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PJOmega posted:Am I missing something? It says it's up for 25 more days. When I bought it the offer was about to end. It was already extended from Cyber Monday week. It looks like after the extension ran out, they extended it again. So at the time of purchase it was just in time.
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I bought it and my first impression is: holy poo poo this is a lot of stuff, drat. My second impression is: I'm gonna have to invest a serious chunk of time in figuring out how the hell this software even works.
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Epimas 2020 has begun! 70 authors have contributed to 7 bundles for $30 each (or one big bundle for $120)! Don't buy for yourself, give them as a gift. The description has WAY MORE information, including links to all seven bundles, so give it a click and check it out. We've got winners like grimDARK: A Fistful of Ashcan, Turn, THE BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, Midnight Signal, LIGHT, You Are The Dungeon, and ABSOLUTE SWARMS MORE. So get in on this and give your friends an awesome gift or many. (For what it's worth, grimDARK is in Prancer, but all the others have AMAZING games too.)
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https://twitter.com/BundleHolding/status/1341094847508324352 Extremely good bundle of holding with the Blades in the Dark + Heist deck, solo rules, and Doskvol Maps at $12.95; all that plus Scum & Villainy, Band of Blades, Hack the Planet, A Fistful of Darkness and Glow in the Dark (the five main hacks) for $29 total
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For Canadian goons, Cthulhu Death May Die is nearly twenty bucks off at Amazon! I just tried it on TTS tonight, enjoyed it, and idly decided to see what it was going for in Canada, then blacked out and had purchased it before I knew what was happening.
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Cross posting from the Chat thread If you guys were ever interested in Warhammer/Warhammer 40K games for PC there is a tremendous deal if you buy the physical copy of the 462nd issue of White Dwarf for $9. quote:The 12 games provided as part of the promotion are: Total War: Warhammer (plus the Call of the Beastmen DLC), Warhammer: 40,000: Dawn of War, Warhammer: 40,000: Space Marine, Warhammer: 40,000: Armageddon Da Orks, Warhammer: 40,000: Sanctus Reach, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Warhammer: 40,000: Space Wolf, Warhammer Quest, Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times, Warhammer Underworlds Online, Adeptus Titanicus: Dominus, and Talisman: Digital Edition. These are all available with one Steam key. https://www.ign.com/articles/free-warhammer-games-white-dwarf-march-2021
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sadly, it's long since sold out here.
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SirFozzie posted:sadly, it's long since sold out here. When I went to B&N to get one for my kid they had a few left, want me to go see if its still available? I'll shoot you a PM, I think it cost me 9 bucks so if you want to paypal that would be rad.
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Hello hello friends! Thank you all who participated in the grimDARK: A Fistful of Ashcan Deal of the Day - or who already owned copies! I got the word that some people were disappointed that the physical copy is on sale, so I decided to make a little fix - from now until the 22nd of April, grimDARK: A Fistful of Ashcan Edition is available in physical for $8.99! That's approximately 55% off, a little over half! You can get your 55% off copies using the coupon below or by clicking this link, but act fast - only 100 55% off copies are available! Special Coupon Here!  Winner of the 2002 Golde EMny for Best
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Flaggy posted:When I went to B&N to get one for my kid they had a few left, want me to go see if its still available? I'll shoot you a PM, I think it cost me 9 bucks so if you want to paypal that would be rad. If you can, that'd bve appreciated.
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JAWS, a Fury of Dracula lite, is on sale at Target for $8.44 https://www.target.com/p/ravensburg...gt_adv_xasd0002
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DCC and DCC Lankhmar bundles in bundleofholding for the next 20 days:DCC posted:Base Lankhmar posted:
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Speaking of, Bundle of Holding has launched a store which will have some of their Starting Bundles. https://bundleofholding.com/store So that's pretty damned cool honestly.
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Big `ol Itch.io creator sale on today. You can, for example, get both LIFTS 1 & 2 for 15% on for the next 10 or so hours. Korvidae Games Buy This and Get Stronger Sale
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slap me and kiss me posted:Big `ol Itch.io creator sale on today.
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JMBosch posted:You can get my cosmic body horror one-shot, with all the rules included, for 25% off today: https://atypicalfaux.itch.io/the-pried-eye. And if you join my mailing list here, you'll get future beta drafts and art-less versions of my releases for free and be entered into free boardgame giveaways! Bold of you to lower your price. Should do what I did and raise it! Also $4 is way too cheap for a full-colour zine. Raise that price, friend.
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slap me and kiss me posted:Bold of you to lower your price. Should do what I did and raise it! Also $4 is way too cheap for a full-colour zine. Raise that price, friend. Thanks for the tip. I was considering it. But even at that price, sales ain't great. I was hoping that undercutting other one-shots built on the same system (most being much less polished) would make my book more appealing, but I don't know if that's working. I'll probably raise it a bit when I release my second book...
