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Alien Rope Burn posted:I unjokingly would really like to see Star Wars run with Spirit of '77, but I'm perhaps unique in that. There's a special scenario we give out to people running games at conventions that's basically Galaxy Quest meets Point Break.
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Hey KS thread. A friend of mine just launched a kickstarter for his storygame Home by Dark. It's a simple game that's inspired by things like The Goonies, E.T. and Stranger Things. I played it and it's got a fun dice mechanic for creating these types of stories. https://goo.gl/M9QvT3
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unseenlibrarian posted:So apparently the next game from Monkeyfun studios (The creators of Spirit of '77 aka the source of my avatar pic) I honestly figured that Bucnasti would have come by to tell everyone about already! But look! Looks like Unseenlibrarian beat me to it but yeah David has a new game. I wasn't involved in this one (other than as a source of encouragement) because it's just not my bag, but he's been working on it for awhile and has really done a great job. You can expect the same level of management of this KS as the So77 one, so it will ship on time etc.
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Cat Face Joe posted:There was something poasted in this thread that was described as "Stranger Things the tabletop game" but I can't recall its name. I need it now more than ever since it might be the only way to get my group to play something that isn't D&D 5e. Home by Dark
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Reselling bones makes sense, the value of the boxes is so crazy there's probably no risk. I've directed friends who missed the first one to grab it off eBay, even at 100% markup it's still a good deal. But I see a lot of other mini board games show up in the bargain bin after they launch for the same or less than the KS price, so it seems like a risk for other properties.
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Monkey Fun is doing a new Kickstarter. "It's a Nordic Horror story game inspired by dark Scandinavian dramas like "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", coupled with isolation horror such as "The Thing", and "Thirty Days of Night". https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyfunstudios/a-town-called-malice-a-nordic-horror-story-game
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This is either a scam, or some Blizzard big wig's pet/vanity project (which doesn't preclude it from being a scam).
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Infinitum posted:As someone who loves WoW... Who is this for? I worked in the Blizzard Licensed Product group years ago, I don't believe this is a legit Blizzard authorized product, it's at best somebody who doesn't know anything about licensing (like the guy who did that Pokémon kickstarter without authorization) or somebody with a lovely scam. Nothing on that page or the video actually includes the Blizzard or Blizzard Licensed product logos, which they're pretty strict about indicating on anything associated with their IP. Their "In association with Blizzard Entertainment" probably translates to "I showed it to my brother-in-law who works there". Like I said it's possible it's somebody at the companies vanity project, it wasn't unheard of for us to get the directive "Senior VP of Transgenic-synergy-market-analysis wants a Tauren Halloween mask, make it happen", or "Paul Sams had lunch with this guy who makes pool floats and wants us to work with them", but even then we were required to follow standards on branding.
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Infinitum posted:
I dropped quick line to my old boss and apparently this is legit, and there will be official marketing announcement soon. I told him he should have somebody proofread that KS page before that since it reads like it was designed by a crazy person.
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My friend runs multiple game kickstarters every year and the shipping prices hit him really hard this year. He had to suck up a lot of additional costs, but he's a pro and has contingencies in place, I can imagine inexperienced kickstarters are going to get bit in the rear end pretty hard.
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Infinitum posted:
I don't know what it's like these days but when I worked there being in licensed products was a huge pain in the rear end. We were constantly told that everything we released had to be "Epic Blizzard Quality" but at the same time we were regularly saddled with partners who didn't give a poo poo and were just trying to latch onto the brand for a quick buck. For every Sideshow Collectibles, McFarlane toys or Jinx Apparel there was a Ruby's Halloween Costumes, Northwest Apparel or Figure Prints. The game teams gave no support because "an artist spent 6 hours making a sparkle pony and it netted us 27 million dollars yesterday, why should we devote resources to your project that only makes one million a year?" but suddenly got all uppity when we released something cool that got too much attention. I still suspect this gamevault thing is some vanity project, but they're about 12 years too late for the days of people lining up to buy anything with the WoW logo on it.
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Kai Tave posted:I wonder if there's a weird nepotism/know-a-guy angle given that the ostensible creators of this are 40 minutes from Irvine, going off their airplane hangar address. That’s what I mean by vanity project; “My brother-in-law has this great idea for a game, we’re going to give his company, that I own a stake in, the license so he can make it.”
