|
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/termination-shock-the-print-version Greg Stolze has a new sci-fi RPG out on KS. Termination Shock is about : quote:in broad strokes, the Sol system of the future is unjust and unfriendly, with rogue killer AIs infesting the deep edges of its orbit while transhumans at the core monopolize the best tech and the prime real estate. Squished uncomfortably between are colonists on Mars, asteroid belt miners, and the merchants who supply them.
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2018 04:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 09:45 |
|
|
clockworkjoe posted:Greg Stolze has a new sci-fi RPG out on KS. Termination Shock is about : Oh hell yes. This looks quite cool.
|
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2018 05:06
|
|
|
I listened to some of the podcast and I am down for getting a printing copy of the rules.
|
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2018 05:16
|
|
|
The Nile Empire KS is live, and already funded.
|
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2018 17:06
|
|
|
The Fireball Island ks arrived, everything accounted for and it rules. There's been a few reported issues like some board pieces don't lie flat (one of mine doesn't but it's fine) or the box is poo poo (it is) but this generally appears to have been a successful run. Even my wife likes the game and she normally rolls her eyes any time a package for me shows up.
|
|
#
?
Nov 28, 2018 19:28
|
|
|
I like the components of this game. Also I like how the kickstarter pitch video is so short and then just cuts off. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/subquark/mint-tin-mini-skulduggery Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tldo0sTRgR0 That's uh That video doesn't do much of good job making the game look fun huh 
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 04:30
|
|
|
FirstAidKite posted:I like the components of this game. Also I like how the kickstarter pitch video is so short and then just cuts off. Roll, nothing, roll, nothing, roll, nothing, roll, nothing, roll... ooh, 1 point. Roll, nothing... Edit: wtf, it's funded?! JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Nov 29, 2018 |
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 04:44
|
|
|
Wish the Stolze KS went into a a little more rule detail since I don't much feel like listening through the podcast to figure out how the game plays. Still, it's Stolze so he's gonna get my money in the end.
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 04:49
|
|
|
I have my Reaper 4 pledge all locked in, mostly for the larger individual buys and scenery, but I have to say I hate some of the groupings they have done for miniatures, plus the difficulty of getting individual miniatures from those groupings later on. For example, they have two $50 pledge parts, one being the Darkreach Expansion, which I only want the Cave Spider from, and the other being fan favourites, which I would like to get the Tidal Lurker, Zombie Shark, and perhaps the Mammoth from (depending on size). What's the best place to look for these miniatures after the kickstarter? eBay I am guessing? If anyone is getting any of the above and doesn't want or is selling any of those, could you let me know? Preference would be for people in Australia.
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 13:17
|
|
|
Someone ought to remake the Reaper Bones thread, I got angry about the Bones 3 shipping fiasco and people stopped posting, so now it's in archives e: I'll do it as penance, give me a few NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Nov 29, 2018 |
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 13:35
|
|
|
Speaking of reaper bones, the kickstarter pledges are being made in china still, right? will they be clobbered by the tariffs come january first or do they somehow fall under something not hosed by them?
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 13:53
|
|
|
I wonder about that as well, since I have my "HATE" kickstarter due sometime in January, and I wonder if they're going to charge us Aussies the new 10%GST on the goods, and the US the tariff costs. If they charge Aussies for ours and not the US for theirs, I am going to be really loving pissed, again. They screwed us over when it came to postage rates, this would be just another slap in the face...
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 13:57
|
|
|
Here, I made a new one https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3875741
|
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2018 14:42
|
|
|
Well with 24 hours to go, Thousand Arrows is actually blowing up bigger than I thought it would. They're close to hitting both the 900 backer stretch goal for an Imjin War expansion as well as a color art upgrade. The cyberpunk hack stretch goal is still a ways off but hell, I didn't figure they'd get this much late backing in the first place so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2018 00:39
|
|
|
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dirtcheapdungeons/dirt-cheap-dungeons-portable-rpg-gaming-accessorie?ref=602797&token=e8a45d53 I don't remember seeing anybody link this one yet. The tokens aren't overly exciting, but the walls seem to be a good price.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2018 17:17
|
|
|
The Dark Project posted:I have my Reaper 4 pledge all locked in, mostly for the larger individual buys and scenery, but I have to say I hate some of the groupings they have done for miniatures, plus the difficulty of getting individual miniatures from those groupings later on. They eventually just come out as retail releases, don't they?
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 02:58
|
|
|
Redundant posted:Are we talking about Reichbusters? Bust those reichs. It helps that I like painting miniatures and these look really cool, and thanks to the insane number of stretch goals it's going to end up coming with a stupid number of them. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 03:14
|
|
|
Xenomrph posted:I'm a huge sucker for Weird War II stuff and if I didn't back this then the bomb surgically implanted at the base of my skull would have gone off, so I backed the poo poo out of this without hesitation. My bomb is going to blow any moment now. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 03:50
|
|
|
long-rear end nips Diane posted:They eventually just come out as retail releases, don't they? For some of them, but I have been looking for others on the Reaper site and they don't seem to be available. Unless my search-fu is broken...
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 09:14
|
|
|
Also even if they do come out as regular releases, they're often quite a bit pricier as expected than the kickstarter. The Vampire Pledge was $100 for the KS and the retail version was what, 400?
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 10:55
|
|
|
Yeah, pretty much this. I'd rather go looking on ebay where I might get it significantly cheaper before Reaper offers it for general sale.
