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Oh yeah, this thread exists. A few things going on right now: Bundle of Holding is Unknown Armies 2e. Deal of the day at DriveThru is World Wide Wrestling for $5, which is a loving steal. DriveThru is also doing a "GM's Day Sale"; a bunch of books are on sale. Just a quick scan shows Atomic Robo for $10, Fragged Empire for $12, Godbound for $13, Shadow of the Demon Lord for $13, Breakfast Cult for $10, and Beyond the Wall for $5.
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Two of my favorite AW-based games are on sale, too. Uncharted Worlds ($7) and Monster of the Week ($8).
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, it predates modern furry culture, it's kind of one of the patient zeroes, actually. Maybe patient 0.31 or something. "Modern" furry culture? Has furry culture changed since SA started making fun of it near 20 years ago?
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Liquid Communism posted:"Modern" furry culture? Has furry culture changed since SA started making fun of it near 20 years ago? Albedo - the original comic the RPG was based on, anyway - is from 1983. The RPG was originally published in 1989. So, yes, it's not ironic to say it's changed in the course of 35 years.
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Mar 6, 2018 01:57
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Ah, okay. That wasn't meant to be snarky, I was honestly curious.
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Liquid Communism posted:"Modern" furry culture? Has furry culture changed since SA started making fun of it near 20 years ago? Furries are all Antifa now, it’s real weird
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Mar 6, 2018 02:18
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Except for the ones who REALLY like dressing up as Nazis. They've just become Nazis.
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Mar 6, 2018 02:32
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This is the weirdest RPG deals thread I've ever attached my name to. please keep me posted for Red Markets deals. It's a great game. Buy the book.
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Liquid Communism posted:Ah, okay. That wasn't meant to be snarky, I was honestly curious. Yeah, bear in mind the term "Furry" actually came out of Albedo fandom, but it was a hugely niche thing until the late eighties and early nineties or so, when the internet started really allowing niche fandoms to congregate through newsgroups and online chats. I can't really speak to specifics, as I only knew of it as something that was adjacent to my fandom of black and white comics like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Usagi Yojimbo (the latter of which started as a short-lived feature in Albedo), other than it never felt like it was quite as codified in terms of art style or content. And the whole "furry lifestyle" notion just wasn't a thing yet.
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Mar 6, 2018 14:00
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I always figured "furry" grew out of the the underground alt-comix scene of the late 1960s, a big part of which was based around "classic children's cartoon characters, but dealing with real adult issues (racism, swearing, drugs, sex, politics, etc)" of which Fritz the Cat is probably the best example. Out of that grew things like Omaha the Cat Dancer, Cerebus the Aardvark, Usagi Yojimbo, even (over at Marvel) Howard the Duck. Fanart, fanzines, conventions, and eventually lifestyles followed.
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FMguru posted:I always figured "furry" grew out of the the underground alt-comix scene of the late 1960s, a big part of which was based around "classic children's cartoon characters, but dealing with real adult issues (racism, swearing, drugs, sex, politics, etc)" of which Fritz the Cat is probably the best example. Out of that grew things like Omaha the Cat Dancer, Cerebus the Aardvark, Usagi Yojimbo, even (over at Marvel) Howard the Duck. Fanart, fanzines, conventions, and eventually lifestyles followed. A lot of people consider that the prehistory of the furry scene, but it's hard to say with certainty about much before 1980 or so, when the community really started to form around Albedo and other independent comics. In any case, a lot of what formed the "funny animal" comics of the '80s came from diverse inspirations and much of it wasn't from any sort of central community.
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Mar 6, 2018 18:55
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Not quite RPG but there's a bundle of Warhamm and 40K novels and books.
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Not quite RPG but there's a bundle of Warhamm and 40K novels and books. Nice.
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MinitureMarket is clearing out their discontinued backstock with a decent sized clearance sale. There's over a dozen board games going for seventy to eighty percent off. At least one of them has to be good, right?  https://www.miniaturemarket.com/deals/promo-sale.html
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Mar 31, 2018 01:11
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Also a good number of Warhams books if anyone needs to round out their collection.
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Mar 31, 2018 15:33
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Is the Warhammer Quest card game any good?
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Mar 31, 2018 21:17
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Mr. Tambo posted:Is the Warhammer Quest card game any good?
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Wayback posted:Also a good number of Warhams books if anyone needs to round out their collection. But not the fantasy rpg gdi
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Apr 1, 2018 02:06
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Not the good ones anyway, they seem to have some of the newer ones.
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Apr 3, 2018 12:47
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Bundle of Holding have a thing for Feng Shooey twoey. I'd be on it if I didn't already have the main book and DM screen.
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Is Interface Zero any good? I'm tempted to pick up this bundle, even if it'll just help populate a different cyberpunk RPG.
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ConTessa, a gaming group for minority representation in TRPGs, is running a bundle sale in support of their conventions http://www.rpgnow.com/product/238925/2018-ConTessa-Bundle-of-Awesome-BUNDLE Notable titles include Cryptomancer, Fear Itself 2nd Edition, Scion: Hero, Slumbering Ursine Dunes, Tiny Dungeon, and Veins of the Earth
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Apr 24, 2018 05:35
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It's Tiny Dungeon: Hatchling Edition, which is Tiny Dungeon 2e But For Kids. It's kind of adorable.
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I've heard a lot of good things about Hot Springs Island, but haven't read it myself. The bundle has both the player's and GM's books.
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BoH has a Paranoia bundle up, what are the opinions on the different editions?
