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We have had a separate internal development team working on Dark Souls™: The Card Game for the last year at Steamforged HQ. We are so glad we can finally announce the product to the world. 

Not only this, but we have decided to offer this product for pre-order via the BackerKit at a discounted price (£29.95, MSRP £35) and delivered ahead of its retail release. 

Delivery is currently planned for February 2018 to backers, with a Retail Release in March/April 2018. This product will not ship with the Wave 2 of Dark Souls™: The Board Game products due to the different planned delivery window. As such, there will be an additional shipping charge if purchasing this product.

This product will also be offered for a limited time period to non-backers of the project (2 weeks) via our normal sales channels so if you have friends who missed out on this Kickstarter but would still like access early to this new product let them know!

Dark Souls™: The Card Game is a cooperative deck evolution card game for 1-4 players.

Players must explore the Encounters around them, defeating a myriad of enemies to gain Souls and Treasure. They must use these to evolve and adapt their deck to better fight their enemies. 

When the players are ready, they must challenge the powerful bosses that lie within. The players must walk a narrow path, however, since their decks allow them to attack their enemies, but also represent their health. 

Decks are only refreshed when the players rest at the bonfire, so players must defeat their enemies while husbanding their strength for the greater challenges ahead. Thinking quickly and adapting to the enemy’s attacks is key for survival. A misstep can be fatal, but the rewards of success are great. 

As you adventure through the Encounters you will be progressing towards the final Boss Battle. In the core game there are 4 Bosses:  

• Vordt of the Boreal Valley  
• Abyss Watcher  
• Pontiff Sulyvahn  
• High Lord Wolnir 

Each with their own deck of devastating attacks, you will need skill and strategy to survive.

Adapt your deck, evolve your strategy, and prepare to die. 

This box contains everything you need to play, including: 

• Over 400+ cards featuring - starting deck cards, equipment cards, stamina cards, enemy cards, boss cards 
• 1 player board 
• 1 encounter board 
• 1 enemy board 
• 60+ tokens 
• rulebook 

Shipping Update (Wave 1)

• Australian Orders are starting to be on route to delivery and processed by our shipping partner.
• We are still processing the remaining Asian orders but we have run into a few difficulties due to non-english characters used in addresses. These are being resolved by our support team right now and tracking numbers emailed.
• IT/ES - same status as last update and same expected delivery window.

• Can I change my previous order?
• No, that order is already under production and allocated. You can however add additional products at this time.
• Do retailers have access to the BackerKit?
• Yes! Although some products are not available to the retailers in order to keep our production timeline intact.
• Will these additional models effect when I get Wave 2?
• No, we have chosen a specific time length for this re-opening to ensure no additional delay to the project from the increased product production.
• Will shipping be fixed this time with Wave 2 and The Card Game?
• We have learnt a lot of lessons from Wave 1 Shipping and we are confident that we will meet customer expectations on Wave 2 and The Card Game.
• Will I be charged import duties on The Card Game?
• As with the Board game, the following territories will not receive import charges: Canada, USA, Australia, EU.
• I missed out on the Kickstarter - can I still get in?
• Unfortunately not! 
• Why is the Core Game missing from the Wave 2 Add-Ons?
• Now that the product is in retail we felt it would be unfair to offer it through the BackerKit - so go check out your LGS to grab a copy.

It’s been a while since we gave you an update on the Mega Bosses and with the BackerKit reopening, it only seems fair to give you, our wonderful Backers, a bit more of an insight into what exactly comes with the Mega Boss Add-Ons as we make them available again.   

Hands down the most frequently asked question about the Mega Bosses is, “How big are the tiles?” Today we can finally answer that! The tiles come in two sizes according to the base size of the bosses since bigger models need bigger bases which then need bigger tiles. Bosses with a 75mm base will come with a massive tile totaling 420mmx420mm, while models with 150mm bases will come with a truly gigantic tile totaling 560mmx560mm! 

For today, we’ll be focusing on Black Dragon Kalameet, but the contents of other Mega Boss expansions have parallels to what we’ll be presenting here today. Kalameet is of course on a 150mm base, so comes with the 560mmx560mm sized tile. 

SPOILER ALERT – THERE ARE IMAGES OF EXPANSION CARDS BELOW. IF YOU WANT TO GO IN TO YOUR FIRST FIGHT AGAINST KALAMEET ENTIRELY BLIND, PROCEED WITH CAUTION! 

Kalameet, being a boss, obviously needs a behaviour deck. Kalameet comes with a staggering 21 behaviour cards in total, though these are not all typical behaviour cards you’ve grown accustomed to… so let’s break them down. 10 of these cards are the standard behaviour cards for boss encounters, and you’ll use 4 of them each time you fight Kalameet. 

You’ll also need the 2 ‘Signature’ behaviour cards bringing Kalameet’s behaviour deck to a total of 6 cards at the start of the encounter. Signature behaviour cards represent attacks that are a critical component of a Kalameet encounter and are always present in the deck when it is constructed. Kalameet’s Signature cards are ‘Mark of Calamity’, and ‘Hellfire Blast.’ Mark of Calamity introduces a new condition that leaves characters vulnerable while Hellfire Blast leads directly on to the 8 Strafe cards. 

Upon drawing the Hellfire Blast card from the behaviour deck, you proceed to draw a card from the separate 8-card Strafe deck. These cards show a pattern of nodes that are all bathed in flame as Kalameet swoops across the tile before landing to continue the encounter as normal… assuming you’re still alive to do so. Kalameet has just 1 Heat Up card, a turbo charged version of Hellfire Blast that puts the characters in even greater danger from these fiery strafing runs. 

In addition to the Kalameet miniature, boss tile, and 21 behaviour cards, the Kalameet expansion also contains a health dial to track Kalameet’s health, tokens for showing characters suffering the Calamity condition, 2 treasure cards, and of course Kalameet’s boss data card. 

If you look at the bottom left of the data card where the encounter difficulty levels are located, you’ll see there is nothing there… and now, we’re SO happy to reveal, LEVEL 4 ENCOUNTERS!

Obviously, the Mega Boss tiles are double sided, and we wanted to make the most of the space we had available to us on these huge tiles. These tiles feature 4 enemy spawns and 4 terrain spawns! All Mega Bosses come with 4 level 4 encounter cards – 2 of these cards feature enemies from just the Core game so you can enjoy level 4 encounters even if you only have the Core box. However, 2 of them also feature contents from expansions… and yes, in some cases this includes the Invaders expansion! These tiles also tend to only have one entrance, meaning if the encounter card is marked to be trapped you REALLY need to watch where you’re stepping! 

So that rounds out the contents of the Black Dragon Kalameet expansion and gives some insight into what you can expect from other Mega Boss expansions. Mega Bosses vary greatly, though, with different twists that impact how you build their behaviour decks or that introduce new conditions, card types, behaviour icons, and more. 

The Asylum Demon, for example, includes a new behaviour icon, a new terrain type, and additional rules and game components for using this iconic enemy as a Mini Boss as well as a Main Boss. 

We hope you’re as excited for Wave 2 as we are! 

Stay tuned tomorrow for the exact date/time of the BackerKit Re-Open announcement along with a secret being revealed that we have been teasing for quite a few weeks now...

Praise the Sun! \[T]/