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CitizenKeen posted:Dune seems to be trucking. It's not a Dishonored/Fallout situation where they seem to be one-and-done. Dune got Sand and Dust, the "Dune is all about Arrakis, if we're being honest" sourcebook, a recent campaign book Masters of Dune (a campaign book picking up after the Agents of Dune starter adventure), and the forthcoming Houses of the Landsraad (a "Dune is more than Arrakis" sourcebook for those who aren't following, which is pretty exciting). As a Dune turbo-nerd for much of my life, I'm pretty happy with the 2d20 implementation so far. With The Great Game: Houses of the Landsraad coming out, that will add much more depth to the political aspect of the game, which will really amp up the Dune-ness of the game. As hype as I am for the content of The Great Game, I'm a bit shocked by the pricing -- £38 (plus £8.48 shipping) for a 128-page book is frankly ridiculous. This £38 price point is massively more than similar-sized hardcover sourcebooks in the other 2d20 lines. As a point of comparison, I recently paid £33 for the Zweihander core book, which is 692 pages and noticeably higher-quality than the Modiphius hardcovers. Does anyone know what's going on with this price hike?
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thorsilver posted:As hype as I am for the content of The Great Game, I'm a bit shocked by the pricing -- £38 (plus £8.48 shipping) for a 128-page book is frankly ridiculous. This £38 price point is massively more than similar-sized hardcover sourcebooks in the other 2d20 lines. As a point of comparison, I recently paid £33 for the Zweihander core book, which is 692 pages and noticeably higher-quality than the Modiphius hardcovers. Does anyone know what's going on with this price hike?
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mellonbread posted:Did you check that you are on the correct webstore for your region? I was on the EU site trying to get the new Dune book in America and it quoted me a totally out of control shipping cost until I switched to the US page. Yep I'm definitely on the correct UK site, have ordered from there many times by now. It's very bizarre, the 128-page STA supplements are listed at £28, so £38 is a huge jump in price.
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Feb 19, 2023 23:25
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Maybe the Dune license costs more?
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Leperflesh posted:Maybe the Dune license costs more? If that were true, I'd expect the other Dune hardcovers to be super-expensive too, but they're not -- Sand & Dust was 156 pages and Modiphius sells it for £30, pretty much identical to STA pricing. For some reason only The Great Game has this crazy price hike going on.
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Has anyone else had issues ordering from modiphius.us? I ordered $125 worth of stuff from them during their January sale, and it still hasn't shipped almost a month later. I emailed them asking about it a week ago and only got the automated message that says to expect a response within two business days (lol).
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Polly Toodle posted:Has anyone else had issues ordering from modiphius.us? I ordered $125 worth of stuff from them during their January sale, and it still hasn't shipped almost a month later. I emailed them asking about it a week ago and only got the automated message that says to expect a response within two business days (lol). They're fulfilling in the US through Funagain. Took me a month to get my stuff and then I got my email back a week later.
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https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-adventures-brings-the-action-to-the-lower-decks Lower Decks Campaign Guide. Crew roster and adventure available now.
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Oooooo LD is what got me back into Star Trek this is gonna be a must-buy for me
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I'm most excited to get stats for the Cali class and hopefully some of the other designs from LD. I love the California class as the post-TNG Miranda, an unflashy workhorse that's perfect for a lower-ranked party.
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Which are the best Conan RPG books?
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Angrymog posted:Which are the best Conan RPG books? Crush Your Enemies, See Them Driven Before You, and Hear the Lamentations of Their Women (Sorry, couldn't resist)
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https://www.dreamsandmachines.com/ Modiphius's "it's not quite Horizon Zero Dawn" is publicly acknowledged. (The playtest documents looked great.) Regarding Conan: Leperflesh wrote up summaries of the Conan books. "Best" is "best for what you want to do with Conan", so I'd read that awesome post then come back with questions.
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Indeed. What kinda game you want to play? Or are you hoping to pick up just like, top four, and then read them for ideas and inspiration? Because I get that.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm gonna say if you and your whole group are unfamiliar with the game, you could just use the core rulebook. Each of what I'll call the "themed supplements" below add a gazeteer style overview of an additional region on the map, some character options set to a particular theme, and some GM resources for running adventures and various enemies for that theme/region. If your group can choose a theme, it can make sense to add in the rules from that book. For example, Conan the Pirate obviously adds some nautical-themed stuff: character archetypes, castes, talents, stories, gear, sorceries. And then it also adds stuff for the GM: some events, encounters, enemies, some rules for pirate organizations, some rules for ship combat, carousing events, and so forth. If your players want a piracy campaign, definitely use it; if they just want to go on a sailing trip as one game night of a campaign, use it as a GM resource. If one player in a game not about piracy/sailing wants to have a sailorish background, you could borrow an archetype from the book and ignore the rest... but also they could just play a Pirate out of the core book and call it a day. Do that to avoid having more books you might need to bust out and reference in the middle of a game night. This generally applies to all of these themed supplements. There's ten archetypes in the core book and along with all the background and skill and talent options you already have quite a lot of flexibility to sink your teeth into as a gaming group. This is a late response to this summary (which is really good), but one thing you might find useful in the Conan the Exiles Sourcebook even if you're not using that setting is that it has expansive rules for crafting buildings and settlements that could be useful for any sort of campaign where you grow beyond simple wanderers.
