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Kenlon posted:Jesus goddamn Christ, I hate whoever it was who mentioned True Detective as being a good template for Delta Green. Pick JUST THE FALL, then add an extra $70 for the Case Officer's Handbook (add any extra shipping now if you want as well). When the backerkit comes out (which will be a while as backerkit is apparently a pain in the rear end for creators with multiple options), then you'll just specific then that the $70 was for The Case Officer's. You'll also get the pdf of Agent's Handbook when it comes out (as it will be out before the other two).
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Kenlon posted:Jesus goddamn Christ, I hate whoever it was who mentioned True Detective as being a good template for Delta Green. I think you want to back at Just The Fall (to get hardback and PDF of Fall of Delta Green) then add $70 for the case officer's handbook in hardback and PDF. If you're in US, the pledge should cover that automatically; else you'll want add to your pledge according to this table:  e: f,b.
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Kenlon posted:Jesus goddamn Christ, I hate whoever it was who mentioned True Detective as being a good template for Delta Green. I think in this thread that was me. The authors jumped on the comparison immediately, though - True Detective was the sort of tone they'd been shooting for, for years. You're welcome. Other helpful people have covered the Pledge options. Sionak fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Otisburg posted:I am going to give Arc Dream Publishing three hundred (300) united states dollars. I realize I could get all that poo poo in electronic format for eighty (80) united states dollars, but I'm an old fart and like books you don't have to plug in to recharge. You and me both. I'm strangely very comfortable with this.
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SlaveTrader posted:You and me both. I'm strangely very comfortable with this. It's not like they make bad products.
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Upped my Masks pledge to $70 in the end, thanks to their not charging any shipping. 
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signalnoise posted:It's not worth the cash in my opinion. It's a cute game that it worth it if you want a bunch of chibi minis but it lacks serious substance. It just makes me think of all the better game concepts you could make with them.
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Sionak posted:Yeah. Some of the execution of the Kickstarter could have been smoother, but I am still in based on a number of factors. I really like that they put the rules up ahead of time and have them as a free download for anyone looking at the project. And according to the creators in numerous places, they are working hard to avoid Chaosium-ing themselves by making promises they can't possibly match. Arc Dream's done several Kickstarters at this point and delivered consistently, if not always by the estimated ship date. This is the largest scope but I'm not too worried.
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Put me down in the camp of "would possibly back Delta Green if I could work out the reward structure"
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If you give them $205 (the $180 tier plus the $25 addon) you can get all the PDFs (including the Fall and also all the old previous gen pdfs). Everyone involved with the project makes fantastic stuff and the old DG books were really neat too, so it's probably not going to be a bad choice.
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malkav11 posted:Arc Dream's done several Kickstarters at this point and delivered consistently, if not always by the estimated ship date. This is the largest scope but I'm not too worried. Oh, absolutely. I didn't mean to cast any doubt on that - I have backed DG: Tales from Failed Anatomies, No Soul Left Behind, and Puppetland. Only Puppetland has yet to deliver and I am confident that it will. I was extremely happy with with Tales from Failed Anatomies and No Soul Left Behind. Delta Green products have taken a long time in the past, but they always come out eventually.
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Latest Scythe update gives the whole Stretch Goal schedule. Final one is $1.5 million for the cardboard stars to be replaced by wooden stars. Nice to just release the whole thing rather than wondering "is the next goal going to be the stars?"  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jameystegmaier/scythe/posts/1392692
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-rpg-4th-printing?ref=hero_thanks New Kickstarter for the 4th printing of DCC. The new cover is excellent. Most of the new stuff is in the stretch goals.
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boom boom boom posted:Those really seem like stretch goals purely for the sake of having stretch goals. Yes, they were. They pre-tested and costed the entire game, they had stretch goals essentially because stretch goals are part of KS as a marketing tool. Realistically, the only real reason they needed KS AFAIK rather than just doing a generic pre-order system was as a marketing tool.
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boom boom boom posted:Those really seem like stretch goals purely for the sake of having stretch goals. When you get right down to it, the whole notion of stretch goals are kind of silly when you're delivering a distinct product to each backer, like, say, a board game. Economies of scale can move the needle on the cost of production, but most of the money goes towards desining the game rather than producing it. And you shouldn't back a kickstarter where the game hasn't been designed yet. So stretch goals = silly.
