Gloom of Kilforth: A Fantasy Quest Game Expansions
Created by Tristan Hall
Gloom of Kilforth is a game of high fantasy with a gothic edge, where 1-4 players, working individually or together, assume the roles of heroes on a journey through a dark world of magic and peril. Each player follows their hero’s tale, an epic saga from modest beginnings through to a climactic battle that will decide the fate of the world...
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Gloom of Kilforth: Encounters - March 2018
about 6 years ago
– Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 05:48:47 PM
Hey y'all!
Just checking in - how are you?
Incomplete Orders!!
There are still 39 of you who haven't filled in your BackerKit details - please don't miss out guys!! We've sent many reminders to you peeps with incomplete orders, but if you're not sure what's going on you can contact me directly here: ninjadorg at gmail dot com.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://kilforth.backerkit.com/.
Update!!
As with the original Gloom of Kilforth, there is a tonne of art going into this expansion content so it's a slow but steady process. For those of you who added Touch of Death to your pledge we're also developing the redonculous amount of art needed for that epic project too. I'd love to have a significant portion of it complete before we launch the Touch of Death Kickstarter so we're that much closer to manufacturing next time around.
This is kind of a strange one for me because all of the design development for Gloom of Kilforth and its expansions is complete from my point of view, so apart from briefing and guiding the artists there's very little I can do to speed things up apart from chasing them regularly (which I do!) - so I'm kind of in the same boat as you guys in that respect, waiting for it all to coalesce.
In any case here's another sneaky art teaser for you - please welcome the beautiful elf maiden Silvara whose friendly nature will see her join your party and aid you in your quest*...
Ain't she just gorgeous??
* parts or all of this sentence may not be true.
Press!!
Bloomin' Tabletop Gaming Magazine only went and gave us a flippin' two page Hall or Nothing bonanza spread by Empire magazine's expert gaming and movie guru Dan Jolin - you can pick up the latest issue including our feature article, which is out now:
And here's a light-hearted interview I did with the chaps at Game Mountain:
Here's where we're up to with our current Slate of projects at Hall or Nothing Productions:
The Hall or Nothing Slate
So, technically this is the end of the Gloom of Kilforth update, but if you're interested in our other projects too, please continue reading...
Recently we've been interviewing some powerhouse fantasy game designers for our #BoardChitless podcast.
#BoardChitless Episode 22 - Isaac Childres' Gloomhaven Interview
Isaac Childres gave me some tips and friendly advice to improve the page layout for the original GoK Kickstarter when we went head to head with Gloomhaven back in 2015, and he's such a nice bloke I knew we had to get him on the show:
#BoardChitless Episode 21 - Frank West's The City of Kings Interview
We recently chatted to our friend and fellow game designer Frank West about his blazing success on Kickstarter with the fantasy epic City of Kings - you can listen to the full interview on our BoardChitless podcast here:
Intellectual Property Coup!!
We also have a number of other projects in development including an IP that I'm really excited for, which I'd love to tell you more about but am currently under NDA. I'll be sharing the info with our play-testers soon though, and there's still time to join our play-testing crew by contacting me directly via ninjadorg at gmail dot com if you'd like to help out.
Lifeform!!
Finally, once all of the files for our last game '1066, Tears to Many Mothers' are finalised, we're going to launch our next Kickstarter for the alien terror epic from Mark Chaplin and Toby Farrands 'Lifeform'. We've uploaded a complete play-through video if you'd like to see if it's something you'd be interested in:
Ciao for now!
Tristan xx
Gloom of Kilforth: Encounters - February 2018 - Last call for order updates!
about 6 years ago
– Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:52:43 PM
Howdy peeples - How ya doin?
The last day to make final updates to your order is Thursday 1st February. After this date, we will lock your reward selections and charge cards for add-on item purchases, pledge upgrades, and pre-orders. You can update your shipping address up until we lock addresses for shipping.
If you haven’t answered your survey yet, if you fill out your BackerKit survey or pay for extra shipping after the order due date, we’ll still receive your information but your shipment may be delayed.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://kilforth.backerkit.com/.
THANK YOU!
