Kickstarter

From the Shadowfist Yahoo group:

Good evening, all! We are a go for the Kickstarter campaign to fund Combat in Kowloon!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2113976333/shadowfist-combat-in-kowloon-card-game

The campaign will be active until 12pm Eastern Time, September 1.

Some key items to remember:

Funding will continue until Saturday Sep 1, 12:00pm EDT. Regardless of how fast the funding goal is reached, no backers will be charged until Saturday Sep 1, 12:00pm EDT.

If your support requires follow-up info (T-shirt size, likeness coordination) I will request it from you through Kickstarter's survey system AFTER the project is successfully funded.

If you run a regular Shadowfist community at a local brick and mortar store, please send me contact information so I can give them flyers for the campaign.

I'll start sending out flyers tomorrow to help spread the word, and I'll have more at GenCon.

Please also contact me with feedback and suggestions for how to reach a broader audience with this Kickstarter project.

Looking forward to a great month of support!

Cheers,

Daniel Griego

ROTU Tables

Here are some resources I created for building ROTU decks.  This takes some of the fun picking interesting letter combinations and building a deck.  It gets down to trying to maximize the number of cards available to play by picking the right 3 letters.  Alternately, it could be used to pick you letters and then finding the best faction to fit those letters.

Here is a raw breakdown of # of cards per faction for each letter.

Letter	#	Arch	Asc	Dra	Han	Jam	Lot	Mon	Pur	Sev	Syn	Chi	Mag	Tech	Unaligned
A	83	29	4	5	1	7	9	9	2		1	3	4		9
B	127	26	8	19	15	18	6	10	2	3	1	3	2	2	12
C	116	16	15	13	12	9	10	8	6		4	2	5	2	14
D	107	19	6	10	6	11	17	9	4		4	5	2	4	10
E	48	6	2	4	7	3	8	2	6		1		2	1	6
F	97	5	10	12	7	10	10	19	4			4	1	3	12
G	62	9	9	9	6	7	10	2	2	2					6
H	67	8	9	8	4	4	10	1	1	1	3	2		2	14
I	68	1		6	5	2	14	21	4		2	2	2	5	4
J	51	6	7	11	2	7	5	2	2	1	2			1	5
K	36		2	8	4	6	3	5	3	1		1	1		2
L	52	1	6	11	8	1	5	6	1	1		1	4		7
M	111	5	19	13	11	12	6	5	11	3	2		2	4	18
N	45	10	4	5	1	5	1	2	2		1	3		2	9
O	41	1	7	6	13	3	1	3	2	2				1	2
P	96	15	7	3	7	9	9	5	14	1	1	7	1		17
Q	6				2			3	1
R	90	11	12	12	13	10	6	4	3	1	2	3		3	10
S	215	17	27	24	35	16	20	16	7	1	8	4	7	9	24
T	214	10	23	23	20	18	32	28	13		4	2	4	4	33
U	19	2	3	1			7		1	1	1	1			2
V	20	2	2	1	3	1	6		4			1
W	56	2	7	8	8	4	6	2	2	5	1	4		1	6
X	10				1	1	6	1			1
Y	16		2	1	7	1	2						1		2
Z	11	1		3	1				2		1				3
	1864	202	191	216	199	165	209	163	99	23	40	48	38	44	227 

Add to this the number breakdown by foundation because you need to be able to include foundation in the deck.

Letter	#	Arch	Asc	Dra	Han	Jam	Lot	Mon	Pur	Sev	Syn	Chi	Mag	Tech	Unaligned
A	7	4		1		1			1			2	2	1
B	11	2	2	2	1	2	2					1	1	2
C	7	2	1		1		2				1	1		2
D	7	1		2		1	1	2					2	2
E	5	1		1		1	2						3
F	6		1	1				3	1				2
G	4	1	1	1	1							1
H	4		1	2			1							1
I	6				1		2	3				1	1
J	2		1			1
K	4				1	1		1		1		1	2
L	4	1	1		1	1						1	1	1
M	9		3			2			2	1	1	1	1	2
N	0
O	2		1				1
P	12	3				2	4		3				2	1
Q	1							1					1
R	11		1	4	4	2						2		2
S	25	2	3	2	5	2	3	3	2		3	5	3	2
T	9	1	2				2	2	1		1	1	2	3
U	1	1
V	1						1
W	6		2		2		1			1		1	1
X	0
Y	0
Z	1								1

Then check the number of hitters available.  Hitter in this is just printed fighting 6+.  This excludes some characters that can be used as hitters but is a good start.

