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Do you love 5e? Do you miss 3rd party splat book bloat? Do you want to back a project from a creator who's chronically late? Boy, do I have the Kickstarter for you! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/a-touch-of-class-7-new-classes-for-5th-edition Already 4,400% funded!
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# ? May 15, 2024 01:08 |
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dwarf74 posted:Do you love 5e? Do you miss 3rd party splat book bloat? Do you want to back a project from a creator who's chronically late? I'm pretty sure we established ages ago that all that matters is that there's content being made for D&D. The quality of the content is irrelevant.
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Ropes4u posted:Let me know how it plays I missed the KS and plan to order it. It's pretty fun. Feels sorta like a mixture of Scrabble and Yahtzee. The last couple of rounds really make you think about your final moves.
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dwarf74 posted:Do you love 5e? Do you miss 3rd party splat book bloat? Do you want to back a project from a creator who's chronically late? Late shouldn't be an issue for this, apparently. It's just a compilation of stuff ENWorld has already published; they say the PDF goes out immediately and printing starts at the same time. Looks like Morrus has learned something.
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dwarf74 posted:Do you love 5e? Do you miss 3rd party splat book bloat? Do you want to back a project from a creator who's chronically late? ![]() "Yeah, I know the name says 'walker' and I'm on my rear end, but... y'know... it's just a name, man..."
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm pretty sure we established ages ago that all that matters is that there's content being made for D&D. The quality of the content is irrelevant. The quality of D&D is also irrelevant.
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Lemon-Lime posted:The quality of D&D is also irrelevant. Sadly true.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:It's pretty fun. Feels sorta like a mixture of Scrabble and Yahtzee. The last couple of rounds really make you think about your final moves. Worth while purchase then?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:
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Ash Law has finally pulled the plug on The Reliquary for 13th Age after 4.5 years. There's a really long backer-only post explaining the situation but it's the exact same story as every failed kickstarter and you already know what happened, even if you've never heard of this project before.
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What's really maddening about that is that they did actually manage to finish the book; the PDF was released like a year ago. The problem was that the book wasn't usable at the table because it was deliberately written with the entries in no kind of order and with no table of contents or index. It was supposed to be "traversed" or some horseshit. Which is fine for a coffee table book but not for RPG reference material. I mean, at least Ash is fessing up, and it sucks that he got stuck holding the bag, but given that the guy who's got the money seems to have vanished, this is me not holdin' my breath on getting my $25 back. e: going back to look, the PDF was released back in July. They were going to "fix it" when everyone pointed out that the book was pretty useless as-is. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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If you want to read the update, Ash copied it as a public G+ post: https://plus.google.com/+ASHLAW/posts/dprCVHRtTNC
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Ropes4u posted:Worth while purchase then? Yes. Games that I can play with my family as well as my friends are always a definite purchase for me.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Ash Law has finally pulled the plug on The Reliquary for 13th Age after 4.5 years. There's a really long backer-only post explaining the situation but it's the exact same story as every failed kickstarter and you already know what happened, even if you've never heard of this project before. What I'm learning is if you're running a Kickstarter and one guy is promising everything is on schedule but can't get you proof for more than, say, a week....fire his rear end.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What I'm learning is if you're running a Kickstarter and one guy is promising everything is on schedule but can't get you proof for more than, say, a week....fire his rear end. Also if you're going to be doing all the writing for a Kickstarter and someone else is handling the fulfillment, HOLY poo poo DO NOT pay them $1000 for the privelege. Really, you should get your share of the money as soon as you turn your text in, but my god that looks like it was a shady arrangement.
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TBH the big mistake looks like ASH LAW going hey "you're good at Kickstarter fulfillment, wanna do mine" before the guy's other Kickstarter still hadn't actually been fulfilled (and unsurprisingly still hasn't been.)
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Flavivirus posted:Also if you're going to be doing all the writing for a Kickstarter and someone else is handling the fulfillment, HOLY poo poo DO NOT pay them $1000 for the privelege. Really, you should get your share of the money as soon as you turn your text in, but my god that looks like it was a shady arrangement. Ideally nobody gets money until they deliver. You make an exception for fulfillment BUT you don't pay some guy, instead you hire a real fulfillment house.
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Blades in the Dark update tl;dr: Standard books are estimated to start shipping at the end of the month, special editions a week or two later.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What I'm learning is if you're running a Kickstarter and one guy is promising everything is on schedule but can't get you proof for more than, say, a week....fire his rear end. Don't give money without a contract and a mailing address for the other guy.
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I've been sore at The Reliquary ever since backing it at the 'make your own artifact' level and never hearing a peep about consulting on making my artifact, despite multiple inquiries. Eventually I started hearing the book was basically done and figured I'd just been blown off.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Blades in the Dark update Awesome, thanks for this. I'm not a backer but I've got a preorder in at CSI.
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palecur posted:I've been sore at The Reliquary ever since backing it at the 'make your own artifact' level and never hearing a peep about consulting on making my artifact, despite multiple inquiries. Eventually I started hearing the book was basically done and figured I'd just been blown off. You would be well within your rights to demand a refund of the difference between the level you backed and whatever you actually get.
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Speaking of The Reliquary, there's a new update from Chris McFann (the guy who was apparently in charge) and the blame shifting has begun.
