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Kaza42 posted:So, there was supposed to be a 3rd edition playtest run at Gencon, and the spots for it filled up basically instantly with a great deal of hype and excitement surrounding it. It turns out, however, that Onyx Path never gave the group organizing the playtest the rules, so a 2.5 edition game happened instead. Bear in mind that this was an officially approved event (it's not like a fan group was running it without OP's permission), and that people paid $6 per ticket for the opportunity.
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I'd have just downloaded the playtest rules and then run that. And then when OPP asks me how it went, I'll just go "oh yeah, we got the playtest rules juuuuust fine." And then I'd just give sly winks for twenty minutes. Bedlamdan fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Kaza42 posted:So, there was supposed to be a 3rd edition playtest run at Gencon, and the spots for it filled up basically instantly with a great deal of hype and excitement surrounding it. It turns out, however, that Onyx Path never gave the group organizing the playtest the rules, so a 2.5 edition game happened instead. Bear in mind that this was an officially approved event (it's not like a fan group was running it without OP's permission), and that people paid $6 per ticket for the opportunity.  What the christ.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:06
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Hahahahahahahahaha. We're never getting this book.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:14
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Eat the devs.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:16
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That doesn't sound like a 'Devs' problem. It sounds like Rich Thomas SOP of saying 'gently caress Exalted fans' or whatever.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:19
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From what I heard none of the devs were at GenCon this year, but I hope those people got a muh'fuggin' refund, or just downloaded the leak like savvy consumers such as myself.
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Kaza42 posted:So, there was supposed to be a 3rd edition playtest run at Gencon, and the spots for it filled up basically instantly with a great deal of hype and excitement surrounding it. It turns out, however, that Onyx Path never gave the group organizing the playtest the rules, so a 2.5 edition game happened instead. Bear in mind that this was an officially approved event (it's not like a fan group was running it without OP's permission), and that people paid $6 per ticket for the opportunity.  No, but seriously, gently caress the team behind E3. Anyways, I had a question about Battle Groups. Do Battle Group stats come from their leader or do they come from the average stat of the beings making up the group? QuintessenceX fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Aug 4, 2015 00:40
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gently caress 'em if they can't take a joke.
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QuintessenceX posted:Anyways, I had a question about Battle Groups. Do Battle Group stats come from their leader or do they come from the average stat of the beings making up the group? The people in the group. Leaders just make Command Rolls to buff up their group's dice pool.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:52
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That's loving perfect. Honestly at this point the whole mess is worth a lot more in entertainment than the game will ever be.
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Aug 4, 2015 07:37
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That is awful and pathetic.
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I especially love how they gave approximate (to the quarter) release dates for everything except Exalted 3rd, which has been "Almost in backer's hands!" for literal years now. Now I can't picture RichT as anything other than that goth nerd in high school that hated everything bright and sun-shiny on sheer principle, which doesn't bode well for some other properties of theirs.
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TwoQuestions posted:I especially love how they gave approximate (to the quarter) release dates for everything except Exalted 3rd, which has been "Almost in backer's hands!" for literal years now.
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An exclusive sneak peek into Onyx Path Headquarters.
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Aug 6, 2015 09:13
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This is a pro-click.
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Aug 6, 2015 12:08
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Why did I read this right before bed? This is some Silent Hill level terrifying poo poo. Now I'll have nightmares. Pro loving click.
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TwoQuestions posted:Why did I read this right before bed? This is some Silent Hill level terrifying poo poo. Now I'll have nightmares. This was written by one of the lead writers for Destiny, which explains a lot about that game.
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Aug 10, 2015 05:31
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Are we up to the next layout pass yet?
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The Lone Badger posted:Are we up to the next layout pass yet? We're up from six to seven, yes.
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bewilderment posted:This was written by one of the lead writers for Destiny, which explains a lot about that game. It was? Man, that is both depressing and suddenly both the writing and Destiny really do make more sense.
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Aug 10, 2015 05:48
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Back with Marathon bungie was the original idea guys trying to do way more than they were capable of.
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gourdcaptain posted:It was? Man, that is both depressing and suddenly both the writing and Destiny really do make more sense. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,75941/ 'Additional Production' on Destiny and Halo 4, Producer on Halo Reach and the other 360 Halo games, and some older Call of Duty production credits. Definitely writing from experience on that one. I'm not sure if RPGs in general have the kind of budget to generate that kind of meeting besides maybe White Wolf at its peak or DnD from 2003 to 2010ish.
