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Jadepunk is a roleplaying game that takes place in a fictional, Hong Kong inspired city, called Kausao City, where mystical jade is refined and used in mechanical devices to create steampunk-like “Jadetech”.

Players in Jadepunk will take control of members of the jianghu and assist in that society’s endeavors to overthrow the Jade Shogun and bring peace to Kausao City. The archetypes they can play are varied, from gunslingers wielding highly-volatile red jade six-shooters to warrior monks wielding powerful martial arts, to Jadetech engineers
inventing the latest in Jadetech theoretical applications.

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To play simply learn to drop the dice off the box, and keep them on the game-board. The very first corner space states, Divide Your Game Parts. What made that work, are five No/Rest circles added to select spaces. They take away the choice, of which game-piece to move. Before I adding those circles, catch-22's would happen. A different space states, Exchange Your Bank of Feathers. It allows a player to come from behind at anytime.

The inside of the box works great as a game-bank. Each time around the board Eagle, Duck and Seagull feathers are rewarded. The goal of CENTERPIECE, becomes a RACE to purchase nine-puzzle-spaces one at a time. Have a bank of two-hundred feathers, have game-parts together. Then land on the Start Sun space, or Bidgecage space to WIN. Players keep score, with black and white pawns, under the box, at the games center. Who's best at finding the best price for a numbered puzzle-space, while staying out of the Birdcage corner space. For example to Rent A Horse, to get to the Half-Price space, or not.

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Which side will you choose? Which weapons will you wield? Venture into lands once claimed by skyscrapers and factories, now overrun by elves, goblins, and dragons. Ride gracefully on horseback or plow through the wilderness in an armored transport.

Earth is torn between the order of science and the chaos of fantasy. The realm of magic has invaded our world, forcing man into the last few bastions of technology. These two worlds cannot mix. Will you embrace the wonder of legends and myths or accept the reality of refrigerators and washing machines?

For 500 years the planet was locked in stalemate, but no more. The Stones of Amethyst have risen. When brought together, they could decide the future of the planet, cast off the remaining shred of technology, or close off the world of magic forever. Choose your path and commit to the quest. Monsters will hunt you; machines will track you. No gods will help you; no prophecies will choose you. The fate of the world rests with you.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

I imagine that might be waived somewhat if you're already well-known enough in RPGland.

Bieeardo posted:

Holy poo poo, that write-up for Amethyst makes me want to go outside and lie in front of a steamroller to make the hurting stop.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Did the Last Stand stuff ever get shipped?

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Yeah, Far West pisses me off and I didn't even go for it; I just know too many people who had their hopes up only to get slapped for actually wanting the product they paid for.

REO Speedial posted:

The audacity.

It still astounds me how a such a noted industry veteran could be years late on multiple books and be so belligerent about people wondering about delivery.

Cheneybeast posted:

I received my copy of CENTERPIECE this week. It contained the following note, crumple up in the shipping envelope.

Hello new CENTERPIECE owner

Just want to share a note about CENTERPIECE. Follow the rules carefully when first starting to play. Friend Dave S and I would play again and again. You will too after seeing how it all works.

We even starting paying (sic) an off-the-board-roll-fine of five feathers. The game board like a new book, and will lie flat after being broken in.

After your game-chips lands on the DIVIDE your game-parts. The no/rest circles have to be followed, just move that game-piece. It helps speed-up your game, because other game piece stay put.

With the right combination of rolls a player can circle the board. Be fair what happens to one player, becomes the rule for the next time it happens. It's all part of the FUN!

Thanks Dan M

No, thank YOU, Dan M.

I'd like to post pictures and rules later, but since it didn't fund on KS (I got mine off eBay) I'm not sure what thread it belongs in. Fatal & Friends?

Plague of Hats posted:

I was also the only one who said poo poo about it, and just the once briefly, but Skarka's immediate whine was about how I was "grandstanding while spearheading the usual RPG.net crowd." Also he couldn't help but mention that I am some nobody that he'd never heard of.

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Most Calidarans came from three lunar empires—the humans from Manaan, the elves from Alorea, and the dwarves as well as their gnomish cousins from Kragdûr. The fellfolk, a race of small but fierce people, are the planet's original inhabitants. Calidar is imbued with a feral magic hostile to the expansion of civilization, a dangerous world only partially settled by the three off-world empires. A central region called the Great Caldera, a three-thousand-mile-large crater partially filled with an inner sea and ringed with towering mountains, serves as the cradle of civilization. There, the empires overcame nature’s ferocity and established sprawling colonies. But over time, they rebelled and, after a long period of conflict known as the Sky Wars, the new realms earned their independence from their lunar masters. A fragile truce now remains between the three empires and their former colonies. Beyond the Great Caldera lies what is known as the Dread Lands.

