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Kickstarter Video
- See main article: Trogdor Board Game Kickstarter Video
About
From the Brother's Chaps and James Ernest comes Trogdor!! The Board Game. For centuries, the legendary wingaling dragon Trogdor the Burninator has terrorized the peasant kingdom of Peasantry with his scorching flames and greased-up beefy arm. Now, he has descended from the mountains once again and will not stop until he burninates the entire countryside and all those unfortunate enough to get in his way!
You and up to 5 friends -or maybe people you just paid to come over- take on the roles of a cult of hooded creepos calling themselves the Keepers of Trogdor who have devoted their lives to aiding the mighty dragon in his quest for total and complete burnination.
Just a few of the 9 Keepers of Trogdor available in the game. More like Creepos of Trogdor if you ask me.
Take turns guiding Trogdor on his destructive lost weekend around Peasantry. Help him avoid pesky knights and archers, devour peasants, burninate the countryside, and, of course, the thatched roof COTTAGES!!
A flaming peasant flees her flaming cottage. Or maybe she's running back in to save her rare vinyl.
Uh oh. We got a Trog-spinner.
What's in the box?
All artwork and assets not final. You're gonna see those words a lot.
- 1 wooden Trogdor meeple
- 7 wooden Peasant meeples
- 1 removable wooden Flame Helmet for the Peasants
- 2 wooden Knight meeples
- 1 wooden Troghammer meeple
- 1 wooden Archer Twins meeple
- 3 wooden cottages with flippable burninated side
- 25 double-sided thick cardboard terrain tiles
- 1 thick cardboard Trog-meter
- 1 deck of 36 casino quality, blackjack-sized Trogdeck cards
- 1 deck of 45 casino quality, blackjack-sized movement cards
- 9 tarot-sized Keepers of Trogdor cards
- 9 tarot-sized Magical Item cards
- Instruction booklet
The game will come in a box with full color art by our pal Chris Schweizer (Crogan Adventures, The Creeps) who also illustrated the countryside tiles, item cards, and the Keepers of Trogdor.
Boring box dimensions: 12.5" high x 8.9" wide x 2.8" deep
How I play it?
Trogdor!! is a co-op puzzle, area control game where 2-6 players work together to help a beefy-armed dragon completely decimate a kingdom using unique powers and items all while avoiding knights and archers bent on stopping you.
Play time is 30-45 minutes with variable levels of difficulty the players can set. The age is 14+.
How to burninate cottages: Surround, scorch the ground, flip that thatched-up mound. Stop-mo by Graw Mad.
Here's Strong Sad's hands with an episode of his tabletop review series 'Six-Sadded, Die' to play through a couple turns for you:
- See main article: Six-Sadded, Die
Stack em to the heavens! Stack em to the heavens! You can play an unofficial game where you make up the rules yourself called Stack Em To The Heavens!!
Backer tiers
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Stretch Goals
We know you want more! Keep supporting us, and more crazy cool things will keep happening.
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Add-ons
Art and assets NOT final. But in the ballpark. The meeply ballpark.
We're going to make a whole set of meeples of the 12 main Homestar Runner characters. Use them in this board game, or drop em into whatever other tabletop experience you want! You can also add these in BackerKit for an additional cost.
Oh, hey guess what? All art and images not final.
You allowed us to be able to make some screen-printed T-Shirt add-ons! There will be a Trogdor box art design and a 'Six-Sadded, Die.' design. You can add them in BackerKit during the survey period for an additional cost.
Reviews
"Bring the fun of pyromania into your living room with TROGDOR! the BOARD GAME! Finally all the delight of torching screaming peasants with none of the pesky jailtime that would accompany burning people in real life. Crack open a cold one, grab your personal DND Greg, and prepare to Burninate your cares away with the game that puts the "AAAAA" in "TABLETOP AAAAADVENTURE" Add actual lighter fluid and matches for a more realistic experience!*" *Legal Note: Please do not do this
-Alex Hirsch, board game copy writer extraordinaire, creator of Gravity Falls
"Trogdor my love, over my heart I have thatched a roof. I kissed every dried straw. Thatched them together with poems for you so tight. A tight thatch helps shed water away and insulate my heart for you Trogdor. Burninate me. Burninate my cottaged heart to cinders and consume me to fill your Trog-Meter.. then can you squish my ashes in the crook of your muscles damn boyee.:
-Pendleton Ward, poet, creator of Adventure Time
"The game is nostalgic, fun, and engaging. I didn't expect the amount of thought I'd have to put in to win!"
-Unfiltered Gamer
"Nothing brings players together like the smell of a burning peasant in the middle of his toasty cottage surrounded by the ashy wasteland of what once was his home."
-IndieTabletop
"Trogdor is quick, quirky, and actually a bit difficult...Homestar Runner knows their audience and delivers exactly the right product for its fans."
