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If there's anyone left who didn't know, The One Ring is getting a second edition by Fria Ligan. It's on track to be their biggest Kickstarter ever. I liked the first edition and Fria Ligan always delivers, so I am looking forward to this one.
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If anyone is interested, Superstition is a cool little single player game that's a bit reminiscent of The Quiet Year, where you make (fake) rituals that may or may not work for your community. There's even a free version available for play-testing.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:59
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jivjov posted:Hey it hit the goal, so nya. Thanks for the support Hurrah !
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Bodanarko posted:Stegmaier is a weird egg but he’s good at kickstarter and even wrote a book on it. Here’s a collection of his posts and “lessons”. Maybe not completely applicable since his focus is obviously full fledged games and not necessarily RPG stuff but worth a shot. They conveniently leave out the part where they bully all their loving distributors/stores with really lovely pricing practices. Liquid Communism posted:Given how utterly terrible their Sprawl Ops kickstarter's fulfillment went (5% of the backers still don't have their orders from June 2018 as of today, and the ones that do are because of a massive volunteer effort on one guy's part), this promises to be another poo poo show. Yeah, I'm part of the 5%. I got the main bulk but didnt get any of any my shiny metal dice/bits 
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Feb 11, 2021 22:42
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EverettLO posted:If there's anyone left who didn't know, The One Ring is getting a second edition by Fria Ligan. They've already blown through their starting and second round of stretch goals before they could even post that second round. I love Free League's work and can't wait to play!
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Feb 11, 2021 23:43
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Infinitum posted:24hr warning on Radlands Who knew a mishmash Saved By The Bell/MadMax themed game published by Roxley would be a pass for me because gameplay seemed meh 
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Feb 12, 2021 00:19
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I've already got a great two player dueling game, it's called BattleCON. Radlands would be redundant although I do LOVE those hardcore cards.
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Feb 12, 2021 01:41
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CobiWann posted:I love Free League's work and can't wait to play! It still amazes me that, in an industry drat near formed around Lord of the Rings, it took almost forty years to get a decent game for actually playing it.
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Feb 12, 2021 01:44
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EverettLO posted:If there's anyone left who didn't know, The One Ring is getting a second edition by Fria Ligan. What’s so good about it?
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Comstar posted:What’s so good about it? It isn't just D&D in Middle-Earth. It places an emphasis on downtime activities that's just as important as active adventuring, and things like Honor and Renown are just as, if not more important, than collecting Treasure (which actually increases your susceptibility to the Enemy).
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CobiWann posted:It isn't just D&D in Middle-Earth. It places an emphasis on downtime activities that's just as important as active adventuring, and things like Honor and Renown are just as, if not more important, than collecting Treasure (which actually increases your susceptibility to the Enemy). This is a good explanation. The One Ring is the first game to actually try to represent what happened in the books rather than just assuming that all fantasy games are combat-centric D&D derivatives.
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Yeah, even the mechanics that I understand people not loving, like an autosuccess on a D12 meaning it can be swingy as poo poo, make sense because they take directly from the theming and philosophy of the book series. I've heard The One Ring described as the RPG most mechanically connected to its own theming and I think it's a fair assessment.
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Feb 12, 2021 03:06
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2 things: - does it have a system for second breakfasts? - is Tom Bombadil OP as poo poo?
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Feb 12, 2021 03:14
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Infinitum posted:- is Tom Bombadil OP as poo poo?
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Infinitum posted:2 things: 1 - I believe it does, as being underfed means you're more likely to be miserable, which again increases your chance to be influenced by the Enemy. 2 - So OP he doesn't even have stats.
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Feb 12, 2021 13:30
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SCP The Tabletop Role-Playing GameDice System posted:The SCP Tabletop RPG project has been a passion of mine for several years. The ruleset something I'm most proud of. I started making role-playing games several years ago after being frustrated with how much "fluff" most RPG's put in their books. SCP The TTRPG provides you with easy to understand rules first and foremost. The system is not rules-lite nor is it overly complex. I strive to hit that 'goldilocks zone' of RPG systems. Not actually a lot of details, but the blurry photo of a character sheet and some dice makes it look like you're getting D&D with two extra Abilities and lots more stats for guns. Drama Cards posted:The system itself has been playtested extensively and introduces a "Drama Card" system that allows players to temporarily take control over a situation in a way that Directors won't expect, giving agency to PC's in a way that's never been incorporated within a role-playing game before. $21k raised with nine days to go! It's still mostly kind of sad, but the degree to which this industry is aggressively ignorant about itself is, uh, frustrating to say the least.
