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Infinitum posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxstats/40-sided-spindown-dice-life-counters That’s not a D40. It’s a die meant for tracking life totals in MtG. It has adjacent sequential numbers (the Spindown gimmick) to aide in doing that but it also means it’s unsuitable for random rolls (it can be easily manipulated.) Even in MtG you don’t use Spindown dice for random numbers.
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Arivia posted:That’s not a D40. It’s a die meant for tracking life totals in MtG. It has adjacent sequential numbers (the Spindown gimmick) to aide in doing that but it also means it’s unsuitable for random rolls (it can be easily manipulated.) My information is a lot out of date, but using a spindown die for anything requiring randomisation actually used to be prohibited in tournament rules.
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Infinitum posted:Weighted die. The second Kickstarter is for special reinforced gaming tables.
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Infinitum posted:Weighted die. You joke, but Wyrmwood’s dice Kickstarter currently includes a $1500 titanium d20 that 12 people have backed
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Explosive die, so you can die while you dice
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Haystack posted:Explosive die, so you can die while you dice a new bit of realism for those shadowrun chunky salsa rules!
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Subscription based die. A new die-pod is mailed to you each week, but you must activate it with our proprietary die-birther. If your sub runs out all your dice will brick. Also if you use a un-authorised die-birther you won't get the full amount of die out of the pod. Artisinal hand crafted die direct from locally sourced 3D printers.
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Infinitum posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxstats/40-sided-spindown-dice-life-counters It's overly expensive and ugly but does have a stated purpose it is fulfilling.
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Infinitum posted:Subscription based die.
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Loot dice. Free-to-play d20s never roll better than an 11 (the EULA requires you to certify that you will only use the die in roll-high scenarios, otherwise you permanently forfeit all rights and privileges and the die delivers a mild electric shock when you touch it). But if you buy a bronze loot die for $2.95 ($27.00 for a pack of 10), you unlock one roll that can go up to 13. A silver loot die ($4.95, $45.00 for a pack of 10) can roll up to a 16. Gold loot dice ($9.95, $80 for a pack of 10) can roll up to 19. Or you can buy an elite platinum loot die ($14.95, 10 for $99.95--best value!) and unlock a chance to crit.
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dwarf74 posted:I have $10,000,000 investment capital for 10% ownership in your subscription-based dice with quality control RFID chips to test authenticity. could you add bluetooth? thanks. Oh no, forget that! All my dice are locally sourced, crafted using the same methods and materials they used in the 1980s! In my day, you got your dice from the seedy bookstore in the strip mall that was half-a-storefront next to the storefront-and-a-half video store!
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Preview page for Monster Care Squad is up! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/monster-care-squad 
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That art is super good and I dig the concept, but "Monster Care Squad" feels like a placeholder project name and stands out not in a good way. 
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Lemon-Lime posted:That art is super good and I dig the concept, but "Monster Care Squad" feels like a placeholder project name and stands out not in a good way. I have to agree that it’s the weakest part of an extremely good pitch. I’ll be backing either way, I think, but some alternate name that feels a bit more setting-ish would be cool? Then again, I know nothing about what TTRPG titles actually get people interested.
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Honestly I did kick around a bunch of other ideas with the team but every other name sounded alienating or generic-fantasy-jargon and I hate that a lot, I'm p happy with the name rn. It tells you what it is without needing to be explained or a bunch of in-universe context. You're a squad that cares for monsters!
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Mostly medically right? Like you’re specifically curing more than generic monster raising, which is what ‘care’ makes me think of.
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The most immediate stuff you do is healing them from magically inflicted wounds yeah, but there is an element of monster "raising" and care in a more general sense. Mostly it's Care as in "look after".
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I’m all in regardless, especially since it’ll give me a good base t use for a sci fi variant, sine I’ve always wanted a Sector General game.
