I think it’s a very interesting concept but I confess I haven’t backed it due to Kickstarter fatigue. Looks to me like a project that shouldn’t require KS with that pedigree involved.
mok
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I am afraid I am a sucker for all games Knizia. I know it’s debateable as to who the others are, but he is one of the best designers ever.
Warning: Shameless Friend-promotion ahead!
For any of you tabletop role-players looking for a unique RPG system in a unique world, you might like Phoenix: Dawn Command, which has been created and is currently being Kickstarted by my friend Keith Baker. He’s the guy who created the card game Gloom, the board game Doom that Came to Atlantic City (he was not responsible for the Kickstarter), and the Eberron setting for D&D. More importantly, he’s easily the greatest storyteller I know, and as a world-builder he’s always doing something bizarrely fascinating. (His favorite RPG was always Over the Edge, if that tells you anything.)
Apparently in Phoenix your characters are people who were killed and have come back to life for some reason: vengeance, love, whatever. This defines them and drives them. And when your character dies later in the game–and comes back–how and why they died gives them an additional motivator and also determines how they get stronger.
The system is unique too. It’s card-driven, with each player having a hand of cards they can use to control their fate.
That’s all I know; I haven’t had the pleasure of being in the playtesting. But some friends who have have good things to say.
Pod
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Is Gloom that transparent card game? My friend has that, I’ll forward it to him.
The campaign for Perilous Journeys, my new Dungeon World project, is now live.
I know some Qt3ers backed the last one and liked the results, so I’m hoping to sucker them out of their gold pieces again.
That was a great pitch video, Jason!
-Tom
“Fish jumped again.”
Tony_M
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For Perilous Journeys or for Vermont?
Jasons previous kickstarter “Servants of the Cinder Queen” was a great product, full of old school nostalgia and beautifully presented.
That name kept bugging me, I just remembered what it was:
Not every RPG I purchased as a teenager was winner. Shut Up.
Well, for both. But I really like it when a creator just talks very simply about his project. Jason isn’t exactly a showman, but his sincerity and affection for the hobby comes through clearly. If I played tabletop RPGs, I would support his project in a heartbeat based on that video.
-Tom
Tony_M
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I agree, I was joking but should make that clear. He demonstrated that Perilous Journeys is going to be a desirable physical product, even if you just order the PDF and print it out. Plus he comes across as a likeable indie enthusiast you want to support. I only realised on the second viewing that the location ties in with the wilderness theme of the book, its not just an attention grabbing place to stand while he talks into the camera.
Thanks guys, I’m glad you appreciated the video. I hate making them but I think I finally found the right way for me – talk at the camera for 20 minutes and then edit it down to 4. 20% of me is watchable! And yeah, “Jason is not exactly a showman” – so true.
You got $35+$3 out of me this time around, loved your first product.
mok
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I would join the Perilous Journeys campaign except there is no $10,000 pledge level inviting me to lunch and letting me swim with the otter.
In. I don’t know that I will ever use it in a play environment but it looks great, and <Bro-fist> for Qt3 content creators.
Fake Edit: I will keep an eye out for a “Make a Dom3/4 map from the Hyborian War PBM Map” tier. ;)
garin
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Sorry to bump for some shameless self-promotion, but the Kickstarter campaign for my next game, Monsters’ Den Godfall, just went up.
Please let me know what you think!
Folks, I present to you, Starfighter, Inc:
A multiplayer space combat game with such luminaries as David Wessman (of the X-Wing series) and others (who, to me, aren’t as important).
I backed it, but only because of Wessman’s involvement. I’m meh on it otherwise.
I saw that Kickstarter and except for the involvement of Wessman, I’m decidedly cool on it. Hardcore PvP space multiplayer. Join the party fellas!
I wish there was a party.
They seem to want to invoke X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. If they can build a spate of game modes and content that matches XvT, I’ll be happy.
“Our game is like World of Tanks meets Counterstrike in space.”
-Tom
Yeah, that REALLY makes me torn. On the one hand, they mention XvT, which I love. On the other hand…CS in space. Just really lets the air out of my airlock on that one.
I watched the pitch on that, and was about to check your pulse Brian. Meh on it? And then I too noticed the dreaded words “hardcore team-based PvP multiplayer” (they forgot to mention MOBA). They name-drop all these great single player space combat games as their inspiration, and then pitch something quite different (which they oddly don’t even mention in their video). It’s like saying you invented Solitaire, and now you want to revisit that in 2015 by making the next great Bridge game.