-Pawn's Perspective
"All art and assets NOT final!"
-Lem Sportsinterviews, haver of dozens of dollars
"If Peasant's Quest was too technologically advanced, you can instead have fun burninating the countryside in Trogdor! TOGETHER!!"
-Cardboard Stacker
“I tested a Trogdor game prototype that was was just a few random LEGO pieces, some pocket lint and a linoleum tile. Even in that early form, this game was so compelling that I quit my job and alienated my family just to play it more. This game will ruin your life in the best possible way. [Think of some good “burninate” pun for here before sending this blurb to the Chaps]"
-Paul Sabourin, 48% of Paul & Storm
Backstory
There's no good reason that the Trogdor board game took 15 years to happen other than the fact that Mike and Matt (the Homestar Runner people) started playing more board games with their kids and friends.
Troggie seemed like an easy fit for a tabletop game, so they cranked out a janky prototype, and it kinda worked!
3 dice AND 2 decks? What is wrong with you guys? Kerrek tracks seem cool though.
Once it was decided that this was not the worst idea ever, they contacted Pat Rothfuss who one time sent Limozeen a box of his fantasy novels. He made a board game once and it was good, so they asked him for advice.
Pat introduced them to James Ernest from Cheapass Games. With his help, the game became playable, perhaps even... enjoyable!
Courtroom sketches of Pat and James.
While James playtested and iterated all over the place, Chris Schweizer got busy working on art for the game and our pal Rick Van Velsor (who sculpted the Homestar and Cheat Commandos figurines) began sculpting designs for the vinyl miniatures (available in the Burninator level and above).
Rick Van Velsor takes our janky 3D Tinkercad prototype and molds it into pure majesty!
Now, the game is ready to be produced and played by burnination enthusiasts everywhere.
Social Media
For updates outside of Kickstarter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. Our Community Manager Maya (Secret Hitler) will be posting there with reminders about the updates here as well as stretch goal and add-on announcements. You can reach out to them at maya@homestarrunner.com if you have any additional questions.
Shipping
Thank Yous
Thank you Homestar fans! Thank you spouses, friends, and fambly! Thank you Kickstarter! Thank you Pat Rothfuss! Thank you James Ernest! Thank you Cheapass Games! Thank you Jonathan Ritter-Roderick! Thank you Lay Waste Games! Thank you Greater Than Games! Thank you reviewers and playtesters!
FAQs
How much is shipping?
Our shipping costs are detailed in the shipping section of the campaign page. Scroll down past the game info to see more details about shipping costs. We will be doing all of our shipping costs in the pledge managing system AFTER the campaign, so when you make your pledge, Kickstarter will show $0 shipping. Please note that the shipping is not included in your pledge.
(Last updated: Fri, July 27 2018 3:45 PM BST)
Is this campaign international shipping friendly?
Yes, we are setting up a system where WE would get charged rather than you for any customs charges should they occur.
(Last updated: Wed, July 18 2018 2:45 PM BST)
Do you have a retail tier?
At the moment, we don't, but if there is enough demand, we will consider maybe adding one!
(Last updated: Tue, July 17 2018 11:55 PM BST)
How can I get multiple copies of the game?
After the campaign is over, you can add as many copies of any tier as you like in BackerKit as well as any of our future add-ons.
(Last updated: Tue, July 17 2018 11:55 PM BST)
Updates
Update #1- We're Funded + Stretch Goals
Jul 17 2018
Hello Fellow Keepers of Trogdor,
Due to your support and immense enthusiasm, we managed to get funded in just under three hours! Thank you guys so much for that. It means a lot that you are all so passionate about playing our game and helping Trogdor on his quest for WORLD BURNINATION!
And now the part you’ve all been waiting for…
Stretch Goals: Non-Repeating Tiles and Spot UV Our first stretch goal will be to improve the game board tiles. Right now, the 25 countryside tiles comprising the gameboard have some repeats. The two mountains are the same artwork, for example. We’d like to tell our artist, Chris Schweizer, to get back to work and draw more countryside so that no two tiles are the same. In addition to that, adding spot UV to the fire on the burninated will make them look EVEN MORE burninated, so we’d like to do that too. Help us make the cards unique and and increase burnination by getting us to our next goal of $150,000.
Again, thank you all for the support so far, and stay tuned as we’ve got LOTS more fun goals planned.
Keep on Burninating on,
- Matt, Mike, and Maya
Trivia
Inside References
- One of the captions reads "More like Creepos of Trogdor if you ask me".
- "Uh-oh. We got a Trog-spinner." calls back to Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.
- Graw Mad is credited for stop motion work, apparently improving a lot from his stop motion debut in the facts.
- One of Strong Bad's suggestions for new item cards is Strong Sad's Severed Head.
- "Fambly" is Senor Cardgage's way of saying "family" from Senorial Day.
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