The Hit board Gloomhaven costs $ 150 and weighs about 20 pounds (currently)

Playing board game Gloomhaven it is called next Frosthaven. The largest Kickstarter of any kind in recent memory, but it will not be sent to gamblers until at least March 2021. Have faith, because the next game in the Franchise will come out very soon, very soon.

Gloomhaven the right one is actually a role-playing game in a box that weighs 20 pounds. That includes a standard game board, a world map, cardboard cards for just about every enemy in the game world, and a bevy of mini hero miniature on a 28mm scale. The composer Isaac Childres tells us that Frosthaven it can be quite large, specifying some additional cardboard elements he incorporated into his design.

It turns out he was working again GloomhavenA style match that matches a box closer in size to something like this Catan, but with all the good RPG inside. It's called Gloomhaven: The Lions of the Lion. He says it is a result of big box retailers, especially Target stores, looking for some of the activities Amazon has enjoyed since Gloomhaven he was finally able to finish production in 2018. Childres enters the retailer online by helping get most of the 210,000 non-Kickstarter units in the hands of the player.

"I want to see how it goes," Childres told Polygon in a March phone interview. "I mean, it was actually an important promise to take that foolishness Gloomhaven and then they actually turn it down into something sensible that would save the store shelf. ”

Childres expects the game will be available at Target stores nationwide in July or August, held alongside Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit. The suggested retail price will be approximately $ 50.

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Now what will be inside the box? Lower cardboard, to be sure. Childres says he adopted a style similar to the AdventureBook format pioneered by Plaid Hat Games & # 39; Fitted wires. Expect a flat, block-shaped game block as before Gloomhaven but with increased images. Players will place their miniatures on the page directly, using the book itself as a game board.

"I like to think of it as unusual," Childres said. That may be excessive: While real Gloomhaven has about a hundred cases, The Lions of the Lion there will be 25 instances. Players will not be able to play them all in one goal, due to the nature of the narrative. However, Childres estimates that there is something in the 30- to 40-hour area of ​​the box.

That's enough to keep most tablet groups meeting once a month for a full year.

At the time, it was a crowdfunding campaign Frosthaven it continues its ascension. More than 24 hours after it started is now over $ 5.3 million. Polygon arrived in Childres on Wednesday, just hours after receiving his $ 500,000 goal, to find out how he held himself.

"Today has been one of the most crazy things in my life," the email said. “But in everything, it's gone as we expected. And finally I hope that the project and the game itself will bring people a lot of joy. ”

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