"Camp Grizzly" - Slasher Movie board game

[MoonSylver]

(11-23-2013 09:42 PM)D. Boons Ghost Wrote:  I backed this one as well - largely due to MoonSylver's sales job over at BBG.

Quote:I completely agree with the assessment that this game most likely would never have been published, beyond their limited run (or two), without kickstarter. I can feel good that I helped this company get their dreams published on a wider scale.

I am, however, a little leery of the way the miniatures are set up in this campaign. In my opinion, it would have been wiser if they had sold the Set #2 minis as individual pieces.

If you really want that first set for the incredibly cool Otis figure, you are almost locked into snagging the second set if you have any intention of buying at least one of the expansions. After all, mixing minis in with cardboard standies would be a tad annoying. And if you go ahead and buy that Set #2 yet skip the cheesy Jump The Bear expansion, you are stuck with a useless Chet mini.

In the end I will beg and plead with my wife to allow me to go all in, but the snake eating its tail approach to the minis is nagging.

And after riding and then bailing out of the roller coaster that was Brimstone, I am entirely reluctant to voice any concern I may have towards these minis over at the KS comments section.

Not an unfair observation. A point I hadn't really considered, since I'm all in for all expansions, so I'll be using them all.

I will say in their defense though, $15 for mini set #2 seems reasonable & doesn't feel like price gouging or anything like that (IMO).

No easy answer for mini's to expansions that you don't buy. Even though I'll probably only use the Jump the Bear themed stuff occasionally, I wanted access to any/all the stuff that might be in it that is "non-specific" (as I assume Chet is).

Plus, the idea of being able to play out those "horrible, franchise ruining ideas" occasionally does put a smile on my face.

All in all, I'm pretty pleased w/ how this campaign is going. Mind you it's my first, so I have no basis for comparison, but everything has been pretty fair & reasonable & this has been the kind of thing I had envisioned KS to be when I first heard of it.

If I had/have any regrets, it's that despite best efforts to try & spread the word, there don't seem to have been a lot of additional supporters. It would have been nice to hit a few more of those stretch goals than it looks like we're likely to.

Still, I'm glad the game got funded, it looks like we're getting a LOT of cool stuff once you factor in all the expansions+ the unlocked goals, & I'm glad I reached at least one person.

They seem to have been receptive to suggestions thus far more or less, or at least forthcoming if there was one they couldn't do as to why, so it might not be a bad idea to run by them being able to buy minis by the piece.

I can think of some production run issues that might be prohibitive against, but I don't want to speculate. They'd be better poised to answer that type of thing than I would obviously.