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Gasperkun posted:Fragged Empire has about a day and a half left. It looks really great and if you haven't heard about it by now you might wanna check it out if you like sandbox RPGs, post-apocalypse stuff, space travel, etc. It's also gonna have minis combat with an alternate option for more "narrative" combat for those who don't like minis. Very high production values but also he's shipping from Australia so the price is a bit higher than what you might be accustomed to. I've backed at PDF level for this, I love the art and it looks a solid idea. Shame I can't justify springing for the physical book - £40 is to rich for my blood for a single book. I'm getting the PDF and the pdf expansion book though.
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Bucnasti posted:If it was a regular Kickstarter or Indiegogo I would back it, but I don't care for the Patreon format. Hopefully they'll be successful and I can just buy the book when it's complete. This is kind of something Patreon isn't intended for - Patreon's format encourages ongoing, endless production of content. They'll stop making money by completing the book. (And then presumably switch to making money from book sales, but that presupposes they'll actually want to stop their flow of guaranteed income.)
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Grey Hunter posted:I've backed at PDF level for this, I love the art and it looks a solid idea. Shame I can't justify springing for the physical book - £40 is to rich for my blood for a single book. I'm in for the same. Assuming the playtest rules aren't a hot mess, I'm considering giving them a shot here, or if anyone else wants to run it, I'll gladly play.
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Darksaber posted:I'm in for the same. Assuming the playtest rules aren't a hot mess, I'm considering giving them a shot here, or if anyone else wants to run it, I'll gladly play. I'd be up for trying them out.
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So I saw that this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peternewland/wizard-dodgeball?ref=discovery is now going for a physical release. Pitch in and make wizard dodgeball a reality!
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Impermanent posted:So I saw that this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peternewland/wizard-dodgeball?ref=discovery Just wanted to say that the creator of this game is a good friend of mine and I helped playtest this. Great little 2-Player Ameritrash game. Good for a quick 20-30 minutes.
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Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King's Quest by Mantic, aka Dwarf King's Hold 4, is now live on kickstarter and already funded. CMON style pledge levels too, just one level, and one early bird (that I missed because time zones).
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Wow I really wanted this but unless there's a lot of stretch goals $100 is a little steep.
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Fenarisk posted:Wow I really wanted this but unless there's a lot of stretch goals $100 is a little steep. This is Mantic, you know there will be lots of stretch goals. It's already up to six additional minis, I would expect there to be nearer 50 by the end.
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Jedit posted:This is Mantic, you know there will be lots of stretch goals. It's already up to six additional minis, I would expect there to be nearer 50 by the end. I kinda suspect there's going to be a bunch of addons, too, though.
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There almost has to be, since you're not going to reach stretch goals with new buy-ins alone. I wonder if there's going to be an additional tier later, it seems silly to specify who gets the add-on when everybody gets the add-on.
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moths posted:There almost has to be, since you're not going to reach stretch goals with new buy-ins alone. I think they're maybe seeing how this one goes after Mars Attacks was less successful than they'd hoped due to its confusing structure. There's definitely meant to be a retailer only pledge level though.
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I'm expecting that once they finish fleshing out the primary and advanced books with campaigns, tiles and bad guy minis, they'll open up new themed expansion boxes for additional money akin to Return of the Witchlord and Against the Ogre Horde from Heroquest - a dozen or so extra minis, 4 new tiles, and a new campaign book. They might offer some KS exclusive custom dice as well, seems like an easy way to raise a little revenue without having to include them in the final box too.
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Yeah I'm glad they're not going the MA route with the crazy option menus. I set some extra money aside for this one since dungeon crawls are my favorite tabletop. As I was writing this I just got an update about the first buy-in, a pretty good chunk of Msntic undead for $30. I've already got them from KoW, but that's not too bad.
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I can quickly see this one accelerating out of my budget at prices like that. Even if it's good value as minis go. There's a reason I don't play miniature-based wargames.
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Yeah, that would have been a better freebie - at least until the core box feels like a great deal. The first MA and DBX buy ins were a bit crap, too.
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Is there a reason DKQ doesn't include a gameplay preview? I would like one of these to feel like an adventure, not just move, kill, move, kill, deal with a trap, move.. And I didn't particularly care for SDE either. What I think would really go a long way with one of these, though I have no experience with the system so maybe DKQ has it, is some continuity between campaigns. I remember being told that the Pathfinder card game has that and it makes or breaks the game based on whether or not you can expect to have the same crew for each game. Also it's a shame all of these games end up with 5 players. I have a crew of 6 and it makes finding new and interesting board games to play downright impossible.
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signalnoise posted:Also it's a shame all of these games end up with 5 players. I have a crew of 6 and it makes finding new and interesting board games to play downright impossible.
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signalnoise posted:Also it's a shame all of these games end up with 5 players. I have a crew of 6 and it makes finding new and interesting board games to play downright impossible. Play a game of Diplomacy to cull the herd.