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I have no idea how to find stuff on itch normally so maybe discoverability is the issue. Anyway I threw down for one and some community copies as well, looks cool
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Fumaofthelake posted:I have no idea how to find stuff on itch normally so maybe discoverability is the issue. Anyway I threw down for one and some community copies as well, looks cool Awesome! I appreciate the support. Because of sales today, 5 more free community copies are available!
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JMBosch posted:Thanks for the tip. I was considering it. But even at that price, sales ain't great. I was hoping that undercutting other one-shots built on the same system (most being much less polished) would make my book more appealing, but I don't know if that's working. I'll probably raise it a bit when I release my second book... Nah. You're actually falling into the number one fallacy of trying to sell your ttrpg projects. It's not that people aren't buying because your prices are too high, they're not buying because you're not getting enough eyes on your stuff. Typical conversation rates are in the 0.5-3% range, so it's a question of how many people you can get to visit the itch page, not a question of how much your pdf costs (within reason, obviously, but the zone looks gorgeous and it's not percieved lack of value that's holding you back). Edit: as a proof point, I literally doubled my LIFTS zine prices on dtrpg this month, and have earned the second highest month of revenue I've ever had because I'm sending more people to look at them.
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slap me and kiss me posted:Nah. You're actually falling into the number one fallacy of trying to sell your ttrpg projects. It's not that people aren't buying because your prices are too high, they're not buying because you're not getting enough eyes on your stuff.
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The hard work of ttrpgs isn't the writing, it's building an audience and selling.
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Advertising! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhrnMbhMgmw
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Itch.io is having its Summer Sale 2021 for a little over a week, with about 550 TTRPG products on sale. You can get both of my one-shot horror adventures for 25% off each or 44% off in a bundle. While they're designed for Trophy Dark, both books contain all the rules you need to play.  Penumbra is a sci-fi adventure in which burnt-out Sap drillers will struggle to cross a desolate asteroid and add a few final grains of sand to their colony planet's proverbial hourglass. It's a bleak and lonely exploration of whether to fight the end. Think Armageddon meets Annihilation or something like that.  The Pried Eye is a psychedelic adventure in which the sudden appearance of something spectacular and indescribable in the backwoods of rural 20th-century America will lure the players into hunting for otherworldly gems, hoping to seize their independence and break free from their small town’s lack of opportunity. I describe it as a tense and eerie descent into body horror, cosmic weirdness, and ego murder.
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JMBosch posted:Itch.io is having its Summer Sale 2021 for a little over a week, with about 550 TTRPG products on sale. These look like great pieces. To make certain, can I run these with a group who has never so much as heard of Trophy Dark?
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PJOmega posted:These look like great pieces. To make certain, can I run these with a group who has never so much as heard of Trophy Dark? Thanks! Yep, all the rules you need are included in the books. Just be sure to get everyone on the same page in terms of expectations: Trophy Dark is largely a "play to lose" game where the characters are probably not going to survive or, if they do, will be irrevocably changed by their experiences. The players aren't forging the paths of epic heroes. They're telling a story together about how these greedy treasure hunters became enveloped in horror from both without and within. If you try to fight a monster face-to-face, you'll die, but you can distract it, slow it down, escape, etc. I like to think of it as a collaborative effort to tell the story of a horror movie where the characters are doomed. The system is rules light and puts a lot of focus on character development, so the players will often be asked a question about their character to flesh out their backgrounds, motivations, relationships, feelings, group dynamics, etc. It also allows for more collaborative efforts as players can make suggestions for character details or story beats themselves, which can be especially good when someone's character dies, keeping them invested in the story. Other than that, for actually making sure the session goes as smoothly as it can, you should learn the different types of rolls (and keep a reference for them open), and just mostly teach the game as you play. Since there aren't many rules, it can be tempting to just front-load a full explanation at the start, but I recommend just teaching each type of roll as the opportunity for them comes up. And if you get both adventures, I'd recommend playing The Pried Eye first, since it's the more "standard" of the two.
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The streamlined-to-almost-the-point-of-poetry, post-apocalyptic, post-western RPG [BXLLET> is having a bundle sale where you get not only the game but also FIFTEEN supplements created for it during a game jam, all for 56% off! Get it here: https://itch.io/b/964/bxllet-bxndle  Full disclosure: Naturally, I have a supplement in the bundle. But I only get like $2 per sale, and it's a good game.
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Can you explain what it is and what your supplement is?