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 11:14
|
|
|
The one advantage to only backing 15mm and 1/72 miniature kickstarters is that my wallet gets to survive awesome poo poo like reichbusters.
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 11:43
|
|
|
Xenomrph posted:I'm a huge sucker for Weird War II stuff and if I didn't back this then the bomb surgically implanted at the base of my skull would have gone off, so I backed the poo poo out of this without hesitation. Plus these are the guys that basically did Mythic Battles: Pantheon, which is a good game with a billion miniatures too. The miniature quality is very good compared to some games that feature a lot of crappy plastics.
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 17:18
|
|
|
Is anyone getting Pipeline? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/capstonegames/pipeline-0 I saw shut up and sit down said good things but I'm not sure if this is gonna be one of those kickstarters I'll be gutted to miss by.a.teammate fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Dec 2, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2018 18:54
|
|
|
Bunnies and Burrows just went to backerkit to finalize shipping a few days ago, and a lot of users are being hit with what seem like pretty ridiculous shipping prices. As in $50-$80 US to ship to places like Canada and Australia, which is more than the cost of the initial hardcover pledge. Some backers are kinda pissed about it (like me, for instance.) Never would have backed if they'd been up front about shipping costs.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 14:05
|
|
|
Frog God always have incredibly high non-US shipping, from what I've heard. This may be justified and other companies are taking a loss or using a workaround? Or they may just not care to try to lower it. For their Tegel KS they're slapping on an extra $15 insurance for international shipments, apparently replacing lost or damaged items has been costing them way too much. E: just checking their online store, a fairly hefty book costs $80 to ship to the UK, but then it is a 500 page hardback. I don't buy enough stuff over the Atlantic to know how sane that is. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Dec 8, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 14:17
|
|
|
I never back foreign projects unless they list their shipping costs in advance anymore. Some of them are just absurd.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 14:40
|
|
|
Yeah, unfortunately, international shipping has gone bugfuck nuts in the last few years. I don't know if there's anything Frog God could do about it that they aren't (I think a common approach is to do a bulk shipment to a more local fulfillment company), but the raw fact that international shipping is terrible is a constant, alas.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 18:17
|
|
|
$50+ for a single book is absurd, even at current rates. I order a fair amount of stuff from Stateside outfits that don't have sweetheart shipping deals, and I've never seen costs that high for books or small packages.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 20:34
|
|
|
90s Cringe Rock posted:E: just checking their online store, a fairly hefty book costs $80 to ship to the UK, but then it is a 500 page hardback. I don't buy enough stuff over the Atlantic to know how sane that is. It's loving insanely high.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 23:21
|
|
|
Bieeanshee posted:$50+ for a single book is absurd, even at current rates. I order a fair amount of stuff from Stateside outfits that don't have sweetheart shipping deals, and I've never seen costs that high for books or small packages. The only time I've ever paid $50+ to have something shipped to me, it was airmail from Japan, and I only did it because I wanted the extra insurance.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2018 23:43
|
|
|
by.a.teammate posted:Is anyone getting Pipeline? Waiting for just the regular retail release from capstone. If you’re looking for heavy economic you should go for city of big shoulders instead.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2018 01:42
|
|
|
I believe for the Bunnies & Burrows one you did have the option to go for a PoD version of the book which, obviously, would come from whichever DriveThru printer was closest you, so it's not like they didn't have an option to minimise international shipping costs. Still, you have to wonder why their costs are as high as they are.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2018 02:19
|
|
|
So Spire: Strata: The Supplement for the Spire Kickstarter has a recent update that includes this:quote:We have a contingency fund for customs fees in the case of a very messy Brexit. Unfortunately, on this one, if our production schedule does run past March 29, we might be in a position where we need to pay customs fees for EU backers, or all sorts of other potential shenanigans. We have set aside a significant contingency fund for this, so that if something hideous does happen we will definitely be in a position to ship your books to you regardless. And, if the worst doesn’t happen and things go well, we should be in a position to reduce shipping costs across the board. Which I primarily wanted to call out as just being pretty great of them. It's also just kind of depressing that it's even necessary to think about this kind of thing, but that's just the weird hellscape we live in.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2018 20:32
|
|
|
That Old Tree posted:So Spire: Strata: The Supplement for the Spire Kickstarter has a recent update that includes this: Yeah, that gets a lot of props from me. It's a major concern on a number of my backed projects and they're the first group to actually take steps to account for it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2018 23:13
|
|
|
So I got a notification that Kevin Crawford backed a thing and I think he's right. This looks gorgeous and brilliant. One of those inventive rpg books that also serves as a gorgeous artifact. Silent Titans  
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:22
|
|
|
Holy gently caress, I want that... but I don't think a PDF will do it justice, and I can't justify spending that kind of money on an adventure module.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 06:12
|
|
|
Buck Wildman posted:Yeah, that gets a lot of props from me. It's a major concern on a number of my backed projects and they're the first group to actually take steps to account for it. I've got like 2.5k in it so I'm hoping everything goes well.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 11:56
|
|
|
That Old Tree posted:So Spire: Strata: The Supplement for the Spire Kickstarter has a recent update that includes this: Yeah, that sold me on upping my pledge in backerkit. I'm just getting PDFs anyway, but good behavior like that makes me want to give them money.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 13:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 09:45 |
|
|
Upped mine too for some of the smaller expansion PDFs. Kinda want them now rather than in two months, though.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 13:22
|
|
