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Canadian shipping, five bucks. Oh, wallet, I hardly knew ye.
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Oct 11, 2016 17:37
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Baron Snow posted:The Lazer Ryderz Kickstarter is live!  The bar has been raised. That is amazing. Nuns with Guns posted:like senrath said, yu-gi-oh was originally just a manga about a hyper competitive pharoah possessing a boy to play any kind of game of chance. iirc there's even a bit where they do an arc around russian roulette. The Interesting. Thanks gents. If Yugioh had been introduced as " hyper competitive pharoah possessing a boy to play any kind of game of chance" I would have to have checked it out back in the day. That is one of the better fictional premises I have ever heard.
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Not to be too much of a wet blanket, but their last game - RESISTOR - also looked pretty cool visually. Unfortunately, it was pretty much one big glaring game design problem, got tepid reviews overall, and I think was forgotten about pretty quickly. So yeah, I really like the visuals and the boxes here, but I have no faith in their ability to design a game.
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jmzero posted:Not to be too much of a wet blanket, but their last game - RESISTOR - also looked pretty cool visually. Unfortunately, it was pretty much one big glaring game design problem, got tepid reviews overall, and I think was forgotten about pretty quickly. I'm optimistic, but I might pull out by the end if no reviews come out. They have a section for reviews on the project page, but it's just two super-short text blurbs.
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Baron Snow posted:The Lazer Ryderz Kickstarter is live! Given that it seems to be straight up using x-wing templates is there any reason I can't play this game with x-wing stuff, whatever it is?
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thespaceinvader posted:Given that it seems to be straight up using x-wing templates is there any reason I can't play this game with x-wing stuff, whatever it is?
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thespaceinvader posted:Given that it seems to be straight up using x-wing templates is there any reason I can't play this game with x-wing stuff, whatever it is? If you have enough movement templates sure I guess, but I think the idea is that the movement templates stay on the board to create obstacles for you and others, like Tron motorcycles.
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jmzero posted:Not to be too much of a wet blanket, but their last game - RESISTOR - also looked pretty cool visually. Unfortunately, it was pretty much one big glaring game design problem, got tepid reviews overall, and I think was forgotten about pretty quickly. Valid criticism but it DOES look fantastic.
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jmzero posted:So yeah, I really like the visuals and the boxes here, but I have no faith in their ability to design a game. JazzFlight posted:I'm also worried about it truly supporting 2-player gameplay when a lot rides on player interaction and the way the lines stretch across the table. I've only played this game as low as 3, and that worked fine. I'll have to ask Anthony about how it plays at 2 player, it may be more of a technically supports 2, but it's ideal at 3 or more. I do like this game a lot better then RESISTOR_, and I think it's much better designed. thespaceinvader posted:Given that it seems to be straight up using x-wing templates is there any reason I can't play this game with x-wing stuff, whatever it is? You could probably "print and play" a version with x-wing templates, but each player would need something like 5 sets and you'd need a way to tell them apart.
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JazzFlight posted:It's like releasing a game you play only with chess pieces, but they're hot pink and neon green. Crap, I think I'm unconvincing myself as I think about it more. What's wrong with using an already established, polished, game mechanic instead of trying to design an original (and buggy) one? Last I checked, a lot of games use play money and roll dice to move tokens across boards as well.
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Baron Snow posted:I've only played this game as low as 3, and that worked fine. I'll have to ask Anthony about how it plays at 2 player, it may be more of a technically supports 2, but it's ideal at 3 or more. I do like this game a lot better then RESISTOR_, and I think it's much better designed. Ah OK, I like the idea of them staying on the board. And I already have 3 sets of x-wing templates... most people who play it have multiple.
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Chaosium has pulled its licence from the Masks of Nyarlathotep Prop Set Kickstarter for failure to fulfill.
