Quote from: daniel_ream;900526...but you're not going to tell us what was in the video, or link to a copy or anything.  Jesus, dude.  I know this place tends to dogpile you for no reason, but you're not giving the rest of us any reason to lend credence to anything you say.

Why do you care if I'm dogpiled on? You can't decide to join them or not? Like you're somebody I even know. If I'm arguing with you, maybe you're a Marxist, too. Most (all) Marxists think they are the good guys, afterall.

Their video straight out said they didn't want to sell their new game to people like me, and didn't want us as customers. So they're anti-American. And very proud of that fact in their video. Fine. They lost my sale.

I'll be getting the newly re-printed 2nd Edition of RuneQuest. I'm glad that the license with The Design Mechanism has expired. It wasn't soon enough though.

Anyway, I don't have to explain this shit to you. Heaven forbid I made a list of maybe three companies I won't buy products from. And chucklehead geek over here is now worried about a game he has.

Quote from: Xanther;900437Nothing.  I am so not the target audience.

Pretty much this.  Playing a creepy broken toy, or even a noncreepy broken toy, just doesn't interest me no matter who wrote it.  Maybe as a one shot piss take at a convention or something.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;900534Their video straight out said they didn't want to sell their new game to people like me, and didn't want us as customers. So they're anti-American. And very proud of that fact in their video. Fine. They lost my sale.

"People like you"?
"Us"?
Pretty sure they didn't say "If you're a capitalist american you can go fuck yourself we don't want your money", so what are you contending they actually said?

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;900535Playing a creepy broken toy, or even a noncreepy broken toy, just doesn't interest me no matter who wrote it.  Maybe as a one shot piss take at a convention or something.

Same here. Zero interest.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;900535Pretty much this.  Playing a creepy broken toy, or even a noncreepy broken toy, just doesn't interest me no matter who wrote it.  Maybe as a one shot piss take at a convention or something.

That's a valid reaction of course. I can see how the appeal is limited.
I've always liked dolls and toys and gaming miniatures. They end up, in some fashion, in a lot of the games I run.
Years ago I ran a non-Mythos Call of Cthulhu session where the PCs were dollhouse dolls in a haunted house... kind of playing off the M.R. James story. I thought Puppetland was pretty interesting as well, but have yet to play it.
 
That might be another reason this KS stood out to me.

Quote from: Simlasa;900557I've always liked dolls and toys and gaming miniatures. They end up, in some fashion, in a lot of the games I run.
That might be another reason this KS stood out to me.

Well there was this...
From WizKids no less.

Quote from: Simlasa;900557I've always liked dolls and toys and gaming miniatures. They end up, in some fashion, in a lot of the games I run.

Well there was this...

From WizKids no less.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;900535Pretty much this.  Playing a creepy broken toy, or even a noncreepy broken toy, just doesn't interest me no matter who wrote it.  Maybe as a one shot piss take at a convention or something.

Bemusingly it was Gygax who introduced me to VLC and the whole Fuzzy Heroes line. Plushes vs army men or toys. (Great way to introduce kids to wargaming.)

And Ravenloft had those killer toy golems.

And oh hey. The bulette, rust monster and owlbear started out as plastic toy monsters. (Though not in game.) Tony DiTerlizzi even has a little article on his site about them.

But yeah. They make for interesting con games. Allways fun to discover someones running Clay-o-Rama at a convention. Anyone remember those big Lego sea battles at GenCon?

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;900534Their video straight out said they didn't want to sell their new game to people like me, and didn't want us as customers. So they're anti-American. And very proud of that fact in their video. Fine. They lost my sale.

What did the video say?

Calling out potential customers and thrashing them is really odd behavior.

Quote from: Simlasa;900557I thought Puppetland was pretty interesting as well, but have yet to play it.

Highly recommended. If you play it as described, its very cool and creepy. Especially the idea of tying your actions into your dialogue. I've played it a few times, but only one shots. What's cool was the 1 hour "day" in the setting so at a 4 hour con game, we did 4 "days" worth of events with the strange "fall asleep / reset" that occurs.

With the right group of players, Puppetland is really fun. It's twisted, grim, creepy, and far more "horror" than "kid's game"