https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mortaine/threadbare-rpg-a-stitchpunk-tabletop-role-playing

What about this RPG interests you?

Nothing.  The person making the game wrote this:  http://archive.is/xTikJ  And this: http://archive.is/XwCJ5

I can support a creator having different beliefs than I.  I cannot support someone who whines and blames their personal failures on 'duh wite menz' and 'muh soggy knees' and uses insults against potential customers.

This game doesn't strike me as a 'game'.  It strikes me as a lazy campaign idea that needs tons more work.  Look, I'm not a numbers guy but when you say "Two six sided dice to resolve challenges" and "low combat" I'm pretty much assuming this is going to be about as much fun as a bobbit worm colonoscopy with gravel in your ass.  

I would rather play fucking Tummy Sticks.

Her game sounds like Puppetland (1995).

http://johntynes.com/revland2000/rl_puppetland_www.html

Quote from: Spinachcat;899954Her game sounds like Puppetland (1995).

http://johntynes.com/revland2000/rl_puppetland_www.html

And/or Toypocalypse (2011).

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/94301/Toypocalypse

And its campaign setting Toypocalypse Falls (2012).

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108452/Toypocalypse-Falls

Hah! This is the first and only KS I've pledged to. She's a local girl and a friend of a friend. I doubt I'd ever play it though.

Interesting, but obviously not groundbreaking or anything, but of course, not many games are.  I won't have any use for it, but if someone I knew was doing a one-shot at a con or something, why not.

Tom Cruise is crazy as fuck, but I still like his movies.  I don't care what the author thinks when I look at their games.  If I thought that crazy Black Metal fuck Varg or whatever the hell his name is had anything interesting to say about Norse mythology in his game, I might take a look at it.

It's a PbtA game, practically a given that the author is an Identity Cultist, but what's more interesting to me is if this will be the first PbtA game without any OOC mechanics.

The author saw a movie, had an idea, made a game.  That's what the hobby needs more of.

What's PbtA mean?

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;899966What's PbtA mean?

Powered by the Apocalypse, meaning it's an Apocalypse World hack.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;899945https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mortaine/threadbare-rpg-a-stitchpunk-tabletop-role-playing

What about this RPG interests you?

...pretty much only the options for reskinning it, to be honest. Playing toys sounds less interesting than playing a character who doesn't have a body. In fact, that's something I've done for years in Eclipse Phase:).

Quote from: CRKrueger;899959It's a PbtA game, practically a given that the author is an Identity Cultist, but what's more interesting to me is if this will be the first PbtA game without any OOC mechanics.

The author saw a movie, had an idea, made a game.  That's what the hobby needs more of.

I'm not sure it's a given. But more importantly, is there anything that makes you think this game aims to have no OOC mechanics, maybe in the video?

I agree that "have an idea, make a game" is a good thing for the hobby;).

No, nothing that would make me think that, but it would be interesting.

There is nothing about this Kickstarter that interests me. Not the stitchpunk theme, not the system used, and not knitting in general.

Now, if there was a Kickstarter rpg about broken beer bottles trying to put themselves back together, 'powered' by BRP, that included a 6-pack at the $20 pledge-level.... I'm listening.

Quote from: K Peterson;899996There is nothing about this Kickstarter that interests me. Not the stitchpunk theme, not the system used, and not knitting in general.

Now, if there was a Kickstarter rpg about broken beer bottles trying to put themselves back together, 'powered' by BRP, that included a 6-pack at the $20 pledge-level.... I'm listening.

Ooooh! "Beerpunk" is an unexplored genre that sounds cool!

It caught my attention for a bit, but 1) "Stitchpunk" isn't actually a thing and I find the attempt to create an entire genre silly, and b) much like steampunk it's not a genre as much as it is a visual aesthetic. Purely visual tropes don't work well in tabletop rpgs, IMHO.  I didn't see much in the way of game ideas that interested me.  Argyle & Crew at least actually requires you to make sock puppets.

Quote from: daniel_ream;900022"Stitchpunk" isn't actually a thing and I find the attempt to create an entire genre silly, and b) much like steampunk it's not a genre as much as it is a visual aesthetic.

I support her efforts to create Stitchpunk as a genre, but she's gotta do more to expand the stitchpunk concept into a game world. Puppetland did that really well. That setting is Dark Fable and echoes the horror of the Grimm Brothers. If she's going Stitchpunk, we need to feel what the "-punk" element is, other than a marketing term.

I'm not a steampunk fan, but the Space 1889 RPG has a following.

Quote from: CRKrueger;899959It's a PbtA game, practically a given that the author is an Identity Cultist,

My mind was wandering when I read you say "Identity Cultist" and wondered if their kewl power was "Hate Penis"
And then I realized "Hate Penis" would be an awesome name for a punk band and my brain kept envisioning Jimmy Fallon introducing them on the Tonight Show.

But this is what happens when I post after an all-nighter and using Baileys instead of milk in my cappuccino.

Quote from: CRKrueger;899959The author saw a movie, had an idea, made a game.  That's what the hobby needs more of.

Zbosolutely!

Quote from: Spinachcat;900041But this is what happens when I post after an all-nighter and using Baileys instead of milk in my cappuccino.

You say that like it's a bad thing.