KoA 2022 Fundraiser! -

 what's up rockstars and welcome to my announcement for the big 2022 fundraiser for the channel i have a lot of games that i am going to be sending out to you guys thank you for your donations i have a whole new website i'm going to show off there's a lot to discuss so let's dive right in

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this without any of you guys uh  just wouldn't be possible he's not the skill that i'm doing it now and hopefully not the scale i'm doing it this time next year looking back at what last year had and looking back at what i did this year and i think i'm really happy with a lot of the effort i put into it especially doing more reviews stuff like that and showing off even more content i had over 170 videos this year and uh the year's not over yet uh this is already more than 170 so uh yeah i hopefully did a lot and hopefully you enjoyed that if you did if you appreciated anything that i did over the course of this year or maybe years past and i've helped you make a good purchasing decision for you either turning onto something that ended up being really really cool for you or maybe warning you off from something that wouldn't have been a good fit for you then i am so happy and uh hopefully hopefully you do appreciate that so without the way i'm gonna go ahead and let andrew one of my patrons that has been running this kind of explain the general synopsis of this i'll catch you on the other side to talk about all the games that are available and how you can get them what's up rockstars andrew here i just want to quickly thank you for coming at least this far to check out our fundraiser to help give back to michael king the king of average this project was initiated and organized by a few of his patrons over the past year and we wanted to continue that effort this year and it was just a tremendous whopping success last year and we raised a total of ten thousand five hundred dollars uh for michael king and his family so that was just truly special to be able to do that and we'd like to continue to do that on a yearly basis and it's just a lot of fun it's a great community effort and it brings us all together um you know the reason behind this campaign is that we patrons truly value michael's unique perspective and honest approach when it comes to reviewing board games and other content you know one of his core measures is to not accept financial support directly from publishers so as to minimize potential bias biases in his reviews unboxings etc so you know we really appreciate that approach and what you may not realize is that it takes him countless hours of research filming editing videos and audio all while maintaining a full-time monday through friday job with a family with four children and a beautiful wife i just i can't even imagine what it takes to run that whole operation and that family unit so you guys he brings us the content that you enjoy that i enjoy on a weekly basis and this is just a way in which we can give back to him and thank him for all of that truly hard work and i just want to thank you all for being here and i just want to wish you and yours the best over the holidays and i hope you all have good health and prosperity in the new year thank you so much i'm andrew king of average patron all right welcome back uh okay let's just actually dive right into all of the cool games that are available because there are a ton a ton so this is the website that i created for this purpose it'll eventually have other stuff we'll talk about that throughout the year perhaps maybe we'll even talk about that in an update but for now you can see the general synopsis there's kind of an introduction thing this is where this video is going to actually be then there's a latest update there's already an update welcoming you guys there you can subscribe to get up email updates each time i do update it and explain how it works we're going to go in and explain that i actually have some stretch goals that's going to be kind of fun and then of course how to donate there's also an faq there's a whole comment section you can see all the updates here there's a lot here okay but i want to talk about the game so i'm going to go through this real quick i'm skipping by a lot of this because right here you'll see a section called thank you gifts and the show thank you gives question mark you select that and boom you get a whole big list here of a ton to go over just them really really quick we have in harakiri all in we have a ronin pledge for harakiri we have the aeon trustless odyssey five cycle bundles that's all of the game we have two copies of the batman gothic city chronicles rpg campaign that they're doing you get all of it all in there's two copies of that available primal the awakening the core plus stretch goals so there's a lot of game there the witcher the old world prototype there's going to be the mythic battles ragnarok prototype there's the chronicles of drunagar 1.1 all in there's arena the contest 1.0 all in there's a limbo eternal war 1.5 all in that means it's the new limbo eternal war with all of the expansions that's huge uh descent second edition that comes with layer of the worm off the neck roll and stewards of the secret so a whole lot of heroes available for you to play through uh descent to e and that actually is with two core box campaigns actually didn't put that in there there was enough there already uh we got a solomon kane all of wave one that's up for grabs masters of the universal fields of attorney that's the arkhan version the prototype and though that being said it also comes with the mounted shira and king hiss miniatures plus their game card there is uh judgment eternal champions prototype beautiful beautiful prototype there and trespass odyssey prelude that prototype again also looks fantastic and it's it's hours and hours and hours of gameplay in that one uh black rose wars magister pledge that's the core plus a stretch goal plus inferno on top of that there's the massive darkness light bringer pledge that also includes the troglodytes and the warrior priests versus spearmaiden cyclops and that one has some of my painted miniatures in there so that's fun you get to see some of the very first miniatures i painted on this channel all those old ones like the the cave spider they're all there that's a lot of fun i think for anybody who wants that uh and just