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Say what you will about John Wick, but the man gets poo poo done. I just got the tracking info for the hardcopy of Wield, which started funding in mid May and finished in late May. Of this year. It started funding after most projects I backed, stopped funding. And it's being delivered just over 2 months after it funded.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460966263/horrors-of-war-a-convenant-with-deathquote:
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clockworkjoe posted:No PDF option unfortunately, because John Crowe is a luddite who fears piracy. You've got to be kidding me. Anyway, yeah, I just got my tracking number for Wield as well. Should be arriving...tomorrow! Woo! In other news, Tasty Minstrel just sent out another update with regards to their microgames. Basically the ship that held them pulled into port in Oakland and then just...sat there for a week. They didn't get any response from their contacts, but I guess the games are actually leaving the harbor today, so they've added an extra 10 days to delivery estimates. Sucks that they've hit another delay, but at least we're nearing actual delivery now.
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Spincut posted:You've got to be kidding me. I feel sorta bad for TMG because they're missing gen con sales, but they got themselves into this gently caress-up, shipping delays or no.
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dwarf74 posted:Holy poo poo, my Wield + deck is coming today. I guess it took a while to get the tracking numbers out. Yeah, I have to agree. They got themselves in too deep with too little planning and they're kind of paying the price for it now. I'm not really mad about it, though. It's only another week or two. I got my first ever physical Kickstarter product a couple weeks ago: Province! I haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, though. EDIT: Evil Hat has put up the Kickstarter for Designers & Dragons, a 4-book series on the history of roleplaying, starting in the 70s, and it has already funded. $25 gets you one volume (each of which covers a decade), and $85 gets you all four. Spincut fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Designers & Dragons, the comprehensive history of the hobby, launched half a day early and has already funded. Backing even at the $1 level gets you volume 1 (the 70's) right away.
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Does Dwarf King need to be played with a GM or is it entirely co-op?
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One player is the Necromancer.
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I have some games that, if I got funding for them, could probably be released a lot quicker/with better quality. My problem is, the exact thing I want funding for (art & layout) is the thing that best attracts potential funders. Spitting out cool ideas only goes so far! Any advice on this?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Does Dwarf King need to be played with a GM or is it entirely co-op? It's clearly a modern interpretation of HeroQuest/Advanced Heroquest/Warhammer Quest. Which makes me A) want it, because I love those games but also B) not want it because none of my friends have shown any interest in playing my copies of HQ/AHQ. Also I am sort of burnt out on the generic fantasy thing. I'd be much more attracted if they invented new monsters and villains instead of retreading such thoroughly trodden ground.
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Jon Joe posted:I have some games that, if I got funding for them, could probably be released a lot quicker/with better quality. My problem is, the exact thing I want funding for (art & layout) is the thing that best attracts potential funders. Spitting out cool ideas only goes so far! Any advice on this? If you can, get just enough art for the kickstarter, one good color piece and a couple of black and white will get you a long ways. You don't need to illustrate the entire game to get backers, you just need enough to get them excited and open their wallets. It's going to be tough if you have zero budget. But even a small budget can get you something, as long as you're willing to compromise. Also work on one KS at a time, use the success from one to bootstrap the next one.
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Jon Joe posted:My problem is, the exact thing I want funding for (art & layout) is the thing that best attracts potential funders. Do you have an artist and layout person in mind? It might be worth commissioning him or her to do a spread or sample pages. Yeah you'll be paying up front, but it'll almost certainly be worth it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Designers & Dragons, the comprehensive history of the hobby, launched half a day early and has already funded. Backing even at the $1 level gets you volume 1 (the 70's) right away. I will still most likely back this, but there is no way it can surpass Peterson's work due to his primary source access if nothing else: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0615642047?pc_redir=1407011145&robot_redir=1
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Leperflesh posted:Also I am sort of burnt out on the generic fantasy thing. I'd be much more attracted if they invented new monsters and villains instead of retreading such thoroughly trodden ground. I'd rather they retrod this ground than made Kingdom Death 2.
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Leperflesh posted:It's clearly a modern interpretation of HeroQuest/Advanced Heroquest/Warhammer Quest. Which makes me A) want it, because I love those games but also B) not want it because none of my friends have shown any interest in playing my copies of HQ/AHQ. I'm backing it because I loved Heroquest when I was a kid but was too young to really get much out of it so this game will allow me to indulge my nostalgia without trying to actually find a copy of Heroquest.
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cyberia posted:I'm backing it because I loved Heroquest when I was a kid but was too young to really get much out of it so this game will allow me to indulge my nostalgia without trying to actually find a copy of Heroquest. I was the same, but then I saw the contents and my enthusiasm dropped. Something about the generic undead monsters just aren't doing it for me, I was expecting a wider range of creature types.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I was the same, but then I saw the contents and my enthusiasm dropped. Something about the generic undead monsters just aren't doing it for me, I was expecting a wider range of creature types. There's a couple of expansions set for this one as later stretches I'm sure, but not sure what monsters they'll have in them. I think they're aiming for other types of creatures and tiles in future editions, they've made it clear in the lead up to this that the name change to "Dungeon Saga" meant they have many more sagas to tell, not just the Dwarf King and his struggles against the necromancer. I'm half expecting them to add more of the extras packs of Kings of War minis so people have more monsters to make use of the advanced rules, as they have stat lines for every fantasy mini they make - $25 for a mix of different Orcs and Goblins, Trolls and Ogres, Abyssal Dwarves, Twilight Kin, other kinds of undead, etc It's all set in the Mantica universe of Kings of War so it needs to match the fluff it's expanding, but like most fantasy games it's their own take on Tolkien so yeah, not a lot of totally original and out of the box monsters. Still, better than a Wet Nurse right?? NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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