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Ronwayne posted:Back with Marathon bungie was the original idea guys trying to do way more than they were capable of. I thought people liked marathon?
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Bedlamdan posted:I thought people liked marathon? It was definitely popular with those who Macintosh operating systems as it was one of the few FPS on the OS. No idea how the Windows crowd felt.
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Covok posted:It was definitely popular with those who Macintosh operating systems as it was one of the few FPS on the OS. No idea how the Windows crowd felt.
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Zereth posted:Was it available on Windows at all? It's sequels were and the original was much, much later on (like 2011).
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Aug 11, 2015 01:57
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Marathon was incredibly cool and was a pioneering example of games having a huge and weird understated backstory for fans to ob7ess over. I only played Marathon 2, but Marathon Infinity was more or less a proto-Homestuck in terms of plot insanity. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
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Covok posted:It was definitely popular with those who Macintosh operating systems as it was one of the few FPS on the OS. No idea how the Windows crowd felt. At the time it came out, it was borderline revolutionary in terms of storytelling in an FPS; ie, it had some. For reference, at the time it came out, DOOM was about 9 months old and the original System Shock had just been released on PC. Unfortunately, by the time the sequels were available to the PC crowd, games like System Shock had already steered the genre into a new groove, so the sequels came across as dated also-rans to PC gamers, and were mostly loved by a rabid Mac fanbase.
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Nessus posted:My impression is that these guys for a variety of reasons, ranging from Morke's problems with Larry and Barry to "???" have broken the usual mould of how these products go. Almost every single OPP release since EX3's funding has avoided the sort of Sisyphean clusterfuck that EX3 dove into - and those very few that came close are only close in the sense of astronomical scales. EX3 has been huffing its own farts in the corner furthest from the rest of the company for a long while now.
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Daeren posted:Almost every single OPP release since EX3's funding has avoided the sort of Sisyphean clusterfuck that EX3 dove into - and those very few that came close are only close in the sense of astronomical scales. EX3 has been huffing its own farts in the corner furthest from the rest of the company for a long while now. 
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Earlier I suddenly realized that if this circus goes on until october, the book will be two years late. And then I died a little inside. Two years.
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Danakir posted:Earlier I suddenly realized that if this circus goes on until october, the book will be two years late. And then I died a little inside. If you haven't already, go look up what Far West is and how long that's taking as an RPG product.
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bewilderment posted:If you haven't already, go look up what Far West is and how long that's taking as an RPG product. I am forever grateful to GMS for lowering the bar for the rest of the industry
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What's sad is I don't think Far West is even the most delayed RPG kickstarter. (Say hello to Powerchords, which funded in September 2010 and they still haven't admitted it's not happening.)
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Is it really that weird that I had higher expectations than that? There's worse, no doubt, but I didn't think Exalted would ever be making that list.
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Danakir posted:Is it really that weird that I had higher expectations than that? There's worse, no doubt, but I didn't think Exalted would ever be making that list. quote:Risk: This book isn't created at all even though the goal is reached. Reading this you'd never think that it would be over two years from completion. When did they send out the art notes? Late 2014?
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I think they mentioned starting over from scratch at least once? It's been long enough I've got trouble recalling the whole timeline.
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If memory serves, they decided to restart from scratch in either late 2013 or early 2014. Also, the lead dev got a severely-infected lymph node, and while that probably shouldn't grind progress to a halt, since there should be enough of a crisis allowance that someone else can pick up and carry on their work, tabletop RPGs are the small businesses of small businesses - even fuckin' D&D Online got permanently derailed by the loss of their webmistress, albeit in much more hosed-up circumstances (murder-suicide by jealous husband  )
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Thesaurasaurus posted:If memory serves, they decided to restart from scratch in either late 2013 or early 2014. Also, the lead dev got a severely-infected lymph node, and while that probably shouldn't grind progress to a halt, since there should be enough of a crisis allowance that someone else can pick up and carry on their work, tabletop RPGs are the small businesses of small businesses - even fuckin' D&D Online got permanently derailed by the loss of their webmistress, albeit in much more hosed-up circumstances (murder-suicide by jealous husband From what I hear, second-hand? Starting from scratch was probably a good call because the very first version had way too many problems.
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