Obsession: Characters Expansion (with Metal Coins)
Created by Kayenta Games
Manoeuvre around Victorian fate with the aid of a constable, reverend, and dowager. Plus Obsession coins!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Sailing Schedule and Coin Reveal
over 1 year ago
– Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:00:01 PM
Sailing Schedule
The Characters Expansion is on the high seas! The delay in the coin video is because I wanted to get my hands on the sailing schedules to pack the update with the latest info. I don't have them all, but I have most, and the news is mixed.
The good news is that Asia, Australasia, and Oceana are going to (as usual) lead the pack. I would guess that some places on the Asian continent will start getting their pledges within two or three weeks, with Australia and the surrounding regions following close behind.
My hope was that the US and Europe would start fulfilling in mid-to-late September, but the current oceanic shipping environment is troubled, reminiscent of the shipping disaster during 2020 COVID. I think now it will be mid-October. I will update you as I learn more.
Coin Reveal
Without further ado:
Thanks for your patience!
Dan Hallagan, Kayenta Games
MPC Reveal!
over 1 year ago
– Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:05:14 AM
The Terror of a Mass Production Copy (MPC)
Offered without comment...
...but with a big smile!
Dan Hallagan, Kayenta Games
Production Complete, Addresses Will Be Locked in 2 Days
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 02:17:38 PM
Yes, I just used this in my Facebook Group, but it's perfect for here, too!
Production of the Characters expansion and Metal Coins is Complete! We Celebrate.
The coins have been done for some time. And next week, Panda Games will ship my Characters expansion MPC (mass production copy) for final approval. This means we are getting close to assembling the games and putting them on a ship.
Once afloat, we are looking at 2-8 weeks on the high seas (depending on destination), followed soon thereafter by fulfillment. When I get a sailing schedule, I will post an update with expected fulfillment dates for the various geographies. Asia and Australia will lead the way, possibly fulfilling before September (no promises)!
Addresses Will Be Locked in Two Days
This campaign, I tried something that has worked quite well; I just never locked addresses on the normal schedule. Pledge managers nag at your to lock addresses mere weeks after the Kickstarter...why?
As a result, I have been able to change addresses for 8 months. However, on July 12 addresses are locked for good. If you need an address change EMAIL ME AT [email protected]. After July 12th, spreadsheets are submitted to my fulfillment partners and out of my hands.
The Constables Are Coming Soon—Be on Your Best Behaviour!
Dan Hallagan, Kayenta Games
General Update
almost 2 years ago
– Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 01:18:29 PM
Kayenta Kitty Is Apologetic
So sorry for the lapse in communication during my relocation. I am finally settled, and I appreciate your patience.
Characters is in mass production, and we are spot on our modified schedule. As a refresher, I made a proposal to upgrade the cooperative version from a minor variant to a full-fledged game at the cost of a month delay. The Kickstarter was originally slated for fulfillment in August 2024, and I now expect we will start fulfilling in late September.
A Better Reveal of Obsession Co-Op and More Geek Madness
almost 2 years ago
– Wed, May 01, 2024 at 10:15:05 AM
Leading with Geek Madness—ELITE 8
So, I love Dune. The actual genius work of Frank Herbert, not the bad movie(s). Really bad movies. Vomit-inducing, almost-walked-out-of-the-theatre movies.
In fact, I have gone deeeep down the rabbit hole with Herbert's writing, and while Dune is the greatest science fiction book of all time, the Dosadi Experiment is better (I know that makes no sense). If you love Dune and have not read Dosadi Experiment, make it your next read. If you are hardcore, you will pick up the prequel, Whipping Star, which is not a great story in and of itself, but an essential ConSentiency primer (the galactic government of the time) and background dossier on Jorj X. McKie, our main character and saboteur extraordinary. Whipping Star will elevate Dosadi Experiment even more because you will understand the complex pre-story from the get-go.
I haven't played Dune: Imperium because I cringe/rage at adaptations of books that I love (as you can see). Why pedestrian Hollywood writers feel the need to radically change the work of masters is something that will baffle me the rest of my life. Perhaps I will play Dune: Imperium one day, BUT NOW IT IS A GAME FULL OF WORMS, AND WE MUST OBSERVE NATIONAL DEWORMING DAY!
Even if you haven't voted before (most of you have done yeoman's work, thank you), VOTE NOW! Currently, we are Liet Kynes (you know, the father of Chani) atop a spice blow.
A bad way to go.
More Cooperative
Sorry about my bad Co-Op sneak peek. I was rushing out my door (literally, forever) and tried to get something posted. Here is a much improved effort: a public, searchable PDF of the rulebook.
The best part of Co-Op I believe is the incredible power of sharing resources.
This can get very 3D chess. For example, let's say Laura is playing with 2 other players. When Laura is thinking about passing next turn, she wants to tell her allies. Why? Since she will be refreshing her staff and taking back her deck, her available servants and unused family/starter guests will be free of any opportunity cost; you can use them without draining anyone's resources. Since, for example, an ally does not have to preferentially use their own servants over Laura's (you are all close friends), they can preserve their staff by working Laura's to the bone (worry not, they have a bit of vacation upcoming).
The planning scales up from there. I could ask Laura to not use a starter guest with two reputation because I need that reputation badly. Or I could ask Laura to borrow £200 from me instead of using Earl Ponsonby because I am short family for a critical tile.
More 3D chess? How about servant specialisation? If York, for example, purchases a Brushing Room and then hires two footmen, they will have FIVE valets/FOUR footmen available to aid their allies. Then York expends their butler to pick up 2 second chance footmen, which can be used without penalty to staff another player's Servants' Hall and/or cater to family on tiles. SEVEN valets/SIX footmen? Yes, please!
But best of all, we have the Sneyds. As unlovable a family as you will ever meet.
Promotional tiles and guests must be excluded because the single-minded Enoch Sneyd has no interest in observatories, balloons, hermits, or Sherlock Holmes, of all people. No. He disdains whimsy and frippery (loathes it, even). Enoch Sneyd has interest in wealth and only wealth. As his dissolute son will never be allowed within ten thousand ells of the Sneyd business empire, he must be wed to money with the hope that Enoch’s genius skips a generation and is bestowed upon one of their brats. Begrudgingly, he permits his monstrous wife some leeway to lure a woman into close proximity to his otherwise worthless son. But clownish excess? Never.
