(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Middara: Unintentional Malum – The Complete Trilogy

Designers: Clayton Helme, Brooklynn Lundberg, Brennon Moncur, Ian Tate

Artists: Stefanie Gustafsson (Aeon’s End: The Void, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Coup, Fickle, Runika and the Six-sided Spellbooks, Whistle Stop), Alex Hanson (Assemblage of Eternity), Hector Sevilla Lujan, Rhett Mason, Jon Troy Nickel

Publisher: Succubus Publishing (Cartography, ILIOS, King’s Ransom)

Genre/Mechanisms: action point allowance system, cooperative play, dice rolling, grid movement, hand management, miniatures, modular board, storytelling, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A re-printing of Middara: Unintentional Malum Act 1, along with two big expansions for Acts 2 and 3. This story-focused dungeon crawler also boasts several types of smaller expansions, including: Pirates of Elenia Adventure Pack, The Cave Sickle Queen Bounty Pack Expansion, The Pit Boss Bounty Pack Expansions, Trail of a Princess Micro Adventure, the Alternate Antagonists Variant Pack, a Promo Pack, the Silvia Dark Mother Figure Promo Figure, Resin Kits for each of the 4 main characters, playmats, extra dice, art books, and an Update Pack for backers of the original Kickstarter.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $155, reprinting of the original Act 1 base game

All-In (w/shipping): $570

Campaign Ends: 7/24

Game Ships: Dec. 2021 (May 2020 for the Act 1 base game, Update Pack if applicable, Rulebook, Promo Pack, Resin Kits, Art Book 1, Playmats & Extra Dice)

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 4664%, with 27 days to go.