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Upwind is a new fantasy RPG from Jeff Barber (designer of Blue Planet) and is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli/description quote:Imagine Bakshi’s classic animated film Wizards has a head-on collision with Disney’s Treasure Planet and the resulting fire is put out with a whole lot of Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky. That, in an unexpected, animated mash-up, is Upwind. More setting info here: http://www.biohazardgamespublishing.com/upwind-excerpts Game system excerpts: http://www.biohazardgamespublishing.com/qsystem-exerpts I ran a game of it some months ago http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2016/05/genre/fantasy/upwind-out-of-curiosity/ I will be posting a one shot of Upwind run by Jeff Barber on the 14th and then a 4 part campaign run by me this month on RPPR Actual Play. The campaign as a written supplement is a stretch goal for this Kickstarter. I really believe in this game - it allows for sweeping epic fantasy adventures in a way that encourages role playing and great storytelling.
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The game looks pretty bog-standard Steampunk With Magic, so you should get that crowd pretty handily. That title is borderline unreadable, though. It took me at least ten seconds to piece it out.
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clockworkjoe posted:Upwind is a new fantasy RPG from Jeff Barber (designer of Blue Planet) and is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli/description I got a chance to demo this at GenCon and had a total blast, and I'm not typically a huge fan of this type of setting. The amount of game you can get through in a short period with the mechanics is really cool.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Interesting. Thanks gents. If Yugioh had been introduced as " hyper competitive pharoah possessing a boy to play any kind of game of chance" I would have to have checked it out back in the day. That is one of the better fictional premises I have ever heard. Actually the card game stuff was a totally different show/universe/whatever. In the original manga (where the card game takes up, I think, two issues) the game is 100% based on MtG, there's lands and stuff like that, and the rules aren't even really brought up that much at all. It was very popular so they started a second anime/comic spinoff that starred the same characters but was geared towards a younger audience (the original YuGiOh manga is pretty dark and clearly aimed at teenagers and young men, Yugi/Pharaoh murders countless people and does poo poo like burn people alive and electrocute them basically every issue) and that's what we got in America and what ended up being the most popular in Japan. There's actually two YGO animated series, one based on the manga and one based on the card game, the one based on the manga doesn't have Konami money and is pretty poo poo TBH. The original comic was much more in line with stuff like JoJo's Bizzare Adventure (it's basically drawn in a more marketable version of that manga style) or Persona crossed with gambling manga/tv/movies which were big in Asia in the 80's and 90's. It starts out being about stuff like card games, poker, slot cars, etc but quickly the games devolve into things like "fire maze" (who can escape a burning building the fastest and not die).
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Maybe we're thinking of different things but the yugioh manga directly involving the card game is in fact the same universe and continuity as the tons of games one. It's just that after volume 1 was done the guy's editor asked him to refocus the series given how popular the cardgame was.
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clockworkjoe posted:Upwind is a new fantasy RPG from Jeff Barber (designer of Blue Planet) and is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli/description That art is, I'm sorry to say, not doing it for me at all.  That dude on the bottom makes my head hurt just looking at them. Beyond superficial aesthetics there's the fact that I already own Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies and two versions of Inverse World and that this doesn't really seem to be bringing much new to the table in the "floating islands and airships and magic" genre, so I'm probably gonna pass. Sign me up for a new edition of Blue Planet though.
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Baron Snow posted:The Lazer Ryderz Kickstarter is live!
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Terrible Opinions posted:Maybe we're thinking of different things but the yugioh manga directly involving the card game is in fact the same universe and continuity as the tons of games one. It's just that after volume 1 was done the guy's editor asked him to refocus the series given how popular the cardgame was. I think the confusion was due to the original stuff and the card game stuff being released under different titles in America.
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The person behind the rather fantastic Dungeon Dozen blog is Kickstarting Operation Unfathomable, a gonzo weird OSR adventure/mini-campaign in a similar vein.
