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BabelFish posted:Isn't 3 armor considered to be very high, the kind of armor only heavily armored elite troopers should have? The front line Legion Assault Armor only has an armor class of 2, and that's described as "heavily reinforced armor" in the lore. Well, that certainly bears out. I was just running Ghost Ship Carthage as written, and the two major fights in that have players up against enemies with 3 armor. Luckily I learned my lesson from that. At least one of the players had a puncture rifle and could deal serious damage. Next time maybe no mega-armor except in special circumstances.
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Harrow posted:Well, that certainly bears out. I was just running Ghost Ship Carthage as written, and the two major fights in that have players up against enemies with 3 armor. While it's generally a pretty good introductory scenario, Ghost Ship Carthage could really use one additional fight with a larger group of lightly-armored, mobile enemies to highlight that side of the mechanics. You could probably do something in the medical ward with overturned gurneys and malfunctioning equipment to create a decent battlefield.
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Yeah, I agree. I actually ran a brief introductory session before Carthage that had a fight exactly like that, so we've had a chance to have multiple kinds of fights. If I hadn't, though, I think I'd be a lot more frustrated with the system because I (and my players) would only know how it plays against single, highly-armored enemies. Now that we're done with Carthage I have to come up with another mission to keep them going since my players are still ironing out what their characters want to do, and having played both ways helps me know how to better balance things in the future.
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EUTZ game recruitment and planning post is up! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3835786 If you have any questions, I'm on the Goon FE Discord or contact me in Discord @ Tamo#4385
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So looks like we've got a timeline for the FE: expanded PDFs going out to backers who didn't just sign up to playtest and for the backerkit lockdown: Early november. So if you want to upgrade, probably best to do it by the end of the month.
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Oct 9, 2017 19:20
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He's running some Fragged games at PAXAus, after not doing so last year, thread have any questions I should ask, assuming I can get in.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:42
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So keeping this alive with news that Wade's working on another Fragged *** thing, this time Fragged Parousia, a small scale skirmish game."more deets posted:My co-creator Alistair and I will be running demo games at PAX Aus this weekend (I will post a detailed timetable up later this week). The current plan is to do a soft launch early next year (free PDF rulebook +print on demand or print at home, cards), if things go well we will run a tight Kickstarter to print the cards and more minis.
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Oct 23, 2017 05:51
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Cassa posted:So keeping this alive with news that Wade's working on another Fragged *** thing, this time Fragged Parousia, a small scale skirmish game. Cool. Regardless of the game itself, I hope this means I'll be able to get some official Fragged minis for cheaper than $25 a pop on them.
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Oct 23, 2017 06:18
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Duct Tape posted:Cool. Regardless of the game itself, I hope this means I'll be able to get some official Fragged minis for cheaper than $25 a pop on them. This was my first thought, too.
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Oct 23, 2017 07:20
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The skirmish game looked ok, I got to play a game of Kingdom with the developer, it seemed ok, it was very freeform so didn't seem like we were using the mechanics too much. Played some Aeternum as well, standard races except one was a vampire who's rage ability got a little bit crazy, and a clockwork soldier who was very cool, the momentum stuff was interesting, gave you a few more options for actions in combat, beyond move to cover > shoot > reload when necessary.
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Nov 1, 2017 08:23
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Quick bump to let people know the backer kit is closing in the next few days. Last chance to grab the dice from what I've seen.
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Nov 27, 2017 00:14
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The PDFs drop this week, right? Do we have a specific day?
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Not yet, I don't think. Just 'a week after backerkit closes' If it's anything like the backerkit closure expect in the middle of the night US time, but hopefully with less random credit card declines. unseenlibrarian fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Dec 5, 2017 17:01
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Aeternum and Fragged Hacked are popping into my inbox with drivethru rpg links.
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Cassa posted:Aeternum and Fragged Hacked are popping into my inbox with drivethru rpg links.
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Cassa posted:Aeternum and Fragged Hacked are popping into my inbox with drivethru rpg links. Wait, Fragged Hacked? I know he was working on that, but I didn't see that anywhere on the Kickstarter, Backerkit, or DriveThru. Did I miss it somewhere? I've been dying to see his take on integrating these system. edit: the heck? I got emails for Aeternum, Seas, Kingdom, Antagonist/Protagonist Archive, all the adventures, short stories, and reference PDF. But I didn't get Hacked or the Core pdf itself. I know I selected the "gimme all the PDFs you got" option, but maybe something went weird because I backed during the Backerkit, not during the Kickstarter. I'll see if it shows up over the next day, then contact Wade if it doesn't. Duct Tape fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 9, 2017 |
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Dec 9, 2017 03:32
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Relevant to the discussion we were having a long time ago:Wade posted:Only the humans lived in a post-scarcity economy, the Archons were in need/want of more.
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Dec 9, 2017 03:45
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Cassa posted:Aeternum and Fragged Hacked are popping into my inbox with drivethru rpg links. Yep, they're all in! Looking good so far too.
