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Desiden posted:Also, what's the iceland thing? I must have missed that. I can't remember if Wields Rulebook (I think?) just happened to mention Far West first, or if it was one of those times where Skarka barged into a social justice conversation to be a big whiny straight white male at everyone and WR snarked about Far West. In any case, WR said something mean about Far West in some G+ thread. This constitutes a harassment campaign, so Skarka started implying legal repercussions and knowledge of WR's address, but he was just being a terrible internet detective and mouthing off. One of the places he "uncovered" was some farm or something in the middle of nowhere. At some point GMS sent some sort of legal bluster to some address, and this guy who wasn't WR who got it came to the G+ thread to tell everyone they were weird nerds and to please stop sending him bullshit. This is all on top of the fact that legally speaking there was absolutely no way anything would possibly happen in an international suit of US Citizen vs Snarky Internet Comments. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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That Old Tree posted:I can't remember if Wields Rulebook (I think?) just happened to mention Far West first, or if it was one of those times where Skarka barged into a social justice conversation to be a big whiny straight white male at everyone and WR snarked about Far West. In any case, WR said something mean about Far West in some G+ thread. This constitutes a harassment campaign, so Skarka started implying legal repercussions and knowledge of WR's address, but he was just being a terrible internet detective and mouthing off. One of the places he "uncovered" was some farm or something in the middle of nowhere. It was RulebookHeavily, yeah. GMS was trying to pull an internet toughguy thing and (as is often the case in these situations) it blew up in his face.
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Obligatory Is Far West Out Yet? The kickstarter was in 2011. It is the year 2017 and he is upset people are calling him late.
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1851 days? 1851 days! If you had a kid born at the same time as the ending of this kickstarter, they'd be entering school.
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In other news, there's another fantasy heist RPG kickstarting, although it looks a bit more lighthearted than Blades in the Dark. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:In other news, there's another fantasy heist RPG kickstarting, although it looks a bit more lighthearted than Blades in the Dark. On the one hand, I love fantasy thievery-centric games going all the way back to Thief: the Dark Project. On the other hand I have to say that Rodney Thompson's gameography is a bit more miss than hit as far as I'm concerned...his biggest pro is that he was lead designer for the 4E version of Dark Sun which was rad, but after that it's like D&D Next, Star Wars SAGA, Lords of Waterdeep, ehhhhhhh.
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I'm backing cuz my boy Spencer is in the preview vid. Not that he's a mark of a good gaming system as a long time Shadowrun/Pathfinder guy.
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I'm interested in how it plays, but not interested enough to watch an hour and a half long preview video. Does anyone have any insight into the system?
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I got an email for a Midgard update but I've never heard of it before.
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I got the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that since Kobold Press prints stuff for 13th age it's because of that.
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My copy of Apocalypse world 2nd edition arrived today! That makes it something like the 8th or 9th kickstarter I've pledged to, had fulfilled, and read since I pledged to Project: Dark.
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Tab Creations, makers of Against the Dark Yogi and Shadows over Sol, have a Kickstarter for their new game, Dime Adventures. I have really loved all their other games, so I may be up backing this, but I feel like the alternate early 20th century is fairly over done. That said, they do find ways to put creative spins on all their products.
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Hurrah! Dark is the Night got funded!
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I dunno if anyone saw that there's a Torchbearer expansion on KS. It's already funded and stuff but there's still time to get in on it if Torchbearer is your thing. I figured maybe everyone missed it, or that nobody actually wanted to play it, but then I thought hey wait we're always on about Far West and nobody actually wants that either.
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MollyMetroid posted:I dunno if anyone saw that there's a Torchbearer expansion on KS. It's already funded and stuff but there's still time to get in on it if Torchbearer is your thing. I figured maybe everyone missed it, or that nobody actually wanted to play it, but then I thought hey wait we're always on about Far West and nobody actually wants that either. Someone said that Torchbearer KS backers get the PDF of this for free. Is that true? Either way, I want the physical book, so I backed.
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unseenlibrarian posted:I got the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that since Kobold Press prints stuff for 13th age it's because of that. That's weird. I have backed previous Midgard Kickstarters, and I didn't get anything.
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In another amazing Far West update, even though this apparently happened: Evil Mastermind posted:I know I say this drat near every time, but GMS released the first eight or nine chapters to backers ages ago. The crunch was done. Yeah, it was lovely d20-with-aspects but they were done! And the setting was written by someone else so presumably that was done too. Now the reason for not releasing the manuscript at the end of the year was apparently because meanie backers would revenge pirate it if he did: Far West KS comments posted:On twitter GM Skarka defended himself against the accusation that his failure to release the manuscript was not just a case of him making a wrong statement but was a lie with this series of tweets (edited for readability): I really wonder how much of this is an actual ramification of the Trump Era. Having proven that blatantly lying will "work" (for a certain definition thereof) even in the face of objective evidence to the contrary, it may not just be the racists, plutocrats, and general idiots who are "emboldened" by the new regime. Desiden fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Yeah, I saw that the other day. Hey, Gareth? You know which games end up getting pirated? All of them. Stop acting like you're some singled-out victim!  As for this being a Trump Era thing...he's been pulling this poo poo for over five years now. But's never his fault. It's this guy's fault and that guy's fault and RPGNet's fault and that guy on Twitter's fault and so-and-so on G+'s fault and and and
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The list of board games I've missed out by a hair is getting infuriating. Gloomhaven, KDM, 7th continent, this war of mine, ... Never again, I will now subscribe to all the things
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Well, I'm pretty sure Gloomhaven is going to be available in stores. 7th Continent, on the other hand...
