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Dr. Sneer Gory posted:I was wondering if someone would bring that up...it's for Call of Cthulhu, was published in The Unspeakable Oath #10. I still have my copy of it. Is that available as a PDF anywhere? $35 on ebay seems awfully steep for an old copy of UA. (I suppose it'll be at GenCon somewhere though too).
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Spincut posted:According to the Bundle of Holding newsletter, the next bundle after Unknown Armies is a collection of "...many of the groundbreaking indie games that revolutionized the tabletop roleplaying field in the late 1990s and the first few years of this millennium."
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Evil Mastermind posted:I haven't heard of that one. What's it for? Here's the very basic set up: Plot: Four inmates have been visited by a recurrent dream. In the dream, a shadowy being, who calls himself "the Opener of the Way" (Nyarlathotep) promises freedom if the men choose to join him. Extensive flooding reaches the Liberty Center for the Criminally Insane, where the prisoners are incarcerated. As they are transported to another location, a hunting horror tears the bus apart. The prisoners escape along with a guard. They then hijack the car of Linda and Susan Olcott. One of the prisoners shoots them both and stashes the bodies in the trunk. The inmates sacrifice the guard and complete the ritual, but something goes wrong. Now all of the characters have no memory of who they are or why they are there. All of it revolves around an ink blot on the wall that each prisoner interprets differently. It was written by Tynes and it is scary as gently caress.
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Ooh, interesting. And it'd work pretty well as a UA setup, too. Which isn't surprising, as most of the seeds of UA came from Tynes.
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It was also the only LARP I've ever enjoyed.
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The UA bundle got extended for another 24 hours so grab it if you haven't.
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EscortMission posted:No Synnibar, no sale. 
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Jul 10, 2014 21:00
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The new Bundle is going up in a few minutes from now:quote:For just US$8.95, you get DRM-free, non-watermarked .PDF ebooks of all four games in our core collection (retail value $49) by these star designers:
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Huh. Does that seem worth it to you guys? I'm not all that familiar with those games.
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Oooh, octaNe and Dogs alone are enough to make me go in over threshold.
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Jul 11, 2014 20:29
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I'm interested for Dogs in the Vineyard and Baron Muchausen, but 2/9 isn't enough to make me pull the trigger this time, and I already got Sorcerer from an earlier bundle of theirs. Anyone want to sell me on a few of the others?
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Jul 11, 2014 20:31
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Well, Sorcerer is totally worth it if you have a thing for Poser models.
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Jul 11, 2014 20:53
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Baron Munchausen is the absolute best of that list.
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Evil Mastermind posted:The new Bundle is going up in a few minutes from now: Huh, and I'm running an octaNe recruit right now. What a coincidence. 
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Jul 11, 2014 20:58
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Chaosium, makers of the Call of Cthulhu RPG and BRP are having a $13-off sale on their digital store that will run until the 19th. Pretty sure it's in celebration of their new site design. Check it out. There might be some good stuff on the cheap.
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Oh, in case you didn't see this in the email from BoH: if you bought the Pendragon or Eclipse Phase bundles, the DriveThru discount links expire on the 14th. The discount links for the 2300AD bundle will expire on the 21st.
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General Ironicus posted:I'm interested for Dogs in the Vineyard and Baron Muchausen, but 2/9 isn't enough to make me pull the trigger this time, and I already got Sorcerer from an earlier bundle of theirs. Anyone want to sell me on a few of the others? My Life With Master. If you're interested in RPG history, it was quite literally the first Storygame; the Rpg.net grog's reaction that it could never possibly be an RPG because it had an expected ending and defined narrative arc and Whaaargabl at which point Paul Czege, AndyK, and others shrugged and said "Names are less important than awesome games. It can be a Storygame." Wikipedia gives an excellent overview of the game itself. I'll let someone else sell you on octaNe as I've never played it. But I'm told it's awesome.
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Lord Frisk posted:Chaosium, makers of the Call of Cthulhu RPG and BRP are having a $13-off sale on their digital store that will run until the 19th. Pretty sure it's in celebration of their new site design. Check it out. There might be some good stuff on the cheap. A GREAT opportunity to grab some CoC miniatures at a decent discount.
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neonchameleon posted:My Life With Master. If you're interested in RPG history, it was quite literally the first Storygame; the Rpg.net grog's reaction that it could never possibly be an RPG because it had an expected ending and defined narrative arc and Whaaargabl at which point Paul Czege, AndyK, and others shrugged and said "Names are less important than awesome games. It can be a Storygame." Wikipedia gives an excellent overview of the game itself.
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FMguru posted:that weird Lovecraftian game where everything is written as diary entries whose name I can't remember De Profundis
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Huh...that looks like it'd work pretty well for PbP gaming.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Huh...that looks like it'd work pretty well for PbP gaming. It was literally invented for PbEM/PbP, so yes!
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh, in case you didn't see this in the email from BoH: if you bought the Pendragon or Eclipse Phase bundles, the DriveThru discount links expire on the 14th. The discount links for the 2300AD bundle will expire on the 21st. I honestly never knew those links expired. Guess I need to email them about the Delta Green Bundle. Thanks for the heads up. Were there any other Bundles that used DTRPG codes?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Huh...that looks like it'd work pretty well for PbP gaming. Someone oughta cover it for F&F!
