This is literally the Duke Nukem II of the RPG world...

EDIT: Duke Nukem Forever! Sorry

Quote from: Brad on September 08, 2023, 06:04:11 PM
This is literally the Duke Nukem II of the RPG world...

Hey, that's not fair.

Duke Nukem 2 was a fine game, released to no real fanfair. It was just another shareware game of no major pedigree.

Duke Nukem Forever, on the other hand...

Quibbling about the name aside, yeah, pretty much. Like I said, the game was doomed 10 years ago - there was no way it could ever live up to a production delay of over a decade. If it had been any random indie game that released to no major acclaim on DTRPG, it might get some praise, but as it is... It could never be as good as it would have had to be.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on September 08, 2023, 01:07:31 PM
Gentlemen ...


It exists.

Well, darn...

I guess we need to find someone else to make fun of

Holy shit. It came out.

Quote from: PulpHerb on September 08, 2023, 03:03:39 PM

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Quote from: Bruwulf on September 01, 2023, 10:08:58 AM
I haven't backed a kickstarter in over a decade. I think my last one was Golden Sky Stories. Got burned by a few too many. (Where's my fucking game, Skarka?).

Me, just a couple hours before you posted this.

Still waiting for 6 years for The Great Kingdom D&D documentary to show up.   Still waiting and because of it I will never back a Kickstarter again.

Still waiting five years on for Chronicles of Future Earth. Far West is out (saw a link on Reddit and checked) so maybe there is hope before 2030, although at this point I'm not sure I'll care when it gets here and has turned me off from the company as a whole.  They announced and produced a whole new and separate game already this year (in a year) as a way to get back to writing.

Chronicles of Future Earth has more legitimate reason to be delayed than Far West has been. At least with CoFE we were given explanations as to why it got delayed and how the final book went from 400 expected pages to close to a thousand so the game is being split into three books and backers won't have to pay any extra for the additional quantity of books.

Okay, so it's here.  I'm going to do my level best to set my opinions of the author aside.

Just looking at the pdf, I can't find any reason this took this long.  The d20+Fate version had a good draft a looooong time ago and the D6 version did just a year (or two or three?) back.  Now, I've never done layout on a full book, but I don't see anything remarkable here.  If it was something like GURPS, HERO, or a Cypher System book with lots of sidebars and insets, I'd understand that.  This just looks like your typical "two columns and art" offering.  It's not bad.  But it's not a decade-plus good.

It's gonna take me a while to grok the rules.  I was *not* happy when he decided to go to D6 with it.  Maybe I just don't like the way my friend runs his WEG Star Wars game, but I've never really liked the system.  I realize that may make me a bit of a heretic around here.

I really wondered if Tenkar's picture would make it in to the book.  Looks like he's there.

I hope it's at least an OK game.  I still like the Wild West Wuxia idea.  I still want to try to get this to the table.

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Quote from: PulpHerb on September 08, 2023, 03:03:39 PM

Quote from: GhostNinja on September 01, 2023, 11:05:56 PM

Quote from: Bruwulf on September 01, 2023, 05:48:27 PM

Quote from: Bruwulf on September 01, 2023, 10:08:58 AM
I haven't backed a kickstarter in over a decade. I think my last one was Golden Sky Stories. Got burned by a few too many. (Where's my fucking game, Skarka?).

Me, just a couple hours before you posted this.

Still waiting for 6 years for The Great Kingdom D&D documentary to show up.   Still waiting and because of it I will never back a Kickstarter again.

Still waiting five years on for Chronicles of Future Earth. Far West is out (saw a link on Reddit and checked) so maybe there is hope before 2030, although at this point I'm not sure I'll care when it gets here and has turned me off from the company as a whole.  They announced and produced a whole new and separate game already this year (in a year) as a way to get back to writing.

Chronicles of Future Earth has more legitimate reason to be delayed than Far West has been. At least with CoFE we were given explanations as to why it got delayed and how the final book went from 400 expected pages to close to a thousand so the game is being split into three books and backers won't have to pay any extra for the additional quantity of books.

Maybe.

Gossamar Worlds Compendium for Gossamar & Shadow funded on March 4, 2016. The principal author and editor died in a car accident in early July of that year.

His widow delivered the book with fulfillment done in November 2018.  The original goal date was December 2016. So, the death of the person behind the KS caused it to be two years late.

Chronicles of Future Earth funded in October 2018 with an anticipated release date of April 2019. The principal author's husband died in August 2019 when the project was already four months late.

It is now over four years late and we're be lucky to get it before we hit 5 years at this rate. In that time the principal author has found time to get remarried and start and complete an entirely separate game.

Also, there has been virtual silence. The total updates on GWC were 48 over two and a half years.  There have only been 55 for CoFE in twice that time. It wasn't until several of us (me included) pushed in the comments that we got a promise of monthly updates. We've gotten 4, although they damned near missed August and half of the updates are about other products being worked on.

I believe MindJammer Games is neutral on finishing the book and would not be suprised to see it back seated to even more new projects before it is finished, assuming it ever is.

Sarah lost the "my husband died" excuse the day she got married a year ago. If she had time for courtship and married she had time since then to work on the project she's already paid for, not something else.

pdf is 29euro.

NOPE!

Quote from: Bruwulf on September 08, 2023, 06:38:25 PM
Duke Nukem Forever, on the other hand...

Yeah that's the one...FIXED

Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on September 09, 2023, 08:11:04 AM
pdf is 29euro.

NOPE!

If only he'd run a KS to defer the costs instead of having to recoup it all with the PDF price.

As a "character portrait" backer (check my pic), was mildly surprised to see the email, and remained mildly suspicious until I could actually download it.

No time yet to read, but... huh. There it is.

The Winds of Winter of RPG's finally shipped.

Meanwhile HeroQuest 25th Anniversary is still pending and no word of how things were going with the Saville court case ves Game Zone and Dionsio.

And of course Golden Bell and other Kickstarter predators continue to rip of designers on KS. The list for Game Salute rip-offs continues to grow as they create puppet publisher fronts left and right to add to their pyramid scam.

Quote from: Bruwulf on September 08, 2023, 04:00:40 PM
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There are a /lot/ of random tables. They're all 2-axis D6 tables - roll one D6 for each axis. I've seen it before, but it's still a neat way of doing it, but... there's a lot of them. Anything that they could think of to make a random table for, they did, it feels like. It really starts to feel like filler after a while.
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I may or may not post more at a later date.

Thanks for the info.  Damn funny thing, my taste for gaming genres have changed.  I originally backed this when I wanted to get it in front of my gaming group (that I am no longer playing with.)  But in the 12 years since this started, I have become more invested in solo gaming.  So, maybe all those d36 tables might actually come in handy for a future game.