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Megazver posted:The person behind the rather fantastic Dungeon Dozen blog is Kickstarting Operation Unfathomable, an adventure/mini-campaign in a similar vein. This owns, backed. The art is killer.
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Kai Tave posted:That art is, I'm sorry to say, not doing it for me at all. Same here but my issue was cards based mechanics. I'm so tired of cards as a pseudo randomizer.
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Why keep it on one world? Take this poo poo Spelljammer style
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What do you guys think of this Era: The Consortium game? They seem to be putting stuff on Kickstarter a lot, and they certainly are supporting their product, but man, that's a lot of expansions that they may never get to do. Also, as much as I hate to admit it, I am increasingly liking the setting they seem to be creating the more I find out about it, but I don't know what I think of the mechanics.
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Adventurers is a poorly named rules light RPG that's almost funded. I picked up the base edition for free on Drive Thru RPG. It has a bunch of small setting books for 1$ to go with it. It's not bad, but it's not great either. The system's both really lightweight and universal and it just doesn't work for me. It has about as many rules as something like World of Dungeons, but the specificity that has allows it wo work and I just don't think this does. If you want a two page ruleset for pick up games though it doesn't look bad.
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Oh neat, I finally got my coupon code for the Dragon playbook for Fellowship. I kind of forgot I hadn't gotten that. Also the first supplement for the new Fate Core compliant version of Bulldogs! is out to backers (but not the general public yet so I can't link it). Gattaibushido is looking good, the latest update included some more art, both of the paper dolls (part of the 'fun stuff' package) and a bonus extra art piece from the artist who worked on Motobushido. I'm looking forward to this one.
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clockworkjoe posted:Upwind is a new fantasy RPG from Jeff Barber (designer of Blue Planet) and is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli/description I'll have to look at this. I ended up with all the Blue Planet 2e books back in like 2003 when my local game shop decided to give away their box of stuff that Would Never Sell, and while I've never run it, it was an interesting read.
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So yeah, I just got my package for Henchling (formerly known as Minion), and everything seems good from the outside, just gotta look in and see if all the cards are there (I know the expansion wasn't sent yet, so just looking for base game cards). It's been a long trip with those guys, I'm glad it's ending on a positive note. Funnily, even though it took this long, I find myself more likely to back a future project of theirs than another Mayday game.
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JazzFlight posted:I'm also worried about it truly supporting 2-player gameplay when a lot rides on player interaction and the way the lines stretch across the table. I finally got to talk to Anthony about 2 player games and he had this to say: Cardboard Fortress posted:We think 3 and 4 player is the best but we have given a lot of 2 player demos and still enjoyed it immensely. The trick is that there are only as many starting (black) goal pieces as there are players and you need to score 3 to win. So in a 2 player game there are only 2 to start and the third only appears once one is scored and since the new goal that gets thrown onto the table is thrown on not by the scorer this all amounts to a tight little back and forth knot of maneuvering.
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That game looks even worse than exploding kittens, and I didn't think that was possible.
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Does the Scion 2e kickstarter look safe or will it be the Ex3 KS 2.0?
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Covok posted:Does the Scion 2e kickstarter look safe or will it be the Ex3 KS 2.0? Scion 2e kickstarter is already looking loads better than the Ex3 one. They've had development diaries and publicly available playtest information for a while now (although not the full rules, enough to get a good sense of where things are going). They are also deliberately trying to be aware and sensitive of cultural issues, and are unlikely to have a Rape Ghosts 2: Loa Love controversy
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Kwyndig posted:That game looks even worse than exploding kittens, and I didn't think that was possible. It's gonna make a billion dollars.
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Kai Tave posted:It's gonna make a billion dollars. Oh, I have no doubts about that, because they have a loyal, if misguided, fanbase who will readily shell out for that crap; The art style is lazy, the premise is insulting and distasteful, and the mechanics are so simple a three year old could play (and would probably be the only one to actually have fun with it, more than once).
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