Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1143753I have bought exactly one RPG from Modiphius.

Their Thunderbirds board game is excellent. It really captures the TV show and it's simple enough for kids to play but still hard enough to win to be a challenge.

I also have their Fallout Wasteland Warfare game but never played it because of the wonky scale doesn't fit with any terrain I have. I got the starter cheap. I got their Elite Dangerous RPG but I think they just printed that one.

Just a want to point out that not everything that people think is a Modiphius game is one of theirs.

For example the following are actually Free League Publishing - https://frialigan.se/en/startpage/
Mutant Year Zero
Coriolis
Tales from the Loop
Forbidden Lands
Alien

Also Fragged Empire is from Wade Dyer of Design Ministries. - http://www.fraggedempire.com/

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1143753I have bought exactly one RPG from Modiphius. And that was Monsters & Magic. And OSR game that I have developed an affection for. But it is also likely the only thing I plan on buying from that company.

Monsters & Magic is not supported by Modiphius. Promised books for it have gone unpublished. Which makes the game a clear low priority for them. Which is a pity. Because I rather like it.

   I think Monsters & Magic has moved over to Mindjammer Press like the rest of Sarah Newton's stuff, and she released a free module for it back in March, so it's not Modiphius any more and may not be dead yet.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1143337Remember that freakjob Adam Koebel who shat himself during an online game a few months ago?
https://www.adam-koebel.com/blog/2020/7/27/announcement-regarding-dune-adventures-in-the-imperium

Here's the Modiphius announcement about their Dune RPG. (Bold is mine)
After a discussion with Adam Koebel, all parties involved have decided that it is best he resign his ongoing projects with Modiphius Entertainment. We have been following the events of Far Verona and Adam's conduct on the show, and we feel his journey toward rectifying the situation isn't yet complete.

Adam's work for us was written over the winter of 2019 and was specifically about best practices for gamemasters, and we feel it pertinent that the work not be included and his participation in ongoing projects suspended. We are replacing his work using a small team of diverse writers that include women and PoC--writers who were already members of the team who have or will be creating material for our games.  

Consent and safety in roleplaying games is an absolute necessity, and all of our roleplaying games in the future will contain advice and guidance on those aspects for everyone at the table. The safety of our fans is of prime importance to us.

 - Official statement from Modiphius Entertainment, July 27th, 2020

What does this say about how Modiphius's views their audience?

If you're a player of their games, are you such a garbage person that you need writers chosen for their skin color and pants junk instead of their writing and research ability?

Maybe, you are such a fucking loser that you fear playing RPGs could hurt you?

Or just maybe this "announcement" says far more about the imbeciles running Modiphius than its target audience.

Don't buy games from radicalized Democrats.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1143881Don't buy games from radicalized Democrats.

Modiphius are actually British. Although they may well vote Liberal Democrat.

They must have a Hell of a time finding enough PoCs here for their Affirmative Action hiring. At least Seattle-ites can hire half-east-Asians if they want & declare victory.

When I've been to Dragonmeet I'd say the (many, many) Modiphius employees there were 90-95% white male, 5-10% white female. The women you see selling stuff tend to be downstairs in the trade hall selling gem dice bags and other RPG-adjacent paraphernalia.

Quote from: kidkaos2;1143749Letter I just sent to Modiphius:

Hello,
I just read that you are replacing Adam Koebel's gamemastering advice.  The announcement specified that this will be advice from women and people of color.

As a disabled white man, I take it that means I am not going to be represented on your new team.  I previously bought products from your Forbidden Lands and Conan product lines.  Should I refrain from purchasing products from you in the future?  Your announcement seems to indicate that you value people of certain identities and my identity is not one of those you value.

Thank you for your consideration on this matter,
Patrick

I sent a similar letter to the producers of Eclipse Phase a while back in response to their announcement that they didn't want men's rights activists playing their game.  I said that since I am a man who values his civil rights does that mean you do not wish me to purchase your products?  They were quick to tell me they did want my business.  The point I was making flew right over their heads.  I wonder if the same will happen with Modiphius.

I send them an e-mail trying to cancel an order a couple of weeks ago and I'm still waiting for a reply. They don't care much for their clients, one way or the other, I'm afraid...

Quote from: S'mon;1143913Modiphius are actually British. Although they may well vote Liberal Democrat.

They must have a Hell of a time finding enough PoCs here for their Affirmative Action hiring. At least Seattle-ites can hire half-east-Asians if they want & declare victory.

When I've been to Dragonmeet I'd say the (many, many) Modiphius employees there were 90-95% white male, 5-10% white female. The women you see selling stuff tend to be downstairs in the trade hall selling gem dice bags and other RPG-adjacent paraphernalia.

Chris Birch may self-identify as a black lesbian.