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:BoH has a Paranoia bundle up, what are the opinions on the different editions? 2ND edition or XP is what you want.
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2nd Edition is actually coming back into relevance with the right and center losing their poo poo about the commies again, and inequality making a big comeback.
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XP is solid. It has some great adventure support and the rules - while crunchier than I'd ideally prefer - are workable. (It's less crunchy than 2e at least.) Also a ton of the best classic adventures got converted for it. Also also, the in-book adventure is fantastic.
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What is Knights of The Dinner Table, exactly? I've heard the name before but never really looked into it and Bundle of Holding is offering some volumes.
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Agent Rush posted:What is Knights of The Dinner Table, exactly? I've heard the name before but never really looked into it and Bundle of Holding is offering some volumes. A ~20 year old webcomic turned print comic which has also spun off into a gaming company. Source of Hackmaster, which is arguably the start of the OSR trend.
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Liquid Communism posted:A ~20 year old webcomic turned print comic which has also spun off into a gaming company. Source of Hackmaster, which is arguably the start of the OSR trend. Just to add, some strips used to be published in Dragon and it's one of the reasons Hackmaster exists due to WotC not clearing the rights when they made a compilation CD. Part of the settlement was KenzerCo getting to use AD&D and its modules as a base for a game as long as it was in the form of a parody. I would honestly say it's not aged well from what I remember so I wouldn't buy the bundle unless you have nostalgia for it.
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kotdt is closer to 30 years old, and it first showed up in an indie gaming mag, not a web comic if you didnt find that at all amusing, then dont bother
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Agent Rush posted:What is Knights of The Dinner Table, exactly? I've heard the name before but never really looked into it and Bundle of Holding is offering some volumes. The comic strip part of KODT has evolved into an ongoing soap opera in a world where tabletop RPGs are serious business and organized play is absurdly so (and all play is organized play) - there are courts to settle disputes between players, GM's have to maintain credentials, temp players can be hired and underground fight clubs for PC's that use unsanctioned rules exist. A main satirical element is that one TSR like company produces almost all RPGs: Hackmaster, SpaceHack, Hacknoia, Cattlepunk, etc. Depending on who you game with, the characters are either depictions of murderhobo running bastards ripped from the cat piss thread or affectionate takes on people you may have gamed with or resemble. I read and enjoy it, but there is a sprawling cast and a lot of continuity at this point, which can make it a hard sell for new readers. Also, a lot of people can't get past the art, which is understandable. The author has gotten better over time, but readily admits his limitations. It was originally in an indie gaming magazine called Shadis, was in Dragon for a while and was picked up by KenzerCo and turned into it's own print comic magazine. The current incarnation of the magazine is standard comic book size and includes the comics, book, movie, rpg and board game reviews and an old fashioned letter's column. It also serves as a house organ to support the publishers own line of RPGs (Hackmaster, Aces and Eights, etc), but each issue has some FRPG oriented system neutral material. In a lot of ways it deliberately resembles Dragon Magazine from the 80's. The stuff in the Bundle of Holding is a little bit of a hodge podge, the comics from the first 30 issues of the standalone comic/magazine, the earlier strips, two collections of strips that focus on a old west game, one of a storyline about a spy game and one with the characters doing book reviews. The earlier stuff is as rough as anyone's early work and isn't really representative of the comic as it is today, though the standalone collections are, being later material. If you want to get a feel for it as it is now there are lots of webstrips and supplemental comics on their website, https://www.kodt.com But yeah, it's mainly aimed at a demographic of D&D player in the their later 30's or older and most of the folks outside that group that I've talked to who were even aware of it disliked it for various reasons. 
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Glorified Scrivener posted:It was originally in an indie gaming magazine called Shadis, was in Dragon for a while and was picked up by KenzerCo and turned into it's own print comic magazine. It also had a stint in The Rifter... would've been the late '90s or so? this is important information somehow
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Unfortunately the game is in the bundle is the 5th edition, which isn't particularly amazing since they lost the rights to produce AD&D derived works. It's basically interchangeable with any number of other OSR also-rans. The 4th edtion of Hackmaster is the good one. It's essentially what 3x would have been if they'd built more firmly on the foundation of 2e, and it zings on a lot of late-90's quirky excesses while still being a (supposedly) playable game. It's got promotional coupons, an alignment audit system, a multi-volume monster encyclopedia, and is on more than one occasion a subversive takedown of the absurdity of the source material.
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Oh it's 5e? Bummer. Yea 4e Hackmaster is, at times, genuinely really good subversion while also being a more playable 'let's get back to D&D's ROOTS*' than anyone else made at the time.
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moths posted:Unfortunately the game is in the bundle is the 5th edition, which isn't particularly amazing since they lost the rights to produce AD&D derived works. It's basically interchangeable with any number of other OSR also-rans. Yeah, it's Dave Kenzer's personal fantasy heartbreaker, though I think it lives out on its own weird little branch of OSR game design. In mechanics and presentation it really doesn't remind me of any of the retro-clones. Someone did it in Fatal and Friends, didn't they?
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I picked up the intro book and noped-out when I saw a character can random-roll "RAPE" as the circumstances of your birth. I'm sure that passes for fun at a table where no players have experiences, but holy poo poo Kenzer - I wish we were all so blessed. My impression was that it's essentially a watered-down Dungeon Crawl Classics. They removed the kitsch and charm of the original, and were legally prohibited from making something too mechanically similar to it. So it went hard into "Generic fantasy heartbreaker" and got lost in the crowd.
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I will say that Hackmaster does have my favorite GM screen ever.
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