So much so that I've started to ignore big name miniatures projects all together. This practice is more the rule than the exception for miniatures projects.
#GLOOMHAVEN MINIATURES HOW TO#
They raised a half million dollars before anyone had any idea how to play the game. And even those videos weren't present for the first week or so of the campaign. We have to get all the way down to the very bottom of the page to get any real concrete information on game play in the form of some demonstration videos. We see cards for monsters and characters, but still have no context to put them in. Then we scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll to see all the miniatures you get at every pledge levels, all the miniatures unlocked as stretch goals, all the miniatures you can buy as add-ons, and finally, about 80% down the page, we get to the game play section, which, agains seems more interested in showing off art than anything else. We scroll down the page and find a paragraph with a very vague game play description. It's not my intention to point fingers at specific projects, but let's look at, say, the recent Ghostbusters campaign for a typical example. I am exclusively looking for intriguing and engaging game play.Īnd, unfortunately, this is where most miniatures projects fall flat because they are clearly more interested in selling the miniatures than anything else.
When I look around Kickstarter for interesting games, minis have never been a draw point for me. It's not very immersive, but I've never been one to put too much stock in visual immersiveness. It's easily identifiable and easy to move around. The dragon is the Spellweaver on the board.
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Maybe the Spellweaver is woman with purple crystals growing from her skin and not a green dragon man, but it still works. The point is that the minis I have are serviceable. I've also got a couple games with miniatures - most notably Mage Knight, whose figures I use for everything (you'll probably see them in a lot of upcoming Gloomhaven demo videos). I've got a handful I've collected over the years playing Dungeons & Dragons. You can use them in a tabletop game if you want, or just paint them and put them on your shelf.Ĭollecting miniatures isn't something I enjoy, though. Some of the biggest miniatures projects are the Reaper Miniatures, which aren't even attached to a game - they're just miniatures. I understand that there are lot of miniature collectors out there.
Outside that Exploding Kittens craziness, pretty much all the biggest Kickstarter projects in the "Tabletop Games" category have been miniature-related.Īnd that's fine.
Making miniatures is big business on Kickstarter.
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