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Revisiting Constructing a Kingdom Death: Monster Campaign: Part 3 The Small Content Expansions

Here we will comb through the final category of content; the small/white/beta/seasonal/misc boxes that contain gameplay content with in game integration ...

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The Last Standee Pocast Discusses Monster Hunter World

I do not often cross promote between this project and The Last Stande...

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Vitanvox Beta Content Review

Vitanvox was raised among the children of the Silence Nursery. Their caregivers wordless smiles are sewn into their faces, their lips sealed tight. T...

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Skrelle Whitebox Review

Skrelle's earliest memories are blurred by tears provoked by the lush, sulfurous stench that entered her settlement as she slept. She often wonders i...

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Revisiting Constructing a Kingdom Death: Monster Campaign: Part 2 Nemeses

This wonderful image really sells the entire theme and memes of the Manhunter. Zeen Chin's work really IS the heart of Kingdom Deaths's aesthetics. View Post

Revisiting Constructing a Kingdom Death: Monster Campaign: Part 1 Quarries

It's been a while since I went through all of the steps that involve constructing a satisfying and engaging campaign in Monster and with the possibility ...

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A Visual Guide to Monster Resource Farming

A Visual Guide to Monster Resource Farming

Farming in Kingdom Death: Monster (KDM) is a play style where the goal is to squeeze the maximum amount of resources out of a monster as possible. This style is used against quarry monsters; not nemesis ones, and is most commonly employed against ...

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Origin Stories - Marvel Champions: Core Set Review

Marvel has been a franchise juggernaut for nearly a decade and a half at this point. Since Jon Favreau brought Robert Downey Jr's portrayal of Tony Star...

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Aeon Trespass: Odyssey - Box Organizer by Fancy But Functional: A Pictorial Review

Disclaimer: I reached out to Fancy But Functional about their products with intention to purchase and review this insert. Gyuri and his business partner then sent me this insert, plus inserts for Darkest Dungeon. They did not ...

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A Visual Guide to the Screaming Antelope (1.6 Edition)

A Visual Guide to the Screaming Antelope (1.6 Edition)

As a supplement what follows is an overview of the decisions made behind the visual guide components included. I've not added a visual guide to the showdown fight against the Screaming Antelope here because I will probably do a visual guide based ...

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Lunar Twilight Knight Review

The Lunar Twilight Knight was one of two game content items which dropped into the store recently. Both of these follow the trend of packaging a small mi...

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Death Crown Inheritor Aya Review

DCI Aya is the latest incarnation of the Aya “clone” from the wordless cartoon in back of the rulebook. Her story has been flirting for a long time w...

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Aeon Trespass: Odyssey: The Hekaton Initial Deep Dive

It is time for us to start our exploration of Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (ATO) and we shall begin with a look at each of the Primordials from the game's firs...

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Hellebore – A Frozen Survivor Beta Content Review

Hellebore’s ancestors descended the thin atmospheres of their settlement to launch their papery boats into the frozen seas. Shivering, they navigat...

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The Darkest Cardboard: A Review of Darkest Dungeon

Ruin has come to our family...

You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor?<...

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A Primer on Deck Scouting and Manipulation

For a fair while now I have been wanting to visit this portion of gameplay in extensive detail; but I have been putting it to one side due to the hope that we'll get the GCE shipping announcement. However, one cannot wait forever so I am going to ...

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Novice Beta and Elgnirk Content Reviews

As both of these two Holiday releases are relatively light on content I will review them together here. Normally I would consider splitting them up, but given the nature of these two I'll just keep them on one page.

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Campaign Perk Valentine's Day Reminder

Campaign Perk Valentine's Day Reminder

Just a quick PSA to remind you that each year this electronic promotional perk becomes an active bonus! Have a good week, catch you on Friday and we'll see what the inevitable Sale brings later today!

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Introducing Kingdom Death to New or Casual Gamers

Recently I had a short discussion on the subject of what promotional material would be good for a newer or more casual group in order to make their play ...

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Action Economy in Kingdom Death Part 2: The Hunt, Showdown and Gear Grids

We're continuing on last week's article around the concept of action economy with a brief look at the hunt phase, an in depth trawl through the showdown phase and then a discussion on Gear Grid efficiency and concepts. You can access the previous ...

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Gear Tableau Building & Slot Efficiency

Gear Grids are one of the best (mostly) original mechanics in Kingdom Death; they provide a tableau building puzzle that you get to construct before going on each hunt. If I am honest; I think gear grids are the single best mechanic in Kingdom Dea...

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Action Economy in Kingdom Death Part 1: Introduction to principles and Settlement Phase

Today we're going to go into a little bit of board game theory with a look at the concept of action economy; we'll start with an examination of the concept in general terms, before looking at some great examples from various board and card games a...

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Boss Battlers: Quick Reviews

As the genre of Boss Battler continues to grow and grow, both in the more heavy Miniature versions and the lighter card based ones I've wanted to take a little time and provide some light reviews of the various different ones I have played apart f...

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White Box Buyer's Guide Part 2 – The Non-Seasonal Content

For the first part of this guide; see this link. This second part covers the boxes that come into stock on the shop in a more sporadic and non-seasonal manner. Again no...

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White Box Buyers Guide: Part 1 Seasonal Content

I had a request for an updated guide into the various extra pieces of content that have been released over the years, this content provides a wide range of different options for players to rebalance and alter their play experience from one campaig...

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2023 Content Poll

No post this week as I'm taking a break for a week due to the holiday season (I write posts one to two weeks in advance, so this is actually written the week of New Years). Normal service resumes next week, this break helps me start to get a handl...

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Out with the Old; in with the New: A 2022 Retrospective

2022 has proven to be a very busy year for APG; with 14 releases (plus the Simulator) that had game content, while the exact quality of the content varied from being great all the way down to actively bad for the game's health it overall trended t...

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GameGenic Matt 53x53 Square Sleeves review.

In recent times I had the opportunity to try out GameGenic sleeves for our Arkham Horror and Marvel Champions decks and after using them I decided to get a few of them and see how good a fit the 53x53mm square sleeves are for gear cards.

Kin...

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Screaming Oni Armor Review

Lucy wears the Screaming Oni hybrid armor that transforms the reckless abandon of the screaming armor into a precise tool for maiming monsters.<...

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White Sunlion Armor Full Release Review

Erza of the Sun wears modified armor adapted to the scorching conditions created by living under the sleeping sun. This White Sunlion hybrid armor is...

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