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Splicer posted:e: ARB and EM do you mind if I cross-post your posts to the BWM thread?
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Speaking of Edwards and fantasy games, I was going to post his rundown of Circle of Hands, totally unaware that it was Kickstarted and turned into a whole game. Anyone have any experience with it? I was really intrigued by the pitch, but felt it had an acute flaw of laying out its setting in negative terms. ("This is a Dark Age medieval setting, so there's no chivalry, no academia, no plate armor..." etc.)
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Apr 12, 2018 21:20
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Splicer posted:The best part about stories like this is shelf space isn't free. A shelf full of bullshit is a shelf full of lost sales of whatever else you could have put up there. An appreciable part of their monthly rent is going toward storing unsorted recycling. Splicer posted:I'd say RPGs and other such niche/hobbyist stores are especially prone to this. You go to a chain and 99% of the stuff on the shelves will have been bought based on whether or not they think it will sell, with the remaining 1% being stuff they think will be good PR. If it doesn't sell it gets discounted or tossed. An FLGS or other weird niche industry with little mainstream competition is more likely to buy stock based on what they think is correct. Admitting something isn't going to sell doesn't just imply you made a bad business opinion, it implies you held a bad opinion. Exactly. I go to a really well run local store that is pretty merciless when it comes to products that aren't performing well. They brought in comics and were doing pretty well with comics, but then scaled it back 75% or so because vintage video games were selling through like crazy and they needed the space. They kept 50% of the profit from comics by keeping a neat curation of current releases in 25% of the space, and filled that space instead with used video games that were doing 10x the inventory turns. Dominion is a far better game than Munchkin. You're doing your store a disservice if you're stocking 2 deep in every Dominion SKU when you're selling 6 copies of Dominion core and 3 or 4 expansions every year, grossing you $120 in profit each year. You're better off keeping 1 or 2 copies of Dominion in stock (keeping those sales) and filling the rest of that space with Munchkin Zombies Against Humanity grossing you $450 in profit each year. You'd think that people interested in hobby strategy games enough to open a retail store would be better at recognizing all the game parallels in optimization problem solving, engine building, and resource management.
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Apr 12, 2018 23:00
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mllaneza posted:It depends on the state; although I am technically wrong (the worst kind of wrong) because I was assuming San Francisco's Business Personal Property tax included inventory. Ah, I see. I work in New York and am unfamilar with CA business taxes.
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Apr 12, 2018 23:05
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Evil Mastermind posted:Sure. What thread is that?
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Apr 12, 2018 23:07
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canyoneer posted:Exactly. I go to a really well run local store that is pretty merciless when it comes to products that aren't performing well. He's turned his observations into a book ($10 electronic/$25 dead tree): http://gameplaywright.net/books/friendly-local-game-store/
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Apr 12, 2018 23:28
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mllaneza posted:It depends on the state What state taxes inventory? That would be a huge record-keeping burden.
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Apr 13, 2018 00:47
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I've also noticed groggier shops are more reluctant to order stuff in. "But wouldn't you rather buy the stuff I already have?" Like, I get it, it's better from their point of view, but a sale's a sale. If it's a choice between "Sell something you have to order in" and "sell nothing," you'd think it would be an obvious choice. Granted, I think fewer people are ordering stuff through stores now that the internet's so prevalent, but they don't even seem to try.
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Apr 13, 2018 01:17
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It's kind of funny that the Edwards speeches came up when they did, because I was just saying the day before that that the problem with edition arguments or wars is that Dungeons & Dragons isn't one game, but instead is a variety of games that have different intents and different focuses. They may all have the same name and a lot of the same trappings, but they're not just variations on the same thing - their differences are often at the core and are irreconcilable. It ends up being an argument of authenticity and prestige and may not actually be about the games themselves.
