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The_Doctor posted:For a UK-based KS, having the UK shipping be double the price of the US is a bit of a kick in the balls. Presumably they won't be manufacturing in the UK.
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I just asked him, that's precisely the reason.
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The Confrontation Kickstarter is now offering the chance to buy individual armies ... but as a stretch goal if the Kickstarter reaches EUR 1,250,000 (it's currently on less than EUR 700,000). To my knowledge, they haven't said how much the individual armies will cost. This strikes me as the worst way to handle it. Who's going to up their pledge until the option to buy individual armies is unlocked? But if no one ups their pledge, it'll never get unlocked ...
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My current plan is to wait for people to start dumping what they don't want on eBay when it releases.
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I wasn't exactly excited about the latest Zombicide Kickstarter as is, but they just announced a second, standalone core box with a related SF premise as a one-off limited quantity print run as part of the project and I'm just like...really, guys?
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Sanglorian posted:The Confrontation Kickstarter is now offering the chance to buy individual armies ... but as a stretch goal if the Kickstarter reaches EUR 1,250,000 (it's currently on less than EUR 700,000). Yeah, the entire problem with that Kickstarter is that the base buy in point is absolutely insane. I'm trying to think of others that are close and I thought maybe Kingdom Death but looking at the page that was "only" 250 rather than ~400. Sure It's a good price per mini , but how many people actually actually want that entire range? It would be funny if a bunch of people went in on the base pledge and then reduced it by factor of ten when the ability to pledge for the stuff they actually want was opened up.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a beer-drinking board game I saw a pretty long time ago on Kickstarter, I don't even know if it was eventually realeased. The concept was that everyone had a few glasses of beer in front of them and each type of beer would have an effect against typical fantasy monsters and you would take sips to activate or augment your powers. The twist was that different types/colors of beer affected the powers. Example, witbier was good against demons, stout was good against holy enemies, irish reds did fire damage. Did that ever come out?
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Was it Dragon Brew?
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I don't think so, it was more about monster slaying then ressource management.
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This Confrontation KS has me feeling very conflicted. It's an established company, the sculpts are done and fantastic, the rules are ok-I-guess, but goddamn "buy every single thing in a box" is a garbage way to have launched this. It's unlikely to grow to the point where you can get a single faction, since there's no way to substantially increase pledges without that level. And without that, they'll never hit a point where the big box becomes the Sweet Spot or even an ok deal. I feel like I'm the exact person they're marketing this at, and I'm just kind of frustrated and disappointed that they lead with "all-in." Instead of making that the best option, they made it the only option.
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Apr 25, 2018 18:05
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Mantic's Hellboy: The Board Game kickstarter is off and running
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NTRabbit posted:Mantic's Hellboy: The Board Game kickstarter is off and running I'm not too proud to admit I'm pledging just to get the minis.
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NTRabbit posted:Mantic's Hellboy: The Board Game kickstarter is off and running I saw that too. Curious if anyone has any thoughts on it.
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Jedit posted:I have a copy on the way, should be here by the middle of next week. I'll let you know before the campaign ends. Trip report on City of Kings as promised: we just played for three and a half hours solid without noticing the time go by. I'm definitely in for the expansions.
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Backers have received links to a lot of the stuff for TORG's Living Land. It... it lets me have a pet raptor, so bias.
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NTRabbit posted:Mantic's Hellboy: The Board Game kickstarter is off and running goddamn, a half million already
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Apr 26, 2018 00:42
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Finally, the Hellboy game is actually worth paying for
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malkav11 posted:I wasn't exactly excited about the latest Zombicide Kickstarter as is, but they just announced a second, standalone core box with a related SF premise as a one-off limited quantity print run as part of the project and I'm just like...really, guys? Their CEO is 100% behind the Kickstarter model and doesn't give a poo poo about retail or after campaign support. Expect this to be the norm with all their future games. JackMann posted:I'm not too proud to admit I'm pledging just to get the minis.
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Apr 27, 2018 13:18
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It’s so dang pricey though.
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The_Doctor posted:It’s so dang pricey though. £95 for a premium board game with 100+ minis, an expansion, KS exclusives and a graphic novel? Seems pretty reasonable to me. I'm in the playtest group. Can't say huge amounts but it's good, lots of fun, the developer is good. Handled the minis and I'd say they actually look better in person, very nice and detailed. Looking forward to getting my hands on them.
