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KirbyJ posted:Current Bundle of Holding is Over The Edge! It's a stunning idea generator/amazing setting, but mechanically it is blah and doesn't do anything.
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Jan 8, 2014 18:21
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It's like someone took Number Six's Village, added several ounces of more modern, American conspiracy theories, and laid a veneer of a banana republic shifting to a tourism-based economy on top. Wonderful, wonderful setting if you're into that sort of Illuminated weirdness. As a game, the mechanics are pretty much there so you don't have to handwave everything. Excising them and the metaplot (which is an amazing rear end in a top hat of a thing) isn't too difficult at least.
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Jan 8, 2014 18:42
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Also, OTE is incredibly well-suited for pulling parts of it out and putting them into other settings. The book is organized with each little location or faction having its own section, so you could pull out anything from Total Taxi to Alien Conspiracies #1, 2, or 3 and throw them in any other game. Al Amarja is literally a libertarian paradise, down to the fact that the entire city throws their garbage off a cliff and so their are people who live in it because they have nowhere else to go.
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Jan 8, 2014 19:06
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OTE is basically my favorite game that I've never gotten to play. It is the only RPG I own all the supplements for, and the only one I've ever bought a special deluxe version of. It is basically the progenitor of all the weird-conspiracy RPGs of the last 20 years. It's an amazing stew of ideas which you can pick-and-choose from, either to run a game on Al Amarja or to use in other games. The novel in the basic bundle is genuinely good, and not just from a gaming-novel perspective. The mechanics are minimal and laid-back, and I'm surprised that nobody has made an OGL game based on them yet. (They promised to open them for a long time, and finally did it around the 20th anniversary of the game.) Just writing this makes me want to go downstairs and pull the books off the shelf and start planning something...
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Jan 8, 2014 20:01
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KirbyJ posted:Current Bundle of Holding is Over The Edge! OTE is William S. Burroughs' Interzone the RPG. It has a ridiculously simple aspect based system and is populated with clones of a middle-aged Vietnamese man.
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Jan 8, 2014 23:59
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I have the OTE 2e core book and honestly it's worth it just to read through because it's so completely off the hook. I'm tempted to get this just to have the rest of the stuff because it's so drat crazy and I don't care if I never actually get to play it. If you ever read those crazy libertopia and seasteading fiction threads that came up in GBS a year or two ago and enjoyed seeing just how nuts things could get, you should check out OTE. Take the craziest of those and stir in magical conspiracies, gnostic esoterica, weird drugs... Vienna Circlejerk fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jan 9, 2014 |
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Jan 9, 2014 00:51
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Comedy Option: Cybergeneration 2ed Comedy option nuthin; that book is a hell of a fun read. How can you not love a game where "Young Republican" and "Hot Topic Goth" are character classes.
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Jan 9, 2014 03:53
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JDCorley posted:It's a stunning idea generator/amazing setting, but mechanically it is blah and doesn't do anything. It also had a crazy CCG back in the day. I think I still have a shitload of the cards in storage.
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Jan 9, 2014 17:52
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If you haven't seen, though it's not part of the New Year's sale, transhuman RPG Eclipse Phase is also on sale for $7.50 until Tuesday on DTRPG.
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Jan 12, 2014 19:48
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Double-post, sorry! New Bundle of Holding is up and goes down tomorrow. It's a quick reboot of the +3 bundle. This one is all novels again. Tomorrow a "large collection featuring one of the neglected gems of fantasy roleplaying games" goes up.
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Jan 17, 2014 01:41
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The new bundle of holding is up. It looks like the "neglected gem of fantasy roleplaying" is the Dying Earth RPG. Never played it, but heard good things about it.
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Jan 17, 2014 21:44
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Wow. This is two grail games in a row for me, here; The Dying Earth is a great game, and an amazing read, and every time I talk about it I feel like I should've gotten to play (or run) it already. The four books in the base bundle are well-chosen, the ones you'd want to start a game off right. The CoUK is an amazing thing, basically an encyclopedia of every person, place, thing and spell mentioned in the Dying Earth novels and at least a snarky note about each.
