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Indolent Bastard posted:That drug you are looking for is called intelligence and foresight. He guarantees Euro backers won't get screwed over by customs, he makes KS exclusive stuff that is nice and won't be in the retail box, but won't effect game play at all, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Mar 3, 2014 16:44
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Isn't Witch Girls the game about budding magical sociopaths that they hired a fetish cartoonist to illustrate, and the creators behind it have no real conception of things like "actions in game having in-game consequences?"
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Mar 3, 2014 17:12
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S.J. posted:But does it have good rules? Here they are. Rivet Wars Judge for yourself.
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Mar 3, 2014 17:16
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Kai Tave posted:Isn't Witch Girls the game about budding magical sociopaths that they hired a fetish cartoonist to illustrate, and the creators behind it have no real conception of things like "actions in game having in-game consequences?" I'm reasonably sure that's Witch Girl Adventures, a similar-sounding but very much different game.
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Mar 3, 2014 17:24
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Flavivirus posted:I'm reasonably sure that's Witch Girl Adventures, a similar-sounding but very much different game. Nope, just checked: quote:I wanted to introduce [my niece] to the hobby I loved, but there was literally nothing out there for girls like her. So I decided I was going to do something totally out of the box, write a table top RPG for kids (specifically) girls her age. And Witch Girls Adventures was born.
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Mar 3, 2014 17:28
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Welp, fair enough, that indeed is the one that's awful and weird and kinda skeevy. Should have done my research!
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Mar 3, 2014 17:34
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No idea about the fetish artist thing, really. One of the iconic characters IS pretty much an amoral girl that transforms people into other things, which I suppose should have been a big hint. Said character is, of course, the creator's apparent favorite.
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Mar 3, 2014 17:49
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Yeah, the guy they hired to do the art does a lot of transformation and vore fetish art, which creepily works its way into the game aimed at young girls as the creator-favorite amoral GMPC loves to do things like transform mundanes into cigarettes and smoke them or turn like one person into a cat and the other into a mouse with the implication of "haha it's funny because one of them is going to get eaten." I'm not trying to pass judgment on you over this by the way, merely pointing out that the creators don't seem to be the best at this whole "making good decisions" thing.
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Mar 3, 2014 17:55
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In non-creepy news, I was a day off and the Mage20 kickstarter is live. Did anyone around here get the previous Limited Edition oWoD books? How are they quality-wise.
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Mar 3, 2014 18:23
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Evil Mastermind posted:In non-creepy news, I was a day off and the Mage20 kickstarter is live.
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Mar 3, 2014 18:47
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dwarf74 posted:So $35 is the minimum to get you the rules? In pdf? Without any extra books?
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Mar 3, 2014 19:27
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dwarf74 posted:So $35 is the minimum to get you the rules? In pdf? Without any extra books? Looks like $135 to actually receive a hard copy?
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Mar 3, 2014 19:29
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Azhais posted:Looks like $135 to actually receive a hard copy? Yes, but at least it's a 600+ page faux-leather bound hard copy. It can't be cheap to produce.
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Mar 3, 2014 19:32
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Evil Mastermind posted:Yeah. Unfortunately, that's pretty much how they've been pricing the reprints. If you were to wait for the game to be released publicly it'd likely be $30 for the PDF and $65/$100 for standard and premium colour hardbacks respectively (going by V20 and W20). So pledging for the PDF now isn't going to cost you much extra and will likely get you the PDF much earlier, but if you want the book you can save a lot by waiting for it to be public.
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Mar 3, 2014 19:36
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Evil Mastermind posted:In non-creepy news, I was a day off and the Mage20 kickstarter is live. I'd say they're probably the best looking rpg books I own. There are some minor issues, like the v20 logo disc falling off (it glued back on fine) and the w20 pages sticking at the edges (they came apart carefully without damage), but I'd absolutely buy them over again. I'm going to back out of Arcadia for Mage. CMON got enough of my WoK money anyway.
