Quote from: Godfather Punk;1070348Cutting it close, with only 364 days left to be proven wrong, but it's gonna be released this year. Really.

http://gmskarka.com/2019/01/02/a-new-year/

The RPG industry's continued embrace of con men and scam artists is completely ridiculous.

Quote from: kythri;1070379The RPG industry's continued embrace of con men and scam artists is completely ridiculous.

Not just the RPG biz. Its even worse over in board game land.

Quote from: Omega;1070464Not just the RPG biz. Its even worse over in board game land.

why? what board game has GMS not released?

I don't think that Skarkaaaaaaaaaa has any involvement in any unreleased boardgames, just that the statement is that the board game industry and customer base embraces shyster designers and thieves even more so than the RPG industry and customer base does.

Quote from: remial;1070666why? what board game has GMS not released?

To my knowledge, he hasnt. Was referring to the unfortunate frequency that people will turn a blind eye to crooked behavior as long as they get their precious game.

Well, we're half a month into 2019 and still no Far West. LOL.

http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/01/gareth-skarka-of-far-west-shame.html?m=1

Stunning and oh-so joyous. Skarka is beyond awful.

Translation " no one is buying my lies and bullshit anymore so now I need to be an internet tough guy and who knows I can claim mental health and anguish because of Tenkar and delay far west even more ".

Not that his lies and bullshit have worked at all for the last few years. Good on Tenkar for exposing and keep exposing such a disingenuous lying piece of crap.

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1071681http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/01/gareth-skarka-of-far-west-shame.html?m=1

Stunning and oh-so joyous. Skarka is beyond awful.

Holy crap! I followed through to this list of revised estimated delivery times. I never bothered to join the forum, but I remember some of these from the kickstarter updates!

Look at numbers 12 and 14 from 2012. PDF in May, core rulebook in July. Both comments were made in the promised month, which means that, especially in July, all of the art assets and anything else outsourced had to have already been in and ready to go. It would have been absurd to make a promise with such a tight deadline otherwise, but then . . . look at number 23! Nearly a full year later, June 2013! And there he's setting a deadline for outsourced art and text to be turned in! So a year before, he promised a delivery within the month when he didn't even have everything from his freelancers and artists in! And 24 from later that month just cements it -- he didn't have everything in, and hadn't even started on the layout when he made those earlier promises!

And that's just a handful of the entries from this (at present) 73 item list! "I don't have the art. I don't have all the text. I haven't even started on the layout. So I can deliver . . . basically now. Let's go with that."

Just what the fuck???

In a few days this thread will celebrate it's first, glorious anniversary.  And Far West is still nowhere near complete.  Which means it'll be eight years.

EIGHT...YEARS.

If I put off a client for 2 or 3 hours I start getting flop sweat.  I imagine ol' Gareth could've irrigated the Serengeti Desert by now if he did too.

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1071681http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/01/gareth-skarka-of-far-west-shame.html?m=1

Stunning and oh-so joyous. Skarka is beyond awful.

Geez.....yeah he is going to " throat punch " Tenkar.....sure kid.  
Angry because people want you to deliver on your promises.
 
Like CAIRN RPG and Mike Nystul.  Im out $50 for that.  
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2063410154/cairn

Given his so called persistent health and mental issues in trying ti throat punch Tenkar he might injure himself pushing back the release of Far West yet again.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1090332In a few days this thread will celebrate it's first, glorious anniversary.  And Far West is still nowhere near complete.  Which means it'll be eight years.

EIGHT...YEARS.

If I put off a client for 2 or 3 hours I start getting flop sweat.  I imagine ol' Gareth could've irrigated the Serengeti Desert by now if he did too.

HeroQuest 25. Started 2013. Still 'tinkering' with the rules while sending them off to translators as of today.

Don't make a crowdfunding until you have the book all written down, this way you can deliver upon funding a no-art pdf and just wait for the artist to deliver the art.
Don't back up a crowdfunding that doesn't follow this rule unless you really know the authors won't let you down.
Big publishers shouldn't use crowdfunding, they are supposed to have the money to produce the books and then sell them.

As an aside Bukaroo Banzai? Get the Pulp Heroes minigame from Dragon if you prefer the d20 system or the Gurps Clifhangers or Pulp Hero. Hell you can use the last 2 as source books to make your homebrew with any system you prefer.

You guys really need to be nicer to Michael Brophy.