TG Crowdfunding Thread 3: Far West has been released. That's not a joke.

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theironjef: Aug 11, 2009; The archmage of unexpected stinks.

I think it's almost safe to assume that the company did get some emails along the lines of "Don't do the boob/butt pose, plz" and ignored them, since private individual complaints are easily ignored, even if they from the same person. Public action gets results.

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Infinitum: Jul 30, 2004

The_Doctor posted:

So, You�ve Been Eaten, a 0-2 player game.

This looks neat, and just goes to show the Batman KS seems to have been poorly managed, as this got fully founded pretty much instantly

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djfooboo: Oct 16, 2004

The_Doctor posted:

So, You�ve Been Eaten, a 0-2 player game.

COINs can be ran with 0 players too right? How about Clockwork Root?

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CODChimera: Jan 29, 2009

JazzFlight posted:

Here's the discussion on BGG:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2612018/can-we-talk-about-women-box-cover/page/1

The box originally had obvious male gazey shots of the female characters on the cover and so after it was pointed out, the creators fixed the artwork to be more respectful and that made all the chuds flip their lid about censorship and free speech and poo poo.

I never noticed how ridiculous that waist twisting stance is in general.

Seems like an easy fix to change the art and I can't see why anyone would have an issue with it changing but here we are

# ? Mar 3, 2021 02:14

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

djfooboo posted:

COINs can be ran with 0 players too right? How about Clockwork Root?

People have done it for Root.

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CODChimera: Jan 29, 2009

Lumbermouth posted:

Getting in on Undead or Alive for cheap pulp western miniatures, so I have a question for those who've done the CMON Giant Box of Minis campaigns. Should I add pledge extensions (ie. shipping, extra boxes, etc.) now or will I be able to add them later in a pledge manager? The FAQ wasn't clear on that.

I dont own any zombicide and I wasn't super interested in this until they added the horses and more unique monsters but now I'm considering it

But then what if the next zombicide has a better theme?

# ? Mar 3, 2021 02:47

StarkRavingMad: Sep 27, 2001; Yams Fan

The_Doctor posted:

So, You�ve Been Eaten, a 0-2 player game.

One Stop Co-op Shop did a prototype playthrough/review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0Qttjn-us

Very positive toward it, said it reminds him of Under Falling Skies

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Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

CODChimera posted:

I dont own any zombicide and I wasn't super interested in this until they added the horses and more unique monsters but now I'm considering it

But then what if the next zombicide has a better theme?

The horses costing an extra $30 is irritating, but I might back the game so I can paint 20000 miniatures in retirement.

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Lumbermouth: Mar 6, 2008; GREG IS BIG NOW

I�ve been trying to get miniatures for Dracula�s America and no one makes western plastics. I doubt I�ll even touch the actual game.

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Magnetic North: Dec 15, 2008; Beware the Forest's Mushrooms

sportsgenius86 posted:

I feel like the initial state of the cover was decent enough that Hargrave could�ve just reached out to Gamelyn first.

I mean, I get where she�s coming from but I don�t think the initial cover really warranted the reaction this has caused. It doesn�t seem like anyone has benefitted from any of this.

Sorry, but no. If this were done behind the scenes, it almost certainly would not have been changed. The public angle is necessary to get the change to happen through shame, and also serves a public good by instructing those of us who may not have noticed what was actually wrong.

Edit: V V V V V I totally forgot that one, that is a much, much better example than the TMG Doesn't Pay Its Designers thread that I had previously used.

Magnetic North fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Mar 3, 2021

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silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

See: the designer of Race for the Galaxy privately telling a company "you know there's literally no non white people in the art, right" and they completely ignored him, and only after our own Mayveena made a public call-out thread on bgg did anything happen (including similar shitheads getting banned)

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90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

The $120 HERITAGE level includes everything in the MASTER CRAFTSMAN level, but I'll put it in a blue Royal Dansk butter cookie tin.

This looks cool.