From About Modiphius:

WHAT DOES "MODIPHIUS" MEAN?
The word 'Modiphius' was the name of a solar system in a world that Chris Birch worked on with long time collaborator Stuart Newman (they co-wrote FATE Sci-fi game Starblazer Adventures together) and came from the verb 'modified' which is defined as:
Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.
Transform (a structure) from its original anatomical form during development or evolution.

The secret of the blandness is revealed!!

"Hm, these Nazis are great villains and all, but how do we improve them? Make them less extreme?"

Quote from: S'mon;1143913Modiphius are actually British. Although they may well vote Liberal Democrat.

They must have a Hell of a time finding enough PoCs here for their Affirmative Action hiring. At least Seattle-ites can hire half-east-Asians if they want & declare victory.

When I've been to Dragonmeet I'd say the (many, many) Modiphius employees there were 90-95% white male, 5-10% white female. The women you see selling stuff tend to be downstairs in the trade hall selling gem dice bags and other RPG-adjacent paraphernalia.

I think they hire freelancers to write much of their stuff.

Quote from: HappyDaze;1143930I think they hire freelancers to write much of their stuff.

Quite. The rules for Fallout Wasteland Warfare suck. It is almost impossible to die in that tabletop game, very unlike Fallout IV, where it took me six months of playing to learn how not to die, and even now I get handed my A$$ every once in awhile if I'm not paying attention, even with 50th level characters. Fixed that problem though by ensuring I always have a backup.... I have taken some of the flavorful elements of Fallout Wasteland Warfare and added that to a set of free  Fallout 2.0 BRP style rules that have been floating around the Internetz for well, at least a decade now, and that works fine for my home games. Love the minis by the way, but the rules probably written by freelancers are bulky, with lots of weird bells and whistles, in no way uniform, and just slightly above trash.

I use baseline stats from weapons, equipment, perks, and abilities in the Fallout IV video game to run my tabletop game.

Quote from: GameDaddy;1143937Quite. The rules for Fallout Wasteland Warfare suck. It is almost impossible to die in that tabletop game, very unlike Fallout IV, where it took me six months of playing to learn how not to die, and even now I get handed my A$$ every once in awhile if I'm not paying attention, even with 50th level characters. Fixed that problem though by ensuring I always have a backup.... I have taken some of the flavorful elements of Fallout Wasteland Warfare and added that to a set of free  Fallout 2.0 BRP style rules that have been floating around the Internetz for well, at least a decade now, and that works fine for my home games. Love the minis by the way, but the rules probably written by freelancers are bulky, with lots of weird bells and whistles, in no way uniform, and just slightly above trash.

I use baseline stats from weapons, equipment, perks, and abilities in the Fallout IV video game to run my tabletop game.

According to my link above, Fallout was a staff designer, "James Sheahan - Designer: Fallout". The Conan line is by a freelancer - "Jason Durall - Conan Line Manager".

Modiphius' talent is very much in making everything look glossy & pretty. Their rules-fu makes Paizo look competent.

Quote from: Premier;1143526Slightly off-topic to social justice, but SHARK, you do realise that Japan attacked the US only because the US was provoking them, right? Had the US not instituted an oil embargo against Japan earlier that year, the Japanese would not have felt compelled to invade the Philippines. No Philippines invasion -> no Pearl Harbor.

Nobody's shedding any tears for what happened to the Japanese in WWII, but the fact of the matter is that as far as the US-Japan situation is concerned, the US was far from blameless for the escalation.

The Japanese were already empire building and to defend their actions in WWII is the same as defending Hitler's call for Lebensraum.  So fuck off and stop reading that Marxist cunt  Howard Zinn.

1910 Annexation of Korea
1931 Invasion of Manchuria
1937 Invasion of  China
1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan became allies under the Tripartite Pact.
1940 U.S. Oil Embargo and asset freeze.

It's  a terrible shame that Modiphius has managed to secure the rights to some of the best source material (Conan, John Carter, Dune) for their stupid, gimmicky 2d20 system. The fact that they're determined to poz everything up only adds insult to injury.

Quote from: Gagarth;1144377The Japanese were already empire building and to defend their actions in WWII is the same as defending Hitler's call for Lebensraum.  So fuck off and stop reading that Marxist cunt  Howard Zinn.

1910 Annexation of Korea
1931 Invasion of Manchuria
1937 Invasion of  China
1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan became allies under the Tripartite Pact.
1940 U.S. Oil Embargo and asset freeze.

Greetings!

Outstanding, Gagarth! It is good to see some people learn real history instead of guzzling down propaganda jello from Marxist frauds like Howard Zinn.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Snowman0147;1143521Yeah you gotta wait till the company goes bust, then you can take the good parts of the system without being sued.

Nope. They cannot copyright game mechanics.

Steal whatever you want from Moldyfartus, but you must express the game mechanics in your own words.