Since Zelda found the gleaming dagger, she has been different. Swatting at non-existent buzzing and describing a tickle in her brain. While others aren't looking, she organizes mundane objects around the settlement into patterns, or simply vanishes for entire lantern years at a time. Her fellow survivors have urged her to ditch the well crafted weapon, but she staunchly refuses. 2024-02-23 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Still my favourite monster and crafting location combination, though there are some good ones in the Gambler's Chest.
2024-02-19 14:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Aya creeps into another lantern year with a distracting explosion. She appears for the first new moon of the lantern year in festive red, a color that's always brought her some kind of luck. Includes a tactical seed pattern and seed pattern gear to craft the perfect festive diversion.
As she ran after the monster, exerting her muscles beyond their limits, color bled from the scene. Black vibrating outlines of lean, trampling limbs and massive twisting hulks of sodden fur flashed back and forth like pictures blinking through the darkened terrain ahead. With a roar that drowned the monstrous braying, she swung for the strangely still haunch, sinking the blade with a wet crunch. ...
2024-02-16 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As mentioned last time, the core mechanic of Lanternism surrounds Death Tokens, these are another of those nebulous pile of tokens that are represented by the generic tokens which come in the box. Just like survival tokens (and unlike reroll tokens), death tokens have no intrinsic mechanical ability without an associated way of utilising them; this tends to be positioned on Knowledges (but...
2024-02-09 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to go live for all on Wednesday 7th February 2024.
2024-02-05 11:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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At the time I checked to start writing this, Lanternism was winning so I decided to go ahead with this philosophy next. Still, it would have been my choice anyway becayse one could consid...
2024-02-02 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We'll start with Deathmas Cockroach Queen and if you forgive me I am going to just be pretty brief with this one because the content is slim and relatively simplistic in its nature. The miniature is a finer little piece one that is now suitably in “world cannon” thanks to Atnas bringing festive cheer to every little settlement. Though I do think it is a bit of a shame that we've moved from a cool...
2024-01-26 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to go live Wednesday.
2024-01-22 16:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Our...
2024-01-19 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Next up after our look into the core philosophy of Survivalism it is time for our dive into the Tier 1 philosophies as they are the next most commonly applied group of Philosophies across all campaigns. I'm going to start wit...
2024-01-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So she's here, KDM's best girl (accept no substitutes) has received the same treatment as Erza with a full People of the Sun plastic “white” box release. This set continues the Sunlion Armor trend in that it rebalances and expands on the beta content by tying it into the pattern system, this time however it is not a piece of terrain that unlocks the set, it's a new vermin card. It's honestly wond...
2024-01-05 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This People of the Sun variant Aya survivor came out in the tale end of last year during the Black Friday Sale and it represents the third named survivor getting a Sun version of themselves. It is on one hand a little surprising that she has come out before Zachary or Allister, but on the other hand Aya is the survivor most closely associated with late game gear like Lantern Armor, which is the base ...
2024-01-05 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo, while I'm warming back up (and working through the Sunlantern Armor, Screaming Sun Lucy cards for reviewing) I wanted to touch back and look at the best games (other than KDM) that I played through 2023. I'm going to look at the following categories:
Before we get into them; I am excluding KDM products from these lists, but we'll quickly acknowledge the top tw...
2024-01-03 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year all.
I am still on break at the time that this post drops but I wanted to update you all about the plans for the next year.
YouTube
First up the YouTube Channel. It has become very clear to me that I cannot manage between 5000 to 10000 words a week, which is what the YT + Patreon weekly post amounts to when I include note taking and so forth. In order to do that I would have to scale back on the amount I play KDM, which means I'd e...
2024-01-01 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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For the first part of Survivalism, covering the core tenet and booklet you can check out this part here.
Our first core philosophy for Arc Survivors builds upon the core theme of survival and it is always going to be present in every campaign that is using this system. This means along with the Starting Knowledges; Survivalism is something you want to become ve...
