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Aeon's End: Legacy looks really good. The base game is well received, and... there's mystery boxes. I'll cop to being a total sucker for mystery boxes. They're also selling "full reset" packs, which I like, even if I probably won't use. I'm not sure about its "Kickstarter Value" proposition on this, but I'm excited for the game.
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Sooooo people are making a Princess Bride RPG of all things. Wasn't there some sort of controversy surrounding this? It's looks... Weird.
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Da Share Z0ne has a new stretch goal NEXT STRECH GOAL: $150,000 --ENAMEL PIN-- EVERYONE WHO PLEGES FOR THE BASIC GAME OR FOR EXPANSIONS AND EXTRAS WILL GET A EXCLUSIVE SHARE Z0NE PIN. ITS A CAT SKULL AND ITS TO REMEMBER BOODLEHEIMER R.I.P. 1998-2016
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Sooooo people are making a Princess Bride RPG of all things. Wasn't there some sort of controversy surrounding this? It's looks... Weird. I was under the impression that Stefan had divested himself of FUDGE when it became FATE? So I'm not sure what's going on here?
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jmzero posted:Aeon's End: Legacy looks really good. The base game is well received, and... there's mystery boxes. I'll cop to being a total sucker for mystery boxes. They're also selling "full reset" packs, which I like, even if I probably won't use. Yeah, I'm very pleased with Aeon's End and the idea of a legacy style campaign that then leaves you with content that can continue to be used in standard Aeon's End games going forward is an immediate back for me.
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Just got an email from a project I backed last year which was canceled due to the death of the head of the company producing it: Tiny Wastelands from Gallant Knight Games. It's an even lighter post-apoc game than PBTA, with a mechanical set that sums to 'roll 2d6, 5+ succeeds' +/- 1d6 if you have advantage or disadvantage based on your character traits. It's already fully funded, and the art, text, and layout are done because this was supposed to go out a year ago before the unfortunate death of the owner of Nocturnal Media which they were part of at the time. Worth a look, I'm thinking I may pick it up as something to run at games days or cons. The price point's good too, 35 bucks for a softcover, GM screen, deck of Enclave cards (yearly settlement events in the wasteland), and 3 custom dice. Printing and fulfillment is DTRPG, which has worked well for me in the past. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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I've been thinking of buying the original Aeon's End, and now they are dropping this plus the original and expansions as value-pack add-ons. It all starts to add up to the point that drat, that's a hard bargain. edit: Once again, though, Gloomhaven looms large as probably the only game worth going to at that price point. I missed the most recent release, but I heard another is on its way. A Horse Named Mandy fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Liquid Communism posted:It's an even lighter post-apoc game than PBTA, with a mechanical set that sums to 'roll 2d6, 5+ succeeds' +/- 1d6 if you have advantage or disadvantage based on your character traits. A 5 or 6 on any one dice, I assume? Not, the standard roll difficulty is success 5/6 of the time.
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How does the original Aeon's End play btw?
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DalaranJ posted:A 5 or 6 on any one dice, I assume? Not, the standard roll difficulty is success 5/6 of the time. Yeah, it's this. It's the same engine as Tiny Dungeons, I believe.
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thefakenews posted:Yeah, it's this. It's the same engine as Tiny Dungeons, I believe. Yep, the Tiny D6 engine.
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I do believe this is the very first kickstarter for the PDQ system (not to mention the first new PDQ property in a while) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eloylasanta/h-p-lovecraft-preparatory-academy-tabletop-rpg/?ref=kicktraq Really seems like it should be called "Miskatonic Preparatory Academy", or just Dunwich or Arkham (as the miskatonic name gets slapped on a lot of stuff).
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roxley/dice-throne-season-two I dunno if anybody here has heard of dice throne before but I guess it has a kickstarter for a new season of it. Personally, I'm not really feeling it, it kinda looks like something a robot might print up if I gave it the task of coming up with a 1v1 dice rolling game with unique characters. Like, it doesn't look BAD, I'm just kinda indifferent to it. So why'd I link it then? Because I'm annoyed way more than I should be that their box art stuff isn't the same across each box.  Obviously it's a really really tiny and petty and insignificant thing but it bugs me so much that 4 of the characters are looking directly ahead and then the other 2 are facing towards each other. Oh also because the kickstarter pitch video is...special. I swear the narrator is pronouncing it "sammyrai" or something and they set up this whole plot thing just to get to the point of "ok you roll dice at each other" about halfway into the vid. Maybe I'm being too tough on it. It just looks kinda...generic? Bland?
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On one hand it looks bad, on the other hand it's Roxley.
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Roxley I think is mostly known for insanely pretty looking games. Check out the first edition of Brass compared to the Roxley printing (Brass: Lancashire).
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Roxley did the first (retail) version of Santorini, which also looks fantastic. Not sure what Steampunk Rally looks like but it's got a good reputation in the thread.
