New Garphill Games Kickstarter – Cards! And Other Things

(Edit: It appears that the promos in the 5-Year Anniversary Pack for Shipwrights of the North Sea are direct reprints and not compatible with Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux. Still, it’s only 9 cards and the rest of the promos in that batch look really cool, so I’m not going to change my pledge.)

Today, Garphill Games opened an 8-day Kickstarter (though this time they will actually use a Pledge Manger for late pledges, though not for letting you add things to your pledge later.

Make sure your pledge is correct if you are going to do it now.

I was a bit torn at first, but there is some cool stuff in there.

First, the stuff I didn’t go for.

They are offering two sets of playing cards with artwork from all of the Medieval trilogies.

They’re also offering the Raiders of the North Sea playmat, the Raiders solo system, and the North Sea RuneSaga.

I wasn’t interested in those, but here’s what I did just pledge for.

One of the sometimes irritating things about Paladins of the West Kingdom is the Suspicion cards and how everybody is drawing from the same deck. One person might get lucky every time they draw a Suspicion card and get 2 silver, while others might get unlucky and get 0 silver because the 2 silver cards are already out of circulation (you do keep the Suspicion card until you have to discard it).

In this Kickstarter, there are individual Suspicion card decks so that won’t happen!

You could still get unlucky in your draws, but you won’t be affected by what other people have drawn and kept. Those 2-silver cards won’t be out of the deck unless you kept them.

In addition, you can buy every promo card for their North Sea and West Kingdom games that wasn’t part of the original Kickstarters in individual packs so you can pick and choose.

Did you back all of the Dice Tower Kickstarters and so already get those promos?

You don’t need to get them again!

I bought every promo pack except the one that’s exclusively for Raiders of the North Sea (mainly because I haven’t played that in ages, though I want to!).

So, basically I spent around $96 Canadian for about 135 promo cards and Suspicion cards.

Was that stupid?

If so, I don’t want to be smart.

The Kickstarter ends in 8 days so if you want to get in on this action, you better hurry!

Though at least there is a late Pledge Manager this time.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Garphill mention.

Yep, and it’s not even Friday.

Have a good night!