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Antivehicular posted:On that subject, and getting back on topic, does anyone have any info on Flying Circus? I know backer emails have indicated it's still in the works and being refined, but I recall some people being more in the loop on the dev process. That game seems like it's likely to succeed in ways Night Witches failed. Erika's hard at work, especially with the plane creation rules.
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Remember that cryptic 7th Sea 2e update back a while ago?quote:After reviewing the company finances in August, I discovered JWP was not making enough to sustain its current work force. And so, in the ugliest and hardest day of my life, I had to lay off all the JWP employees.
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Who's up for Samurai action...without John Wick or L5R? Though the creator did work on stuff for 7th Sea Second edition.
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LeSquide posted:Who's up for Samurai action...without John Wick or L5R? I'll have to see if it has preview rules later to confirm, but I hope this is good. 
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I am excited to see if Khitai backers get anything substantial at any point. Also, they are going to get one white man's voice about Asian cultures, at best.
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New Sword and Sorcery KS is up. One of my favorite games. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ares-games/sword-and-sorcery-ancient-chronicles?ref=user_menu Basically new core set, 5 new heroes, bunch of new enemies. New features include overworld map exploration, city map exploration, crafting gear, mercenary companions, minion horde type enemies.
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Lemon-Lime posted:I'll have to see if it has preview rules later to confirm, but I hope this is good. There are preview rules.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I am excited to see if Khitai backers get anything substantial at any point. Also, they are going to get one white man's voice about Asian cultures, at best. Well, I assume most of the writers on that would have been freelancers, right? The people who are losing out from this are likely editors, production managers, art directors etc.
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Khitai is shaping up to maybe be my first Kickstarter bust. I guess this shows me for backing heavy into it after my group had a lot of fun with a couple pick up games of 2e during Gen Con two years ago.
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So I'm guessing Wick focused too hard on multimedia and not the thing that was making him money? And probably not even that much, because RPGs?
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Dawgstar posted:So I'm guessing Wick focused too hard on multimedia and not the thing that was making him money? And probably not even that much, because RPGs?
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Yea, bummer, dude clearly pushed way too hard to turn a successful KS into some kinda multimedia empire and...yea...Now I'm gonna be surprised if I get anything from the rest of the 7th seas books or Kihtai.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I am excited to see if Khitai backers get anything substantial at any point. Also, they are going to get o I'm glad I didn't back Khitai either but 7th Seas has a lot of content already, to the point where you could run a very full campaign without running out of material.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I'm glad I didn't back Khitai either but 7th Seas has a lot of content already, to the point where you could run a very full campaign without running out of material. I mean, that value of the stuff I have gotten out of the 7th Sea kickstarter so far is already well worth the price of admission. I even back for the physical core book and two other supplement books. I have been playing in a 7th Sea campaign since almost the launch of the core book, but while I have enjoyed the system well enough it wasn't exactly amazing enough to want a whole different game line that could have easily been 7th Sea 2nd supplements just like the Africa of MIddle East books. But the delays were starting to get noticable, and there were still alot of undelivered books in the first kickstarter when the Khatai one started. Getting like 10 or 15 books for 65 bucks with super high production values seemed insane at the time, and look how it played out.
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Covok posted:Wait, what happened with Kihtai? Hasn't come out yet, will likely be heavily delayed now due to there now being only one permanent employee at John Wick Presents, that being John Wick.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Getting like 10 or 15 books for 65 bucks with super high production values seemed insane at the time, and look how it played out. Who could have guessed?
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I mean, that value of the stuff I have gotten out of the 7th Sea kickstarter so far is already well worth the price of admission. I even back for the physical core book and two other supplement books. I have been playing in a 7th Sea campaign since almost the launch of the core book, but while I have enjoyed the system well enough it wasn't exactly amazing enough to want a whole different game line that could have easily been 7th Sea 2nd supplements just like the Africa of MIddle East books. But the delays were starting to get noticable, and there were still alot of undelivered books in the first kickstarter when the Khatai one started. Yeah, the value given at the all the books level was incredible but I guess that was part of the problem, a lesser one to Wick's hubris I guess. The game itself is alright, nothing I'm crazy about but if people wanted to play it, I wouldn't say no. The workload they had the starting of a new project before the first was finished was also a red flag to me. It was that, personal finances, and just not being grabbed by what they had made me turn it down.
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Mors Rattus posted:Hasn't come out yet, will likely be heavily delayed now due to there now being only one permanent employee at John Wick Presents, that being John Wick. My emotions! First, I went "oh, phew, I thought y'all were talking about Kamigakari." But, then I realized I actually did back Khitai! For $60! Womp-womp.
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If it helps, I've bought all the 7th Sea 2E stuff separately. Apparently I was the only one.
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I bought all the 7th Sea 2e stuff separately. The system is terrible, but the setting books are amazing.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I bought all the 7th Sea 2e stuff separately. The system is terrible, but the setting books are amazing. I think it was quantum Ninja who proved that mathematically you can't ever tell if you optimize your die roll or not. Which really says a lot about your system when computer scientists are telling you that it's impossible to ever tell if you optimized a single roll in the game, not character creation just a roll.
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Covok posted:I think it was quantum Ninja who proved that mathematically you can't ever tell if you optimize your die roll or not. Which really says a lot about your system when computer scientists are telling you that it's impossible to ever tell if you optimized a single roll in the game, not character creation just a roll. I mean I get that it's a math problem, but this lived in theory-land not the table. It's everything else that is the problem.