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I didn't see anybody else post this in the last few pages, so just in case here's the trailer to the kickstarter of the game of the movie about the book with the magic! Harry Potter Miniatures Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1VtiDR0WkY Merrill Grinch fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roxley/dice-throne-season-two I have Dice Throne, its fine? There's some neat ideas but it never really comes together for me. It's sorta like MtG but the attack phase is yahtzee. It's a bit too rulesy for the amount of engagement you get out of it, I think, but it's physically a really good product. Good production quality and the insets are clever. I'm not interested in the second season or whatever theyre calling it, but it's a perfectly adequate game. e: There's an official preview version on TTS if you're curious about it
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roxley/dice-throne-season-two I get it, there's just something off about the art style. I will say it's nice to see three (four?) women, one of color, and none of them have tits hanging out of barely adequate bikini tops.
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I'd say the art is solidly good, but it's also very much a comic-style which benefits from implied motion or action, and is probably not well-served by a lot of shots of people staring at the camera. The fact that it's being used for a bunch of different genres with no clear unifying theme probably isn't helping either.
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It reminds me of the art Penny Arcade got hired to do for World of Warcraft.
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Xelkelvos posted:How does the original Aeon's End play btw? Market stack deckbuilder like Dominion. Each player has a character with a special power you charge up to use and four spell slots, each of which might be open or at various levels of closed (or just permanently unavailable in a few cases), as well as one or more unique starting cards. You're trying to take down or at least survive a big bad, who has a fixed count deck of escalating phases, part composed of generic cards and part specific to the big bad. You lose if the big bad deals too much damage to the city you're trying to protect, or if all the PCs are defeated. The big unique selling points are 1) you never shuffle anything but the turn order deck. So in theory, you can plan out what hands you'll be drawing. (in practice, gosh that's hard for my brain). 2) The aforementioned spell slots, to which you can prep spell cards that you can then cast on subsequent turns. It's pretty fun, and the flavor is fairly original.
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There's definitely room for Battle Yahtzee in the market, but I've gotten too used to dueling games with far less randomization, and it feels like a lot of layers of noise atop just trying to make dice combinations. But then, for me a dice game isn't more than a diversion to play quickly between more involved games, and this definitely isn't that. The fact that the sample "How to Play" takes place in a bar is probably fitting enough.
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Merrill Grinch posted:I didn't see anybody else post this in the last few pages, so just in case here's the trailer to the kickstarter of the game of the movie about the book with the magic! Harry Potter Miniatures Game drat, I really needed money in March. At least it won't be a hard sell to my other half...
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Can someone tell me what the hell is the deal with the Shinobigami translation. Someone I know said it's been more than two years since the KS started and it's still being delayed to July (tentative release date was December)
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tl;dr layout/editing didn't get finished in time for December due to Christmas season stuff, final PDF should be available in 4-8 weeks.quote:Here's what we're going to see in the first few months of 2018:
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I am so tired, but this is finally going to happen. https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/964348338253398021
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I got my shipping notification for Torg Eternity last night, and it should be in my hands by next Friday. I never thought I'd see the day where Torg wasn't mechanically terrible, and where I'm anticipating it.
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Do you like really big starships ? Interested in Traveller ? Mongoose just launched their Element-class cruiser Kickstarter. It's going to be a big box with blueprints and stuff, possibly including naval campaigns. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/traveller-rpg-element-class-cruisers-box-set
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jmzero posted:Aeon's End: Legacy looks really good. The base game is well received, and... there's mystery boxes. I'll cop to being a total sucker for mystery boxes. They're also selling "full reset" packs, which I like, even if I probably won't use. I have been debating this one myself. I do wonder if its the best introduction to the game? I know that if we like it I will want to pony up for everything which appears to a few hundred bucks..
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Ropes4u posted:I have been debating this one myself. I do wonder if its the best introduction to the game? I know that if we like it I will want to pony up for everything which appears to a few hundred bucks.. Me too. It looks good but is it “Kickstarter All-in” good?
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eskimaux posted:Me too. It looks good but is it “Kickstarter All-in” good? I mean, I did last time, and I don't regret it. But I waste way too much money on tabletop Kickstarters, so grain of salt and all.
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malkav11 posted:I mean, I did last time, and I don't regret it. But I waste way too much money on tabletop Kickstarters, so grain of salt and all.
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This may be the quickest I've backed a Kickstarter in years. A second edition of Summerland with new art and a new engine. Easily one of my favorite RPG books in my collection, the setting's something really cool. The rules were a bit too light, so hopefully the new one's a bit more substantial, but that sounds like it's the main reason for the new edition. It's a variant of Open D6, which seems straightforward enough at first glance.
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Oh, holy poo poo. Definitely checking that out when I get a chance.
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