Black Rose Wars: Rebirth

August Production Update
over 2 years ago – Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 01:50:33 AM

Update Contents:

•  Production & Shipping Update 
• Rulebooks in all Languages
• BLACK ROSE WARS: DUEL - LEX

Hello, Magisters!

Quick update to keep you informed about the progress of the production of Rebirth.

We are finally nearing the end of mass production: the factory has confirmed to us that everything will be ready for pickup and ship transport by mid-September 2023!

With this in mind, we will be closing shipping addresses at the end of next week, you will receive a final reminder from BackerKit via email to check and possibly change your shipping address.

By now, the Lodge is very close to reopening its doors! You will finally be able to try out all the new features of Rebirth!

To help everyone prepare, we are happy to announce that ALL of the Rebirth rulebooks are now available on our WEB APP in all of the languages planned for this project: ENG, ITA, GER, FR, and ESP!

Hurry now to download the rulebooks in your language and get ready for the return of the Black Rose!

Before we close this update, we would like to remind you that you can still pre-order Black Rose Wars: Duel - Lex. For those of you who missed the news, BRW: Duel - Lex is the latest addition to the Black Rose Wars world, eagerly welcomed by Black Rose fans, as well as those new to the world! 

If you want to learn more about it,click here and discover all its features!

Please note that you cannot combine this pre-order with the Rebirth order, as they have a different production line, different timelines, and therefore different logistics.

That's all for today, see you in the next September update!

🔥🔥🔥Fireball!

Summer in the Lodge!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 08:25:58 AM

Update Contents:

• Boxes from the Factory
• Production Update

Hello, Magisters!

New update about the production of Rebirth! After the plastic trays, we showed you in the last update, it's time to show you the boxes!

Fantastic photos have arrived from the factory of the boxes of the 6 expansions that make up the Rotas Box, as well as those of Gaea Reborn, Dread Forge, and Seal of Fire!

We are very pleased with the final result, as you can see we kept the same size for all expansions with a similar amount of material. The expansions that will be different sizes are Irene and Jukas, which will be smaller because they only contain one miniature, and Deadly Mask and Apocalypse, which will be larger because of the materials they contain.

The 6 expansions from the Rotas, once placed in the box, will form the Rebirth logo with their short sides, we are sure they will look great on your shelves!

Apocalypse deserves an honorable mention with a box that will leave you speechless with its gorgeous cover!

With the creation of the boxes, the production is going on without any particular problems, now it's just a matter of waiting for the technical time of the factory for the completion.

At the moment, the factory estimates that the mass production of the material in ALL languages planned for this project will be completed by the first half of September 2023. With that in mind, we are looking for ships to begin shipments by the end of September.

That's all for now, as soon as we have new content to share with you or new production information, we will update you.

Stay tuned, the coming months will be full of surprises for all Black Rose Wars and Rebirth fans! 

In the meantime, keep in mind that many of the Rebirth rulebooks are already available in English on our Web App, and in the coming weeks, we will begin uploading all the other languages as well!

Fireball!

The Black Rose is awakening!
almost 3 years ago – Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:23:59 AM

Update Contents

• Mass Production update: Plastic Trays & Miniatures
• Modena Play Report

Hello, Magisters!

We temporarily interrupt the series of updates dedicated to the Rotas Box expansions to tell you about the first production samples that have arrived at our studio from the Factory!

So, we can show you the first plastic trays and the miniatures they contain in their final version, that is, the first printed miniatures since the beginning of Mass production!

Currently, we have received the plastic trays of the Core Game and all the expansions, including the 6 that make up the Rotas Box!

In the Core Game, albeit with some changes, the plastic tray remained virtually the same as the one we used to create the prototypes for this Campaign; and so the 6 mini plastic trays (one per player) containing all the components divided by color have been confirmed.

All the Plastic Trays of the Rotas expansions are the same size, so they fit in the housing box (as we showed you during the KS campaign) but differ in the internal slots that allow for storage. Keeping the standard size for Antiquities particularly, due to the bulky Cacus, was really an engineering challenge!

You can feast your eyes on the images we show you, and rest assured that all the slots dedicated to the cards are designed to allow you to store them with their protective sleeves!