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alg posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-rpg-4th-printing?ref=hero_thanks I'm in for the "newbie" level. It looks like a great deal.
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alg posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-rpg-4th-printing?ref=hero_thanks I've been meaning to pick this up for a long time and this was just what I was looking for.
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dwarf74 posted:That's loving awesome. And if I'm reading it right, backers are getting several free modules too. Totally almost pledged at the noob level before I saw the $30 shipping costs for the UK  The book sells for £25-ish here in previous printings, so $70 is a loving terrible deal for us internationals. I wish every project could work miracles with international shipping like Masks has done!
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alg posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-rpg-4th-printing?ref=hero_thanks My group is pretty heavily into Pathfinder, but I almost just want to buy this for the art. Just going off of the samples, it looks like an awesome trip down nostalgia lane.
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Remind me again about DCC, that's the one with the funnel, right? Where you run a half dozen 0-level scrubs through a meatgrinder and whoever survives is now your actual character? I always thought that was a pretty cute idea, how is it beyond that?
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Kai Tave posted:Remind me again about DCC, that's the one with the funnel, right? Where you run a half dozen 0-level scrubs through a meatgrinder and whoever survives is now your actual character? I always thought that was a pretty cute idea, how is it beyond that? It's all about bong wizards hanging out in barbarian vans while air guitaring to Electric Wizard. But aside from that, it's a pretty good BX/BECMI D&D inspired game. Lots of features, like Warriors being able to do something interesting with every attack that gets better every level, the system doesn't penalize trying to swing off the chandeliers and kick your enemies down the stairs instead of just full attacking. There's no Vancian casting, instead you make a check against a table every time you cast a spell for how powerful it is, and you can take physical stat damage (that can be restored) to increase your spellcasting bonus, wizards can have patrons, like how Elric had deals with the elemental gods and things like that, etc. One of the best things about it is that while the funnel is a meatgrinder, characters who survive are a lot tougher. It definitely encourages a tone of not keeping the weirdness cordoned off behind a layer of giant rats, in terms of the art, writing and the rules. RAW, the levels go from 1-10, and each is supposed to be about as powerful as 2 in BX/BECMI. One of the level 1 modules is about dealing with the Gods of Chaos. It's probably a bit more random than a lot of people in here like, but if it sounds like your kind of thing, it probably is. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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Lightning Lord posted:It's a pretty good BX/BECMI D&D inspired game. Lots of features, like Warriors being able to do something interesting with every attack that gets better every level, the system doesn't penalize trying to swing off the chandeliers and kick your enemies down the stairs instead of just full attacking. There's no Vancian casting, instead you make a check against a table every time you cast a spell for how powerful it is, and you can take physical stat damage (that can be restored) to increase your spellcasting bonus, wizards can have patrons, like how Elric had deals with the elemental gods and things like that, etc. One of the best things about it is that while the funnel is a meatgrinder, characters who survive are a lot tougher. It definitely encourages a tone of not keeping the weirdness cordoned off behind a layer of giant rats, in terms of the art, writing and the rules. RAW, the levels go from 1-10, and each is supposed to be about as powerful as 2 in BX/BECMI. One of the level 1 modules is about dealing with the Gods of Chaos. If it's BECMI inspired then that's a point in its favor, after picking up Kevin Crawford's stuff I'm looking to add to my collection of old-school inspired RPGs that are more than just nostalgia trips and are actually decent. I guess I qualify for the "First Time Fan" tier but to be honest I'm not really much for physical game books these days. On the other hand the basic pdf backer tier is a whopping $25 all on its own and it's unclear whether that level even includes stretch goals, sooooo. I have to admit I like both the diversity in the artwork as well as the plethora of bell-bottoms and striped trousers.
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boom boom boom posted:Those really seem like stretch goals purely for the sake of having stretch goals. I am really looking forward to his posts about running this campaign. Having this type of stretch goals was so obviously going to annoy the backers. I want to see his motivation
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I have been on the fence about DCC for years, since I started with B/X in the 80s and have always liked it more than AD&D, so I think I'm going to back it. I don't always (or even...often) like to play old school games, but if I'm going to, it might as well be a good and well-supported one.
