Kickstarter Lone Wolf - The Board Game now live on Kickstarter

[Sir Knight]

Good day! I posted before when I and my friends in Megara Entertainment launched gamebook projects on Kickstarter (link and link), and posted again recently to preview our NEW project. This forum has a "Boardgames, Card Games, Wargames and Miniatures" section, and ours definitely fits: it is a tabletop wargame/board game based on the classic gamebook RPG series Lone Wolf. We've now launched!

We ask your help in bringing Lone Wolf - The Board Game to life. The project is here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1615043334/lone-wolf-the-board-game
Or: http://kck.st/1x6Eqd6

A FREE print-and-play scenario is here:

http://richardhetley.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/fight-for-fogwood.pdf
http://www.lonewolftheboardgame.com/images/the fight for fogwood.pdf

The downloadable beta rulebook is here (unedited; yes, we are working on the typos):

http://richardhetley.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/lone-wolf-beta-sept-2014.pdf

(Save to computer for best display.)

The game is one of the most artistic projects you're likely to see, designed wholly by Gary Chalk, illustrator of Redwall, HeroQuest, and many other beloved worlds. Lone Wolf is the story of the last of the Kai Lords, warrior monks who defend the land of Sommerlund against the Darklords and their minions. It was written by Joe Dever starting in the 1980's and originally illustrated by Gary Chalk. Gary designed his own board game version back in those early days, and now 30 years later it's playtested and ready to share.

I'm posting here, on an RPG forum, because we're in that intersection between game styles where everything gets blurry. The classic gamebooks are "solo roleplaying." Today fans of the classic books can re-create the battles of the gamebooks and change the course of history. Wargamers will be pleased by how quickly the game plays, with its multiple combat system where all the action can be resolved with a single roll.

After helpful feedback from folks like you, we've done our best to focus the page on the game's strengths and offer the highest value in the game set that we can, with 80 hand-drawn playing pieces and many other features. Lone Wolf has always been an exciting action game, and we're thrilled Gary has given us this chance to bring the action beyond the page.

We hope you'll take a moment to look, share the free downloads, and pledge if you can. Thanks for reading!

Some images:


Box cover


Maps and figures


Some of the pieces of the print-and-play demo (final game involves no folding . . . )

 

[Sir Knight]

Our project is approaching the halfway mark in the campaign, and, thanks to backers and supporters like you, the halfway mark in funding! If you haven't looked yet, here's something new that might be of interest:

Do you know the Redwall series?

How about the board game Cry Havoc?



The creator Gary Chalk is releasing his first-ever artbook as an add-on reward, compiling 120+ pages of work from Redwall, Lone Wolf (of course), and the other classic worlds he's illustrated. It's the first compilation that fans of these worlds have ever seen.

This is available with or without the connected Lone Wolf board game so people can choose what they want: it's one of many things on offer to boost funding and we're glad to provide it separately. (And, yes, shipping is already in the price.)

We're still running until December 5. Please consider pledging!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1615043334/lone-wolf-the-board-game

If you're not interested yourself, but perhaps know someone else who might be, please spread the word. Any support will help Gary continue to bring new creative projects to life!

 

[Sir Knight]

Hello, all. Lone Wolf - The Board Game is into its final week with over 2/3 of its funding goal. Now is the time we most need your help to bring this game to life!

If you don't know what's so interesting about one fantasy world out of many, I wrote an essay that's turned out popular:

http://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/45115/gamebooks-or-why-are-you-playing-that

It's more than just a board game on offer. We posted about Gary Chalk's artbook before (covering classics like the Redwall series), and we're also offering Autumn Snow, a new official gamebook spin-off of the original Lone Wolf gamebooks. Since the 1980's, gamers wondered about female "Kai Lords," and the question remained mostly unanswered since Lone Wolf was the last to survive: now Autumn Snow will burst onto the scene!



(Edit: We've made a retraction here. The project will not include any board game content based on Autumn Snow, but will include her gamebook as stated.)

But the opportunity will be gone after December 5, so please take a look, share your thoughts, share the project, and pledge if you can:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1615043334/lone-wolf-the-board-game

Thank you yet again!

 

[Sir Knight]

. . . And DONE! We've finished the campaign for Lone Wolf - The Board Game with full funding and one unlocked stretch goal, all thanks to folks like you. Thank you very much for your ear, support, and/or patience as we spread the word about this campaign. Now we begin the work that your money makes possible.

If you're coming across this thread for the first time, you may find more information on the official page:

http://www.lonewolftheboardgame.com

A proper website will be set up there once the game goes on general sale, which we hope to be no later than November 2015.

Thanks for an exciting and successful month. Onward!