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unseenlibrarian posted:In at the 3 PDF level for Expanded Fragging, though hopefully I'll have the option to upgrade in the backerkit later, as the books are really pretty. Just not the funds available before the kickstarter ends. 
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Send an email telling them that you won't support their KS because of exclusives like that. Also, Deception was a worse experience than Mysterium for my group, since a lot of the questions are just useless, so it's sort of a crapshoot of you having a really easy time vs a really hard time. "What day of the week did the crime happen" is such an infinitely more useless question than even something like "What room did the crime happen in"
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Jul 3, 2017 16:39
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The_Doctor posted:Aww man, I'm a sucker for KS-only add-ons like someone else posted above. It bothers me on some level that my game will never be 'complete'. Yeah. I missed the Kickstarter for the base game, so I'm super happy my copy can now be "complete". GrandpaPants posted:Send an email telling them that you won't support their KS because of exclusives like that. Kickstarter exclusives aren't going anywhere. The number of people who refuse to back because of them is a fraction of the number of people who specifically back because of them. GrandpaPants posted:Also, Deception was a worse experience than Mysterium for my group, since a lot of the questions are just useless, so it's sort of a crapshoot of you having a really easy time vs a really hard time. "What day of the week did the crime happen" is such an infinitely more useless question than even something like "What room did the crime happen in" And that's a fine opinion to have. My group considers the variable usefulness of the cards to be a feature, not a bug. It means you have to lend more credence to earlier clues, especially if they give one of the random clues before the location or cause of death, as those are by default the strongest.
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Jul 3, 2017 16:51
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I know there's been a million versions of these, but this looks like a nice version of a modular tile system. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sagaworldbuilder/saga-world-builder-modular-tiles-for-your-tabletop/description
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Jul 3, 2017 16:57
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rydiafan posted:Kickstarter exclusives aren't going anywhere. The number of people who refuse to back because of them is a fraction of the number of people who specifically back because of them. And yet, the number of people who refuse to back is essentially unknown...because they don't back.
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homullus posted:And yet, the number of people who refuse to back is essentially unknown...because they don't back. Yeah, short of surveying every Kickstarter user and every person in a game's demo bracket (they might sign up!), it's impossible to say how many people aren't backing because of exclusives. Conventional wisdom says not having exclusives is leaving money on the table... but conventional wisdom isn't always right. Edit: By surveying I don't mean literally ask everyone, appropriately sized representative samples would work for an usable estimate.
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Jul 3, 2017 17:17
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Kaza42 posted:Isn't it just the perfect fit that the one topic they have that could lead to interesting discussion is worded in such a way to be as dickish as possible. Sure, a Flat Tax is almost certainly a bad idea, but it's a bad idea for non-obvious reasons so you can have an interesting debate over whether or not it would work and what alternatives would function better if one were to reform the tax code. But no, it's clearly just so that they can make fun of poor people. The thing that gets me about those flat taxes is that aside from people too poor to pay much of any tax, America already effectively has a flat tax once you look at all the deductions and exceptions for the rich. You have middle earners paying around 15%, higher earners stretching up to about 20% tops, then back down to 15% for the highest earners. It's not perfectly flat, but it is pretty flat.
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Jul 3, 2017 18:27
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How does Deception play with lower player counts? I've been looking at it for a while but might not bite the bullet if it doesn't play great at 5/6 players.
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Jul 3, 2017 18:58
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It plays fine with 5/6. Above 6 there are additional social roles you add, Avalon/Werewolf style, but at 5/6 it's more pure. I'm not sure what minimum the box claims, but I wouldn't play with 4. That's one clue giver so 3 guessers, which means each innocent person has a 50% chance of just randomly guessing who the killer is.
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Jul 3, 2017 19:28
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JackMann posted:"America would be better off if the South had won the Civil War." This one is actually true because we could govern ourselves progressively without catering to (and subsidizing) what's essentially a second-world theocracy. E: Life in the southern Nation-states would suck rear end unless you were fortunate enough to live in one that was captured by Spain, Mexico, or overthrown by slaves. But the question was about "life in America if the South had won," allowing them to gently caress right off, divide themselves, and get beaten by other powers than America. moths fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Jul 3, 2017 20:47
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moths posted:This one is actually true because we could govern ourselves progressively without catering to (and subsidizing) what's essentially a second-world theocracy. I want you to stop and think about some downsides with this idea of yours and how stupid it sounds.
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Jul 3, 2017 20:49
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let's rehash the civil war in the TG kickstarter thread
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Leperflesh posted:let's rehash the civil war in the TG kickstarter thread I can already envision it. Trump leading the progressive southern theocracy and the liberal SJW northern states on the other side. Ripe for Kickstarter to be kicked, right? What do you think, should we get CMON on board? Maybe get some artist in here so we can also bake it the greatest, biggest, most unworkable boardgame of all time?
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Mr.Misfit posted:I can already envision it. Trump leading the progressive southern theocracy and the liberal SJW northern states on the other side. Ripe for Kickstarter to be kicked, right? What do you think, should we get CMON on board? Maybe get some artist in here so we can also bake it the greatest, biggest, most unworkable boardgame of all time? Imagine four slave states at the edge of a border wall
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Jul 3, 2017 21:32
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Leperflesh posted:let's rehash the civil war in the TG kickstarter thread Someone ought to do something about those Roundheads before they go too far, bloody puritans
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Jul 3, 2017 22:08
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Look forward to my upcoming Kickstarter: "Putney Debates: The RPG"
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Jul 3, 2017 22:12
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I'd play the poo poo out of something that let me play a violent Leveler, no foolin'.
