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Media Bloodbath posted:Sierra Madre Games backed this Phil Eklund is Swedish, isn't he? He's found another Swedish self-obsessed lunatic into boardgames and thinks he might have a chance.
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some loving LIAR posted:As most of the title is in English I have no choice but to believe that the first word is, too. "Jag" is the first-person pronoun in Swedish, so I'm guessing that's what she's going for.
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Antivehicular posted:If it helps, this looks "Powered by the Apocalypse" in the loosest possible sense, probably just in using d6s. Nothing else they describe about the game (universal mechanics with only a very broad theme, full character creation instead of playbooks, granular combat that isn't "dangerous") is PbtA-y at all. I wondered. It seemed heavier on stats for character creation than PbtA looks. (In that it seems more involved than, say, Masks.)
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May 16, 2018 13:35
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At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter and I guess I wish I'd known I had this power a long time ago.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter
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May 16, 2018 16:28
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The Kickstarter is comedic in its presentation and marketing and I guess some VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE are offended at the idea that people might enjoy that.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter and I guess I wish I'd known I had this power a long time ago. if you make this a stretch goal i'll back your kickstabr
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May 16, 2018 18:20
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Just cancelled my dollar Confrontation pledge just before it shuts down. Hopefully the backers at the normal level don't realize there are over 800 early bird slots open right now. That money shift would definitely bring it dangerously close to its basic funding level. I figure I will just buy the Mid Nor stuff from someone on ebay after it ships, or in some kind of bundle when they launch the kickstarter for the game they are actually doing.
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The second edition of Avery Alder's Dream Askew is being Kickstartered along with Dream Apart. Dream Askew has gotten played regularly at the two major cons here in Sweden. Can't speak for the other game but it's probably fine too.
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May 17, 2018 18:28
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Just cancelled my dollar Confrontation pledge just before it shuts down. Hopefully the backers at the normal level don't realize there are over 800 early bird slots open right now. That money shift would definitely bring it dangerously close to its basic funding level. Can anyone sum up for me what's happened with this? I see a lotta people calling it a garbage fire and I saw that it dropped like 300k but there's 15k comments on the page and half of it's in some inscrutable dead language
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May 17, 2018 19:26
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My understanding is that the knife in the heart of Confrontation was that you could buy the whole big 14-army box for $mucho, but not individual armies. So they added the option of buying individual armies as a stretch goal. So... the only way to attract the backers who only want one or two armies is to claw in people willing to back for the whole box. Which is completely backward.
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I saw preview images of the models before the Kickstarter launched, and was actually planning on getting a couple boxes of dudes because I thought they would work great as Cultists in some future Slaanesh army I would build. oh well
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Can anyone sum up for me what's happened with this? I see a lotta people calling it a garbage fire and I saw that it dropped like 300k but there's 15k comments on the page and half of it's in some inscrutable dead language They spent several days refusing to answer the question of what material the models were going to be made, from which killed the initial momentum. It is a shame, I like Confrontation because I got to play a little before it went under. They are Kickstarting a separate new edition of the game in the future, so a lot of people are probably waiting for that too.
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May 17, 2018 20:13
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All models will be constructed solely of balsa wood.
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From what I could figure, it was impossible to unlock the stretch goal of individual armies with the backers they had because there was no path for them to bring in that much more money. Instead of offering what everyone wanted (a la cart factions) while incentivizing the big box as a sweet spot, they dumped the all-in pledge and said it was their way or the highway. And now they have to deliver based on their initial funding goal, which is honestly a little skimpy for a project this size.
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May 17, 2018 20:48
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Lord_Hambrose posted:They spent several days refusing to answer the question of what material the models were going to be made, from which killed the initial momentum. Did they actually answer that?
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May 17, 2018 20:57
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Eventually. Basically it is not the good plastic, but the acceptable plastic. If they don't decide to go cheaper of course. Glad they have a resin version that only 5 people are backing too.
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May 17, 2018 21:06
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DalaranJ posted:All models will be constructed solely of balsa wood. play doh
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Hauki posted:play doh edible or non-edible
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May 17, 2018 21:32
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter and I guess I wish I'd known I had this power a long time ago. Orcs are serious business and need to be treated with respect, like in Warhammer or Warcraft.
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May 17, 2018 21:46
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what got kickstarted, anyway, and how cool were its goofy orcs
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Mors Rattus posted:edible or non-edible Everything's edible if you try hard enough.
