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Deathlove posted:Yeah, that didn't happen with me at all. Our game was a soft PG (OOC not-so-much, but nothing vulgar or anything) the whole way; I would've been comfortable with my sons being there. Mike Olson is the game's writer, so I am double-jealous of you now.
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I got an email saying that Volume 7 was "unavailable" and my preorder was canceled. 
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Hyperactive posted:Yup. They'll send you an email asking if you still want it when they realize it's actually available for real in about a month. And I just got the email saying my order shipped. Oh, Amazon!  Speaking of RPGs, is it okay if I talk about the ARRPG here, if people have any questions?
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Look what Fred Hicks just leaked as part of the grand finale of the Fate Core Kickstarer:
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That is the best final stretch goal I've ever seen.
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Hyperactive posted:None of this is particularly clever. It's just that a relentless linearity pushing forward an eternal "now" doesn't let you do that, so it may look like a more impressive trick than it is. All we've done is take advantage of the fact that we're working on a creator owned project. We don't have to worry about retcons or events or wild shifts in editorial direction. I would love to see a "everything in order" omnibus, with all the stories in actual chronological order. That being said, though, I love the "reverse references" thing you do where stuff gets referenced in one volume, expanded in the next, and then pays off in a completely different story.
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I know this technically isn't comic news, but The Atomic Robo RPG went up for preorder today. It's $35, full-color, and while the book itself won't be out until July you get the PDF now. In celebration, Dr. Dinosaur took over Evil Hat's Twitter page. I'm going through the PDF now; one thing I really like is that it's clearly geared towards people who've never RPG'd before, and that it uses pages from the comic to explain how the system works and some of the more abstract game concepts. 
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Yessss just got my shipping notification for my Field Guide and mug! 
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Oct 30, 2014 21:47
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My stuff arrived today!
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BooDoug187 posted:Did you get a message about shipping from kickstarter or was it a different email? Just wondering if I need to be checking spam filters. It was an email from noreply@tesladynelabs.com.
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Hyperactive posted:One wonders why you'd put the Nerd Book Shelf in the background yet go out of your way to not include the best Nerd Book of them all, the Atomic Robo RPG. Because it's on the next shelf up on the "coolest gaming stuff" shelf. And it's not my only nerd bookshelf.
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Len posted:I want to buy the Robo RPG but between me no having anyone to play it with and my incredibly bad play test of it two years ago I just haven't got around to picking it up. Yes. There's a full timeline, stats for pretty much everyone, and it uses pages from the comic to explain the rules in detail. And yes, you can play a dinosaur.
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Hey, if anyone's going to be at PAX East, come to the Games On Demand booth in the Tabletop area; I'm going to be running (among other things) the Atomic Robo RPG at various points over the weekend.
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Speaking of giving you money, Brian, when is the Volume 9 collection coming out?
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Feb 23, 2015 20:56
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Hyperactive posted:Two weeks ago. Or one week ago. Depends on your shop because *~Diamond~* Oh, nice. I'll have to start bugging them next time I can head in.
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Spigs posted:I'll definitely be by at some point, will you have times posted or signups? Yeah, there'll be sign up sheets at the booth. I don't know what the schedule is looking like yet.
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Crosspostin' from the Fate thread, but I figure people here would appreciate this too. I ran two session of Atomic Robo for people at PAX East's Games on Demand this year, and man the brainstorming system is so much fun, especially with people who're used to systems where they're not allowed to really "contribute" at that level. The scenario presented was that everyone was Tesladyne folks and hangers-on working late in the labs when vampires and M-12 agents started teleporting in and wrecking the place, and I left the cause and solution up to the groups. One group determined it was due to M-12 using a crystal in the mineralogy lab to teleport things in and out (and allowed me to bring in Dr. Dinosaur) and ended with the cyborg PC throwing Dr. D out a twelfth-story window. The other group decided that M-12 was beaming in the vamps and agents from an orbital platform,the vamps being a distraction so the M-12 agents could steal tech. They ended up solving the problem by taking out an M-12 power armored agent in the middle of a fight, strapping a patched-together EMP bomb onto him, hacking his coms, and using them to call for an emergency evac teleport. It's great how easily people were able to come up with solutions that fit the universe perfectly even though I think maybe two players out of the ten total were really familiar with the source material. Of course, I sent everyone to the website so they could keep reading.
