Goblins

Well, the Facebook page for the upcoming Goblins game is off to a fantastic start! Evertide Games has set up a system of stretch goals linked to how many “likes” the page gets. We’ve passed 1000 likes, which means the game is guaranteed to include one bonus character on top of the twelve other playable characters. Based on the votes on the facebook page, it looks like that character will be Biscuit. Once the page hits 2000 likes, a second bonus character will be added (as I’m writing this, we’re at 1433 likes). I ‘think’ the 3rd bonus character will be added if we hit 4000 likes but don’t hold me to that, my numbers might be off. I’ll get back to you with an officially confirmed number for the 3rd bonus character soon. Note: As each bonus character is added to the game, their gear is also added!

EDIT: It has been confirmed that the 3rd bonus character gets added to the game at 4000 likes.

Richard James (Evertide Games president) has talked about wanting to put the extra work into making Not-Walter one of the bonus characters. I want this. I want to make the following party…

Biscuit wielding the Axe of Prissan / Klik wielding Kore’s axes (to munch on. He gets hungry)  / Not-Walter wielding Kore’s uber-crossbows and with one metallic wing, given by Klik

So if you’d like to see Not-Walter as a bonus character, say so in a comment on the Facebook page. Evertide games is really good at busting their butts to make sure the players have what they want in a balanced game. And please, please, please spread the word and support the Kickstarter for the game when it comes out on May 21st! I look forward to playing this game with lots of folks at conventions!

As always, thanks for reading.

~Thunt

Happy free comic book day! Over here, you’ll see our growing collection of downloadable PDFs, each priced at 4 or 5 bucks. Today, Danielle and I are giving away free PDF copies of Goblins Book 1, which contains a bunch of little bonus thingys (including a list of “spoilers” that are no longer spoilers at all, because they’ve all happened by now). But in order to give this PDF away for free, we have to manually enter your email into the “100% discount” section over at Drivethru. So here’s what we’re going to do. In a little while, I’m going to be drawing live while Danielle hangs out in the chatroom of the live feed. Just pop into the chatroom and ask for a free copy of the Goblins Book 1 PDF. Danielle will immediately get your email address from you, enter it into the Drivethru site and you should instantly have your coupon code and link for the free download. We LOVE free comic book day, so we’re prepared to sit at our computers and do this for most of the day, so come on in and say hello!

The Goblins Alternate Realities Card Game

The Kickstarter for the new Goblins card game launches this month! Here’s the Facebook page. Keep in mind that the more ‘likes’ we get on Facebook, the more bonus material will be included in the game when it’s released. So even if you don’t have any money to help out, you can still make the game even more awesome! The full list of bonus material and various stretch goals will be detailed when the Kickstarter goes live on May 21. I think you guys will really like this game. We’ve been playing it and tweaking it a lot and I think we’ve all (Evertide Games and us) come up with something that is addictive and fun. The point of this game is to create your own story with it. Familiar characters from Goblins start to change, depending on how you play them and story elements start to form. Because your game is an alternate reality to the comic, it’s technically canon. Examples…

In one game, we saw Dies Horribly arm himself with Kore’s crossbows and armour and pump all of his XP into combat, becoming Dies KOREbly, the most evil, feared creature in the realm. The only way to kill him, was for a group of other characters to gang up on him and honestly, everyone was too chicken to try (like the comic, your characters in the game can die) so everyone mostly ran away from him. We’ve had Fumbles follow Big Ears around, annoying him (winning charm challenges against him) and earn XP by doing so. Fumbles’ player then pumped all of that XP into more charm, which meant that whether Fumbles wanted to annoy you or win your heart, he was pretty much unstoppable. In another game, a very clever player (me) decided to make an all combat party. So Kore, Minmax and Complain Of Names joined forces. It was a wall of paladin badassnes and goblin/human raging. It was awesome! I lost that game, actually. But up until I lost, I was amazing! I have yet to see anyone combine Big Ears and Kore together… with the Axe of Prissan… and the Shield of Wonder. I’m going to give myself nightmares.

Anyways, keep reading this blog, watching the Facebook page or follow me on Twitter to be kept up to date on Goblins: Alternate Realities.

As always, thanks for reading.

~Thunt

This is my friend Meggars. She is awesome. She is hilarious. Just sayin’.

EDIT: Meggars has decided to make her video private, so nevermind. She’s still awesome though.

As always, thanks for reading.

~Thunt