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Welp, a month after they said Click Clack Lumberjack was shipping, I finally got a post-dated shipping notification in my inbox today. We'll see if and when it actually ships out!
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rantmo posted:My friend Eddy Webb (through Onyx Path) launched the Kickstarter for his fantasy dog game Pugmire this afternoon, and it's already funded. It's Lord of the Rings meets Planet of the Apes but with dogs and I just can't manage to properly put it into words, but it really sounds like a tremendously fun concept. He's been working on the game for something like three years and there's an early access version available right now for backers. I thought this was wonderful and was going to back it right up until the moment I saw it's a D20 OGL game. Then I got all sad as I realized this game is definitely not for me. Funded pretty quickly, though. I'm sure it will do well.
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Jan 29, 2016 02:06
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Hauki posted:Welp, a month after they said Click Clack Lumberjack was shipping, I finally got a post-dated shipping notification in my inbox today. We'll see if and when it actually ships out! Yeah I just got a shipping notice too, but the listed contents are missing two items (golden core, golden bark), though it listed the golden axe and pad... I can't believe they're 5-6 months late on basically a reprint of a game. The axes even have the old game's name on them still, Tok Tok Woodman.
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Jan 29, 2016 02:56
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Ravendas posted:Yeah I just got a shipping notice too, but the listed contents are missing two items (golden core, golden bark), though it listed the golden axe and pad... Well, for what it's worth mine reads the same way. I should also have core & bark coming. And yeah, I agree, I would expect it from a new company and game, but... yeah. I'm not even that annoyed that it's this late, it's mostly the way they handled it. I don't think I'll ever be backing or buying another project of Mayday's or Seth Hiatt's though.
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Jan 29, 2016 03:15
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Falstaff posted:I thought this was wonderful and was going to back it right up until the moment I saw it's a D20 OGL game. Yeah, that's a big bummer unless they've hacked up the system.
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Jan 29, 2016 03:42
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Falstaff posted:I thought this was wonderful and was going to back it right up until the moment I saw it's a D20 OGL game. Then I got all sad as I realized this game is definitely not for me.
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Jan 29, 2016 03:45
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Falstaff posted:I thought this was wonderful and was going to back it right up until the moment I saw it's a D20 OGL game. The dream of the early aughties lives on.
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Jan 29, 2016 04:01
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Falstaff posted:I thought this was wonderful and was going to back it right up until the moment I saw it's a D20 OGL game. Then I got all sad as I realized this game is definitely not for me. Yea I'm glad it funded, I wish them all the best because oh god that's adorable and great, but my group and I just can't do another D20 rooted game, we already have Pathfinder for that kinda feeling.
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Jan 29, 2016 05:11
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I'm not much for d20 OGL games myself, but I don't really game much at all anymore so I'm backing it mostly to support a friend and so that I can finally read it. Looking at the early access draft, it's definitely been simplified quite a lot from your bog-standard d20 game but I haven't dug into it nearly enough to be able to give detail. It's d20+modifiers to beat a target but if you have an "edge" you roll 2d20 and pick the highest or if you have a "handicap" you take the lowest. Everything else looks basically the same just streamlined.
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Jan 29, 2016 05:36
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rantmo posted:I'm not much for d20 OGL games myself, but I don't really game much at all anymore so I'm backing it mostly to support a friend and so that I can finally read it. Looking at the early access draft, it's definitely been simplified quite a lot from your bog-standard d20 game but I haven't dug into it nearly enough to be able to give detail. It's d20+modifiers to beat a target but if you have an "edge" you roll 2d20 and pick the highest or if you have a "handicap" you take the lowest. Everything else looks basically the same just streamlined. So, advantage from 5E.
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Jan 29, 2016 06:55
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malkav11 posted:So, advantage from 5E. Ooh, I hope this is the first of many, many Kickstarters based on the 5th Edition SRD! (I do not hope this)
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Jan 29, 2016 07:00
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You guys are stone cold haters. You see a game apparently starring the dog guards from King's Quest 6 and this is your reaction? Shame.
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Lightning Lord posted:You guys are stone cold haters. You see a game apparently starring the dog guards from King's Quest 6 and this is your reaction? Shame. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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Jan 29, 2016 15:50
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dwarf74 posted:I know. I feel broken inside, and I blame Ryan Dancey. You might want to get that looked at, dude. 
