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Rand Brittain posted:the story of how he threatened to sue a random field in the middle of Iceland. I thought I was fairly up on GMS drama but I apparently hadn't heard of this episode. Please elaborate?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I thought I was fairly up on GMS drama but I apparently hadn't heard of this episode. Please elaborate? Okay, so what happened was, WieldsRulebookHeavily was posting pictures showing evidence of some of Zak S's misdeeds, and GMS showed up to call him a liar. WRH laughed at him for criticizing people while continuing to produce nothing for his Kickstarter. GMS called WRH a liar about this as well (on the grounds that he's produced incomplete chapters of the book, which isn't "nothing") and began threatening to sue WRH for libel. Or, by "threatening to sue" I guess I mean "demanding an apology or you'll receive the notice from my lawyers tomorrow," while trying to phish for WRH's physical address, ultimately deciding that some address he found on Google (actually an empty field) would be good enough. It would be incredibly scummy and bullying behavior except for the fact that GMS clearly has no idea how the law works, because he would a) have absolutely no case and b) can't sue a guy in Iceland in an American court. It was just kind of bizarre and weird because GMS obviously thought he looked serious and tough while he was making a fool of himself in front of all seventy people using G+.
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Mar 13, 2016 18:39
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jivjov posted:My favorite GMS story is the part where he called out whichever goon it was that set up isfarwestoutyet.com Yeah, he did a whois lookup and cross-referenced it with my twitter account, because I pretty much don't bother trying to hide my identity. Then he made a G+ thread posting about it.
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Mar 13, 2016 19:45
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PST posted:Modiphius seems to have run into the reality check of licensing for the Infinity RPG they kickstarted for £400k+, together with their initial claims implying how much work they'd already done be somewhat less than true. They're only a couple of months overdue at the moment, but their art and writing process seems to be crawling along, and there's been an implication that not everything for the main rulebook is written and not all the artwork is done. I didn't back Infinity or Conan, but I did back Mutant Chronicles and that timeline slipped enough that they had to extend the PDF subscription reward tiers by at least a year and still haven't delivered everything that funded AFAIK. I think they're finally rolling out the last books they promised in the Achtung Cthulhu Kickstarter, which is even older. So I would take their delivery estimates with sizable grains of salt. On the other hand, they're definitely delivering them eventually, which is more than I can say for Far West. Or Alas, Vegas. Or Rosemount Bay. Or...
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Mar 13, 2016 19:59
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malkav11 posted:I didn't back Infinity or Conan, but I did back Mutant Chronicles and that timeline slipped enough that they had to extend the PDF subscription reward tiers by at least a year and still haven't delivered everything that funded AFAIK. I think they're finally rolling out the last books they promised in the Achtung Cthulhu Kickstarter, which is even older. So I would take their delivery estimates with sizable grains of salt. I think stuff will come out, albeit with Infinity given Corvus Belli's attention to detail for approvals (apparently a bunch of the art that Modiphius had ordered was bad, or not the right style for the line, for example) it's going to take a lot, lot longer than their original 9-10 months to have everything out. Albeit, in Kickstarter terms anything releasing under a year late is looking pretty good in comparison to all the terrible examples throughout this thread.
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Mar 13, 2016 21:09
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Wick just posted a kinda sentimental last day update for 7th Sea.
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Mar 13, 2016 21:26
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dwarf74 posted:Wick just posted a kinda sentimental last day update for 7th Sea. That was actually pretty sweet.
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Mar 13, 2016 22:38
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Evil Mastermind posted:stuff Ah right, super defensive turbonerd stuff. So he took the Siembieda torch and doubled down on running with it.
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Mar 14, 2016 07:29
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Think of it as tabletop version of D&D meets fallout meets Warhammerquote:About this project
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Mar 14, 2016 22:00
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The THESDA "Kidding Bethesda" is the most accurate part. Only $7k for a collectible figurine, and it's the only pledge level! Edit: also instructive is the similar, but less coherent KS he's set up for a One Piece RPG.
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Mar 14, 2016 22:05
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I don't see why his One Piece RPG didn't fund, the only challenge in that one is he needed to find someone else for "coating".
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Mar 14, 2016 22:08
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It's still got 54 days left. He's running them simultaneously like a winner.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:04
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Hello, Nicholas! Meet Rifts, I think you'll be good friends.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:05
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homullus posted:Edit: also instructive is the similar, but less coherent KS he's set up for a One Piece RPG. Seriously, I just want to ruffle this kid's hair and tell him "get outta here, you scamp!"
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Mar 14, 2016 23:09
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Scyther posted:I don't see why his One Piece RPG didn't fund, the only challenge in that one is he needed to find someone else for "coating". It took me 15 minutes to realize he meant CODING.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:11
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homullus posted:It took me 15 minutes to realize he meant CODING. I never even got beyond trying to figure out what the gently caress this meant: "I just wanted to see an awesome one piece RPG just speed I thought it'd just be amazing and I want to bring that to the world"
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Mar 14, 2016 23:35
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Agrias120 posted:I never even got beyond trying to figure out what the gently caress this meant: "I just wanted to see an awesome one piece RPG just speed I thought it'd just be amazing and I want to bring that to the world" To be fair, it's only a bit less coherent than: Advert For the Real OP "RPG" posted:Based on the One Piece series, Joygames` online game, One Piece Online, features fantastic fighting by employing the latest in web game technology. One Piece Online let you become a great pirate and lead your team to One Piece treasure!
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Mar 14, 2016 23:45
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Alien Rope Burn posted:is a large-scale horizontal tower defense ARPG browser game based on the “One Piece” manga series. There's no way that sentence wasn't automatically generated from a list of current buzzwords.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:49
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Agrias120 posted:There's no way that sentence wasn't automatically generated from a list of current buzzwords.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:54
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This game already exists, it's free, and it's called Fallout: Warfare.