Thank you all again for being so responsive to answering our BackerKit survey—even though it may not seem like much as an individual backer, you have no idea how tremendously helpful this has been for me when trying to keep track of all 3,034 of you!
Thanks everyone for your support!
Gloom of Kilforth in another Top 10 list!!
Literally never get tired of seeing these lists. :)
Our second beautiful game '1066, Tears to Many Mothers' has made the final nominations list for Most Anticipated Game of 2018! Please click and thumb it for as many categories as you can: Ctrl + F "1066" really helps - and we really need that help against some of these mega game titles... :)
That said, victory is about choosing your battles and let's face it: we're getting firmly spanked in every category except Historical - and the only games beating us there are fictional, so please get thumbing peeps! Vote for 1066, Tears to Many Mothers as Most Anticipated in the Historical category and help give us the wings (and wins) we need:
Here's a visual representation of where we're up to with our major game projects:
The Slate
Nuts Publishing on Gloom of Kilforth!!
Our French partners Nuts! have put together a cool preview video - in French - for their upcoming slate too, and our games Gloom of Kilforth and 1066, Tears to Many Mothers feature heavily from around the 6,15 mark:
Thanks to Chris Pearson for hosting the January solo challenge for Gloom of Kilforth. If you already have the game and want to compete against your fellow Kilforthians worldwide and maybe even win some geekgold and, well, cool points from us whilst you're at it all you have to do is post your interest here and play along:
Our podcast continues to deliver the scoop on the latest games we've played, and with some more designer interviews in the pipeline you won't want to miss out:
Are you interested in helping us play-test new titles? Then get in touch! Email us at ninjadorg at gmail dot com and we'll add you to our play-tester list and let you know when forthcoming games will be available for you to download and play-test.
That's all for now folks,
Tristan xx
Australia Only Mini-Update - good news for Oz shipping costs!!
over 6 years ago
– Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:45:14 PM
Hi guys,
If you're not from Australia you can ignore this update, but have a brilliant holiday anyway, and let's hang out again in the New Year!
If you are from down under please read on...
AUSTRALIAN BACKERS, thanks for your feedback on the shipping guys. After lots of phone calls and messages this weekend we’ve toiled tirelessly and managed to work something out that we’re very excited about!
Due to the large number of Australian backers in this campaign we have been able to partner with Let’s Play Games, an Australian distribution company who will now be providing local fulfilment across Australia. This means we have been able to cap shipping costs for Australia backers at £16 for all pledge levels, including Hall In! :)
Let’s Play are also now taking Gloom of Kilforth to retail in Australia as well, which is flipping awesome.
Don’t worry if you only backed for Encounters at £12 shipping - this will remain the same. If you have already selected your shipping at the higher rate you should be able to go into your pledge and change it, if you are still having problems and/or have already paid just email me at ninjadorg at gmail dot com and I’ll sort it out for you directly.
Okay, that's all for now, loads more exciting things to come in 2018 - have a brilliant break everyone!
Tristan xx
Gloom of Kilforth: Encounters - December 2017
over 6 years ago
– Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:42:36 PM
Wotcha ladies and gentlefellas!
How's your Christmasesies shaping up? We're all giddy as a gif over here and looking forward to Santa's visit like:
Okay, there is a LOT of important information coming up, so brace yourselves and pay attention please...
Important Info 1: Shipping!!
During the campaign we broke the game down into 3 waves, with wave 1 being the base game, wave 2 being the expansions, and wave 3 being Touch of Death. After discussions with our shipping partners we have decided to combine waves 1 and 2 into one wave.
We are further along than anticipated - the design for the expansions is all finished up already, so we are literally just waiting for the remaining art to come in, much of which we already have. So there's no longer any reason to hike up shipping costs by offering two separate waves which will come out very close together anyway. The shipping costs to combine the first two waves will benefit you, and they will benefit us.
This means we now aim to ship everything in one wave in the first half of 2018! :)
Touch of Death will still be shipped in its own separate wave (previously the 3rd wave, it will now be the 2nd wave), and we can confirm that it will have its own Kickstarter in late 2018 too. The pre-order funds already raised/being raised for it are going towards the Touch of Death Kickstarter funding goal already, bringing it that much closer to realisation.
