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Occult Philosophy Kickstarter is live! This supplement adds 800 new spells for Shadow of the Demon Lord, along with some other associated magical content. The add-ons will let you grab just about anything else produced thus far for decent deal prices. Add-ons are pretty neat, what really gets my attention are the two sets of 3 magic-focused adventures designed to be finished in a single session, which could be interesting to see made. SotDL is the best d20 fantasy game you can get imo, and I highly recommend checking this one out.
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Redundant posted:Any thoughts on the playmat version of Catacombs? I have been thinking about buying the game for a while now and apparently all it took was a cheap expansion and some rubber mats. I don't even know if they will make a difference but they look cool and I can use them with some other games too. Is Catacombs any good? I have had 3rd edition sitting on my shelf unplayed for ages and it always looked cool but holy poo poo the playmat upgrade tier is twice what I paid for the base game, and I can't imagine that unless the game is stunning.
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Nov 12, 2018 16:49
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food court bailiff posted:Is Catacombs any good? I have had 3rd edition sitting on my shelf unplayed for ages and it always looked cool but holy poo poo the playmat upgrade tier is twice what I paid for the base game, and I can't imagine that unless the game is stunning. It's solidly mediocre. The evil player has to pull punches and not focus down heroes or it kinda falls apart. Mechanics like poison are also ridiculously dumb with chances of instakills on the weaker heroes. I think it could be an alright one on one game but when we played it with five most of the heroes were bored at their lack of options and everything took a lot longer than it should have.
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Nov 12, 2018 17:19
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food court bailiff posted:Is Catacombs any good? I have had 3rd edition sitting on my shelf unplayed for ages and it always looked cool but holy poo poo the playmat upgrade tier is twice what I paid for the base game, and I can't imagine that unless the game is stunning. It's a fun idea but it is incredibly badly balanced so that the DM player will really struggle not to win.
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Nov 12, 2018 17:54
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I see someone asked (last month) what Jenna was up to, so I might as well point out that she finally has a proper website that can answer these questions for you!
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Nov 12, 2018 18:48
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By the way, in case anyone was wondering about Soda Pop Miniatures / Ninja Division and the state of Super Dungeon Explore: Legends... ehhhhh: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/9wbzoe/super_dungeon_explore_legends_kickstarter_project/ Yeah, they're way outta money and all their other KS projects are probably screwed at the moment.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:53
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JazzFlight posted:By the way, in case anyone was wondering about Soda Pop Miniatures / Ninja Division and the state of Super Dungeon Explore: Legends... ehhhhh: So they were moving money between divisions, more or less? Wow, that's like West End Games going broke because the holding company tried to use its profits to buff their shoe sales.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:59
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In a world where Seal Team Flix exists, I see no need to play Catacombs unless you are opposed to modern warfare as a theme.
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Nov 12, 2018 19:36
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Ninja Division loving up yet another Kickstarter? Can't say I'm surprised, they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
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Nov 12, 2018 19:46
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djfooboo posted:In a world where Seal Team Flix exists, I see no need to play Catacombs unless you are opposed to modern warfare as a theme. It's disappointing to hear that Catacombs isn't all that great. I assumed it might be a pain to set up but the reviews, awards and BGG rating made me think that once it was out it would make for some nice evenings with a few drinks and friends who don't want anything too heavy. I guess for the money though I could just buy 2 or 3 good dexterity games or invest slightly more in an out and out Big Box Game (that I will never get to play). There's always Flick 'em Up! I suppose.
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Nov 12, 2018 21:07
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I just purchased Flick Em Up Dead of Winter, hopefully I'll get to play it over the holidays. From what I can tell it's got much better rules and scenarios than vanilla Flick Em Up.
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Nov 12, 2018 21:16
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God I am just in love with the artwork for the new playable spirits in Spirit Island: Jagged Earth           
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Nov 12, 2018 21:17
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Spirit Island is a great game and worth grabbing if you can. Meanwhile, Savage Worlds Adventure Edition has about 48 hours left, and $25 gets you the PDF and a fuckton of stretch goals. quote:$25 (MSRP $9.99)
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Nov 13, 2018 02:58
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Evil Mastermind posted:Spirit Island is a great game and worth grabbing if you can. Leaving setting issues aside, how does SW work for Deadlands? Like I don't know much about the system, but I'd love a simple system for it. How it does Mad Scientists would be key.