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Apr 13, 2018 02:19
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FMguru posted:There's a store in the Bay Area (Black Diamond Games up in Concord) whose owner writes a blog and he runs it in a cold and calculated and pitiless manner, and has great success while doing so (I think he turns more than $1m in sales yearly). He's very good about following his numbers and carrying things that his customers want to buy, not things he likes or wants to see succeed or "believes in". He's especially ruthless about killing underperforming game lines and firesale-ing the old stock (when Flames of War flagged in sales/popularity, and a new edition did nothing to reverse that, he just straight cut new orders to zero and marked the existing stock at 25% then 50% then 75% off) which lets him recover at least some dead money and plow it back into new stuff that will sell. It might break his heart that no one wants to buy GURPS stuff any more, but business is business, and if that space would make more money as, I dunno, Starfinder token packs, well... Hah, the very first testimonial is from the dude that runs the store I go to. 
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Apr 13, 2018 03:28
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Eclectic Games in Reading UK stocks indie RPGs. I was so delighted they had SotDL print after seeing it talked about here. That said, they do have very variable coverage and they have a ton of Alas Vegas and Baron Munchausen because the author is local. That said they only have a small RPG section. But their predecessor The Trading Post had RPGs in a central podium but that was during the oWoD heyday. But they did have copies of Spookshow and the Synnibar supplement growing stale in there, and some weird cases like a copy of Immortal 1e that the staff would advise people against buying.
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Apr 13, 2018 12:44
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Can someone point me to the tabletop bloodbowl thread please, I dont have search.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:51
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Friend of mine got a tattoo.
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Libertad! posted:Tankies are scumbags, lol Halloween Jack posted:Tankies are funny and mostly stay in their lane. (Online, never doing anything, making GBS threads on any actual left organizing.) lmao Error 404 fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Durendal posted:Friend of mine got a tattoo. “Look at that little psycho! I want to meet that little psycho!” “It’s like he doesn’t care about anything, but in a good way!”
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Has there ever been like a miniature equivalent of the art thread? In the sense of helping people find cool miniatures, like the art thread does?
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Has anyone else developed a fascination with weird artifacts of the 90s CCG boom? I've been buying up On the Edge booster boxes and it has really brought me back to those halcyon days where there were new CCGs coming out based on whatever license was around, and of course they were all featured in InQuest (also I think Over the Edge was a super great RPG). I'd love to grab some Arcadia boxes, but those are pretty dear these days.
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I recently really got into Arkham Horror LCG and I know it'd be totally my girlfriend's jam too. However, English is not her first language and while she'd do okay with the rules (and I'd be able to help her), she would have trouble with the fluff because the language is a little archaic at times. So I bought the Chinese version of the game, as well as the English version. I was thinking of putting both languages of single sided cards in the same sleeve, so you can just pull it out and check the translation. It's a little awkward but I think it would work. Do you guys have any suggestions of good ways to deal with this?
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Has anyone else developed a fascination with weird artifacts of the 90s CCG boom? I've been buying up On the Edge booster boxes and it has really brought me back to those halcyon days where there were new CCGs coming out based on whatever license was around, and of course they were all featured in InQuest (also I think Over the Edge was a super great RPG). I'd love to grab some Arcadia boxes, but those are pretty dear these days. Bruh. I have a couple of boxes of buffy and star trek premade decks that I really want to play, also the DBZ TCG...
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Apr 15, 2018 06:56
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The only CCG I played back in the day was Rage. I wish I had gotten in on Dune while it was a going concern. And I really wish that some of the better games were released as non collectible sets or as mobile apps. It's trivially easy to get ahold of a lot of obscure role-playing games, but a complete set of Heresy: Kingdom Come?
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Apr 15, 2018 07:06
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Subjunctive posted:What state taxes inventory? That would be a huge record-keeping burden. 10 states do this, https://taxfoundation.org/does-your-state-tax-business-inventory/
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Apr 15, 2018 08:56
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mllaneza posted:10 states do this, Huh! Thank you!
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Apr 15, 2018 09:22
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Translating Lovecraft must be a real trip.
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Apr 15, 2018 11:55
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Has anyone else developed a fascination with weird artifacts of the 90s CCG boom? I've been buying up On the Edge booster boxes and it has really brought me back to those halcyon days where there were new CCGs coming out based on whatever license was around, and of course they were all featured in InQuest (also I think Over the Edge was a super great RPG). I'd love to grab some Arcadia boxes, but those are pretty dear these days. I found my old Mythos starter set; I wish I'd got more cards when I had the chance, that was a great game.
