|
In other news, the Torg bundle is brought back as Torg +2 with the previously mising books now added.
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 10:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 11:35 |
|
|
It's also apparently GM's Day, so DriveThru's having a big sale.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 17:16
|
|
|
My gosh, that's a lot of products. Any standouts?
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 17:40
|
|
|
There's a lot of bad stuff, but also WWWRPG is already 30% off: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/143434/The-World-Wide-Wrestling-Roleplaying-Game?filters=0_0_0_0_0_31817
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 17:47
|
|
|
Basically all of Margaret Weiss books are discounted. Cortex+ is awesome, grab something.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 18:00
|
|
|
Lemon Curdistan posted:There's a lot of bad stuff, but also WWWRPG is already 30% off: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/143434/The-World-Wide-Wrestling-Roleplaying-Game?filters=0_0_0_0_0_31817 If you like Apocalypse World engine games and/or Wrestling this is a good game and you should buy it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 18:04
|
|
|
Strange Tales of the Century updates Spirit of the Century to Fate Core, and is a really good examination of the pulp genre and character types therein. Green Ronin has a lot of Mutants & Masterminds (superhero d20) and Freeport stuff on sale. I'm an unabashed Freeport fanboy, but it's a really good fantasy setting about a pirate hideout-turned-port city that's trying to go legit. Double Cross is crazy anime X-Men. Good stuff in there, but it's a really crunchy game if that's not your thing. Like Lemon said, World Wide Wrestling is amazing and you should buy it. A lot of people like God Machine Chronicles, but I've never read it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 18:05
|
|
|
Pre Order On sale NOW! On a more serious note, R.Talsorian has most of the Castle Falkenstein line on sale. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/rpg_gmsday.php?manufacturers_id=13&filters=0_0_0_0_0_31817#selectpub Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Mar 3, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 18:41
|
|
|
Enh, that's been up since December. From the description: A lying shitlord posted:Pre-order customers will receive the PDF after it is delivered to Kickstarter backers in January, and before the general commercial release. I'd contact DriveThru, but I don't know if I can give enough of a gently caress. Also, GMS will probably make me into the latest conspiracy preventing him from releasing his magnum opus.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 19:04
|
|
|
But...But... It's now ON SALE for GM's Day! It's discounted vaporware!
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 19:30
|
|
|
Humbug Scoolbus posted:But...But... It's now ON SALE for GM's Day! It's discounted vaporware! It means he has to give you back less credit on his baby's first webstore when he completely fails to deliver a product. If you even request it. And then only if he feels like giving it, which he probably won't because you only invested when it was discounted. After all, you didn't have an actual product so you aren't a customer because ~reasons.~
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 19:39
|
|
|
I wish they'd had a TORG bundle with just the missing stuff for people who got the first one and one with everything for people who missed it, but oh well.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2015 03:44
|
|
|
DigitalRaven posted:It means he has to give you back less credit on his baby's first webstore when he completely fails to deliver a product. If you even request it. And then only if he feels like giving it, which he probably won't because you only invested when it was discounted. After all, you didn't have an actual product so you aren't a customer because ~reasons.~ Seriously, even if he releases Far West at this point and it turns out to be the Best RPG Ever it will never surpass the sheer amount of schadenfreude from watching him constantly fail to meet his own deadlines and burn all bridges in the RPG hobby.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 11:24
|
|
|
A couple pages ago we mentioned The Laundry Files RPG when discussing a Delta Green bundle. Lo and behold, the newest Bundle of Holding! (Six books all in all, "License to Summon" and "Unconventional Diplomacy" not included.) Foglet fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 7, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 19:33
|
|
|
Has anyone played the Laundry? Recommendations or comments?
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 19:48
|
|
|
The novels are controversial in TG but I think the game is solid. It's a good contemporary alternative to Delta Green, which is grounded in the 90's, and the two aren't completely incompatible. There's a revamped magic system but it largely uses the 6th edition BRP system.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 20:00
|
|
|
It's pretty much BRP plus some tongue in cheek ISO-9001 documentation. Don't scribble it out, use a single line with date and initials. It's an entertaining read on its own.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 21:02
|
|
|
Lord Frisk posted:It's pretty much BRP plus some tongue in cheek ISO-9001 documentation. Don't scribble it out, use a single line with date and initials. It's also set up so that you can run it super serious or darkly humorous with all the bureaucracy stuff and fire vampire grenades. EDIT: Not to say that the humor is a bad thing, it isn't, but it's very versatile in that regard. You get all the books in the bundle except a mission book and the magic book. They're giving a 30% discount on the other books but they're already 30% off with the GM day sale. Don't know if they stack or not but the coupon code wasn't working earlier. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Mar 9, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 21:06
|
|
|
Provided you fill out a BOM for the grenade and consume it on a work order, then copy a page of your results and add them on page 9 before filing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2015 21:10
|
|
|
And the next Bundle of Holding presents to us The Dying Earth, yet another product designed by Robin Laws. Which brings before me the traditional question of whether it's any good.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2015 19:49
|
|
|
I immensely enjoyed the two sessions of it I played back when it came out. I'm not sure how much was the GM and how much the mechanics, but I will say that settling encounters via subterfuge, seat of your pants rationalizing, or clever tricks seemed pretty natural during gameplay. My PC managed to never once directly engage in combat (or take responsibility for causing food poisoning in the city's militia) and hung out at a "The City Is Surely About to Be Conquered So Let's Get Blotto" party while the rest of the party foolishly manned the ramparts (they may have a bit guilty about the militia's lack of vitality post-lunch).
