Würm KS - the english translation of an original French neolithic/ice age rpg could use a bit of help to reach it's initial goal. I'm a backer myself, and would very much like to see this project realized.

Quote from: RunningLaser;864133Maybe it was just an issue with my copy?  The book was gorgeous, but I really had to press it down to read it.

Maybe it was a specific printing.  Mine certainly didn't have that problem.

Quote from: Caudex;863615Does the US Postal Service have some kind of ongoing beef with Brazil?
I did some pricing on POD shipping a while back and found that it would be cheaper to have everything sent to my house in Hong Kong and then posted onward to Brazil. Slower, sure, but still. It's the principle of the thing.

(I am selfishly hoping the real doesn't recover until the end of November.)

Our postal services are the worst. A friend went to GenCon and asked around why shipping to Brazil was so expensive and found out we're known as "Black Hole Brazil" for our postal services' proclivity to destroy and/or disappear with parcels.

Rest at ease. I don't see the real climbing back to its former glory anytime soon. Ah, the halcyon days of R$1 = USD0.50...

Quote from: The Butcher;864870Our postal services are the worst. A friend went to GenCon and asked around why shipping to Brazil was so expensive and found out we're known as "Black Hole Brazil" for our postal services' proclivity to destroy and/or disappear with parcels.

Rest at ease. I don't see the real climbing back to its former glory anytime soon. Ah, the halcyon days of R$1 = USD0.50...

From what I saw at least a couple of years ago, the Uruguayan postal service is both more inefficient and more corrupt than Brazil's.  In fact, it's second only to Haiti in all the Americas.

It's telling that one of the only large protest rally ever to have taken place in the last 30 years AGAINST a Union in Uruguay was a protest against the Postal Union.

However, I've fortunately only ever not received a couple of books, out of what I think is now literally triple-digits.  I'm pretty sure this is because:

a)  Books in Uruguay are one of the only products not slapped with customs restrictions and tariffs, because they're 'culture'.  Thus, with no legal way to clog them up, there's no point in trying to hold them to demand a bribe for their release.

b) Books are like Kryptonite to the postal workers, who will steal almost anything else but have no use for the printed word.

...and I just cancelled my pledge as a First Time Fan for DCC. The total shipping costs to Canada will be more than the product itself (because of all of the non-book stretch goal add-ons).

Makes me sad, but times are tough and I need new winter boots.

#1stWorldProblems

Ah, damn it all to hell, pulled the trigger on DCC. I've wanted a copy of that book for a while.

Well this one is nice:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224590870/runequest-classic-edition

Quote from: Vile;866221Well this one is nice:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224590870/runequest-classic-edition

I'm interested in it but offering the unpublished scenario books only for the $1000+ levels while also explicitly stating it won't ever be available as pdf is QUITE a turn off.
Being generous is all well and good but not many people can simply blow one grand off some RPG supplement.

Quote from: Vile;866221Well this one is nice:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224590870/runequest-classic-edition

I'm intrigued with this one. I love RQ6. I've read RQ3 and it's a great game but I don't think I'd choose it over RQ6. What's great about RQ2? What does it do that RQ6 won't or can't?

Quote from: The Butcher;866226I'm intrigued with this one. I love RQ6. I've read RQ3 and it's a great game but I don't think I'd choose it over RQ6. What's great about RQ2? What does it do that RQ6 won't or can't?

I got an answer to that here, but I'm not sure it really told me what I wanted to know.

As an aside, Autarch has also launched their next Kickstarter for Lairs & Encounters. See here.

Quote from: The Butcher;865854Ah, damn it all to hell, pulled the trigger on DCC. I've wanted a copy of that book for a while.

And as soon as they had finished the kickstarter, I got pdfs of the various stretch goal adventures and of the 3rd edition of DCC immediately.  Damn, that's well run right out of the gate.

And I'll get the 4th edtion pdf (and print) when it's done too!  (And, I believe, print copies of the reprinted stretch goal modules.)

Yeah, I backed that one, too. Looking forward to going through the modules, as I've seen a lot of positive reviews of the DCC adventures...

Quote from: Bobloblah;866235I got an answer to that here, but I'm not sure it really told me what I wanted to know.

Yeah... love Glorantha but love all-purpose RQ6 more.

Quote from: Bobloblah;866235As an aside, Autarch has also launched their next Kickstarter for Lairs & Encounters. See here.

Backed, duh.

Autarch's stuff isn't particularly "groundbreaking" — no Vornheims or Carcosas — but they appeal to me like they'd been focused laser-like on my own influences and tastes. I loved Sinister Stone of Sakkara's Hyborian-Age-meets-Keep-on-the-Borderlands vibe (plus a Chaos-corrupted fucking dragon) and looks like Lairs & Encounters combines new sandbox generation tools with a Dyson's Delves-like repertoire of game-table-ready mini-dungeons. All of it ACKS endgame- and Auran Empire-compatible, so how could I possibly pass on it?

Quote from: The Butcher;866259Backed, duh.

Autarch's stuff isn't particularly "groundbreaking" — no Vornheims or Carcosas — but they appeal to me like they'd been focused laser-like on my own influences and tastes. I loved Sinister Stone of Sakkara's Hyborian-Age-meets-Keep-on-the-Borderlands vibe (plus a Chaos-corrupted fucking dragon) and looks like Lairs & Encounters combines new sandbox generation tools with a Dyson's Delves-like repertoire of game-table-ready mini-dungeons. All of it ACKS endgame- and Auran Empire-compatible, so how could I possibly pass on it?

My thoughts, exactly.

Quote from: Luca;866224I'm interested in it but offering the unpublished scenario books only for the $1000+ levels while also explicitly stating it won't ever be available as pdf is QUITE a turn off.
Being generous is all well and good but not many people can simply blow one grand off some RPG supplement.

Looks like about 3% of their fan base are willing to do it sight unseen. Runequest people have already spent decades chasing boxed sets at $80+ and more limited "work in progress" at an even higher price point. It's built into the culture there now.

Either way, 2E is iconic. The game itself doesn't do anything as well as 6E and the native Glorantha content is a little awkward but the presentation and information design are a chance to see the roots of the early Chaosium style.

That pre-publication playtest looks intriguingly "old school." Wonder what got cut back in 1977-8 and whether it ever came back in. Could be a great missing link between the Perrin Conventions and early d%.

Also excited for Wurm.