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Spire is definitely less interested in the mechanical impacts of influencing the city, though I actually don't mind that approach given it also explicitly ties mechanical character progression to causing various degrees of narrative tilt in the city as a whole, and also is working from a frame of reference of the cause being inherently somewhat doomed and almost guaranteed to end badly for any single cell of the Ministry.
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Dulkor posted:Spire is definitely less interested in the mechanical impacts of influencing the city, though I actually don't mind that approach given it also explicitly ties mechanical character progression to causing various degrees of narrative tilt in the city as a whole, and also is working from a frame of reference of the cause being inherently somewhat doomed and almost guaranteed to end badly for any single cell of the Ministry. That's true, although I find the advancement schema to be a bit vague since it's based on the degree of impact you've had on the city and, well, there aren't really a lot of real solid guidelines for that. It's not, like, a total dealbreaker, I just really like games that put mechanics to stuff like that. I still recommend checking out the Spire, at the very, very least you could wholesale mash it and Blades together into some unholy abomination and it probably wouldn't come out half bad.
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 Orun is live. Afrofuturist scifi from the pens of people who are responsible for a wide variety of cool poo poo.
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Doctor Zero posted:I never knew I needed a game about taking over all the classical music until now. Symphony no. 9 is exactly this. You play a wealthy music patron paying composers to make music for you, sometimes even causing them to die of stress.
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Jedit posted:Symphony no. 9 is exactly this. You play a wealthy music patron paying composers to make music for you, sometimes even causing them to die of stress. 
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Jedit posted:Symphony no. 9 is exactly this. You play a wealthy music patron paying composers to make music for you, sometimes even causing them to die of stress. This disappointed me, because I wanted a game actually about music, and 9 is not at all that.
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Oct 17, 2018 11:27
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Tekopo posted:I think he was making a joke that I wrote aria instead of area I know he was. But it doesn't hurt that what he wanted exists anyway. I once went into a record shop when such still existed and asked if they had a John Carpenter's Greatest Hits CD, with no idea if such a thing was real. They replied, "Volume 1 or Volume 2?" (I bought both, of course.)
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Er... bit of a cross-post with politics, but I saw this in the D&D Trump thread and it signaled warning signs for me: https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/1052552642294140931 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/trump-china-shipping.html If something like this happens, won't it completely screw up tabletop game prices for stuff produced in China?
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JazzFlight posted:Er... bit of a cross-post with politics, but I saw this in the D&D Trump thread and it signaled warning signs for me: It’ll screw a whole bunch of everything up.
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Diehard Miniature's latest Kickstarter has passed it's first stretch goal, releasing a set of sci-fi cop-and-dog figures based on artwork by the guy who did all the cool artwork for Rogue Stars. There's 19 days to go, and they need another £1500 to open up a gang of bounty hunters. I think the company only sells it figures through various Kickstarters, which is annoying but they have an interesting range. Not-Lizardmen, in traditional Fantasy versions but also ones with mystic, lost-tech guns, undead (Also in fantasy and sci-fi versions), "Chaos" figures that could liven up an Age of Sigmar army or used in the upcoming Sword Marches game being released by the same folks who made Scrappers and Brink of Battle, and humans, dwarfs and elfs in fantasy and sci-fi versions. It's worth checking out to see if there's any figures you think are neat.
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That Old Tree posted:ORUN: Post-Apotheosis Afro-Centric Space Opera RPG is up, from New Agenda (Misha Bushyager, Jerry Grayson, Eloy Lasanta). There utopian future has collapsed, and recovered, and now you're fixers on planet-hopping adventures. Oh man, Eloy teaming up with Jerry and...actually I have no idea who Misha is but she seems cool, too.
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Well, you could do worse for figures to act as allied Imperial Guard- I mean, Astrum Milli-whatever for when GW finally releases those upcoming plastic Sisters of their own...
