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Evil Mastermind posted:Hey, if anyone's going to be at PAX East, come to the Games On Demand booth in the Tabletop area; I'm going to be running (among other things) the Atomic Robo RPG at various points over the weekend. I'll definitely be by at some point, will you have times posted or signups?
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Spigs posted:I'll definitely be by at some point, will you have times posted or signups? Yeah, there'll be sign up sheets at the booth. I don't know what the schedule is looking like yet.
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Hyperactive, did all of the Kickstarter rewards go out already? I sent an email regarding my pledge kickstarter, but haven't heard anything back.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:56
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Hyperactive, did all of the Kickstarter rewards go out already? I sent an email regarding my pledge kickstarter, but haven't heard anything back. Short version: we were scrambling on the backend to get our Kickstarter support and online shop support integrated and inevitably a few things got dropped in the middle of that. Now it's running smooth, so go for it.
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Feb 24, 2015 20:05
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Hyperactive posted:About 1% of them have not gone out. The best thing to do at this stage would be to send another message through Kickstarter. Ok cool. Thanks bud. I sent it late last week so I'll wait a few days to send another then. E: Don't know if you mentioned something or not, but I got a message back tonight. Thanks again!  Drowning Rabbit fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Feb 24, 2015 20:43
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Ok, you see this?  I want this toy with the passion of a thousand lonely PUAs.
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Fun Fact: That was the original design for the Mecha Robo we see in that issue, but when Scott got to the pages with it he forgot that he hadn't really designed anything for the back and also it was hard to make all those shapes line up anyway. We get the version in the comic as a kind of last minute desperate "These pages are due in ten minutes whatever gets drawn is what's happening" kind of compromise. We are revisiting Big Science Inc. a bit in Volume 10 and we'll get to see the newest Mecha Robo(s).
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Feb 27, 2015 18:09
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Hyperactive posted:Fun Fact: I cannot wait for that. The version that actually showed up in the comic really worked for me as a 'this is a prototype and we really don't know how to make a standing humanoid/walking humanoid version so let's just make it up as we go along.'
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Feb 27, 2015 18:20
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Crosspostin' from the Fate thread, but I figure people here would appreciate this too. I ran two session of Atomic Robo for people at PAX East's Games on Demand this year, and man the brainstorming system is so much fun, especially with people who're used to systems where they're not allowed to really "contribute" at that level. The scenario presented was that everyone was Tesladyne folks and hangers-on working late in the labs when vampires and M-12 agents started teleporting in and wrecking the place, and I left the cause and solution up to the groups. One group determined it was due to M-12 using a crystal in the mineralogy lab to teleport things in and out (and allowed me to bring in Dr. Dinosaur) and ended with the cyborg PC throwing Dr. D out a twelfth-story window. The other group decided that M-12 was beaming in the vamps and agents from an orbital platform,the vamps being a distraction so the M-12 agents could steal tech. They ended up solving the problem by taking out an M-12 power armored agent in the middle of a fight, strapping a patched-together EMP bomb onto him, hacking his coms, and using them to call for an emergency evac teleport. It's great how easily people were able to come up with solutions that fit the universe perfectly even though I think maybe two players out of the ten total were really familiar with the source material. Of course, I sent everyone to the website so they could keep reading.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Crosspostin' from the Fate thread, but I figure people here would appreciate this too. quote:It's great how easily people were able to come up with solutions that fit the universe perfectly even though I think maybe two players out of the ten total were really familiar with the source material. Of course, I sent everyone to the website so they could keep reading.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Crosspostin' from the Fate thread, but I figure people here would appreciate this too. Really bummed I couldn't fit this into my schedule at PAX but glad to hear it went well, and more Robo converts are always a good thing!
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Hey, Hyperactive/Brian? How come the new volume isn't up on Comixology yet? I want to give you my money via the middleman of a soulless online shopping corporation, and I can't!
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So I just got caught up on Volume 9... It's going to be a long wait for the next volume...
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I finally picked up a copy of the RoboRPG and I plan to dive into it this week. I work at a daycare and I'm thinking about running a RPG for the kids (my age group is 5-11 with most around 8) and tradgames suggested FATE. Now to figure out how to run a game before next week.