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Is the SCP KS legit and the correct people getting paid? I seem to recall a Russian dude or something trying to muscle in to circumvent the copyright claims of the wiki.
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Infinitum posted:Is the SCP KS legit and the correct people getting paid? I seem to recall a Russian dude or something trying to muscle in to circumvent the copyright claims of the wiki. Per the FAQ this is in no way associated with the SCP Wiki, but since SCP is entirely* Creative Commons Sharealike, as long as the author correctly credits individual authors whose work they use and also publishes the game as CC-BY-SA (which the Kickstarter says it is), it's perfectly fine. Here's the SCP Wiki's Licensing page if you want to read it yourself: http://www.scpwiki.com/licensing-guide * Apparently the one caveat is that picture of the weird sculpture from the creepypasta that started the whole SCP thing--the artist has given the SCP Wiki permission to use the sculpture's likeness, but it's not otherwise CC-BY-SA so if you use it you will get your pants sued off. But that one doesn't appear in the Kickstarter's FAQ of "which SCPs will be in the game?" so again, should be in the clear. All that said, I agree with Tree--a combination of "no actual rules text in the KS" and such "revolutionary" features as "drama cards" and "directly spend XP on traits rather than waiting to level up" does not fill me with confidence.
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kinkouin posted:They conveniently leave out the part where they bully all their loving distributors/stores with really lovely pricing practices. Not sure what that has to do with kickstarter but yeah
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That Old Tree posted:It's still mostly kind of sad, but the degree to which this industry is aggressively ignorant about itself is, uh, frustrating to say the least. The claim is pretty unlikely, but perhaps the Drama Cards are themselves a SCP object allowing your fictional character to possess the player in real life?
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The SCP RPG seems to be a second edition of the CreepyPasta RPG written by the same people, based on the blurry character sheet posted on the Kickstarter page. It's a pretty rough game in that form, with things like three simultaneous skill growth systems, and in terms of how it's tuned so characters pretty much are doomed to go insane in a session or two, or die almost instantly in a fight. It also has an essay about how you're running the game wrong if you're not basically loving with players for trying to solve your mystery. The drama cards are a new wrinkle, though, I guess to represent that SCP agents are supposed to be more competent than random teenagers with youtube channels. I can't see it being a good fit, though.
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I can't imagine the appral.of playing a game in the SCP 'metaverse'. Its like Paranoia, only taken deadly seriously, and that ruins all the fun.
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If you want that SCP feel but in a better ruleset (FitD) you could check out this project I stumbled on while looking through the zinequest offerings. http://kck.st/2MHj8p6
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Nice, looks like it's worth backing.
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MK159 posted:The SCP RPG seems to be a second edition of the CreepyPasta RPG written by the same people, based on the blurry character sheet posted on the Kickstarter page. It's a pretty rough game in that form, with things like three simultaneous skill growth systems, and in terms of how it's tuned so characters pretty much are doomed to go insane in a session or two, or die almost instantly in a fight. It also has an essay about how you're running the game wrong if you're not basically loving with players for trying to solve your mystery. The drama cards are a new wrinkle, though, I guess to represent that SCP agents are supposed to be more competent than random teenagers with youtube channels. I can't see it being a good fit, though. So I was curious and I looked into the Drama Card thing. Their DTRPG publisher page includes a sci-fi game called Spaceship Architect that also uses Drama Cards, and it has a Facebook page where previews of the cards were posted. They just say poo poo like this: quote:
Which kind of seems like Fate Points with cards to me. I didn't pick up the final game though, because the layout is genuinely difficult to read (huge, unedited paragraphs of text in a cramped all-caps font, white on a black page) and I wasn't going to back this anyway. I like the core concept of this KS, but the more I actually look into it the less I want it. So it's definitely an SCP thing at least 
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What's the thread's opinions on MODULAR TERRAIN FOR WARGAMES.    It looks very nice, giving the ability to add small hills, fold and dips. More expensive than a typical gaming mat though. I really like the river effect. Comstar fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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Ettin posted:Which kind of seems like Fate Points with cards to me. I mean, a bit maybe? But fate points are very flexible whereas these cards just let you do a specific thing. Which...I could actually see being an advantage in some senses? More direct prompting for your less creative players, more of a sense of any given thing being a finite resource, if the actual cards were cool enough ideas some excitement over drawing particular things... I don't imagine that this particular version is probably any good. But it's not an idea entirely without merit. (Actually, I think Savage Worlds does something of the kind? I've never actually played it, just listened to some APs and so I'm not sure.)
