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Lucky number 116 backer for Americana! This looks like so much my thing it's wrapped around the world to kick me in the butt and remind me that it's my thing.
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Backed Americana. My sister who isn't into tabletop games (but who liked ORC STABR) was interested so this is going to be a birthday present to both of us.
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Oct 2, 2018 01:46
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Backed the heck out of Americana. Orb Stabr was more than worth it, and I trust these guys will do even better this next go around. Pledged $75 but considering doing the $250 just to say I got them to make me look like a purple dragon.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:32
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rchandra posted:Speaking of ORC STABR: !!!! The Motzart Orc was posted on Twitter a short while back, this could be the first recorded orc stabr reunification Also again, you are all so very very cool and kind. It's been a bit of a rough day for us but the support from this thread is just, dang. Dang.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:38
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I have a mystery on my hands and I believe you're involved
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Moderately interested as the Orc Stabbr turned out pretty neat, but I guess i'm not understanding the pledge levels of Americana. In the first case, you get a pdf. Then in the second case you get a digital copy... in other words, a pdf. In the third case, you get a digital copy (pdf), and a code for a hard cover print, which we have to pay the shipping and print for. Hmm, why are these pledge levels in increasing prices?
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Oct 2, 2018 18:57
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At least for that last one, the voucher code gets you a hard copy at straight cost. Your pledge covers "paying the author/artist/creators" and "helping the thing to exist at all", and then when you want to get your hard copy, you put the voucher in DriveThru and only have to pay the cost of the print+cost of shipping it to you.
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Oct 2, 2018 19:08
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yegods posted:Moderately interested as the Orc Stabbr turned out pretty neat, but I guess i'm not understanding the pledge levels of Americana. In the first case, you get a pdf. Then in the second case you get a digital copy... in other words, a pdf. In the third case, you get a digital copy (pdf), and a code for a hard cover print, which we have to pay the shipping and print for. Hmm, why are these pledge levels in increasing prices? The first level is a poverty-line level, it's a discount for folks struggling, otherwise its effectively the same as the $10 level. The hardcover level works via print on demand coupons, effectively fulfilled by DriveThru directly. The cost is a little higher primarily because making physical books is an enormous amount of work and very expensive even if you're not the one actually doing the printing, and secondly because the printing and shipping costs go directly to DriveThruRPG, not the team making the game. Hope that clears it up. One other bit of confusion, the $6 level also includes any stretch goals. I've had more than one person ask about that
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Oct 2, 2018 19:11
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The audio drama for Americana is shaping up to be interesting, I hope you hit the stretch goal to do more.
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Oct 2, 2018 19:51
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Backed Americana because how could i not? The stretch goals also sound exciting so here's to hoping that we get to see them!
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Oct 2, 2018 20:08
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The race teasers for Americana are pretty great. I'm already completely into Grim Time Travel Goblins.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:25
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Antivehicular posted:The race teasers for Americana are pretty great. I'm already completely into Grim Time Travel Goblins. For anyone interested;  bbcisdabomb posted:The audio drama for Americana is shaping up to be interesting, I hope you hit the stretch goal to do more. Us too! It was a really fun way to kinda bring the world to life a bit, cause we know the actual rules are lacking in setting fluff right now.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:40
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So I'm about to make one of the pettiest Kickstarter complaints I've ever made. My Legacy 2E KS pledge arrived today. I did the £75 tier which was basically the "everything" tier. The posters are folded up as mentioned but to be honest I didn't really care about those so I'm not fussed. The book's in fine shape, dice are fine, all the handouts are there. Except part of this tier is "I'll sign your book and write in it a custom tech device just for you." I dig little customizations like that. Except that while my book is indeed signed, there's no custom tech device anywhere that I can find. I checked the back, flipped through the book, nothing. Is this enough for me to demand a refund? No, I got all the physical and digital goods that I paid for in good condition. Is this particular little bit of personalization something which nudged me towards pledging at that tier in the first place? Yeah it kinda was, so I'll admit this is rather annoying.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:49
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At the very least I think it's worth reaching out to the creator and seeing what they say. It's something they said they'd do, you we're looking forward to it, and I assume they never said anything about omitting it.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:00
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Argh, yeah, I've been meaning to get off my rear end and explain to those of you affected what happened there. Basically, it seems the fulfilment company treated all the signed books as interchangeable, sending ones with devices to people who'd only got a signed one and vice versa. I'm going to be sending you a handwritten device as promised, though it'll be on a postcard rather than in the book. Really sorry about this :-/
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Oct 2, 2018 21:12
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Flavivirus posted:Argh, yeah, I've been meaning to get off my rear end and explain to those of you affected what happened there. Basically, it seems the fulfilment company treated all the signed books as interchangeable, sending ones with devices to people who'd only got a signed one and vice versa. I'm going to be sending you a handwritten device as promised, though it'll be on a postcard rather than in the book. Really sorry about this :-/ Gotcha, thanks. You might want to have a word with your fulfillment company about that, if it's a screw-up on their end. It doesn't sound like this is the first snag they've had with your KS (not that I really need to tell you that, I suppose).
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Oct 2, 2018 21:14
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Kai Tave posted:Gotcha, thanks. You might want to have a word with your fulfillment company about that, if it's a screw-up on their end. It doesn't sound like this is the first snag they've had with your KS (not that I really need to tell you that, I suppose). Yeaaah, don't worry, words are definitely being exchanged and assurances being sought before I use them for future projects. This fulfilment campaign has been pretty hair-pullingly frustrating at times.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:51
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Flavivirus posted:Yeaaah, don't worry, words are definitely being exchanged and assurances being sought before I use them for future projects. This fulfilment campaign has been pretty hair-pullingly frustrating at times. For what it's worth the actual book itself is perfectly fine and in great shape.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:17
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My legacy 2E order came in last week as well. Got the deluxe book and the boxed settings. The quality on both is really excellent. Honestly I just recycled the posters and the postcards, even if they hadn't been folded, I just don't really have space for them. Don't let all these logistics issues detract from your very significant accomplishment!