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Nov 13, 2018 03:07
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Dawgstar posted:Leaving setting issues aside, how does SW work for Deadlands? Like I don't know much about the system, but I'd love a simple system for it. How it does Mad Scientists would be key. So there's a generic "bolt" power that's your normal "do damage" effect. If you have the Mage background, then you cast it as a spell and there's danger of a backlash on a bad roll. But if you're a Gadgeteer, then the power is built into a device that has X charges (and can be recharged for free), but can malfunction or be taken away temporarily. Then either way you can attach a damage type to the effect that determines additional effects and you're done.
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Nov 13, 2018 03:16
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I've always thought Savage Worlds' core system was loving boring, but Deadlands' "play poker with the Devil to cast spells" was loving fantastic both thematically and, for the most part, mechanically.
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Nov 13, 2018 03:34
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Evil Mastermind posted:The way Savage Worlds handles powers is by making the effects generic and having players buy specific backgrounds that determine how that effect works in-game. That sounds pretty good. Now to figure out if my budget can take that and Nile Empire coming out later this month.
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Nov 13, 2018 04:00
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Dawgstar posted:Leaving setting issues aside, how does SW work for Deadlands? Like I don't know much about the system, but I'd love a simple system for it. How it does Mad Scientists would be key. It works well enough. It's a simple, easy-to-adapt system, but the Deadlands rules don't add too much to core Savage Worlds. If you like the base game, you'll probably like how it works in Deadlands. If you think SW is too generic or swingy, then new rules for dynamite, dueling, and monsters probably aren't going to win you over here. Players who want to unbalance their characters can do so pretty easily, but since it's Deadlands the GM always has access to something nastier. Even without dipping into the beloved metaplot NPCs, my players often found themselves in situations where they were flying high and mighty mowing down mooks until suddenly they weren't and some nobody with good positioning and a lucky shot put them on the ropes. Characters are strong enough to have a lot of control, but still fragile enough that caution is valuable. The Snakeoil Salesman edge makes social characters even more powerful -- at least against targets that can be socialized against. The new edition is tweaking Charisma to be more situational, so I'm excited about that. The new edition is also making baseline characters slightly more competent by giving them a few free ranks in commonly used skills (Athletics, Common Knowledge, Notice, and Persuasion, I think). Savage Worlds characters don't get a lot of skill points and unskilled dice rolls are pretty difficult, so characters are more in line with the genre they're emulating. Mad Scientists pick up random dementias as they gain access to new devices. I'm not fond of all of the options (since most of them are just -1 or -2 to Charisma plus role-playing hooks), but they're easy enough to house rule. There's also an edge that I've never seen a PC mad scientist not take, that allows them to jury-rig one special device for session. This device can emulate any Power from the mad scientist list and works until it runs out of juice. In practice, it gives them the feel of the character who can do anything, albeit with unexpected constraints. Compared to core Deadlands, which I've played much less, characters are more powerful and the system is far simpler. Hucksters in SW still use poker hands to enhance their spells, but it isn't as necessary or as much of a gamble.
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Nov 13, 2018 04:40
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Lol in an inspiring display of receptiveness to their customer base, the Spirit Island expansion KS announced a wooden expansion box add-on designed to hold everything current. It costs $60 and isn't future-proofed when they've explicitly said more expansions are planned.
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Nov 13, 2018 16:39
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More Spirit Island expansions past the current ones! Wow, I'll already not even experience 1/15th of this game as is.
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Nov 13, 2018 17:06
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Bergnein, a game that was on Kickstarter a few years ago, has been sued by the Berghain bouncer they based the game on
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Nov 13, 2018 18:03
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glitchkrieg posted:Bergnein, a game that was on Kickstarter a few years ago, has been sued by the Berghain bouncer they based the game on "Satire is dead in Sweden" says man who was found to be using a person's likeness to portray a character doing that person's job. Where the gently caress is the satire, and how does it hinge on using this one dude's face?
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Nov 13, 2018 18:08
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Well, how much do you know about Berghain?
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Nov 13, 2018 18:08
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Essentially nothing, so all I've got it 'they made a game about it' and 'this one dude's likeness was used.' In cases of individuals and their personal appearance or creations (as opposed to eternal hellcorps), tho, I am habitually inclined to side with the owner of the likeness/creation when it comes to copyright stuff.
