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Lord_Hambrose posted:The Sega Genesis game holds up. The Harebrained computer games were pretty decent too.
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I suspect most crowdfunding will go PDF with printed versions being reserved for insane multiple hundred dollar backer tiers that come with pillowcases, keychains, and Funko Pops too. Farming production out to different areas will result in highly variable costs and quality across regions and for anything that needs tooling like die cut cardboard or injection molds, you now have to make a new set of tooling in every region.
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It’s hard to find a team that will do both well. The more likely outcome is neat papercraft that plays like checkers except somehow worse, or a good game and papercraft that’s crayon on a shopping bag.
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Kai Tave posted:Check out the Kickstarter thread where Nemesis of Moles posts a link to Our Shores, a Southeast Asian RPG anthology KS, one of the first comments is someone going "no print option, no deal." People talk a lot of poo poo like that and then buy the PDF anyway; I’m not sure there’s a good way to know how many PDFs you don’t sell when print isn’t an option.
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Kai Tave posted:I don't think it's really a reach to suggest that campaigns with print copies garner more attention and hype, which largely (if not always) translates into more pledge enthusiasm. I'm pretty skeptical that Lancer would have raised nearly as much money as it did if the campaign was strictly digital only, even with the leg up it had in terms of one of the lead designers already being kind of internet famous outside of elfgames. It’s not a reach at all to say that people get excited for books, but how do you determine that it cut theoretical sales by 10% or 75% when there’s no book? 
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Kai Tave posted:How do you determine that people saying "no book no sale" are secretly turning around and buying the pdf anyway? I personally know at least ten people who did exactly that but only because they were loud about their demands for paper before deciding they wanted the information regardless of form. Anecdote not data admittedly, and similar challenges exist on both sides unless you hack DTRPG or Kickstarter, extract the identities of buyers for a specific title, and trawl Facebook et al to find people who said they’d never buy a PDF. But I have other stuff to do this afternoon, so that question won’t get answered right now.
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homullus posted:Has anyone here played NISEI Netrunner? They have a starter set coming out soon, and so many people rave about Netrunner that I was thinking of trying it. Yes. Most of the card base is still FFG cards. Come to the netrunner thread, there are still a few of us there.
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It’s gonna be pretty great if Hasbro destroys the entire tabletop, board, and card game industry in the US forever just to make their 21Q3 earnings look good.
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Haystack posted:They photoshoped a drag queen's face onto a mecha as part of a generally silly series of tweets, iirc. That really seems like the sort of thing you should leave for your fan community to do.
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Nuns with Guns posted:This pre-dates Lancer by a bit but Battle Century G is a pretty good mech game. Lancer's overshadowed it now in the "customizable mechs you fight in" category, but it's worth looking into still. BCG was written by a goon! I sadly don't recall their username though.
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Kai Tave posted:https://twitter.com/humble/status/1385639786921168896 Wonder how long IGN plans to let it coast on the Humble Bundle reputation to take in a few million in revenue before they pull the plug.
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Splicer posted:You will be hearing from my lawyer Terribly Silly Rules They Sue Regularly Tough poo poo, Readers Total Staff Resignation
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Table by Jim Simons, originally from Space Gamer #74. Thank you, I was trying to remember where I'd seen those before. 
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Nuns with Guns posted:The Canadian and/or US Postal Service has eaten the physical Diana Jones award: How the hell did they think it was a good idea not to ship it with tracking at the very least?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Am I secretly color blind? Are they color blind? The only thing remotely yellow in The topology of this post makes it impossible to ridicule. It is somehow its own parody.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:I'm more surprised nobody's talking about Whedon's story about how he totally didn't kill someone: Oh they are, just not in this thread.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The hosts of the 25VTM podcasts put forth the possibility at 02:45:00 that the Abrek Blight Chapter temporarily halted the persecution and torture of LGBTQ+ people in Chechnya. lmao, yes a few pages in a lore chapter written for a goth roleplaying game absolutely stopped discrimination in Chechnya. Ericsson is a dingdong and the podcast hosts sound like twits too if they unironically brought that idea up during the interview.
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Kurieg posted:If memory serves he in fact tried to use the absurdity of the book to deflect the legitimate press reporting on the homosexual purges in Chechnya. That's even more tragicomic.
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Look if I brought a character named CARL MARK FORCE IV to the table my group would laugh me out of the room.
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theironjef posted:My least favorite was one boss who couldn't describe what we wanted for poo poo, and just kept saying "make it more upscale!" That sounds like an invitation to charge more. 
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More like "cringer satanis" lmao, what a fukkin hot topic reject that guy is.
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They only use free range plastic now.