As for the miniatures, we can say that the final result is outstanding! We are going to show you some examples and in particular Jukas and Landolfo II, who with their green inserts are a first for our productions and give us a very good preview of what will be for The Breach, where all miniatures will have translucent colored plastic inserts.

As you see, we also received the new colored bases that you will need to label your Mage and your Evocations in the Lodge. 

Finally, we can show you a preview of the two sets of card dividers for the Schools of Magic of BRW and Rebirth!

As you may have guessed we are really excited about these first results of mass production, and we are sure you will go crazy (as we did) when you get this stuff on your tables. Our plan to begin Fulfillment of Rebirth before the end of the summer is still holding, and as mass production progresses we will be able to give you a more definite date for when the ships will be leaving China!

Of course, we look forward to your feedback on everything we are showing you! 

Moving on, let's talk about Game Conventions! A few days ago Modena Play 2023, the most important Italian convention ended, and LMS participated with a huge booth, where hundreds of players took turns on the tables of our games. Black Rose Wars was the star of the party, with demo tables of Rebirth and the first official tournament played with the new rules featured in Apocalypse.

The Rebirth Demo Tables let people try out a preview of all the core game material in its final form, giving a huge spoiler of what backers will be getting in a few months. The Tournament rules test was also very positive showing all of the game's potential, even playing with decks built with cards from the first BRW installment.

Another big star of the fair was the 7th special issue of our magazine Ashes which contained a new version of BRW Duel (a simplified version of BRW for 2 players) and a wonderful Deluxe box with a new Promotional Miniature: Cosma!

This dark character will be one of the protagonists of Requiem, a new LMS project that will see the light of day in Q4 of 2023 (after the delivery of Rebirth and Nova Aetas Renaissance). Cosma also happens to be a powerful Lodge Magister, and in addition to his stunning resin miniature, included in his elegant package were his Mage Card and 3 copies of his Personal Spell, so that you can include him in any BRW or Rebirth game! In addition, Cosma can also be encountered in your adventures in Nova Aetas Renaissance in the form of a new Boss Fight-flavored Hunt!

We know that most of you were unable to stop by Modena Play to secure Ashes #7, but fear not!

Here you have 2 options to buy the new issue of Ashes (only in English!) with Cosma:

1 - You can order Ashes #7 on our shop and have it shipped directly to your home, shipments will start from June 15.

2 - Until June 11, 2023, if you have a Rebirth Pledge or Late Pledge, you can order Ashes #7 on our shop and add it to your order, along with all the rest of the BRW:R items, without additional shipping costs! Simply, enter the "BACKERSREBIRTH" coupon at checkout.

Choose the best method for you and get ready to welcome Cosma to the Lodge!

Our booth was pretty much stormed for all 3 days of the Convention, and it was a pleasure to meet friends, old and new, and show the people all the material from the games being delivered in the upcoming months. 

 A giant THANK YOU to all of you who stopped by to meet us and to those who didn't stop by but would have liked to!

That's all for today! See you in about a month for new updates on Mass Production!

#fireball!

Memories of the Ancients
almost 3 years ago – Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:08:10 AM

Update Contents

• Antiquities box Spotlight
• Printed Miniatures
• Modena Play 2023

Hello, Magisters!

Here we are with a new update dedicated to the wonders of the Rotas Box! Today we will turn our gaze to ancient times by showing you the material from the richest of the boxes that make up the Rotas: Antiquities!

Why is Antiquities the richest? Well, certainly because of the presence of a voluminous guest who arrived in the final moments of the Rebirth Campaign, the Giant Cacus, one of the largest Avatars in the game!

Cacus will unleash his destructive fury in the Lodge, relying on his physical prowess, picking fights with players, and trampling Magisters and Evocations indiscriminately. Defeating Cacus will enrage him even more, so when he re-enters the Lodge he will be even more powerful and deadly than before. However, when he is defeated, all Mages who have dealt at least 4 Damage to him will be able to immediately draw a Forgotten Spell as a reward for their bravery. 