Letter	#	Arch	Asc	Dra	Han	Jam	Lot	Mon	Pur	Sev	Syn	Chi	Mag	Tech	Unaligned
A	8	1	3		1		1	1			1
B	15	2	1	2	2	5		3
C	16	4	2	2	4		2	1							1
D	15	3	1	3	1	1	2	1	1		1		1
E	2	1											1
F	8		2		1	2		1	2
G	13	4	1		1	1	2	1	1	2
H	10	1	2	1	1		1	1	1	1	1
I	8			2			1	3	2
J	17	1	3	6		1	2	2	1	1
K	16		2	2	1	2	2	5	2
L	12			1	3		3	3		1			1
M	17	1	1	4	1	2	5	2	1
N	4	1	1			1					1
O	5			1	2	1		1
P	6	3					1		2
Q	4				1			3
R	9		3	1	2	1		1	1
S	34	4	6	7	6	1	6	2		1	1
T	35	4	6	6	2	3	8	1	4		1
U	3	1	1						1
V	3		2		1
W	6			1	2		1			1					1
X	5						3	1			1
Y	3		1		2
Z	4			3	1

And finally combine it all for a total ranking by letter.  The rank is the number of foundation available x 2 + number of hitters + number of cards available / 10.  This is obviously very subjective.  It might be a good start for your first two letters to make sure you have sufficient foundation and hitters.  The third letter might be best to choose based on a 'broken' card (e.g. Imprison) or alternate power generation. The highest ranked letter is highlighted.  Note that 'S' is the best letter for 5 different factions.

Letter	#	Arch	Asc	Dra	Han	Jam	Lot	Mon	Pur	Sev	Syn	Chi	Mag	Tech	Unaligned
A	40.3	11.9	3.4	2.5	1.1	2.7	1.9	1.9	2.2	0.0	1.1	4.3	4.4	2.0	0.9
B	57.7	8.6	5.8	7.9	5.5	10.8	4.6	4.0	0.2	0.3	0.1	2.3	2.2	4.2	1.2
C	61.6	10.6	6.5	4.3	8.2	1.9	8.0	2.8	1.6	1.0	3.4	3.2	1.5	5.2	3.4
D	47.7	6.9	1.6	8.0	1.6	4.1	5.7	5.9	1.4	0.0	1.4	0.5	5.2	4.4	1.0
E	22.8	3.6	0.2	2.4	0.7	2.3	4.8	0.2	0.6	0.0	0.1	0.0	7.2	0.1	0.6
F	33.7	0.5	5.0	3.2	1.7	3.0	1.0	8.9	4.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	4.1	0.3	1.2
G	29.2	6.9	3.9	2.9	3.6	1.7	3.0	1.2	1.2	2.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.6
H	26.7	1.8	4.9	5.8	1.4	0.4	4.0	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	0.2	0.0	2.2	1.4
I	30.8	0.1	0.0	2.6	2.5	0.2	6.4	11.1	2.4	0.0	0.2	2.2	2.2	0.5	0.4
J	26.1	1.6	5.7	7.1	0.2	3.7	2.5	2.2	1.2	1.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.5
K	33.6	0.0	2.2	2.8	3.4	4.6	2.3	7.5	2.3	2.1	0.0	2.1	4.1	0.0	0.2
L	31.2	2.1	2.6	2.1	5.8	2.1	3.5	3.6	0.1	1.1	0.0	2.1	3.4	2.0	0.7
M	54.1	1.5	8.9	5.3	2.1	7.2	5.6	2.5	6.1	2.3	2.2	2.0	2.2	4.4	1.8
N	8.5	2.0	1.4	0.5	0.1	1.5	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.0	1.1	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.9
O	13.1	0.1	2.7	1.6	3.3	1.3	2.1	1.3	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2
P	45.6	10.5	0.7	0.3	0.7	4.9	9.9	0.5	9.4	0.1	0.1	0.7	4.1	2.0	1.7
Q	8.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2	0.0	0.0	5.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0
R	48	1.1	6.2	10.2	11.3	6.0	0.6	1.4	1.3	0.1	0.2	4.3	0.0	4.3	1.0
S	125.5	9.7	14.7	13.4	19.5	6.6	14.0	9.6	4.7	1.1	7.8	10.4	6.7	4.9	2.4
T	86.4	7.0	12.3	8.3	4.0	4.8	15.2	7.8	7.3	0.0	3.4	2.2	4.4	6.4	3.3
U	6.9	3.2	1.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	1.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2
V	7	0.2	2.2	0.1	1.3	0.1	2.6	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
W	41.6	1.2	5.7	2.8	7.8	1.4	4.6	1.2	1.2	4.5	1.1	3.4	3.0	1.1	2.6
X	6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	3.6	1.1	0.0	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Y	4.6	0.0	1.2	0.1	2.7	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.2
Z	7.1	0.1	0.0	3.3	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3