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Nov 13, 2018 18:33
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glitchkrieg posted:Well, how much do you know about Berghain? Well, it’s about 10 minutes’ walk away from me.
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Buck Wildman posted:Lol in an inspiring display of receptiveness to their customer base, the Spirit Island expansion KS announced a wooden expansion box add-on designed to hold everything current. It costs $60 and isn't future-proofed when they've explicitly said more expansions are planned. Yeah, that whole thing is baffling to me. Apparently people wanted a solution to the lid-lift that the Broken Token insert add-on is said to create. This doesn't seem like a substantial enough problem to warrant direct publisher action to me, given that lid-lift is a pretty common and most of the time mainly cosmetic issue when using aftermarket organizers or trying to combine expansions into a base game box. But a non-future-proof complete box replacement that costs as much as the expansion they're Kickstarting and doesn't come with the insert that was at issue to begin with seems like a particularly niche solution to said problem. Don't get me wrong, Broken Token does nice work and I just put together their Flash Point: Fire Rescue crate and consider it worth every penny. But that's a solution for a game where the product line is (afaik) complete, there's only three products in the whole line with boxes, none particularly capacious, and most expansions consisted of shrinkwrapped game boards. So a full hand-assembled storage solution makes perfect sense. Spirit Island...maybe one of these days, but certainly not while we're only on expansion #2 and everything still fits in the (lovely) original game box.
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Nov 14, 2018 01:20
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Did anyone that backed Sword of the Bastard Elf get the hardcover? I'm just now looking at the rewards and the thing must be absolutely massive. How big is this thing?
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LongDarkNight posted:Did anyone that backed Sword of the Bastard Elf get the hardcover? I'm just now looking at the rewards and the thing must be absolutely massive. How big is this thing? Large, like the size of a full-size dictionary. You can put it in a bag or backpack with little issue, but you'd look conspicuous carrying it around in your hands. E: just measured and it's about 10X2.5 inches. Buck Wildman fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Nov 14, 2018 02:49
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LongDarkNight posted:Did anyone that backed Sword of the Bastard Elf get the hardcover? I'm just now looking at the rewards and the thing must be absolutely massive. How big is this thing? I got the softcover and even that is huge. The hardcover is significantly bigger, seems like it would be too unwieldy to me.
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It's not small. 
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Nov 14, 2018 03:24
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Holy poo poo.
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Nov 14, 2018 03:31
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What the gently caress is that thing?
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Nov 14, 2018 03:44
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Covok posted:What the gently caress is that thing? A choose your own adventure RPG book in the vein of Fighting Fantasy books but with more humor.
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Nov 14, 2018 03:47
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Any thoughts on the Barrage ks ending in less than a hour, I meant to check it out more but outside life has kept me busy to say the least. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craniocreations/barrage/
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Nov 14, 2018 16:14
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EverettLO posted:A choose your own adventure RPG book in the vein of Fighting Fantasy books but with more humor.   Oh, of loving course it's Lamentations of the Flame Princess. EDIT: Quoted the wrong post, sorry! GimpInBlack fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Nov 14, 2018 16:34
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Strata the Expansion for Spire's KS ends tomorrow. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/strata-a-spire-rpg-sourcebook/ The £60 level will get you a copy of Spire in hardcover too.
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GimpInBlack posted:
It's about gaining powers via magical menstruation, if that helps.
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Dinosaur Princesses ends in a few hours. It's by the author of The Sprawl. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ardensludere/dinosaur-princesses-a-story-game-for-all-ages/ quote:Decide what type of Dinosaur you are (a t-rex, ankylosaurs, or platypus perhaps!) and what type of Princess you are (maybe an aquanaut, zookeeper, or chef!). Remember that, just like your type of dinosaur isn’t limited by strict definitions of “dinosaur”, your princess isn’t limited to being a girl—everyone can be a Dinosaur Princess! After you decide what your Dinosaur Princess is like, you then start the very important step of drawing and colouring your Dinosaur Princess. Now gather your friends, build up group dice pool, and overcome all the obstacles and problems that the Palaeontologist throws your way! 
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djfooboo posted:I'm so pumped for Street Masters, not looking forward to the waiting game I've decided to go in for the reprint of the base game. Watched a bunch of videos on people playing it and honestly it hits most of my buttons.
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