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As the only person I know to have backed ORCSTABR, would it be cheating to swap rules/info here? I don't think I'll find anyone else in the East End to swap rules with in pub car parks...
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CMON's next KS, Cthulhu: Death May Die, is apparently going to be Eldritch Horror, but without the investigation parts, as designed by Eric Lang and Rob Daviau, and with minis. Yay.
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May 31, 2018 12:27
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glitchkrieg posted:As the only person I know to have backed ORCSTABR, would it be cheating to swap rules/info here? I don't think I'll find anyone else in the East End to swap rules with in pub car parks... Same. I may have to back at $10 if that's not kosher
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May 31, 2018 12:32
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NTRabbit posted:Same. I may have to back at $10 if that's not kosher Everybody's gonna get a PDF of the full rules, so having the rules isn't going to be a problem.
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May 31, 2018 13:49
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Swapping rules here is absolutely encouraged. Also not to spoil any surprises, but there will be more than rules to share.
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May 31, 2018 13:54
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I backed at $10 because none of my friends have a crippling Kickstarter addiction.
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May 31, 2018 15:17
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Something like 50 of our backers came from SA so I just wanted to say thank you all for throwing in on this silly project and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you all think when we ship. If you'll be at GenCon, I hope we get to see ya'll at the meet up, and if you can't make the meet up yell at me on GroupMe and I'll come find you.
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May 31, 2018 15:30
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For a couple of bucks, I really couldn't say 'no'. 
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May 31, 2018 15:32
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BFF is going to make its goal. Cortex plus is delayed. I still await cartel, but they said June, so they’re not late.
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May 31, 2018 15:36
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So I was curious about this from the start of the campaign, but not enough to bring it up. An odd number of people backed the half a page level of Orc Stabr. What's going to happen to that extra left over half page?
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May 31, 2018 16:52
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Goblins will eat it
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rydiafan posted:So I was curious about this from the start of the campaign, but not enough to bring it up. An odd number of people backed the half a page level of Orc Stabr. What's going to happen to that extra left over half page? Buried in a time capsule for future generations.
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May 31, 2018 17:31
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:CMON's next KS, Cthulhu: Death May Die, is apparently going to be Eldritch Horror, but without the investigation parts, as designed by Eric Lang and Rob Daviau, and with minis. Gonna check this out, but the investigations make eldritch fun. Otherwise its cthulhu worker placement resource manager? Eldritch could use some random mitigation, but not stripping it. I'll peak when theres more info
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May 31, 2018 17:35
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:Goblins will eat it This
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May 31, 2018 17:39
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The extra half-page is a sacrifice to the orcish gods.
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May 31, 2018 17:40
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Now you just need a slacker backer avenue: Orc Stabr Sacker Backers (since they're sacking things, naturally.)
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May 31, 2018 17:41
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Eagerly awaiting our halves of the orc stabr pages, good job on such a successful kickstarter
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May 31, 2018 20:29
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Yeah, congrats! I'm glad i remembered to back in time.
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May 31, 2018 20:33
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Do you want a pewter King Henry VIII (if you're an early bird backer)? How about putting rings on fingers on your player screen for reasons that I'm not quite sure of yet? Well if so, come check out Academy Games' Tudor: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/617871702/tudor
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May 31, 2018 20:43
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GrandpaPants posted:Do you want a pewter King Henry VIII (if you're an early bird backer)? How about putting rings on fingers on your player screen for reasons that I'm not quite sure of yet? Well if so, come check out Academy Games' Tudor: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/617871702/tudor That honestly looks pretty good at a glance (I haven't read the rulebook yet) but that graphic design choice to go with with the hands is, uh.
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May 31, 2018 21:27
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BTW, will you be sending around a survey to determine what name goes on the sheet for super backers? e: Nemesis of Moles, that is. Phone posting is hard.
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May 31, 2018 23:21
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Argh, I missed it.  That's what I get for putting it off every night.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:CMON's next KS, Cthulhu: Death May Die, is apparently going to be Eldritch Horror, but without the investigation parts, as designed by Eric Lang and Rob Daviau, and with minis. What is with all these cthickstarters anyway? It's super weird that there's basically always some sort of Cthulu kickstarter going on given that it's a somewhat niche genre/setting.
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May 31, 2018 23:46
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nerds love that poo poo, pretty simple really
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The Moon Monster posted:What is with all these cthickstarters anyway? It's super weird that there's basically always some sort of Cthulu kickstarter going on given that it's a somewhat niche genre/setting. Because it's easy money. Nerds will slampick Cthulhu stuff just like they always go for zombie stuff.
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Also, it's public domain.
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GrandpaPants posted:Do you want a pewter King Henry VIII (if you're an early bird backer)? How about putting rings on fingers on your player screen for reasons that I'm not quite sure of yet? Well if so, come check out Academy Games' Tudor: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/617871702/tudor I'm not really interested in this game but kind of want that tiny judgmental Henry VIII. Guess it's time to shop for historical minis...
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Leraika posted:BTW, will you be sending around a survey to determine what name goes on the sheet for super backers? Yeah, that'll be in the $10 tier survey we send out in a day or so
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The Moon Monster posted:What is with all these cthickstarters anyway? It's super weird that there's basically always some sort of Cthulu kickstarter going on given that it's a somewhat niche genre/setting. It's, like, the second most popular setting outside of generic fantasy, and public domain to boot.
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Haystack posted:It's, like, the second most popular setting outside of generic fantasy, and public domain to boot.
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Hehe, Cthickstarters. I like that, will save that for later use.
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I think Ettin did some research a while back and discovered that there had been at least one Cthulhu-themed Kickstarter running at every point for the past five years or so.
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Looks like gnome's latest Kickstarter is live: Final Bid. It's an update and expansion of Law's Out, which is free for the duration of the Kickstarter (link on the campaign page). I really liked the couple of sessions of Law's Out I wrangled out of my friends, so it's an immediate back for me.
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potatocubed posted:I think Ettin did some research a while back and discovered that there had been at least one Cthulhu-themed Kickstarter running at every point for the past five years or so. Here it is! (It only covers a 3-year period and I haven't kept it updated, though.) "Cthulhu-themed" includes poo poo like children's books and sports wear (?) and a rubber duck (??) so I think eventually you will be able to have an entire Cthulhu-themed house if you backed enough projects.
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It's a complex, factoid rich setting filled with the kind of themes nerds love to misinterpret and argue over, with some real wonky poo poo around women and minorities and a general (if somewhat exaggerated by post-Lovecraft authors) misanthrophic viewpoint, built around a bunch of badly written and overwrought stories that are both obscure and fairly well known (so it's both accessible and lets you go 'well, it's not mainstream, therefore good'). Of course nerds like it, that's like everything they want at once. poo poo, even I like it despite those wonky things.
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The "Cthulhu Mythos" is mostly scaffold that the fandom have built up for over three decades, papering on Lovecraft's elements over it. The idea that there's a "rich setting" or "deep lore" is largely a construct of the RPG and more modern fiction authors playing connect-the-dots with a bunch of horror short stories that are usually only tangentially or thematically connected. Of course, Kickstarters like this also just want to walk the line between essentially being a complete send-up of "Lovecraftian fiction" and wanting to play the whole thing straight as a "-atmospheric, Lovecraftian tale." By which, of course, they mean The Dunwich Horror, and no other. The one story where they go in with weapons and a spell to defeat the beastie is pretty much the only one that might as well exist to most Lovecraft board games, and anything that isn't some rendition of that can take a hike.
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The best Lovecraftian games are the ones that take the premise and try to do something new with it, like Delta Green or The Laundry or CthulhuTech.
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Ettin posted:or CthulhuTech. 
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Not traditional in the strictest sense but I'd be surprised if any of us haven't come across Spiderweb software at some point; the people behind Avernum and Avadon. They just launched a Kickstarter for their new game. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619141553/queens-wish-the-conqueror They've been cranking out quality games for 25 years now. They've done some really oddball stuff in the past that I adore, stuff like Geneforge or Nethergate, set in Roman Britain.
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Ettin posted:The best Lovecraftian games are the ones that take the premise and try to do something new with it, like Delta Green or The Laundry or CthulhuTech. CthulhuTech had better be about 80 ton robots in a feudal future fighting Cthulhu. "One day the stars would be right... So we went to the stars and struck first."
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