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Jul 3, 2017 22:17
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Evil Mastermind posted:In the realm of kickstarters that aren't by terrible people, Fragged Empire: Expanded has just over 48 hours left and has hit most of its stretch goals. US$22 gets you the core PDF and two of the expansions, $34 gets you the core and all three: You probably should be getting commission for how hard you have been selling this game. You sold me on it with your F&F review. Pretty sure it will be too much crunch for me, but Fragged Empires has a rad setting. So I'm down for the fantasy setting.
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Jul 3, 2017 22:27
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Yeah, I decided to go for the books over just PDFs, too. Fragged Empires is a really clever game and will probably end up being the next thing I run, if that ever happens. The new settings and ideas will almost certainly be equally interesting. EM's sold me on a bunch of games. An absolute menace of good taste in games.
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Jul 3, 2017 22:33
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Demon_Corsair posted:You probably should be getting commission for how hard you have been selling this game. You sold me on it with your F&F review. Echophonic posted:EM's sold me on a bunch of games. An absolute menace of good taste in games. 
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Jul 3, 2017 22:36
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Echophonic posted:Yeah, I decided to go for the books over just PDFs, too. Fragged Empires is a really clever game and will probably end up being the next thing I run, if that ever happens. The new settings and ideas will almost certainly be equally interesting. $80 for a book was too pricey for me. Evil Mastermind posted:Aw, now y'all are just making me blush. How about running a game of it? 
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Demon_Corsair posted:$80 for a book was too pricey for me. e: Comes to $61 usd dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Jul 4, 2017 00:30
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Yeah all prices on the KS are in dollarydoos not US currency.
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Jul 4, 2017 00:38
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Yeah, it's like 40 USD per book if you get all three, before shipping. Considering how much Fragged Empires costs to get a hardcopy of, that's downright reasonable.
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Jul 4, 2017 00:39
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It's reasonable, it's just still more than I can afford so we'll see how things look come Backerkit season.
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Demon_Corsair posted:How about running a game of it?
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I'll probably run a game in Kingdom or Aeturnum once they deliver. I might do Empire, but I'm waiting for the core book because I couldn't pass up that KS discount. I've got no interest in Seas though, I'm tired of plus Cthulhuoid settings.
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Jul 4, 2017 01:32
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dwarf74 posted:Isn't it $80 in play money? I use a different shade of play money, so its pretty much an even exchange for me.
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occamsnailfile posted:It's reasonable, it's just still more than I can afford so we'll see how things look come Backerkit season. I'm just in for pdfs now, myself. Strongly considering the corebook though.
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Mr.Misfit posted:Trump leading the progressive southern theocracy and the liberal SJW northern states on the other side. Written by Chris Fields.
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Slimnoid posted:Written by Chris Fields. Or, you know, Harry Turtledove.
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I don't know if anyone else has been following this project, but the failed Kickstarted RPG Gatekeepers has started its crowd sale on The Game Crafter for the physical box set, including dice, tokens and cards. The rulebook PDF is free to download from the page and it looks to be an insanely gonzo fantasy game with a good light ruleset based around cards, tokens and minimal dice-work. Right now it's pretty pricey due to the indie nature of the site, but due to the crowdsale system it'll go down to about $36 if 100 people put down an order. You're on a planet orbiting a gas giant, and one of the playable races is a sentient clonal colony of vines. You can be a preying mantis magician who made a bargain at death's door to become a giant mantis / horse hybrid. Orcs are amphibious egg-laying mammals. Giant monster fights specifically have rules for Shadow of the Colossus monster-climbing to reach the weak point. It's insane. The only downside is The Game Crafter doesn't print rulebooks, so that's having to go through DriveThruRPG as a separate product, but they're releasing the rulebook for free as well as releasing the resources for print-on-demand services.
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Zeerust posted:I don't know if anyone else has been following this project, but the failed Kickstarted RPG Gatekeepers quote:Want to cast spells in plate armor? You got it. Oy. e: reading the rest of the KS page, yeah the other character examples are cool and good, but when a game leads off with "you can cast spells while wearing armor!" like my bowtie is supposed to start spinning at the idea...well, it's a bit of a red flag. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Jul 4, 2017 21:32
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I agree it's a really weird thing to focus on in a game where you can play a cursed elf/ferret hybrid who teleports and fights by making people's blood explode. There's a link to a review on the Gamecrafter page for a hands-on impression of the ruleset.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oy. Say it with me, folks: Heartbreakers are here again! Praise 5e!
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Oh fyi, my Planet Mercenary arrived, already read through the defaced maxims book (main reason I backed in the first place) and am leafing through the actual source book. Honestly I'd love to play it, just doubt I know enough people who'd want to play with me nearby. Maybe I could run one online...
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I'm reading the rules for that Gatekeeper game. It's a bold choice to write your "roll on this table" tables to put the text in the first column and the number rolled in the second column, instead of the other way around like every other die rolling table in existence.
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Hoo boy it was only a couple of hours left so I reread Evil Mastermind's F&F and then went in on the entire PDF collection for Fragged Empires and the new books. I'd love to get physical copies because I hear their books are gorgeous but my finances genuinely cannot take it right now.
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Doodmons posted:Hoo boy it was only a couple of hours left so I reread Evil Mastermind's F&F and then went in on the entire PDF collection for Fragged Empires and the new books. I'd love to get physical copies because I hear their books are gorgeous but my finances genuinely cannot take it right now. Hopefully they'll launch Backerkit after you've built up some more discretionary income because man those books look pretty. I'll probably upgrade my pledge to a physical core during the post campaign.
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Yeah, he confirmed backerkit, and the last time I grabbed all the pdfs with it. And how else you gonna get some neat dice?
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