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Also, the latest e-mail blast they sent out teased at an extra-special bundle of indie RPGs launching on Thanksgiving.Bundle of Holding posted:On the evening of Thanksgiving Day -- next Thursday, November 28 -- the Bundle of Holding presents a spectacular offer of indie RPGs, including some of the top-selling games in small-press publishing. You won't want to miss this, so (after purchasing the Worldbuilder's Toolkit) start saving now. Does anyone have opinions on the current bundle offering? Looks like some of these books would be great for a campaign.
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Spincut posted:Also, the latest e-mail blast they sent out teased at an extra-special bundle of indie RPGs launching on Thanksgiving. The kobold guides are decent, not sure about the rest. They are basically a collection of essays from people (Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Keith Baker, etc) about approaches to worldbuilding. Less "roll d100 to see what races live here" and more "how does magic affect everyday life?"
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Dagon posted:The kobold guides are decent, not sure about the rest. They are basically a collection of essays from people (Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Keith Baker, etc) about approaches to worldbuilding. Less "roll d100 to see what races live here" and more "how does magic affect everyday life?" That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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Nov 23, 2013 01:56
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Spincut posted:Does anyone have opinions on the current bundle offering? Looks like some of these books would be great for a campaign. Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe has some  for you.quote:The medieval period, though romantically remembered for chivalry and knights, is not known for its gender equality. However, medieval society is not as discriminatory as most moderns believe. Women find places in medieval society as guild members, powerful landowners, and abbesses. Some societies assign gender to certain roles but allow women to assume those roles though assuming a different gender. Complex gender issues aside, third edition assumes ability is not based upon sex or gender. This means a female fighter swings and hits as hard as a male fighter. source
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Nov 23, 2013 02:27
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That looks like the same Libertad who joined up here recently. Maybe we will get some more comments on the review. Anyway, all this goes to show you, as with some of the previous bundles, is that there is a bit of a mixed bag at times. You can't get full-on winners for everyone every time. I think Red Tide is a good source here, especially if you are familiar with Kevin Crawford's work elsewhere (such as Stars Without Number, which I think was released after this one) because he provides tools for sandboxing which, if comments on fora are worth anything, have been helpful to a lot of people who didn't really know how to do those kinds of things. I believe his stuff is often cited as good source material regardless what system you're playing, because it helps you to procedurally generate material to use in your setting without too much prep time required. You just have to find a set of those tools fitted to your preferred genre, as he tweaks the tools each time for genre emulation and such. I expect most of the other stuff is good but I am not too familiar.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:09
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Gasperkun posted:
SWN came first, then Red Tide. And yes, Sine Nomine's work is amazing: Ruins, Courts and Lairs can be laid down on pretty much any map (or part of a map; reskinning and reusing material is almost gleefully encouraged instead of sacrificing everything on the altar of ~*verisimilitude*~) and get you a night's adventure in less than half an hour of work. Red Tide itself is a great setting too and can be played with pretty much anything, there was a post on rpg.net where he mentioned some guidelines on how to run it in 4E if you cared. It's really worth it.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:19
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Gasperkun posted:That looks like the same Libertad who joined up here recently. Maybe we will get some more comments on the review. Yup, same one. I never got around to a full review because I had other stuff on my plate, products which I had already bought and looked more promising/fun to review. Magical Medieval Society was to be part of a series called "Courtroom Reviews" where I judge a product based on its advertised promises, and whether or not it delivered. In Magical Medieval's case, it was providing advice for replicating the society of Medieval Europe into 3rd Edition D&D games. I can definitely say that it failed. In the meantime, The Kobold Guides were overall good reads, and Red Tide is an awesome sourcebook. I can't speak to the Tome of Adventure Design or Masks, as I own neither.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:20
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Man, I remember that magical medieval society got some great press, too.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:33
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Masks is stunning. It's the best NPC collection I've ever seen, not because the NPCs are so brilliant, but because the many ways they're organized are incredibly useful at the table.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:22
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JDCorley posted:Masks is stunning. It's the best NPC collection I've ever seen, not because the NPCs are so brilliant, but because the many ways they're organized are incredibly useful at the table. Yeah, I was going to point this out too. Each NPC is given just enough detail for a GM to use after a few seconds of reading, and a lot of them are plot hooks on their own. Hopefully we'll see Eureka! up as well; that's another good one. Really all the Engine Publishing/Gnome Stew stuff is really good.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:45
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dwarf74 posted:Man, I remember that magical medieval society got some great press, too. It was as far as I know the best attempt anyone made to square the circle - to get something approaching the promised world of mediaeval fantasy to work under 3.X rules.
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Nov 23, 2013 13:37
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Spes Magna is donating all proceeds for the month to help a friend in need. It's pretty basic OGL/Pathfinder stuff, but the 27 Adventures for $3 supplement is pretty all right if you're looking for something to fill out a drivethrurpg order, and it's for a good cause: link to store page.
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Nov 23, 2013 22:51
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JDCorley posted:Spes Magna is donating all proceeds for the month to help a friend in need. It's pretty basic OGL/Pathfinder stuff, but the 27 Adventures for $3 supplement is pretty all right if you're looking for something to fill out a drivethrurpg order, and it's for a good cause: link to store page. I like adventure modules, but I don't run Pathfinder. Would you say that 27 Adventures is serviceable when ripped from its system?
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Appoda posted:I like adventure modules, but I don't run Pathfinder. Would you say that 27 Adventures is serviceable when ripped from its system? It would be more a "27 adventure hooks list" product at that point, if that and some good karma sounds worth $3 to you then yeah. But they aren't really very detailed.