something neat for you guys there let's see we have the tainted grill plus masters of avalon uh we have the that's also the painted mini clash of rage plus the worshippers all in so that's both campaigns all of it it's up for grabs as well we have the chronicle x all in that we want and wave two it is delivered it is available you guys can get that twisted fables core we have three copies of the final production and then my one prototype available as well so four total copies of the twisted fables card game fantastic game and that's not the with the one with the miniatures so not the deluxe edition there uh we got the steam watchers all in which is awesome we got the sea watchers gameplay all in as well so we got two different versions there obviously one a little bit more than the other they get the lightning pre-mad stuff like that we have the dungeons and lakers lasers and this is like an epic bundle it has the fantasy terrain starter set two of them the sci-fi starter set two of them dwarven mine room hall of heroes room all the stretch goals uh drew carr animal companions a xeno dragon and marduk the tyrants there's a lot there that is a huge amount you will have a mountains of plastic if you get that that is like awesome elbow scrolls call to arms this is the base game plus the storm cloak starter plus imperial starter possibly fall borrow we have the fractal beyond the void prototype the force of radicals prototype what a gem that prototype was i love that one whoever gets that is going to love it it's such a oh there's also some craftsmanship in it it's very endearing i love that one that one's great uh let's see what else do we have we have the bantamwest coffee that's huge anybody who who likes shadows of brimstone maybe uh that like city phase you know where you're like kind of living the life this is like that on steroids but it looks like it looks awesome so that's really cool we have velocity vanguard a whole core pledge there the red dragon in allies we got dungeon decorators we got in enchanters and ultimate pledge up for grabs we have hate the core box which as you recall core boxes like this big no joke life-sized person on it massive massive uh thing there uh oco chronicles we have four copies of that we also have four copies of the guardians chronicles clash of heroes that plays just like oco but with superheroes and there's some like uh um competitive version of it too where you guys can compete which is kind of cool uh let's see we got right buster's project drill all-in it's arcadia quest with a space marauders pledge plus the zenith invasion and the thorn troopers both those were kickstarter exclusive expansions we have the ancestor of all career all in or varick i can't pronounce his name he's amazing i showed him off he's like this norse dude looks fantastic what a great mini that one is and that's like with the physical pledge too so that's awesome we have two copies of space crack and that is a very cool uh like a dungeon crawl in space that's in a book that's literally you play it in the book very very cool concept highly recommend clicking that kickstarter kind of see what i'm talking about there it's very unique compared to anything else on here we have townsfolk tussle prototype the monster apocalypse prototype the resident evil prototype the sinjitsu prototype gatefall we have a kickstarter one all in and a kickstarter one plus kickstarter two all in so one is obviously bigger there we have the wild ascent 1.0 all in the watercolor blonde rising prototype wants to hunter world prototype ancient blood prototypes cyber odyssey prototype radiant offline battle arena this is the core box there we have botoku the core box there that i showed off dungeons of dragomar core that's a very big one like literally it's huge it's very very big limbo 75 millimeter uh demon we have actually two of them you can go ahead and click that uh link there to kind of kind of see those and then we have just another copy of the other uh version of them we have street fighter collectible card game a whole booster box of cards a ton of cards if you wanted to get into that game or if you already have that's a huge amount or if you're just a street fighter fan like i am very cool just look through all the different cards there there's a ton there now let's see what else do we have we have the kabula prototype the esopia prototype the signum games kitsuke ministers super super cool fox people we have the storm center two miniature packs we actually have six of those they're like a two pack of miniatures super cool nice premium comes with a little art art piece as well very very nice we have a amazing hand-drawn epic map by one of my patrons it is amazing seriously click that kickstarter be impressed we have the upzone cathedral if you want some terrain real quick that is there it is a prototype version still looks great and of course then we have taro wolf the valley of the king's core four copies of that and four copies of fortress clans the kotir of the white wolf these are card games by the people who did oco chronicles we have houston we have a dolphin which was signed by the creators and tenor's trail okay so that's the quick view of them all so we got a little bit of context there um the thing i wanted to now talk about really is just an expression okay so how does this work okay now i have this how it works here but i'm not gonna like regurgitate it all you guys can definitely read this essentially what happens is this is a pure donation don't go into this just trying to get an item and that's your own purpose if that is your only purpose i suggest you put your money towards a pledge towards it or to funding or whatever this is a donation to the channel so that i can use it to go to cons buy more equipment get a good studio set up buy more games to show off it's an expensive hobby as you guys know and it's all funded through the funds i receive here so and of course investing into some big exciting things that i'll start talking about throughout the year especially depending on how this goes they will even reveal some of it early again it all depends on how this goes here um i don't have a lot of expectations really it's all up to you guys and and what you decide uh the content that i make is worth to you that you're able to do so um anyway with that being said you choose to donate you come over here you click the donate now and then you can select your amount you'll notice as you hover over this you have differen

