by Pesren
Thanks Dingo! If you have a bit of practice, then you'll feel right at home and probably enjoy trying out new formulas of paints/shades/washes. But you hit the nail on the head, the goal here is to help people significantly improve without either demanding they spend lots of money or giving false promises of how it works. While I appreciate some folks' enthusiasm for painting, I don't like when people suggest buying gigantic paint sets to get started (not a great idea to have 100 colors if you might not even enjoy painting one of those).. or massively exaggerating how fast it is (ENTIRE box of 200 minis in 20 minutes, bro!!).Generally for buying, "a core box" is the answer... both Cthulhu: Death May Die (season 1) and Fear of the Unknown (season 3) have similar things in common. They both have 10 characters to play as, six episodes with matching monsters, two Elder Gods, one easier (Hastur/Tsath) and one harder (Cthulhu/Azathoth), and all the core content necessary to play any other season/bonus episodes. But as you noted, Fear (Season 3) also added two mechanics for adjusting difficulty, unknown monsters (harder) and relics (easier). For that reason alone (CDMD is notoriously pretty difficult), Fear of the Unknown seems like the best answer to start with, followed by the classic season 1 core box. Seasons 2 & 4 will significantly increase the amount of investigators (10 each) and episodes (6 each), but don't give you core content or two Elder Gods (just one).
However I'd also note, if you're the patient type, there's another option... Its latest Gamefound campaign closed not but a few weeks ago. In the near future, late pledges will open for Season 5 & 6: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/cmon/dmd-forbidden-reaches...
If you're not in a rush (decent chance it's two years-ish away from delivery), $100 USD + shipping would get you the Season 5 core box (again 10 chars, 6 eps, 2 gods etc.) and some of the newer content. Crucially though, doing this would get you a 'free' stretch goal box that gives dozens more characters, two Elder Gods, and bonus episodes, ultimately more than doubling the content combos... ultimately getting more bang for your buck. Bonus: Keep the Stretch Goal box shrinkwrapped until you know you want to use it.. if not, people who missed the campaign will gladly buy those off you at inflated rates a few years from now.
So if you're the curious type, maybe it's worth grabbing a retail copy of Season 3 now (or finding a buddy to play their copy of it or Season 1), see if you like it, and if you love it as I and others do, jump in on the Gamefound late pledge once it's available to get the new content with the bonus stretch goals.
Rook96 wrote:
Thank you for reminding me of a great movie!
Wow, considering I painted their eyes dark red and gave them a glint... that feels very appropriate compared to that movie poster. Thanks for sharing, Aaron!