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Gear Grids: The System that More Games Should Use

I'm working on a few videos in the background (Literally working on the next episode of A Choice Cut right now) and while writing up the details for the armor video, I realised that while I often cover v...

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Deathmas: Cockroach Queen | White Box | Kingdom Death: Monster Review

The guest had arrived and they felt merry and bright despite the gloomy frost that descended on the settlement. Their joints ached and their blue-tinged skin stung in the biting winds. Barely audibl...

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People of the Lantern with Justin of Playing Board Games | Lantern Year 5: Screaming Antelope (Level 1)

Time for another Antelope. Paint, wherefore art tho?

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The Froskrafter: A Breakdown and Analysis (2 of 2)

Part two, you know the drill, let us get into the remaining seven gear cards and then look at what expansions have the most interesting synergies to explore with the Froskrafter!

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Analysing and Ranking Armor Sets in Kingdom Death: Monster

I intended to come back to the videos with a short, simple video. This was not it. This is the longest video I've done and if I do another one of this length it'll be a miracle. I couldn't edit this one as much as I would have liked because beyond a certain file size it started crashing with each...

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The Froskrafter: A Breakdown and Analysis (Part 1 of 2)

As we start the new year it is time to begin moving towards a review of the Frogdog; which I will say at the moment is an expansion I do not have a completely clear final set of thoughts on. Usually when I am in this position, working through all the individual elements with detailed analysis hel...

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People of the Lantern with Playing Board Games - LY 4: The Butcher

We made a positional error in this one that turns out to be very costly!

Also missed the deathblow bonus and a bold trigger, because Justin's still learning and it's late evening here when I'm recording. Whoops, oh well.

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My Favourites 2024 Edition

2024 has been a rough year for the world overall, one can only look towards 2025 and hope things may trend better. However, in the world of games we've had a fantastic year, with not one, but two expansions from Adam Poots Games. While the Black Knight expansion is easily my preferred expansion o...

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People of the Lantern with Playing Board Games (Justin) LY 3 - Screaming Antelope

Here we go again! Plague is fun card to draw early.

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Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year

Hi all, as always I will be taking two weeks off, the first week for rest and the second week to return to work and write/record for the following week as I usually work one to two weeks ahead of writing (apart from shop review releases, which I put out as soon as I've crammed enough games in wit...

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Sunlantern Armor Aya White Box Review | Kingdom Death: Monster

Aya donned the mask, motes of energy hidden in the extinguished lanterns of her armor vibrated with new life. Constraining and directing her range of motion, the armor put an impossible parabolic di...

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15th Anniversary Survivors White Box Review | Kingdom Death: Monster

In celebration of 15 years since the release of the first Kingdom Death figure, we revisit the starting survivors of Monster, Allister, Zachary, Lucy, and Erza. Fifteen lantern years into their exis...

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Kingdom Death work Playing Board Games - LY2 Screaming Antelope time.

Enjoy!

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Seed Patterns - Monster Era III & IV Patterns

Last stretch for the the Gambler's Chest Expansion (GCE) Seed Pattern cards and we're going to cover both Era III and IV here to get this series wrapped up. That'll let me get back to the Philosophies a...

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Kingdom Death: Monster - Overview and Review of People of the Lantern

Early release for Pillar Patrons and above.

I'm tired boss.

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Seed Patterns - Monster Era II Patterns

As mentioned on Wednesday's post, I have a rather large video to edit which means I need to get ahead of the writing portion in order to try and get that published asap, so for the next two weeks we'll ...

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Kingdom Death Simulator: Black Knight Expansion Review

Please accept this video in lieu of the People of the Lantern Primer video which I intended to come out this week. That video was supposed to be a simple, shorter one between Dark Bestiary videos. I spent four hours recording stuff and I'm working on cutting it down, I suspect it's still going to...

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Seed Patterns - Monster Era I Patterns


With the Gambler's Chest generic patterns forming a broadly positive impression it is time to move onto the Monster specific ones, I'm going to again try and push these together as much as possible,...

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People of the Lantern with PlayingBoardGames - Episode 2

Justin's first proper level 1 White Lion. How will the people of Arkham fare?

Edit: It's live now, I should have posted it 24h later. Fingers crossed I'll get it right next time. Sorry about that!

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Brave + Hollow – A Kingdom Death White Box Review


Declining to wish upon a frozen star, Brave sets out to fulfill his own wish. He carries Hollow's husk upon his back, journeying to Dedheim to restore the spark of life to her twisted remains.

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Kingdom Death: Phoenix Hunt Reenactment Beta Box Review

The settlement celebrates the unlikely victory over the timeless Phoenix. A whirling dance of iridescent feathers sparkles at the settlement's center enshrining the memory of the settlement's persev...

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People of the Lantern with PlayingBoardGames - Episode 1

A while ago I reached out to Justin from PlayingBoardGames about Kingdom Death, something he'd expressed interest in. PBG do amazing deep dives into Arkham Horror LCG while also covering a bunch of other games. Even though they are mechanically very different, there's so much common ground betwee...

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Seed Patterns - Generic Era II Patterns

Era II makes up the remainder of the Gambler's Chest Expansion (GCE) generic pattern cards, this means that our foundational seed patterns halt around the Node 2 power level; and as we saw with Era I la...

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Dark Bestiary: Chapter Three - The Gorm Early Release for Patrons

Two hours of me rambling about how great the Gorm is as we dive into all its different cards and mechanics. I would have cut this down a bit here and there, but my editing software kept crashing due to some issue with the recording codec. I'll have to reinstall OBS and see if that doesn't happen ...

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Seed Patterns - Generic Era I Patterns

We'll start our deep dive into the Seed Patterns with the Era I “generic” line. The generics are the ones labelled with just the “seed” keyword, meaning that they are present in every single cam...

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Seed Patterns – An Overview and Review

As is tradition, I want to start this dive into a section of the GCE with a top down look at what Seed Patterns are, how the system works and dig into the various positives and potential negatives that ...

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How I Assess Gear

Except when reviewing new releases; I'm now going to get back into digging around in the Gambler's Chest while I finish out my thoughts on the Frogdog in preparation for a review on that expansion. I want to return to the philosophies, but gear is one of my all time favourite things, so for a lit...

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Kingdom Death Review – Sun Claws Esther Beta Content

The weavers of mirages learn a solitary dance of intense passion, their posture embracing an absent partner. The lantern light shines off the polished teeth that adorn their costume, cre...

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Kingdom Death Review – Indomitable Survivor - Thumping Timpani Ledla

WARNING: REQUIRES GAMBLER'S CHEST EXPANSION

Spewing and hacking, Ledla stumbled out of the kaleidoscopic cloud crying many-hued tears. From within the obscuring smog, wretch...

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Kingdom Death Review – Guinevere


Guinevere was born on the day of the lantern eclipse, as the darkness closed in on the settlement, her cries pierced the darkness. A warning to the lurking threats beyond.

In her youth ...

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