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Evil Mastermind posted:If you want to read the update, Ash copied it as a public G+ post: https://plus.google.com/+ASHLAW/posts/dprCVHRtTNC So, wait, based on the end there... the years-old project that impressed Ash enough to hire his fulfillment guy also never saw print fulfillment? What a shocker! Antivehicular fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Apr 15, 2017 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Speaking of The Reliquary, there's a new update from Chris McFann (the guy who was apparently in charge) and the blame shifting has begun. Haha, what did he say to shift it back? Seems like the guy that cant get his own several years late kickstarter released probably does not have good arguments to shift the blame back.
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Pash posted:Haha, what did he say to shift it back? Seems like the guy that cant get his own several years late kickstarter released probably does not have good arguments to shift the blame back. It's a lot of "yeah I screwed up this and this and that but Ash did that and that". The best part of the update is the first line: quote:Well this isn't how I expected to spend my birthday.
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Leperflesh posted:You would be well within your rights to demand a refund of the difference between the level you backed and whatever you actually get. I got a PDF, and I don't expect to see anything else, so I guess I'll check what the PDF level cost.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's a lot of "yeah I screwed up this and this and that but Ash did that and that". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjcrmE7XRtI
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Mega Man Pixel Tactics has started shipping; a full 2 months ahead of schedule. Always nice to see a project beat it's own projections.
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Good afternoon, Friend Computer. I got my copy of Paranoia in the mail today and I found out I actually had access to the PDFs since last August. I am reporting to you that I am not happy but due to the fact that unhappiness does not actually seem to be treasonous in the new edition (and in fact there are really no rules for treason outside of "you have five GTA-style stars and treason starts get handed out at debriefing missions, probably") I feel like my confession is pointless. Please do not invest in the new edition. Please just continue paying XP. I have many thoughts but my thoughts are this:
Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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Now here's the tough question: is it better or worse than Paranoia 5th Edition? It doesn't exist, mind you, but would it before better than that hypothetical trainwreck of an edition?
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Having only heard hearsay about possible treasonous material, I have no idea. Shtick aside, I have never laid eyes on 5 and I could not possibly compare them. This feels like a retooling of mechanics and setting and only half completing both of them, leaving a lot of hollow space and hollow mechanics that don't really come together. As far as I can tell, it at least is capable of theoretically running, but I can't confirm whether or not it will actually be fun. If it's not worse than 5, it's certainly the second-worst Paranoia product out there and I legitimately could not endorse its purchase one way or another.
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Hostile V posted:As far as I can tell, it at least is capable of theoretically running, but I can't confirm whether or not it will actually be fun.
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So basically they delivered everything they promised, a new edition of Paranoia that doesn't actually get what makes the previous editions of the game fun.
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Lucky for us, this Paranoia-inspired Lasers and Feeling hack was posted on Reddit a few days ago: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ME5SdLoG8tn3UmaY4cEl23tjrcyK8cslUNrudEgQbfg/edit Looks like it does a great job of capturing the feel of Paranoia while actually being, you know, playable.
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gourdcaptain posted:Now here's the tough question: is it better or worse than Paranoia 5th Edition? It doesn't exist, mind you, but would it before better than that hypothetical trainwreck of an edition? Is there an F&F of [redacted] edition? It was the first edition I encountered, and it was long enough ago that I can't recall what was wrong with it, thanks to Friend Computer's mandatory brainscrubs. Jimmeeee posted:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ME5SdLoG8tn3UmaY4cEl23tjrcyK8cslUNrudEgQbfg/edit My only complaint with this is that it ditches the conceit that players are supposed to pretend they don't know that everyone has a secret society and mutant power. DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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Further thoughts and then I'm done ruminating on these failures and differences:
I think the thing that ultimately explains the major differences between this and the previous edition is as follows: rules for laser guns. OTHER PARANOIA EDITIONS: You get a laser pistol. It shoots colors depending on the barrels attached. You get six safe shots off that barrel before the barrel cracks and then you have to deal with a risk/reward malfunction system where every further shot risks the gun exploding and killing you. If you have a Yellow barrel, you can paint it Red and lie about its clearance. Red paint can be bought at the IR Market and so can more Red Barrels because PLC keeps declining your requests. The Computer makes Troubleshooters go to Troubleshooter school so they have a minimum competency, so in XP you get a free +4 boost to your Energy Weapons skill. KICKSTARTER PARANOIA: You get a laser pistol. It runs on battery packs. It will only shoot the color of the entire gun. The battery packs charge off wall sockets and run out of juice on failures or whenever it's funny or dramatic. There are no prices for higher clearance guns. If you want new battery packs, you buy them directly from the Computer. There are no rules for disguising a higher clearance gun as a lower clearance gun. There are no rules for the gun jamming or exploding outside of rare cards. There are no rules for being sneaky with your gun outside of certain cards. There are no rules for the IR Market. You don't get any education on how to use your new gun; your ability to use your gun depends on your Guns skill which is either what you set it to be or the person next to you made it be a negative score. If you want to be better at Guns from character creation, permanently sacrifice Moxie points which lowers you ability to fudge rolls and limits your Sanity meter. If you don't do that, you have to spend XP later which is also your money. Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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A Kickstarter for a new miniatures game, The Drowned Earth, is up. It looks cool, an interesting idea, and a cool take on the bloat of post-apocalyptic miniatures games.
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Remind me again what was so wrong with Paranoia XP that we needed a new edition that hosed everything up?
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# ? May 15, 2024 01:08 |
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Hostile V posted:I think the thing that ultimately explains the major differences between this and the previous edition is as follows: rules for laser guns. Hmm, I thought that was a subtle but incredibly poorly thought out joke about Mass Effect. My takeaway moment that this edition probably doesn't 'get it' is that they removed Communists.
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