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Evil Mastermind posted:Well, I'm pretty sure Gloomhaven is going to be available in stores. Yarp.
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Saw that gloomhaven link (and gamesteward has TWOM) but the preorders that keep popping up are like 60% of that price. Coming from PC gaming world this scarcity is annoying!
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The Blades in the Dark backerkit is apparently going to be sent out tomorrow, so it looks like its on schedule to all be out and done by February or March!  Apparently John Harper is going to do something interesting with some backer rewards, too. It doesn't seem confidential, so I'll just quote it here: quote:Portraits and Custom Factions
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Jimbozig posted:Someone said that Torchbearer KS backers get the PDF of this for free. Is that true? Yes. They already sent out a link for the draft download.
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While I'm pretty happy I finally got my Gloomhaven pledge this week, the fact that it has stickers/legacy components and it'll cost me another 120$ to reset is a bit concerning. On the plus side, it's dense enough and has enough crap that I probably won't have to reset for a very long time. But hey, at least this kickstarter didn't whiff too bad.
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Was the legacy aspect something they had from the beginning, or was that added later? Does it have a non-legacy pay campaign or something?
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It was definitely there before the KS closed, don't know about from day1. You can play individual adventures as one-shots without the campaign stuff and not need the stickers. I'm thinking about laminating my character cards and using tape or something for the character upgrades. Maybe something similar w the board. That is, if I ever get people to commit to a campaign, let alone want to play it multiple times.
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I don't have my copy yet but I've been reading up on it. You put stickers on the map to represent new scenario areas you've discovered, and put tiny upgrade stickers on your player class abilities to power them up. The intention is all future players of that class benefit from your work, and future adventurers know where the dungeons are because you discovered them for all. I'm curious if there are enough stickers to max everything if your players keep playing the same classes from the same box over multiple campaigns.
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Gloomhaven Kickstarter Campaign Page posted:It's a grim but lucrative business being a mercenary out on the edge of civilization. You must explore the harsh wilderness and engage in deep tactical combat, where the decisions you make have an impact not only on your own character, but also the world around you. Kickstarter FAQ posted:I have more than one game group, so I'm not happy about the permanent elements. How can I play with multiple game groups? So yeah, the legacy elements were pretty much intended from the beginning.
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Gloomhaven arrived on my doorstop today and it's huge and amazing. A smaller subset of my group just started playing Risk Legacy, so I think Gloomhaven will sneak in right after we're done with that.
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Agrias120 posted:Gloomhaven arrived on my doorstop today and it's huge and amazing. A smaller subset of my group just started playing Risk Legacy, so I think Gloomhaven will sneak in right after we're done with that. It's hard to understate how enraged I am that the Australian copies are STILL sitting with the distributor a week later. I know it doesn't actually matter but at the same time I am all aboard the hype train.
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Radio Free Walrus posted:While I'm pretty happy I finally got my Gloomhaven pledge this week, the fact that it has stickers/legacy components and it'll cost me another 120$ to reset is a bit concerning. On the plus side, it's dense enough and has enough crap that I probably won't have to reset for a very long time. By reset do you mean buy a new copy? It seems like other than than the map none of the legacy elements would be very hard to reset.
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Please post non-spoiler pictures of your Gloomhaven sets! I live in Europe so I'll have to wait a while for my copy to arrive.
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The Moon Monster posted:By reset do you mean buy a new copy? It seems like other than than the map none of the legacy elements would be very hard to reset. Mainly the map w/ stickers was my big concern. With the character sheets something like lamination + marker would probably be sufficient, but I've had terrible experiences with adhesives recently - I became half adheisve when we were trying to do some ceiling painting. Lord Hypnostache posted:Please post non-spoiler pictures of your Gloomhaven sets! I live in Europe so I'll have to wait a while for my copy to arrive. I can post some up in the morning. I have to figure out which miniatures are actually 'spoiler', since you unlock some during play. I know the the necrothulu looking picture is unlocked later, but that's the only one I know for sure.
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Radio Free Walrus posted:Mainly the map w/ stickers was my big concern. With the character sheets something like lamination + marker would probably be sufficient, but I've had terrible experiences with adhesives recently - I became half adheisve when we were trying to do some ceiling painting. If the character is unlocked during play, the big box for that character is sealed with a red sticker.
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My copy of Gloomhaven, with reference 6-quart slow cooker: After I unboxed and punched out the 17 sheets of cardboard tokens and standees:  And understand that all the cards and character stuff is still in the box there and I couldn't get a great angle on it to show just how much of that there is. But...1700 cards and 17 character classes in total.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:It's hard to understate how enraged I am that the Australian copies are STILL sitting with the distributor a week later. I know it doesn't actually matter but at the same time I am all aboard the hype train. I got a delivery note from Aetherworks yesterday and I hope to get it tomorrow. "Working from home" from 3!
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