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hyphz posted:So they are literally trying to make a tabletop version of a pay-to-win MMO, but expecting other people to run it. It's the same "x but with bitcoin" poo poo we've been seeing for the last decade. Do the exact same thing you've been doing but now pay us for no benefit. Where do I sign up?
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Nuns with Guns posted:Afterparty drinking is part of broader "con culture" and I do think it kind of sucks no matter if it's a comic con, video game con, or Gencon. Not necessarily the drinking on its own, but the fact that a lot of these parties are seen as networking zones where young people trying to break into the industry have to behave nicely in front of their drunk seniors. Plus providing a venue and encouraging binge drinking and all that poo poo. Nobody should have to go in expecting to be on guard all the time at a nerd meetup, but it definitely feels like an artifact of an older era that's been left to roll forward for all the wrong reasons. Getting hosed up and loving is so heavily integrated into con culture that it will be impossible to remove unless you completely evacuate the community in question and repopulate it with an entirely different bunch. Doesn't matter what the topic is: tabletop games, comic books, information security, loving analytical chemistry. Nerds are going to get blackout drunk and sexually assault people at these things forever, and you basically have to be on alert the whole time. More critically, you have to be fearless in defending yourself, up to the risk of getting yourself excommunicated when you (for example) kick somebody's rear end when they wouldn't stop grabbing yours and your dick after you'd asked them to stop nicely five or six times. And as distasteful as I found it as a straight white guy it's a million times worse for women and minorities because the whole room turns against them the instant they raise a hand against their attackers. Edit: just to be clear it didn't happen to me but I watched the whole thing go down, from the first rear end grab to the last punch. Midjack fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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Liquid Communism posted:I dunno, I think most people find it pretty easy not to sexually assault people at work events. Those who struggle with it need to be driven the gently caress out, because that poo poo is intolerable. Tuxedo Catfish posted:yeah nothing about that is impossible to change, especially with support from organizers You'd think that, and yet it's been happening for well over sixty years. If you're in a position to make things different at an event then have at it. I would love to hear that you made sure an attacker got what was coming to them, whether that was some wall to wall counseling, a public burn notice that doesn't get retracted when the attacker's sycophants start screeching about, or a ride through the legal system.
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Falstaff posted:Gun porn was a big thing in RPGs around the turn of the millenium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9yg1waqvA
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Bruceski posted:Now I'm wondering if official TTR matches have a dealer like casinos. Above a certain threshold of prize value it's absolutely a best practice in any game tournament to have a croupier touching anything that isn't the players' hands or stockpiles. Nobody ever does this because it's hard enough to get staff to run the event at all.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Chess: a source book for the fifth edition of the world's most popular Roleplaying game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/346101/queens-gambit-das-damengambit
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Dexo posted:I mean they prooobably knew that Holocaust bad, but like a number of wargamers I've talked to, even ones who I know aren't Nazis or fasc, can get a weird obsession with the machinery of war finding it cool and would probably consider buying this stupid poo poo. I could even see someone thinking it was a "swords to plowshares" kind of thing, but still just naw, man. Naw.
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moths posted:Field grey is a function of Nazi-caliber quality control: Those all look khaki to me!
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Green Intern posted:I couldn’t stop myself from thinking you were saying that Trump had a career playing D&D with pornstars and writing RPGs and my brain was breaking. I am now imagining Trump as a member of a play group or even better as the GM and am laughing ma off.
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Dexo posted:hmm you know Would Trump be the worst DM? He is very good at bullshitting. Probably too antagonistic for modern games, I suppose. I'd expect either all improv all the time, or railroad like a motherfucker and nothing in between. The DMPCs would be completely out of hand.
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moths posted:They basically invented celebrity actual play in 4e by hiring the Penny Arcade and CAD guys to play. PA still does the Acquisitions Incorporated live plays at their PAX cons and licensed a Clank box set a few years ago. It's continued well enough without WotC's involvement.
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Anybody know where Gygax is buried? Asking for a friend.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I, for one, welcome our Monte Cook Games overlords. I don't, his games are kind of terrible.
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xbox live gold is $25/month, and look how much more you're getting here!
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w00tmonger posted:But also battle nuns Infinity has these too, amusingly enough in lore they oppose the Friend Computer that the Catholic Space Knights are generally friendly with though there's enough wiggle room in lore for any faction to oppose or ally with almost any other.
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Slaanesh is big titty crabclaw demons yes, but I always felt like Hedonism Bot was a better model for what they were going for: https://youtu.be/e6XXCip04us
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Mors Rattus posted:Have you seen AoS’ Glutos Orscollion yet Oh hey, looks like they finally decided to diversify the brand after thirty years.
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jarofpiss posted:
You can get a whole squad of Judge Dredds to shoot your gangs up in Necromunda 1E too. Not sure if they have them in the more recent editions though.
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