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Grey Hunter posted:It is awesome, but may end up with your players killing Merlin and stealing Excalibur...... That seems like a positive to me.
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Echophonic posted:That seems like a positive to me. We're enjoying ourselves.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:53
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Bundle of Holding is currently listing four nice offers (some of them returning from the past):
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Dec 24, 2014 23:27
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The full Paranoia bundle is totally worth it even if you're just a passing fan of the game.
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Dec 24, 2014 23:34
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For $20 that delta green bundle is quite good.
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Dec 25, 2014 01:53
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Evil Mastermind posted:The full Paranoia bundle is totally worth it even if you're just a passing fan of the game. It also has a shitload of support, including tons of converted adventures, and IMO the very best Paranoia adventure of all time right in the book itself.
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Dec 25, 2014 03:32
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Won't there be a Paranoia re-release via Kickstarter next year? I still have my 1990s rulebook somewhere, haven't looked at it in years. Hrm.
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Dec 25, 2014 07:46
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midnightclimax posted:Won't there be a Paranoia re-release via Kickstarter next year? quote:I still have my 1990s rulebook somewhere.
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Dec 25, 2014 08:26
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Is(n't) this the Paranoia release after XP, where they filed the serial number (literally the "XP" in the title, due to a complaint from Microsoft), and broke out the game into three rulebooks, where you could now be troubleshooters (as with previous versions/editions), or intsec, or high programmers? I can't keep my revisions/editions/versions/whatever straight. Also: what's Delta Green?
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Dec 25, 2014 12:34
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Nope, what you're talking about is Paranoia 25th Anniversary. Also: Delta Green is The Laundry Files RPG (or X-Files meets Cthulhu), and it's quite great.
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Dec 25, 2014 13:05
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I don't think this is the Troubleshooter/Whitewash release, which was the 25th anniversary 2010 release. You're probably right that it's XP (-XP) from 04. Delta Green is a sub-setting of Call of Cthulhu. You play government agents in a conspiracy, secretly fighting against the mythos. It wallpapers nicely over one of Call's quirks, by providing a plausible context for your policeman, boxer, flapper, scientist, and three librarians to be privy to the fantastic threats. DG also works in that you can't just call in the army or the super-FBI. It's more like you're the X-Files' Lone Gunmen, but they all work for the Post Office. E: vvv You're right, phone browsing makes me blind. moths fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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Dec 25, 2014 13:28
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The Paranoia bundle page clearly states 2004, and the titles match the XP product line. Seems pretty safe to judge it's XP.
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Dec 25, 2014 13:40
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So do people tend to run Delta Green in Call of Cthulhu, or are ya'll recommending it mostly as a setting sourcebook?
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Dec 25, 2014 14:11
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Done both, liked both a lot (the latter somewhat more, though I suspect that was due to my very own personal gripes with d20 System back then).
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Dec 25, 2014 14:22
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The Delta Green books are totally worth it all on their own as a source of ideas for any cosmic horror and/or conspiracy game. Mechanically they're tied to the Call of Cthulhu rules but the real good stuff is the ideas. I've used the adventures and plot hooks presented in Delta Green: Countdown for many, many different games and setting (my most used is probably the industrial chemical plant secretly producing zombie formula for a hidden Nazi conspiracy. I've run that in like 5 different systems). Delta Green and Countdown are probably very strong contenders for being the best RPG books ever produced.
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Dec 25, 2014 14:26
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There's a Kickstarter for a new standalone system with it's setting updated to the post-9/11 world due in January. These books will still be great for deep background and plot hooks. Countdown will still be fantastic.
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Dec 25, 2014 14:58
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Cool, I will pick them up. Any particularly recommended alternate systems?
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Dec 25, 2014 15:43
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moths posted:DG also works in that you can't just call in the army or the super-FBI. It's more like you're the X-Files' Lone Gunmen, but they all work for the Post Office. All the X-Files comparisons work well, because Delta Green is super 90s, but in a good way. Like it's full of UFO conspiracy theories, that sort of thing. WordMercenary posted:Cool, I will pick them up. Any particularly recommended alternate systems? Not a BRP fan? Anyway, I recommend Trail of Cthulhu.
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Mimir posted:There's a Kickstarter for a new standalone system with it's setting updated to the post-9/11 world due in January. These books will still be great for deep background and plot hooks. Countdown will still be fantastic. Edit: Found this, but they didn't kickstart it as far as I can tell. WordMercenary posted:Cool, I will pick them up. Any particularly recommended alternate systems? Lightning Lord posted:Not a BRP fan? Anyway, I recommend Trail of Cthulhu. Huh, now I wonder if the bundled version of the corebook is pre-2007 or post-2007. Yeah, the GUMSHOE system works well with Delta Green. I used the Storytelling system, and it had been good too. Edit II: The Re-Editing: Sources vary on the number of pages in Delta Green 1997 (BRP) and Delta Green 2007 (BRP/d20). The investigation will continue. I pray to stop in time and avoid delving too deep. Foglet fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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Dec 25, 2014 16:30
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Foglet posted:Nope, what you're talking about is Paranoia 25th Anniversary. There's actually a Laundry Files RPG that uses BRP, published by Cubicle 7. Delta Green isn't quite that. But you could probably run Laundry scenarios in Delta Green and vice versa. Foglet posted:...I know of two kickstarters for Delta Green fiction, but not anything regarding any system, standalone or otherwise; care to elaborate? Haven't yet Kickstarted it, but that is their expressed plan. Hence Mimir saying it's coming in January.
