I'm fairly agnostic when it comes to Encounters. I don't mind them, but also am not wedded to them. One question I have: If there are not Encounters, how would pledge levels work? I don't think that the KS 1,2,3 system of pledges levels being different multiples of some basic set would work with eit...

One of the themes of CD was extending Caverns beyond the 2x2 grid. CD does include a few new 2x2 floors/walls/corners, but I suspect these were included mostly because the encounters needed a few 2x2 pieces. I was happy to get a few of these new 2x2 pieces, as part of my Essentials pledge, for the v...

All painted were applicable, all caverns/crystals/underdark in standard paint Adventure Essentials 1-11 Universal Pieces 12-14 Crystal Caverns Epic Elements Crystal Caverns Walls and Corners The Underdoom Adventure Pack Misty Gateway Pack Driftstone Pack Villian Pack Hallow Elevations Pack Natural B...

I pledged for (and received) 1 Khri Colony Encounter, plus 2 Tunnels, 1 Elevations, and 1 Stilts add-ons. My thoughts: -If what you want is some burrows as part of a larger encounter area, the Khri Colony is probably adequate if you're OK with the burrows being mostly flat. -Each elevated segment (e...

What I would like is a pack of small walls, corners, and floors, that don't have a KS2 analog. Sort of an advanced builder pack: -1x1 floors -1x2 floors -1x1 straight walls -1x1 corner walls -corner fill stalagmites -convex corners -diagonal walls -swell wall rights What I don't want in this pack ar...

... A couple of things are headwinds here compared to DoD - one, more people use Dungeons than use Caverns, just straight up. Historically Dungeons are just a bigger business. And two, the cherry-pickability means people can spend less for some things (so that gets balanced a bit by providing more ...

I answered the poll that I would like to buy both Crystal Caverns and Underdoom in 'standard' KS2/KS6 colors. However my answer is more complicated. My main pledge is Adventure Essentials 1-11. If a Universal Pack 12-14 (which when added to Adventure Essentials 1-11 would allow you to build Encounte...

If DF was brutally honest with their KS stretch goals, the KS goal would be north of $1,000,000 instead of $100,000. And stretch goals wouldn't start until around $2,000,000. Finally several of the stretch goals would be making encounters 12-15 available. This would probably be more honest and some ...

Yeah, I think Adventure Essentials Pledge levels are great! In DoD I got Dungeon Level 3 (the first 6 encounters) because that was all the bread and butter pieces I needed. I then tried to select add-ons to get as many of the other pieces as I could. I ended up spending over 3/4rds of a DoD pledge a...

My favorite part is at around 8:40 when Nate pass off a KS 2 floor as a new piece.