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Final Girl is a solo board game from the folks who did Hostage Negotiator (and uses a modification of the same base mechanics). You play the main character of a slasher flick, trying to rescue victims before they get offed and prepping for the big final confrontation. There are currently four scenarios, each with a killer and map, but you can mix-and-match the slashers with the locations. The game itself works off a card-management deckbuilding-like system. You don't have a deck, just a hand of cards to play. When you buy cards they go to your hand, but when you play them, they don't return to the market until the second turn after they're played. You can also play cards to mitigate a bad die roll, so it becomes important to know what cards you have available and when they're going to come up again. I've watched a few playthroughs and it looks pretty fun. I like how you can put any killer with any map, plus each killer has multiple powers and "endgame" abilities so they don't always play the same way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpXdVXclxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMyhEmQmj8
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GimpInBlack posted:Loot dice. Free-to-play d20s never roll better than an 11 (the EULA requires you to certify that you will only use the die in roll-high scenarios, otherwise you permanently forfeit all rights and privileges and the die delivers a mild electric shock when you touch it). But if you buy a bronze loot die for $2.95 ($27.00 for a pack of 10), you unlock one roll that can go up to 13. A silver loot die ($4.95, $45.00 for a pack of 10) can roll up to a 16. Gold loot dice ($9.95, $80 for a pack of 10) can roll up to 19. Or you can buy an elite platinum loot die ($14.95, 10 for $99.95--best value!) and unlock a chance to crit. Sounds like something Gary Jackson of Knights-Of-The-Dinner-Table would think of. *shiver*
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Joe Slowboat posted:Mostly medically right? Like you’re specifically curing more than generic monster raising, which is what ‘care’ makes me think of. Monster Aid Squad ?
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mllaneza posted:Monster Aid Squad ? Monster park rangers Monster conservation agency Monsterbiologists
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Evil Mastermind posted:Final Girl is a solo board game from the folks who did Hostage Negotiator (and uses a modification of the same base mechanics). You play the main character of a slasher flick, trying to rescue victims before they get offed and prepping for the big final confrontation. There are currently four scenarios, each with a killer and map, but you can mix-and-match the slashers with the locations. This looks neat, I'm a sucker for deck builders rn and this sounds like a good twist on the mechanic. Ceebees posted:Monster park rangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCE094a4DUc
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Honestly I did kick around a bunch of other ideas with the team but every other name sounded alienating or generic-fantasy-jargon and I hate that a lot, I'm p happy with the name rn. It tells you what it is without needing to be explained or a bunch of in-universe context. You're a squad that cares for monsters! The use of "squad" is what makes it sound like a fake title to me. Just plain "Monster Carers" would sound better, IMO, but it doesn't really matter in the end.
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Or something like “Guild” would make it sound more fantasy-ish, too.
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Yeah, thinking on it, 'squad' sounds much more tactical and modern, and has a little friction with the subtitle being 'legends.' IDK, Monster Care Saga? That sounds cute to me.
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new $500 tier option: rename the game to whatever you want Sandy Pug Games is proud to present Gamey McGameFace: Games of Game-Gamura
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:new $500 tier option: rename the game to whatever you want PET HOSPITAL GAIDEN: Legends of Al-Amura Marche Was Right: Legally Distinct from Ivalice Cute White Mages Cure Monsters: The Gamebook of the Film
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Joe Slowboat posted:PET HOSPITAL GAIDEN: Legends of Al-Amura This is the best name so far, for this game and all other things that have names.
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Even Kaiju Care Squad sounds better to me because of the nice quasi alliteration on the first two words.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:new $500 tier option: rename the game to whatever you want I mean, I had a tier for Pigsmoke which let people get themselves custom copies made including custom titles. It was a giant pain in the arse.
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Echoing the title dissonance. Everything I've heard about the game brings zoology to mind, so how about some sort of term pertaining to the study and care of monsters? Monstrozoology Corps Terazoologist Cadre Monstrologists Order
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Name looks fine. A lot of these pitches look like they took a few trips through Google translate. Honestly the thing that surprises me is just that no one threw out "medic". Like just Monster Medics. Alliterative, punchy, gets the point across. Even then I prefer the original because Monster Care Squad sounds personal and chummy, like a Nick Jr. show about child dragon veterinarians or something. Maybe Pendleton Ward was involved.
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theironjef posted:Honestly the thing that surprises me is just that no one threw out "medic". Like just Monster Medics. Alliterative, punchy, gets the point across. Even then I prefer the original because Monster Care Squad sounds personal and chummy, like a Nick Jr. show about child dragon veterinarians or something. Maybe Pendleton Ward was involved. armorer posted:Monster Medics?
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Hah I am chagrined. Good thing I still prefer the original pitch.
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Folks I'm not sure we've browbeaten Nemesis of Moles enough about their inexcusably terrible title enough. We're not done until they yank the campaign and publicly apologize. In the meantime I'm burning my copy of Orc Stabr in protest.
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