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bandaid.friend posted:I'm looking at this game Oh man I didn't know they were doing a physical version of Hand of Fate. It's not surprising, though.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh man I didn't know they were doing a physical version of Hand of Fate. It's not surprising, though. Was thinking about it, but I can't afford it after AEGIS and the Roll Player expansion.
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lol the lovely rng screw in hand of fate and most roguelikes is so completely not suited to being an actual physical boardgame.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Was thinking about it, but I can't afford it after AEGIS and the Roll Player expansion. I was not aware there was a Roll Player expansion! Backed the hell out of that. Also looking really hard at Hand of Fate.
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Cortex Prime seems to have turned into quite a bargain, with 18 hours to go. The unlocked settings are really interesting, making the $10 pledge a steal.
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dwarf74 posted:Cortex Prime seems to have turned into quite a bargain, with 18 hours to go. The unlocked settings are really interesting, making the $10 pledge a steal. goddamn you weren't lying. There's some genuinely neat concepts here. I'm kinda meh on the system itself but I'm seeing some ideas I bet my group would like regardless, totally worth ten bucks for a toolkit.
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Cthuldu Dark is having a Kickstarter. I have to say I'm surprised, I like CD but always thought it was pretty well self-contained. I didn't expect to see it expanded out in a book. If you're unfamiliar it is a rules light ruleset for Lovecraftian horror stories who are probably going to die horribly or go insane. The whole system takes about 2 pages, and the book will be 200 to include settings and tips on writing mysteries etc. It's already funded,
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May 29, 2017 19:23
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There's a reprint of Deep Space
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Yeah, Deep Space D-6 is a really fun game. Lots of replayability, and a good balance of die allocation and risk balancing.
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Impermanent posted:lol the lovely rng screw in hand of fate and most roguelikes is so completely not suited to being an actual physical boardgame. They should really take something from rogue-like racing/Zelda-randomizer racing. In those cases, the randomizers uses a seed so every racer has the exact same random spawns. It could even function as a catch-up mechanism, giving players that are behind more information about future purchases.
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I see a lot of situations in which video game developers think it's easy to develop a board game/card game even though they don't know anything about recent development in the market. So you end up with them putting stuff that would be perfectly acceptable in a video game, like quite a bit of RNG and unpredictability, and predictably it ends up being a gently caress load of dice that are chosen as the resolution mechanism, usually with X+ to hit systems. Although fans of the videogame will usually still eat that stuff up.
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Looks like X-Case isn't gonna make it, barring a miracle. Pity. I saw the cases at ReaperCon, and they seemed pretty good. They say they're going to try again, hopefully starting with a decent amount of momentum from the backers this time around. I didn't really hear much about them anywhere, so that might be a big factor in their lack of success.
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May 30, 2017 07:35
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Anyone hear/have opinions about Card City XL? It's nearing it's final hours.
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Agent Rush posted:Anyone hear/have opinions about Card City XL? It's nearing it's final hours. It looks like Machi Koro had an illicit affair with Cities: Skylines.
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Agent Rush posted:Anyone hear/have opinions about Card City XL? It's nearing it's final hours. I'm on the fence. We have tile laying games covered with Carcassonne and I'm not sure I need another. The draw and split function could be a killer for anyone who is AP..
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bandaid.friend posted:I'm looking at this game I'm on the fence about this. It looks.. market row deckbuilder-y? However.. a coop deckbuild that is good looks cool?
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High Plains Samurai started today. HPS is a western/kung-fu mashup that's probably going to suffer from Far West comparisons, except: 1) The game's already written, with the alpha version available for free. 2) It doesn't use the d20 system, and is instead more narrative. 3) Is only $5 US for the PDF, $9 if you want the PDF stretch goals too. I haven't had a chance to really dig into the system, but the setting stuff I did read was well done, so it'll be interesting to see how this does. I really want these guys to get this out just to see GMS's reaction.
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Evil Mastermind posted:High Plains Samurai started today. HPS is a western/kung-fu mashup that's probably going to suffer from Far West comparisons, except: There are just one too many keywords in the setting description for me.
