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Nifara posted:Kevin Crawford is, in my eyes, the uncontested champion of RPG kickstarters. The man never misses a beat and even if you're not someone who goes for his stuff normally you have to admit it's superbly and expertly done, with solid production values and, yes, delivers ahead of schedule. I think he’s written up what he’s done in various places but IIRC it boils down to having the work (writing, lining up artists, etc) done before you launch the kickstarter. Makes everything else run smoothly.
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Kai Tave posted:I'll be honest, I've dropped like $100-150 on Kickstarters before but it's usually for pledge tiers promising something along the lines of an art commission, and for commissioned art that's not an unreasonable price on top of getting an RPG. I can't really think of an RPG, just an RPG, that would make me want to spend $200-500 on it. Like I get that it comes in a cube and has a plastic hand and there's something there about bestoke adventure paths, but I just can't wrap my head around something that would make me think "this is totally worth it" even if it was made by someone who I didn't relentlessly make fun of. Greg Stolze might have a fuckin amazing idea for a brand new RPG but if he wants that much money for it I'm still gonna need a hell of a lot of convincing before jumping in and even then it might be more a case of "I'll wait 'til someone wants to offload their copy." I did like $130 on the last Delta Green kickstarter but that was specifically for buying several hardcover books at a set price point each, it wasn't on one product. It's hard for me to imagine spending that much on one book, but if it was big enough and nice enough I can understand having to charge that much. IDK if I'd buy it, but I can imagine charging it.
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Jimbozig posted:There are already competitive minis games and they don't do much as a spectator sport. What makes anyone think that watching a dnd battle arena will be better than watching a Warhammer tournament? Nobody thinks this except for the idiots throwing money at anything vaguely e-sports sounding to try to cash in on it
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do wonder how likely they are to walk back or spin off Age of Sigmar. It seems like people have come around on some of the new factions but all the new names for things are stupid and forgettable. There is a 0% chance, it's a good game that does well in sales.
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hyphz posted:Partly. And the fact that a friend who saw my shame shelves commented that he wondered if they “saw me coming”. And the other gold panning sales that tend to pop up at this time, and some comments on Discord about Savage Worlds. Did ya know Chuubo is a platinum seller on DTRPG? How many successful games of it do you know? You know it's ok to just, like, buy books to read
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Basically none of those games are really going concerns, and if more stuff comes out for them at some point as long as the same people keep working on them they'll be fine I mean, if anything, they're already games where the rules are written according to the settings' physics
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Thanlis posted:Justin Alexander's "disassociated mechanics" crap pissed me off as much as anyone, and still does. As far as I know he has never apologized or given any indication that he knows he was being a jerk. He's a complete loving tool but I'm not particularly worried about him running roughshod over Robin Laws and Greg Stoltze and ruining their games
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Like I said earlier, as long as he's not like launching a new Ars Magica line that he's got rules input on he's in charge of a bunch of properties that he can't really damage, unless Atlas Games is going to just chuck the psuedo-Auteur-driven model they've got going on and let him start cranking out Unknown Armies books or something
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Dawgstar posted:Also donating what he got paid by Zak to a charity for abused women was a good touch by Hite. All Magpie Guy can fall back on is 'Hey, wha' happun?' I think this is the main difference. Concrete action and a promise for more action is the only thing that really backs up an apology from someone in Hite's position. If he doesn't do anything else and just lets it lie, it'll be incredibly disappointing.
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Jimbozig posted:1. Hite's apology was very good, and giving away his cut of the money from Zak's project is a convincing show of good faith. If Hite doesn’t follow through on what he said about taking further actions to try to address what he’s done then I think he belongs in the bad pile too
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This ain't it, chief
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Hm, I got called out for using fake statements to defend myself, what should I do? Ah, yes, write a long lovely post centered around a statement from someone else that “totally exonerates” me
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PST posted:I'm pretty sure this is a zak sock puppet l m a o
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Dave Brookshaw posted:It is, for example, more than I get. That’s sad.
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Feb 24, 2019 03:23
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If he wants to embrace Nordic LARP so much he should just stay contained within that community.
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moths posted:Wait is he ruining Black Dog Games now? Because if anyone can, it's him. No, he just named his blog after it because that imprint represents everything he wants the WoD to be
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I found the gamescience dice to be very light and unsatisfying to roll, which was a real disappointment.
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I hadn't heard of the *DREAM stuff before reading this thread, it's really cool
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Maybe Holden has turned the corner but stuff like this still makes me raise an eyebrow https://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1212727688085090305
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Here's a post-mortem for one of the more highly-backed ZineQuest projects: https://uncannyspheres.blogspot.com/2021/03/zine-quest-3-post-mortem-drain.html
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Comstar posted:Does Battletech still have an advancing plot, or does everyone ignore what happened and just use the part of the timeline they like? What was the state of the galaxy at the latest point in the time line? They just came out with a big metaplot book advancing the timeline like last week, but yes also most people just use the part of the timeline they like. It's a bigger deal to choose a time period to play in BT because of how it determines what tech is available for mechs on the table, it's a really big part of gameplay.
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EdsTeioh posted:Speaking of that Avatar KS, is that company legit? I see that this is their 3rd project, but I'm not sure if the previous ones even shipped or not. Insight? They're a real company who makes real games, yes.
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Our local Gaming Goat franchise is changing it's name, so looks like that dude's actions are having some lasting consequences.
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Comstar posted:Um...what? Like, can someone go into more detail of what "AMA on 8chan" is referring to? They decided to run an ask me anything on 8chan before people told them it was a horrible idea
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Comstar posted:So GW did a 2 minute massively expensive video that says The Squats are back. The community did not appreciate it. The best part about the GW video is that, according to some leaks that have accurately predicted basically everything to come out this and most of last year, it's not a prank.
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OtspIII posted:determining the price of wheat in a fishing village versus a forest town is crunchy and cumbersome. I really don't know who it's for Me, it's for me. I'll never use it because of who made it, and there are close enough alternatives, but if Macris wasn't Macris I would be trying to work it into games. I also spent a while running a traveller game that was all merchant focused, stupid excessive commodity tracking in games just appeals to me for whatever reason long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 8, 2022 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What's your take on Ultraviolet Grasslands` various economic mechanics? Do they scratch the right itch for you? You're the first person I've seen mention them, but I'll definitely check the book out, it's kinda flown under my radar.
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An article I read made it sound like the other security measures around the game (CCTV delay, signal scans, whatever) along with the, uh, physical specifics, make the anal bead hypothesis extremely unlikely to the point of being impossible, but it's still really funny so I want to believe in it.
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Love all these elitist arguments getting wrapped up in a bunch of words to make them seem less elitist, like people can’t just like playing D&D
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