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Azhais posted:Looks like $135 to actually receive a hard copy? The Kickstarters are pretty much just for the super-deluxe editions. It's not something you should pledge to if you just want the game.
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Mar 3, 2014 20:15
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Yeah, there is no cost saving in the Mage kickstarter at all, but I don't think there ever are in White Wolf kickstarters. I'm glad they're including the PoD version at cost, I'll get a cheap one to use as a table copy so I don't have to pass a gigantic tome around.
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Mar 3, 2014 20:26
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah, the guy they hired to do the art does a lot of transformation and vore fetish art, which creepily works its way into the game aimed at young girls as the creator-favorite amoral GMPC loves to do things like transform mundanes into cigarettes and smoke them or turn like one person into a cat and the other into a mouse with the implication of "haha it's funny because one of them is going to get eaten." Yeah, I understand. I guess I didn't think about it that way because I was already head-desking over the terrible, TERRIBLE spanish in the intro comic. Anyway, re: White Wolf Games, the Hardcover Premium copies of the W:tA and V:tM go for $99 over at DTRPG. They are very nice. Standard editions are around $65, and come with less nice paper. B&W versions go for $50 I think the premium is a single book and standard its two books. For some reason my order of the V:tM book arrived in both versions (... not the Werewolf one tho). And if their other books are anything to judge, the Kickstarter version is bound to come with a neat cover, and a metallic sheen on the page edges, much like in their Mummy and Hunters Hunted books.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:The Kickstarters are pretty much just for the super-deluxe editions. It's not something you should pledge to if you just want the game. Ah, I misread. Was thinking this was just for a new revised edition or something.
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Does anyone have any thoughts on Far Away Land RPG? I am trying to cut back on kickstarters, especially with the Dwarven Forge one coming up shortly, but something about this one is calling to me. It doesn't help that I pretty much only go for at least the lowest physical tier on RPG kickstarters to get the main content which puts this one at a $60 buy in. The lists everyone has been posting has definitely made me a little more conscious of supporting these things. I have put in so far to 75 different kickstarters since September 2011 with an average pledge of $89.60 each, almost all TG, and another half dozen Indiegogo campaigns. Of those 8 are way behind schedule with no clear end in sight. I have buyers remorse on a few of them overall and there are several I will probably never play or only play a couple times but I am still glad to have them to read through. None have totally failed on me yet and I am not overly concerned that the outstanding ones will. I am just glad I am patient. Sometimes it's nice to totally forget about something you paid for a year ago and have it just show up.
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nesbit37 posted:Does anyone have any thoughts on Far Away Land RPG? I am trying to cut back on kickstarters, especially with the Dwarven Forge one coming up shortly, but something about this one is calling to me. It doesn't help that I pretty much only go for at least the lowest physical tier on RPG kickstarters to get the main content which puts this one at a $60 buy in.
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RE: Arcadia - Eric Lang, the guy behind Chaos in the Old World and several of Final Fantasy's original LCGs (that is to say, not Netrunner) is involved in at least some capacity. That said, he's one of four listed designers and the other three appear to be complete newbies, so who knows how much that matters.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kicket/kicket-arena Haha, what? This looks awesome.
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LordAba posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kicket/kicket-arena
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Goredema posted:That actually looks like a lot of fun, like croquet for nerds. Or more accurately, croquet for nerds who do not want to dress up in steampunk outfits. I want to see the guys face as he realizes his drunken friend kicked the poo poo out of his $500 one-of-a-kind Lucio Parrillo character (totally going to be lesbian angels).
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LordAba posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kicket/kicket-arena What the poo poo. That looks amusing, but I will be damned if I can muster the balls to play footsie soccer with Conan the Barbarian or whatever.
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http://michael-langlois.net/2014/02/23/cthulhu-wars-a-look-at-the-entire-beast/ So, Cthulhu Wars continues to be looking pretty nice.