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Atlas Hugged posted:There are just one too many keywords in the setting description for me. I guess they felt they couldn't just come out and say 'It's basically Into the Badlands with a bit more Steampunk'.
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May 30, 2017 15:39
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Meanwhile...quote:Do You Love Role-Playing Games? RPG Of The Month Club Vol. 2 is a thing that's happening. Get twelve RPGs over a year for a buck a pop! He's done this once before, releasing a bunch of 30-page barely-RPGs that were all just "roll a d20, beat a DC" with maybe a list of powers, or maybe a bunch of skills. Basically "games" that'd barely qualify as first drafts. Please do not ask how I know this.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Meanwhile... Shouldn't this be more of a Patreon thing?
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Probably, but if his previous go-round is any indication, if he did a Patreon everyone would jump ship after his first game was released.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Meanwhile... That's like getting a random pick from the Discount Bin of D20 Shame and Failure that used to be at every Gencon. They were basically trying to dump poo poo like SOLID!: The D20 Blaxploitation RPG by the pound.
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Tekopo posted:I see a lot of situations in which video game developers think it's easy to develop a board game/card game even though they don't know anything about recent development in the market. So you end up with them putting stuff that would be perfectly acceptable in a video game, like quite a bit of RNG and unpredictability, and predictably it ends up being a gently caress load of dice that are chosen as the resolution mechanism, usually with X+ to hit systems. Although fans of the videogame will usually still eat that stuff up. Being able to reload saves, perform arithmetic in an instant, and focus on a single-player experience makes many decisions much more acceptable. Kickstarter video game FTL: Faster Than Light would be terrible if a game took more than 30 minutes, which would definitely happen for a board game. Reloading saves and having a GM covers up many flaws in game design. Being able to ignore the most bullshit cases of RNG makes the amount of luck seem more acceptable.
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Agent Rush posted:Anyone hear/have opinions about Card City XL? It's nearing it's final hours. It's Alban Viard. He does very, very good city building games.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Please do not ask how I know this. I backed the last batch, because I really liked his little not-Starfleet Battles games. Those... yeah. Some cute concepts, but not great microgames.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Meanwhile... Looks like there's a game called Darker Dungeons in Vol. 1. Did he not know that there was already a game called that, or did he not care?
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DalaranJ posted:Looks like there's a game called Darker Dungeons in Vol. 1. Did he not know that there was already a game called that, or did he not care? e: I misread.
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There is absolutely nothing in this Kickstarter page to in any way recommend it, but man, I am charmed by the idea.
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Oh dear. That's a friend's brother. He actually does game design. Better than the game of the month material, but I'm not sure what the Hell I can say about Honk, Hiss, other than we get a fuckload of Canada geese in the city each year. Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 03:54 on May 31, 2017 |
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Actually I just stepped out of hell because apparently there's no way through the KS/pledge manager to just get the physical book, PDF of the book, and the deck of cards without all the other stuff. The reason is apparently because they want to support local stores, but given how my local stores are when it comes to RPG stuff I'm saving myself some cash.
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The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good?
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EverettLO posted:There is absolutely nothing in this Kickstarter page to in any way recommend it, but man, I am charmed by the idea. this is 100% my jam
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Ropes4u posted:The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good? Not really
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Ropes4u posted:The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good? I haven't played any of them, but the standard caveat about the hype surrounding kickstarters featuring tons of minis is worth keeping in mind. Unless you're dying to play with orc zombies a year from now, $120 is a lot of money to put down (before any add-ons), especially when you could pick up something like Gloomhaven in a couple months for the same price. If you like the theme and or/minis though, the series seems to be pretty popular.
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I have to confess...my group and I kinda unironically love TORG and are all hype for this KS.
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Ropes4u posted:The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good? Nope. Highly mediocre to slightly bad, but gets everybody excited because ZOMBIESL@JEJFJHDSV:N:SDF. "Highly mediocre to slighty bad" describes most of CMoN's catalog honestly.
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sexpig by night posted:I have to confess...my group and I kinda unironically love TORG and are all hype for this KS. I may end up picking it up later, but I'm not paying ~$100 for just a book and the cards with no PDFs.
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