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Help Save the Tarrasque: Gifted Vision Behemoth Mini Needs You

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Hello gamers and fans of wonderful minis. Nerdarchist Ted here calling on you not only out of selfish greed to get the Gifted Vision Behemoth mini that I backed on Kickstarter but to help out an awesome company that makes cool miniatures. There is a bit of backstory here that I will try to explain as best as I can without being any more than a backer.

Gifted Vision behemoth tarrasque

The Gifted Vision Behemoth needs you!

We all know and love the Dungeons & Dragons tarrasque. It is a cool monster adventures love to fight as an end game boss, and many more adventurers have been slaughtered by – especially in earlier editions when it had vorpal and sharpness qualities attached to it. Well, our friends over at Gifted Vision, through their Dungeon Crawler line focused on a card game, minis and comic book, saw a need to put a massive behemoth mini into production so when you wanted to field an awesome sized creature on the table you would have a go-to for it.

Gifted Vision

A botanimoth, one of the creatures lurking in the Gifted Vision store ready to deploy at your gaming table.

They set about their research and got a Kickstarter up and running for it. It had a following but something was not right and it did not fund. Sadness followed for those who wanted this awesome project to happen. Gifted Vision would not stop there and they started a new Kickstarter with a better plan in mind. This met with success and gamers out there rejoiced at knowing that someday soon, sadly not as soon as we would like, the mini would be delivered and would rampage across towns destroying all in its wake.

Behemoth gone sideways

Here is where things have gone south for our friends at Gifted Vision. The company that originally quoted them a price for the initial models only gave them 90 days to lock in that price. After a 30 day Kickstarter, a new planning structure, and then another 30 day Kickstarter it was well past the 90 days that the price quote was locked in for.

Whatever changed in that timeframe it massively changed the price that Gifted Vision would have to pay for each model. Here is where the details I have gets fuzzy. I know the owners have sunk their personal funds into this project to make it happen, but they are not there yet.

Since Kickstarter already has a successful run of the project they are not able to go back to them with the same project. So they have started with another crowdfunding platform – Project Fuel – where the behemoth project lives on!

“This is for a durable resin copy of the miniature. You can get this wonderful piece unpainted and unassembled OR painted and assembled in two different paint schemes at the special pre-order price. All versions come with a detachable tongue and 200mm / 8 inch round black combat base (8×8) for your gaming grid.” – from the Gifted Vision Behemoth Project Fuel campaign

Gifted Vision

The Gifted Vision kraken is floating around their website store, along with individual tentacles to ensnare hapless adventurers.

If you missed the Kickstarter, if you love minis, if you have a heart and want to see this project come to fruition or you just want to donate to a cool project please come and support this project and help out. I know that I, personally, want to be able to field one of these at my table, for any number of crazy creations I have. I know that you do as well.

Gifted Vision is a great company with lots of cool minis and things for sale on their website. So please support it and if you can, please share and get the word out.

Do it for them, do it for the community, or heck if you like Nerdarchy enough, you can always do it for Nerdarchist Ted, me, because you know of my addiction for minis.

In all seriousness I hate to see so many disappointed fans over this project. I wrote this post, not as a paid sponsor but for my love of the project and my desire to see if fully completed.

You can find the Gifted Vision website store here and see the cool stuff that they have already made. I have used the kraken in one of my games and it is to be found on the Nerdarchy set for our videos.

So please check out the project, check out their store and help to make this happen.

Until next time, stay nerdy!

Nerdarchist Ted

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Ted Adams

The nerd is strong in this one. I received my bachelors degree in communication with a specialization in Radio/TV/Film. I have been a table op role player for about 20 years 17 of which with the current group. I have played several itterations of D&D, Mutants and Masterminds 2nd and 3rd editions, Star wars RPG, Shadowrun and World of Darkness. I am an avid fan of books and follow a few authors reading all they write. Favorite author is Jim Butcher I have been an on/off larper for around 15 years even doing a stretch of running my own for a while. I have played a number of Miniature games including Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy, Heroscape, Mage Knight, Dreamblade and D&D Miniatures. I have practiced with the art of the German long sword with an ARMA group for over 7 years studying the German long sword, sword and buckler, dagger, axe and polearm. By no strecth of the imagination am I an expert but good enough to last longer than the average person if the Zombie apocalypse ever happens. I am an avid fan of board games and dice games with my current favorite being Quarrios.

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