Reply To: So I am Backing the Fireforge KS but it isn't funded yet.

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Actually, when  I first looked at most of the sets (costs, bits, and sculpting quality), it felt like they where trying to make figures for frostgrave with a Game of Thorns theme (not a real fan of that franchise) and that the rules where more of an after thought.

Then they added the Peasant Rabble box (which is new and different guys) and apparently they plan on making that usable both for rioting peasants and normal towns folk going about their daily live, they had me  sold on the KS at rioters. I think it is actually worth it to the history gamer to back this KS simply to reenact all the medieval village sackings and finally add peasant conscripts that actually look and are armed like peasants instead of viking bondai with different helmets or men at arms in tunics. The fantasy stuff is just a nice bonus.

Edit: LOL epic spelling fail on my part sorrey guys, meant “Game of Thrones” but I guess it does prove how much I care about that franchise, more of a Tolkien-C.S. Lewis inklings fan as far as fantasy book books go (not counting all the manga and web comics I read).

Also I agree about the fantasy races being a bit stale but that is a problem of the genera as a whole, quite frankly I would like to see someone do huldra folk (in any format). For what its worth I think the orcs and dwarfs Fireforge are proposing do have some merit since they are adding a female element to those sets,  I think if they had done that for the northmen infantry sets they could have got more backers early on and might be funded by now. Also the orcs are not old school Judge Dredd escapees like ones mantic and GW offer,  which is always a plus in my book.