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Fenarisk posted:"Now go join your friends and help them tell stories" No matter what I can say about Wick's system design and occasional grognarding, his heart's in the right place and it's great to see that sentiment expressed so clearly. Xelkelvos posted:The elements of Quirks are still in 2E as well as Villains being complete dicks, but there's at least a carrot to go with the stick now. I'm still not convinced of the system as a whole, but the setting is a lot better than before You know, I'll take that, as 7th Sea Villains are absolutely meant to be almost cartoonishly evil at times. They're swashbuckling villains. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 21:58 on May 30, 2016 |
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In the 'Is this Seriously John Wick?' chronicles of 7th Sea 2E, we just got an update that they were delaying going to print until next week to fix minor issues the backers pointed out in the pre-release. It bothers me that little things like this that should be just good practice are startling.
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clockworkjoe posted:Upwind is a new fantasy RPG from Jeff Barber (designer of Blue Planet) and is now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli/description I'll have to look at this. I ended up with all the Blue Planet 2e books back in like 2003 when my local game shop decided to give away their box of stuff that Would Never Sell, and while I've never run it, it was an interesting read.
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potatocubed posted:I launched a Kickstarter for Pigsmoke! Backed. This looks like fun. I've been looking for a PBTA to introduce a bunch of casual gaming friends to the system with, and running this as somewhere between Unseen University and Hogwarts should do it. Hope one of your backers hits you up for an undead professor role. 
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Doodmons posted:Okay now that people are showing up to say "Me, I paid $1000 for unpainted pieces of plastic" allow me to repeat my question at higher volume with greater incredulity: "Who the gently caress spends $1000 on unpainted plastic barbies?" Dude, a grand really isn't a huge amount of money to put into a hobby. Hell, the computer you're posting from likely cost more than that, and I'd bet 90% of goons' Steam accounts are worth more.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Hmm, maybe I should start a Promise-Everything-Give-Nothing Kickstarter! I have the requirements trifecta- You know, it wouldn't even be so bad if people would just own up to it. "Hey. I have depression problems. I will do everything in my power to stay on target, but expect that deadlines may slip."
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Mr.Misfit posted:Thereīs a difference. The timeline in Godlike is interesting because its about real-world-history and the slight alt-history changes we can see or notice. Yeah, I enjoy the one for Shadowrun for the same reasons, it exists to detail where their world broke off from our timeline and how it continued from there.
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Kai Tave posted:What's Steve Jackson done since then that's worthy of note? They don't -need- to, but if you could get all your production costs covered up front, and know that people will still buy the dumbass thing afterwards, why not?
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:I agree with the last 4 way more than the first one. I don't see a Kickstarter with a first-timer that has not backed other Kickstarters as a warning sign in-and-of-itself, but the others sure are. I get where they're going with that first one, it's an indicator that the account may be a throwaway.
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I was thinking more scammers than idiots, but both are likely true.
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Cinnamon Bear posted:John Wick is responsible for some of the worst parts of L5R soooo I'm not too excited. On the other hand there is a samurai riding a bear and I can't lie thats a pretty sweet image. And if he can restrain himself and/or has learned something since the 90s that might make things better. I honestly enjoy his settings but will never back anything again after just how wretchedly unfinished the 7th Sea 2 mechanics are. It's been out for what, a year now and I don't think they've ever addressed the duelist/non-duelist issues, or the fact that the duelist rules in general just don't work. That's a pretty big problem when Swordsmen are a major selling point of your game. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Having played a fair amount of 7th Sea at this point, is your problem that the most fantastically elite swordfighters are fantastically elite? The system is WAY more narrative than 1st edition. The game got way better for us when our party stopped moving around as a traditional murderhobo pack and started getting into fights in ones and two. The pressure rules from the Khitai quick start were another huge improvement. No, the problem is that the fantastically elite swordfighters are several orders of magnitude better, and their maneuver system is rock-paper-scissors bullshit that rewards rolling more raises then lunging at will because it cannot be prevented or avoided. Given that the game uses somewhat of a death spiral, the swordsman that goes first effectively wins in most combats, and if your party's swordsmen lose to the villain, the rest of the party might as well just surrender because combat is hopeless. I see what they were going for, but as published it's crap. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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I'm not disappointed in the change in focus, I'm disappointed that the change in focus is being used as an excuse for publishing blatantly unfinished rules and making fixing them the GM's problem.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:It seems like the 7th Sea Khitai kickstarter is stalling hard. I didn't expect it to do as well as the last one, but now they have permission from Wick to preview the next nation stretch goal ahead of schedule. The Japan and India books are unlocked now and that is honestly the only two things I am interested in. They'd be doing better if the rules for SS2e weren't a wet fart and L5R wasn't dominating the 'I wanna be a samurai' demographic.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Goblins feels like it was scientifically designed by crack awfulologists to try and come up with the most repulsive webcomic imaginable. I'm sure there must be worse out there, but it's just amazingly, incomprehensibly bad. The idea you would give its creator money is not something I can grasp or understand. Dude, have you never gone diving into Patreon's highest earners? People will pay absurd money for weird and bad things.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Three days left for John Wick's 7th Sea Khitai. I really like 7th Sea 2e, and this looks just as well done. Have they fixed the combat system yet? I wanted to like 7S 2E, but the combat sucked donkey dong.
