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neaden posted:So I checked this out and it just seems, well, super 90's. Super 90's White Wolf really, with a meta-plot, and a huge amount of terminology, fiddly powers, characters built with multiple kinds of build points etc. Does this play a lot smoother in person then it reads? I couldn't tell you as I've never played it at the table. I have owned it for a while, but I've never played it. It's not exactly my style of Supers game: Masks is currently becoming my favorite, if you're curious of what I want out of a Supers game (push narrative, less toolkit powers). While AMP does have that with the loyalties stuff, it just ends up being too heavy for my personal interest. I don't think it is bad or anything like that, but it is something for people willing to give Meta-plot and its particular mechanics a try.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitelion/dethroned-the-card-game?ref=nav_search So the president of my university's game development club just (finally) launched his card game on Kickstarter. It kinda plays like fast-paced Mafia with a lot more vigorous card slapping. The profit margins are laughably low (I think he's making like $1 per deck , if even that) so it's more a passion project than anything, but the game is really really solid. Lemme know if you have any questions or feedback you'd like me to ask or give. Also he has the rules up so you could test it out before you back if you want! everythingWasBees fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/sandy-petersens-cthulhu-mythos-for-pathfinder quote:Sandy Petersen is the undisputed authority on the Cthulhu Mythos in games as the author of the groundbreaking game Call of CthulhuIncluding: Really the draw is the miniatures. Fully funded already.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 02:12 |
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Bhole hatchling.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 03:02 |
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I like that the 'Why Pathfinder?' heading gives me no actual explanation for why I'd want to play Cthulhu mythos poo poo in Pathfinder.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 03:24 |
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I can't wait to be terrified by the new madness system.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 03:37 |
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Sodomy Non Sapiens posted:I like that the 'Why Pathfinder?' heading gives me no actual explanation for why I'd want to play Cthulhu mythos poo poo in Pathfinder. Why Pathfinder? Well the name of the kickstarter says "for Pathfinder" in it, so we assumed that if you read this far that you were already sold.
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everythingWasBees posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitelion/dethroned-the-card-game?ref=nav_search This looks neat and would fit in with my are you a werewolf liking friends but not needing 10 people all the time! Thanks.
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everythingWasBees posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitelion/dethroned-the-card-game?ref=nav_search This looks really interesting and seems like it'd be rife with opportunities for me to tell my gaming buddies to eat poo poo as I murder them or vice versa.
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Sodomy Non Sapiens posted:I like that the 'Why Pathfinder?' heading gives me no actual explanation for why I'd want to play Cthulhu mythos poo poo in Pathfinder. Perhaps you were a big fan of the D20 implementation of Call of Cthulhu and want to bring it into the Pathfinder era? No? Nobody? Yeah, I don't get it either.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 05:40 |
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Here, lemme summarize the "Why Pathfinder?" section: "Because Pathfinder has a large fan-base that will buy any poo poo we throw at them as long as we use the name Cthulhu and have at least half decent production values." Edit: Lemme rephrase that, since I realize that's not at all what I meant to say. In my experience pretty much everyone who plays Pathfinder also likes (or at least claims to like) Lovecraft stuff, no matter how badly done. senrath fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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At first I thought I could adapt the D20 stats for 13th Age, but then realized I still haven't done that with D20 CoC. Yeah, no idea here.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Now I'm imagining a Potato Salad-style KS for a game that's literally titled "Fantasy Heartbreaker" and raises all the red flags. By Gamers For Gamers. Lets you be ANYTHING YOU WANT. Uses Resurrecting this post to say: you literally described the Conan RPG kickstarter.
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everythingWasBees posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitelion/dethroned-the-card-game?ref=nav_search Looks pretty cool. A bit chaotic, but simple enough. Hopefully there are rules to integrate the two sets for 5-8p
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 06:52 |
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They're going to make a Pathfinder Cthulhu book just because it will make a truckload of money? What an incredibly silly reason. I would never do that if I was running a business.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 06:59 |
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Yeah let's not let the fact that Pathfinder isn't very well suited to depicting Cthuloid horror to stand in the way of how it's going to sell like gangbusters for reasons not at all related to design and gameplay.
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I'm pretty torn for that reason, I don't want Pathfinder anything but there are a lot of figures there for mythos creatures that don't get represented often and they look like they'd be so much fun to paint.
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occamsnailfile posted:I'm pretty torn for that reason, I don't want Pathfinder anything but there are a lot of figures there for mythos creatures that don't get represented often and they look like they'd be so much fun to paint. You can get the minis without getting any pathfinder book. Also those are jut the Cthulhu Wars minis again.
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Xelkelvos posted:Looks pretty cool. A bit chaotic, but simple enough. Hopefully there are rules to integrate the two sets for 5-8p The two sets integrate pretty seamlessly. We usually mixed and matched between the two sets rather heavily, and our play groups were usually around 5-6 players. It's really the weapon decks that are the limiting factor for how many players there are, as each player needs a deck, and there are only four per set.
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everythingWasBees posted:The two sets integrate pretty seamlessly. We usually mixed and matched between the two sets rather heavily, and our play groups were usually around 5-6 players. It's really the weapon decks that are the limiting factor for how many players there are, as each player needs a deck, and there are only four per set. I meant like suggested setups for 5+ players to restrain some semblance of balance between the types that want to keep things alive versus the things that want others dead.
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QuantumNinja posted:Resurrecting this post to say: you literally described the Conan RPG kickstarter. That isn't the case at all, though. I don't think a single one of the points he listed fits.