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Orun looks amazing, definitely a must back. I have enjoyed most of Eloy Lasantas work, so interested to see how this turns out. Lol that Jerry Grayson doesn't mention working on 7th Sea in his bio.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Orun looks amazing, definitely a must back. I have enjoyed most of Eloy Lasantas work, so interested to see how this turns out. In fairness the only stuff he mentions is the stuff he, uh, owns and produces personally. e: also, I just want to note that Jerry is an amazing guy and I've loved every interaction I've ever had with him at cons, he is super personable and nice.
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Jerry Grayson is a very old-sounding name. Like a Law & Order detective or Robin's secret identity or something.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:31
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March of the Ants is one of my favorite 4x games, and the same team is now making Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef. The game looks gorgeous, although I worry about any dice-based game, but seriously, March of the Ants was so good (and pretty hard to find) that I may just pledge on good faith.
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Got my Legacy 2nd in the mail a few days ago. So glad I splurged on the collectors edition, the box set for the settings and the player handouts. They’re all beautiful.
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Anyone have news regarding “The Mountain Witch”? I was hoping to get a copy when it came out but the author appears to have vanished?
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DalaranJ posted:Anyone have news regarding “The Mountain Witch”? I was hoping to get a copy when it came out but the author appears to have vanished? He's closing in on two months overdue on the PDF, hasn't logged into his kickstarter account since August, and multiple attempts by KS and work associates to get in touch with him have failed. It's looking grim.
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Mors Rattus posted:In fairness the only stuff he mentions is the stuff he, uh, owns and produces personally. Oh, I don't doubt it. I was more throwing shade at the massive implosion of 7th Sea that I assume is happening even now.
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i received my copy of panic at the dojo today. very high quality in terms of weight and construction, and the interior looks good. didn't even realize it was on the way so that's a nice surprise
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Speaking of news on things, is there any word on the 7th Sea Khitai book? Or is it not actually late?
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Dawgstar posted:Speaking of news on things, is there any word on the 7th Sea Khitai book? Or is it not actually late? It should be out by january or so iirc? I have no idea wtf implosion is being discussed because they've been steadily releasing content and communicating to backers. Information's actually easy to find even for non backers like me.
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MollyMetroid posted:It should be out by january or so iirc? I have no idea wtf implosion is being discussed because they've been steadily releasing content and communicating to backers. Information's actually easy to find even for non backers like me. 
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Buck Wildman posted:He's closing in on two months overdue on the PDF, hasn't logged into his kickstarter account since August, and multiple attempts by KS and work associates to get in touch with him have failed. It's looking grim. Like real life work associates or KS associates? I got the impression the author isn't a huge fan of the internet. Serf posted:i received my copy of panic at the dojo today. very high quality in terms of weight and construction, and the interior looks good. didn't even realize it was on the way so that's a nice surprise I wish I had played more 4e D&D because I sort of flubbed my first session. It's a great book though.
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That Old Tree posted:ORUN: Post-Apotheosis Afro-Centric Space Opera RPG is up, from New Agenda (Misha Bushyager, Jerry Grayson, Eloy Lasanta). There utopian future has collapsed, and recovered, and now you're fixers on planet-hopping adventures. Same. Also, my copy of Tiny Wastelands showed up, and so far it's pretty good! The sole complaint I have is that the DM screen print is half of a 14x11 sheet of paper, but that's pretty trivial. Looking forward to running this at some point.
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I don't think JWP is imploding, but they've had to downsize. Probably because giving away an entire gameline for an old potato and a wink doesn't rake in the kind of money that can sustain a dozen high production-value books in a couple of years. Also whatever they dumped into the abortive video game and the two go's at the board game. But, really, I don't think anyone knows, and unless Khitai goes a year over and then dies I wouldn't call it an "implosion." Most unfortunate so far is that it appears John Wick will have to take on more of the PR and writing, which is terrible news for everyone.