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malkav11 posted:I don't imagine that this particular version is probably any good. But it's not an idea entirely without merit. (Actually, I think Savage Worlds does something of the kind? I've never actually played it, just listened to some APs and so I'm not sure.) It's optional, but the Adventure Deck does add some fun (and like you said, direct prompting for shy players) bits to Savage Worlds.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybrewers/good-society-a-jane-austen-rpg-reprint-and-new-deck?ref=231vjc New printing and minor expansion for Good Society, the excellent Jane Austen RPG
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I got Apex Theropod Collected Edition this week and I'm really impressed by how nice it is. The thing is dense with cards and they're very high quality, like Mage Knight weight and texture. As someone who plays a lot of solo (especially these days), I've been looking to get this one for awhile and it was out of print forever so I was stoked to see a reprint come up, especially one that contained all the expansions. StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Edinburgh Indie Gamers have a wee zine out, with a bunch of cool things- some stuff about running the club, a bunch of games, some neat articles, poems, arts. Really cool, you should check out out. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/floaker/edinburgh-indie-gamers
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About a year ago my friends and I went to a Magic GP and during the weekend one of the guys had an idea for a deckbox/die tray thing. Rather, he made one for himself with a 3D printer (iirc) and one of my other friends said that it was really neat. Apparently said friend got pretty loving serious about it without telling anyone of us because he kept working on it for a year and started a loving Kickstarter seemingly out of the blue two days ago. I know that sounds like a chickenshit outfit, but the guy put some serious effort (and cash) into it. If you play Magic, Pokémon or any other TCG, feel free to check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spielwoodgaming/dice-stash-and-omnibox-your-organizer-for-dice-and-game-deck
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I don't like or play MTG but those look pretty smart.
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 So, I'm doing #ZineQuest this year! I kicked myself for missing the window last year when the plague hit, but not this time! I realized that there really... hasn't been much in the way of contemporary mutant animal RPGs since the big one, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness. So I decided to work a modernized version, new and improved! This isn't your daddy's mutant animal RPG! Well, I mean, it is, but it's also better. Let's be honest. Also, it's got art by Fábio Fontes of Millennium Blades, Pixel Tactics, and Dunkehr! It's great to have somebody who doesn't mind drawing a literal trash panda, no, not a raccoon, a literal trash panda. Give it a look, and share it around if you don't mind. I've been working out ways to take all the I did in my FATAL & Friends reviews and turn into something positive and cool. I've torn down, now it's time to tear... up? I'm not sure that works, but there's no time to worry about it now. Go go go!
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Feb 16, 2021 18:09
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A modern take on TMNT? Fuckin' sold.
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Beasts of Balance is back on KS having being acquired by US company Modern Games from the UK-based Sensible Object. It's still just as expensive, if not more so, considering all the optional add-ons and whatnot.
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Echophonic posted:A modern take on TMNT? Fuckin' sold. Hell yeah, why not. I always wanted to play the Tmnt game back in the day, so this will be an interesting read.
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A version of the Palladium BIO-E games I can actually run? Completely sold, at the "community creature" level, because why not.
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lol the new Terraforming Mars Ares KS wants $45usd for 148 little metal cubes as an add-on.
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"Alien Rope Burn" posted:stuff This is perfect, right down to the comic book, ink heavy art in the Palladium style. I've been looking for this game for a few years now.
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