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So D20 Pathfinder SRD is holding a 40% off sale on the vast majority of their online store, which includes all sorts of stuff by 3rd party publishers and even some non-Pathfinder games. My entire product catalog is part of the sale. Although I price my sourcebooks at reasonable rates in comparison to other 3rd party products of similar size, now you can get them at real bargain prices. This deal (both mine and the rest of the site) lasts only for today.
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Libertad! posted:So D20 Pathfinder SRD is holding a 40% off sale on the vast majority of their online store, which includes all sorts of stuff by 3rd party publishers and even some non-Pathfinder games. I can vouch for Nice Things For Fighters being full of nice things for fighters. I liked it a lot.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:23
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The new Bundle of Holding is up, and it's Champions. Not my jam, but it seems like a pretty good deal if you're a fan.quote:Just US$12.95 gets you all five books in our Player's Collection (retail value $51):
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Apr 16, 2015 20:14
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Is the fluff any good? I still want to run a superhero game someday and having some solid material to fall back onto would be nice.
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Apr 16, 2015 20:41
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Champions fluff is really good. It's not as off-the-wall creative amd thought provoking as say, Progenitor for Wild Talents, but it's got metric tons of fun, accessible stuff to play with that evokes the slowly-built-up settings of Marvel and DC really well.
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Apr 16, 2015 22:51
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I love Champions. Yes I know it's really a superhero wargame, but goddamn, battles can be fun! (and also take forever)
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Apr 17, 2015 00:06
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Champions is very fun, once you get everyone on board and understanding how the system works. It's complicated, almost a proto-story game feel coupled with a command line interface, but once it clicks, it runs pretty smooth. The setting is ripe for the picking, with tons of little things that can be plucked and dropped into whatever story you like, too.
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Apr 17, 2015 20:02
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Warning: Phase System Inside.
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Apr 18, 2015 02:09
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If you really like GURPS, then you'll want to perform illegal acts with HERO. It really is the ultimate point-buy system. I think the fluff for Champions reads like unfunny genre parody, and the system is crunchy enough that GURPS Vehicles looks reasonable by comparison. Mind, I like Mutants and Masterminds and think Fate Core could use some trimming, so I'm not in a position to kink-shame.
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Apr 18, 2015 02:49
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I spent hours upon hours reading Champions books as a young'n, so I can't really talk poo poo about it. I don't think I'd go back to the HERO system, though, and I love GURPS more than anything.
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I really loved building out characters in Champions 5E, and certainly much more than my experience with 3E Mutants and Masterminds (which felt really restrictive in all the wrong ways and I found pretty brain-melting in terms of building powers with the option mechanics). I don't think I'd want to play it anymore, though. Combats were easily six hour affairs, minimum, and there's way too much crunch for my current tastes. And I didn't get a sense of their setting being that interesting, although when we played my GM had fused parts of it with Marvel and set it in Minneapolis so I didn't exactly get a real close look.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:45
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I hate GURPS rules and love its source books. I feel the opposite about Hero System.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:50
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I think Champions is amazing for its time but ultimately it's just full of a lot of effort that isn't that meaningful at the actual table, and the technology of RPGs has just gotten much more efficient. It's like an iceberg's worth of work but most of what's under the waterline ultimately doesn't matter.
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Apr 18, 2015 08:53
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The current Bundle of Holding features GUMSHOE.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:08
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Foglet posted:The current Bundle of Holding features GUMSHOE. I think this is a redue because I feel certain that I bought this before.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:26
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Covok posted:I think this is a redue because I feel certain that I bought this before. They've been reruns for the last six months at least.
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Covok posted:I think this is a redue because I feel certain that I bought this before. It is. This one was released like a year ago, and it's all the same books.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:34
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I'm a big fan of GUMSHOE from everything I've heard of it, but sheesh I still find that bundle too rich for my blood.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:43
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm a big fan of GUMSHOE from everything I've heard of it, but sheesh I still find that bundle too rich for my blood. It is far cheaper than it's ever been any other way, really.
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Apr 21, 2015 00:18
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A Penumbra Bundle of Holding has been up for some time.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:59
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Devs with Baltimore is hosting a weekend bundle containing Monsterhearts, The Quiet Year and Ribbon Drive. And some computer games. It's weird.
