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Zurui posted:Cross-post from the Boardgame thread: The hospital goal and at-cost army donations are a really awesome bonus thing. I'd be thrilled to see more crowdfunding projects to include humanitarian goals like this.
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Zurui posted:I love the concept but the "close up of eyes" art style is really turning me off. I think my issue with the artistic design is that it doesn't really evoke anything. Like, if you see a Charmander, chances are you can probably guess it does something resembling a fire attack. If I see a Charmander eye, that doesn't really help me remember what the hell it does because it's a loving eye without the context of the rest of it. You also lose a good bit of lore in artwork, which I wouldn't mind as much if the things didn't have subnames like "The Living Arsenal" or "The Towering Death." Show me something that deserves a name like that! When MTG gives something the epithet "The Aeons Torn," it provides artwork that at least gives a "what the gently caress is that" sort of feeling to it.
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NTRabbit posted:If they're broadly compatible with any of the Dwarven Forge sets, but at a bonesium fraction of the price, these things are going to catch fire. http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/69716-secret-weapon-tablescapes-dungeons-mines/ Has preproduction samples next to DF stuff
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Looks like Goodman Games massively hosed up the add-ons from the DCC campaign last year. I got none of the right stuff, people on the Kickstarter are saying they got 10 copies of one thing and none of the stuff they wanted.
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Jul 7, 2016 18:00
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alg posted:Looks like Goodman Games massively hosed up the add-ons from the DCC campaign last year. I got none of the right stuff, people on the Kickstarter are saying they got 10 copies of one thing and none of the stuff they wanted. I had PDF issues, issues with my softcover order, and now only got 2/3 of my add ons (with one more expensive version of one I ordered.) So I'm 0/3 and reconsidering my MCC pledge. Backerkit, people. Backerkit.
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Yeah originally i didn't get the complaining about no backerkit because I don't do many kickstarters with add-ons, but this was a definite case where they should've used it.
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alg posted:Yeah originally i didn't get the complaining about no backerkit because I don't do many kickstarters with add-ons, but this was a definite case where they should've used it.
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Maybe he should have spent more time getting his ducks in a row and less time fantasizing about burning 4E books in effigy.
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dwarf74 posted:It certainly seems like backerkit would have saved them a lot of money so far.
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g0del posted:MCC update 11 says they'll be using BackerKit, so I guess they learned their lesson. Don't get me wrong - they've made right by me on both previous occasions and I have no doubt they will this time, too. But this is a constant stream of fulfillment cock-ups that has to be costing them unimaginable money and time, probably all because some bozo decided Excel was a database and screwed up sorting and/or row alignment.
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Most of Goodman's previous kickstarters have been minor in comparison, so hopefully this is their wakeup call that the cut Backerkit or Pledge Manager take are worth it, especially on massively successful kickstarters. Can you imagine the shitshow if John Wick decided to forgo it for 7th Sea 2e? MCC using it seems to indicate that this is the case. Of course if they had used one of them from the beginning, they might not have sent me paypal shipping invoices for Chained Coffin, Purple Planet, Monster Alphabet and 50 Fantastic Functions when I added additional money to each pledge for that reason. To their credit, they fixed the error each time but it's still annoying that it happened repeatedly. I didn't get any extras and opted not to get the softcover so hopefully the errors will be ironed out by the time my stuff is sent out. I wonder who's actively running the MCC KS... Is it Goodman or MCC creator Jim Wampler? g0del, have you had that avatar/title since 2004? Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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dwarf74 posted:I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Yeah, I can only imagine the headaches they are having over there. Lightning Lord posted:g0del, have you had that avatar/title since 2004? 
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For some reason I checked the Alas Vegas updates today and Wallis still hasn't posted anything since last November. There are several (dozen?) posts asking for money back, which seem to be going unanswered. Good designer or not, this is just terrible management and customer service, and I really hope people in the industry takes note, because drat.
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I checked my email and received a welcome surprise in the form of the pre-release version of Mononoke Koyake for GSS.
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So did anyone here back Mongoose Paranoia? I saw the pre-release was out. How's the game? As poo poo as it looked?
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Brad Talton of Level 99 Games (BattleCON, Millennium Blades, Argent) posted a pretty interesting look at what's been going on in the company:quote:We've done a lot of great games in the past few years–tons of Pixel Tactics and BattleCON, and more recently EXCEED and Millennium Blades, it's been a lot of fun to design and work on all these things, but Millennium Blades has been the most interesting development cycle to be a part of, because we were able to integrate so many novel mechanisms and play styles into a complete project. It's my first large traditional-styled board game (since Argent isn't my own design), and I greatly enjoyed making it. They make some pretty great games that gets into some interesting design space, so I'm hoping they find a good place to be.