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occamsnailfile posted:I'm pretty torn for that reason, I don't want Pathfinder anything but there are a lot of figures there for mythos creatures that don't get represented often and they look like they'd be so much fun to paint. Fenris Games sells resin versions of the Cthulhu Wars figures - http://fenrisgames.com/shop#!/Cthulhu-Wars/c/6054050/offset=0&sort=normal - not sure how good the prices are compared to the new KS though.
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I don't think anyone is calling Sandy Petersen's business sense into question, just his artistic integrity (if he ever had such a thing.)
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Leperflesh posted:That isn't the case at all, though. I don't think a single one of the points he listed fits. Yeah, Modiphius aren't exactly fresh-faced kids who've never done an RPG before trying to publish their D&D houserules.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 15:39 |
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Fantasy Heartbreaker KS pitch could totes be the next Afterthought skit, complete with "oh hey, didn't see you there!"
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Terrible Opinions posted:You can get the minis without getting any pathfinder book. Also those are jut the Cthulhu Wars minis again. I was going to say. As for cost, I'd have to sit down with a calculator and an inventory for Cthulhu Wars to get an exact costing, but I think it's about $600 for all the minis on this project plus quite a few more (mostly GOOs and Dreamlands monsters) and you get a boardgame attached.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 16:04 |
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Jesus. There's already a really great system for portraying Cthulhu Mythos in role-playing, and it's called Call of Cthulhu. WTF, Sandy Peterson??
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/57306923/this-is-not-a-test-post-apocalyptic-skimirsh-ruleb?ref=category This Is Not A Test is making a hardcover book!
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yegods posted:Jesus. There's already a really great system for portraying Cthulhu Mythos in role-playing, and it's called Call of Cthulhu. WTF, Sandy Peterson?? As a wise man once said, "it is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money."
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yegods posted:Jesus. There's already a really great system for portraying Cthulhu Mythos in role-playing, and it's called Call of Cthulhu. WTF, Sandy Peterson?? But don't you remember this classic story? A Shadow Over Innsmouth posted:And yet I saw them in a limitless stream—flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating—surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal . . . and some were strangely robed . . . and one, who led the way, was clad in a ghoulishly humped black coat and striped trousers, and had a man’s felt hat perched on the shapeless thing that answered for a head. . . .
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 20:35 |
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I have a friend for whom this kickstarter is perfectly targeted. Their group basically only does Pathfinder, because "we know the rules" and "all systems are basically the same anyway" and such similar grog. But they love Mythos stuff.
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yegods posted:Jesus. There's already a really great system for portraying Cthulhu Mythos in role-playing, and it's called Call of Cthulhu. WTF, Sandy Peterson?? Actually CoC is a mediocre to okay system that skates by heavily on nostalgia.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 21:06 |
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Isn't Cthullu already in Pathfinder as a neutral god of athiesm or something? Ignoring the fact Cthullu is just a jaborine and the real threat are guys like Hastur.
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Nah, he's Chaotic Evil. http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/great-old-ones/great-old-one-cthulhu The neutral vaguely old-oneish god who's associated with atheists is http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Groetus
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Covok posted:Isn't Cthullu already in Pathfinder as a neutral god of athiesm or something? Ignoring the fact Cthullu is just a jaborine and the real threat are guys like Hastur. D&D and Pathfinder have been using tentacled whatevers from the realms of madness for literal decades now, Cthulhu was in an old TSR supplement that ran afoul of copyright issues, there was Cthulhu d20 back in the 3E days, I'm absolutely positive there must be plenty of not-Cthulhu stuff in Pathfinder already, I can't even begin to understand how Pathfinder Cthulhu is some weird controversial thing to some people in the year 2016. Newsflash, Sandy Peterson likes money.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 21:18 |
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Reaper has a line of Pathfinder-licensed minis. They also already have a passel of Cthulhu minis, and more on the way with the latest Bones kickstarter. I haven't looked, but I assume the new Cthulhu pathfinder crossover minis are being made by Reaper? It makes sense if they're extending their relationship, since there's already the backbone of a set of Cthulhu minis in the store to support the game from the outset. It's also an opportunity for Paizo to branch out from Pathfinder. It's a good idea to diversify your product portfolio, because having only one major product line leaves you more vulnerable to the whims of the marketplace. If Pathfinder suddenly loses popularity and they have no other product lines to help sustain them, Paizo could wind up in trouble. Even if the Cthulhu line of products only break even, that's worthwhile from a product diversity perspective.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 21:20 |
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Hell, the first stat up for a lot of Call of Cthulhu monsters was in a bestiary for Runequest 2nd, so while there may not have been any fireballs, I guarantee at some point someone took out a deep one with fireblade or maybe sever spirit.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 21:23 |
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Wow, so 7th Sea announces EU-friendly shipping, and suddenly they are knocking on the door of a million dollars.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 21:24 |
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Honestly I'm all for loving around with the Mythos, since I find trying to emulate Lovecraft's stories to be a desperately boring endeavor more often than not. Given a choice between playing a wizard throwing lasers at space crabs and a intellectual who pees himself and faints at the sight of
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Leperflesh posted:Reaper has a line of Pathfinder-licensed minis. They also already have a passel of Cthulhu minis, and more on the way with the latest Bones kickstarter. I haven't looked, but I assume the new Cthulhu pathfinder crossover minis are being made by Reaper? It makes sense if they're extending their relationship, since there's already the backbone of a set of Cthulhu minis in the store to support the game from the outset. They're not diversifying, it's literally just a monster manual for Pathfinder with mythos monsters and some tacked on sanity rules. They even admit that less than half of the monsters are new and the rest are just compiled from other pathfinder books. The miniatures are just game pieces from Cthulu Wars. It's a way for RPG players to get the minis without shelling out for the board game.
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