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It's worth pointing out that DCC is the game that uses the Zocci dice (d3, d5, d7, d16, d24, d30), so you'll need to get a set of those to play.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's worth pointing out that DCC is the game that uses the Zocci dice (d3, d5, d7, d16, d24, d30), so you'll need to get a set of those to play.
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or just use a dice roller. Purple Sorcerer made a few tools to make running the game easier. http://purplesorcerer.com/
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Kai Tave posted:If it's BECMI inspired then that's a point in its favor, after picking up Kevin Crawford's stuff I'm looking to add to my collection of old-school inspired RPGs that are more than just nostalgia trips and are actually decent. I guess I qualify for the "First Time Fan" tier but to be honest I'm not really much for physical game books these days. On the other hand the basic pdf backer tier is a whopping $25 all on its own and it's unclear whether that level even includes stretch goals, sooooo. Reading it over, it looks like if you back in PDF you'll get all of the out of print adventures that they're reprinting as stretch goals in PDF. The rest of the (current) stretch goals are all physical upgrades to the book so they don't really apply to the PDF.
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Kai Tave posted:If it's BECMI inspired then that's a point in its favor, after picking up Kevin Crawford's stuff I'm looking to add to my collection of old-school inspired RPGs that are more than just nostalgia trips and are actually decent. I guess I qualify for the "First Time Fan" tier but to be honest I'm not really much for physical game books these days. On the other hand the basic pdf backer tier is a whopping $25 all on its own and it's unclear whether that level even includes stretch goals, sooooo. WaywardWoodwose posted:or just use a dice roller.
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Kai Tave posted:If it's BECMI inspired then that's a point in its favor, after picking up Kevin Crawford's stuff I'm looking to add to my collection of old-school inspired RPGs that are more than just nostalgia trips and are actually decent. I guess I qualify for the "First Time Fan" tier but to be honest I'm not really much for physical game books these days. On the other hand the basic pdf backer tier is a whopping $25 all on its own and it's unclear whether that level even includes stretch goals, sooooo. The PDF of the current printing costs 25 dollars on Drivethru right now, so I guess they set the same price to avoid making the KS a discount version of the rules. As I understand it the game text is basically the same. This DCC pitch of using the original inspirations and modern gaming sensibilities to recreate D&D from the ground up, instead of simply trying to mimic old versions of D&D, has made me interested in "old school" gaming for the first time. I'm not familiar with pre-AD&D gaming at all; I'm all for the style and direction DCC seems to aim for, but I'm not entirely convinced it isn't yet another rehashed D&D. For those familiar with the game, can the classes/character choices (roughly) keep up with each other in terms of usefulness? Is it very crunchy/unfriendly to RPG newcomers? Cyphoderus fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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Delta Green Kickstarter just passed 260k, unlocking Deep State, a new hardback/PDF sourcebook about what became of all the MJ-12 programs, and making that $300 level start to look like a pretty good value.
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Lightning Lord posted:It's all about bong wizards hanging out in barbarian vans while air guitaring to Electric Wizard. But aside from that, it's a pretty good BX/BECMI D&D inspired game. Lots of features, like Warriors being able to do something interesting with every attack that gets better every level, the system doesn't penalize trying to swing off the chandeliers and kick your enemies down the stairs instead of just full attacking. There's no Vancian casting, instead you make a check against a table every time you cast a spell for how powerful it is, and you can take physical stat damage (that can be restored) to increase your spellcasting bonus, wizards can have patrons, like how Elric had deals with the elemental gods and things like that, etc. One of the best things about it is that while the funnel is a meatgrinder, characters who survive are a lot tougher. It definitely encourages a tone of not keeping the weirdness cordoned off behind a layer of giant rats, in terms of the art, writing and the rules. RAW, the levels go from 1-10, and each is supposed to be about as powerful as 2 in BX/BECMI. One of the level 1 modules is about dealing with the Gods of Chaos. Reading the free chapter included on the Kickstarter I can't stop laughing that a low Int Elf or Dwarf may not know their own racial language but would still know Common.
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LongDarkNight posted:Reading the free chapter included on the Kickstarter I can't stop laughing that a low Int Elf or Dwarf may not know their own racial language but would still know Common. I think they can learn it at first level for free
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