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dwarf74: Sep 2, 2012; Buglord

90s Cringe Rock posted:

The $120 HERITAGE level includes everything in the MASTER CRAFTSMAN level, but I'll put it in a blue Royal Dansk butter cookie tin.

This looks cool.

Oh man I love the 'packaged in a cookie tin' bit. :3:

(We got some of those cookies this past christmas, and now my younger son is housing some of his imaginext dudes in it.)

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The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

90s Cringe Rock posted:

The $120 HERITAGE level includes everything in the MASTER CRAFTSMAN level, but I'll put it in a blue Royal Dansk butter cookie tin.

This looks cool.

The Tin of Lies!

# ? Mar 3, 2021 17:51

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

Just to be clear: the lower-priced versions are much, much lower, especially if you only want digital, or cards and paper maps to draw on, or want the cloth maps but can provide your own sewing supplies.

The lower-priced versions are also still available, after the initial rush for biscuit tins and such.

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homullus: Mar 27, 2009

silvergoose posted:

See: the designer of Race for the Galaxy privately telling a company "you know there's literally no non white people in the art, right" and they completely ignored him, and only after our own Mayveena made a public call-out thread on bgg did anything happen (including similar shitheads getting banned)

the real "race for the galaxy" is white people

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90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

homullus posted:

the real "race for the galaxy" is white people

it's not called the Milky Way for nothing

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silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

homullus posted:

the real "race for the galaxy" is white people

Note that rftg is not the game that had all white people art, it was Alma Mater.

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theironjef: Aug 11, 2009; The archmage of unexpected stinks.

silvergoose posted:

Note that rftg is not the game that had all white people art, it was Alma Mater.

I have to assume that's a different Alma Mater than the one I've read. It had people of color in the art. Two of them! One was a drug dealer selling pills to a junkie currently tying off his arm and visibly with the shakes, and the other was a pimp savagely beating up a teenager in a public bathroom! 1982 was a dark and awful time.

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Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

theironjef posted:

I have to assume that's a different Alma Mater than the one I've read. It had people of color in the art. Two of them! One was a drug dealer selling pills to a junkie currently tying off his arm and visibly with the shakes, and the other was a pimp savagely beating up a teenager in a public bathroom! 1982 was a dark and awful time.

It's the boardgame that came out last year, or possibly 2019.

# ? Mar 3, 2021 19:39

Rid: Jun 16, 2003; What do you mean you're out of butter?

Alien Rope Burn posted:

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 F�bio 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!

Backed this as it looks very cool!

# ? Mar 4, 2021 11:39

LaSquida: Nov 1, 2012; Just keep on walkin'.

mllaneza posted:

Greg Stolze just launch a Kickstarter for a Termination Shock supplement,

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/different-trouble

I should F&F Termination Shock, it's a really clever system.

I'm always sad that for a guy who really pioneered crowdsourcing for RPGs prior to Kickstarter, his stuff doesn't blow up more unless it's for an older game.

Backed this, though it's unclear if it'll fund.

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malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

LeSquide posted:

I'm always sad that for a guy who really pioneered crowdsourcing for RPGs prior to Kickstarter, his stuff doesn't blow up more unless it's for an older game.

Backed this, though it's unclear if it'll fund.

I think it's maybe one of those things where he's mostly known in the context of sort of middleweight stuff like Reign and Unknown Armies with specific publishers, and things like Termination Shock skew more outright indie and might attract a different crowd...but that crowd doesn't know him so much.

I dunno. I think I've backed almost every project he's done since like 2012 when I started with KS, so I'm just guessing.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 15:49

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; ha;lp; Gun Saliva

Yeah, I've backed a ton of Solzte kickstarters. Always cool, but it's a bummer they don't tend to do incredibly well. I still really like my copy of Dinosaurs... in SPACE.

Jumped in on The One Ring. I always liked the ideas in the design, so an improved version has my attention.

# ? Mar 4, 2021 18:30

Merauder: Apr 17, 2003; The North Remembers.