t entries these are essentially how we pick the thank you gifts so you'll see a break down here all the way up to 600 and then it resets you can do a custom amount if you so choose minimum is a dollar and i literally can't make it a zero so one dollar is the least amount and that is totally fine that means that it's 10 for one entry okay so let's go ahead and just do ten we just want one entry go to continue you put in your information you can make this anonymous if you don't want to have your name displayed i understand that whenever i donate personally i never ever market there was one time i was forced to after like donating like some of my time not money and it really actually bothered me i typically don't like putting my name down on anything so i understand that if you want to do that that's totally fine you can't leave a comment the comment will show up like right here everybody will be able to see your comment including me it'll make me smile trust me i i'll i'll read these every day i love it uh and then you can actually choose to don't donate through paypal you can donate through a credit card you can donate through uh google pay if your chrome or your phone supports it and there is an apple pay that again will also only show up if that's available on your phone like if you're viewing it on the iphone and probably safari i'm not an expert there so there are different ways you can go ahead and donate you choose whatever is most available to you or convenient to you all of them have a few fees some more than others but don't worry about that just just do whatever makes sense for you okay you can click that thank you gift to show these and then this is required it says please provide your top 10 picks from the thank you gifts list above now if you don't want anything you just put not applicable or some funny message or  whatever the heck you want in there that's fine otherwise go ahead and list your your your favorite ones you can extend this if you want you can refer to this and copy paste out or whatever and go ahead and put them in order what will happen is at the end of this fundraiser which is currently set for january 14th at the end of the day there my local time will then go ahead and pick some of the  donors and then go and see okay what's  your top available item and then see if  that see if that item is still available if it is congratulations you will get that item you will have to pay some shipping fee now it's only some because panic roll games actually is helping uh partially reduce this bring that cost down to you guys some of these ship pretty easily they're just a regular box some of them ship a little expensive  like especially some of the prototypes because they might be in multiple boxes it might not store very well just depends if you're getting an all-in again you're having to to pay for that so just be aware of that now the reason um we have you guys pay for that instead of me it's because that way i'm not taking bob's donation money to send it to jill right i i don't i don't like doing that i want every single dollar that you guys give to go where you're wanting it to go which is exactly one of the reasons why i went through here so gofundme the last year's gofundme they took a huge amount thousands of dollars went to their fees which was crazy so uh just a real big bummer on that and i want to make sure that uh i can do things the way i want to do it so i can put stuff like stretch goals in there if i want or or make it really community driven for instance in the comments here this supports gifts so i'm not logged in right now but if i was um you'll see a little gif icon i got gifs okay i got images i'm all about the community here you guys know that so you better believe i had a comment section so anyway you go through there and then you submit it and then you're done that's it that's that's all you need to know um i'll live stream the uh the uh announcement of who won what uh sometime in late january it sounds like or mid-january perhaps so uh yeah that's that's it that's the explanation if you have any questions feel free to ask of course of course feel free to ask any anywhere you find me whether it's here on youtube whether it's here on the on the on the page or just through email i want you to be able to do that in fact the faq here which feel free to go ahead and and expand these they all have stuff what if i have more questions bam you can contact me right here okay so feel free to do that now if you are a patron or a youtube member and you're watching this and you're thinking well okay that's great but what about us i will do something for you guys right afterwards okay i'll keep a little bit more private i already have some stuff available i will be uh having a special event just for you guys because then the day you guys have been here long before fundraiser and you'll be here even afterwards too and of course if you want in on that and audio updates and stuff like that there is a link down below to my patreon there's also of course a link down below to this website here uh currently all it does is this fundraiser more coming soon i'll just leave you with that little tease there guys again thank you so much for an amazing year thank you so much for making proof that you can actually run something for community driven by the community that wants it so that you don't have to go out elsewhere and try and beg for money from other companies and to kind of bend to their knee and do things the way they want to do it and instead i have that freedom and that's all things to you guys whether it's just you here sitting there watching this without an ad walker or whether it's just you commenting and being a part of this community so that other companies see hey this is like a legitimate community i should try and reach out to so uh regardless of your participation level thank you thank you so much and uh yeah with that i'll let you guys go have a great holiday break guys take some time take a break from work to spend with your family friends and loved ones if you don't have any let me know seriously contact me and uh we'll have a a chat we'll talk i'll make sure you have somebody to talk to over the wonderful holiday break that we all have all right with that being said guys have a great rest your day take care bye guys