AnimeMembers
FenPaints

FenPaints

patreon


FenPaints posts

Out With the Old, In With the New Year - This Patreon in 2021 and 2022

So first of all, to everyone who has joined this year and those of you who have continued to support throughout the year. Thank you so much for your support; it's greatly appreciated - especially in such a lean time for content. We've pretty much ...

View Post

Sunlion Armor - Early Takes

First up, thank you to community members Charles and timberwolfl for supplying the details and scans of these cards so I could proxy them and get testing as soon as possible. Also, as always in these cases, this is something of an early hot ta...

View Post

The Sultans of Swing - A Musical Hunt Party Primer

Bards are great, if given a choice as to what class I would play in any D&D based game I would choose between a Shifter, an Antipaladin or a Bard every single time. As someone hailing from Wales; bardship is just something that is in the blood...

View Post

Spiders up the Drainpipe - Spidicules in a 1.6 World

Not what you want to see in your bathtub.

Few expansions in the stable of KDM sit on a razor's edge between being magnificent and 'Must tr...

View Post

Second Halloween Survivors Game Content

Second Halloween Survivors Game Content

So on the discord pictures of the game contents of the second wave of the Halloween survivors was shared. For those of you who do not use discord, here they are.

I'll be doing a full review of these when my own copies arrive, but provisional...

View Post

Pagan Poetry – What's the Place for the Flower Knight in 1.6?

Several years ago, when Adam was asked what the plan was to solve the way that the Vespertine Bow dominated the games where it was crafted, he responded with the off-hand comment that he'd make it strength 1. Which of course, at the time had peopl...

View Post

Ranking the KDM Monsters on a Tier List post 1.6

Ranking the KDM Monsters on a Tier List post 1.6

Time for a fun light one because next week I'll have to comb through the Black Friday stuff and figure out what is worth commenting on.

so, after reading around on the internet and seeing a BGG post about expansion priority; I thought it wou...

View Post

Feeble Frustrating Femurs – An Exploration of Frail

Note: The power went out yesterday while I was writing the back end of this article and I lost a lot of work due to a recovery failure. I've re-written it, but something like this always seems to lose a bit of the magic on the second attempt.<...

View Post

The 1.5 Sonic Tomahawk

The Tomahawk is a single-handed, straight shaft hatchet which originated from the indigenous people of North America. The root of the English word comes ...

View Post

Beautiful and Enduring – The Polishing Lantern

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.  – Lord Byron

I still remain with an overall negative opinion in respect to the Legendary Card P...

View Post

The Humble Scrap Lantern - Builds for the 1st Transition

One of the items I felt had the most potential impact from the new ones released was the Scrap Lantern. This item provides a right facing blue affinity, +1 survival when departing and +1 accuracy if you have a red and blue affinity in your gear gr...

View Post

The “Legendary” Hot Take Part 2

For Part 1 go here.

So we're going to continue this hot take, again I'll stop around three thousand words in order to keep things at a manageable length, so we'll...

View Post

The "Legendary" Hot Take - Part One

So the 1.6 Update is starting to arrive and as is tradition for these things I will be taking my first 'hot take' look at everything. This initial take is with only minimal testing; use of the gear in proxy showdowns + based on my understanding of...

View Post

I'm Walking on Sunshine: The Sunstalker Showdown

The Sunstalker's quarry fight is easily one of the five best showdowns in the entire game at the moment; sitting alongside the Dragon King, Butcher, Tyra...

View Post

Legendary Card Pack Images Released

Legendary Card Pack Images Released

Yesterday the first set of images of the "Legendary" (excuse me while I go have a good laugh) Card Pack were put up on discord and BGG. I'm not going to be breaking them down today, the images provided are a bit too blurry in spots to be able to s...

View Post

VagrantSong by Wyrd Games: Review

The Cooperative AI Boss Battler (CABB) Game genre has in recent times seen an absolute explosion of games launched through kickstarter, upcoming and rele...

View Post

September RoundUp

So as I hoped, I managed to hit three reviews for September, I'm still committing to doing two a month at the moment, but if I can squeeze out a third that would be great because ultimately I'd like to do between 2 and 4 per month.

The revie...

View Post

VagrantSong First Impressions Review

Last week I received a copy of VagrantSong from Wyrd Games and I wanted to give you guys a first impressions review before I write a full one for the gen...

View Post

Middara Resins Review

There should be no secret that resins are an inevitable part of the experience surrounding boutique games like the ones we engage with; Kingdom Death has them, Aeon Trespass has them and so does Middara.

I think it's no secret that the Midda...

View Post

Sundiving: The Sunstalker Hunt

I do not often go into the hunt events in any detail when looking at these monsters while setting up for a deep dive plus visual guide, but in the cases of the Sunstalker and the Dragon King, they are just too interesting and important to pass up ...

View Post

Teeth & Scales - The Rest of the Sunstalker Gear

We've previously explored just how incredible and game expanding the cycloid scale armor can be, but as I wrote in the previous article the Sunstalker is a triple S platinum expansion extrodinaire because not only is the armor amazing; but there i...

View Post

If it Bleeds, we can Kill it: The Sunstalker's Armor

The Sunstalker is one of the strongest, most interesting and exciting creatures in the entire range of Kingdom Death's monsters, capable of holding the f...

View Post

August Roundup

This month I got two and a half games written up into review; which is a nice little push towards getting at that one game a week schedule I'm trying to reach. The games which did get published onto BoardGameGeek are:

2021-08-31 06:47:53 +0000 UTC View Post

The Sunstalker Part 1: Light, Limbs & Lifecycles

We're going to start off our deep dive into the Sunstalker with an extensive look at its physiology, the real world inspirations behind that and its life...

View Post

Kingdom Death's Official Survivor Tokens: A Review

So, they finally arrived in the post and as it has been a long time since I've had a game content Kingdom Death Product in my hands I wanted to give thes...

View Post

Input and Output Randomness in Kingdom Death

Fore note: I wanted to write more about this and tidy this piece up, but I got my second Covid-19 vaccination yesterday and it came out swinging like Mohammad Ali. So if there are unfinished thoughts or bits that could have been expanded on fu...

View Post

Big Deno's Kingdom Death YouTube Series

Big Deno's Kingdom Death YouTube Series

Hello everyone, a little bonus content today. Friend of the patreon, member of our community, amazing artist and superb gamer (seriously, his ability at Spirit Island is staggering) Trent 'Big Deno' Denison has kindly allowed me to share the playl...

View Post

Deep Madness Review live:

As per the link above, it took a bit longer than I hoped because it's around seven and a half thousand words. If you are at all interested in reviews of the expansions, which would be shorter, punchier and more targeted, please let me know in the ...

View Post

Fully Grounded #18: Resin Dung Ball

Fully Grounded #18: Resin Dung Ball

This is part of the terrain series, other entries can be found at the contents page here.

3D Terrain can be ordered from Emporium Miniatures (Not this as that wo...

View Post

Fully Grounded #16: Silk Nest

Fully Grounded #16: Silk Nest

This is part of the terrain series, other entries can be found at the contents page here.

3D Terrain can be ordered from Emporium Miniatures (Not this exact prin...

View Post