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Lightning Lord posted:Well, I was talking about things that matter. In terms of old school D&D communities, compared to your average homophobic Your Dungeon Is Suck reader, DCC has managed to cultivate a pretty diverse and inclusive player base. When the day is over, 4e is just a game. Yes, it's one that was unfairly maligned, and I'm the first to argue it's merits when "4E IS WOW" poo poo comes up. But is it necessary to be so precious and tender about it? Interpreting "The book burning cultists represent how 4e burned my company wocka wocka wocka" as signifying some sort of urge to expunge everyone who doesn't agree with Joe Goodman is kind of uncharitable on your part. Why was it necessary for him to talk about how important it was to him that there be burning 4e books?
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ElegantFugue posted:Why was it necessary for him to talk about how important it was to him that there be burning 4e books? It wasn't. I just don't think the game or the community should be shitcanned for it.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:09
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Lightning Lord posted:It wasn't. I just don't think the game or the community should be shitcanned for it. How have the responses of "well I'm not interested in this game any more" been a shitcanning, particularly of the community rather than the author?
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Nov 25, 2015 20:15
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I think it's perfectly valid to say "That was seriously unprofessional, and I don't want to do business with this guy." It's also perfectly valid to say "It was kind of lovely, but it's a good product and I still want to support it." I personally didn't back, but if you decided to, it's your money. I think everyone here agrees it was stupid of Goodman to post that poo poo, but it's not so horrible that I think less of anyone who decided to back.
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The guy who created Cards Against Humanity has a kickstarter going for a new game called Secret Hitler. It looks kinda like The Resistance https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/secret-hitler
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boom boom boom posted:The guy who created Cards Against Humanity has a kickstarter going for a new game called Secret Hitler. It looks kinda like The Resistance The theme is stupid, but it sounds like it might be interesting.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:53
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I was going to back until that update. Fantasizing about book burning is weird and I'd rather not support that even if the game is rad. Guess I'll have to wait for the 5th printing.
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DCC seems like a good game and I like Goodman's stuff, I stuck with my newbie pledge despite the lovely edition war stuff because it looked like a good product made by decent enough dudes despite it. That said I did put my name as '4th Edition's Dark Shadow'. Also yea I'm the same as the other guy, I have no clue what I actually wound up getting with the 'new to DCC' level, I know what the basic pledge was, the book, a rando adventure, and some little misc goodies, but I have no clue what stretch goals I get without adding more money or whatever. Oh well, I mainly care about the book so the rest is just gravy.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:DCC seems like a good game and I like Goodman's stuff, I stuck with my newbie pledge despite the lovely edition war stuff because it looked like a good product made by decent enough dudes despite it. all of them. all the stretch goals were free to physical backers. like the campaign said edit: quote:1. The blue cover edition of the book alg fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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I'm not sure why people are still complaining about the 4e guy fantasizing about book burning, when Max Tempkin has created a game where the players are supposed to play as the literal book-burner, Hitler. Far more troubling, IMO.
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Lightning Lord posted:It wasn't. I just don't think the game or the community should be shitcanned for it. You've managed a pretty cool feat: taking an incident of a guy basically yelling "your favorite sports team sucks!" at some of his customers and turning it into a referendum on their reaction. Newflash: I get to be "precious" and "tender" and "uncharitable" if you exploit your business connection to send me an email that's 6 paragraphs of destructive fantasies about something I enjoy and then let your lovely audience publicly espouse a 2-minute hate in the comments. The game is fine, I'm simply not going to let Goodman pretend he's Mr Inclusive Community Happy Funtime without some pushback. Deal with it.
