Game night with the Kabula prototype.

It was great fun, we really can't wait for the sample production copies!

Manufacturing & Logistics
 

After much thought, we decided to change the company who will manufacture Kabula. We were drawn towards them by a great project manager who unfortunately quit right before our Kickstarter launched. After that, we changed 3 other project managers in the next few months and, every time this happened, our quote became more expensive. Communication became a big problem as well and we could never seem to find appropriate solutions.

Long story short, Kabula will be manufactured by BangWee GM (they make In Too Deep!). They have a great track record and you can find testimonials from creators on their website. Overall, we really enjoyed communicating with them and they set a very realistic timeline for our project.
How does this affect you?

• The only change in quality we forecast is a small increase in cardstock thickness (so it's a good one! We'll still use blue core cards)

• With manufacturing scheduled for October, it is very likely that we'll keep the promise to deliver by February. Fingers crossed, we promise we are working very hard to make it happen!

Design Diary

After the chapter on Isolde in our most recent KS update, today we are going to talk about your favourite nun, Sister Chastity!

She is an extra hero and, unless you intend to bring the game to the table often enough, you don't strictly need her. But we need to talk about her before PM closes, as she won't be available at retail :)

Chastity 3D sculpt, by Rod Tinapay

As soon as Chastity arrived to the Island and saw the monsters that inhabit it, she immediately "realized" what was going on: She had been sent to Hell to get rid of demons. With such a back story, Chastity couldn't but be the monster hunter among our heroes. Her blood thirst is ingrained in her gameplay mechanics. Her initial equipment includes the Holy Vengeance, a massive sword which gets stronger the more you use it. But here is the catch, to use it you need to discard one Part token, which means you'll soon run out of them. And what is the quickest way to get more Parts? That's right, butchering monsters!

Her unique power Bartering Paws and Tails leans in the same direction, she draws a common item any time she gets Legs or Butt at the roll for Aim, while attacking a monster.
Players can of course get a different weapon early on in the game and ignore these skills, but they are actually pretty fun :)

Chastity personality cards, Illustrations by Dario Di Bartolo (still WIP!)

What about her three personalities? We'd say they are pretty divine.

Pride (generous/creepy): Delusion of grandeur can be pretty dangerous. With this personality, Chastity realizes that with the Kabula granting immortality, she can become a true Goddess. Her unlocked ability Domination allows her to "partially" control the Guardian attacks, and her new winning condition is eliminating all other heroes. She can speed up the development of this personality by attacking the Guardian, but do not overdo that, remember it is your future ally! If it dies, your winning condition can't be achieved!

Gluttony (lazy/practical): Well, this is just a normal nun!
Sorry, just kidding, I was actually at school with nuns, some are cool :) With this personality, Chastity gives herself up to the pleasure of food! And with her Imaginary Eating she heals every time anybody else on the map is healing. Isn't this OP? Well, all the powers are kind of OP, so it's kind of fine!

Lust (romantic/violent): Told you I was at school with nu...

...this is getting worse and worse!!
Chastity decides to scratch a hitch she couldn't scratch. Literally couldn't. Have we mentioned her armour is a chastity belt? Now you know! Metal Teeth always allows her to defend while also damaging the attacker. With this personality, she unlocks Guilty Pleasure, which means that every time she uses Metal Teeth, she Recharges a Part (maybe those same Teeth, so she can use it again?) and gets a Butt token (which she can use or discard the next time she uses her Holy Vengeance!)
 

A little curiosity: Chastity's miniature was heavily inspired by Guts swinging the Dragon Slayer. We consider it our little tribute to Berserk and Kentaro Miura.

Pledge Manager

Pledge Manager is closing on 31st August at 23.59 Pacific Time. There won't be another reminder (unless we have unexpected news to give!) so if you are waiting for the last minute to get your copy, please consider this the last minute :)  
Any support in spreading this link with interested people is always hugely appreciated!

Click on the image for our pre-order store! Every time you share this page in a board game forum, a cute chinchilla is born and an evil person wakes up hungover. None of those things have anything to do with sharing the link though...

This is it for this month, next mail is on 19th September, four weeks from now.

Thanks so much for reading, for any question or feedback feel free to answer this mail or contact us through our socials!

Antonio and the Kabula team,

at Stranger Games Studio