Here to Slay DUNGEONS

Outside of computer games, I also like to play boardgames. I have a cabinet full of them. I don't have a chance to play them that often, but when I do play with my family we usually play Dungeon Mayhem or Here to Slay. Especially my youngest son, Cloud, is a big fan of that game.

On Christmas I bought the Here to Sleigh expansion and recently I also bought the Warriors & Druids and Berserkers & Necromancers expansions.

We didn't actually got a chance (took time) to play the new expansions yet. But both Cloud and I got excited because Unstable Games (also known for Unstable Unicorns) is releasing a spin-off of Here to Slay. It's called Here to Slay DUNGEONS and is currently in a crowdfunding campaign on gamefound. Their goal was 50k dollars, which got funded in 1 minute and 40 seconds. Currently the counter is at 3,9 million dollars.

They have a lot of rewards to choose from. If you want everything it'll cost you a couple of hundred bucks. This was appealing to me, but too much for a boardgame. So I did a bit of picking and choosing and backed the campaign with the following rewards:

Choose Your Adventure: DreamScape | Nightmare
Choice of 3 different adventures with a different setting, heroes and bosses. I went for DreamScape | Nightmare, because the heroes appealed most to me.
As a reward for following the campaign before it went live, we got an extra hero: the unstable unicorn Rain
I added the Vinyl Figure of Rain to my pledge as well.
Hero Vinyl Figure Set: Dreamscape | Nightmare
Holographic Promo Card Pack
And then there's a lot of stretch goals like new hero skins, new minions, bigger dungeon cards and a dice tower.

I can't promise I won't add other stuff to my pledge before the campaign is over. They are now adding extra's for their other games as well, starting with a new expansion Sorceres & Squires for the original Here to Slay. How can I resist that??? There's still 9 days left in the campaign. And then the waiting is on when they will produce and ship it. It will at least be in 2027, but another crowdfunding I pledged for (the boardgame Board Royale: Survival Evolved on Kickstarter) took a couple of years to get delivered, because they had many issues with printing and shipping. But we'll see ...

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