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May 2, 2015 20:09
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May 3, 2015 03:58
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All this month, DriveThru's having a sale on sci-fi games across the board, because it's apparently Sci-Fi Month.
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Evil Mastermind posted:All this month, DriveThru's having a sale on sci-fi games across the board, because it's apparently Sci-Fi Month. Probably because today is Put Star Wars-Branded Tat On Sale Day.
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May 4, 2015 14:52
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Bundle of Holding just started a Victoriana bundle. Cubicle Seven does a good job making games (in my opinion, obv) and Victoriana is one of the few steampunk style things that I don't hate mainly because they stick to the -punk part and make it a 'gently caress it let's do Shadowrun but with airships' thing.
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May 4, 2015 23:57
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Victoriana is pretty good about not making it about gears and the color brown. They address the costs of colonialism, militarism, and industrialization so it's far from being cogservatism. Just an fyi, the books that don't have the circular picture are 2nd edition books. This isn't a big deal, you're still getting most of the 3rd edition books except for The Concert in Flames which is a guide to Europe.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Victoriana is pretty good about not making it about gears and the color brown. They address the costs of colonialism, militarism, and industrialization so it's far from being cogservatism. Yea I like that they're honest about the fact that even the good guys kinda are dicks just due to society. Like, there's a chunk in the typical race/gender sidebar (spoiler, play what you want, don't be an rear end in a top hat if people don't like it, be adults) where they say even people against slavery may well be less aghast at an orc slave than, say, an elf slave because, ya know...orcs...It's a pretty fair use of 'yea the victorian age wasn't awesome for anyone but the people in absolute power' without dwelling too much. Plus it lets you be a Dwarf from Africa shooting colonials with lightning guns. And yea I hope they add Concert in Flames, I hear that's good. The India book seems pretty good from a quick glance.
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I totally agree. Victoriana is one of the better steam-things out there just for the reasons you list. There's at least a nod towards "hey maybe you want to toss some ironic undertones into this fantasy" and that nod is more than most do. I'm gettin' this bundle.
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My own interpretation of it is that the metaplot is swinging towards a societal collapse like what happened in a lot of Europe during WWI and I like that a lot. The authors are very much aware of what was going on in Europe during that time period and what kind of pressures were building up into the early 20th century. Those pressures just come a lot earlier because the Russians are more  than laughably incompetent in the Crimean War.
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Odd question: Anyone know where I can find a hardcover copy of Hero System 6th Edition Vol. 1 Character Creation? I've been looking everywhere and apparently in the last year it's become really rare or something and now it's expensive as poo poo. If one of you guys knows your local game store has it in hardcover, I'll definitely pay for it + shipping.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Victoriana is pretty good about not making it about gears and the color brown. They address the costs of colonialism, militarism, and industrialization so it's far from being cogservatism. Please tell me that cogservatism is an actual phrase used in steampunk fan circles.
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Libertad! posted:Please tell me that cogservatism is an actual phrase used in steampunk fan circles. It was coined by someone on this forum and it's genius. I wish it would take off in steampunk circles but they're all too busy hot gluing gears on to things.
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The new Bundle of Holding is up: Shadowrun 4e. Base is the core book, Runner's Companion, Arsenal, and Safehouses. BTA is Runner's Toolkit, Augmentation, Street Magic, and Unwired. The only thing is the base average is about $30.
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Wow, been a while for this thread. Anyway, there's a Texas Flood Relief bundle up on DriveTHru for the next few days. All profits go to the Red Cross relief effort, and $20 gets you the following: quote:Seven Ronin for the Watchguard Universe (Xion Studios)
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Jun 9, 2015 21:00
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Chaosium is having a warehouse clearance sale.quote:haosium is having a Blow-Out Sale!
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Jun 11, 2015 15:00
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How do you get the actual sale price on stuff? I tried to add some novelties to my cart and it showed full price right up through checkout.
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Sale prices should show up in the cart. For me, most stuff was showing up as 10% off, but Fantasy Flight Miniatures and Achtung! Cthulhu books were 50% off, for example.
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Jun 11, 2015 15:35
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Cubicle7 is having a 25% off sale.
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Jun 12, 2015 18:01
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Lone Wolf for £17. 
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Lone Wolf for £17. quote:Tests are resolved by picking a random number, either by flicking a token at the random number chart printed inside the box lid or by rolling a one-sided die. I've never heard of a d1 before.
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