Excellente nouvelle, nous aurons bien un hub EU qui gèrera TVA et taxes douanières. Et mine de rien, SG sympas. Bon, @MathemW, on continue d’avancer sur notre PG ?
We now have enough folks backers to make ocean freight viable and can include VAT/customs fees into your shipping costs with some subsidy. But the freight costs are fluctuating a lot so we can’t promise that the fulfillment through EU hubs will be significantly cheaper than our current estimates (airmail to individual backers from Taiwan). But at least our European backers won’t need to handle the customs by themselves!
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Dear backers,
Coming to the last 40+ hours! We’ve got quite a few stuff to update!
Wooden Geisha Meeples Unlocked!
WE DID IT! 7 wooden geisha meeples are unlocked for each copy of Geisha’s Road! But that’s not the end! We’ve got a few more goodies waiting to be unlocked. Please keep sharing the campaign with your community! THANK YOU!
Lantern Cards Upgrade Unlocked!
We just passed $132K and the Lantern cards will be upgraded to cardboard tokens! They take up less space and have a better visual presentation (as cute little lanterns!).
Next up are the counteroffer tokens, which is an innovative, optional mini-expansion twist on the I-cut-you-choose gameplay! During the round, both players will have one opportunity to « reverse » an I-cut-you-choose offer by replacing one of the cards in the offer with a card from their hand and allowing their opponent to choose first. If unused, the token will be worth an extra point.
More details and background will be provided in the Designer Diary once unlocked!
KS Goodies #2 Becomes An Add-On Soon
Some of our beloved supporters had purchased the pre-production copies in Essen Spiel In Germany in October. KS Goodies #2 are the gameplay-related stretch goals for you to pick up to upgrade your copies to the « KS-ish version » (see the Stretch Goal table for details). These SGs will become 3-4 small promo packs in the future and each will be priced around $5 USD.
A Table to Show You All Stretch Goals
With 2600+ backers’ help, we’ve unlocked over 20 stretch goals! We know some of you are a bit confused by which SGs belong to which games and whether they will be available in the retail. So here is the table to show them all!
KES: Kickstarter-exclusive, which won’t be available in retail. STANDARD: Integrated into the retail version. Add-On (Goodies 1 & 2): Free rewards to backers who pledge for a specific game, but can be acquired as an add-on for those who have a pre-KS version of the game or those who want an extra copy. These Goodies will become small promo packs in retail or on BGG Store.
Notes:
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Bundles with the above games also receive 1 copy of respective items above
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We believe colored stands may be a KS Exclusive, but there is a chance that that may change as we discuss with retailers about the retail version. All the rest are confirmed KS Exclusives.
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Character story sheets should be available for backers of both Geisha’s Road and Hanamikoji (honestly speaking, we’re just too busy to change the graphics for this chart one more time).
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The 2 sets of variant rules will likely be posted in BGG, but the printed copies are considered to be KS Exclusives.
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Collector’s Bookcase and the paper sleeve can be acquired as an add-on, too.
Playmat
Good news! We have enough interest in the playmat to offer it as an add-on in the pledge manager! For those interested, here is the survey and please check the pledge manager after the campaign ends and add it to your cart!
Metal Tokens
Unfortunately, after further discussion with the publisher, we have opted not to offer metal scoring tokens for this Kickstarter. This is because of several reasons, primarily because:
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We are already planning on wooden tokens as a stretch goal, which will allow for colored illustrations,
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Metal tokens (7 of them!) add significant weight to the package, which means shipping costs may increase to the next tier, and
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There is a high minimum quantity required to make this viable (e.g., about 15K tokens, which means 2000+ backers).
Update on EU Fulfillment
We now have enough folks backers to make ocean freight viable and can include VAT/customs fees into your shipping costs with some subsidy. But the freight costs are fluctuating a lot so we can’t promise that the fulfillment through EU hubs will be significantly cheaper than our current estimates (airmail to individual backers from Taiwan). But at least our European backers won’t need to handle the customs by themselves!
Rules Update
We have been tinkering with the Geisha’s Road base ruleset and would like to share our latest thinking with you. Please let us know your thoughts on these following plans before we finalize:
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Including the Guest Expansion in the standard game
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Adding an instant win condition (winning 4 of 5 geisha colors)
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Reduce the number of rounds from 3 to 2
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Provide a small base score for each geisha
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Modify round reset rules so geishas start where the ended in the next round
For more details on these proposed changes and their rationale, please see the latest entry in our Designer Diary.
Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit
Yes! We’ll be doing an AMA on Reddit (/boardgames) at 10:00 AM EST on Monday, November 29! Super excited! Please prepare any questions you have for us during the AMA! Feel free to share with us ahead of time, especially if they are for Eros, Maisherly, or Kota-san! We can’t guarantee Maisherly or Kota-san can participate but will try our best to share the questions with them and help translate their answers back into English. Let’s have some fun!
Until the next update! (which should be pretty soon!)
~Smoox, Jerry, & Eros