Thanks for the 7 Sins headup.  Pride and Sloth demons, woohoo Dragon Age, here we come.

Total cop-out on the Lust Demons, expected better from the Cmon people.  Alien, lust-inspiring, disgusting and horrific is possible.  Bioware's been doing it for years, Games Workshop for decades.  The sculpts themselves technically though are top notch.

While not quite to the "no-brainer" level that the Monolith Conan was, this is a great opportunity.

BTW, Dan, I think you can still do a Late Pledge on the Monolith Conan game.

Quote from: Omega;856708Id suggest a few FF style gamebooks but all the current ones have ended, including a re-release of the original Way of the Tiger series as hardbacks.

Westward Dystopia I missed out on, and unfortunately for me The Frankenstein Wars was app only. Megara has been cranking out the gamebooks lately. Another Fabled Lands entry and the aformentioned Way of the Tiger among others.

Hey Omega, Jeffrey Dean here, author and publisher of Westward Dystopia! I wanted to let you and any other interested parties know that the book is now available to gamebook fans that may have missed the kickstarter.

It's available as an ebook on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Westward-Dystopia-Road-Traveled-Gamebook-ebook/dp/B014H5FIF0

And you can purchase it in paperback directly from my website http://www.greekwinter.com

Book 2: Spire Ablaze is also in its final stages. You can follow updates at the official Greek Winter Media social media page here: https://www.facebook.com/GreekWinter

Great news. Thanks for hopping in and letting people know.

Quote from: CRKrueger;856726It seems like Modiphius was formed solely for trying to make the world record for the number of licensed RPGs destroyed by a single game designer.

Sure does. Which is a pity, because I really like Achtung! Cthulhu and their English edition of Mutant: År Noll (Mutant: Year Zero), a lot.

This is kind of crazy, but it looks like Blood Rage is taking late pledges, despite the fact that some of the backers have already received their stuff.

What's even stranger is that the order has to be accessed through the late pledges for Black Plague: Zombicide.

Go figure.

The new Car Wars will go up on KS soon. I am passing on it as its stated to make alot of changes to the system and the backhanded way the whole thing has been handled.

Quote from: Omega;857552The new Car Wars will go up on KS soon. I am passing on it as its stated to make alot of changes to the system and the backhanded way the whole thing has been handled.

I'll probably take a look - I'm fond of Car Wars Classic and I'm looking forward to the Arenas that should be arriving soon.

Had a glance over on Indiegogo and did not see anything really interesting over there currently running other than Rats. Indiegogo is not as easy to navigate with the search feature hidden.

Quote from: Sommerjon;856518I would say this one:
Infinity; RPG
Based on the miniature game of the same name.

I will second that recommendation, but I'm biased.

What I will say is this

(1) If you like PDFs, then the value of the £100 / $150ish PDF Subscription is going to be absolutely phenomenal. (The £300 Print & PDF level is a hefty price tag,

(2) If you're a fan of my node-based scenario design and you really wish there were more scenarios and campaigns that used it... I can't even begin to express to you the incredible amount of scenario support INFINITY is going to have.

As for those who weren't big fans of the more dissociated/narrative mechanics in the implementation of the 2d20 System used in Mutant Chronicles, we're going to be developing the system in different ways for Infinity. (Although if you just don't like the GM using abstract mechanics in general -- for example, if you really hate random encounter tables -- then you still won't like what we're doing with the Heat mechanics.)

Quote from: Omega;857552The new Car Wars will go up on KS soon. I am passing on it as its stated to make alot of changes to the system and the backhanded way the whole thing has been handled.

I've been really excited about this one, but hadn't heard about any problems with it. What's been happening?

Quote from: One Horse Town;856444What current KS should i pop my cherry on?

None.  Don't do it.  Do not work on promises that rarely deliver on time, or that will likely burn out.  There's nothing in a Kickstarter, especially when it comes to table top that's worth the potential headache.

As I said, don't work on vague promises, work on products delivered already.

Quote from: Justin Alexander;857729I've been really excited about this one, but hadn't heard about any problems with it. What's been happening?

The first hints of trouble was when they set up on the Ogre KS that only the people who bought a T-shirt for Car Wars on the Ogre KS would have say or be able to discuss how the game was developed. Everyone else? Fuck off. We'll maybee listen. Yeah dream on.

The first mentions of changes came out last year and just recently was announced that the new CW would have several changes in the system.

QuoteIt's as different, from what's been leaked to those of us not in on the Ogre KS, in almost every way except basic concept.

And from Reed.

QuoteThe new edition has vehicle design rules. The system is much faster than the old Car Wars game, and players can sit down and design cars in 5 to 10 minutes. The focus is on car combat, not car math. We want players getting in and duelling quickly.

Expansions will add more car options, but the basic games will have everything players need to get in to design cars and start combat right away.

They have some playtest data up now if you want to peruse that. You may like all the changes, may hate it. YMMV on the battle highway.

Quote from: Saplatt;857493This is kind of crazy, but it looks like Blood Rage is taking late pledges, despite the fact that some of the backers have already received their stuff.

What's even stranger is that the order has to be accessed through the late pledges for Black Plague: Zombicide.

Go figure.

Okay, so apparently what happened is that CMON allowed a limited number of late, late, late pledges for Blood Rage, most likely to deal with overstock resulting from people who, for one reason or another, didn't follow through on their pledges. (Blood Rage has actually been delivered to some customers in Asia and Europe and is scheduled to arrive in the USA in a week or two.)

Mechanically, you basically had to already have an account with them or at least backed a previous late pledge in order to take advantage of this one.

It looks like the window of opportunity for this lasted less than 48 hours and it seems to be over.

It caused quite a little controversy among early backers, some of whom feel bitterly misled and betrayed upon learning that someone else got the same deal, including exclusives, many months later, and only after almost all of the "risk" (of production or shipping problems or simply bad reviews) was gone.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;857731None.  Don't do it.  Do not work on promises that rarely deliver on time, or that will likely burn out.  There's nothing in a Kickstarter, especially when it comes to table top that's worth the potential headache.

As I said, don't work on vague promises, work on products delivered already.

Completely wrong. Kevin Crawford delivers like a clockwork, his products are top notch, and he funds art (which he then makes public domain) and different file formats through KS.

Quote from: Luca;857735Completely wrong. Kevin Crawford delivers like a clockwork, his products are top notch, and he funds art (which he then makes public domain) and different file formats through KS.

True. A well done KS is great.

Unfortunately theres an increasing number of either fails, or delays or other problems. This isnt surprising as alot of these people are amatures and never ever factored in all the costs of production. Or get sticker shock when they learn its costing more to make and ship the game than the retail.

Then there are companies like Game Salute who have made a business model of fucking up KS campaigns and delays counting into the multiple years. To the point they are now fronting through covers so backers dont catch on as easily.

Makes things harder for the legitimate ones.

Quote from: Omega;857738Makes things harder for the legitimate ones.

Just do your homework and things will likely work out. For those on which you can't find enough info either forget it or accept the loss upfront.

Something you can do immediately and easily: click on the KS creator name, the page lists the number of previous KS as " created". Click on that number and go check how previous projects panned out.