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They should have made it about the corrupted blood people got in Zul'Gurub and spread to the general populace. That was a literal digital pandemic and was even studded by the CDC.
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When I worked in Blizzard licensing they didn’t require up front fees or minimum guarantees. The early licensors made buckets of money. I have no idea if that’s changed in the last ten years.
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InternetJunky posted:That's kind of eye opening. I always just assumed there was always going to be a huge upfront cost for high value IPs. The philosophy at Blizzard at the time (this was when WoW was at it's height and making unimaginable amounts of money) was that they wanted cool schwag from quality companies more than licensing dollars. The licensing and product development team basically paid for itself but didn't make much more than that. We reported up to Metzen, and he shielded us from a lot of the Activision bullshit, but now that he's gone I'm sure the accountants have taken over. Now I work on the licensor side with multiple AAA IPs, and we have minimum guarantees with them all, so Blizzard was an anomaly.
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The Eyes Have It posted:Jamey's openness about tabletop business and dollars is one of the most valuable things to come out of SG's success, especially stuff like nitty gritty about how much art costs and such. Anyone wanting to run a tabletop kickstarter should first read every blog post from Stonemeir games. I avoided a lot of mistakes and pitfalls because I read about them first.
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JazzFlight posted:Akora TCG アコラカード What am I missing here? There's 40+ backers at the ~1000$ point. Are there that many gullible people that think this is the next big thing? or is this some sort of money laundering thing?
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Desfore posted:Didn't it come to light during the canal crisis that it's not that uncommon for boats to get stuck and refloated, but somehow the severity and location of the Ever Given blockage that made it a huge effort? Yeah a couple boats have been stuck since the Ever Given, but it's been in wider parts of the canal where it doesn't disrupt shipping. The Ever Given was wedged sideways in the narrowest part of the canal and completely blocked all traffic.
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Most people I know will play just about any game someone is willing to run for them, because there are a lot more eager players than eager GMs.
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But can I still shop at Uncle Al Auto and Gunnery Shop?
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I could see an advantage to running a 30 day kickstarter on Feb 1st. Since Feb is a 28/29 day month and many people get paid on the 1st/last of the month you would cover two paydays .
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homullus posted:The thing is, moves are supposed to be driven by what the players do in the fiction. If the fighter steps on the trap and says "I brace for impact with my shield" and the GM says "ok roll +INT to figure out the correct angle on the fly" then that's cool for your group, but not RAW. I'm totally going to play mathematician fighter now, constantly computing angles of attack and deflection like some sort of bloody minded snooker player.
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Maybe they drunk ordered 100 small pizza boxes, and decided the best way to dispose of them was to kickstart a game.
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What is even left for Reaper to convert to Bones?
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Magnetic North posted:
A separate tabletop related patreon thread might be a good idea. They cross over into just about every aspect of the hobby so I don't think they really fit anywhere that already exists.
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I backed Blade Runner because it looks like a cool artifact with nice art and stuff. I never intend to play it.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:
Backed! I missed the first campaign, so I'm glad there was an option to get both books.
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Return to Dark Tower, not to be confused with Reincarnated Dark Tower. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/devillich/original-adventures-reincarnated-7-the-dark-tower?ref=user_menu
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Mirage posted:This is entirely me playing devil's advocate, but: the whole concept behind crypto is that it doesn't have an "issuing party." This "FundCoin" or whatever Kickstarter is creating would exist outside of KS and continue to hold value even if KS itself went under, as long as other entities used it too. Which is kind of the rub, really. If it was independent from KS, then why would KS invest in developing it? Where are they making their money? I mean other than using the project as a way to get investors to waste their money on the current buzzword.
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Lumbermouth posted:This is what every blockchain startup struggles with but ESPECIALLY Kickstarter. Their model is already proven! There’s no need to improve on it unless they are adding Backerkit-style post campaign support. There's a card game called Burn Rate that's about the dot com bubble, there's no way to win it's just about being the last company to lose. I really want to make a game like that about Web3 and then Kickstart it.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Your blue Pretty sure that's force ghost Jesus 
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