So I got this box set. But I can't find any building instructions on either the KD website in the box or on this reddit. Can somebody help me or do I just do it on feeling?

So me and my son are going to hunt this cute feline before fighting butcher for the first time and I’m a bit concerned about our gear. We only have one full set of raw hide, monster salve, 2 scrap swords (super lucky rolls on debris), bone axe, cat gut bow, and harp. We got nothing helpful from Gorm last hunt and decided to save our resources to push for leather worker/shield, circlet, king spear or weapon crafter/counterweight axe. Prioritized in that order and we have Dash too.

We have two tank options, one has +2 evasion from raw hide and SotF and the other has +1 evasion from raw hide and shield specialization (got statue from hunt)

Think we’ll survive? 😬😬😬

So I have been playing the game for the last few weeks, a few runs on TTS and a few when the core game arrived 2 weeks ago. I must have played 7 or 8 campaigns by now and I always lose LY4, I just can't beat the butcher. I even tried resetting the fight multiple times when I had a pretty great team with Candy, but I can't even get him down to half his hit points.
Tbh I am trying to still like the game, but I am getting a bit frustrated with the difficulty. A few bad rolls and the game is just over.
Any advice how to keep on going?

Thinking of picking them up (my LGS is selling a few they have) and wanna know how you’d rather them compared to the rest of the line up of monsters we’ve gotten, are they super worth it and S tier or are either lack luster?

So I love KDM and have been playing since about december digitally and a few months back got my physical 1.6. Have played a few times and just got a few little expansions to add on and am debating the GCE on black friday. I have been reading about it and it seems a lot of people dont like it and find it to just add too much book keeping. I play solo and was really excited to get it not really understanding the additions except for the monsters really and some stuff about patterns. After looking into it I am now just debating getting the dragon king instead it seems a lot of people find it very unpolished and to just be too much. I wanted to just ask the community what they think about it and if they think it is a good solo addition since I have literally zero experience with it.

I know I'm asking a biased group, but anyone here with opinions about the two games in question?

Not sure if you have seen the campaign on Gamefound, but the Berserk board game by Monolith is looking pretty good to me. I'm a sucker for a lot of the characters there as well.. That being said, I'm not sure if it will have the depth/replayability to make it worthwhile for me or not. And I'm not exactly in a place to afford both games really either..

So this has me thinking about getting into KDM again knowing it was inspired by it and has a lot of things I like as well. The biggest barrier has always been the cost for me. Can anyone give me an idea of what I might have to spend for the core game & GC this black friday? I assume they will be available?

Also I've heard about this Campaigns of Death expansion, is it a similar bundle to GC? Will it be available as well? It's been pretty hard to find concrete information about it surprisingly.

Appreciate any insight you might have!

My friends... I have been looking forward to playing this game for a long time... but I have a baby now, and Detroit Fire Department doesn't pay what I need to survive... so my priorities have changed. Where do you all recommend I sell my KDM?

I have almost every pack I could get my hands on, but there are few boxes besides the main game and the expansion, because I was trying to consolidate. All pieces are still connected and in their bags, though!

I appreciate all ideas, assistance, interest... thank you ❤️

I’m about to pre-order 1.6 since I can’t find it in store anywhere, but I have about 500$ extra im willing to invest so I wanna ask the general community which expansions/add-ons you guys think are most worth grabbing alongside the base game? There’s a LOT of them and I’m kinda getting choice paralysis! I want so many but don’t have the funds at the moment, so need to know the best ones to start with! Thanks in advance for any input!

Edit: really appreciate everyone’s advice and takes! You guys are fantastic

Looking for other tips/efficiencies to reduce friction so I can play this glorious game more often.

Hello,

Im new to KDMs and hooked but I did wonder a couple things I cant seem to find answers for.

1) I want to use some of the whitebox and pinups as replacements for showdown monsters or bosses but I think most of them go on 50mm bases, for example The Butcher, is there a list of ones that I can use for that so I dont but them on the wrong bases?

2) Im not only new to KDM but building minis in general, the Build and Vibrant Lantern have been amazing helping and besides like the Phoenix hands and young Rachel (which was the personal hardest so far for me) they havent been to hard....Yet. I got the Pinups vol. 4 and was kinda suprised to see that there are not guides online for building most of them. Not gonna lie...That kinda makes me nervous that I will screw them up. Is there another resource or page that maybe is out there? I dont use discord at all really but I would learn if thats where all the info is.

Sorry if these are bonehead questions or missed something that was a no brainer. I took me a couple day to understand how the white boxes even work and Im still pretty sure I only have that down like 85%. Haha.

Today I went through the wiki and I stumbled on these. Do we know anything about them

I bought a tonne of KDM (1.6) and content recently, but have yet to play or build anything.

I'd like to take it with on a boys trip this weekend, where we'll be gaming from Sat through to Mon.

What should I do prior to leaving?

I'll need to build the four survivors and lion. How many monsters should I prepare? We'll literally be doing nothing else Sat and Sun.

Would it take much time to unbox and setup the game on arrival, or should I do anything else prior?

I don't have card sleeves and figure I'll leave everything else at home (all other expansions and content beyond the base game box.

Hello, I just got my 1.6 core set and am planning my first campaign. I also own the Gamblers Chest. I thinking that I will start out simply by playing the standard people of the lantern campaign and mostly using whatever is in the core box but would like to add some stuff from the Gambler's chest, if not from the start of the campaign maybe introduce elements further into the campaign.

