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Barristicide posted:Hey, does anyone know if Big Brother Tsien makes an appearance in any of the official Feng Shui sourcebooks? I know he appears in the Johnny Tso stories that were in the front of the original full color core rulebook. Yeah, he's in Back For Seconds. Triad boss who hit the big time, Lotus magic released his inner demon and gave him a transform ability. Guns, Martial Arts, Creature Powers -- most of his schticks are Creature. Back For Seconds is still one of the best Feng Shui sourcebooks. Good luck finding it, though -- it was a Daedalus release, so no PDF is available. Edit: actually, screw it, Jose Garcia isn't going to complain: Stats: Bod 13, Chi 0 (Mag 9), Mnd 6, Ref 8 Skills: Creature Powers 13, Deceit 8, Guns 14, Info/Gangland Politics 12, Intimidation 11 (14 as demon), Leadership 11, Martial Arts 14 Gun Schticks: Lightning Reload x3 Creature Schticks: Conditional Escalation (+1 Bod, when hit by an opponent using a Fu power), Immune to Blast schticks (except for cold/ice), Inevitable Comeback, Rancid Breath, Transformation (human to demon) Weapons: Desert Eagle .50 Magnum (12/3/9+1), Mossberg Special Purpose (13/5/9) Thanlis fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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Cool! Many thanks!
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So September 17th is apparently when the kickstarter will kick off, per Ken and Robin talk about stuff.
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unseenlibrarian posted:So September 17th is apparently when the kickstarter will kick off, per Ken and Robin talk about stuff.
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http://atlas-games.com/in/kickstartfengshui2/ You can sign up to be notified the very instant it goes live, anyways. They also said at the GenCon panel that they're shooting for a summer 2015 ship date at the latest and will be trying to avoid kickstarter rewards or stretch goals that will delay the process.
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So, is anyone else still running/playing Feng Shui or is everybody waiting for the sequel?
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Night10194 posted:So, is anyone else still running/playing Feng Shui or is everybody waiting for the sequel? Playtest was fun, but I'm using it more for one shots.
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The One Shot podcast will be doing a Feng Shui 2 actual play, releasing tomorrow I believe. I think they might be interviewing one of the creators as well. They ran a game in the original ruleset last year, recommend checking it out.
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Sep 17, 2014 03:07
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A reminder that the Kickstarter launches on the 17th!
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I have to say, a lot of what I heard about the setting changes and the rules in Feng Shui 2 don't actually sound promising to me. It's probably mostly a function of not having seen them for myself, but the game sounds a lot less wild and a lot more boring if you can only activate abilities a couple times a session, etc.
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Night10194 posted:I have to say, a lot of what I heard about the setting changes and the rules in Feng Shui 2 don't actually sound promising to me. It's probably mostly a function of not having seen them for myself, but the game sounds a lot less wild and a lot more boring if you can only activate abilities a couple times a session, etc.
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Robin Laws just said that the KS will be going live at 8pm Eastern. Just FYI.
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Live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasgames/feng-shui-2-action-movie-roleplaying-game-by-robin
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BrainParasite posted:Live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasgames/feng-shui-2-action-movie-roleplaying-game-by-robin And already funded. 
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Us Innerwalkers don't mess around.
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I have to tut tut at a couple of the archtypes from the playtest rules being stretch goals, even if the first of them has already been blown away like a mook.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I have to tut tut at a couple of the archtypes from the playtest rules being stretch goals, even if the first of them has already been blown away like a mook.
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Huh... the draft looks almost identical to the playtest so far. That's not good. The Gene Freak, for example, is still busted to hell. Full Metal Nutball is improved, though...
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Given that the book's not coming out until next August, I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing this as a more widespread playtest. e: And they just hit the second stretch goal. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Given that the book's not coming out until next August, I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing this as a more widespread playtest. The Martial Artist, for example, needs to spend 1 chi to get their damage up to 12. Not huge, but it's 1 less Fortune roll. The Gene Freak is the worst here, fwiw. e: On the good side, $15 for PDF Pack 1 is awesome. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 02:42
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And now Stretch Goal 3 is out, so full color it is!
