Due for public release Wednesday 26th June at 19:00 CEST.
Tanks are the lifeblood of KDM, the most thankless and important job one can do. A moment's silence for all the blood shed by the myriads of settlement tank survivors over the lantern years.
2024-06-20 09:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
With the backbone of how Homicidalism is gained, what it is aiming to do and the core beats of its booklet completed it is time to dive into the knowledges. These knowledges revolve around the elements of the so called “Dark Triad” something which in recent times has become a bit of a mess due to laypersons releasing “Psychology” videos. I'm not going to go into that rabbit hole too far, exc...
2024-06-14 09:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Usagi's tribe had explored the area around the stone cube for lantern years, but she remained the only one excited to enter its depths through its single gateway. A flooded labyrinth teeming with shark-rabbits, only navigable with the strange boats and lurid lanterns capable of parting sections of the green waterways temporarily.
Lagomorph survivors have been something which Team Death...
2024-06-07 09:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In the strobing darkness, Titus struggled up the dizzyingly forking limbs, groping blindly, testing the unyielding branches with his wrenching grip. As he tugged at the frozen bark, a bolt of soundless lightning arced, lurching downward, striking the joint beneath his grip. It exploded soundlessly, impossibly bright, sending him flying. Titus sailed through the charged air, clutching his pri...
Will go live on the 12th of June. Early access for Pillar tiers and above.
2024-06-04 10:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone once in a while I like to just write up an update about where things are in respect to upcoming content and similar topics, today is one of those days.
There's a two hour recording I completed this week, I'll be editing it next week and putting it up for the "A Pillar of the Patreon" and higher tiers on here when that's done and uploaded. It's a full first generation (all the expansions before the GCE) review of every single monster with...
2024-06-01 15:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Homicidalism is one of the “secret” Philosophies in that it is unlocked not via the usual method of Collective Cognition and instead through an alternative; in this case it is gained from the new Settlement Event Murder card. That makes this the best place for us to start our journey, so let us look at the original next to the new version.
2024-05-31 09:00:12 +0000 UTC
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First video in the new limited series on Archtypes. If you want to see these a few days early and support the channel, this is released for the "A Pillar of the Patreon" tier of supporter as soon as they are uploaded (unlisted) to the channel.
2024-05-27 10:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We now get to go into one of my favourite suites of knowledges here in this article and there can be no mincing of words when describing Romanticism's knowledges; this is a powerful set to have in your knowledge deck. A large part of the reason for that is Romanticism's focus on knowledges and lumi as a core mechanic, when a card type is focused in part or full on the mechanic which introduces i...
2024-05-24 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Romantic Principle has, for myself, been the de-facto choice when selecting which conviction principle I use, this has been the case since 1.5 updated the principle card. This was because 1.5 Romanticism gave a choice of one from three options when gaining a fighting arts, card selection from a deck is a very powerful and engaging tool, because it increases the overall odds of getting som...
2024-05-17 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A look at the two newest Indomitable Survivors. Released early to Patrons.
2024-05-13 09:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Leviathan Wilds is a 1 to 4 player Boss Battler where players take the role of climbers scaling around gigantic creatures, avoiding attacks while seeking to destroy the crystals that have infected and frenzied the leviathans.
The new and unique elements that this game brings to the genre are the card and deck mechanics, where players will spend cards either for action points or speci...
2024-05-10 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers for:
People of the Dream Eater Campaign
The Gambler Final Nemesis Showdown
People of the Stars
People of the Lantern
People of the Sun
To start with, I do have to acknowledge the fun moment that is Part 13 of this series being the one that relates to the Dreamism Knowledges. The “unluckiest” number in...
2024-05-03 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo, which direction do you want the series to go next, climbing up the ranks towards Tier 3 before getting into the unlockables, or do the unlockables first, then Tier 2, Tier 3 and finally Monster Knowledges? Vote away!
2024-04-26 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers for:
People of the Dream Keeper Campaign
People of the Dream Keeper's Core Nemesis Monster
People of the Stars
We are returning to the Arc Philosophy series with the central philosophy for the People of the Dream Keeper (PotDK) campaign; this is not only the last of philosophies that make up the potential mix for a beginning settlemen...
2024-04-26 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A bit of a longer one, calcification and Black Harvest certainly means there is more to talk about. You can catch more about those processes via the Dung Beetle Knight tag at the bottom of this post.
2024-04-22 10:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The monster's malformed maw drooped at one swollen side, spraying with pus as the monster swayed and lumbered. Even though it sensed its own failing life, the Gorm lunged with its fangs at the remaining survivor. With a final exhausted thrust into the monster's mouth, Grimmory landed a blow on the massive, angry cyst pulsing in the monster's jaw. An unimaginably loud howl of pain tore...
2024-04-19 09:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Image of the expansion contents. See more at the official shop page here.
The Black Knight arrived at the same time as the Killenium Butcher for myself, and while I am still exploring the way that having this boss as a Node 3 Nemesis Monster impacts the normal 25+ year campaigns I h...
2024-04-12 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
She traveled in a land of vivid auroras, hanging in successive curtains of heavy red and voltaic blue. She drifted through them, her aura washed in strobing power until she passed into the land beyond, her destination. At the end of the aurora there was a meadow of negative darkness, she passed like a shadow, darkness on darkness until she reached the cairn of shining stones. Their light, flicker...
2024-04-05 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Enjoy!
2024-04-01 12:23:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In August of 2019 we received our first ever Vignette of Death; a small standalone showdown battle that depicted four survivors from the settlement of Deadrock fighting against a vicious White Gigalion. At $75; it was a somewhat expensive deal on the gameplay front. This is because outside of the showdon what it gave us was a small side-grade to the White Lion; one that made the Level 2 and Leve...
2024-03-29 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
References to:
Homicidalism
Romanticism
Lanternism
Deadism continues to be a bit unusual in how it is designed when we look at the knowledges, many of the other previous low tier knowledges focus around providing thematically designed benefits and while that continues here, there's also a large focus on managing and mitigating the
They're both here, with kind thanks to Charles for helping out in getting them here to me. Expect reviews of the Killenium showdown and Squire campaign in the coming weeks!
2024-03-21 18:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
You can also catch written versions of these in the reviews tag & collection.
2024-03-18 11:16:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers for:
Our final Tier 1 and penultimate “early game” philosophy is Deadism; this one I've left after the others because it is a bit of an odd duck in many different respects. While the previous four philosophies we have deep dived into were al...
2024-03-15 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers for:
With the general thesis and core mechanics of Impermanism under our belt, it is time for us to take a dive through the various Knowledges, I'm going to try and highlight not just mechanical advantages/disadvantages that these ...
2024-03-08 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As much as this expansion can be frustrating, it also has some amazing elements.
2024-03-04 12:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers for:
As discussed before, the core philosophies that make up survivalism plus the Tier 1 philosophies represent a thematic heart to survivors understanding of their place in the world. Survivali...
2024-03-01 10:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
So if there is anyone who are interested in the above, I am selling as pictured these four 10th Anniversary Survivors along with a sealed set of the cards. The reason for this is last month our guest house tenant moved out (originally it was planned they would stay until the end of May). On top of that we had not one, but two separate plumbing issues that required emergency attention on top of usual ...
2024-02-24 16:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Galanthus bound his aching legs, bracing them for the burden. Better to move slowly, than to feel nothing as the cold takes your body piece by piece. Heaving the hefty pelts closer around his body, warmth crept back into his aching bones. He breathed into the hide shielding his face, smelling the monsters lingering stench mixed with his straining breath.