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Nuns with Guns posted:It's pretty clever if you have the fans to leverage it, honestly. Gating access behind at least an extra $152 means only dedicated fans or people already interested in the pitch will jump for it. They'll be the ones playtesting it and talking about how COOL and INNOVATIVE the game is while all the scrubs have to squirm with envy, plus the severely limited playtest pool will already come biased in favor of the game and its rules I'm not saying it's not a smart move. Just a shameful one.
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I mean if people want a thing, but wont pay for it up front, try and get it brought to you later by kicking in for something else you might like now? Makes (at least) as much sense as the people that want free shipping around the planet.
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GaistHeidegger posted:Not familiar with this, is there somewhere I could read it? Greg Stolze was working for White Wolf, when he asked about the difference between raising the target number and requiring more successes. The response he got was that nobody knew and nobody cared, and he should just do "what feels right". This indirectly lead to the creation of the One Roll Engine, because Stolze was musing about how he could make it so that those two actually were different, and it lead him down the path of making it so that successes were matched sets of dice, but the target number was whatever matched sets you got rather than an arbitrary value set by the GM, and that idea would eventually become ORE because analyzing the two axes of the dice rolls would give you more results/more information than just a single pass/fail axis.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Greg Stolze was working for White Wolf, when he asked about the difference between raising the target number and requiring more successes. The response he got was that nobody knew and nobody cared, and he should just do "what feels right". Thanks! That's pretty amazing and hilarious, really; I have not actually checked out ORE yet before, but I'll need to do so.
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dwarf74 posted:Oh man I don't even know what to make of the Dungeon Fantasty GURPS update. My preferred store stopped carrying GURPS in late third edition, but I'm sure they'd be happy to add a copy to their next order of Munchkin from the distributors. It feels hinky financially, but that's just me, and I don't trust myself to do my own taxes properly, let alone run a Kickstarter.
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Oh, they added a fake PDF only tier, for effectively $36. Cool. That's a way better idea than a Pyramid sub.
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dwarf74 posted:Dungeon Fantasy is up. Are these stretch goals a joke
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Bieeardo posted:I'm more interested in the Chaos Dwarf rear end Cannon.   
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Dungeon Fantasy is gritty fantasy realism at its best (and a great example of easy-to-play GURPS). That logo is offensive, though.
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GMSkarka posted:I won't be sticking around to get into a back-and-forth with critics, other than to offer this one clarification:
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The expectations of delivering on the thing you accepted payment for.
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NGDBSS posted:So what we have here is a conflict resolution system with three distinct but not independent variables, which can easily spiral out of control in the best hands. I wonder if the point of having so heavily obfuscated a main resolution mechanic that you literally can't tell if it makes any sense is that it fits the setting.
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Kwyndig posted:And he was never heard from again... Apparently Adamant is announcing a "relaunch" with a new team member who is supposed to be a project manager. So 5 year hilarity doesn't happen with projects moving forward. Anyone want to start a betting pool on how long before he quits?
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dwarf74 posted:Oh, they added a fake PDF only tier, for effectively $36. Cool. That's a way better idea than a Pyramid sub. It's kind of baffling that they didn't think people would want PDFs of the updated/revised material that's making up the box set. alg posted:Are these stretch goals a joke I think after the Ogre kickstarter they've made it a core goal to never ever lose money on shipping again.
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Swagger Dagger posted:It's kind of baffling that they didn't think people would want PDFs of the updated/revised material that's making up the box set. Why don't they just charge actuals for shipping in the pledge manager? I never understand people who don't do this.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Why don't they just charge actuals for shipping in the pledge manager? I never understand people who don't do this. I'm not an expert on shipping costs or anything but given that this is supposed to ship in may of next year, there's a large risk of shipping costs increasing between now and then, especially internationally.