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Tears of a Machine arrived complete with full-color embroidered patch and clear plastic ID card.
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Memnaelar posted:http://michael-langlois.net/2014/02/23/cthulhu-wars-a-look-at-the-entire-beast/ The more I see of Cthulhu Wars, the more I fear how big that box will be. I mean it's a moot point since I don't have the forklift necessary to take it anywhere, but still.
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GrandpaPants posted:The more I see of Cthulhu Wars, the more I fear how big that box will be. I mean it's a moot point since I don't have the forklift necessary to take it anywhere, but still. It won't be a box. It'll be boxes. A single box would likely be bigger than the OGRE box and have minis scattering everywhere. It's glorious. You're right that transport will be a pain, but I suppose you could mitigate that somewhat by only taking the boards/expansions that you intend to use in a session.
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Memnaelar posted:http://michael-langlois.net/2014/02/23/cthulhu-wars-a-look-at-the-entire-beast/ All I see is a game that'll be a PITA to play because the models are so big as to be unwieldy. That shot of a game in progress was ridiculous; you couldn't even see the map for all the crap on the board.
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Tokaido: Collector's Edition. I really wish I liked Tokaido a lot more, because it is an absolutely gorgeous game and I'm sure the collector's edition would play well to its aesthetic.
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Crackbone posted:All I see is a game that'll be a PITA to play because the models are so big as to be unwieldy. That shot of a game in progress was ridiculous; you couldn't even see the map for all the crap on the board. It's kinda crazy how much the whole thing is going for. 169 for the base + 180.00 for the expansions. 657.00 for literally everything. I kinda regret not funding it since the kickstarter stuff was ALOT better bang for your buck but it was still in the crazy high category of spending for me. It seems like it's too expensive for it's own good at this point to be considered an actual boardgame and is just a miniature fest. So...guess I am glad I didn't buy it? Buckwheat Sings fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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So hey, KS thread: Giant backer tiers. What would make you pledge $100+ for a tabletop RPG?
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Buckwheat Sings posted:It's kinda crazy how much the whole thing is going for. 169 for the base + 180.00 for the expansions. 657.00 for literally everything. To be fair, this is the sort of thing Kickstarter was really made for. No company was going to make Cthulu Wars in the scale that guy wanted. I'd be interested if I could buy a more "retail-friendly" version in a more sane size.
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I pledged over $100 for TimeWatch and Fate Core. For Fate Core, I got six print copies of Fate Accelerated, as well as print copies of Fate Core, the two Fate Worlds books, and the Fate System Toolkit. I was already on board with Fate as a system, so I knew I'd have a use for the deadtree books, and I really really wanted them to hit the $86k stretch goal for Camelot Trigger. For TimeWatch, it was a $90 pledge level (to put an adventure seed into the book) plus a dead-tree copy of the campaign supplement add-on. What tends to interest me:
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From my point of view, Iron Edda was the worst at this. I backed it for $15 because the pitch was cool, but the only levels higher than that were for deadtree copies or getting them to run a session for my group, and the stretch goal organization was, in a word, asinine.
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Crackbone posted:All I see is a game that'll be a PITA to play because the models are so big as to be unwieldy. That shot of a game in progress was ridiculous; you couldn't even see the map for all the crap on the board.
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Ettin posted:So hey, KS thread: Getting multiple entire product lines in PDF - the current Mutant Chronicles kickstarter has me in for 40 pounds for a ridiculous number of PDF books plus another 40 for the entire fruits of their previous Achtung Cthulhu kickstarter. Otherwise? Not much. I don't get to play more than one or two RPGs at a time and they take months and months, so $100+ is not a sane amount of money to spend on anything less than big, big bundles of product. And frankly, I'm still not convinced that Mutant Chronicles represents -great- value (I'm getting a whole lot more for my money in Bundles of Holding and similar), but I do know for a fact it represents a significant discount over their non-Kickstarter pricing so it'll do.
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