The truth is that two lunar empires are overpopulated and exceeding their natural resources. The other, more attuned to nature, now stagnates, unwilling to further harm its own world. It was the reason for the rush to establish colonies on Calidar. There was, and still is, another reason. Traveling the immense distances between Calidar and its moons, and reaching other worlds gravitating around the Great Soltan is only possible with a certain type of magic. At the heart of imperial rivalries lies a strange substance called Seitha, which enables skyships to become incorporeal and travel at fantastic speeds. Though it can be found on the moons, the existence of the precious Seitha has been declining there since its discovery. The Dread Lands now remain its principal source and the origin of many conflicts to obtain it.

The appearance of the substance in Calidar’s soil is predicated upon the health of that world and its moons. It is believed that all magic comes from the beating heart of Calidar, tying together not only Seitha but the souls of the dead and the very lifeforce of all that dwells on its surface, in the skies, and beyond—be it flora, fauna, or sentient kind. It is strong enough to enable gods to spring from the inhabitants’ spiritual beliefs. Indeed, Calidar is unique in that the divine did not create this universe and its people. It is quite the opposite. On each world gods, demi-gods, epic heroes, and demons compete to retain the favors of mortals who created them, and to sway the minds of others for the sake of eternal hegemony. . . or oblivion.

gnome7 posted:

Backers of Inverse World: Check your emails.

DigitalRaven posted:

Onyx Path have done that on our last few kickstarters — Hunters' Hunted II, Changing Breeds, Demon, and now Anarchs Unbound.

dwarf74 posted:

I have seen no news despite being in a hypothetical playtest group.

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Void Star Studios, Inc. has acquired the rights, processes, vendors and original mold for Tact-Tiles! And the original creators of the Tact-Tiles are working with us as advisors.

These aren't some cheap knock-offs. These are the real deal, tweaked to improve the manufacturing process to insure we can bring them to you at an affordable price.

Our intent is to make this new run of Tact-Tiles 100% compatible with the original Tact-Tiles from BC Products, and to insure these are of even better quality.

Tact-Tiles are highly portable, rigid, thick plastic, dry-erase, gaming tiles. No more erasing the mat and starting over when the PCs run off the edge! And no more fussing with a rolled up mat!
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On the Tact-Tiles front; we're expecting material and ink samples for the Tact-Tiles within the next few weeks. We're still working through a few kinks, and we'll keep you posted as we progress.

Look for the Kickstarter for both the Savage Worlds edition of Nova Praxis, and Tact-Tiles, very soon!

VacuumJockey posted:

I made a giant fuckup and posted about the Kickstarter for Far Away Lands on the main page, which sadly speaks ill of my cognitive state. But here it is, a non-d20-based RPG inspired by Red Box D&D, Adventure Time, Zardoz, Order of the Stick and Grud knows what else. I have a weakness for this sort of stuff, so I kicked in 30 bucks...

Dagon posted:

Speaking of unprofessional, I'm Kickstarting a list!

100 Deluxe Dungeons

Mikan posted:

You don't. You pledge $12 now, and then it's going to cost you $3.76 to pay for printing from DrivethruRPG/RPGnow/etc later once you get the at-cost shipping code.

Man Dancer posted:

The Kickstarter for my friend's game Questlandia (the title is my least favorite part) went live recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/825764665/questlandia

Disclaimer: I did do some playtesting, but I dug the hell out of it even in its then-unfinished state. It does some neat stuff with making your choices feel like really rough trade-offs, and has pleasingly zippy world/character generation rules.

Kai Tave posted:

It's this thing, right here. This is a fantasy (and sci-fi I guess) heartbreaker. The heartbrokenest.

dwarf74 posted:

So $35 is the minimum to get you the rules? In pdf? Without any extra books?

Bieeardo posted:

Ow, my nostalgia. Those blue dungeon tiles really remind me of the old, old Dungeon Geomorphs booklet... which was probably the point of choosing that particular shade of blue.

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We have taken a transmedia approach in the concept of The Rangers from its inception. Developing The Rangers Card Game and commissioning the Lt. Wolf miniature with an eye towards a tabletop battle game, in conjunction with the film development. With plans for novelizing the story, a graphic novel, a video game down the road, and more in the works. The goal, fantasy entertainment with total fan engagement and satisfaction in mind.

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GimpInBlack posted:

Ahahaha this loving sentence. It reads like the tags on a piece of Apocalypse World gear.

Zereth posted:

You still can't get the Wulin RPG from anywhere other than ordering it from them and then hoping they actually get the notification past the Great Firewall of China, I think.