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alg posted:Are these stretch goals a joke
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Swagger Dagger posted:I'm not an expert on shipping costs or anything but given that this is supposed to ship in may of next year, there's a large risk of shipping costs increasing between now and then, especially internationally. Yeah, true. I guess most of the wash-ups I've seen have been people significantly underestimating the cost of international shipping and not saying 'royal mail jacked up all international shipping costs between the kickstarter closing.' As an armchair critic though, who knows.
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Not to make this thread political, but if one US presidential candidate wins there is a great deal more uncertainty as to what shipping prices will be internationally.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Not to make this thread political, but if one US presidential candidate wins there is a great deal more uncertainty as to what shipping prices will be internationally. If that one candidate wins, the entire Earth has a lot more things to worry about.
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Covok posted:If that one candidate wins, the entire Earth has a lot more things to worry about.
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Ettin posted:we'd need to bring grognards.txt back
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chaos rhames posted:Why are you reading his blog? He's a boring writer and grognards.txt is dead because his boring posts filled it up. A friend linked me to his blog when I got involved in a stupid argument about gender representation in tabletop/etc. I thought his Slaanesh post was pretty good, so I added the blog to my RSS feed reader. Ettin posted:Folks, if you talked about Zak every time he wanked himself raw to an SA post we'd need to bring grognards.txt back to contain the garbage. Talk about Kickstarters! In that case: it looks like PING have finally got their poo poo together and copies of Human Interface - Nakamura Tower have started to arrive. My copy was dispatched 12 weeks ago and went missing, but a new copy should be delivered on Monday. This should hopefully mean I'll have something to paint for the *punk challenge in the Oath thread, and I hope my Basius III pads turn up in time so I can actually base them properly from the start. And crossposting from the Mantic thread, as the Kickstarter stuff for Walking Dead should be dispatched shortly: glitchkrieg posted:Looks like my local club will be holding a Walking Dead day in November. And judging by events in the past, we might have a visit from Ronnie.
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FRINGE posted:Pardon you good sir! Are you certain you mean to imply that there is something more serious, more important than the speedy delivery of a needed game to its investor?! Nuclear War 50th Anniversary Edition wasn't a Kickstarter though.
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Words about Torment: http://www.pcgamesn.com/torment-tides-of-numenera/torment-tides-of-numenera-kickstarter-gameplay I like surprises so I just skimmed it, but its looking good.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Not to make this thread political, but if one US presidential candidate wins there is a great deal more uncertainty as to what shipping prices will be internationally. Actually, looks like, on this issue at least, there is already something occurring that may gently caress things up. Apparently, a bankruptcy may gently caress up world wide shipping rates.
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The famous Swedish RPG Trudvang Chronicles is finally getting an english translation! It looks loving beautiful, and sounds like a fairly good amount of things for the amount pledged.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:The famous Swedish RPG Trudvang Chronicles is finally getting an english translation! It looks loving beautiful, and sounds like a fairly good amount of things for the amount pledged. It looks pretty, but Im afraid its "fame" never reached anyone I know... Price seems reasonable.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:The famous Swedish RPG Trudvang Chronicles is finally getting an english translation! It looks loving beautiful, and sounds like a fairly good amount of things for the amount pledged. That's a good price and the art is incredible.
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Jonathan Green is kickstarting another gamebook, "The Wicked Wizard of Oz", a diesel-punk version of the regular Wizard of Oz. While Diesel-punk (or anything-punk other than cyberpunk) doesn't really appeal to me the guy is great at making these things so it should come out great. He's written a bunch of Fighting Fantasy books and also "YOU are the Hero" which is a pretty cool history of the series. Anyway I backed it as soon as I saw it being the type of nerd who likes these kind of books. If you're in the UK I'm pretty sure postage is free which is a bonus.
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alg posted:That's a good price and the art is incredible.  Holy crap that art!
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Kwyndig posted:Lot of tits out in that art. It's not particularly sexualised though. It feels more as if, in the culture, people don't wear tops, as the women are wearing almost exactly what the men are.
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