Hi everyone! I’d like to, once again, thank everyone who backed our Champion of Earth Kickstarter, making it a success. It’s been an amazing experience, creating our first card game, as well as great fun meeting all kinds of new playtesters that we wouldn’t usually interact with in our RPG circles. We’ll be delivering it…

Hi everyone! We’re in the last hours of Champion of Earth’s Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth I’d like to thank everyone who’s backed this Kickstarter. We’ve had massive support and could have achieved any of this without your help. I hope you’ll join us in defending the Earth! – Ed

Hi everyone! With just 36 hours remaining on Champion of Earth, make sure you don’t miss out on the chance to join us! You can join the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth Today, I’m going over a few more of the enemies, at the request of a couple of people following these posts! I’ve got a great selection below! We…

Hi everyone! There are just 2 days left on the Champion of Earth Kickstarter! Please do think about whether you’re joining us, there’s not much time left to save the Earth! Today, I’m talking about Interrupt weapons. Several weapons in the game actually have Interrupt, meaning you can play them during another person’s turn and…

Hi everyone! Today, I’m talking about Equipment that has both a bonus and a penalty! This is the Armoured Assault Vehicle: Because it can literally run down the Undead, it gains a bonus against them. Equally, because it’s a primitive machine by Alien standards, it has -1 versus Aliens. This sounds like a lot of…

Hi everyone! With just a few days to go, I’m bringing you the Arcing Death Ray, one of the coolest weapons in the game! This piece of Equipment has the ability to attack multiple enemies. Everything that it kills will vanish and then the attack will move to the next face-up Monster in the Oncoming…

Hi everyone! I’ve described a number of special abilities in the last 32 days and some of you might, quite fairly, wonder how you’re going to defeat them. Well, there is a card in the deck which instantly removes a Monster’s special ability if it is played. This is the Truck Full of Gas Canisters!…

Hi everyone! Today, I’m talking about the Monster Homing Beacon and the Teleport Backpack. These two pieces of Equipment have the ability to change the active player. The Monster Homing Beacon makes it any other player’s turn and the Teleport Backpack skips your own turn. This can be tremendously useful at some points, particularly if an…

Hi everyone! As of today, we have a little under a week left on the Kickstarter. Things have been going really well for our first card game and I’d like to thank everyone who’s supported! I hope you’ll consider joining us there if you’ve enjoyed these posts – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth I also want to remind everyone that…

Hi everyone! Today, I’m talking about 3 cards that have the power to change the game that also have a very specific set of targets. Sunrise, Occam’s Razor and Bacteria each have the capability to wipe out every example of one of the types of Monster in the Oncoming Horde. Bacteria, in a fun little…

Hi everyone! Today, expanding on what I covered yesterday about bonuses, I’m looking at the Ultraviolet Light. I really like this image! This piece of Equipment is only effective against Undead. It is a Level 3, but will do nothing to Creatures or Aliens. While it may look like a moderately strong piece of Equipment, this…

Hi everyone! Today, I’m going to talk about the Grandmother’s Revolver Equipment Card as an example of the bonuses that some weapons have against certain types of enemies. The Grandmother’s Revolver is loaded with Silver Bullets which, obviously, means it’s much better against Creatures than your standard weapons! While it’s normally a Level 2 piece…

Hi everyone! Today, I’m talking about the Butterfly with a Bomb. Sophia very kindly brought to life this wonderful little reference to Spaced’s Rorschach Test. I felt it would make a perfect Level 1 Creature to join in the assault against Humanity! In fact, in one of the games I’ve played, we defeated every single Monster…

Hi everyone! The Micro-Alien is an example of a card in this game that I was, personally, very unsure of when it was suggested. It was thought up by Johnathan Lewis, a long-time writer on our projects and general “silly ideas” man, who suggested this particular one. Every player who’s come across it has loved…

Hi everyone, Today, I wanted to share the Alien Scout with you. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but this is one of my favourite images in the whole game. For me, it captures the essence of the Aliens – they are intelligent enough to have a scout. They are a little ridiculous (using…

Hi everyone, Just a reminder: all this is about the Champion of Earth Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/champion-of-earth). It’s up for another 2 weeks or so, so don’t miss out! Today, I’m talking about the 6 characters that are in Champion of Earth. They don’t provide any mechanical difference, it’s all for flavour. But you can’t forget where…

Hi everyone! There are quite a few moderately subtle jokes in Champion of Earth. As today is a day particularly associated with bad jokes in my experience, I thought I’d share one of those with you. This joke also involves a pen being jammed into an Alien’s eye. I mean, what more could you really…