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So I just got caught up on Volume 9... It's going to be a long wait for the next volume...
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Len posted:I finally picked up a copy of the RoboRPG and I plan to dive into it this week. I work at a daycare and I'm thinking about running a RPG for the kids (my age group is 5-11 with most around 8) and tradgames suggested FATE. Fate is a good game to learn how to GM with because it's very loose and forgiving of mistakes. Don't be afraid to ask for advice in the Fate or general chat threads.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Why did I search what FATAL was? Why do I do this to myself?
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Speaking of which, did anyone else notice a similarity between Helsingard rattling off his long-term plans at the end of volume 9, and ALAN reciting the steps of his long-term plans as his systems shut down?
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Apr 30, 2015 20:46
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Man, Bernard just has the worst luck.
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May 2, 2015 23:58
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I have to admit I can't watch the Jurassic World trailer without thinking of Dr. Dinosaur.
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May 8, 2015 15:47
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Is the girl with the pink hair someone who's shown up before? For some reason she looks familiar.
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"I ask for guns and what I get is fungus-human hybrids?" is pretty much the essence of action science. Or a Brainstorming session from the RPG. One or the other.
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BooDoug187 posted:So you saying this comic is the prequel for The Last of Us? Last Of Us is actually the
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TurninTrix posted:(Current page remark: Goddammit, Bernie.)
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Hyperactive posted:The Mirrorshade Overdrive. Objectively the best title.
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I ran a few ARRPG demos at PAX East last year, and the set-up was that the players were a mix of action scientists, action interns, an ex-Majestic 12 security guy, and a soldier who was there as a "test subject" for cybernetic limb replacements. I set it up that Robo wasn't around because it was the start of the third shift so they were the only people in that section of Tesladyne because everyone else went home.Hyperactive posted:There's a couple things you can do.
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I was just reminded this fanposter exists, so hey Hyperactive I think I found a good idea for the next Robo arc.
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I like that Robo has to specify that Phil shouldn't violate the known laws of physics.
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A.o.D. posted:So.. Dr. Dinosaur is Edgar Sparingly? DigitalRaven posted:Better than Uncle Micky. A.o.D. posted:You are a degenerate and belong in a human occupied landfill.
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Hyperactive posted:Fun fact: I would test RPG systems by seeing how closely they could model Atomic Robo as a character. HoL was the first one to produce an acceptable version. I never found another until the Fate iteration of Kerberos Club. I will admit I'm kinda disturbed by the idea of you going through the flowcharts in Buttery Wholesomeness to see if you could make Robo.
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People might be interested to know that the Atomic Robo RPG is part of a special RPG bundle deal as part of the beat-the-average threshold.
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Len posted:I'm going to aim for a thanksgiving rpg one shot of Atomic Robo. I've only played Fate once and noone else has even done that much how good an idea is this? We have a Fate thread that's kinda quiet, but you can stuff ask there too.
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Hopefully people don't mind me posting about the RPG here, but folks might like to know that the current Evil Hat kickstarter will include the Majestic 12 sourcebook. quote:Enter Majestic 12, a secret government organization that has only recently stepped out into the light in the latest volume of the Atomic Robo webcomic. We've strapped Atomic Robo author Brian Clevinger to a chair, given him the eyedrops and injections, flipped on Beethoven's Ninth, and demanded he tell us everything he knows about Majestic 12. We'd say he cracked under the strain, but anybody who knows him knows he's already a bit cracked.
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Hyperactive posted:It's fun! I'll admit I enjoyed what I've played during free periods.
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Covok posted:By the way, was Odin inspired by anyone visually? He reminds me of someone, but I don't know who. 
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