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Crackbone posted:Nope. Highly mediocre to slightly bad, but gets everybody excited because ZOMBIESL@JEJFJHDSV:N:SDF. Yeah but did you see how many minis they came with? Phwoar!
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Ropes4u posted:The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good? they are dice rollers with tons of minis and no playtesting
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This thread seems to have missed the Kickstarer for a new Thunderstone... Thunderstone Quest, back in March. However, the pledge manager is still open, so you can still buy it at KS prices if you want. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alderac/thunderstone-quest-from-aeg/ e. there's only two pledge levels, $60 and $100, and only two add-ons besides those two levels: you can get some card sleeves, and you can add on a box or organizer or something that is supposedly helpful when you're playing the hard-mode version of the game but want to keep other cards organized for the regular quest mode. My group and I have really enjoyed Thunderstone Advance and this seems to be another iteration on those base rules with some refinements, plus a "quest" mechanic that is basically premade cardpacks for more focused adventures. The $60 pledge comes with one, the $100 pledge comes with three. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:36 on May 31, 2017 |
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Ropes4u posted:The CMON zombie game broke a million dollars already - are these games any good? They're fine. Straightforward scrounge-and-murder coop with a few interesting mechanical wrinkles. But they're like $45 worth of lightweight game in a $100+ package, mostly because there are a lot of minis. Also I don't know why you would get the fantasy version when there are a million fantasy coops and most have more interesting settings and ideas than just zombies. Part of the appeal of the original (at least to me) is that it's one of the few coops that's set in something akin to the modern day. So would I recommend getting in on this one? Nope.
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Leperflesh posted:This thread seems to have missed the Kickstarer for a new Thunderstone... That's because Thunderstone was poo poo iirc. I'm not sure if "Quest" changes things, but I distinctly remember yawning throughout the Thunderstone experience. At least Ascension has an app. Rhaegar posted:Thoughts on the Lords of Hellas kickstarter draft? Kickstarter starts June 6th. The first thing I see advertised is a Kickstarter exclusive that would cost an extra 5 gbp to anyone who doesn't get in on Day 1, and that is enough for me to disregard the rest of the project. But scrolling down I also see some nice cleavage on Athena, who was definitely not known for being a virgin or anything.
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GrandpaPants posted:That's because Thunderstone was poo poo iirc. I'm not sure if "Quest" changes things, but I distinctly remember yawning throughout the Thunderstone experience. At least Ascension has an app. I only played Thunderstone Advanced, which was a very good game with poorly-written rules that my fairly experienced game group kept requesting. 
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A look into the past and future: The deluxe editions of Blades in the Dark have started arriving to people, so if you're expecting that keep an eye out. Fragged Empire will be having another KS for Fragged Aeternum (the dark fantasy/Bloodborne-esque version of FE) and maybe other things? kicking off in June. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Oh, they changed the name? Last I heard it was going to be Fragged Kingdom.
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I think Kingdom is their epic fantasy setting, Aeternum is their gothic fantasy/Bloodborne-esque one.
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Yeah, that was my mistake. Aeternum is the Bloodborne one, Kingdom is the fantasy one.
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Leperflesh posted:I only played Thunderstone Advanced, which was a very good game with poorly-written rules that my fairly experienced game group kept requesting. Sorry, but the Goon Hivemind has decided that the Valley of the Kings is the only good market-row deckbuilding game.  Is Roll Player any good. There's a new expansion for it out on Kickstarter.
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I enjoyed the original Thunderstone a great deal but had to leave my copy in the UK well over five years ago. I had no idea they were bringing it back, thanks for the heads up! Not sure its worth the shipping cost for me now though, unfortunately.
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The first, and last, time I played Thunderstone was one of the most miserable slogs of a gaming experience I've ever had in my life, turn after turn of "well I can't actually do anything against these monsters because I didn't draw the right cards to actually make things happen, so I'll waste a turn trying to prep my draw for the next turn, oh I didn't get anything good again either," and it was using an official setup and everything, not just some random grab whatever, so I can't even blame the game's owner for inadvertently messing things up as sometimes happens. My impression is that it leaned way too hard on requiring you to put together combos ala Magic: the Gathering to get stuff done but that trying to do so in a game where you cycle your hand every turn made it feel extremely arbitrary whether you accomplished anything from turn to turn and it was easy to fall into a cycle of never having the right tools on hand to break out of the hole. We never even got to the final boss after some 90+ minutes of increasing boredom and we just let the one guy who was able to kill monsters semi-regularly have the win so we could move on to something else.
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Ghosts of Gaia II is up and already 170% funded. Some of the rewards are the minis from the previous campaign, such as the (thankfully non-anthropomorphic) gun-toting guina pigs and even the mighty CapyCannon. I think it's also a goon project?
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GrandpaPants posted:That's because Thunderstone was poo poo iirc. I'm not sure if "Quest" changes things, but I distinctly remember yawning throughout the Thunderstone experience. At least Ascension has an app. "Large breasted women can't possibly be virgins" - The Collected Hot Takes of GrandpaPants, 2017 I'm definitely not backing that Kickstarter for several reasons, though. 1) It's Blood Rage in a chiton. 2) It's £82 for Blood Rage in a chiton. 3) They're pushing a £120 deluxe edition, but five days from launch they still haven't remembered to add a pledge level for it.
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This looks pretty cool and it's priced reasonably. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1998318065/escape-the-dark-castle?ref=nav_search
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Jedit posted:"Large breasted women can't possibly be virgins" - The Collected Hot Takes of GrandpaPants, 2017 Yeah, that's definitely what I meant. It's totally not a comment on the painfully male gazey representation. gently caress off, you miserable poo poo.
