Kickstarter has a miniatures-based war/board game going now. Not really a surprise, though I do covet that war elephant.
The actually noteworthy part is that if you scroll down through the staff, there's a creative person, a couple artists, a couple sculptors, and at the very end, Matthew Meagley, whose job title is "Probabilities".
I have no idea whether Matthew is actually a genius or a hack, but just the fact that this game included someone specifically for mathhammering Makes me say: "about fuckin' time."
Why doesn't everyone do this? Why isn't it a thing? Is it because of rampant stupidity? Rampant ego? Good intentions, crippled by tragic lack of systems engineering?
Anyway, the thing is up at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/147 ... torn-armor
No idea if the game is worthwhile, but that elephant continues to entice.
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Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Actually, I'm diggin' the anthro-rhino behemoth.
Who am I kidding -- the whole thing looks pretty bad-ass. And at the price-per-piece for the pledge levels, it's actually totally worth it just for the figures.
(pssst: you need to remove the "." from the link -- otherwise, it's broken)
Who am I kidding -- the whole thing looks pretty bad-ass. And at the price-per-piece for the pledge levels, it's actually totally worth it just for the figures.
(pssst: you need to remove the "." from the link -- otherwise, it's broken)
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Whenever I see a kickstarter project I always look at the shipping costs first.
This one has an option for 400 dollar, with free shipping within the U.S. and 100 dollar shipping outside the U.S.
I feel like I'm being trolled for not living in the U.S. I understand that shipping intercontinental is going to be more expensive, but 100 dollars vs 0?
This one has an option for 400 dollar, with free shipping within the U.S. and 100 dollar shipping outside the U.S.
I feel like I'm being trolled for not living in the U.S. I understand that shipping intercontinental is going to be more expensive, but 100 dollars vs 0?
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Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
You do get a crapton of stuff at the $400 level. I tipped over into backing it for the clockwork dragon. The figures are nice enough, but I'd only use about half of them. That's still worthwhile, but much more borderline. The behemoth is $45 more though, and I'm having trouble talking myself into paying that much for a single figure.
WoD (whether N or O) probabilities are actually pretty straightforward. It's straight up binomial distributions. I can whip up an excel sheet to show outcomes for that in ~15 minutes.(Not right now, because I'm off to games. If anyone's curious, I'll post it this evening though.)
WoD (whether N or O) probabilities are actually pretty straightforward. It's straight up binomial distributions. I can whip up an excel sheet to show outcomes for that in ~15 minutes.(Not right now, because I'm off to games. If anyone's curious, I'll post it this evening though.)
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
New WoD did some very bizarre and retarded things with the way they handed out 9-again, 8-again, and rote action qualities. In particular, they don't seem to have understood, when handing out weapon damage, that 9-again becomes more valuable than an extra die when your dice pool exceeds 8.
TheFlatline wrote:This is like arguing that blowjobs have to be terrible, pain-inflicting endeavors so that when you get a chick who *doesn't* draw blood everyone can high-five and feel good about it.
My mistake, maybe. I assumed that you were just talking about the variable TN. Was there another part that I missed?
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
If I get money before the Kickstarter is done, I may have to get those Hussars.
Now I just have to hope that, you know, I get unemployment in the next two and a half weeks...
Now I just have to hope that, you know, I get unemployment in the next two and a half weeks...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
So, I did get unemployment, put down $25 so I could get a trio of Hussars (My family is polish on my father's side, hussars were some awesome, awesome mounted light cavalry, so it's a big deal to me). Planning on another $15 for three more hussars when I get my next check.
In updates today, Torn Armour announced that they're doing free shipping world wide. Yes, seriously. Even in fucking Uganda, or, more importantly, perhaps, Australia.
In updates today, Torn Armour announced that they're doing free shipping world wide. Yes, seriously. Even in fucking Uganda, or, more importantly, perhaps, Australia.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.