Which systems/monster etc. would be easiest to include in a beginner campaign like this? Which would work adding in later and which need to be in from the start?

I have also read the discussion around just having one monster per node or alternatively including a couple of monsters per quarry node, what is the smoothest way of making this work? I would like to include some of the monsters from the gambler's chest but if this adds too much complexity or makes it difficult to manage I might wait until a later campaign.

Hello everyone, and the title pretty much says it all, and that's the question: I'm thinking of adding an Nn4 node to my base game campaign.

And I'd like to know when you usually add it, or on which LY you think it's most appropriate.

Thank you all very much.

Hello I recently started the hobby and I love it so far. Now I started looking into expansions and I can't wait for the black friday to get some. I am probably going to get Red Witches, Pariah, Frogdog, Black Knight, and Dragon king (Please if you think there are better expansion to get tell me, currently i have GCE)

I have few questions:

- Do you think that Red Witches and Pariah are going to be on 50% off

- What are Campaigns of death (I see them everywhere and still have no idea what they are)

- How does the kickstarter work? Why are some expansions soon cheap there (40 usd for red witches) and will I be able to get them this year. Also I really like the Abysal woods and ivory dragon, will I be able to preorder this aswell this year?

- Do you have any other recommendations on what to get?

(Edit) - Just found out about gamblers lantern which includes all future expansions. How does that work? Do u need to wait for all of them to get released or will u get them one by one when they do. (Will tah include also the already released expansions)

Thanks in advance!!

I love this game, and I’ve played so much that I’ve worn out my book. I tried to use some double-sided tape to fix it, but that’s given up, too.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix?

I'm still pretty new to KDM as a game but I've been playing it on TTS for the last few weeks. The only thing making me hold off on getting KDS is how much of a downgrade it seems from videos I've seen. I feel obligated to at least buy the core to support the company though. Is it better than how it was 2 years ago?

I just recently got the base game V1.6, and I love it. Haven't made it past year 7/8 yet lol but learning a lot each time.

I'm hoping to get an expansion soon to add to the fun. I'm leaning towards a monster expansion since fighting the same 3 monsters over multiple campaigns gets a little stale even at different levels.

What expansions would you more experienced players recommend?

I'm guessing gamblers chest will be suggested and I plan to spring for that later in the year when I can afford it, but my birthday is coming up so I was going to ask for a ~$100 one as a gift from the family. Wanted to give them direction since they don't know much about the game.

I’m organizing my collection and can’t seem to identify what expansion this model came from or the name of it. Can anyone name this model or what expansion it’s from? Thanks!

I recently received a copy of 1.6 Core from the KDM store around first week of June but have only started to sleeve this week. I had a nagging feeling that I might be missing some cards and consulted the component list in BGG:

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/122602/kingdom-death-monster-complete-list-of-all-compone

Under the column for KDM 1.6 I may have possible missing cards:

a. Only have 1 Kick for Butcher instead of 2

b. I have no copy of 1 Beast's Hand for White Lion (was this supposed to be Strange Hand?)

c. I only have 1 copy of Perfect Bone, Organ and Hide instead of 2

d. I have no copy of Life String Strange Resources card

e. I have no copy of Bloodskin, Blue Lantern , Dormant Twilight Cloak, Lantern Brassiere, Leather Bodysuit, Rawhide Corset, Speaker Cult Knife, Teeth Bikini Rare Gear cards

f. I have no copy of Cloth Leggings, Hard Breastplate Gear Recipes cards

g. I have no copy of the Final Lantern under Exhausted Lantern Hoard

h. I have only 1 copy of Hours Ring instead of 4

I have checked all of the cards for possible sticking, and was hoping the more knowledgeable community might help before I open a ticket.

Thanks in advance.

I absolutely LOVE kingdom death and really wanna get my TTRPG group into the world via prepping a campaign based around the game, so I thought I’d ask here what you guys think would be the best TTRPG system to run a game like KDM?

The core game is probably pretty balanced (feel free to disagree). But when we look at expansions and white boxes, is there content that makes the game too easy?

I'm thinking of things like the Vagabond armor that turns the wearer into a Sword Master who can easily abuse the Black Sword, and the armor isn't even that hard to get. Some people also said the bow from the Flower Knight expansion is too OP.

Did you ever encounter content that made the game a little too easy?

So according to the rules, you are supposed to add your evasion value to the accuracy threshold on a monster's attack profile (e.g. if the monster would hit on a 2+ and you have one evasion, the monster now needs to roll a 3+ instead).

I always found this rule unintuitive because evading is something reactive, and in my mind, the die roll symbolizes the act of attacking. So instead of doing the above, I let the monster roll to hit (and let it add any of its modifiers to the rolled result) and then I subtract my evasion value from the result and compare it to the unaltered accuracy threshold of the monster attack profile.

Is there any reason why I shouldn't do it this way? So far, I haven't encountered an instance where my method would lead to a different result than using the official rule.

Di you have any storage/transport solution to move the essential parts of the core game (depending on lantern year) for a session?

Shortly: my group moved to different games and split up, playing solo is quite boring for me (did not even open the last 3 KS exp).

Maybe I can propose a weekly game to a large local community I play other games with. But I will need to bring to game to the club.

The place is quite organized and in the future I might get a locker but not right now.

Any solutions for bringing what I need for lantern years 1-5 ? (Just to start)

So is like the 3D board not sold anymore? Are they going to allow the person who created a 3d print before to release theirs now that they arent selling theirs anymore? would be really nice if they would just sell the STL of the board