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Mors Rattus posted:what got kickstarted, anyway, and how cool were its goofy orcs https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1930759690/orc-stabr Limm's a pretty cool Orc. The main complaint and reason for "quitting the industry" was that a rules-lite RPG presented in a funny and comedic way was either "too ironic" or "a gag" or "fake" and the fact that we got 250~ backers was a personal insult to these galaxy brains. I won't name names but at least one of these people had ran fairly successful campaigns and have writers credits on real published books. A couple of them are just no-name indie pubs with a couple heartbreakers under their belt tho. Generally the response has been really positive and wholesome, its just the negative side has been so disproportionate.
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May 17, 2018 22:32
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1930759690/orc-stabr add a stretch goal, when you hit $250,000 you're gonna expand it into a crunchy combat-driven game with a complex morality alignment system
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May 17, 2018 22:45
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We joked about an absurdly high stretch goal being "Two pages of rules" at one point, but decided it'd be better to retain the purity of it on the front. The amount of extra poo poo we're putting in the envelopes at this point is frankly getting absurd and I'm really excited for when people get their copies and find all this stuff we've got planned. We might reveal some of it in updates in the last 24hrs, maybe.
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May 17, 2018 22:58
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Now I kind of want to back this
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Just cancelled my dollar Confrontation pledge just before it shuts down. Hopefully the backers at the normal level don't realize there are over 800 early bird slots open right now. That money shift would definitely bring it dangerously close to its basic funding level. I don't know if I've ever seen a kickstarter with quite the same funding trend. It starts with a big spike on the first day and then continuously loses funding as it goes on. It ended with 66% of what it raised day one. And that's after they added big expensive addons throughout the campaign. I don't know why I've been so morbidly fascinated by this campaign. I feel like if they had ran it better, or just had a $100ish buy in, they could probably have gotten 3 times as much money. http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/996665814/confrontation-classic-the-legendary-skirmish-game/
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:We joked about an absurdly high stretch goal being "Two pages of rules" at one point, but decided it'd be better to retain the purity of it on the front. The amount of extra poo poo we're putting in the envelopes at this point is frankly getting absurd and I'm really excited for when people get their copies and find all this stuff we've got planned. We might reveal some of it in updates in the last 24hrs, maybe. Just make the second page an identical copy of the first page.
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May 17, 2018 23:58
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Got the draft rules for The King is Dead today and this game looks awesome. It's Fiasco of Thrones with cards instead of dice and more structure and story base. Very excited for my books. Might try to run a game on these fine forums.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter and I guess I wish I'd known I had this power a long time ago. ...aaaand backed.
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Umbra Dubium posted:...aaaand backed.  Looking forward to the best awkwardly-repaired goblin-mangled RPG of 2018
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May 18, 2018 00:40
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Aw jeez ya'll If anyone is going to GenCon, we'll be doing a small meetup where Limm will make an appearance and hand out copies to anyone that wants to get them there, so look out for that in the survey.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:We joked about an absurdly high stretch goal being "Two pages of rules" at one point, but decided it'd be better to retain the purity of it on the front. The amount of extra poo poo we're putting in the envelopes at this point is frankly getting absurd and I'm really excited for when people get their copies and find all this stuff we've got planned. We might reveal some of it in updates in the last 24hrs, maybe. Welp, you got my 
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:At least two people have said they're quitting games writing as a direct result of my kickstarter and I guess I wish I'd known I had this power a long time ago. My FLGS owner who is also a very serious RPG publisher was gushing on Facebook about being a $10 backer on the project. Screw the haters.
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LongDarkNight posted:My FLGS owner who is also a very serious RPG publisher was gushing on Facebook about being a $10 backer on the project. Screw the haters. That's dope as hell. Like I said we've had a ton of great people getting onboard with the concept and getting really into the concept. Actually one or two FLGSs have asked me to send them some copies for their shops after the KS wraps, so if yours fancies it, I could get in touch.
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I was going to ignore Limm's pleas for gold but that video was really charming and good. Backed!
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LongDarkNight posted:My FLGS owner who is also a very serious RPG publisher was gushing on Facebook about being a $10 backer on the project. Screw the haters. I’ve lost track, what project is it?
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The Moon Monster posted:I feel like if they had ran it better, or just had a $100ish buy in, they could probably have gotten 3 times as much money. The game was poised to make an absolute killing, too. People routinely pay absurd money for the old sculpts, the game is solid, and all the work has been done. They just needed to step in, connect the dots, and make a million dollars. Instead they somehow managed not to, against all odds. I was hoping they'd pull the plug and relaunch fresh and fixed, but it didn't happen.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1930759690/orc-stabr Well I’ve spent on worse things...
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Subjunctive posted:I’ve lost track, what project is it? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1930759690/orc-stabr I tried to fund it entirely, but by the time I got online it was already at 400% funded...
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