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That Old Tree posted:I don't think JWP is imploding, but they've had to downsize. Probably because giving away an entire gameline for an old potato and a wink doesn't rake in the kind of money that can sustain a dozen high production-value books in a couple of years. Also whatever they dumped into the abortive video game and the two go's at the board game. But, really, I don't think anyone knows, and unless Khitai goes a year over and then dies I wouldn't call it an "implosion." Doesn't help that they haven't really seen the update on 7th Sea 2e that they wanted because while there's a poo poo-ton of setting for it, the rules are at best unfinished and in all honesty not really good.
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DalaranJ posted:Like real life work associates or KS associates? I got the impression the author isn't a huge fan of the internet. I would suppose KS associates, including literally Kickstarter going by the comments. He sure was active when the KS was going, so fan or not it's not like he can't at least give a status update as the PDF deadline whizzes by and we're a month and a half out from the physical tiers. That's really all I'd want at this point - it's not like he's crazy behind schedule.
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Oh, hey, Strata just unlocked one more stretch goal, and is 800 from the next: FUNDED! £28,000: Ironshrike by Ben Brock. How do you kill a place? The cell must find out: they are ordered to kill an underspire marketplace where a warped sect worships the god of predatory capitalism. Will burning it to the ground be enough, or must they destroy the spirit of the district too? £32,000: Glasshelm by Kira Magrann. Glasshelm is the centre of the aelfir banking network in Spire, and a handful of downtrodden drow are going to ruin it. Taking the ideas of computerised banking and adapting them for a fantasy setting, this scenario leans hard into cyberpunk - but all the hard-drives are the wet brainmeat of captured magicians, and the hacker is a blood-witch with a parasitic intrusion spell curled around her heart. Only 8k more until we get the murderbakery with 27 days to go!
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I had never heard of Spire before, and it is extremely my poo poo. I'll never get to play it though, unless I get to a con where someone is running it. 
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Americana hit its first stretch goal, so Tom's Dead, the audio drama we piloted, is going to get made into a full 6 episode series, and I'm really excited to put that together. Now we're really gunning for that super sentai tokusatsu stretch goal, so I had Andi make a picture of what we envision our versions of the megazord might look like. We've got two weeks left, but it's been a slow week 3, as expected, but I think there's still a reasonable shot at hitting that $10k goal. I reached out to a bunch of tokusatsu fan pages today so hopefully that'll get some new eyes on the project! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/americana-1?ref=567996&token=8141fd55
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First I was 'oh my god, yes' at the pompadour. Then I registered the comb. I have nothing else to offer.
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7TV Apocalypse has arrived. Oh, and apparently Bad Squiddo games is launching a kickstarter of Onna-Bugeisha minis at some point in the near future. LashLightning posted:Well, you could do worse for figures to act as allied Imperial Guard- I mean, Astrum Milli-whatever for when GW finally releases those upcoming plastic Sisters of their own... Speaking of Sisters, the Daughters of the Burning Rose kickstarter have been very communicative, despite running late. It looks like they will be beating GW to the punch, when it comes to release date (as well as maybe even price).
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Yellow King PDFs are out (to backers at least)
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I got a quote for the layout of my game today so I decided to start work on the kickstarter page. How does it look? I didn't get art yet so it's spartan. But how are the basics? I'm going to start search for some art. Make some banners. And do a brief video with some art pieces and public domain music.
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Dinosaur Princess is up from the Sprawl author: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ardensludere/dinosaur-princesses-a-story-game-for-all-ages
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Dortoka: City on the Sea of Glass just sent out the final proofs to backers and I really like it. 54 pages of mostly generators for their billion-year old abandoned city Dortoka. There are lots of nicely-formatted tables with sub-tables if you need them. There are also pretty neat NPC, job, faction name and title generators. One of the raddest things is their method for creating and drawing city streets and wards, and pointcrawl implementation for sandbox gaming. I haven't actually gotten my copy of Vagabonds of the Dyfed, so I can't comment on the overall mechanics of the system, but the generators alone would be of great use for any OSR game, and still pretty good for any game with a need for generating big abandoned city areas.
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SirFozzie posted:Yellow King PDFs are out (to backers at least) Did they ever put out the 13th Age crossover PDF?
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