KDM Lantern Year 1

The Kingdom Death Monster Kickstarter first attracted my eye back when I was first dating my finance. We invested and spent much good time deciding which of the gorgeous miniatures to get. Finally we ended up getting all the expansions and a few of the promos. After years of waiting the base game finally arrived and since it's my little corner of the net I'm going to use this blog to document our travails and hopefully success. Since so much ink has already been spilled on the amazing miniatures I'll not retread that ground no matter how much how I concur.

So without further ado:

In our first lantern year we named our group per the classic team Allister, Zachary, Ezra, and Lucy. As we have the promo cards Dying Lantern and Vibrant Lantern we rolled off and gave the Dying Lantern to Allister, the character depicted in the introductory story. The Dying Lantern is a nice piece of gear no affinities and grants +1 dodge. It's not really powerful until you can start stacking enough dodge to make it hard for the monsters to hit. If we can get to the point where monsters start missing more than hitting I expect it to be amazing. Sadly in the first lantern year it did absolutely nothing.

The fight went quite well for our survivors. We suffered only two bleeding tokens Zachary lost his ability to use survival and Ezra picking up the disorder seizures. But luck definitely favored the ladies especially Lucy who snagged a point of strength. Between the two of them the first lion was reduced by two speed when it finally used it's knockback attack and split the party. We laughed and pelted it with half our Founding Stones as it tried to move far enough to get any of us. We finished it off in melee.

We got amazingly lucky on the rewards with two critical wounds granting extra resources and drawing the one that can be converted to two giving us an amazing 11 resource cards for the settlement phase.

Going to our new settlement now know as Haven we selected Allister to get the bonuses taking him out for the next session. We built the base buildings and picked the innovation Inner Lantern. We got so much gear; Bone Axe, Bone Darts, and most of the Rawhide set, gloves, boots headband and vest.

Next time our first full hunt.