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Oct 2, 2018 23:24
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:For anyone interested; I am so making a moody goth time travelling goblin for this game. I didn't know I ever wanted to do that, but now I definitely do.
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Oct 3, 2018 12:42
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The murder mystery angle is honestly a big downer for me, but I'm, er, enchanted by the rest of what I've seen. 
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Oct 3, 2018 12:49
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The murder mystery angle, especially the Your Dead Friend... rule, is making me think if this can be transposed to Twin Peaks.
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glitchkrieg posted:The murder mystery angle, especially the Your Dead Friend... rule, is making me think if this can be transposed to Twin Peaks. Or Riverdale/Tween Peaks!
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Oct 3, 2018 17:24
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It shouldn't be too hard, we're going to include a chapter on hacking the system and places/areas to tweak, plus releasing it as some kind of Creative Commons that lets people make and sell new stuff using the system/setting. If the gameplay style doesn't work for you, we have spies and power rangers as stretch goals!
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Oct 3, 2018 17:31
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Bieeanshee posted:The murder mystery angle is honestly a big downer for me, but I'm, er, enchanted by the rest of what I've seen. Rules variant: Your Totally Alive Pal*. Communal PC that tags along with the party and instead of doing things themselves reminds people of when she showed them how to search a file folder effectively or something. *no offense to undead.
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Oct 3, 2018 18:55
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Bee Lives just went through it's 4th stretch goal and I've revealed the next 2. A queen beeple first player marker and final upgrades to card quality.  Also, tonight I am on 2 live streams. The first is with the Meeple Syrup board game design show where I'll be talking about Bee Lives and game design for an hour. You can check that one out on their stream here at 9pm EST: https://www.facebook.com/MeepleSyrup/ The second is on our kickstarter page starting at 10pm EST. I'll be talking with Bebo from Be Bold Games about Bee Lives, bee keeping and just wantever else anyone shows up to ask about. That one is going to be here: https://live.kickstarter.com/matt-shoemaker/live/matt-and-bebo-talk-bee-lives
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Oct 3, 2018 19:05
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That queen bee mini is incredible
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Oct 3, 2018 19:43
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Couldn't it just be Your Kidnapped Friend, go full Scooby Do on things?
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Oct 3, 2018 19:49
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ElegantFugue posted:Couldn't it just be Your Kidnapped Friend, go full Scooby Do on things? Turns out the ghosts were really just
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Oct 3, 2018 19:57
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Your Imperiled Friend. The peril might be kidnapping, being murdered, having their records stolen.
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Bistromatic posted:Turns out the smugglers projecting images against the fog were really just cranky old ghosts. I'd play that.
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Oct 3, 2018 20:53
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A game I think I stuck myself on the mailing list for after seeing coverage of UK Games Expo, if memory serves, launched this week, a story building game called Crime Writers. The game already exists in the original Hungarian, they're funding an English language version and an expansion.
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Oct 3, 2018 21:07
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I do think that I am going to have to back Americana. I don't think I have ever backed a project with the top tier option before, seems like this would be a good one to start with. *Edit* Pulled the trigger on it. Is Dire Penguin an available species? IncredibleIgloo fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Oct 3, 2018 |
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I do think that I am going to have to back Americana. I don't think I have ever backed a project with the top tier option before, seems like this would be a good one to start with. I just saw that, holy heck, thank you! Dire Penguin is, unfortunately, not one of the options we have right now, but for you? Lets talk. edit; seems a good a place to mention as any - depending on the quality of the DriveThruRPG posters, we're looking into sending a poster of the portrait to everyone at that level, and a poster of the town to everyone $75 and up. Plus making the poster of the town something you can buy with the PDF or hardcover for very cheap. Fingers crossed. Nemesis Of Moles fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Oct 3, 2018 |
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Key Flow kickstarter is up https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breese/key-flow Do you think Key Flower would be better if it were a drafting game instead of a bidding game? huh? do you? Do you want more flowery keys, you rear end in a top hat? Better pledge then, motherfucker. And then throw down 22 more euros (like 25 american dollars) for grand total of TWO new tiles for regular-rear end keyflower you complete piece of poo poo.
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Oct 4, 2018 00:27
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I do want those things, I think you'll find.
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Oct 4, 2018 00:38
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Echophonic posted:I do want those things, I think you'll find. yea me too
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Impermanent posted:Key Flow kickstarter is up https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breese/key-flow I was super stoked about this at the rumor stage, but it appears exactly the opposite of what I wanted. I was hoping we'd get a simpler, lighter, smaller-footprint card based game that retained some of Keyflower's wonderful mechanics. Instead, it appears to still have a lot going on with space-devouring tableaus and a million bits, while it departs fairly heavily on mechanics.
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Oct 4, 2018 00:54
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Looks like I'm Americana backer 161! As someone who's been on a fixed income for a large portion of their adult life, I'd like to say thanks for the discounted pledge level. I didn't use it, but I appreciate that it's there.
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Inhuman Conditions has made something like $65k in the last 8 hours; mostly from pushing an update to the Secret Hitler campaign about the new game. All currently known stretch goals have been hit
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Sort of games sort of not, a friend made a tarot deck and has a KS for it I’d like to share. Is there a non TG KS thread?
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