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Re: Unbroken, I really hope it doesn't turn into a clusterfuck because the game looks like it will be a ton of fun with all the extras that were unlocked, and we're so close to getting it. They did say that they'd be sending out emails after all the deliveries are complete, to ask if anyone wants to donate the extra 10 bucks or whatever to help them recoup the extra shipping costs. It seemed like most folks who responded to the update on KS had no problem with this (I'd think even more people would be willing to do it once they get the game and get a sense of just how nice of a product it is) but if it turns out that Golden Bell tried to pull a fast one then it could have a huge negative impact on people's good will towards the project. It sucks for Artem because he seems like such a genuinely good dude who sympathizes with everyone involved and just wants people to be able to play his game above all else.
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Chubbs posted:Re: Unbroken, I really hope it doesn't turn into a clusterfuck because the game looks like it will be a ton of fun with all the extras that were unlocked, and we're so close to getting it. Yeah, Artem seems genuinely nice, then Golden Bell Studios fights people in the comments and acts like they have little control over anything that's going on. Talking about how Canadian businesses have been selling the game for weeks already: quote:@Patrick very frustrating for us too (the distributor hasn’t even paid us AND we told them to hold it till we after fulfilled the KS) were going to go to Canada and visit Artem hang at S@L for a Canadian launch so expect it mid July sorry for the delay that is def annoying and frustrating for us too Wonder if it's money mismanagement where they had to sell retail copies to pay to ship backers games. Whatever it is, this isn't exactly stellar service.
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Speaking as someone who’d been approached by Golden Bell in the past, they seem pretty shady and have a long string of unfulfilled kickstarters behind them. Thankfully I had a lawyer friend look over the contract they sent and tell me all the red flags before anything was signed.
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Flavivirus posted:Speaking as someone who’d been approached by Golden Bell in the past, they seem pretty shady and have a long string of unfulfilled kickstarters behind them. Thankfully I had a lawyer friend look over the contract they sent and tell me all the red flags before anything was signed.
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Flavivirus posted:Speaking as someone who’d been approached by Golden Bell in the past, they seem pretty shady and have a long string of unfulfilled kickstarters behind them. Thankfully I had a lawyer friend look over the contract they sent and tell me all the red flags before anything was signed. They're responding to basically everyone in the comments, and are just embarrassing themselves. I've never seen a company rep act so petty in their kickstarter comments. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1227872561/unbroken-a-solo-game-of-survival-and-revenge/comments
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They get mentioned all the time in the Tabletop Publisher facebook groups. No one has had a good experience with Golden Bell, end consumer or publisher.
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nesbit37 posted:They get mentioned all the time in the Tabletop Publisher facebook groups. No one has had a good experience with Golden Bell, end consumer or publisher. There's a ton of people in the comments also not having a good experience with them. How is this in any way useful to post: quote:Golden Bell StudiosCollaborator
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What's the situation for Unbroken shipping to the UK? I keep trying to look but getting distracted by the shiny golden trainwreck.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:What's the situation for Unbroken shipping to the UK? I keep trying to look but getting distracted by the shiny golden trainwreck. quote:Golden Bell StudiosCollaborator I don't know UK's shipping status, but whatever the situation is, it is really inconveniencing them.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/amazons-and-dwarves-quality-28mm-female-miniatures/ Bad Squiddo Games' Amazons & Dwarves Kickstarter is in the last 24 hours with pretty much everything unlocked... INCLUDING A NOOGIE VIGNETTE! 
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Funzo posted:Didn't see this posted yet, but there's an Iron Clays Kickstarter. Get a set of 100 for around $40 US. I helped a lot of goons on the last kickstarter. If other goons are interested, I will jump in as a group buy, but otherwise I'm saving up for another kickstarter.