These two rules will put players in front of really entertaining game situations. Will you agree to defeat Cacus even though you know he will be even stronger once he's back? Will you trust the other players? The Black Rose can be truly diabolical at times!

As with many Avatars, Cacus can also be played as a Forgotten Evocation, thanks to a new Forgotten Spell. You will then be able to increase your collection of giant Evocations and make the Lodge more and more the scene of a Kaiju clash!

Cacus is not the only Avatar of Antiquities, the treacherous Parcae are ready to sever the weave of your destiny. The Parcae (in addition to being one of Rebirth's most complex miniatures) will exploit the Fate Tokens mechanic, which will basically trigger deadly Trap Spells against Mages who enter rooms containing at least one of these tokens. The powers of the Parcae will be even more deadly if you play the Legendary Scenario dedicated to them: Strands of Destiny.

Another highlight of Antiquities is definitely the new school of Magic: Oracle. 

This new school takes you to ancient Greece and introduces two new mechanics that will allow you to manipulate the Event Board to your advantage. With an effect that includes the Prophecy Keyword, you will be able to draw and place a new Event. Conversely, the Revelation Keyword will cause you to discard a number of your choice of Events in play, activating a certain effect for each Event discarded. For example, the Spell "Pneuma," carries the effect "Revelation: Heal 2," so for each Event you discard from the Event Board, you can heal 2 Damage on your Mage. 

With the Oracle School, you can thus charge the Event Board until the moment you want to unleash a truly devastating Revelation effect! However, you will have to be very careful of schools that have similar effects on Events or if there are other players who are playing with the Oracle School! In addition, this School adds a new Evocation: the Aruspice, little piper Spriggans that increase their attack value based on the number of Events on the Board... Do you see a nice synergy with Prophecy? You're right!

As for Cassandra, she is a new Magister. Like Tessa (BRW), Cassandra is also a proud member of the Primaevi and she too came to the lodge to redeem her people's role within the Lodge. Her Personal Spell "Pythia of Delphi" goes perfectly with the Oracle School of Magic, since it allows you to perform 2 Prophecies or summon 2 Aruspices and activate them immediately!

Finally, Antiquities adds an additional Forgotten Evocation (along with Cacus and the Parcae there are 3 in total) and a New Lodge Room.

The Majestic Grypas will enhance itself and your other Evocations according to the Events in Play, and can be summoned thanks to the Forgotten Spell "Ruling the Heavens." 

The Ludus Arena can be used to replace the classic Arena in any BRW/Rebirth game and will allow you to Summon an Aruspice!

What do you think? Antiquities really add a lot of material to the already extremely rich Rotas Box! Let us know which of these contents you will try first in your BRW/Rebirth games!

Let's move on now to talk about Production. In the following photos, you can see the first PVC prints that came out of the Factory molds a few weeks ago. Don't worry about the color of these models, as these are the first test prints and not the final product, which will instead be consistent with all of BRW's existing production. We are looking forward to receiving photos of the mass production currently in progress; in the next update, we will surely be able to show you the long-awaited buckets filled with miniatures!

In the meantime, the process of reviewing and approving drafts of all cardboard materials continues so that we can proceed with mass printing that as well. Production plans received from the factory indicate the completion of all mass production between late July and early August. We will keep ourselves aligned with the factory so that we can proceed with booking the ships in advance and get everything going as quickly as possible.

We know you all can't wait to get your hands on the wonders of Rebirth, in a few months you will be able to!

Meanwhile, those of you who will attend this year's Modena Play (May 18-21) will be able to visit us at our booth and touch the very first production copies that we will show during the days of the fair! Obviously, it will be possible to play with the final Rebirth material and participate in the first Tournament where, for the first time, you will be able to play in "constructed" mode with the Black Rose Wars cards! We are waiting for you! 

That's all for today, see you at the end of the month with a report from Modena Play and more updates from Production!

Fireball!

The Road to the East
about 3 years ago – Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 10:53:20 AM

Update Contents

• Silk Road spotlight
• Rulebooks live
• Production Timeline

Hello, Magisters!

Let's continue our journey in the Rotas Box by getting to know more about the Stretch Goals with the most oriental feel: the Silk Road box!

Let's begin with the menacing Avatar within this expansion, the gloomy Devi.