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Covok posted:I think it was quantum Ninja who proved that mathematically you can't ever tell if you optimize your die roll or not. Which really says a lot about your system when computer scientists are telling you that it's impossible to ever tell if you optimized a single roll in the game, not character creation just a roll. You piqued my interest here... but I don't think this is correct. I don't know the game well, but it looks like you roll some D10s, and divide them into groups totaling 10 or more. Obviously this is a trivial computational problem with realistic numbers of dice. But regardless of the number of dice (n), there's a solution in P because the dice are interchangeable within a maximum of 10 sets. With arbitrary die faces/group-totals you'd need a 2^n memo, but here you can use a n^10 one (for the naive algorithm, obviously in practice there's a lot of valid greedy optimizations like "each 10 can automatically be counted as a group").
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I'm just going to say this. I'm an accountant. I specialize in tax accounting. I do addition and subtraction and rarely multiplication. I did division once. When a computer scientist said this and made an argument, I believe them. I'm starting to think I may have been miscorrect in my trust.
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Covok posted:I'm just going to say this. I'm an accountant. I specialize in tax accounting. I do addition and subtraction and rarely multiplication. I did division once. When a computer scientist said this and made an argument, I believe them. I'm starting to think I may have been miscorrect in my trust. e: It's basically like saying you need to know calculus to catch a thrown ball. The game is not a good game, but acting like it requires an advanced math degree is just bonkers.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978262034/ugears-games-unique-mechanical-devices-for-tableto Tired of fighting with your troublesome deckbox only to drop your cards everywhere? https://i.imgur.com/nGiqBXo.mp4 THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY https://i.imgur.com/2Pm0hFQ.mp4 WELL NOW THERE IS! INTRODUCING THE UGEARS DECKBOX! https://i.imgur.com/FkFTKdm.mp4
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978262034/ugears-games-unique-mechanical-devices-for-tableto I am pretty tired of how tight some game boxes are. I've got a brand new copy of Narabi here and I can barely get the lid off. On the other hand, I just pull out the long edges slightly and shake the box gently to slide it out part way, after which I can get a grip on both halves. I don't try to open games by throwing the box around while holding it by the lid like a tantruming child. (I admit though, as an owner of Arkham Horror I do like how the many piles of mockup cards in the card holder are all labelled "Some Game About Cthulhu".) Jedit fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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That deck box looks cute, but it also looks like it'll rattle itself to death in my backpack before it even makes it to the gaming table.
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jmzero posted:You piqued my interest here... but I don't think this is correct. I don't know the game well, but it looks like you roll some D10s, and divide them into groups totaling 10 or more. Obviously this is a trivial computational problem with realistic numbers of dice. The problem is very solvable, I did an implementation using dynamic programming a while back. It's just a bit awkward because if you're rolling eight dice and trying to figure out which you should group into 15s and which you should group into 10s to get as many successes as possible can take a bit of thinking at times, which is the opposite of what you want in a dice system.
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I normally wouldn't do this, but it's friend of a friend stuff. A mad group of boardgame designers from Lappland have been caravanning round Europe since January attempting to complete the grand tour of all 23 major conventions, compiling a photo book as they go. They have just two left to finish the lap. Unfortunately, their car engine blew on the way out of Essen and now they're stuck on the way to Munich in need of money. They have thusly elected to set up a quick Kickstarter selling their book once it's done, recordings of Finnish poetry recitals, and anything else they can think of. So if anyone wants to support them, it will be welcomed.
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Ratoslov posted:That deck box looks cute, but it also looks like it'll rattle itself to death in my backpack before it even makes it to the gaming table. yea I actually genuinely AM quite tired of how 'standard' deckboxes can be but that doesn't really look like what I want either. Nifty design though, and points for cleverness, but yea it feels like they're replacing the problem of 'I'm sick of how some deck boxes can be super tight and awkward' by going 'well how about this much easier to access box that you probably shouldn't put in a backpack or messenger bag where it could bounce?' That said I may jump in on the card holder/dice tower combo level.
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Covok posted:I'm just going to say this. I'm an accountant. I specialize in tax accounting. I do addition and subtraction and rarely multiplication. I did division once. When a computer scientist said this and made an argument, I believe them. I'm starting to think I may have been miscorrect in my trust. I have been a computer programmer for over 30 years. I do EVERYTHING with a calculator. Nothing about programming makes you good at math, or vice-versa.
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978262034/ugears-games-unique-mechanical-devices-for-tableto sexpig by night posted:Nifty design though, and points for cleverness, but yea it feels like they're replacing the problem of 'I'm sick of how some deck boxes can be super tight and awkward' by going 'well how about this much easier to access box that you probably shouldn't put in a backpack or messenger bag where it could bounce?' I like the look of the kickstarter one, but if you have access to a 3d printer there are a bunch of geared deckboxes available for print, like this one or this one. I do want that GM screen and a set of the cards used in the promo shots. I don't know what I'd use knockoff CoC or whatever cards for, but I'm sure I'd find something.
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Getting a card holder for Eldritch Horror was seriously one of the best accessories I ever bought. Then an app came out to replace most of the cards, so.
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GrandpaPants posted:Getting a card holder for Eldritch Horror was seriously one of the best accessories I ever bought. Then an app came out to replace most of the cards, so. Same but for Gloomhaven on like 80% of the components.
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I like how the black and white part of the faux infomercial isn't in black and white and uses a box that nobody would ever use as a deck box. That's like....something you'd buy a cheap necklace pendant in.
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So, could someone smarter or better informed than me explain what just happened on the Horrors of War CoC kickstarter? They just updated and said the co-author of 3 of the 8 scenarios is dropping out and demanding his work get pulled. Is this dead in the water? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460966263/horrors-of-war-a-convenant-with-death
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