Important Info 2: BackerKit Pledge Manager!!
BackerKit will send out a 'smoke test' very soon (I've submitted everything from my end already) to a random 5% of backers from each pledge level before the wide release of the pledge manager, just to ensure everything is working properly. Providing everything is okay with that group, we will be launching the pledge manager shortly afterwards.
Anyone else as excited as I am?
So, you should receive your notification for it soon - some of you might have already received it, but don't worry, you're not missing out on anything if it takes a little longer.
Once you have access to the pledge manager we need you to fill it in along with all of your shipping address details by the end of January 2018.
If you do not fill it in by the end of January 2018 you risk losing your pledge.
If you do not know where you are going to be living in the first half of 2018 then please use a safe address of a trusted friend of family member. It should all be self-explanatory, but if you have any urgent questions just drop us a line: ninjadorg at gmail dot com.
Tabletop Gaming News' Game of the Year 2017??
Gloom of Kilforth features in Tabletop Gaming Magazine's listing for Game of the Year 2017!! :O
We also placed in the People's Choice Top 100 Solo Games for 2017 at a staggering number 33 - not bad for our first year on the list, and up against some insanely good competition:
For the sake of logistics, these will now simply be shipped with every copy of Encounters. So rather than having to select them manually in the pledge manager, we will just include them for you. If you don't need them because you don't own the first edition of the game, don't worry you'll just have an extra vampire (you could even shuffle him into your deck too if you're tough enough!) and 4 spare Enemy tokens. :)
If you want these but did not order Encounters, don't worry, you will be able to add the Encounters expansion pack to your pledge in the pledge manager too. If you're in the unusual position of wanting these but not the Encounters expansion pack, well, then, you crazy.
Card Totals - for card-sleeveing, etc.
For those who have been asking, the 'Hall' In pledge level (base game plus, Pimp my Gloom, Darker Gloom and Encounters expansion) would require:
378 Regular sleeves
32 Mini sleeves
25 Tarot sized sleeves
If you add Touch of Death you would need (brackets are an overall total for absolutely everything):
238 (613) Regular sleeves
32 (64) mini sleeves
0 (25) Tarot sized sleeves
So, to summarise:
Gloom of Kilforth base game is 278 regular cards, 32 mini cards
Pimp my gloom adds 25 Tarot sized cards
Darker Gloom is 12 regular cards
Encounters ended at 85 regular cards
Touch of death is 234 regular cards and 32 mini cards - it also has an extra 4 regular cards already from stretch goals too
Rules v1.2!!
Below is a link to the second official print version of the rules, which will be included in all copies of the new print run.
Unfortunately we are just unable to offer a printed version of this amended rulebook to existing owners of the game.
We investigated about the possibility of this during and since the campaign but it is just too cost prohibitive, not just the printing but the packaging and shipping too: because it is a bigger shape than the expansions it will not fit in their boxes so would have to be packed, sorted and shipped separately. Nevertheless, the free rules pdf is available to everyone, and I've summarised the changes below, plus there's the google sheet of every single wording change made for anyone interested in that too!
Thanks for all of your feedback on this, especially thanks to Tor Gjerde for stretching the rules not quite to breaking point, and to the most excellent Nick Hughes for compiling the list of rules questions in the first place. Here are a couple of important clarifications/updates:
Heroes can now still join a Team after they have made camp.
Traps are clarified to trigger before the Skirmish step.
Plots are set up in separate decks for each Ancient.
Heroes cannot escape or leave Ancient battles by any means.
Skill Types are no longer considered keywords for Sagas.
Automatically passing evade checks with higher Sneak is now a variant.
Heroes can trade Loot tokens.
We now have a (fairly exhaustive) index as well!
I've tried to keep everything as crystal clear as possible, so in the google sheet of changes there are four columns: the page number, the section on that page for the errata, the new text that needs to replace the old text, and what the old text was originally.
The 'biggest' layout change to note is in the Engagements section, I've separated out the Ancient battle rules into their own new section.
Here's the google sheet for the changes:
