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Zark the Damned posted:Talking of which I just found this - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1901134344/frogs-team-football-fantasy - those froggos are hella cute and GW will never make an official Slaan team. Also I love Morg n Frog and the Kemit Chainsaw looney I’m not sure why it’s so funny to me that Kermit’s name is Gustavo Wulf.
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Zark the Damned posted:So, apparently this is a thing - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isaacfoursouls/the-binding-of-isaac-four-souls Yeah I feel bad about backing it since it'll probably never see the table beyond trying it once, but Edmund deserves more of my money for the amount of hours I've put into both Isaacs.
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Vaguido posted:Yeah I feel bad about backing it since it'll probably never see the table beyond trying it once, but Edmund deserves more of my money for the amount of hours I've put into both Isaacs. Yeah I'm basically backing it for the same reason as dasharez0ne game, Isaac Four Souls doesn't look great but I wanna see the cards
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Tuesday Knight Games, the Two Rooms and a Boom people, have a new game up on KS: That's Not Lemonade! a game that hints you might be drinking piss. It's a push your luck game that's probably the simplest version of the mechanic I've ever seen. Shipping for anywhere other than the US is insane however.
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Zark the Damned posted:So, apparently this is a thing - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isaacfoursouls/the-binding-of-isaac-four-souls It looks like Munchkin: Binding of Isaac. Definite no-go for me even though I have 666+ hours between Isaac and Rebirth, and even though the base game is only £19 + shipping.
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Mors Rattus posted:is that thing even paintable They actually look like they'd be pretty easy to paint to me. I just thing it's funny that there are so many kickstarters selling "mound of melted torsos" miniatures.
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The_Doctor posted:Tuesday Knight Games, the Two Rooms and a Boom people, have a new game up on KS: That's Not Lemonade! a game that hints you might be drinking piss. It's a push your luck game that's probably the simplest version of the mechanic I've ever seen. Shipping for anywhere other than the US is insane however. It's cute I guess, totally for kids with some gross humor. Though it seems like there is no interaction between players beyond light bluffing about how many ice cubes/doubles you have? I guess if you don't like the exploding kittens art... Personally for bluffing game Sheriff is going to be
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Dungeon Degenerates second printing just went up, if anyone was waiting. Shipping to the EU seems reasonable, and there are early bird pledges.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Dungeon Degenerates second printing just went up, if anyone was waiting. Shipping to the EU seems reasonable, and there are early bird pledges. The art is obviously incredible, but has anyone played it? Seems a bit... Talismany, from my limited Googling.
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One last reminder about my Final Bid Kickstarter, which is in its last 48 hours now. We've successfully funded, by some small miracle, so if you want to hop on in and grab this auction-based movie game that's been described as "like Fiasco but better" and "the same emotional impact as Mario Party," you've got a little more time to do that.
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BinaryDoubts posted:The art is obviously incredible, but has anyone played it? Seems a bit... Talismany, from my limited Googling.
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The new Fragged Empire kickstarter just launched, featuring a short PDF-only supplement for piloting giant gasoline powered robots in a war-torn land. It'll also add mecha rules for the base game to the Fragged Empire: Hacked sourcebook. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wadedyer/fragged-dieselpunk-mecha-rpg
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BinaryDoubts posted:The art is obviously incredible, but has anyone played it? Seems a bit... Talismany, from my limited Googling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7FHHYDRMWc It seems really really fiddly. It should've just been an OSR game with great art.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Dungeon Degenerates second printing just went up, if anyone was waiting. Shipping to the EU seems reasonable, and there are early bird pledges. I don't see the point if it doesn't glow under a black light
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unseenlibrarian posted:The new Fragged Empire kickstarter just launched, featuring a short PDF-only supplement for piloting giant gasoline powered robots in a war-torn land. It'll also add mecha rules for the base game to the Fragged Empire: Hacked sourcebook. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wadedyer/fragged-dieselpunk-mecha-rpg Oh, I didn’t realize they were updating Hacked as well. It’s weird to have to rebuy it to get those rules, IMO, versus having them as an appendix in the Mecha sourcebook I wonder why he’s doing that. E: I asked, and of course he’s going to update Hacked for all current owners. Duh. Subjunctive fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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homullus posted:I don't see the point if it doesn't glow under a black light
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BinaryDoubts posted:The art is obviously incredible, but has anyone played it? Seems a bit... Talismany, from my limited Googling. I've played it, closest comparison would be the Fallout board game. They're both sort of adventure games where you move around a overworld map, fight monsters, and complete quests. I vastly prefer this game over Fallout though - Fallout ended up feeling kind of lifeless and 'sterile' to me. You can tell Dungeon Degenerates was absolutely a passion project for the creators and they managed to pack a lot of charm into their weird-rear end fantasy world on drugs. The game's definitely fiddly as hell though and the rulebook is really obtuse at first (the rules video linked earlier didn't exist when I first played the game). I read somewhere that the creator responsible for the rulebook is the son of a traditional wargames author, which makes sense. The game is basically pure 70-80s, for both the good and bad that entails.
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Has anybody in the UK received their copy of Founders of Gloonhaven yet? There was an email saying shipping had started but that was a couple of weeks ago now
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Did anyone around here back The Happiest Apocalypse on Earth? I just found the game and am curious a) if it's actually a decent implementation of PbtA and b) if the horror themes are developed at all or if it's just spooooky Cthulutropeland.
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Zurui posted:Did anyone around here back The Happiest Apocalypse on Earth? I just found the game and am curious a) if it's actually a decent implementation of PbtA and b) if the horror themes are developed at all or if it's just spooooky Cthulutropeland. I didn't back that, but the pitch makes me skeptical. Above and beyond the very limp satire elements, some of the PbtA mechanics look wonky -- "assemble your own playbooks!" seems to miss the entire point of playbooks, among other things.
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Mojo Jojo posted:Has anybody in the UK received their copy of Flounders if Gloonhaven yet? There was an email saying shipping had started but that was a couple of weeks ago now Traditional Games › TG Kickstarter Thread 3: Flounders if Gloonhaven
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Antivehicular posted:I didn't back that, but the pitch makes me skeptical. Above and beyond the very limp satire elements, some of the PbtA mechanics look wonky -- "assemble your own playbooks!" seems to miss the entire point of playbooks, among other things. Yeah, looking over the chargen sample they've posted a link to it looks like it's going to fall into the very blatant PbtA sins of too many moves and move-adjacent add-ons and not enough time spent hammering any of it into the sort of sharp, thematic focus that PbtA really needs. Also it's Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide, not "conscious," c'mon guys.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with building your own playbook. I really like the way Uncharted Worlds lets you use pieces (an Origin and two Careers) to build a playbook. Each has a set of advancements and moves and they set your goals for gaining XP. Goddamn, that character sheet for Happiest is something else, though.
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Echophonic posted:There's nothing inherently wrong with building your own playbook. I really like the way Uncharted Worlds lets you use pieces (an Origin and two Careers) to build a playbook. Each has a set of advancements and moves and they set your goals for gaining XP. Yeah, but they're still partial-playbooks within set themes. There's still a PbtA-esque consistency to "Ex-military trader from an agricultural world," for example. Those are distinct parts with their own themes you're adding together. This feels more like... There's just one playbook with lots more options, instead of multiple distinct playbooks.
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ElegantFugue posted:Yeah, but they're still partial-playbooks within set themes. There's still a PbtA-esque consistency to "Ex-military trader from an agricultural world," for example. Those are distinct parts with their own themes you're adding together. Plus looking over the moves there's stuff for, like, hacking computers and fixing machinery and negotiating trades, none of which immediately leap to mind when I think of "horror theme park adventures" but absolutely do leap to mind when I think of someone trying to cram a conventional RPG approach to "well there need to be skills to cover all possibilities" into a PbtA framework.
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Kai Tave posted:Plus looking over the moves there's stuff for, like, hacking computers and fixing machinery and negotiating trades, none of which immediately leap to mind when I think of "horror theme park adventures" but absolutely do leap to mind when I think of someone trying to cram a conventional RPG approach to "well there need to be skills to cover all possibilities" into a PbtA framework. Judging from what I gathered from the +1 Forward appearance, the PCs are tasked with keeping the park running without murdering everyone, in which those moves could make sense. A game like this needs laser-tight design and thematic focus though and the author seems to have mistaken toolkit design for game design which is a cardinal sin in PbtA. Oh well. Glad I didn't drop $10 on another game that I'll have to complete before I can run it.
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Jedit posted:Traditional Games › TG Kickstarter Thread 3: Flounders if Gloonhaven well, I laughed out loud, anyway
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The reprint of The Mountain Witch reprint has about 7 hours left. Mountain Witch is sort of the forgotten yet important link that led from Ron Edwards' Sorcerer to Apocalypse World. In fact, you can see stuff in this game that clearly influenced the later game. Unfortunately, it's been out of print for ages. At it's core, the game is about a group of ronin hired to climb Mt. Fuji, infiltrate the castle stronghold of the witch O-Yanma, and kill him. But aart from the expected traps and creatures, each ronin has to deal with their own pasts, goals, and the lack of trust between each of them. Mountain Witch is an important game in terms of the history of the hobby, because it introduced a lot of concepts we pretty much take for granted. Like a mechanical Trust mechanic, giving individual characters secret (and potential conflicting) personal goals. A large part of the book is a discussion of when to roll the dice, and why you should (or shouldn't). I highly recommend it, either as a playable game or a really interesting discussion about RPG mechanics.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Is it a reprint or a new game edition?
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Missed it by that much.
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Spellbound Kingdoms Arcana is, apparently, back from the dead.
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dwarf74 posted:Spellbound Kingdoms Arcana is, apparently, back from the dead.
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Foglet posted:Told ya. 6 months' radio silence is not okay.
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It's not great, no, but it's a small enough project that I'm not losing any sleep over it.
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Here's one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/265550568/folded-space-board-game-inserts-and-organisers-cam Seems to decently ride the line between effort and expense for organizers. Cheapish, but you don't have to cut up a ton of foam.
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dwarf74 posted:Yeah, but I'm still not thrilled. Yeah it's a shame - at least it's a 'i'm back and i've written the thing' update and not a 'i'm back and going to work on the thing again' Been really looking forward to this one.
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