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Len posted:I finally picked up a copy of the RoboRPG and I plan to dive into it this week. I work at a daycare and I'm thinking about running a RPG for the kids (my age group is 5-11 with most around 8) and tradgames suggested FATE. Fate is a good game to learn how to GM with because it's very loose and forgiving of mistakes. Don't be afraid to ask for advice in the Fate or general chat threads.
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Evil Mastermind posted:So I just got caught up on Volume 9... On the bright side Vol 9 is the last BIG TIME HEART ATTACK CLIFFHANGER we'll do for a while. Well, actually, Vol 10's ending is a little...hmmm. Hey, Volume 11 is practically around the corner. I mean, sure, it has nothing to do with Vol 10's story, but at least that one will be a break.
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I keep confusing Fate and FATAL. Someday that's going to get me in serious trouble.
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Lurdiak posted:I keep confusing Fate and FATAL. Someday that's going to get me in serious trouble. Nobody wants to know Robos anal circumference.
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FATAL: anal circumference is a part of your character FATE: anal circumference is a part of your character if you want to
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Sadly the question of "anal circumference" almost came up in that game of Robo I played at Gencon 2012. 
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My Lovely Horse posted:FATAL: anal circumference is a part of your character Why did I search what FATAL was? Why do I do this to myself? My reaction exactly. And all I read were the reviews.
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Explaining FATAL really drunkenly loud at a bar got me a girlfriend once. Prooooooobably not a good thing given how it worked out.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Why did I search what FATAL was? Why do I do this to myself?
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I'm interested in buying the TESLADYNE FIELD GUIDE 2013, but have been back and forth on the idea. For those who have it, if you don't mind me asking, how cool is it? Is it a "must-have" for an Atomic Robo fan, so to speak?
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Covok posted:I'm interested in buying the TESLADYNE FIELD GUIDE 2013, but have been back and forth on the idea. For those who have it, if you don't mind me asking, how cool is it? Is it a "must-have" for an Atomic Robo fan, so to speak? If you don't have it, you're not a real fan, IMO.
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:If you don't have it, you're not a real fan, IMO. It's a very fun collection of articles about a variety of sci-fi threats and how best to cope with them. Everyone who has told me they got one has also told me they loved it. BUT. I wouldn't say it's a must have the way that, say, the RPG is. BUT. The RPG + the Field Guide is one hell of a combo.
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So after the currently published work goes up on the site, it's Ring of Fire?
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wiegieman posted:So after the currently published work goes up on the site, it's Ring of Fire? Well. We've got a couple surprises first. But, yes, Ring of Fire will be the next storyline on the site once we burn through the back catalog.
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Hyperactive was your Phantom supposed to be more than one issue? I'm asking because I have a Phantom #1 and #2 but #2 isn't by you. I think they sold me the wrong comic.
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Len posted:Hyperactive was your Phantom supposed to be more than one issue? I'm asking because I have a Phantom #1 and #2 but #2 isn't by you. I think they sold me the wrong comic. Yeah, there are 4 issues. The second one just came out. It looks like this.
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Hyperactive posted:Uh. Yeah I got sold the wrong Phantom comic then. Dicks.
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Might not have been deliberate. I believe there's two different publishers doing two different Phantom books right now.
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Gaz-L posted:Might not have been deliberate. I believe there's two different publishers doing two different Phantom books right now. Yeah I don't think it was deliberate at all and it's kind of my fault for not actually double checking what I was buying.
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I think Dynamite themselves are publishing two different Phantom books.
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Hermes Press are putting out something Phantom-y, at least here in the UK/Europe Congrats to Hyperactive (and Scott too) for getting Robo back up on the store under their own/Submit banner. Finally I can buy volume 9 (and try to ignore the itch in the back of my head to rebuy the other 8 volumes so I can have CBR versions on my hard drive). What's happening with the Real Science Adventures, is that down to Red 9 or to dealing with the individual artists?
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Gaz-L posted:Hermes Press are putting out something Phantom-y, at least here in the UK/Europe
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I may have the answer in a couple weeks at this rate, but I just finished Volume 9 and this is bugging me. Am I supposed to be able to tell from context what's wrong with Robo? The back of the TPB says something about his atomic fuel running out, but we've never really learned anything about his power system before, and the panel art looked more like he was overheating or something.
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I thought it was pretty clear that his fuel/batteries were running dry, not aided by all the exertion he was putting himself through to save the townspeople and fight Helsingard's cyborgs. I'm also not sure if I'm impressed or not with the Wild Wild West and Star Trek: TNG references.
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