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Krabkolash posted:I honestly never knew those links expired. Guess I need to email them about the Delta Green Bundle. Thanks for the heads up. Double check to see if Delta Green's links expired. I think I have several bundles that come from DTRPG that don't expire, so it's worth exploring.
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Scarred Lands (expires 31 July), Deadlands (already expired), and Mutants and Masterminds (already expired) from mine. Kirby, once you have 'em on DriveThru, they don't expire. You'll be able to download them there as long as they're up on the site. But the links to get them on DriveThru (the ones in your "wizard's cabinet") do expire.
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I just checked and apparently I missed getting two of the Delta Green pdfs; I emailed BoH like they said and they replied with a dropbox folder containing the whole bundle. So, they'll take care of you on that.
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I'm really looking forward to them figuring out something where there are no expiring discounts involved and no manually "buying" each and every title in the bundle. But I do appreciate having it on DriveThru. More convenient for me, and I think slightly less likely to suddenly vanish someday (though the Bundle of Holding guys seem to be sufficiently successful at this point that that's not a huge worry for me.)
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malkav11 posted:I'm really looking forward to them figuring out something where there are no expiring discounts involved and no manually "buying" each and every title in the bundle. But I do appreciate having it on DriveThru. More convenient for me, and I think slightly less likely to suddenly vanish someday (though the Bundle of Holding guys seem to be sufficiently successful at this point that that's not a huge worry for me.) Ideally, you could link your BoH and DriveThru accounts, so it would automatically be added to your library. I can imagine some people being pissed off at the info sharing that would be involved, though.
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Looks like they're working on that from their last e-mail update:Bundle of Holding posted:Most of our offers, such as the just-ended Unknown Armies Bundle and the one coming up, are still hosted on our own Bundle of Holding server. Later this summer we hope to migrate many of the titles from our past offers onto DriveThru's servers and add them automatically to your DTrpg Library. We'll keep you posted.
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That doesn't necessarily imply that they're going to have that sort of easy, automatic linkage going forward, only that they're trying to do a one-off backfill for previous bundles. I mean, we can hope, but when they announced the DriveThru partnership I was expecting that and so far haven't gotten it. And nothing about that statement says anything about future bundles.
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Gamewright Games, makers of such fine products as Forbidden Desert, Forbidden Island and Sushi Go, are celebrating their 20th anniversary. They offer 20% off through their store by using the code: gam20 at checkout. I don't know how long this one goes for, so use it while it's hot!
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Trollbabe has a write-up in F&F, for what that's worth. Very simple system, I'm thinking of getting in on the bundle for that one alone. Has an interesting 'raising the ante' gimmick, in that at any given time you can decide that your actions are meaningful on a larger scale. Only thing is there's no takebacks, so be sure you really want to take the step from 'Adventurer' to 'Petty warlord'. Octane is icing on the cake. Baron Munchausen is basically a game of telling tall tales, and trading tokens based on whether or not someone can successfully call you on something or derail your heroic monologue. It's ridiculous, and most of the book is either written from the Baron's perspective, or a dense list of possible conversational gambits like 'Tell us of the time you contrived to ride a keg of rum to the Moon.' It's ridiculous. Polaris is kind of like Wick's doomed highborn manchildren, without the Wickishness, and they're only as manchildish as you make them. I've always been interested in that one, myself. Inspectres had a F&F review a long while ago, and I recall that it was really internally conflicted. It claimed to be light-hearted and such, in the vein of the original Ghostbusters International RPG, but had a strange emphasis on injury and the constant near-inevitability of your company going bankrupt. Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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I've never managed to play Polaris, but I love it as a game to read. And hey, you get a timed-exclusive expansion!
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Huh. I've run Inspectres a handful of times and every game ran pretty smoothly. The "Stress" mechanic can be interpreted as pretty much anything from minor injuries, supernatural confusion, to frustration from just having a bad day. It's really the only thing it has in the way of a damage system. I suppose I can see the nudge towards bankrupting the franchise, but my players wound up with an obscene amount of Franchise dice at the end. Maybe I wasn't pushing them hard enough. Either way it's a fun little game and great to just whip out at a moment's notice.
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DriveThru is having a Christmas in July sale where a bunch of stuff is 25% off.
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The new Bundle of Holding is a One-Role-Engine bundle. Get Godlike, Better Angels, and Wild Talents for $11.95, or pay threshold (starting at $21.95) to add a Godlike setting, a Wild Talents setting, and Grim War by Greg Stolze and Kenneth Hite.
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The Wild Talents setting is "eCollapse", which is a setting based around the idea that society isn't so much collapsing as sliding drunkenly into the gutter and is about to choke on its own vomit as it ODs. The economy has collapsed via the world's largest PayPal scam, fossil fuels have been transformed into inert powders thanks to an airborne virus, and it turns out the problem wasn't climate change, it was climate "spasms" and hundreds of animal species are going extinct. You can buy superpowers at the store, but they're all made by the lowest bidder.
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inklesspen posted:The new Bundle of Holding is a One-Role-Engine bundle. Get Godlike, Better Angels, and Wild Talents for $11.95, or pay threshold (starting at $21.95) to add a Godlike setting, a Wild Talents setting, and Grim War by Greg Stolze and Kenneth Hite. Grim War is fantastic and underrated; if you're going for the bundle, I'm really suggest putting out the extra dosh for it.
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