Hamlet Builder Pro 5000 Kickstarter Preview

Hamlet Builder Pro 5000 is the newest Kickstarter game from the Gamecrafter, who not only supplies all kinds of awesome board game components, but also made one of our favoritest games ever, The Captain Is Dead.

Headed to Kickstarter on September 16th, Hamlet Builder Pro 5000 is a light tile-laying game where each player takes on the challenge of planning and building the most successful hamlet around!

Hamlet Builder Pro 5000 in all its prototypey glory! Let's plant some tiles!

Hamlet Builder Pro 5000 in all its prototypey glory! Let’s plant some tiles!

(Kickstarter prototype heads-up thingie: The Gamecrafter sent us this prototype for review.  No telling what kind of changes to art and components there might be during/after the Kickstarter.  DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU!!!)

jessmJessHamlet Builder Pro 5000?  Did a case of SURGE! get delivered to the Shire or something?

andysmAndrew:  I know, right?  X-treme town-building seems like, well, it’s hard to picture, frankly.

robsmRob:  Wait, this game isn’t about constructing the most effective Danish prince you can?

andysmAndrew:  What are you…oh, I get it.  No, not that Hamlet.

robsmRob:  Ah, nuts.  But tell me you wouldn’t play that game.

andysmAndrew:  I’d play the crap out of that game.  My Hamlet has +3 to Brooding!

robsmRob:  Yeah?  Well mine has +5 Skull-Finding.  My poison resistance is still zero, though.

andysmAndrewEveryone’s poison resistance is zero.

jessmJess:  Uh, boys?  Review time?

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