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Crackbone posted:There's multiple videos of it being played you can watch and decide for yourself. It looks like it has some interesting mechanics with the way damage works and the deckbuilder-inspired activation stuff. Yeah, the deckbuilder inspired activation is good. I like the dice mechanic for reducing the swinginess. The concerning mechanic to me is the potential slippery slope of damage reducing your other statistics. Because getting wounded degrades your offense and defence, and it's a small scale skirmish game, does that unduly emphasize alpha strikes and limit comebacks? The worrying element to me is that the demo game on the kickstarter is resolved by disregarding the objectives and trying to punch the other guys to death as hard as possible which would suggest the slippery slope thing may be an issue and detracts significantly from the tactical part of the game. The beasts of war let's play is a bit more interesting (win by objectives) but it's a strange and tactically unsound game so difficult to tell. But overall hard to tell and I've never played the game it's based on so curious on other people's opinion. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Nice looking solo/co-op card game called Legends Untold that still has Early Bird pricing for the next hour or so. It looks like it starts with the Caves set and they'll unlock a Sewers pack to add-on once they raise enough money. Could be a fun adventure game to campaign through with different packs.
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More Alas Vegas news! Apparently FFG has the rights to print 3rd Edition Baron Munchausen, and all Alas Vegas backer get first dibs at huge discount or free depending on their pledge level.
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Bad Squiddo is kickstarting some post-apocalyptic female minis that look pretty neat. Might be good for Rogue Stars or similar.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Squiddo is kickstarting some post-apocalyptic female minis that look pretty neat. Might be good for Rogue Stars or similar. I love their concept and philosophy, but I'm just not a fan of that 90s feel to their sculpting.
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I don't think I saw this posted, but there's a Keyper Special Edition Kickstarter, with custom meeples: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/555694524/keyper-character-edition?ref=thanks I know people like their bling and Keyflower is a BG thread favorite, although this seems less confrontational.
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Hey folks. Howard David Ingham (Chariot, Promethean, Vampire, Changeling, etc.) is currently running a KS for a collection of essays on history and myth. It looks good and I'm pretty sure there are TG goons into this 
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Ettin posted:Hey folks. Howard David Ingham (Chariot, Promethean, Vampire, Changeling, etc.) is currently running a KS for a collection of essays on history and myth. It looks good and I'm pretty sure there are TG goons into this Neat! Totally backed.
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Ettin posted:Hey folks. Howard David Ingham (Chariot, Promethean, Vampire, Changeling, etc.) is currently running a KS for a collection of essays on history and myth. It looks good and I'm pretty sure there are TG goons into this LeSquide posted:Neat! Totally backed. Same. Looks good!
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Mega Man Pixel Tactics is in its last 24 hours and completed all its stretch goals (they went from $10k/goal to $1k/goal), which basically amounts to 50% more content.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Squiddo is kickstarting some post-apocalyptic female minis that look pretty neat. Might be good for Rogue Stars or similar. My first thought was "Necromunda".
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A project for a second printing of Vast: The Crystal Cavern is going on, because it seems that Patrick Leder is getting screwed by PayPal not letting him access his funds that he'd allocated for a second printing. On the plus side, while the game itself isn't changing, he's taking the opportunity to make the rulebook clearer, add actual minis, and make a sixth role (The Ghost). If you have the original game it's only $10 to get the upgrade kit.
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Evil Mastermind posted:A project for a second printing of Vast: The Crystal Cavern is going on, because it seems that Patrick Leder is getting screwed by PayPal not letting him access his funds that he'd allocated for a second printing. As editor, I'll testify that we worked really hard to find and fix as many issues, edge cases, inconsistencies, etc. as possible. We also added a couple pages of foundational rules and glossary definitions in order to clean up and standardize a lot of the text on the player boards, hopefully eliminating many weird interactions from the start. It was difficult because Vast is a really interconnected game, and the rulebook is dense with information, but I think it's greatly improved.
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Has PayPal ever not been a massive steaming pile of poo poo? Because I can't ever remember a point when it wasn't.
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No, it's always been terrible. They had to dial it up when competition developed though.
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 quote:In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop.  This is by the same folks who did Mutant: Year Zero, and the beta document will be out for Christmas. The base setting is suburban Sweden, but they're close to unlocking a US-based campaign as a stretch goal.