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Ok, I failed my Avarice check, and it turned out the corebook is indeed 1997 (BRP-only), oh well. (It's also, rather unexpectedly, 185 Mb, and Countdown's 270 Mb  )
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Dec 25, 2014 20:06
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minidracula posted:Is(n't) this the Paranoia release after XP, where they filed the serial number (literally the "XP" in the title, due to a complaint from Microsoft), and broke out the game into three rulebooks, where you could now be troubleshooters (as with previous versions/editions), or intsec, or high programmers? I can't keep my revisions/editions/versions/whatever straight. No, this is XP edition, just with the "XP" removed. The three-book thing didn't happen until a few years later.
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Foglet posted:You... might want to rethink that, citizen. There was no Paranoia edition to release in the so-called "nineties". Most notably, there were especially none to come out in the '99-5. Uh... I'd just like to state that I own the second edition, and not the one I just read and forgot about on Wikipedia. don't kill me pls
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Delta Green is vastly more serious than The Laundry so if you go into it expecting the latter you may be disappointed. That's not to say there aren't elements of it that aren't blackly comical but in general it doesn't have any of the Office Space angle that Stross' novels play up. I agree that Delta Green is a pro-purchase though, it's Greg Stolze and John Tynes (and I think Ken Hite's in there somewhere too?) at their height putting a modern spin on Mythos stuff that avoids being super-trite, and it's absolutely a fantastic resource for ideas, adventures, and inspiration even if you don't run it in BRP.
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I've done closed Alpha and Beta testing for the standalone Delta Green within the last year, and the game mechanics felt very complete. I've not heard anything about January particularly for the kickstarter but it would not surprise me.
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January was what they said at GenCon. There haven't been any updates since then, so I would not be totally surprised if it ended up delayed a little. That said, the open playtest felt pretty smooth and ready to go to me. As for the deals, I have picked up the Delta Green and Paranoia ones and both are great values - especially since the Paranoia pdfs have been very difficult to acquire recently.
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Dec 26, 2014 00:47
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Foglet posted:(It's also, rather unexpectedly, 185 Mb, and Countdown's 270 Mb That's because they're scans (with OCR for searchability) rather than PDFs created from the original documents.
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I just tried to buy the Paranoia bundle and this happened:quote:THANK YOU!  e: Oh! The right thing was in my cabinet afterall, it's just bad web design. moths fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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moths posted:I just tried to buy the Paranoia bundle and this happened: You lucked out. It told me I bought Numenera. And then the email went to my spam folder
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Oh god, I'd have written such an angrier letter to their customer service. gently caress, I'd probably still be typing it.
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Dec 31, 2014 06:00
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The Paranoia bundle is over; an Eclipse Phase bundle seems to have taken its place.
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Dec 31, 2014 08:06
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The thing about Eclipse Phase is that the PDF versions are all Creative Commons licensed and freely available, so the reason to spend money on them is to support the creators. And if you're going to do that, why cheap out? I dunno, maybe that's just me.
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malkav11 posted:The thing about Eclipse Phase is that the PDF versions are all Creative Commons licensed and freely available, so the reason to spend money on them is to support the creators. And if you're going to do that, why cheap out? I dunno, maybe that's just me. 
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I thought only the core book was CC.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I thought only the core book was CC. No, every book they've published is BY-NC-SA, and they distribute them freely on their website.
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Huh, that's pretty cool. I knew they were distributing the core book through legal torrents themselves but I never knew they were doing that with the whole line.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Huh, that's pretty cool. I knew they were distributing the core book through legal torrents themselves but I never knew they were doing that with the whole line. They're the best bunch of anarchists making a profit by doing what they love and freely distributing their IP. Seriously, when you look at people like GMS and compare them to the Eclipse Phase guys, it's like night and goddamned day.
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DTRPG is having a "New Year, New Game" sale going on. This includes some bundles of games, including a great bundle of The One Ring that includes the core book, Lake-Town supplement, and an adventure book for $15. Considering the core PDF is usually $30, this is a fantastic deal.
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Spincut posted:DTRPG is having a "New Year, New Game" sale going on. This includes some bundles of games, including a great bundle of The One Ring that includes the core book, Lake-Town supplement, and an adventure book for $15. Considering the core PDF is usually $30, this is a fantastic deal. Yeah, I snatched the bundle since I didn't have the adventure book or the Laketown book and they're pretty cool.
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Spincut posted:DTRPG is having a "New Year, New Game" sale going on. This includes some bundles of games, including a great bundle of The One Ring that includes the core book, Lake-Town supplement, and an adventure book for $15. Considering the core PDF is usually $30, this is a fantastic deal. Yeah, don't mind if I do. Most of the other bundles are kinda meh, though.
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