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Ashcans posted:That's not great, but it seems to be a pretty common failing to want to include a thousand different weapons that aren't really that different, doesn't surprise me that a campaign-style game falls into the trap as well. How is the gameplay overall? I wasn't super excited that it's a 1d10 format, I would really rather people use a 2dX format so that you actually have some sort of distribution to work with and things aren't so swingy. Haven't been able to play it yet, just reading through when I can. The XP system is slow and I wish it was a pooled system. It actually seems like buying more experienced members with higher stats until you hit the limit is a much better way of doing things. This could be intentional to limit snowballing via XP, but it does place more emphasis on being lucky selling loot. In that I'd say it's actually worse since the opponent has no say in the matter. You're better off using XP for traits than straight stat boosts. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 19:40 on May 12, 2017 |
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here is dog wearing scarf 
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Atlas Hugged posted:I kind of wonder if some of these companies shouldn't have a cap on their Kickstarter goals. Like once it hits a certain value it's locked in as "funded", people are charged, and it's treated as if the timer ran out. I know Mantic has attempted to control Kickstarters by limiting everyone to only pledging for a core box with whatever stretch goals are unlocked, but every other Kickstarter lets people add on tons of extras and pick and choose the composition of their order and when you're dealing with product valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and you're a ten man team it's going to be a disaster. The folks who made 2 booms and a room had a pretty decent kickstar model like this for the expansion. They'd finished developing the product, had no milestones or stretchgoals it was just "Yo, we need funding to actually produce this. Kickstart to get it a little earlier than retail, oh and you can also buy in a bundle at a discount." Slugfest -while still sticking to the worst parts of kickstart excess/bloat also started throwing in reduced packaging KS purchases as a cool idea. So you can buy it a bit cheaper/save everyone some money but it's not quite as much of direct competition with future retail. edit: Also was the making GBS threads up in the dead thread just folks from the gw threads saying 'heh how do YOU like it when I derail your thread?!?!" or has the environment actually changed in the past few months and it's actually considered good and cool to discuss poo poo games being bad and their publishers terrible in their threads? Last I checked folks hated it and just wanted to discuss builds, the meta, and share pictures of painted minis. Coolness Averted fucked around with this message at 19:58 on May 12, 2017 |
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Exclusive pics of Moolas actual dog Coolness Averted posted:edit: Also was the making GBS threads up in the dead thread just folks from the gw threads saying 'heh how do YOU like it when I derail your thread?!?!" or has the environment actually changed in the past few months and it's actually considered good and cool to discuss poo poo games being bad and their publishers terrible in their threads? Last I checked folks hated it and just wanted to discuss builds, the meta, and share pictures of painted minis. It's always shitposting turtles all the way down Unless it's pics of animals those are cool and good Its Rinaldo fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 12, 2017 |
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 This is Chewie. She's a good dog. i dont know how to load pictures. still a good dog
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Coolness Averted posted:edit: Also was the making GBS threads up in the dead thread just folks from the gw threads saying 'heh how do YOU like it when I derail your thread?!?!" or has the environment actually changed in the past few months and it's actually considered good and cool to discuss poo poo games being bad and their publishers terrible in their threads? Last I checked folks hated it and just wanted to discuss builds, the meta, and share pictures of painted minis. Depends on the thread. If you went into the Mantic thread and said how terrible they were, the posters there would reply, "Yes, and?" But you might not get that reception in the Specialist Games thread. Usually when a discussion goes on too long they say, "Take it to the Death Thread," or something.
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try posting about stuff you dont like in the 40gay thread and see what happens
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Moola posted:try posting about stuff you dont like in the 40gay thread and see what happens 
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Atlas Hugged posted:Depends on the thread. If you went into the Mantic thread and said how terrible they were, the posters there would reply, "Yes, and?" But you might not get that reception in the Specialist Games thread. Usually when a discussion goes on too long they say, "Take it to the Death Thread," or something. "take it out to the trash"
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omnibobb posted:
 Make sure you get the .jpg in there, just linking to the album won't work. Safety Factor posted:An honest discussion? Pretty much, unless you start wailing about how everything is bad forever based on a single stat in a single statline of a preview that's missing any rules context. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 12, 2017 |
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Safety Factor posted:An honest discussion? probs yeah
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I mean I don't know if I could go in there and say that I wish the entire To Wound step wasn't in 40k, but a) that's never going away and b) that isn't exactly a good starting point for discussion anyway. So I just shitpost in here instead.
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Bad Moon posted:Exclusive pics of Moolas actual dog Superlative dog/dog skeleton.
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Moola posted:here is dog wearing scarf
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The Deleter posted:I mean I don't know if I could go in there and say that I wish the entire To Wound step wasn't in 40k, but a) that's never going away and b) that isn't exactly a good starting point for discussion anyway. So I just shitpost in here instead. If people were honest, they'd earnestly discuss that. Even if it isn't going away, it's easy to poo poo on it for being terrible and everyone should do it. We shitpost about how terrible resource variance and the mana system is all the time in the MTG thread. We talk about how other games have improved upon it in the past two decades, including Garfield himself.