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kinkouin posted:
Dude, this is not a hill you want to die on. A few of the models from their site: https://imgur.com/a/yDNMS Not linked to avoid inline NSFW. That's entirely ignoring the creepy bits in the rules themselves.
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I enjoyed some of the designs of the boss monsters, and enjoyed playing it on TTS.
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kinkouin posted:My point is exactly this. You went from 0-60 on this; it seems based on figures that isn't in the core game and is not even in the game unless you specifically are going for it. I did not go far enough. That is all promotional work that was used to sell the kickstarter. All taken from the gallery section of their site.
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HazCat posted:The original KS was 5 years ago. Plenty of people encounter KD without ever seeing the KS or the store or the promo models for the game. Anyone whose only contact with KD is having a friend who owns it (or who gets them to play it over TTS) is never going to know about any of the stuff you're posting about. True, which is exactly why my post was about how defending it is a lovely hill to die on, not about how the OP was a horrible human being.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:Gratuitous Anime Gimmick: Of Raised Dead & Evening Rituals has reached its goal. Congratulations!
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potatocubed posted:Ta! Chalk it up to learning experience, I hope it didn't sour you on kickstarter! My Pod copy hasn't quite gotten here yet, looking forward to it.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:There's been a lot of punk RPGs on Kickstarter (for obvious reasons), but Stigmata: This Signal Kills Fascists seems really cool. I love the art style, and the balancing act of superhero and revolutionary. I don't know what I think about it being in the 80s, though. Seems unnecessary. Yeah, I just saw that. I'm considering it strongly, given that I adore cyberpunk. I think the 80's element is both to specifically move it away from the modern political context, and to avoid the issues of the panopticon of modern tech. Anyone know much about the COIN system?
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Okay, on reading more on it, backed Stigmata. This should be my jam.
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Jedit posted:"The Regime" appears to be a shibboleth for "any form of government that will tell me what to do" rather than actual fascism - not that libertarians see a difference. This is pretty much guaranteed to be a "they want to take our guns" scenario. Given the expansion content, I read that paragraph as more being 'this is not an -explicitly- liberal game set in the modern political environment', but I don't know the author well enough to know if they're dogwhistling to the randbots.
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Mr.Misfit posted:When did right-wingers become Nazis? Arenīt Nazis as in National Socialists, derived from the german word Nazi for NAtionalsoZIalist a very specific, also focused on antisemitism and genocidal eugenic theory, a very specific branch of right-wing extremism? Or is this just general internet behaviour which mixes everything into samey words just to get an "US vs THEM" out of it? When they started espousing just those values. Have you been living on the goddamn moon for the last six months, and somehow missed the no-poo poo white supremacists waving torches and chanting Nazi slogans at protests?
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Mr.Misfit posted:Iīm not an american and most news sources I watch/consume arenīt very us-centric, so I donīt see that much about it in the news. What I do see is very white-supremacist stuff and racial conflicts. I admittedly might have missed the move towards nazism. I just like things labeled correctly and fascists, rightists (seriously, is there no good way to say that like leftists?) and nazis arenīt always the same. Sorry if I offended, for I did not mean to. You are clearly the most sheltered creature on these dead forums. 60,000 white supremacists and Neo Nazis marching in Warsaw two weeks ago also flew over your head. You should probably not comment on anything political if you are so oblivious to the news as to carry water for people calling for a new wave of religious and racially motivated genocide, only to claim ignorance as a defense when called on it.
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Just got an email from a project I backed last year which was canceled due to the death of the head of the company producing it: Tiny Wastelands from Gallant Knight Games. It's an even lighter post-apoc game than PBTA, with a mechanical set that sums to 'roll 2d6, 5+ succeeds' +/- 1d6 if you have advantage or disadvantage based on your character traits. It's already fully funded, and the art, text, and layout are done because this was supposed to go out a year ago before the unfortunate death of the owner of Nocturnal Media which they were part of at the time. Worth a look, I'm thinking I may pick it up as something to run at games days or cons. The price point's good too, 35 bucks for a softcover, GM screen, deck of Enclave cards (yearly settlement events in the wasteland), and 3 custom dice. Printing and fulfillment is DTRPG, which has worked well for me in the past. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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thefakenews posted:Yeah, it's this. It's the same engine as Tiny Dungeons, I believe. Yep, the Tiny D6 engine.
