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Golden Sky Stories is the Deal of the Day on DriveThruRPG, so today only you can get the PDF for $4. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118784/Golden-Sky-Stories
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Aaaaand because the RNG involved in picking the Deal of the Day decided to be hilarious, Kagegami High is today's Deal of the Day, also $4. It's weeaboo Welcome to Night Vale by way of a Maid RPG variant. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/206207/Kagegami-High
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Ewen, are you paying them to do this? Because Maid is now the deal of the day.
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Comixology is having a big sale on D&D comics, including each volume of John Roger's excellent "Fell's Five" series for $5 and all the old Forgotten Realms comics from the 80's for $7 per volume.
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Covok posted:Ewen, are you paying them to do this? Because Maid is now the deal of the day.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Comixology is having a big sale on D&D comics, including each volume of John Roger's excellent "Fell's Five" series for $5 and all the old Forgotten Realms comics from the 80's for $7 per volume. Love Fell's Five. Anything else worthwhile there? Not familiar with anything else
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Fell's Five is definitely the best series there. Seriously, for those of you who haven't read or don't own them, the books are well worth the $5 sale price. It's the best D&D comic ever printed, and it's a drat tragedy that the series was cancelled. Of those that I've read at least some of, the Dark Sun volume was my second favorite — although part of that was the old school white border panel layout, which doesn't translate as well to digital (or glossy pages, for that matter). I haven't read it in a while, but from what I remember, the ending wasn't all that great. It's probably a distant second-ish, if Rogers' series is your benchmark. Cutter & the other Salvatore books are genre fiction, so you'll likely feel the same about them as you do the books that the characters come from. From the sole issue of Forgotten Realms I read, I'm of the impression that comic books are not the correct medium for Ed Greenwood. If you're a fan of the Realms, your opinion may differ. I can't speak to any of the Classics. The Eberron books appear to be contenders for inclusion in the Good D&D Comics category, but I'm not as familiar with them as I am Fell's Five. Do take note that the collected volume includes the relevant single issues on sale (The 2012 Annual & Infestation). Jim Zub, the writer behind Skullkickers, also writes the newest series — which utilizes characters from Baldur's Gate. I haven't read any of these, but they're likely better than a lot of the other stuff on sale that hasn't already been recommended. Sampling Skullkickers will give you a better idea of if you'll enjoy these books. Auralsaurus Flex fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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The Classics really aren't terribly great. It's Forgotten Realms stuff from a time period that straddles the Time of Troubles, and set largely in Waterdeep. The Forgotten Realms titled comic is an offshoot.
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Bieeardo posted:The Classics really aren't terribly great. It's Forgotten Realms stuff from a time period that straddles the Time of Troubles, and set largely in Waterdeep. The Forgotten Realms titled comic is an offshoot. The comic isn't great, but it does have Vajra Valmeyjar as the lead character who is really quite a cool character and a fairly atypical representation of the D&D fighter.
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This is true. I don't think it speaks well of me that I managed to forget about her amid Dwarf the Dwarf, the extra-magical elf, not-Callahan the bartender and an entire story arc about a Monty Python sketch.
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The Forgotten Realms comics are better than Classics, mainly because the writing isn't trying to be Serious Talking Fantasy and lets everyone have personalities with more than one aspect.
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I still have paper copies of the full runs of the AD&D comics, the Forgotten Realms comics, and the short-lived Spelljammer comics. All bought new, back when they were released. I was sure they'd be valuable someday. I was ... wrong. And yeah, they are simple, enjoyable fluff. Very uneven, but that's to be expected. I enjoyed revisiting them a few years back.
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I have very fond memories of playing in a T20 campaign, but I wouldn't ever recommend it to anyone (just use Mongoose Traveller; it does the same poo poo but is way less fiddly/D20).
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The new Bundle of Holding is Champions 4e in two bundles. All of it. Apparently a lot of this stuff hasn't been available as PDFs until now.
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Evil Mastermind posted:The new Bundle of Holding is Champions 4e in two bundles. All of it. Apparently a lot of this stuff hasn't been available as PDFs until now. Are either of those worth getting? I've heard the name Champions, but don't know a lot about it.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't this the bullet stopping book? Technically it was Hero System that did, and I'd believe it.