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Last few houuuurs https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/amazons-and-dwarves-quality-28mm-female-miniatures 
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Finally got Lords of Hellas Titan pledge. Jesus christ there's a lot of stuff. Component quality is really nice and the mini sculpts are amazing, but the sundrop paintjob turned out to be disappointing compared to the original style they were using before. They apparently changed techniques between the first and second waves (no doubt to save time and money), and now it's not zenithal highlighting so much as it's "spray white, then spray with black wash". They aren't all bad but some of them are pretty bad. Apparently by the time they made Nemesis, they'd improved on the technique and those look a lot better. Also they changed card cuts for the small cards in the base game and the expansion so when you stack them all together, there's a visible difference between the two.  There aren't that many small cards in the game though so it'll just take a few sleeves to fix the issue.Still can't wait to get it on the table, though. It's gonna look amazing. Chubbs fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Chubbs posted:Also they changed card cuts for the small cards in the base game and the expansion so when you stack them all together, there's a visible difference between the two. I agree with your other points, the sundrop is inconsistent, but I still think it's better than just plain gray plastic. I'm extremely lazy and haven't painted any of my board game minis (aside from a few sample ones a couple years ago), so I probably wouldn't have gotten around to the massive number that come with Lords of Hellas. The spotty weathered look works well if you think of all the figures as statues. I will say that the sheer number of extra expansion modules is freaking awesome. There's a ton of variety and some guy on BGG came up with a good house rule variant to play with all of them in a 2-player game (with custom win condition values). He mentioned that changing the monster hunt victory to a glory token victory works better. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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JazzFlight posted:On BGG, the developer said to file a support ticket at https://gamefound.freshdesk.com/support/solutions to request the 5 new Neutral Artifact cards replaced. They're going to be reprinting those specific cards so that they match the core set since they're shuffled into that mini deck. Perfect, thanks. I do enjoy mini painting but I figured sundrop would give me the excuse to not have to paint anything from LOH so I can get it on the table asap and then spend my painting time doing other things. I do like the idea of everything having that statuesque look, and plain gray minis just look the worst, so it's definitely better than nothing. At this point I might still paint the heroes to make them pop out more on the table. And for sure, the sheer amount of content is mind blowing. I love that on top of everything there's the Kronos 1 vs all variant with it's own gameplay and rulebook (and the Kronos "mini" is ridiculously cool). It would be nice if there was a way to store and transport everything in a more efficient way without having to lug around all the boxes. I'm gonna see if any craft storage containers would do the trick (like these jobbies) edit: do you know what the deal is with Pandora's Box? Chubbs fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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My trip report on Joan of Arc is delayed a bit. It turns out that the game has about a million components, and I did not even go all in. This game is most definitely not a quick set up game; looking like it might take Arkham Horror levels of time. First impressions are : -Character cards are nice and very large. They seem to add a lot of character to the unique characters and makes it easy to find them compared to regular units. -Unit cards are nice enough. -Cardboard terrain pieces are thick and nice, with a decent amount of variety. -Miniature quality seems really quite good for the human sized units, and degrades slightly as you increase in size. I do not have the Dragon, but "The beast" 6 headed manticore thing or whatever seems nice, but, maybe like a bit soft/blurred if that makes sense? -Rule book and scenario book are nice. -The miniatures for the houses and churches are really nice. Probably the highlight of the set. Looking forward to seeing more buildings in wave 2. -A lot of the generic units, such as archers and men at arms are not nation specific. This reduces the amount of miniatures you need, but if you plan on painting them, be careful not to paint them in a way to make them married to one faction, or it might be difficult to tell them apart. The game does come with colored base things that attach to the bases to help with this though. Seems like a lot of bang for the buck, will report on how the game actually plays or feels shortly. But, it is a chore to get going.
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Chubbs posted:Perfect, thanks. I haven't looked into the Pandora's Box expansion or the secret "when you win 3 games" envelope since I'd rather keep them as surprises.
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Looks like we’re having a Forged in the Dark Dungeon Keeper.
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Trying to squeeze an explicitly-mapped tower defense style game where layout and tactics matter into the Blades in the Dark quasi-PBTA framework seems counterproductive.
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Eh, you can do a lot with frameworks you wouldn't expect, if you know what you want from it. Frameworks are tools, not rules.
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If you back Kamigakari: God Hunters, they posted an update soon that said they'll be charging BackerKIts soon:Amy posted:Hi. Amy here. This should have been in the update earlier, but by the time I thought to ask it, the thirty-minute window I'm given to edit my updates had closed.
