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What is the best version of El? This poll is closed. |
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| Elminster |
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20 | 6.45% |
| Elmara |
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20 | 6.45% |
| Entwine |
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13 | 4.19% |
| GURPS |
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99 | 31.94% |
| El Kabong |
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153 | 49.35% |
| Elves |
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5 | 1.61% |
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Yeah, the fiction anthology came out as an epub fairly quickly as kickstarters go and was actually pretty good. Which probably buoyed hopes on the game for a while. I don't know if it ever got a physical release though.
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Aug 27, 2014 07:38
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A Catastrophe posted:Has he actually released anything? For far west, I mean. There were a few art pictures meant to be in the box he released that were vectorized portraits of people who donated enough money. At least one was so terrible the backer in question then requested it not be in the book.
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Aug 27, 2014 13:51
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ProfessorCirno posted:There were a few art pictures meant to be in the box he released that were vectorized portraits of people who donated enough money. At least one was so terrible the backer in question then requested it not be in the book.
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Aug 27, 2014 14:36
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Skarka never, ever, ever fails to disappoint. And yet he has infinite time to engage his enemies and conduct his crusades on twitter, g+, therpgsite, and everywhere else. What a strange cat.
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Aug 27, 2014 14:46
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FMguru posted:Skarka never, ever, ever fails to disappoint. And yet he has infinite time to engage his enemies and conduct his crusades on twitter, g+, therpgsite, and everywhere else. What a strange cat. Latest update on Far West posted:At worst, I figure I'm no more than a week to 10 days behind schedule. A Backer posted:"A week to ten days" meaning "eight more months".......? :/ GMS posted:Not at all. Although, if you like, I can hold yours back until then...
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Aug 27, 2014 14:53
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maybe he did, and then decided it wouldn't be fair to give it to everybody else before that guy sounds like his kind of logic anyway 
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Aug 27, 2014 15:00
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MadScientistWorking posted:Knowing the setting was it racist terrible or was it just poorly drawn terrible. It just looked like poo poo. Apparently the "self-insert" art you could buy through the Kickstarter ended up being poorly PS-filtered heads pasted onto the bodies of more regular art from the book. Gravy Train Robber posted:
Now, now, when the backer took exception, Skarka politely told him he meant it jokingly. Of course, he didn't actually apologize. And who would guess he wasn't being sincere after that crazy Iceland legal threat hilarity?
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Aug 27, 2014 18:06
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Possibly relevant to people's interests: the current Bundle of Holding is Ars Magica 5th Edition.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:11
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It's so nice to hear that those giving money to GMS are getting what they deserve.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:11
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I am forced to wonder how much of "The original artist left to deal with family issues" thing was actually family issues and not "Artist recognized an apparent trainwreck in the making and fled as fast as they could."
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Aug 27, 2014 18:12
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unseenlibrarian posted:I am forced to wonder how much of "The original artist left to deal with family issues" thing was actually family issues and not "Artist recognized an apparent trainwreck in the making and fled as fast as they could."
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Aug 27, 2014 18:14
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potatocubed posted:Possibly relevant to people's interests: the current Bundle of Holding is Ars Magica 5th Edition. That feel when you want to play ars magica but no one wants to gm and i sure as hell ain't doing that because my peanut sized stegosaur brain would melt under the micromanagement.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:15
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WRONG THREAD DINGUS. Rolled a 1!