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post anywhere and everywhere
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We should repost the incredible possum/gundam crossover everywhere. The near guy faces are so perfect for it
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I still haven't found my Beargguy.
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Moola posted:post anywhere and everywhere 
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these are extremely good boys being posted itt
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It looks like Palladium have canceled their Rifts miniature board game Kickstarter after only a couple of days. I thought for sure if they struggled onward they could hit their $100,000 goal. They were only $33,000~ shy. But my guess is that like a lot of Kickstarters they low-balled what they needed and were planning on making up the difference in the "stretch goals". In any case, they promised to take some of the suggestions of their backers on board, retool, and come back stronger! Of course, most of those suggestions were to finish releasing the rewards for the Robotech miniature game, but he didn't consider those to be genuine backers because they had only pledged a few dollars. Ideally the real lesson learned here is that people aren't willing to write a blank check to Kevin Siembieda.
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Atlas Hugged posted:It looks like Palladium have canceled their Rifts miniature board game Kickstarter after only a couple of days. I thought for sure if they struggled onward they could hit their $100,000 goal. They were only $33,000~ shy. But my guess is that like a lot of Kickstarters they low-balled what they needed and were planning on making up the difference in the "stretch goals". In any case, they promised to take some of the suggestions of their backers on board, retool, and come back stronger! ah yes, i have an unfulfilled kickstarter pledge from your previous campaign which ended four years ago, i will be pledging eighty united states dollars to your current campaign in order to ask you whether or not my previous pledge will ever be fulfilled, thank you for your time
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What the gently caress, dude? When did you steal my dog? Oh, wait, mine has one ear that's a little floppy.
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So on balance, it would appear that 8th Ed. 40k isn't a total poo poo-show and might be worth playing (albeit with miniatures from our collections and/or eBay) ? All this talk of it has got me thinking of my old space marines and playing a 2nd-ed size game (that is , 2-3 squads, a character, a vehicle). I could of course just bust out the 2nd Ed. or RT rules, but in the interest of open mindedness...
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I still say that's exactly what Firefight is for. Hopefully I'll get in a game tomorrow finally to really see how it plays.
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The Mantic game? I've gone deep with Kings of War so it's not out of the question...
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Dog posting, my Frostgrave wizard confronting the elusive and powerful Giant Mountain Dug
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Heres my pup next to my prized skull champ cup
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Our club started playing a lot of Beyond the Gates of Antares. Warlord is still in the process of making models for their entire range, but so far it is a cool and good game. If you want to play a sci-fi skirmish game I recommend it highly. Our resident 30k player rages about Antares because rules questions get answered by the writer on Facebook (usually quite rapidly) in between FAQ releases. Somehow this is bad.
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We do something similar with our dog except we reverse Pavlov'd it where she goes to the door and rings a bell and then we take her out to go potty
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Hixson posted:Heres my pup next to my prized skull champ cup good dgo
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Bad Moon posted:We do something similar with our dog except we reverse Pavlov'd it where she goes to the door and rings a bell and then we take her out to go potty this cute
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I go away for a week and abit ND come back to this?Bad Moon posted:My Fat Yuan Yuan's came yesterday and I was really sad I couldn't post the cool rear end packaging they came in cuz I thought the Death Thread died but it lives again! Hixson posted:Heres my pup next to my prized skull champ cup Vitamin P posted:Dog posting, my Frostgrave wizard confronting the elusive and powerful Giant Mountain Dug Keep on being beautiful death thread.
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http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2016/05/05/nerds-named-and-shamed-in-latest-internet-hack/
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Ashcans posted:That's not great, but it seems to be a pretty common failing to want to include a thousand different weapons that aren't really that different, doesn't surprise me that a campaign-style game falls into the trap as well. How is the gameplay overall? I wasn't super excited that it's a 1d10 format, I would really rather people use a 2dX format so that you actually have some sort of distribution to work with and things aren't so swingy. In the one game I played, things mostly didn't feel swingy. Sometimes an attack would be a blowout, but it didn't happen often and it felt ok in a small scale game that moves pretty fast. It certainly feels less swingy than Frostgrave. Particularly since it is fairly common for both players to be rolling multiple dice. The two stage damage process also seems to help feel less swingy (compared to Frostgrave). Usually an armoured defender has the advantage on the damage roll unless the attacker did really well on the hit roll (because the damage rating of weapons is lower than armour+CON of the defender), so the attack roll has to go really well before the defender has no hope of avoiding getting taken out. There are probably too many weapon profiles, but since the bulk of them are 'scarce' or 'artifacts' you won't have a lot of them and I think the list of regular weapons is at least small enough, and each weapon has a clear enough intended role, that it isn't as bad as it could be. Anyways, I mostly just posted so I could contribute dogs. 
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Crossposting from the sIgmar threadPawl posted:Somebody put stormcast through a phone app
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