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boom boom boom posted:I'm not sure why people are still complaining about the 4e guy fantasizing about book burning, when Max Tempkin has created a game where the players are supposed to play as the literal book-burner, Hitler. Far more troubling, IMO. Max Temkin making a lovely card game is like telling people the sky is blue and water is wet. Goodman's whole "Haha boy isn't this Kickstarter great, hey did I tell you how buttmad I am about 4E, here's a story about how I really wanted to have art of burning 4E books in my game until the artist told me they couldn't get the detail I wanted, haha, but we're just here to have fun" story came out of left field, at least it did to me.
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This is neat, they've released a free print and play edition of Secret Hitler https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/secret-hitler/posts/1426121
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Mojo Jojo posted:The theme is stupid, but it sounds like it might be interesting. It's basically the Resistance/Werewolf with a new coat of paint, so the theme is all that counts, and IMO it's appropriate in the context of the liberals historically handing power over to the far-right whenever the left is gathering strength, but then they're playing chicken with putting a totalitarian madman in office.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You've managed a pretty cool feat: taking an incident of a guy basically yelling "your favorite sports team sucks!" at some of his customers and turning it into a referendum on their reaction. Newflash: I get to be "precious" and "tender" and "uncharitable" if you exploit your business connection to send me an email that's 6 paragraphs of destructive fantasies about something I enjoy and then let your lovely audience publicly espouse a 2-minute hate in the comments. The game is fine, I'm simply not going to let Goodman pretend he's Mr Inclusive Community Happy Funtime without some pushback. Deal with it. Yeah, it's cool, I'm just frustrated about the whole drat thing, confronting the wrong people. Don't worry about it.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:DCC seems like a good game and I like Goodman's stuff, I stuck with my newbie pledge despite the lovely edition war stuff because it looked like a good product made by decent enough dudes despite it. I put mine in as "Colonel Spliffington". I also found a pretty great accessory I wanna order:  I mentioned the idea of getting back into rpgs to some friends of mine and a bunch of them were into it. I read a bit of the pdf they sent out last night and it does seem like what I was looking for. Sadly we are still stuck with the "no one wants to DM" issue that seemed to always kill the lets play a game interest. I assume I am going to have to step up, although someone did jokingly suggest we put a "DM Wanted: Will pay" add up on craigslist.
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boom boom boom posted:I'm not sure why people are still complaining about the 4e guy fantasizing about book burning, when Max Tempkin has created a game where the players are supposed to play as the literal book-burner, Hitler. Far more troubling, IMO.
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The other 10% is pretending to be stalin
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If you put up the Craigslist add be specific on what you're looking for unless you want a bunch of people applying to manage your sex dungeon... or worse, GM GURPS 
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bunnielab posted:I mentioned the idea of getting back into rpgs to some friends of mine and a bunch of them were into it. I read a bit of the pdf they sent out last night and it does seem like what I was looking for. Sadly we are still stuck with the "no one wants to DM" issue that seemed to always kill the lets play a game interest. I assume I am going to have to step up, although someone did jokingly suggest we put a "DM Wanted: Will pay" add up on craigslist. Be adults and rotate DMing. Everyone will be playing rather than DMing most of the time.
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bunnielab posted:I mentioned the idea of getting back into rpgs to some friends of mine and a bunch of them were into it. I read a bit of the pdf they sent out last night and it does seem like what I was looking for. Sadly we are still stuck with the "no one wants to DM" issue that seemed to always kill the lets play a game interest. I assume I am going to have to step up, although someone did jokingly suggest we put a "DM Wanted: Will pay" add up on craigslist. The thing about a rules-comprehensive game combined with an adventure module is that it can remove a lot of the pressure of being a DM: the plot is already written for you, the encounters and mechanics are already written for you, you just have to interpret them. Especially when you combine it with a pre-game discussion with your group that that's the sort of thing you're doing so that they'll understand if there are some things you're going to gate off for the sake of not having to make up something that's too far afield from what you're "refereeing"
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homullus posted:Be adults and rotate DMing. Everyone will be playing rather than DMing most of the time. Yawp. The way the adventures are set up you can each GM a short adventure and have your character become a hireling someone else manages.