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It funded so fast there was whiplash.
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So... The Gene Freak is a stretch goal too? I wonder how many other archetypes are secret stretch goals.
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ThNextGreenLantern posted:So... The Gene Freak is a stretch goal too? I wonder how many other archetypes are secret stretch goals. Also? Swordmaster archetype. 
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I mentioned in the KS thread thet there's this "you have to have stretch goals" mindset with backers. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a case of just adding "fake" goals to meet people's perception. I'm just guessing though. Was the swordmaster archetype in the original docs? I don't remember and I don't know where my copy went to check.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
Robin Laws mentioned on google plus that there were originally 35 archetypes in the pre-KS document, so the sword master was added to make it a more auspicious 36. So I think it's new.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I mentioned in the KS thread thet there's this "you have to have stretch goals" mindset with backers. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a case of just adding "fake" goals to meet people's perception. I'm just guessing though. Goddamn this KS is on fire.
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Well, I'm in. I could use a few of these things on PDF as it is, and if FS2 turns out awesome, all the better.
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Sionak posted:Robin Laws mentioned on google plus that there were originally 35 archetypes in the pre-KS document, so the sword master was added to make it a more auspicious 36. So I think it's new. This is obviously a reference to Wu Tang 36 Chambers and I love it. Just backed the kickstarter so really going to enjoy this. I do hope they bring back the Dallas Rockets archetype back.
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I hate basically everything about the Dallas Rocket fluff (The whole Texas War of Independence was some pretty lovely stuff, historically, and I just can't get into their concept) but goddamn is Death O Rama the best loving Unique Schtick in the game. Also, they can't bring back the Dallas Rockets as the Texas DMZ is a crater along with everything else about Buro, unfortunately.
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They've added the pledge reward matrix guide thingy. I'm in for just the PDFs and hardcopy right now; I'm debating the dice, screen, and shot counter.
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Evil Mastermind posted:They've added the pledge reward matrix guide thingy. I understand why they do this, but it's always frustrating to not have those small extras as add-ons. As it stands it's $60 over the physical book for a GM screen, a nice looking shot counter with a set of tokens, and some chintzy looking dice.
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dwarf74 posted:Huh... the draft looks almost identical to the playtest so far. That's not good. The Gene Freak, for example, is still busted to hell. Full Metal Nutball is improved, though... Most of the rule concerns we had were actually fixed. I was focused on the wrong things. Sorry, Atlas!
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dwarf74 posted:I am dumb and I take this all back. How did the Gene Freak change out of curiosity? (Yes, I could check both documents - but don't remember why it was so busted, merely that it looked bad and apparently didn't even play that well). The Nutball? Bag full of guns is a huge improvement.
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dwarf74 posted:I am dumb and I take this all back. Yeah, I'm pretty impressed that the notes I sent them were addressed (like how the Cyborg was pretty much immortal). That's pretty cool.
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neonchameleon posted:How did the Gene Freak change out of curiosity? (Yes, I could check both documents - but don't remember why it was so busted, merely that it looked bad and apparently didn't even play that well). The Nutball? Bag full of guns is a huge improvement. Gene Freak is still busted. I'm talking about other stuff. Also, the new swordsman is busted as hell Holy poo poo.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Yeah, I'm pretty impressed that the notes I sent them were addressed (like how the Cyborg was pretty much immortal). That's pretty cool. I went point by point through my feedback and the stuff that wasn't changed wasn't so much bugs as difference of opinion. And I get the feeling more time was spent on core archetypes instead of weird stuff like that gene freak.
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dwarf74 posted:Gene Freak is still busted. I'm talking about other stuff. What's wrong with the Swordmaster?
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LeSquide posted:What's wrong with the Swordmaster? Bloodied blade +backslash.
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Check out the Masked Avenger's new schtick setup. In the playtest I had, he just got speed bonuses to attacking mooks and all mooks lost a shot every time he gunned one down. Pretty cool. He doesn't have those bonuses anymore. Instead, whenever he caps a mook, 3 (or was it 4?) other mooks now just straight up attempt to flee the fight. 
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