This Avatar bases its mechanics on directly eliminating other Mages, and she will do so tremendously effectively. Getting defeated too many times by Devi will not be very wise for any of the Mages in the game, as the charming 4-armed lady will gain Power Points for each Trophy gained in each Clean-up phase.

Another mechanic Devi plays on is Duality Tokens. Devi assigns Magisters these special tokens with many of her Avatar Cards (usually the evilest ones). The Tokens represent the duality of the Black Rose and will actually help players facing Devi. A Mage with two Duality Tokens will be able to use two special Physical Actions: Punishment (to convert damage on opponents) and Absolution (to convert Instability in Rooms).

When facing Devi you will also have to be very careful about the Rooms you Rebuild, since if the Avatar is in a Room at the time it is Rebuilt, she will gain 2 Power Points thanks to the Dominion skill.

Will you be able to adapt your strategies to this Avatar or will your head end up being part of her skull necklace? You can find out very soon!

We continue on the road to the east, meeting as many as 3 New Magisters!

Alisha, with her Personal Spell, will be able to assign a new (and exclusive) Jinx Card called "Divine Dance." A Mage with this Jinx Card will take 1 damage from the Black Rose every time they enter (voluntarily or not) a Room. A very annoying Jinx also in the way it can be discarded... basically, you will have to be defeated twice! Alisha will be a good alternative to Gramigna if you want to play with a Hex School-based deck.

Dai Jin, thanks to his Personal Spell "Fulu," will be able to gain useful persistent effects (effects that last until the Clean-up Phase of the turn), either to draw more from his Grimoire or to gain additional Quests. Dai Jin, compared to Alisha, is more eclectic and can adapt to many types of decks, but it's probably best to keep him away from the front line, where damage is falling like snow!

Finally, we meet Piotr, who thanks to his personal Spell "Dictat," will allow you to launch into the unrestrained use of Evocations and the allocation of upgrades. If Technomancy is among your favorite schools you can use Piotr to make the most of Upgrades and accompany your Evocations to the center of the fray!

Silk Road also adds two new Forgotten Spells!

"Manifestation" will allow you to summon Devi as a Forgotten Evocation, which will be no less deadly than her Avatar counterpart. Attacking Devi will unleash her swift and deadly counterattack; think twice before hitting her with your precious Evocations!

"Awareness" will instead make you summon Sun Wukong, the mythical Monkey King himself! This Forgotten Evocation is probably the most mobile in the game since he can move anywhere in the Lodge, both before and after performing his attack.

Finally, in Silk Road, you will find a new Room, the "Zen Garden," which you can substitute for the Classic "Garden" Room of the Core Game, and which will bring an enhanced effect that allows you to perform 2 movements. This Room will be an essential part of the Legendary Scenario "Nirvana" along with the Avatar of Devi.

As with all the boxes that make up the Rotas Box, Silk road will add a lot of Gameplay elements to your games, let us know what you think!

Let's continue this update with some important news! 

First of all, on our Web App, you can find the final rulebooks of the Core Game and the Apocalypse expansion! So you can start right away to try the new mechanics and especially the Tournament mode (or Constructed if you prefer) in your home games! We look forward to hearing about your builds for Mages and Grimoires created with the BRW material! Bring on the Decklists! Next week we will upload the final versions of all the other rulebooks.

Another important communication! We already submitted the final quantities for mass production a while ago, so we are at the very last opportunity for those of you who have not yet completed your survey on BackerKit. You will have until Sunday (April 2nd) to complete it. After that date it will no longer be possible to do so, orders can be adjusted only by our Customer Service, and products may no longer be available.

We have begun to receive Digital Samples of the cardboard material from the factory in order to do our Final Checks. As you can imagine The files are indeed a lot, but we are working hard to finish these checks as soon as possible so that we can start printing all the cardboard material. This is in any case a very delicate job since after this step we will no longer have the possibility to correct the files. 

However, these steps were counted in our time estimates for the end of production, so we are on track to concretize the delivery of all material by summer 2023. Once we finish this checking phase we will have more elements to give you more precise dates!

That's all for today!

Fireball!