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Jan 17, 2014 22:32
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The Dying Earth is fantastic. Robin Laws before he went completely into the story-games spiral he's in now. (Yes I know TDE is story-games as gently caress.) I loved the original stories and I love the RPG.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:55
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I picked up the main books from Loot a couple of years back, when Loot was still a thing. They're pretty good.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:02
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John Wick's complete "Wicked Fantasy" Pathfinder race supplement series is collected and it's only $10 for the month of January. You can read my review of it here. Spoiler alert, it's real good.
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Jan 19, 2014 00:58
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New (or "new") Bundle of Holding is up. This one is a return of the Bundle +4, which features: -Psi*Run -Witch: The Road to Lindesfarne -How We Came to Live Here Beat the Average: -Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple -Monster of the Week -Viewscream I've wanted both Do and Monster of the Week, so I already picked this one up.
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Jan 27, 2014 18:13
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Monster of the Week really is fantastic. Easily my favorite of the Powered by the Apocalypse games.
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Jan 27, 2014 18:50
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In their e-mail sent out today, the Bundle of Holding people stated that February was going to be a slower month as they'll be focusing on a lot of backend stuff with their website (like user accounts). They said "a couple more" restarts will be coming, as well as some new stuff, then the bundles will pick up again like normal in March. I hope they bring back the History Bundle and the Indie Treasure Trove. I want Ars Magica, 3:16, and Sorcerer!
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Jan 27, 2014 19:14
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I played Witch a while back with a group of people who were fairly new to PNP and it basically turned into Medieval Fiasco at the end. Good stuff.
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Jan 27, 2014 19:20
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Numenera is 46% off today (both print and PDF) at the newly launched Monte Cook Games store, apparently, which brings the pdf price down to about $13.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:45
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There's a new Bundle of EDIT: It will end on Tuesday morning.
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Jan 30, 2014 21:50
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New bundle of holding is live! It's the RuneQuest 6th Edition core and Book of Quests, with Monster Island, the Monster Island Companion, and an adventure called Hessarret's Treasure if you beat the average. Help me out here goons, is this cool? I'm not super familiar with RQ.
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Feb 4, 2014 20:11
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I really like RQ 6th, but I don't have any experience with any of the other books in the bundle.
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Feb 4, 2014 20:32
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RuneQuest is the one that goes best Glorantha, right? Is that good enough cause to get it?
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Feb 7, 2014 08:15
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ObBundle: American Freeform, focusing on crazy li'l LARPs. The only one of these I know is 1001 Nights and I love it. Don't forget, if you're looking to buy some stuff on drivethrurpg, they have their annual "GM's Day" sale on March 4.
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Feb 14, 2014 05:15
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The new Bundle of Holding is up! This one is all based around the original 1980s version of Traveller. The base is: The Traveller Book, which is like the "red box" for Traveller. Supplement 12, which contains a ton of forms and charts about random things. FASA's ACS-1, a small compendium of ships and equipment. The Traveller Orientation Book, which is just a collection of free resources from the web. You can beat the average to get: The Atlas of the Imperium, which contains a ton of maps and charts of space. Annic Nova, a good intro ship-crawling adventure. The Spinward Marches Campaign, which is basically what the title says. The Traveller Adventure, which is another campaign.
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Feb 19, 2014 00:26
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Don't let it being an old traveller edition stop you, it's still good for the only thing Traveller is good for: rolling up way too detailed planetary systems to play in a different system. It is REALLY GOOD at getting you super detailed planets and economies.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:05
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Swagger Dagger posted:Don't let it being an old traveller edition stop you, it's still good for the only thing Traveller is good for: rolling up way too detailed planetary systems to play in a different system. Only system that was better at system and planet generation was SPI's Universe.
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Feb 19, 2014 03:38
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Oh, hey, I just noticed when I went to the cabinet that it linked the other Bundles I've bought. When'd they start doing that?