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Moriatti posted:Bruh. Sometimes, in moments of lucidity, I wonder why I'm filling my house with cards I'll probably never have an opportunity to play. Halloween Jack posted:The only CCG I played back in the day was Rage. I wish I had gotten in on Dune while it was a going concern. Rage went on fire sale at my LCGS back in the day and my friends and I picked up some decks. That was a gross game. DigitalRaven posted:I found my old Mythos starter set; I wish I'd got more cards when I had the chance, that was a great game. I looked at Mythos too- it looked like a really cool game, but the boxes are going for too much to indulge my curiosity these days.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Sometimes, in moments of lucidity, I wonder why I'm filling my house with cards I'll probably never have an opportunity to play. Hey man, I mean, we played a drsft of the Spongebob TCG... 
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I've never found anyone else familiar enough with the source matetial to be willing to play the Duckman CCG with me
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I used to buy starter decks because I found rulebooks interesting. But there was a big Heresy scene locally. Also Shadowfist, which was great too. On the other hand somewhere I have some of the silly squared Arcadia cards which I never heard of anyone playing, ever. And of course Battle 3000..
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A little while ago I bought a booster pack of the .hack card game. I always liked the art for the series and the boxes all had nice character art on them Then I opened the pack and it turns out the cards used screencaps from the PS2 games 
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Apr 15, 2018 15:41
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That's that quality work you can expect from Decipher.
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Guy Goodbody posted:A little while ago I bought a booster pack of the .hack card game. I always liked the art for the series and the boxes all had nice character art on them You got .hacked
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hyphz posted:On the other hand somewhere I have some of the silly squared Arcadia cards which I never heard of anyone playing, ever. But the character standups were such a neat gimmick!
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hyphz posted:On the other hand somewhere I have some of the silly squared Arcadia cards which I never heard of anyone playing, ever. And of course Battle 3000.. Arcadia seemed amazing but a: it had no starter decks b: if you tried to play with the listed character + quest booster packs, you generally couldn't win because you'd have quests requiring particular cards you didn't have So it died a spectacular and rapid death. I'd love to see a LCG version though.
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Rage was a terrible game that was a lot of fun to play, somehow. By all measures, it shouldn't have been fun - it was unbalanced, had a lot of degenerate card combos, and could easily fall into rules arguments over timing. It just played really fast and throwing pack attacks at people rarely got old. That nineties White Wolf sense of humor sure hasn't aged well, though... xiw posted:Arcadia seemed amazing but Yeah, ultimately it was a game you needed a full set of cards for. Upside, as far as I can tell it had flat rarity? Or maybe just nobody cared enough to figure it out... It was an interesting game that practically nobody could play properly.
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My dream is to find people selling boxes of the monster rancher tcg cards at a convention but I haven't see any since like 1999
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 New blogpost is up for The Next Project.This time, talking about a few rules quirks, and why they're in there -- of note, "no temporary HP, wtf?" Give it a read and leave a comment, or join the discussion on the official TNP Discord.
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Moriatti posted:Bruh. I only ever got a few games of the Star Trek CCG in, but I remember it being pretty cool. At least it seemed cool to a 10 year old Trek nerd. Battletech looked cool too, though I never got a chance to try it out.
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Drone posted:I only ever got a few games of the Star Trek CCG in, but I remember it being pretty cool. At least it seemed cool to a 10 year old Trek nerd. It was cool until you actually played by the rules. First Edition was a total goddamned mess; Second Edition was better but came wayyyyy too late to save the game. There's still a small but rabid community around the Trek CCG that releases cards and has championships, amusingly enough called the Continuing Committee.
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Countblanc posted:My dream is to find people selling boxes of the monster rancher tcg cards at a convention but I haven't see any since like 1999 did it play like the tcg video game?
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There was a time when I desperately, desperately wanted to get into that weirdo Hecatomb game Wizards came out with. In the end I never saw a single card in the wild.
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