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RE: A Distraction! Kingdom Death: Monster
This seems really cool but i'm having a hard time grasping what kind of game it is. Is it like a D&D game with cards? I play a lot of Munchkin with friends but it seems a lot more complicated than that.
Would love to learn some more about it, i'll have to look into it. I found the line "No one plays KDM correctly" really humorous, reminds me of every time I try to get a game of monopoly going! In average though, how long would you say a single game may take? It seems to be quite complex and have a lot of roleplaying parts to it which makes me think it could be quite long.
KDM is sort of like of role-playing game with cards as one of the randomizers that goes into gameplay, and sort of like a tactical boardgame, and sort of like a resource management boardgame, all dumped into a blender and set to frappe.
I've seen some very interesting gameplay from one of the Euro wargame channels that I follow.
If you are at all curious about the game, I definitely suggest watching them play it. If anything can give you a sense of what it's like, it's that.
Oh man, I watched some of those! But I sat waiting so long for them to return to the series that I gave up and unsubscribed. (I seem to recall there was logistical difficulty with getting the person who owned the game into the studio, something like that.) I'll have to revisit the channel and see if they ever picked it back up.
They're up to Lantern Year 8, now. :)
It's a big complex tactical/strategic board game! It's only like a role-playing game in that you have persistent characters who have stats and level up. You don't really get to make decisions for a character like you would in an RPG (your character's actions outside of combat are often determined by random chance), and there's no freewheeling negotiated creativity; the choices are all mechanical in nature.
The game takes place over in-world "years" that take an hour or two apiece to play through. A winning campaign can last 20-30 in-game years; a losing one will tend to collapse well before that, but still might make it to the 10-year mark. So we're talking dozens or hundreds of hours depending on how dedicated you are!