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Tekopo posted:Pretending to be hitler is like 90% of my hobby Same, but my 10% is anime Hitler. Female anime Hitler.
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Wow, Goodman already sent a bunch of PDFs. Crazy. Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
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To be fair, most of the text on this stuff was done ages ago. I imagine the majority of the Kickstarter money is going towards printing costs.
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Yea all the PDFs already existed, the kickstarter is for actually printing them. Still, nice to not have to wait!
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Kwyndig posted:If you put up the Craigslist add be specific on what you're looking for unless you want a bunch of people applying to manage your sex dungeon... or worse, GM GURPS Anyone looking to be a sex Dungeon manager is gonna be kinda disappointed when they show up to a house full of stoned middleage dudes. gradenko_2000 posted:The thing about a rules-comprehensive game combined with an adventure module is that it can remove a lot of the pressure of being a DM: the plot is already written for you, the encounters and mechanics are already written for you, you just have to interpret them. This never occurred to me, I'm so used to rule systems where a high level of system mastery is needed to really run a game. Or being 15 and just thinking you actually understand it. The only bummer is that I am pretty sure that the books will not arrive with that musty used book smell that my brain so strongly links to RPG books.
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Has anyone posted about Dungeon Solitaire yet? It's basically a dungeon exploration game designed to use a deck of cards as the event trigger. The author (Matthew Lowes) published a version that uses a standard 52-card deck a while back for free on his website here if anyone wants to check it out. The kickstarter is for a revised version designed to use a full tarot deck with new rules for the major arcana, and (if you wish to pledge) custom physical cards as well. The cards are just a standard tarot deck, but in my opinion they look really hot, and something you could probably find a way to rationalize using in regular roleplaying if you wanted.   
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If you want to wank together a bunch of photos and then filter it all to crap, at least use the same set of filters on the whole image. The lions and the flower are particularly incongruous with the rest of the image.
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I'm the hand that's not gripping the wand at all and is at the completely wrong angle to be doing so.
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That art really reminds me of the stuff in the Paper Sorcerer CRPG.
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The last RPG card deck I backed has been 'in the process of looking into refunds' for like half a year now so no thanks.
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I'm surprised nobody in this thread or the Glorantha one has posted about this yet, but Moon Design / Chaosium is re-releasing Runequest 2E in hardcover form to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Chaosium and the 50th anniversary of the Glorantha setting:RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter posted:In July of 1978, the Origins Game Fair was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over 3500 people attended what was the largest gaming convention in the US at that time. In the main hall gamers could pick up the latest games from all the major publishers: Cross of Iron by Avalon Hill, Atlantic Wall by SPI, and The Hall of the Fire Giant King module by TSR. In one small booth near a corner you could also purchase RuneQuest, the first Roleplaying game published by The Chaosium, a quirky 3 person company from the Bay Area. It sold out over the weekend, and every print run continued to do so for the next several years. The KS rewards seem pretty neat and achievable (they're already over twice their goal), and the high-end reward stuff includes things like "a 250+ page hardcover copy of the original playtest rules and notes" and "previously unpublished material" if you're nuts about Chaosium or Glorantha.
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alg posted:Chaosium doesn't have a great track record with kickstarters.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
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West Wind productions is running a part II for the War & Empire series, expanding the Legions of Rome. Though, I guess there's already going to be a lot more competition for 15mm Romans, compared to the other historical armies they funded the first time. Still, it's already funded at 24 days to go, with the Dacian stretch goal done, and the Picts and Scots Irish next. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Holy gently caress the DCC survey on a smartphone. Hold down button until it's 0, repeat sixty times. Also I have no idea how the gently caress you're supposed to get the cool aliens cover as a first time guy. I just asked for it in the last question, maybe that's how?
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moths posted:Holy gently caress the DCC survey on a smartphone. Hold down button until it's 0, repeat sixty times.
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