Beast of Sorrow is tracked down.

Another interesting episode.

Thanks for reading, Codsticker!

Here's the latest update.

Olympus Year 13: link

The survivors endure a pretty grueling hunt for a level 2 antelope.

Olympus Year 14: link

I face The Hand for the first time. It is pretty crazy.

Olympus Year 15: link

Another level 2 antelope in an attempt to gain to extra resources and replenish the recent losses.

Olympus Year 16: link

The survivors play it safe and hunt another level 2 antelope, hoping to build up as many resources as possible in order to prepare new gear for the imminent return of The Hand.

Olympus Year 17: link

The Hand returns to Olympus. The survivors try a new strategy this time and attempt to outlast him rather than trying to harm him.

Olympus Year 18: link

The survivors of Olympus hunt their first phoenix.

Olympus Year 19: link

Feeling confident after their first phoenix encounter, the survivors decide to hunt a level 2 phoenix. It turns out that may have been a mistake.

Olympus Year 20: link

Another Butcher shows up at Olympus, this one much more powerful than the last.

Olympus Year 21: link

The hunting survivors stumble upon a level 4 white lion!

Olympus Year 22: link

Another Level 1 phoenix with some rookie survivors.

Olympus Year 23: link

Needing more resources, and hoping to get enough to create a full suit of phoenix armor, the survivors risk going after a Level 2 Phoenix again.

Olympus Year 24: link

The Olympians attempt to endure the attacks of The Hand at its most powerful, as they are forced to choose a level 3 nemesis encounter.

Olympus Year 25: link

The penultimate showdown! The Olympians hunt a level 2 phoenix in hopes of getting the resources they need to finish a full suit of phoenix armor before they face the mysterious Watcher.

Olympus Finale: link

This is the final battle. The Olympians face off against the Watcher. Needless to say, there are spoilers for how the game ends.