2023-12-15 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, I'm going to take a couple of weeks break. There are two patreon posts already scheduled before the end of the year (15th & 22nd) and a YouTube video coming out (Wednesday 13th), then I'll be taking some time off until the New Year. I did want to do a summary/review of Atnas, but I have not fought the L3 version as I frustratingly got hung up on painting my Gambler before fighting it. This process was massively delayed because I ran out of the specific flesh shades I have been ...
2023-12-12 23:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostSpoilers for:
The four starting knowledges represent the beginning point for this system, they are randomly assigned to survivors during the prologue and they are a humble beginning to what will grow into a powerful and robust “levelling up syst...
2023-12-08 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sylvania lay dying. A short life of frustration and mockery due to her unusual features. A pair of large hands gently traced from the bridge of her nose to her misshapen ears, yanking them abruptly. Shocked back into consciousness, her gaze met a serene face framed between two long ears. Madness poured through the strangers' large unblinking eyes. The blood weakly coursing in her veins set ablaze...
2023-12-01 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
They await this special costume each lantern year. Dressed to evoke the hulking mass of consumption and destruction, perfect to celebrate Halloween. Includes pattern treats for the occasion.
Our latest Halloween Pattern follows the trend set last year of providing just a single miniature and costume for an increased price. In truth the only time we got a good deal on the Halloween Surv...
2023-12-01 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Starving, Basara approached the pit. A rich, toothsome aroma lingered but nothing remained. Disappointed she plucked the red weed pushing up between the crystals at her feet. She nibbled experimentally as she hurried to catch up to the others. Numbing and invigorating spice burned her mouth, glittering smoke sizzled from her lips. When she stepped into the lanterns light, the others were blinded ...
2023-12-01 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As per yesterdays update here it is, raw footage, literally finished recording a couple of minutes ago. I was going to review Morg in this, but it got long enough already, I'll do a separate Morg review later.
2023-11-27 10:39:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, I'm going to be putting up an "emergency" review/overview of the KDM Simulator tomorrow before the BF Sale ends, I'll post it on the YT Channel and link to it here. It'll hopefully give you enough information to decide if its something you want to pick up.
The short version however is, I think it's good enough that I should showcase it to you all. It is a product that deserves as much support as possible, especially from those of us who have used the TTS mods in the past.<...
2023-11-26 20:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As I'm not facing the Gambler until I am able to paint it (because he's a once a campaign core monster, I want that first game to be against him in all his glory) it'll be a while before we get to either the Gambler or the King here. Instead it is time to properly dive into the waters of the Arc survivors and fully explore the system. This week we won't be going into any major spoilers (I am goin...
2023-11-24 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Preface: So my partner's work colleague's son got sick with some form of flu that took him down with a 40 degree fever, his mother (the work colleague) transmitted it into work. Which took my partner down, I spent a week trying to wear a mask in the house, but unfortunately it hit me last Sunday and I am still sick while writing this (I've not been sick outside of my chronic illness since Decembe...
2023-11-17 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSpoilers for:
I have mixed feelings about the Scout system; and as all of the current writing of initial reviews is a journey towards writing a full review of the Gambler's Chest expansion I want to sort out what they are exactly. Are the scouts a good addition? A bad one? A trade off/somewhere in between? As such, over the next two weeks I'm going to pull the system apart and l...
2023-11-10 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSpoilers for:
Lantern Years covered – 9 to 13
Philosophies in settlement – Impermanism, Lanternism, Faceism, Dreamism, Survivalism, Collectivism, Deadism and Regalism.
The goals for this portion of Termina's existence were ...
2023-11-03 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The strain disturbed her sleep, just above the persistent rumbling din that hung over the settlement. She followed the fragile song, drifting from one pool of lantern light to the next until it the sound was at her feet. raising the ruptured lantern, she heard the familiar refrain sung by someone lost in memory. Incandescent ooze ran down the twisted filigree. She threw back her head and let the ...
2023-10-27 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post