Not too long ago, I talked about grail games. In particular I talked about what a grail game was and what some of the grail games that I had were. One of them is a game we’ll talk about today, Solomon Kane. How did I find it so quickly and have I picked up anything else, come join me and find out.

Solomon Kane

So, as I talked about in that article, Solomon Kane is one of those games that I saw on Kickstarter but then didn’t back and have been regretting it since. The concept of the game is cool, it is based off of a book or graphic novel series about the title character Solomon Kane. What was unique about this game was how it’s a dungeon crawl or adventure type game, but no one plays the title hero Solomon Kane. They all play virtues that are influencing him, so jointly the group all controls Kane and gets him to do what is needed.

So, story time as to how I got the game. I talk about the GloryHoundd channel a lot, and that’s because they are great. They have a discord and a member over there, Fatal will be what we call them, has also been trying to track down Solomon Kane. As soon as it started shipping to backers, it of course hit Ebay as well. They picked it up for some unknown amount of money. Then a few days ago, I get a message on Discord. They have found it again on Ebay and while most pledges seem to be going at $300+ with shipping, this one was at auction for $100 and a buy now with free shipping for $200. So they thought of me and probably wished they had waited themselves, and sent it my way. I of course jumped on it and have it on it’s way now.

Bloodborne

Another big Kickstarter game, but this one I didn’t go onto Ebay or anything like that. In fact, I’m not buying all the Kickstarter bits and bobs, just the base game which has hit retail now. Based off of the video game, this is an adventuring game that will probably have you dying pretty often. But it’s not a massive campaign game, one that can probably be knocked out, at least a story can be over a few sessions or maybe even one long session. While I still love my big campaign games, I also want to play my non-campaign games as well. What I am trying to do is find some epic games, Bloodborne seems like one, where I can play it in a session or two and it’ll feel epic like a campaign game. I want that fun experience in as many games as I can. With 2020, though, most of those experiences were one off or farther between, so I add to my collection to hopefully increase games that can give that to me.

Deep Madness: Epic Monster

Yup, I swung past my friendly local game store, All Systems Go!, again. This time I traded in 12 seasons for South Park. I can find South Park online and I’m not sure when I’d watch it again. I like the s how quite well, but not one I’m going to checkout. So I picked up another epic monster. That gives me three of them now which basically just creates some scenarios where you can play with different monsters and have them behave differently. I’m sure this new one will kill me just as happily as the first ones will kill me.

Now, with that trade, I’m torn on what I’m going to pick up. I still have store credit from Dice Throne Season 1, Dice Throne Adventures, Sword & Sorcery (plus expansions) and those 12 seasons of South Park. There are two things I’m interested in. The first is more Deep Madness, there are two expansions and probably 2 epic monsters there that I haven’t picked up yet. So I could use the store credit for that. Or they have Pitch Car plus 4 expansions there. What tempts me about Pitch Car is that I think it’ll be a good one for the toddler to learn to play eventually. Something that we’ll all enjoy playing as a family, him with friends as he gets older, and even for game nights when we do those in person again.

Which of those two would you get? And which of the things I picked up seems the most interesting?

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