Hey all you RPG lovers. A friend & colleague launched a new game a couple days ago which he's been working on for a couple years now, Coyote & Crow, set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. The game is "created and led by a team of Native Americans representing more than a dozen tribes" and generally looks awesome. It's already blown up way more than the creator expected, but I'm just super stoked for him and want to help share in his excitement and promote the game a bit.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/connoralexander/coyote-and-crow/

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Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

Rid posted:

Backed this as it looks very cool!

Thanks! A big part of our success is thanks to goon weight behind this project!

So, we're into the final days, as it ends Friday midnight (GMT-5)! Every stretch goal I set has been hit, which means more art, a bigger 'zine, and a bigger payout for my contributors! Take a look at how far we've come!

Also I'm going to have a twitch.tv stream where I'll do a blind play of TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan, PlatinumGames' finest work, at 8pm Friday 3/5 (also GMT-5)!

31 hours left! I'm freaking out!

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fez_machine: Nov 27, 2004

malkav11 posted:

I think it's maybe one of those things where he's mostly known in the context of sort of middleweight stuff like Reign and Unknown Armies with specific publishers, and things like Termination Shock skew more outright indie and might attract a different crowd...but that crowd doesn't know him so much.

I dunno. I think I've backed almost every project he's done since like 2012 when I started with KS, so I'm just guessing.

A big problem is that he's been pushing Termination Shock mainly as an actual play podcast, which while fun isn't a way to make people buzzy about your game. In fact I don't think I've seen people talk about it at all.

The old Greg Stolze thread has been pretty dormant lately, apart from Reign and Unknown Armies discussion.

It's not a widely known or played game, so when he puts up a kickstarter that has no previews of its content, then he's banking a lot on a rep that's gone pretty quiet.

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Megaman's Jockstrap: Jul 16, 2000; What a horrible thread to have a post.

I wasn't very impressed with Termination Shock to be honest. I got it, read like 20 pages, and put it down. Barely remember it because it didn't grab me at all.

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StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Forgive me if this has come up before, but I'm extremely interested in Crawler as it's not just one zine but four with some really, really cool art and ideas.

quote:

Crawler is set on an alternate Earth with a few key differences from ours:

It's populated by Humans and Elves and Dwarves and Orcs and all the fun fantasy friends are invited (but none of the racist fantasy tropes)
Magic exists as a raw natural resource that is fracked, drilled, and mined out of the earth at massive scale, then refined to power society and produce consumer commodities; individual magic use is very strictly regulated, which makes you and your fantasy pipeline-hating comrades a band of charismatic outlaws
Instead of warming, the planet is cooling dangerously quickly towards a catastrophic ice-age. This is indeed linked to human magic extraction, but the industry is super great at lying about it
Instead of fascists and idiot militias, Crawler's got liches and necromancy gangs
The story begins on the surface world, and then follows a foul plot deep below the earth. Adventurers will descend (and descend, and descend) and discover that the source of magic is inextricably linked to earth's past mass extinctions, and to a dark secret in the Black Shields' history. Oh, and giant fantasy insects from space.

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Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

Sounds neat but their tiers are confusing, took me a minute to find the all PDFs tier.

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Hollandia: Jul 27, 2007; rattus rattus; Grimey Drawer

StrixNebulosa posted:

Forgive me if this has come up before, but I'm extremely interested in Crawler as it's not just one zine but four with some really, really cool art and ideas.

Yeah that one was p much an instant back when I saw it. Might need to try and convert it over to Lancer for my group though.

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mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I wasn't very impressed with Termination Shock to be honest. I got it, read like 20 pages, and put it down. Barely remember it because it didn't grab me at all.

There's some honestly interesting dice mechanics in the game, and it has the same mechanical depth for social interaction as for combat. I probably will fail to convey any of this in an F&F.

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Clever Moniker: Oct 29, 2007

90s Cringe Rock posted:

The $120 HERITAGE level includes everything in the MASTER CRAFTSMAN level, but I'll put it in a blue Royal Dansk butter cookie tin.