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Mors Rattus posted:We need three different right-wing factions and only one leftist one. That is a proper and correct accounting of those who would resist. Yeah, and the leftists are Tankies. I am deeply disappointed.
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So Chad Walker updated over on SIGMATA with an example of playtest scenario :quote:During a playtest campaign this month, taking place in a Resistance stronghold in Miami, Resistance leadership faced a strategic challenge and brought in the Receivers to negotiate the outcome. The problem at hand was that, because of a (failing) Regime-backed counter-revolutionary coup in Cuba, refugees from both sides of that conflict were pouring into Florida. The Regime had no interested in providing sanctuary even for those who fought at its behest. In fact, they even permitted zealous militia-types to rent yachts and "defend the borders," much like the yahoos in real life who voluntarily patrol desert borders in America for a chance to murder some of the most vulnerable people on Earth. The Faction leads had conflicting views on what to do about the refugees. Some wanted to take them all in, some wanted to deny them all, and some wanted to take them in so they could set up tribunals for the counter-revolutionaries among them. Presented these three options (with the vehemence and talking points we'd expect) and asked to support one, the Receivers developed and proposed a fourth option: to take everyone in while also disseminating disinformation to them, in order to see who would act on this information, thereby identifying who actually posed a legitimate counter-revolutionary threat to the movement. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it was a solution each faction could begrudgingly live with, simultaneously appealing to both the humanists among them as well as those who prioritized "control." The players navigated a somewhat grotesque ideological squabble, and at least for one day, and avoided a showdown with hardliners. They won't be able to do it every time, especially as the pressure continues to ratchet up. As someone called out here, that absolutely reads like the Factions should be parts of the Regime, because that whole scenario is basically predicated on the right wing militia concept of the Old Men.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are top-tier backers of this game Chad posted:Chad Walker Creator I am beginning to feel that Mr. Walker may be an alt-right apologist.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Fuckin' REDNECK REVOLT?!?!? That actually makes me physically angry. The level of political naivety involved in everything written there is absolutely hilarious.
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Transhumanism is what you're looking for there. The Culture is the end state.
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jmzero posted:Well... I'd describe it as "I value not being an abusive rear end in a top hat"; I think it's abusive to tell people to screw goats. I personally am not going to run around policing people's tone or something (and, again, I wouldn't have written this thing that MDT wrote, especially if I was trying to run a business), but I think it'd be better if people didn't tell each other to screw goats - or, at least if they conceded that it wasn't the best idea later. There's better, more productive ways to say whatever it is you want to say. Telling lovely people to gently caress off is, in fact, the best way of dealing with lovely people. The idea that their terrible bullshit requires that all reasonable people treat it as normal discourse for the sake of some ideal of civility and decorum is part of how they get away with being lovely people in polite company for so long.
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NTRabbit posted:Or alternatively, there's been yet another turf war inside the Harry Potter rights management mess, and Knight are trying to off load as much of the stock as they can because they've already been told their license has been cancelled, and it ends at a certain date. This is very likely the thing that happened, and they have until the ends of the month to sell the product that's already made.
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Bedlamdan posted:Its at least a decent way of at least showing that the Union is now hosed, and things are now a big mess. See also how Shadowrun brought back the Confederacy too, with their fuckin flag and everything. Shadowrun's Confederacy, though, isn't a 'we brought back a slave state!' thing, it's 'the US as a political entity collapsed because the native peoples rose up and demonstrated they had the magical equivalent of nuclear weapons, and took half the land mass in the treaty that kept them from using them'. The South seceded after the US merged with Canada to form the UCAS.
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Kai Tave posted:It's still pretty fuckin dumb that every alt-future or alt-history decides that the Confederacy Will Rise Again. It's dumb that a bunch of people living there want it to, but such is life.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Reynolds in firefly is more or less analogous to the popular cultural stuff that tries to rehabilitate robert e lee. In a way the entire thing would be way less problematic if he was a german army officer analogue because no-one in the mainstream thinks that hitler and co were good dudes, but people erect statues about lee. Oh my sweet summer child. There are whole wargaming companies based on the idea that while Hitler was crazy, the Whermacht were heroically defending their country.
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FMguru posted:My experience with those terrible unending Forever Games (like Munchkin) are they go on until enough people become bored and start playing suboptimally in order to allow someone else to win and bring an end to all their suffering. Talisman.
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Oh, hey, two years late and midway through the next stage of their KS delivery, 7th Sea has added Danielle Lauzon as their new Line Dev and is talking about rules errata for the stuff that was broken at publication! https://7thsea.libsyn.com/timelines-errata-and-the-future-of-7th-sea-with-danielle-lauzon
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