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ooh, nice. I haven't done more than briefly skim it so far so that's good to know, I missed it. actually if you don't mind, I'll edit in that comment so folks who just look at that post will see it
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Sure, go ahead. There's also some stuff in there about map exploration and survival rules... basically everything you'd need to do a Westmarches hexcrawl in Conan.
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nice, added thanks!
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I've missed the hard copies of the books I was interested in, so I really hope they do a big PDF cheap bundle like they did with Mutant Chronicles.
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May 29, 2023 22:09
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Unfortunately, they lost the license, so that's not going to happen. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Unfortunately, they lost the license, so that's not going to happen. Well, they're still selling the books in PDF, and the reason they did an 'All books for £5' PDF bundle for mutant chronicles was because they'd lost the license too I think.
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Oh. I stand corrected.
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They lost the license, but they did so on good terms. They were given a very good window to clear stock. If you want PDFs you have one more month. No more physical books will be forthcoming. https://www.modiphius.net/blogs/news/conan-license-update
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The expected Conan PDF fire sale is on. 90% off the "get everything" bundle, and the individual products are 50% off.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The expected Conan PDF fire sale is on. 90% off the "get everything" bundle, and the individual products are 50% off. This is outstanding. Thanks for linking it.
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You're most welcome! Pro-tip: even if you've already got several, as long as they're on DTRPG, you want to get the bundle because you'll just have to pay for the ones you don't have, and it'll be 90% off that.
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For the few 2d20 fans who haven't purchased the Conan bundles, tomorrow's your last chance.
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I just got the Dreams and Machines starter set. It's really nicely made, and the tutorial module is a great idea. Character generation in the starter set is done by picking cards - a more flexible take on pre-gens, whilst still making things quick to get started. Looking forwards to the full books when they come out. If anyone in the UK wants hardcopy Conan books places like Leisure Games will still have stock for a while, though obviously they're at normal prices.
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Cohorts Cthulhu Kickstarter is live.. They have a link to download quickstart rules, which is nice. I hadn't realized until now that Doug Seacat was the writer on this. His world building was the best part of Privateer Press back when he worked for them, so I'm double excited for this now.
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Leperflesh posted:ooh, nice. I haven't done more than briefly skim it so far so that's good to know, I missed it. This is probably the place to ask, whats next(tm) for Conan on the tabletop? Monolith seems to be not that interested in putting out more Conan stuff for their minis game, and the game line for 2d20 is done and gone. What nowwww?
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:This is probably the place to ask, whats next(tm) for Conan on the tabletop? Monolith seems to be not that interested in putting out more Conan stuff for their minis game, and the game line for 2d20 is done and gone. What nowwww? Just play a Barbarian/Rogue in D&D? The Conan 2d20 game was great, but I don't think it did so well anyone will be paying for the license anytime soon.
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You can also just play the 2D20 game forever?TheDiceMustRoll posted:the game line for 2d20 is done and gone. Done, yes. Gone, no. I mean yeah, you'll have to go used routes and/or PDF hunting, but assuming you get your hands on the existing books, you could play 2D20 Conan for the rest of your life with the amount of material there is.
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AFAIK Monolith is working on a new RPG now that they have the license. There's a Discord channel where one of the developers has been talking about it here.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Just play a Barbarian/Rogue in D&D? The Conan 2d20 game was great, but I don't think it did so well anyone will be paying for the license anytime soon. Isn't Conan in the public domain now? I'm not sure how all of that works. Same with John Carter.
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rydiafan posted:You can also just play the 2D20 game forever? Isn't it illegal to play games that aren't being printed anymore?
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Drone posted:Isn't Conan in the public domain now? I'm not sure how all of that works. Same with John Carter. The situation is complicated. According to Wikipedia: quote:Since Robert E. Howard's Conan stories were published at a time when the date of publication was the marker (1932–1963), however, and any new owners failed to renew them to maintain the copyrights,[49] the exact copyright status of all of Howard's 'Conan' works is in question.[50] The majority of Howard's Conan fiction exist in at least two versions, subject to different copyright standards, namely 1) the original Weird Tales publications before or shortly after Howard's death, which are generally understood to be public domain and 2) restored versions based upon manuscripts which were unpublished during Howard's lifetime.[51] The result is that game companies and others making new Conan works are being safe and making formal licensing deals with the entities that seem to have been legally settled as holding the various copyrights, both for original Howard works and for subsequent Conan-based material (novels, comics, films, etc.) btw that's a typo, it should say 1932-1936, as Howard took his own life in 1936.
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Drone posted:Isn't Conan in the public domain now? I'm not sure how all of that works. Same with John Carter. It's one of the reason Marvel let the Conan comics license lapse, they get it all back for free in six or seven years.
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Has anybody gotten to play around with the Cohors Cthulhu quickstart rules yet? Is there a summary of what is unique to it vs other 2D20 games?
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rydiafan posted:Has anybody gotten to play around with the Cohors Cthulhu quickstart rules yet? Is there a summary of what is unique to it vs other 2D20 games? May be bad form to bump a thread by quoting myself, but there's 24 hours to go and I was hoping somebody had an answer.
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rydiafan posted:May be bad form to bump a thread by quoting myself, but there's 24 hours to go and I was hoping somebody had an answer. Very little from my read. (Haven't played.) It's Actung Cthulhu with one more skill (Oratory), and using the reach rules of Conan. It'll probably shape up to be a more approachable (and in print) Conan.
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