This looks cool.

This looks very cute.

# ? Mar 8, 2021 06:17

malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

There's a new Valeria: Card Kingdoms KS up:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dailymagicgames/valeria-card-kingdoms-darksworn

This one introduces a cooperative mode, as well as a slightly revised reprint of the base game, reprints of Flames and Frost and Crimson Sea, a bigger storage box, and addons for the couple of new elements in the second edition revision for people who already have the base game.

I'm a little skeptical about coop for this sort of light dicey tableau-builder, but I'm willing to give it a shot. I do really like the game overall. Everything that appeals to me about Catan or Machi Koro (getting resources from other people's dice rolls, basically), but more of a game and more variety. I know there's a couple other games in that vein like Space Base, and I do look forward to trying those at some point, but I can't currently compare.

# ? Mar 9, 2021 18:00

GrandpaPants: Feb 13, 2006; Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!

Does anyone have any thoughts on Eternal Palace? I'm enamored by the "create a painting" aspect of it (and is basically why I got Canvas), but the rest of the game seems kinda standard Euro.

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The Eyes Have It: Feb 10, 2008; Third Eye Sees All
...snookums

Hah, I looked at that and kind of feel the same way. I'd want to play because of the painting part, but I suspect it's not the star.

# ? Mar 9, 2021 22:13

Arthil: Feb 17, 2012; A Beard of Constant Sorrow

Along with supporting The One Ring 2e, I've also thrown my hat in for these two kickstarters.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lets-role/lets-role-an-immersive-and-easy-to-use-virtual-tabletop

Even though I've been using Foundry VTT as my go-to option, I really like to encourage competition. And the idea of getting another free option for the VTT scene to put Roll20 into a headlock made it an easy choice. I'll definitely be testing this one out once they open up the alpha in a week or so.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1024146278/dungeon-alchemisttm

The video on this looked neat, but didn't grab me entirely... Until they showcased being able to edit the generated rooms after-the-fact. I love Dungeondraft, but it doesn't actually meet my needs for a true "randomize a map" for unexpected things in my games. I'm looking forward to see how this one works once it is released.

# ? Mar 10, 2021 01:01

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

Do you like megadungeons? Did you think Barrowmaze needed more dwarves? Dwarrowdeep is a fourth megadungeon in what's apparently the Barrowmaze sexology. POD with OSR or 5e stats, and there's also a 10th anniversary version of the original Barrowmaze with a grogbait cover and a grognardia foreword.

I didn't realise he was doing six of the buggers.

# ? Mar 10, 2021 16:21

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

DIFFERENT TROUBLE update aka I'm not sure this man knows how to run a kickstarter.

quote:

We're closing in on the end, everyone, and it's a nail-biter. I'm hoping this gets a last-minute rush of backers to get it made, and to make that happen, I'm doing two things.

#1 -- I'M RUNNING GAMES
Check out the reward tiers, because there are two new ones. You can do an end-run around quarantine by getting into one of two Discord-run online games with me, next month. They're not cheap -- unless, of course, you had a budget for conventions and want to compare this to getting a hotel room and a plane ticket. If you want to swing for the fences with a unique experience, this is the one.

#2 -- I'M ASKING FOR HELP
I don't enjoy going back to the well when you've already backed and done so much, but I want to get this book to you and it looks like I can't do that alone. So if you're already a backer and want to upgrade to a new tier, do that if if feels right... but what would really help more is if every backer reached out to some other SF fan or game fan and said "Hey, check out DIFFERENT TROUBLE, it sounds like something you'd like." I can promote it all day, but the personal touch carries a lot more weight. Please help me with this, so I can get this book to you.

Also, hey, have some more sample pages.

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Buck Wildman: Mar 30, 2010; I am Metango, Galactic Governor

"pay me to play my game with you" is a ks classic not sure what you mean

# ? Mar 10, 2021 21:03

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