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Agent Rush posted:Are either of those worth getting? I've heard the name Champions, but don't know a lot about it. Champions itself is a really crunchy system where you can do some pretty fun stuff with hero building but combat routinely took us 6+ hours to resolve. The setting doesn't seem like anything special to me and that's like 95% of what you're getting in those bundles.
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Long time Champions fan here and I'm really glad to have digital copies of these books. Although I'm running two 6E Champions game, I wouldn't mind running a short-term 4E game for new bloods and nostalgia. As for combat, IME it can go pretty zippy if the GM sets the campaign parameters right.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't this the bullet stopping book? That was Hero System 5e, which was kind of bloated compared to 4e. There are a lot of people who prefer the relatively simpler Hero 4e over the much crunchier 5e/6e systems.
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People rag on Hero system combats taking forever, but that's not true. GURPS combat I always found to take longer. The OCV/DCV/ECV system is really fast and damage calculation is easy if you can add and subtract. The speed chart is the trickiest thing really and even it gets fast.code:
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I mean, you may have managed to get it down faster but it was literally always a whole session, 4-6 hour affair for us. 
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I'm sorry Humbug but that chart looks like nonsense to me and "I never had problems with it" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of a combat system that is infamous for being fiddly and complicated. Also you can run GURPS combat with three rolls: attack; active defense; if hit damage, with all the numbers being easily accessed as they're just precalculated. You can also turn GURPS into a nightmare of realism if you want, but the core combat system is three rolls and all derived values are determined during character creation. I've never heard anybody say the same thing of Hero System, it's always "well my group never had problems" or "combat only took us thirty minutes" or, like now "here's this obtuse chart that's the hardest part but it's really simple guys".
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I've played with experienced Champions players who "solved" the combat speed issue by dividing sessions into roleplay sessions and combat sessions. 
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Kwyndig posted:I'm sorry Humbug but that chart looks like nonsense to me and "I never had problems with it" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of a combat system that is infamous for being fiddly and complicated. That chart boils down to; Do I go on this phase? Yes/No If yes do stuff. Attack is one roll modified by attacker's offense and target's defense. Damage is just d6s. Armor is subtracted from damage. It looks complex as gently caress, but it's really not. I find the system way faster than GURPS for example. I
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:People rag on Hero system combats taking forever, but that's not true. GURPS combat I always found to take longer. The OCV/DCV/ECV system is really fast and damage calculation is easy if you can add and subtract. The speed chart is the trickiest thing really and even it gets fast. extremely host voice: doesn't look like anything to me
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This week's Humble Book Bundle is a Brandon Sanderson collection, including Crafty Games' Mistborn RPG and two supplements: the core rulebook is in the $1 tier, and the Player's Guide and Campaign Setting are at the higher levels.
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13th Age BoH today. Best the average to get like everything ever published.
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Kwyndig posted:Technically it was Hero System that did, and I'd believe it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Wmj46S5qo They concluded that despite its thickness it was a poor defense against anything larger than a non-magnum .22, but excellent against a bayonet.
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Speaking of Bundle of Holding, they also have a Fading Sun 2nd Edition Bundle up now. Is it any good? It looks interesting enough.
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Fading Suns is another of those 90s era great setting tied to unfortunate system games. Worth it if you want to mine for pseudo-Dune sci-fantasy stuff.
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And the current Bundle of Holding has Shadow of the Demon Lord in it!
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Ooh, that is a really solid collection, especially with the bonus tier stuff.
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Foglet posted:And the current Bundle of Holding has Shadow of the Demon Lord in it! e: Sorry, 13th Age. I might check back on you later. I've been interested in this one for a while now.
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Shadow of the Demon Lord is fantastic and you should give it a shot.
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Foglet posted:And the current Bundle of Holding has Shadow of the Demon Lord in it! Sold! SOTDL is cool and good.
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Holy gently caress how are there 120+ supplements for this game. Also, they normally add titles to sweeten the deal, no?
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dwarf74 posted:Holy gently caress how are there 120+ supplements for this game. And yes, they'll often add stuff after launch, but when they do you get it automatically if you've backed at the appropriate tier.
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