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Nov 24, 2013 01:27
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Paizo Publishing is having the 2013 Great Golem Sale to clear out their warehouse, including but not limited to RPG books. My recommendations: Tales of the Caliphate Nights for $3.00, a True20 game set in mythic Arabia. Dragon Magazine #351 for $2.00, contains the excellent World Serpent Inn article. Monte Cook's Collected Book of Experimental Might for $3.00. Hundreds of options and house rules Cook made for 3rd Edition. Granted, they're d20 books, but I really enjoyed Caliphate Nights, as it makes a great setting which can be transferred to other rulesets with some work. I might F&F it someday... Libertad! fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Nov 25, 2013 |
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Caliphate Nights has a hilarious/awesome "story within a story" mechanic which everyone who loves 1001 Nights will love.
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Nyambe is also pretty cool if you're willing to mess around with old third party d20 material.
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EscortMission posted:Nyambe is also pretty cool if you're willing to mess around with old third party d20 material. Holy poo poo, that's cheap for that book! If you're the least bit interested in a D&D fantasy Africa, buy it now. That thing goes for at least $100 on Amazon nowadays.
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Libertad! posted:Holy poo poo, that's cheap for that book! If you're the least bit interested in a D&D fantasy Africa, buy it now. That thing goes for at least $100 on Amazon nowadays. No it doesn't. You can regularly find it cheaply, which isn't a knock against it, but you can find it for a song at hpbmarketplace, too.
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JDCorley posted:Caliphate Nights has a hilarious/awesome "story within a story" mechanic which everyone who loves 1001 Nights will love. Is it a good read even if I'm not interested in True20 but want to borrow ideas from it for, say, Dungeon World?
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TurninTrix posted:Is it a good read even if I'm not interested in True20 but want to borrow ideas from it for, say, Dungeon World? Nah, DW is way too dungeony for Caliphate Nights.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Hopefully we'll see Eureka! up as well; that's another good one. Oh hey, this happened. Eureka! is now part of the Bundle of Holding!
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So, the last Bundle has ended but a new one has been hinted to start in 2 and a half hours. It's popular and successful Indie Games this time around. I think they did something similar a while ago, but it was with ones I guess they consider less known.quote:
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LashLightning posted:So, the last Bundle has ended but a new one has been hinted to start in 2 and a half hours. It's popular and successful Indie Games this time around. I think they did something similar a while ago, but it was with ones I guess they consider less known. It is an excellent selection Newsletter posted:Every purchase of the Indie Cornucopia bundle includes this core collection of titles, all in complete, current, DRM-free .PDF versions:
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Unfortunately, as I suspected, bestselling = "things you've already bought", at least in my case. I don't have Adventures on Dungeon Planet or Nova Praxis, and I'd be in for those if they were in the base bundle, but beating $17 for slightly over $20 worth of product isn't really a compelling deal for me. I guess we'll see what else they add. If you -don't- have Apocalypse World, Dungeon World, and Durance already, though, it's a hell of a package.
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I bought it for two of those three, and the promise of future additions. The charities this time are Doctors Without Borders and the EFF, for the curious.
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For those of you who are buying this and are new to the *World style of game, allow me to recommend the Dungeon World Guide, written by Scrape and myself.
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Nov 28, 2013 22:20
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Yeah, the only things I want out of that are things I already have. 
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Ooh, I already own AW and DW but I'm all for getting Durance with some extras on the side. Excellent bundle, hope lots of people give it a shot now their attention's been grabbed by the recent big bundles like the OSR one.
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There's a new bonus playbook in there (well, one not on the dropbox link) - The Macaluso, a psychic entity with multiple bodies.
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Nov 28, 2013 22:58
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I'd been meaning to take a look at Dungeon World, so this suits.
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neonchameleon posted:There's a new bonus playbook in there (well, one not on the dropbox link) - The Macaluso, a psychic entity with multiple bodies. Ooh, interesting...is that a Bundle exclusive? If you shoot me a link, I'll add it to my AWorld playbook compilation.
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The Macaluso isn't a bundle exclusive, it was added when Vincent Baker declared the end of limited-edition playbooks and added a PDF with them all in letter format and an index of every playbook move as an extra purchase on his site.
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1st Stage Midboss posted:The Macaluso isn't a bundle exclusive, it was added when Vincent Baker declared the end of limited-edition playbooks and added a PDF with them all in letter format and an index of every playbook move as an extra purchase on his site. Plus supplementals, including the Marmot supplemental about clues and mysteries that I've never previously seen, the Space Marine Mammal's supplementals about walkingsuits and large scale battles, and a human-configuration walkingsuit. It's a pretty amazing resource and just costs a few bucks. I'm very happy with it. (And the basic refbook that's a free download, for that matter.)
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Does anybody know about any good Black Friday deals? I've seen Kingdom Death but that's it so far, and blech.
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moths posted:Does anybody know about any good Black Friday deals? I've seen Kingdom Death but that's it so far, and blech. Miniature Market is having a black friday sale today, but that's all I've seen so far.
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CSI is, too.
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The current Bundle of Holding added Becoming to its roster. This is the one by Brian Engard, who is behind a lot of Fate books and such, and it was Kickstarted earlier this year.
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DriveThruRPG just released a cyber monday deal. Six RPGs for 5 dollars each: Buffy RPG Revised Corebook Fae Noir Mutant City Blues Corporation Core Rules Contagion Second Edition Savage Suzerain (Savage Worlds) I've never played any of these books nor have I heard of most of them so I cannot speak of their quality, but they are there and they are cheap for those who are interested. Edit: Looks like there were more sales than I initially thought. Covok fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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Buffy RPG Revised is solid goofy fun. Fae Noir is cool. The Corporation is a bit of off-brand cyberpunk and alternates between funny and intriguing, but I haven't tried the system. Mutant City Blues is my least favorite GUMSHOE game. Savage Suzerain is Savage Worlds.
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