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Magnolia and Gaiman are my favorite comic book writers, so Hellboy is a no-brainer for me. Even though it looks a little too similar to some games I already own, I'm pretty confident I'll have more fun playing it. Bye bye Zombicide pledge.
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This is weird, and it looks pretty rough, but I just saw Welcome to Yarnia, an RPG about knitting. As far I can tell, it has been a thing on a major knitting community online, so its somewhat established, but its really weird looking. That said, it seems to be an interesting way to combine two hobbies.
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Apr 28, 2018 00:12
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Knitters are giant fuckin nerds, man.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Their CEO is 100% behind the Kickstarter model and doesn't give a poo poo about retail or after campaign support. Expect this to be the norm with all their future games. I mean, that in and of itself isn't the worst thing to me - I'm on Kickstarter, I'm generally either interested in a game and thus willing to back it, or I don't really care enough to buy it short of phenomenal word of mouth (which CMON games almost never receive in my experience). But when you're Kickstarting a new $100 core game with a $50 expansion out of the gate (I assume? That's how original Zombicide was priced, anyway.), expecting people to plop down for another $100 game then or never again in the same loving project is pretty gross.
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Like I said, I was aiming to have an artless draft ready by today and here it is. How does it look? I plan on contacting some people to get some art for it, get a video added, and I want to see if I can't interest some people in doing some playbooks for it as a stretchgoal. Thoughts, feelings, opinions, wild accusations against my character?
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Covok posted:Like I said, I was aiming to have an artless draft ready by today and here it is. I'd get this proofread to clean up your prose. You've got some choppy sentences and fragments going on that would make me question the quality of the book.
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malkav11 posted:I mean, that in and of itself isn't the worst thing to me - I'm on Kickstarter, I'm generally either interested in a game and thus willing to back it, or I don't really care enough to buy it short of phenomenal word of mouth (which CMON games almost never receive in my experience). But when you're Kickstarting a new $100 core game with a $50 expansion out of the gate (I assume? That's how original Zombicide was priced, anyway.), expecting people to plop down for another $100 game then or never again in the same loving project is pretty gross. CMON games don't get phenomenal word of mouth because they're mediocre trash focused purely around the minis. Their only good games are the ones where the minis aren't focal. Perhaps this should be considered when deciding whether you're interested in a CMON game or not.
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Antivehicular posted:I'd get this proofread to clean up your prose. You've got some choppy sentences and fragments going on that would make me question the quality of the book. Very nicely, someone have pointed those out to me and I plan on fixing those today.
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Jedit posted:CMON games don't get phenomenal word of mouth because they're mediocre trash focused purely around the minis. Their only good games are the ones where the minis aren't focal. Perhaps this should be considered when deciding whether you're interested in a CMON game or not. That’s true for people who actually are picky about the quality of their games. There’s plenty of people who posted rising sun in their top 9 games of all time meme that’s currently happening in the board game fb groups.
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Jedit posted:CMON games don't get phenomenal word of mouth because they're mediocre trash focused purely around the minis. Their only good games are the ones where the minis aren't focal. Perhaps this should be considered when deciding whether you're interested in a CMON game or not. you seem upset about the success of cmon games and its kind of weird
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:you seem upset about the success of cmon games and its kind of weird They push poor product as "Kickstarter exclusive" to get people to buy in sight unseen, they have lousy customer service and worse playtesting. Why is it weird not to be keen on their success?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:you seem upset about the success of cmon games and its kind of weird I would’ve thought you too would appreciate bagging on bad companies who make bad games, fellow death thread poster. They publish the occasional good one, but broken clock
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Apr 28, 2018 17:00
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come on? more like go away.
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Impermanent posted:come on? more like go away. goddamn
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Chill la Chill posted:I would’ve thought you too would appreciate bagging on bad companies who make bad games, fellow death thread poster. They publish the occasional good one, but broken clock i mostly just like to antagonize people 
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Apr 29, 2018 02:42
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and pissing off gw weirdos is insanely easy. just laugh at them paying 35 buck for a lovely elf figurre
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Apr 29, 2018 02:46
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I think it's better to praise things you like than rag on things you don't
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thats nice
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Apr 29, 2018 02:57
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:thats nice You’re quite a nasty person, aren’t you?
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my mother tells me im a sweet boy 
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