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GrandpaPants posted:Yeah, that's definitely what I meant. It's totally not a comment on the painfully male gazey representation. You want to complain about boobplate number 2097 then go right ahead, I won't disagree. But when you say "boobplate? I thought she was a virgin!" you are tacitly implying that a woman who dresses provocatively must be a slut. If that's not the impression that you meant to give, then you should more carefully consider your words in future.
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Rhaegar posted:Thoughts on the Lords of Hellas kickstarter draft? Kickstarter starts June 6th. The box art is rockin but I'm really sick of titty models Atlas Hugged posted:This looks pretty cool and it's priced reasonably. One of the stretch goals is a digital soundtrack, which you can also buy on cassette ( ! ) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble-gaming-on-a-mechanical-computer A puzzle game with a marble run. You set up a vertical board with mechanical logic widgets and watch marbles go down. An included book has puzzle setups. The marbles move the logic widgets which change the path the next marble takes on the way down. At the bottom, the marble goes through one of two gates, which release a blue or red marble. The objective is to release marbles in a certain order
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Zurui posted:I'm a card-carrying skeleton warrior and I don't have enough loving Skeleton Warriors With Boobs would be a successful kickstarter project.
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Jedit posted:You want to complain about boobplate number 2097 then go right ahead, I won't disagree. But when you say "boobplate? I thought she was a virgin!" you are tacitly implying that a woman who dresses provocatively must be a slut. If that's not the impression that you meant to give, then you should more carefully consider your words in future. He was literally referring to Athena's qualities in mythology to explain why the changes were stupid. You're the one being an idiot.
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Kai Tave posted:The first, and last, time I played Thunderstone In t-stone advanced, if you didn't have a good combo for going to the dungeon, you probably had a good combo for going to the town to buy cards. I never played the original t-stone but it seems like maybe t-stone advanced was an improvement on the mechanics? And Quest is another iteration. I've probably played t-stone advanced about 15 times now, and I've never had a game where I felt like a significant number of my turns were wasted. Occasionally if I built a weak deck and we had a full row of very nasty monsters in the dungeon I'd have to do a lot more prep, but deckbuilding is part of the challenge. Perhaps in Advanced you have more agency with your deckbuilding, I dunno. Like I said I never played the original game. e. Also the rules are poorly written enough that probably it'd be really easy to play without realizing an important rule exists. For example the first time we played we didn't realize that just because the Whetmage Honer lets you level up another character while in the dungeon, doesn't mean you don't have to pay the XP cost, so the Honers seemed stupidly overpowered. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Remember the The GM’s Real-World Reference book from like, several years ago? They are making a sequel: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1395430458/archive-historical-people-places-and-events-for-rp?ref=user_menu It's like a curated list of neat historical stuff that you can rip off for games, which is my jam anyway. I liked the The GM’s Real-World Reference so I'm willing to drop  on the pdf. They seem to be stuck at ~80% of their modest $6k goal with 4 days left and I'd hate to see them miss it.
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:Remember the The GM’s Real-World Reference book from like, several years ago? They are making a sequel: I really enjoyed the GM's Real-World Reference and I wasn't going to back this one, but I'd hate to see it not fund. What the hell, I'll spend a couple of lattes on a PDF.
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Peas and Rice posted:I really enjoyed the GM's Real-World Reference and I wasn't going to back this one, but I'd hate to see it not fund. What the hell, I'll spend a couple of lattes on a PDF. That's pretty much how I feel about it; feels a bit nostalgic to back something just 'cause it'd be nice to see it made. I'm so used to the big-name-product-funds-tens-of-thousands-in-minutes model that seems so common nowadays. edit: I just looked back on it, and the GM's Real-World Reference was funded on in late 2012. One of the first darn things that I'd backed. The Lemondrop Dandy fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Arivia posted:He was literally referring to Athena's qualities in mythology to explain why the changes were stupid. You're the one being an idiot. To go on a bit of a tangent, outside of its historical social context, Athena's virginity isn't a critical element of her character. These days we have lots of other ways to communicate that a character is an independent woman.
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:Remember the The GM’s Real-World Reference book from like, several years ago? They are making a sequel: Dropped too.
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Arivia posted:He was literally referring to Athena's qualities in mythology to explain why the changes were stupid. You're the one being an idiot. GrandpaPants posted:But scrolling down I also see some nice cleavage on Athena, who was definitely not known for being a virgin or anything. Definitely comes across as "Exposed cleavage? But she's supposed to be a virgin" to me. That might not have been how he meant it but that's how it comes across.
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Regardless of which way you fall on the virtues of virginity, that Athena model is hyper-sexualized in exactly the same gross way that 80% of these mini games treat their female characters. It's totally unnecessary and a big black mark against the game for buyers who don't need every female character chained to male sexuality. E: How is Roll Player? From watching a play-through, the mechanics looks sound and the dice drafting looks like a nice balancing mechanic. It also looks like it should be sufficiently strategic, given the multitude of ways to score and modify your dice. Does that hold up over multiple plays? Stickman fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Anyone backing Western? It looks good, but combat may take forever.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Anyone backing Western? It looks good, but combat may take forever. Is this just Aces & Eights
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dwarf74 posted:This looks inexpensive enough for a quick laugh - I always love when games have ludicrously expensive backing tiers because it's always dumb. For 10,000 I can, among other things, get a two night immersive experience at Disney Land for up to 4.
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