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Ugh, I am so torn between getting the physical book for Hard Wired Island and getting the PDF and notes. I feel like the book would make it an easier sell to get to the table but...
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Zurui posted:Ugh, I am so torn between getting the physical book for Hard Wired Island and getting the PDF and notes. I feel like the book would make it an easier sell to get to the table but... Get the book, especially since the print goal was met. Got my copy of Strata today, and goddamn is there some good art in here. Also a lot of stuff you can use; the four cults at the back of the book have real gameplay hooks and some interesting powers, Metaphysical Amputation This advance is only usable once. You may either a) remove a word or phrase from your character sheet, or b) remove a word or phrase from the copy of Spire that your GM is using to run the game. Reality will warp to accommodate the edit.  Goddamn but they made some really meta, really powerful High-tier advances.
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mllaneza posted:Get the book, especially since the print goal was met. Yeah, I'm gonna try very hard to make it an excellent-looking book!
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Oh, and since it hasn't been posted lately, Hard Wired Island only has a day to go:Ettin posted:Hey folks! I'm Kickstarting Hard Wired Island, a retrofuture cyberpunk game.
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Hearts of Wulin is heading into its last 48 hours. From the preview rules, it seems to be a good PbtA game that understands its source material pretty well. There's also a social stretch goal people can help with by tweeting wuxia NPCs at them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/hearts-of-wulin/posts/2521195
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Baron Snow posted:A buddy of mine is doing a miniatures Kickstarter, so check it out if you're looking for some monstrous figs. Add-on's should probably be corrected
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I kickstarted Impulse Drive last september/october, and the final PDF is here! The physical proofs are on their way and I'm in line to deliver print codes late june/early july. You can pick up 2 extra ship playbooks, the Outpost and the Pioneer to expand the types of settings you can have mechanical support for. And if you want to check the game out & don't want to see all of Claudia's amazing art, you can still get the Pay What You Want version for free or a little more. It has only my art & layout, but the text is the same as the paid version.
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The project I mentioned earlier is live! I'm working with the San Jenaro Co-Op to help produce their first Kickstarter, the Roleplayer's Guide To Heists. It's a system agnostic collection of 25 heists spanning several genres, fully illustrated with maps and art, plus a bunch of essays on how best to do a heist. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sanjenarocoop/the-roleplayers-guide-to-heists This is gonna be really cool. The project is doing a lot of neat stuff - the whole thing was put together by letting everyone have a say in how it went forward, there's fair pay and profit sharing baked in, and I've been leading a mentorship project through this to teach new designers how to do a kickstarter. There's a free preview pack of 3 heists and 1 essay if you want a taste of what we're doing. There's also a patented Sandy Pug Games High Effort kickstarter video, cause I know ya'll like that.
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I squealed when I saw an Orc Stabr reference in the biographies section of the page. 
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Bieeanshee posted:I squealed when I saw an Orc Stabr reference in the biographies section of the page. Orc Stabr is legit probably the most fun anyone can have making something. I peaked there and I'm real thankful for ya'll for playing along so much. There's probably going to be some connective reference in the book itself for Orc Stabr, just like how Americana technically takes place in the same universe.
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I still intend to have my half page framed.
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And, Olivia Hill here. My sort of long shot pitch is that if we fund on day one, I’ll do a quick start style treatment of my version of Changeling the Lost, utilizing one of the heists in the book. So if anyone ever wanted an “official” version of my Changeling the Lost, this is the way to get it. (I don’t know all the details yet. Might be Storyteller Vault, night be a “fan product.” Gotta work out the details.) Nemesis Of Moles posted:
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Right, I'm off to knock over a bank. Who's with me?
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Please don't post my retirement plan.
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I like heists. Have a back!
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Mojo Jojo posted:Add-on's should probably be corrected Thanks, I’ve passed it along.
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Bieeanshee posted:I still intend to have my half page framed. My full page is framed in my game room. 80's Orc Stabr is the best.
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Gerdalti posted:My full page is framed in my game room. Could you send me a pic of this? also we're over 50% funded in the first day! Thanks to anyone who backed or shared or talked about it. Ya'll are v cool. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sanjenarocoop/the-roleplayers-guide-to-heists
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