Krosmaster

A tabletop game based on the French cartoon/vidya Dofus/Wakfu. Essentially a skirmish game using miniatures on a game board, features characters from both games and both cartoons among generic characters in a timeline defying way. The game is played more with different objectives than an outright arena play (although arena IS one of the scenarios and the most basic one). There's no set number of players, so sny number can join as long as there is enough miniatures. The actual plot for the game is loose; Demons of Rushu and/or Xelor being his usual dick self have snagged characters from all over the timeline and dropped them into scenario settings for their amusement. Nothing remains canon since everyone gets bomfed back to the state they were in when they came, and sent back to their timeline again sans new memories. Thus you can have Iop-god Goultard and young Kerub fight Dark Vlad Goultard and old Kerub.

Each miniature comes with a code (as long as you didn't purchase it second-hand, in which case it may have been already been used or in the fineprint the seller may have said the code isn't included with your purchase so beware). Said code is used online to get the miniature in a vidya version of the game, which can be played in case you have no amis de grande classe avec des goûts exigeants. The online version is 100% free, although you have to buy new miniatures. BUT WAIT! You don't have to use real money to buy them as the currency in the 100% free Wakfu MMO (now on Steam) to buy Krosmaster minis! Enutrof be praised!

The game was produced via Kickstarter, but obtaining miniatures (let alone the starter set) outside France or the UK prior to 2014 was a costly endeavor. Not as costly as the Warhammers, but not cheap either. Thanks to a second Kickstarter, the game made the leap to Engrish nations and across the drink. The starter set (Arena) sits at about $60 which has everything needed for up to 4 players to play, with four-character packs that contain extra scenery available for sale at about $30. Individual random minis come one to a box and contain a cardboard piece of scenery or NPC monster and run about $7 each. The Frigost expansion pack costs about $40 and adds a few more rules to the game revolving around winter (and ties in to one of the comics set after the Wakfu cartoon ends). A Multiman pack was released that retails for $30 and comes with six minis and rules involving characters who provide bonuses to each other, and a new game that is more of an RPG called Krosmaster Quest using Krosmaster miniatures is currently on preorder for $90. In addition, there are scenario pack containing new terrain retailing about $14. Technically, all that's required to play is the miniatures (or a quarter to represent the base) plus their cards (which can be viewed online) a dice (like you don't already have that) and a rulebook (.pdf). This makes the game fairly easy to pirate if for some reason playing free on the computer isn't /tg/ enough for you, although since most fans get into it for the adorable miniatures of characters from the cartoons/games then want to upgrade the cardboard Kamas (currency tokens) and scenery to plastic you can quickly get in over your head without feeling like you're spending much money (still, fully upgraded Krosmaster is still less than getting any but the cheapest Warhammer armies together). Resin boards cost $400 if you get sick of paper and cardboard, becoming the Realm of Battle for the game (as in unnecessary and for mostly display).

The miniatures focus on generic characters from races in the vidya, along with a few monster characters, and the main cast from the television cartoons as the most rarest and most individually expensive to buy minis in any given set. Many of the randoms that come with the sets are the same mini but with a different paintjob and a different piece (for example, the Pandawa minis only have different heads and poses while the Fecas have different weapons (one of which is a fish). Others, like the Puddly and the cartoon casts, are completey unique. They're prepainted and preassembled so they aren't 'eavy Metal quality, but chances are good if you're on this site you have paints and kneadite/greenstuff on hand for your OCD needs.

Viewing them for prolonged periods may induce diabeetus, so pack insulin.

Sadly, despite desperate pleas from fans there is still not yet a Smugduck mini (key word is "yet" of course). A special promotional 4-pack was released for Treasures of Kerub however featuring young Joris, young Kerub, old Kerub, and young Lou. Mid-level backers of the Wakfu dub Kickstarter recieved a promo Nox and Yugo mini, and preorders for Quest Starter recieved six wholly unique minis (Cleophee, Rubilax-possessed Tristepin, a Demon, Dragon Adamai, Yugo making a portal, and evil Qilby). The original Kickstarter had large models of the tabletop miniatures as well for display purposes (unless you want a homebrew game against a giant Nox anyway).

The game has a free online tutorial/demo here [[1]] and can be signed up for here [[2]]

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  The Krosmaster starter set. Also, Amalia.
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  Krosmaster being played on a high end resin board.
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  The next expansion set, "Krosmaster Squared".
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  The first season of Krosmaster minis. Increasingly expensive, and mostly available in French. Thankfully the card is easy to read, there's translations online, and the code works in both forms of the game. The Brotherhood of Tofu miniatures are the most expensive of the batch.
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  The second season of miniatures. The "Terminatot" miniature is a caricature of the co-creator of Wakfu and founder of Ankama, Anthony "Tot" Roux. Yes, that Pandawa has an ahegao face and the other appears to be...swallowing something.
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  Krosmaster Frigost.
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  The Not Mines scenario set.
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  A Multiman pack.
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  Krosmaster Quest.
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  Krosmaster explained.
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  A fan's custom-modded Amalia.