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...You Lost Me wrote:The wait has been killing me. Can you guys give us any teasers from the design notes?

Here you go - VPG has put the first ~40 pages of designer's commentary into the latest update.

Apparently I somehow accidentally stopped "watching" this topic and so was not notified of replies. Sorry! I believe the game can still be preordered from the "pledge manager" here: https://victorypointgames.pledgemanager.com/projects/darkest-night/participate/ The current state ...

- What are the pros and cons of using a grid vs continuous positioning? Even if I go with a grid, I'll try my best to make sure the game can handle strange angles. Grids have greater transparency (players can make better predictions about what they'll be allowed to do and what the results will be) ...

We're funded! But we could still use help to reach the stretch goals.

The first stretch goal is 3 new powers for each of the 29 heroes (1 of which is a starting option), plus the new "sparks" resource that can be spent for extra dice.

I've learned from the response to Darkest Night that some players object to controlling multiple characters purely on the grounds that they like to identify themselves with a specific character in the game, and controlling multiple characters makes them feel like a disembodied general instead. I ima...

The thing is, when you're talking about Call of Cthulhu Heartbreakers, there are a lot of them. Frank and I discussed it briefly, and we're in general agreement that the reason why has to do with the strong appeal of the concept and the incredibly flawed nature of the game itself - it's mechanics, ...

And it's back:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56 ... -edition-0

OK, the Darkest Night Kickstarter is back up:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56 ... -edition-0

It is also possible to buy ONLY the miniatures without the board game, if you just want some fantasy hero minis.

Will there be a paypal option when it funds? I do not know much about how payment works for Kickstarters, but I asked the team and was told this: "During the Kickstarter campaign, we only accept funding through Kickstarter itself to avoid logistics and communications issues. After the Kickstar...

"Shows you what you can make with what's in your inventory" is not super useful. First, it does a very bad job of telling you what's actually in the game. If I want to find out what kinds of potions I can make, do I just... grab every plant plus some water bottles and head over to check? ...

Yeah, sorry for the irregularity. The Kickstarter should be back next week. Number of players ? Average playing time (average setup time) ? Amount of table space required ? How do your rules address the issue of a player "quarterbacking" for all the other players? Can I carry it in my mess...

Where spell points work is where you have fundamentally similar effects with a difference such that you can make a meaningful tradeoff between using the ability more times and using the ability less times with the enhancement. So like how in Final Fantasy you can use Fire or Firaga, and Firaga does...

My cooperative fantasy board game, Darkest Night, is Kickstarting a new edition:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56 ... nd-edition

The Kickstarter for Darkest Night second edition is now live:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56 ... nd-edition

Here's the announcement, if anyone else wants to read it:
http://www.victorypointgames.com/news/d ... d-edition/

On the topic of bad cards MaRo wrote a pretty seminal article on the existence of bad cards here . One of the main points he makes is that cards are only powerful or weak in comparison to other cards. In any given pool the players will find the top 30-40% of cards and make decks from those. You lit...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! New powers for existing heroes is something I'm considering. Playing with just the expansion blights and not the original ones is probably a non-starter without a whole new map deck, because the expansion cards still include occasional references to the original bli...

Any thoughts about what would make an expansion "must-have" for you?

It seems to me that the mystery cards have evoked more playtester enthusiasm than anything since the quest cards back in the first expansion. Like quests, they give you more reasons to move around the map, more ways to use your abilities, more variation between games, and more flavor/atmosphere for ...

In Tales of Old is the fourth expansion for Darkest Night , my co-op fantasy boardgame. It introduces "mystery" cards that provide clues to the locations of the holy relics. It also adds 4 new playable heroes (the Alchemist, Bard, Conjurer, and Tamer), 7 new blights, and 3 new items. It w...

Orion wrote:The Exorcist...has a couple of abilities so powerful that he's tuned to a balance point that looks extremely weak on paper

For the record, which abilities did you peg as "so powerful"?

Now recruiting playtesters for expansion #4
http://www.victorypointgames.com/news/p ... est-night/

So it's about 9 months later than I originally expected, but the Enchanter is finally available: http://boardgamegeekstore.com/products/darkest-night-enchanter Keeping in mind some of the complaints Orion made about modal powers in this thread , I have replaced Essence of Water with Essence of Stone...

My understanding is that, like the Nymph, the Enchanter is going to be exclusive to BoardGameGeek, at least for a while. AFAIK, BGG doesn't sell the actual Darkest Night game or expansions, so I don't think there's an opportunity to save on shipping between the Enchanter and the expansion. You might...

The Enchanter is going to be a separate promo item, like the Nymph, and it's coming soon.

I originally thought it was going to come out before this expansion, but release dates work in mysterious ways...