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I'd like to plug my latest, The Sword of the Bastard Elf You might remember it from the thread last year. It's a choose your own adventure similar in some way to the old Fighting Fantasy books (though with different mechanics). Also it's funnier. This one also contains a light RPG for four players and a DM. The current version of the rules are available on the page but they'll change as I tighten them up over the next few months. I went to Kickstarter to get funding for production and have reached the target, now hoping to hit some stretch goals. I did a not-very-clever thing by launching a couple of days before Thanksgiving but it's still going well. Goal is to make it about 600 sections long and to have about 40 full-page illustrations. The book will fulfill through DriveThru when completed. Here's an example of the kind of illlustrating:  It'll be colourised if the first stretch goal is hit. Anyway please take a look if you're inclined. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twofistedfantasy/the-sword-of-the-bastard-elf-a-two-fisted-fantasy
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The art style for this is nice but yet another 'let's do a high school drama but this time it's in <situation!>' is a dealbreaker. World covered by mysterious otherworldly machines? ONLY CHILDREN MAY SOLVE THIS. Certainly nothing more interesting than high school can ever happen in an adult life.
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occamsnailfile posted:The art style for this is nice but yet another 'let's do a high school drama but this time it's in <situation!>' is a dealbreaker. World covered by mysterious otherworldly machines? ONLY CHILDREN MAY SOLVE THIS. Certainly nothing more interesting than high school can ever happen in an adult life. Thematically High School makes a good setting for these kinds of stories because of the inherent themes attached to the setting. High School in fiction is good at representing a microcosm of adulthood; you're thrust from childhood into a big new scary world where you have to quickly learn about how to think for yourself and define yourself as an individual and then finally graduation serves as this sort of defined terminal point by which everything needs to be solved or forever remain a mystery. The core of so many good mystery and supernatural tales is in the loss of innocence and highschool represents that. Meaning that in fiction it pairs well with these sorts of stories. Because you have individuals at different levels of shedding their childhood and gaining adulthood you have characters that are capable of the most important element of children in supernatural fiction: unwavering belief but also at the same time those characters are capable of things that are the realm of adults: sex, drugs, murder, real responsibility, and everything in between. A group of Highschool kids is innocent enough to investigate a mysterious tower that may be holding entrapped aliens when "real" adults would just pass it off as a new radio tower, but they are also capable of physically and mentally defeating the Men in Black who are holding a poor scared alien prisoner once they break in.
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Yeah. I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with stories and games with adult characters and themes, but there's nothing wrong with high school settings either.
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There might not inherently be anything wrong with it but high school is really overused as a setting for fiction in the modern day, the only other settings that come close are college and the justice system. It's default and safe in the same way Tolkein-esque fantasy is. There is plenty of artistic merit that can be drawn from both and it's plenty easy to justify yourself, but that doesn't change the fact that it is overused and it's fairly rare for anything new to be said about the themes inherent in the setting.
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I mean, yes, but isn't this clearly just Stranger Things, with the numbers filed off?
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Is high school really an overused RPG setting though? Like I'm pretty sure I could count the number of high school centric RPGs that even serious gamer nerds are likely to have heard of on one hand, meanwhile "fantasy RPG with elves and dwarves" is possibly in the hundreds.
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I just meant in genre fiction period not necessarily in RPGs, because changing mediums doesn't really do all that much to alleviate genre fatigue if the primary draw of the genre are its themes and supposed relate-ability.
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occamsnailfile posted:The art style for this is nice but yet another 'let's do a high school drama but this time it's in <situation!>' is a dealbreaker. World covered by mysterious otherworldly machines? ONLY CHILDREN MAY SOLVE THIS. Certainly nothing more interesting than high school can ever happen in an adult life. Were the children investigating the mysterious otherworldly machines refusing to get off your lawn?