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Jan 29, 2016 15:58
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In other news, it looks like Wonkette is helping to make a political card game? Okay! I have a feeling all of this will feel very old by the time the game ships, but I like Wonkette, and it includes Cthulhu as a candidate, so I'm in!
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dwarf74 posted:In other news, it looks like Wonkette is helping to make a political card game? Okay! I have a feeling all of this will feel very old by the time the game ships, but I like Wonkette, and it includes Cthulhu as a candidate, so I'm in! Those loving pledge levels. £21 for the Limited Edition game with exclusive content - and if you miss heat, you can pay another £7 to get your name in the rulebook! gently caress those guys.
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Jan 29, 2016 16:27
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Hauki posted:Welp, a month after they said Click Clack Lumberjack was shipping, I finally got a post-dated shipping notification in my inbox today. We'll see if and when it actually ships out! For what its worth, I got mine like 2 days before the announcement that it was shipping. Of course I didn't get any of the special add-ons, so that may have something to do with it.
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Modiphius have a kickstarter for another post apocalyptic expansion to the award winning Mutant: Year Zero. Which they advertise as a "furry and feathered (r)evolution" but I digress....  quote:"In a remote mountain valley, mutant animals dwell under the watchful eyes of the mysterious Watchers. Kept prisoners for generations by electric wire and drones in the sky, never knowing who's next to be dragged off to deadly experiments in dark laboratories, the animal mutants have had enough. The time for resistance is now. The fight for freedom has come..."  quote:Mutant: Genlab Alpha tells the story of the mutant animals, and introduces them into the dawnworld of Mutant: Year Zero. Some of the contents: They smashed through their kickstarter goal in less than one day and the Stretch goals are pretty cool. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/mutant-genlab-alpha/description      
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Jan 29, 2016 23:20
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People going hard for that Furry money I guess. Now have someone do a Usagi Yojimbo game, because that's basically the only good anthro animal property (well, I guess the TMNT comics if you count that).
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Jan 30, 2016 00:09
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El Estrago Bonito posted:People going hard for that Furry money I guess.  http://www.amazon.com/Usagi-Yojimbo-Roleplaying-Game-Prtg/dp/1890305022 
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Jan 30, 2016 00:23
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Yeah that one isn't terrible, but it got replaced by another one that was based on Ironclaw which has it's fans but I've always though if as a particularly lovely system that was propped up because it was one of the only furry games with a wide distribution. I also know it's verboten to speak ill of Stolze but UY is barely a game, it's super duper sparse. It's more like a fun background book for fans of the series that happens to include a bonus role playing game on the side.
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Jan 30, 2016 00:29
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El Estrago Bonito posted:People going hard for that Furry money I guess. Naw. There's also Blacksad, Mouse Guard, Hip Flask... El Estrago Bonito posted:Yeah that one isn't terrible, but it got replaced by another one that was based on Ironclaw which has it's fans but I've always though if as a particularly lovely system that was propped up because it was one of the only furry games with a wide distribution. I have the Sanguine UY edition and it's a super streamlined and cleaned up version of Ironclaw. It's surprisingly good and it's great at capturing the essence of the comics. I'd argue that it would make a good generic samurai game if you de-furred it. The combat is extremely lethal by default but characters can purchase techniques and maneuvers that allow them to mow through legions of mooks but have problems with name characters, just like chanbara movies. Kind of like Feng Shui in a sense too, but coming at it from a different approach.
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Lightning Lord posted:I have the Sanguine UY edition and it's a super streamlined and cleaned up version of Ironclaw. It's surprisingly good and it's great at capturing the essence of the comics. I'd argue that it would make a good generic samurai game if you de-furred it. The combat is extremely lethal by default but characters can purchase techniques and maneuvers that allow them to mow through legions of mooks but have problems with name characters, just like chanbara movies. Kind of like Feng Shui in a sense too, but coming at it from a different approach. I played in a pretty fun game of that version a long time ago. It turned out you were a chump if you didn't just learn and spam a Counterattack technique forever, meaning combat that involved a bunch of savvy people was just a bunch of characters standing around awkwardly waiting for each other to attack. Still, with some elbow grease it could've been a fine fighting game.