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GrandpaPants posted:Brad Talton of Level 99 Games (BattleCON, Millennium Blades, Argent) posted a pretty interesting look at what's been going on in the company: It definitely sounds like he overexpanded without the experience to handle the load. It happens and is a bit unfortunate. In actual Kickstarters, here's a game that's being ported/modified from a Chinese/Taiwanese game. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gonab/overseers?ref=category Originally called ChengHuang, it's being translated and ported to the rest of the world with rules updates and released as Overseers (the literal translation I believe and could probably also be better interpreted as Guardian or Protector). The big red flags are the company doing the Kickstarter. A: This is their fist Kickstarter. B: This is the company's first game. As for the game itself, it's basically a drafting game with a bluffing aspect. After everyone's drafted five cards (and discarded their last card), everyone reveals three of their cards and everyone votes on who they think has the best five cards. The person voted with the best hand has to either agree or disagree. Agreeing means they discard two cards of their choice before revealing. Everyone then reveals. If the voted person did have the best hand, they discard the two highest scoring cards. If they didn't they get a free card from the discard. Everyone gets their points and a new round begins. There's also player powers (whose cards are a bit fanservicey are from the original afaict) and cards that can steal other cards which can affect the showdown scoring or final scoring. there's already 10 days left and they've hit five times their base goal of roughly $10,000 USD (it's priced in Euros). At first glance, the game seems interesting, but the character powers (based on the ones seen in the rulebook) and the consequences of the bluffing aspect give me a bit of pause.
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This is looking really good, a remake of TSR's Battle of Britain: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992455033/battle-of-britain I saw these guys demonstrating it live and it looks like a good time. I'm on the fence about backing right this minute because I'm a bit poor but £50 seems a good price.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:This is looking really good, a remake of TSR's Battle of Britain: Richard Borg. If I was a wargamer and buying anything right now, I'd be sold.
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned 'GIGA-ROBO!' already, even if just to tear into it for not simulating a giant anime robot fight well enough (if that's actually the case). Or maybe someone did mention it and I'm actually legally blind.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:This is looking really good, a remake of TSR's Battle of Britain: A stretch goal add-on should be a 9 x 6 foot board, and long sticks. 
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:This is looking really good, a remake of TSR's Battle of Britain:
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The_Doctor posted:A stretch goal add-on should be a 9 x 6 foot board, and long sticks. quote:GBP 45,000 - 2 x mini croupier sticks, like they used in the Fighter Control rooms in 1940! [KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE] 
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:This is looking really good, a remake of TSR's Battle of Britain: I think I've just found my second Kickstarter to back. And it's from Plastic Soldier Company, the non-Russian maker of lower priced, but finely detailed 15mm WWII plastics, so quality is going to be decent. Xelkelvos posted:In actual Kickstarters, here's a game that's being ported/modified from a Chinese/Taiwanese game. I don't know if I should back this or just download the rules (available for free on the Kickstarter  ) and source a copy of the game here in, well, Taiwan.
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Jedit posted:Richard Borg. If I was a wargamer and buying anything right now, I'd be sold. Read that as "Richard Bong" at first and wondered what the leading US ace of WW2 had to do with the game.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Read that as "Richard Bong" at first and wondered what the leading US ace of WW2 had to do with the game. Well, that gives a whole new meaning to "Aces high", doesn't it?
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The fact that there is a Bong road on nearly every AFB is the source of endless teenage laughter.
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Seems like whoever controls the Walking Dead license is shooting for some kind of survival of the fittest method to determine market dominance. Mantic has the advantage of starting earlier and sure, the focus of their game is more PVP than cooperative, but drat that's gotta suck.
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Would explain why Mantic's contract was strictly the comic books. Wasn't Cryptozoic's Ghist Buster games kind of garbage though?
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Everything Cryptozoic has produced has been some degree of garbage.
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quote:Wasn't Cryptozoic's Ghist Buster games kind of garbage though? Cryptozoic's games have generally been no-effort licensed garbage, or "very casual" type stuff (eg. Deul at Skullzfire Mountain) - but they seem to be using different designers than usual here (specifically, Brady and Adam Sandler, who are X-WANG/Descent people). That's no guarantee this won't be hot garbage, but it's reason to expect something different than Cryptozoic's norm.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Would explain why Mantic's contract was strictly the comic books. Correct, CZE has had the license to the AMC show for years. Just been a while since they're used it. I've play tested early versions of the No Sanctuary game and while I'm not a huge fan of co-ops, I can say that it was pretty decent at its early stages (if a bit long), so I'd imagine that it's more finalized state is likely pretty good. At the end of the day though, if you're not a huge TWD fan, it still may not be something that really resonates with you.
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Scyther posted:Everything Cryptozoic has produced has been some degree of garbage. Except Hex, which is amazing. And people swear by the WoW TCG back in the day. But that doesn't really say anything about their boardgames.
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malkav11 posted:Except Hex, which is amazing
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malkav11 posted:Except Hex, which is amazing. It was even more amazing when it first came out in 1993.
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Jedit posted:It was even more amazing when it first came out in 1993. C'mon, you're not even trying. Magic was actually garbage in '93. :P Similarities to MtG aside, Hex is pretty loving great, and if you haven't looked at it since it's Kickstarter 3+ years ago I'd recommend it. It's changed a lot, and offers a lot more of an experience than MODO, even if core game play is similar.
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Spiderdrake posted:Good or bad as Hex may be, that's not exactly something you hold up for their game design chops I certainly would. It's got plenty of original ideas and the overall design is better than many other TCGs I've played. Yes, it's inspired by Magic - like, you know, the entire genre, albeit a bit more directly than many - but it's not Magic. And frankly, I think it's better.
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Merauder posted:C'mon, you're not even trying. Magic was actually garbage in '93. :P do I still have to use gameforge?
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GrandpaPants posted:The Millennium Blades reprint Kickstarter is up. There are no edition changes, even though a few cards do need some errata, and there are a couple mini expansions for people who already have stuff. The game is really, really fun and is apparently sold out, so this at least guarantees you a copy. Thank you for posting this. I would never have seen this and missed out.
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