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Leperflesh posted:I mean, yes, but isn't this clearly just Stranger Things, with the numbers filed off? It is. I'm surprised they didn't hold off launching until the second series starts though, the interest has died down quite a bit already
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Terrible Opinions posted:I just meant in genre fiction period not necessarily in RPGs, because changing mediums doesn't really do all that much to alleviate genre fatigue if the primary draw of the genre are its themes and supposed relate-ability. It's getting overused in RPGs. New superhero RPG? Let's make it stand out by being ALL TEENS, that is surely a new wrinkle! I had a longer response written out generally but basically 'let's just make it about teenagers' is often shorthand for 'we don't have any good ideas.' in various media. Stranger Things was good because it wasn't just teenagers operating in a vacuum under the noses of authority figures. The stuff Will's mother went through was much worse, and more affecting for playing on adult issues, and showing that human growth doesn't just stop at graduation.
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Alternatively: Simon Stalenhag has been putting out these amazing paintings depicting mostly kids interacting with alien stuff for way longer than Stranger Things has been around and the designers of the game went with that as their inspiration? I backed it as soon as it was posted because I've been in love with that art forever. I hope that they use this Silver State stuff for the American expansion, as the desert is just the natural place for weird alien happenings in America.
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Leperflesh posted:I mean, yes, but isn't this clearly just Stranger Things, with the numbers filed off? The first Tales from the Loop book came out in 2014 though.
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In case anyone hasn't noticed, everyone's "favorite" booby-miniature game, Kingdom Death: Monster is relaunching a KS and it's making money hand-over-fist. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poots/kingdom-death-monster-15 Way too rich for my blood and I don't think I'd be up for assembling miniatures.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:3.5 million in like one day? Nerds love their woman-debasing tit fetish porn minis. Though having said that, there's not so much of that on the campaign page yet
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JazzFlight posted:In case anyone hasn't noticed, everyone's "favorite" booby-miniature game, Kingdom Death: Monster is relaunching a KS and it's making money hand-over-fist. Ships in December of 2020 oh my sides
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Only $750 for the base game and all the expansions!  And the backer levels do mention pin-ups so yay, those are coming.
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occamsnailfile posted:It's getting overused in RPGs. Again, is it actually? Because this complaint seems pretty overblown to me. Okay, off the top of my head there's what, Masks, Monsterhearts, Breakfast Cult, the Buffy RPG that hasn't been in print for a while, um, Teenagers from Outer Space...like for real, have I been missing some massive high school RPG Renaissance that's been going on that I was unaware of?
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Cat Face Joe posted:Ships in December of 2020 oh my sides dont worry that's the delivery for the final expansion to your anime tit game. you'll only have to wait until ~Summer 2017 for the updated base game to get your arbitrary death sim up and running! occamsnailfile posted:It's getting overused in RPGs. New superhero RPG? Let's make it stand out by being ALL TEENS, that is surely a new wrinkle! I had a longer response written out generally but basically 'let's just make it about teenagers' is often shorthand for 'we don't have any good ideas.' in various media. Stranger Things was good because it wasn't just teenagers operating in a vacuum under the noses of authority figures. The stuff Will's mother went through was much worse, and more affecting for playing on adult issues, and showing that human growth doesn't just stop at graduation. i don't recall anyone ever doing a superhero game specifically designed for young avengers/(classic 80s) teen titans/new mutants antics before. it's an incredibly popular but basically untouched territory. throwing every type of "adventure but with teenagers!" into one broad statement and saying the "genre" is overused is dumb tho. Masks wouldn't play much at all like Bubblegumshoe outside of both having teenagers with teenage problems. that'd be like complaining about all the games starring adults with adult problems Terrible Opinions posted:There might not inherently be anything wrong with it but high school is really overused as a setting for fiction in the modern day, the only other settings that come close are college and the justice system. It's default and safe in the same way Tolkein-esque fantasy is. There is plenty of artistic merit that can be drawn from both and it's plenty easy to justify yourself, but that doesn't change the fact that it is overused and it's fairly rare for anything new to be said about the themes inherent in the setting. speaking of is there a good Law & Order rpg? because a game with both a police detective phase and a trial by jury phase sounds really fun.
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Nuns with Guns posted:speaking of is there a good Law & Order rpg? because a game with both a police detective phase and a trial by jury phase sounds really fun. Somebody loving make this please.
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Nuns with Guns posted:
No there is not. Outside of some kind of fantasy setting where detectives are also lawyers you'd need two characters per player or people would be sitting out on a lot of the action, as well. I think GURPS Cops had info on doing L&O style games, but I don't remember where I put my copy so I can't say how useful it would be outside of GURPS.
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