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That Old Tree posted:I played in a pretty fun game of that version a long time ago. It turned out you were a chump if you didn't just learn and spam a Counterattack technique forever, meaning combat that involved a bunch of savvy people was just a bunch of characters standing around awkwardly waiting for each other to attack. Still, with some elbow grease it could've been a fine fighting game. You have actually seen a samurai movie before, right?
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El Estrago Bonito posted:People going hard for that Furry money I guess. I don't know, I'm not getting a furry vibe from the aesthetic. It seems like the illustrations from a traditional animal fable gone post-apocalyptic. I love the  badgers.
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Lightning Lord posted:Naw. There's also Blacksad, Mouse Guard, Hip Flask... Try Grandville. It's Blacksad without the furry porn.
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Jedit posted:Try Grandville. It's Blacksad without the furry porn. You don't need to tell me about a Bryan Talbot comic.
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Ratpick posted:I don't know, I'm not getting a furry vibe from the aesthetic. It seems like the illustrations from a traditional animal fable gone post-apocalyptic. To be fair a bunch of mutants  at the Post apoc Zone outside their enclave is exactly the tone they are going for (from the core book at least).
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I'm demoing Codex, a MtG-like "RTS cardgame" launching on Kickstarter later this week, at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View today at 2–6 PM local time. (Saturday, Jan. 30) EDIT: We're done. I'll be back for Tuesday boardgame night, 6–9 PM. (Tuesday, Feb. 2) Xom fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 31, 2016 |
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Jan 30, 2016 21:34
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Xom posted:I'm demoing Codex, a MtG-like "RTS cardgame" launching on Kickstarter later this week, at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View today at 2:00 PM local time until TBD. Are there rules / more details than what's linked in that article?
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Xom posted:I'm demoing Codex, a MtG-like "RTS cardgame" launching on Kickstarter later this week, at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View today at 2:00 PM local time until TBD. And by "Magic-like" you mean "It's completely ripping off everything about Magic"? Oh look, it's another David Sirlin plagiarism special.
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Jedit posted:And by "Magic-like" you mean "It's completely ripping off everything about Magic"? It looks more like a Hearthstone ripoff to me. They have similar fonts, a hero named Jaina in promo image, and mention some Blizzard games in the article.
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ScaryJen posted:It looks more like a Hearthstone ripoff to me. They have similar fonts, a hero named Jaina in promo image, and mention some Blizzard games in the article. Haste is a Magic keyword meaning exactly what it means here; the Level Up mechanic has also been copied entire (and Jaina Stormborne is a souped-up clone of Brimstone Mage), along with flying and trample. Most of the revealed cards are at most slightly modified versions of Magic cards, everything is templated the same as Magic. I don't doubt that Sirlin is also lifting pieces from Hearthstone because it's the most popular online CCG, but mainly it's Magic with blocking reworked to allow asynchronous play.
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To be fair, this started development before Hearthstone launched, and Jaina was in Yomi since it's launch in 2010 or 2011. Not saying there isn't any lifting, I don't know, but it's no real secret that Sirlin is influenced by Magic.
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After actually looking at the clickthroughs on that first page, the game is a hot mess of ideas cribbed from other games. Taunt is straight up lifted from Hearthstone, the Heroes are borderline, and constantly talking about the (what feels like tacked-on) resourse management in terms of Starcraft and Starcraft units tells me there's not really a clear vision here. I'm not familiar with the guy's previous work, and I don't doubt you guys about the Magic influence as well, just sayin.
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To be fair Magic or Hearthstone minus marketing bullshit sounds fine enough to me. Sirlin's a little hit or miss for me, but I do love Puzzle Strike, at least, so I'd give it a shot.
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Jan 31, 2016 03:01
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Xom posted:I'm demoing Codex, a MtG-like "RTS cardgame" launching on Kickstarter later this week, at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View today at 2–6 PM local time. (Saturday, Jan. 30)
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Alien Rope Burn posted:To be fair Magic or Hearthstone minus marketing bullshit sounds fine enough to me. Isn't this just Hex? Or Force of Will?
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Zurui posted:Isn't this just Hex? Or Force of Will? Those are just relatively traditional TCGs, so not by my reckoning, no. Epic is the best example of Magic-without-gambling-for-cards that I'm aware of, and it's really good. Of course, it had Kickstarter promos that AFAIK aren't widely available, so even then there's a bit of marketing nonsense, unfortunately, but it's still a really fun, modernized version of Magic.
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Codex is not a collectibles game.
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