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Golden Bee posted:Can you explain what it is and what your supplement is? Sure! [BXLLET> bills itself as "a game about systems of violence and power in a world rebuilding itself." Each player is a nomadic gunslinger type that seems to be nearing the end of their story in a new/weird west setting. The world is a mix of "The Wastes," populated with dangerous Beasts of various sorts, towns and communities trying to rebuild and grow, and remnants of labs, machines, and tech from the before-times. One of the few named antagonist NPCs in the base game is simply "Capitalist." What makes the game particularly interesting is the main gunfight mechanics: If you have a loaded gun, point it at someone, and pull the trigger, they die. No ifs, ands, or buts. But bullets are fairly rare (each PC only starts with 1), and they also act as your experience/resource for your special abilities. Each character class has a secondary thing they can do by firing a bullet besides killing, like "bring a corpse back as a mindless husk" or "make a Beast of the Wastes vulnerable." (Beasts are much tougher than people and aren't automatically killed with a bullet.) Each class also gets a new ability as long as they hold 2, 5, 10, or 20 bullets on them. Trying to hurt someone without a bullet is easy, but trying to kill them without one is hard. This instant lethality that hangs over the game makes a lot of interactions count for a lot more than they would in other games, and everyone can easily, and rightly, become concerned more with what the consequences or aftermath of killing someone will be rather than "how do we take this person down?" With a bullet, killing is easy, but it can make you incredibly vulnerable and completely alter your relationship with everyone around. It pushes the main consideration of combat to be "do I really want to do this?" in a way that's very fitting for a post-western game. My supplement is ⁍⁍⁍⁍⁍TXN SOULS⁌⁌⁌⁌⁌, a collection of 10 NPC types written in the structure of the NPCs in the original game. NPCs have a paragraph of description and a series of qualities that you can choose to round them out. Each quality you add gives them more bullets, both making them more dangerous and painting a bigger target on their back for PCs looking to collect bullets. My NPCs are generic enough to be used in any western-themed game that has some more advanced tech sprinkled around but unique enough to be memorable and reusable with different quality choices. The other supplements add tons of new classes, NPCs, communities, factions, a psychic powers system, and more. JMBosch fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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JMBosch posted:Sure! [BXLLET> bills itself as "a game about systems of violence and power in a world rebuilding itself." Each player is a nomadic gunslinger type that seems to be nearing the end of their story in a new/weird west setting. The world is a mix of "The Wastes," populated with dangerous Beasts of various sorts, towns and communities trying to rebuild and grow, and remnants of labs, machines, and tech from the before-times. One of the few named antagonist NPCs in the base game is simply "Capitalist." Thank you SO much for this description. I had never head of [BXLLET> before, and I just grabbed the bundle after reading this and looking through some of the supplements. This might be a breath of fresh air that my Pathfinder-obsessed group desperately needs.
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Agrias120 posted:Thank you SO much for this description. I had never head of [BXLLET> before, and I just grabbed the bundle after reading this and looking through some of the supplements. This might be a breath of fresh air that my Pathfinder-obsessed group desperately needs. Awesome! I hope you all enjoy it.
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The FRAGGED games are on Bundle of Holding right now. Anyone have any opinions on Empire, Kingdom, Aeternum? Reviews seem... sparse.
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Memnaelar posted:The FRAGGED games are on Bundle of Holding right now. Anyone have any opinions on Empire, Kingdom, Aeternum? Reviews seem... sparse. 4E D&D design philosophy of tactical combat but most of the weapons and powers are DIY or low flavor and require a lot of player buy-in to mechanics and flavoring to work. Slick game with a rules book that works amazingly for reference and not so great for teaching. Great game for tactical combat with real choices. Needs a lot of buy in from players and GM for mechanics.
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fr0id posted:4E D&D design philosophy of tactical combat but most of the weapons and powers are DIY or low flavor and require a lot of player buy-in to mechanics and flavoring to work. Slick game with a rules book that works amazingly for reference and not so great for teaching. Great game for tactical combat with real choices. Needs a lot of buy in from players and GM for mechanics. 4E D&D design philosophy sounds great -- does it resolve faster in play? I LOVED 4E but also felt like it was a bit frustrating to have a single combat take hours potentially. I'd be totally down for a game that was just as rich in options, but somewhat faster/less granular turn-by-turn...
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Memnaelar posted:4E D&D design philosophy sounds great -- does it resolve faster in play? I LOVED 4E but also felt like it was a bit frustrating to have a single combat take hours potentially. I'd be totally down for a game that was just as rich in options, but somewhat faster/less granular turn-by-turn... That I don’t know. I only played low level. My players bounced off it because they wanted more story combat than tactical. From my recollection, thoughC a lot of the improvement involved numbers going up, or affordability of more numbers going up. You have a lot of leeway to mix and match and combo powers. But my gut tells me that you’ll spend a lot of time making equivalent NPCs and resolving their powers to account for higher level PCs.
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Itch.io is doing another Creator Day tomorrow, Friday the 23rd, where all revenue goes to the creators regardless of their profit share settings. I'm sure many people will use the opportunity to put stuff on sale, such as myself.
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Two nice bundles up now, one for Fate at Bundleofholding and one for 13th Age on HumbleBundle. Fate bundle, base (9.95$): quote:Fate Core Level-up (currently at 36.20$): quote:Fate of Cthulhu 13th Age on HumbleBundle (24$): quote:Core book
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RRD and UFO Press are doing free shipping to at least the UK and seemingly continental Europe (and maybe elsewhere, I haven't checked) from now until Monday, in case people wanted to pick up anything Spire/Heart/Legacy in print: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product-category/game-systems/ https://ufopress.co.uk/shop/
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