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Mar 14, 2016 23:55
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Just to update the Lil' Cthulhu kickstarter, Geekdad just did a pretty good review on it: https://www.geekdad.com/2016/03/lil-cthulhu/ And here's the kickstarter link again.
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Zero Karizma posted:Just to update the Lil' Cthulhu kickstarter, Geekdad just did a pretty good review on it: So . . . . Exploding Kittens with additional screw you mechanics, and Cthulu?
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Mar 15, 2016 17:38
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I guess so? It's a "Press Your Luck" type game, so there are bound to be similarities. The part that I think is cool is the adjustable rules to make it more palatable for your non-boardgamer friends or kids.
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Mar 15, 2016 18:21
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I'm gonna just barge in here to promote my first ever Kickstarter with you Goons. I've made some traditional playing cards with goofy ink spot cats on them. I made a run of 10 of them already and they sold out pretty quickly so I thought I'd chance my arm with a Kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1671305805/ink-spot-cat-playing-cards 
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Mar 15, 2016 18:57
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I have to bring this up to highlight something I think is dumb. Is this dumb? I think it's dumb. There's this kickstarter for a new miniatures game with pretty good looking minis. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1466664258/blackrain-alphastrain/description However, I did a cursory glance of the alpha rules and found this:  So they have to have a loving chart handy because atk - def + 5 is too difficult to remember? Nevermind that they could simplify the whole thing by using a D6 instead of a D10. What the poo poo
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Mar 17, 2016 02:10
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It looks like some guys were playing Infinity and didn't think it was anime enough for their tastes. Th effort, tables and stat line are straight from there. Also of note, never ever make your games title and subtitle rhyme. No one will ever take your project seriously.
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Mar 17, 2016 05:28
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It looks like some guys were playing Infinity and didn't think it was anime enough for their tastes. That's like, completely generic western sci-fi. It's Mass Effect stuff, not anime
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Mar 17, 2016 06:43
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signalnoise posted:atk - def + 5 is too difficult to remember? Nevermind that they could simplify the whole thing by using a D6 instead of a D10. Some people just must prefer charts. Avalon Hill's Titan (greatest boardgame ever) uses charts rather than the rules "range attack is half of melee" and "hit on 4+, adjust by skill difference, and 6 always hits".
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signalnoise posted:So they have to have a loving chart handy because atk - def + 5 is too difficult to remember? Nevermind that they could simplify the whole thing by using a D6 instead of a D10. What the poo poo Warhams/40k has charts for to-hit/to-wound when they're really simple rules to remember without charts. Probably inspired this.
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Mar 17, 2016 11:06
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"Look up the results in a chart" and "Translate the results via rules" I think has some underlying pedagogical issues. That is, it's completely intuitive for a "wargamer" to do the former, and also completely intuitive for a ... TRPG player (?) to do the latter, and then you have human nature that gnaws at our lizard brains and tells us to reject the other one as being worse when we come face-to-face with it, just because it's different and we're used to the other way. It's like the whole THAC0 debate.
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Mar 17, 2016 11:12
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boom boom boom posted:That's like, completely generic western sci-fi. It's Mass Effect stuff, not anime Because it's not Gundam? Those models are a straight up mix of Metal Gear and Ghost in the Shell, most of the helmets even have a ver Evangelion feel to them.
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Mar 17, 2016 13:50
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A translation of the French RPG Polaris is up on Kickstarter. If you go to the page today, you can get a link to the beta core rules on drivethrurpg, though that offer ends today. It looks pretty interesting. As far as I can tell, it's a post apocalyptic RPG that takes place in the ocean after the surface world is destroyed and filled with mutants. It reminds me a lot of Blue Planet, which I'm a big fan of.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Because it's not Gundam? Those models are a straight up mix of Metal Gear and Ghost in the Shell, most of the helmets even have a ver Evangelion feel to them. I see them as a mix between Grey Fox and dudes from Destiny
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Hiro Protagonist posted:A translation of the French RPG Polaris is up on Kickstarter. If you go to the page today, you can get a link to the beta core rules on drivethrurpg, though that offer ends today. It looks pretty interesting. That setting looks rad
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Because it's not Gundam? Those models are a straight up mix of Metal Gear and Ghost in the Shell, most of the helmets even have a ver Evangelion feel to them. Metal Gear isn't an anime (though you're right there's a GITS influence, especially with ALEPH, and ALEPH robots are basically tiny evangelions).
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Mar 18, 2016 01:06
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90 dollars for another d20 RPG with uninspired stretch goals
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Mar 18, 2016 02:48
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Hiro Protagonist posted:A translation of the French RPG Polaris is up on Kickstarter. If you go to the page today, you can get a link to the beta core rules on drivethrurpg, though that offer ends today. It looks pretty interesting. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Blue Planet was a really neat system to read, I scored most of the game back in the day when my FLGS was getting rid of stock that didn't sell on the cheap.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:49
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Liquid Communism posted:There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Blue Planet was a really neat system to read, I scored most of the game back in the day when my FLGS was getting rid of stock that didn't sell on the cheap. Blue Planet's setting was and is amazing. Blue Planet's system was gently caress-awful.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:56
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Pretty much every system from that era was god awful even if the settings had good ideas. That's what happens when nobody bothers to really innovate design for over a decade.
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Well, that goes along with most of the RPGs in a given decade being derivative. But there were games the innovated system-wise, like Feng Shui or Over the Edge or Castle Falkenstein or Everway or Unknown Armies or SAGA or Ironclaw or Puppetland... and others I'm forgetting, I'm sure.
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