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2015 20:11
|
|
|
Foglet posted:And the next Bundle of Holding presents to us The Dying Earth, yet another product designed by Robin Laws. I think it's his best game design since the original Feng Shui.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2015 21:22
|
|
|
It's great but it's really focused on playing Dying Earth style characters having Dying Earth style adventures on the Dying Earth. If you have any interest at all in Vance or Dying Earth or Robin Laws or just interesting RPGs in general, you really need to get in on this Bundle. Get both parts - the Kaiin citybook (also by Laws) is worth the price of the entire megabundle just by itself.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2015 21:28
|
|
|
e; whoops, quote is not edit.
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2015 10:55
|
|
|
License to Summon was added to the Laundry Bundle of Holding so you get 7 books now for $25.
|
|
#
?
Mar 20, 2015 00:55
|
|
|
The current Bundle of Holding is MegaTraveller.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2015 04:29
|
|
|
Is this version of Traveller any actual fun beyond chargen?
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2015 04:52
|
|
|
grassy gnoll posted:Is this version of Traveller any actual fun beyond chargen? Nope! It's still Traveller. Edit: In fact here's all the fun bits. Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Mar 27, 2015 |
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2015 05:00
|
|
|
Traveller can be fun, but the good bits can be replicated by playing starfleet battles and running the person to person stuff in FUDGE or as a freeform.
|
|
#
?
Mar 27, 2015 06:17
|
|
|
This is all subjective but I think the original Traveller bundle they had is better than this one. This is mostly because the original universe stuff for Traveller is better than when they got well into the metaplot. I think MegaTraveller is also not well received as well by the average Traveller fan so take that for what it's worth. The best edition of Traveller, mechanically speaking, is Mongoose Traveller and it's still being supported. It's still not the most modern or streamlined of games but it's good for what it is if you want to play a Traveller game in a Traveller system. I especially like the 2300 setting, which they're supporting, but that's because it's the far future according to game designers in the 80's playing it out from the 80's to 2300. It's also less space opera and more "realistic" in terms of science and aliens. Most of the aliens in Traveller are Star Trek-esque with a dose of Star Wars and 2300's aliens are very alien and more in line with sci-fi of the early 80's. Even with the more fanciful stuff, Traveller is still about playing long haul space truckers like in Alien as opposed to Flash Gordon mashed with Kurosawa.
|
|
#
?
Mar 30, 2015 04:19
|
|
|
Best Traveller version for rules is Mllaneza' s PbtA version, which he needs to finish instead of faffing around with Ad Astra
|
|
#
?
Mar 30, 2015 06:05
|
|
|
Yet another Bundle of Holding is here, featuring a handful or comedy-aimed titles (presumably due to April Fools) I don't know much or care about, save that Diana: Warrior Princess was featured and abandoned in Fatal and Friends some time ago. Oh, and Kobolds Ate My Baby is, if its cover is to be trusted, not the latest (2005/Kovalic) edition but damned if I know if that's a good or a bad thing. (on a tangential note, the tendency to omit the edition number/publication date for bundled books is mildly frustrating)
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 06:52
|
|
|
I don't know why they included the old version of Demon Hunters since there's a new kickstarted version with a Fate-based engine coming out soonish, either. Definitely some odd choices here.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 12:25
|
|
|
That KAMB is the one they Kickstarted a while back. It's a fairly hefty little bugger, about 120 pages, much of which is optional rules and tables. I haven't played with it, but it looks like the earlier core rules are intact.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 12:42
|
|
|
Evil Mastermind posted:I don't know why they included the old version of Demon Hunters since there's a new kickstarted version with a Fate-based engine coming out soonish, either. I think you answered your own question. Since a new version is coming out soonish, this is one of their last big chances to do something with an older version.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:11
|
|
|
homullus posted:I think you answered your own question. Since a new version is coming out soonish, this is one of their last big chances to do something with an older version. Probably. Unfortunately, the first edition of Demon Hunters uses the dull-as-dishwater original Cortex system so regardless of how you feel about the source material it's not going to be that great mechanically.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:22
|
|
|
The Indie Spring Festival bundle offers a number of, well, indie stuff. I've heard good things of Thou Art But a Warrior (some of them around the local F&F thread), but that's pretty much all the information I have.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2015 20:32
|
|
|
Thou Art But a Warrior is really good, but it's the only one of those I'm interested in. (And I think I already have it.)
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2015 20:58
|
|
|
inklesspen posted:Thou Art But a Warrior is really good, but it's the only one of those I'm interested in. (And I think I already have it.) That's the Islamic Spain supplement for Polaris, right?
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2015 02:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 11:35 |
|
|
ibntumart posted:That's the Islamic Spain supplement for Polaris, right? Yep.
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2015 02:58
|
|