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Feb 19, 2014 03:54
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JackMann posted:Oh, hey, I just noticed when I went to the cabinet that it linked the other Bundles I've bought. When'd they start doing that? I think around the Super Asian Bundle. They're working on a full-fledged account system right now as well.
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Feb 19, 2014 04:13
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Not technically a deal, but it is a chance to get free books. My 13th Age campaign is holding a contest for fan content, and Pelgrane Press just chipped in a pair of $20 gift vouchers to give as prizes.
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Feb 21, 2014 02:56
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If you haven't seen yet, the new Bundle of Holding is a reboot of the Bundle of the Ages: Agon Beat to Quarters Beat-the-average: Ars Magica, 5th Edition Colonial Gothic, 2nd Edition Clockwork & Chivalry, 2nd Edition After this bundle ends (on Tuesday), the next bundle is going to be full of Ars Magica 4e supplements, which are "largely" compatible with 5e.
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Mar 2, 2014 22:36
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The e-mail alert about this bundle also said they would be adding more books over the weekend and Monday (and that anybody who bought the bundle the first time around would get the new books too), but so far I haven't seen any new titles added.
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Mar 2, 2014 22:58
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Funagain.com is having a Ding and Dent sale with limited stock of stuff in lovely boxes. Not too much there, but Dixit is present, and you can get a Pathfinder core book for half off.
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Mar 4, 2014 03:50
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Currently on Lulu there is a sale on products by VSCA Publishing, the makers of such fine games as Hollowpoint and Diaspora. This is set to run until the purveyor remembers to turn off the sale, so check in! OneBookShelf has the GM's Day Sale running. You can check out this link on DTRPG for a listing of products on sale. Get yourself some Lords of Gossamer and Shadow, Demolished Ones for Fate, or Pathfinder stuff from Rite Publishing. Buy some stuff from Sine Nomine and help support a small publisher who makes OSR games that break some new ground in that field. Buy Wold of Darkness stuff from White Wolf/Onyx Path. Buy from them or from some other worthy seller.
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Mar 4, 2014 12:38
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Crossposting from the Fate thread: I know they're outdated and such, but Legends of Anglerre, the Companion, and Starblazer Adventures $5 per PDF until the 31st. Looks like Cubicle 7's not going to renew the licenses (and admits there are better implementations) so they're doing a big sendoff sale.
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Mar 5, 2014 00:26
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If you haven't seen yet, the latest Bundle of Holding is a collection of Ars Magica supplements for...er...4th edition. I guess they're largely compatible with 5e, though, so go hog wild, I suppose? Also comes with the 4e core book if you need that. This bundle will end on Friday. No word of what is coming after that, as far as I know.
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Mar 12, 2014 23:20
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The newest Bundle of Holding is set to go up in less than 5 minutes! This bundle's theme is "Fantastic Valor," based around indie heroic action RPGs. The standards are: -Beast Hunters -High Valor -Jaws of the Six Serpents Beat the average to get: -Hellas -Honor & Intrigue -Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies I don't know anything about any of these! Thoughts? EDIT: Oh, and it's up for one week. Spincut fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 21:58
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Spincut posted:I don't know anything about any of these! Thoughts? Jaws of the Six Serpents and Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies are both cool if you like PDQ system games--J6S is probably my favorite implementation of the system. Oriongates is reviewing all the PDQ games over in FATAL & Friends--S7S isn't ip yet, but here's the J6S review. Jaws is pulp sword & sorcery, S7S is musketeers and pirates in a world of floating islands in a magic sky. HELLAS is a space opera take on Greek mythology, with planets instead of city-states and hyperspace as the Aegean. It's pretty cool setting if you're down for "GREEKS... IN... SPAAAAAAAAAACE!" but man oh man, the Omni system. Get the game for the setting, then run it in Fate or Marvel Heroic or something would be my recommendation. The other three I don't know at all, though I'm pretty sure I own Honor & Intrigue. Just never read it.
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Mar 15, 2014 00:38
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This probably goes here: Target's impulse-buy seasonal section (right when you walk in, where stuff is a dollar or two) has a bunch of $1 drawstring bags that are basically the most perfect dice bags.
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