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Dec 9, 2017 06:55
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Yep, got mine! Curious - I didn't realize Fragged Kingdom doesn't have a bog standard human-ish choice.
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Dec 9, 2017 14:09
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ProfessorCirno posted:Yep, got mine! Curious - I didn't realize Fragged Kingdom doesn't have a bog standard human-ish choice. It is literally the same universe as Fragged Empire, I thought that was clear and known from day one.
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Dec 9, 2017 14:15
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Isn't that what Corp are kinda sorta meant to be? Been too busy to process all the books, or even skim them too far. I do like the new character creation changes, makes being good at something more obvious, though (un)lucky crits will hurt so much more.
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Dec 9, 2017 14:43
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The Corp are the closest, though I feel like each of the Fragged Empire races represent different or exaggerated parts of humanity, so the Corp are still an "incomplete" reflection of humanity where they're good at organization and economics and comparatively poo poo with more tangible matters. They're superficially more "human" but under the surface they're still somewhat alien - they don't really value things like family and selflessness, for example. Not that the Corp are even in Fragged Kingdom.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Yep, got mine! Curious - I didn't realize Fragged Kingdom doesn't have a bog standard human-ish choice. Not that they’re 100% “normal” but I figure Corp were excluded because they make less conceptual sense given Kingdom’s conceits.
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01011001 posted:Not that they’re 100% “normal” but I figure Corp were excluded because they make less conceptual sense given Kingdom’s conceits. They might, but y'know, a species of greedy merchant types is a little more worrisome in a fantasy setting.
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Okay so I've fallen madly in love with Fragged Aeternum's everything, except for the fact that I can't seem to find Natures outlined anywhere except in the Lists in the back. Am I missing something extremely obvious here?
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Mors Rattus posted:It is literally the same universe as Fragged Empire, I thought that was clear and known from day one. I mean specifically the absence of the Corp. Like yes, they aren't human, but they're visibly the most "human." There's no "normal lookin' human dude" option for Fragged Kingdom, which is interesting and fun.
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Ratoslov posted:They might, but y'know, a species of greedy merchant types is a little more worrisome in a fantasy setting. Hmm, why so? I think I believe that too, but I can’t put my finger on why!
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:Okay so I've fallen madly in love with Fragged Aeternum's everything, except for the fact that I can't seem to find Natures outlined anywhere except in the Lists in the back. Am I missing something extremely obvious here? I couldn't find them either.
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Subjunctive posted:Hmm, why so? I think I believe that too, but I can’t put my finger on why! Deep-rooted Jewish stereotypes, mostly. It isn't great.
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Lurks With Wolves posted:Deep-rooted Jewish stereotypes, mostly. It isn't great. Yeah, I just don’t know why that set of racial attributes bothers me more in fantasy than in other settings.
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Subjunctive posted:Yeah, I just don’t know why that set of racial attributes bothers me more in fantasy than in other settings. Oh, I thought you weren't sure which stereotype it was. My mistake.
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I suppose the Classic Races and Magic PDF must be still in the writing. It's the only thing that didn't release as far as I can tell.
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Fragged Aeternum seems to have the strongest "What do we do with this" setting pitch of the three books so far, since by default you're part of the Tethered and do Tethered monster-hunter things. Though yeah, a little more detail on the Natures would be nice to have.
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Ratoslov posted:They might, but y'know, a species of greedy merchant types is a little more worrisome in a fantasy setting. There's certainly that. My assumption was that in-universe if you had Corp it would imply the planet had meaningful outside contact but I'm not gonna argue against having less of those stereotypes around as well. Subjunctive posted:Yeah, I just don’t know why that set of racial attributes bothers me more in fantasy than in other settings. There's a lot of historical precedent around persecuting people with those perceived characteristics in medieval times. It's pretty relevant in fantasy settings when you consider how most of those divide races by "role" to some extent or another.
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With Natures replacing Races in Aeternum, it would be nice to have some more about them.
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Cassa posted:With Natures replacing Races in Aeternum, it would be nice to have some more about them. Same for the Stances, even though those are more obvious.
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I kind of want to play an actual Palantor in Fragged Kingdom who's got everyone convinced he's just a mysterious knight who never eats or sleeps or takes off his armor. Except if all the "Children of Pol" on the planet are mechanoids I imagine they'd zero in to eat him.
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That doesn't sound difficult to implement, and also sounds awesome.
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Looking at the Outfit rules for Fragged Seas it's really hard to resist the urge to kit out at least one PC as being naked but with a really impressive hat. (He'd have to be a wizard probably since no room for equipment with that outfit, but.)
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Cassa posted:With Natures replacing Races in Aeternum, it would be nice to have some more about them. So apparently this came up in the comments on the kickstarter, and Wade's response was that basically Natures could represent several different things and depending on your take different natures might all be viable for the same concept, so basically look at the mechanical benefits and reskin as you see fit. You could do a tethered who doesn't care whether they live or die and just wants to fight the biggest poo poo with apex predator -or- martyr, etc.
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