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Aug 27, 2014 18:16
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Aw, man, all this Ars Magica stuff and it's all stuff I bought already.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:18
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Happy 3 Years of Non-Release, Far West.  Impermanent posted:It's so nice to hear that those giving money to GMS are getting what they deserve. Hey man, I was young and naive, all I knew was some guy was promising me kung-fu cowboys. FMguru posted:I see no reason to think Skarka is any better being prompt and not making excuses when it comes to paying artists than he is at producing games. Seeing as he's trying to Karma to Burn fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 18:22
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Impermanent posted:It's so nice to hear that those giving money to GMS are getting what they deserve. I didn't know how big a prick he was three years ago.  FMguru posted:I see no reason to think Skarka is any better being prompt and not making excuses when it comes to paying artists than he is at producing games. I really do wonder how many bridges he's burned at this point. I doubt C7 or Steve Kenson want anything to do with him anymore after everything that happened with Icons Team-Up.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:22
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I know that feeling. Giving away The Living Covenant's a bit odd in a bundle because it's...a free online thing, but I guess packaging it all in one PDF is nice. Overall, though, this is an excellent collection, the three Houses of Hermes books are I'd honestly say the most important non-core books to grab for just the core game. Apprentices and The Lion and Lily aren't; Apprentices is a bit niche, and Lion's good and all but not required by any means.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:23
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Impermanent posted:It's so nice to hear that those giving money to GMS are getting what they deserve. I don't think that's fair. Even today, there's no onus on the consumer to go dumpster-diving in forums and G+ to figure out that a perfectly legit looking Kickstarter is secretly a garbage bag full of bowling balls. They should certainly make a cursory check, though. So, of course, now when you can post a simple "Hey what's up with this guy?" on the most prominent RPG forum and get a horror show thread, it's your own drat fault if you forge ahead.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:25
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Mors Rattus posted:
And it's just going to get better. Apprentices was just added today, so I imagine they'll be adding a book a weekday until the bundle ends next week.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:26
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Plague of Hats posted:I don't think that's fair. Evil Mastermind posted:I didn't know how big a prick he was three years ago. Karma to Burn posted:Hey man, I was young and naive, all I knew was some guy was promising me kung-fu cowboys. Okay, fair. I don't mean to kick anyone who accidentally gave money to a jerk while they're down. I had thought the kickstarter was much more recent.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:06
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Evil Mastermind posted:I really do wonder how many bridges he's burned at this point. I doubt C7 or Steve Kenson want anything to do with him anymore after everything that happened with Icons Team-Up. Considering he's now hanging out with Pundit and Zak, probably all of the bridges. You don't shack up with those two unless you have nothing left to lose.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:07
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Slimnoid posted:You don't shack up with those two unless you have nothing left to lose. Impermanent posted:I had thought the kickstarter was much more recent.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:10
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FMguru posted:
Well that... that's impressive.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:15
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Isn't he also sitting on the Bas-Lag license? If so, gently caress that guy super-hard.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:26
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Slightly Lions posted:Isn't he also sitting on the Bas-Lag license? If so, gently caress that guy super-hard. And Buckaroo Banzai.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:33
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Interestingly, Buckaroo Banzai is only two years late (although it was announced three years ago). I don't know which is worse: that he's sitting on a licence I've wanted an RPG for for over 20 years, or that no matter what he ends up releasing it won't be a better B. Banzai game than the Atomic Robo RPG.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:52
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Lemon Curdistan posted:And Buckaroo Banzai. At this point, his properties are getting to be the Duke Nukem Forever of Trad Games.
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Aug 27, 2014 19:54
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How did he get the Bas Lag rights? I want to TPK by fighting a Weaver.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:05
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Impermanent posted:Well that... that's impressive. quote:Dec 2, 2011
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Aug 27, 2014 20:08
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FMguru posted:Note that it's been more than ten months since that list was compiled, and still no Far West.  This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:23
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Impermanent posted:
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Aug 27, 2014 20:33
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My favorite is when he got super mad about a backer accusing him of not fulfilling his obligations to his customers, a while back on G+. Another person stepped in and said he shouldn't be so rude to a customer, and this was his reply:Gareth Michael Skarka posted:He’s not a customer. Period. Here’s the thing: _There are no customers for FAR WEST yet._ There are backers, which is not the same as a customer — that’s somebody who has invested money to back a process (of which there are 717, and he isn’t one), each of whom is receiving some amount of stock of various products in the line in return for their investment. Kickstarter is very clear about this. This is not a consumer process. The G+ post has since been deleted.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:39
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What an asshat.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:40
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gnome7 posted:My favorite is when he got super mad about a backer accusing him of not fulfilling his obligations to his customers, a while back on G+. Another person stepped in and said he shouldn't be so rude to a customer, and this was his reply: That may have actually been in response to me; I said that to him once and got a similar answer. e: Although I seem to remember him backhand-accusing me of having a burger-flipping job since I think you should treat customers with respect. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 20:42
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Galaga Galaxian posted:What an asshat. Let's not forget the part where he will show up in every third thread posted by one particular TGer to insult said TGer because GMS literally thinks that every thread about social justice issues posted on G+ is a veiled attack on him. He's not just an asshat, he's a dangerous, deluded paranoid asshat.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:51
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He's an odd creature. He's currently taking Desborough to task over the whole reaction to Zoe Quinne and Anita Sarkeesian, so there is a good person deep down beneath that incredibly stubborn and aggressive persona he wears.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:51
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Evil Mastermind posted:Although I seem to remember him backhand-accusing me of having a burger-flipping job since I think you should treat customers with respect.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:52
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FMguru posted:GMS has repeatedly gone after other companies and creators (like Fred Hicks) for offering good customer service, saying its a transparently obvious scam gimmick that only morons can't see through. 
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Aug 27, 2014 20:56
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The lesson is that if you pay a kickstarter you are stupid and deserving of a lesson in caveat emptor.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:56
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Bosushi! posted:He's an odd creature. He's currently taking Desborough to task over the whole reaction to Zoe Quinne and Anita Sarkeesian, so there is a good person deep down beneath that incredibly stubborn and aggressive persona he wears.
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