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Got in a Shadows of Brimstone session. It's an alternate wild west/horror dungeon crawler with a bunch of campaign potential.
Having a lot of fun with it and hope I can get some of the expansions worked in soon.
Ooh I've been looking at that one for ages, how was it? Was there a lot of prep work needed in terms of painting minis? And have you played Gloomhaven? How do they compare?
There is a little bit of prep for the minis, but they provide tokens to use in the meantime if you'd like to play beforehand. What we did is just have everyone be responsible for their character, but it isn't strictly necessary.
I've also 3d printed card & token holders to speed up setup.
I haven't played Gloomhaven, unfortunately, but I'll have to give it a try at some point.
That being said, I'm loving the theming of SoB a bunch! I can't wait to learn enough to start making homebrew stuff.
The minis look awesome and would add a lot, but it is a lot of prep needed. How did it feel with just the one set, you said you're already looking to add expansions? Another worry I've had about SoB is the cost, I've heard said before that it is better the more sets you've got but they do add up price wise.
Once set has plenty of replayability. I did pick up a couple of character packs to try out the roster.
Compared to Warhammer, at least, I feel I'm getting much more of my money's worth, and everyone's a bit less salty if we happen to get out collective teeth kicked in.
If you're in the States, you can order from the devs to hopefully save some cash, but I have a FLGS to hit up, myself.
I'm mainly looking at adding the Frontier Town, which adds a ton of stuff to the non-dungeon-crawling past of the game, and the werewolves expansion because, well, werewolves. But other than that the base game has everything for more than a couple of games of fun!