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Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Someone please talk a lot about Meikyuu Kingdom.

# ¿ May 17, 2012 16:49

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:23

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

quote:

Head Parts: Brain, Eyeballs, Jaw
Arm Parts: Fist, Arm, Shoulder, Katana, Iron Ball and
Chain, Plush Toy
Torso Parts: Spine, Entrails, Entrails, Cyborg, Steelborn
Leg Parts: Bone, Bone, Foot, Hopper

I want to know more about this game, and less about this game.

Ewen Cluney posted:

It is a real, fully playable RPG (though apparently kind of a vehicle for publishing his friends' adult art too) for 2-3 consenting adults where you play immortal demons who do battle and try to dominate one another and act out weird fetishes.

So Kamiya's like the Suda51 of tabletop RPGs, then?

# ¿ May 18, 2012 22:56

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Mikan posted:

After rolling on random tables, here is a Meikyuu Kingdom kingdom.

The King is Cypress Seven Enemies, a Bartender. He hates meddling and waking up early, but loves bragging and monsters. When he's out in the dungeon, he can grant allies extra actions by causing Anarchy in the kingdom. (which means a roll on the Disasters chart) Between battles the King gets everyone else drunk to make them better fighters.
The kingdom itself is The Independent Socialist Academy. People are the most important part of The Independent Socialist Academy, which is why it has a Casino and a Jail and an Execution Grounds. It's all because a crazy alchemist used to make artificial people, and the citizens of The Independent Socialist Academy are terrified they might not be real. They gamble all their money away, and when they get out of line they're thrown in prison or the city's three Ogrekin execute them. The party can learn skills from artificial monsters though!

Cypress Seven Enemies is too busy drinking and boasting to do anything but fight in dungeons

Holy poo poo I want this game so hard.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 23:17

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Holy poo poo I want this game even harder.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 23:24

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Ewen Cluney posted:

Arianrhod.

Argh, these games sound so good and the odds I'll ever get a version I can read is so low.

# ¿ May 20, 2012 03:15

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Ewen Cluney posted:

Yeah, I can only do so much, and a game like Arianrhod is going to end up a lower priority than the likes of Meikyuu Kingdom. But if anyone is seriously interested in publishing Japanese RPGs, Andy and I will do what we can to help. On the plus side, the games that are in the pipeline to come out in English are pretty amazing.

I'd love to help out, but outside of proofreading the translated text there's not much I could do.

# ¿ May 20, 2012 04:47

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

So how many separate translation projects for Meikyuu Kingdom are currently going on?

# ¿ Jun 9, 2012 04:08

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Potsticker posted:

90 backers and $7,563 pledged of $9,000 goal already for Tenra Bansho. That's pretty impressive.

Well, there are a lot of people who've been waiting a long-rear end time for it; myself included. I played the game back at GenCon '08, but it was so long ago I don't remember anything about the system. All I remember was I was playing a samurai who had a gunblade loaded with explosive rounds.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2012 20:07

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Aw yeah time for some stretch goals baby! :dance:

I'm actually happy someone grabbed the $2800 pledge level. That sounds fun as hell.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2012 21:00

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

DiamondSutra posted:

heya, if you were looking at the furoshiki (108) or the furoshiki and chips levels, I'm going to be making some calls to Kyoto textile makers this weekend to see the prices and shipping of MOAR (aiming for the same patterns I already have, and at least the same high quality). You will see these two levels return, albeit perhaps about $10 higher due to shipping from Japan to US (the 40 I originally had, I brought with me by hand this year when I came back from work in Japan).

It might be a few days, tho.

Also, now to plan out stretch goals!

Thanks!
-Andy

While I'm glad you're here talking about all this, a bit of friendly advice: don't use words like MOAR or sign your posts. That'll get you probated.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2012 03:35

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

lodoubt posted:

I don't know if this is insensitive or unobservant or something, but at cursory glance, Tenra Bansho sort of looks like Japan's very own RIFTS. By all means correct me if I should be taking a different comparison. Like, it is the nature of people to have preferences, but reading through about some other games mentioned in this thread, I find it hard to be excited about Tenra Bansho since it doesn't really sound like, by comparison, it offers a whole lot that is presently missing from the western pen and paper experience.

Like, I would even kind of like someone to try and explain why I should be excited. The kickstarter just didn't sell me on it as much as other people apparently were.

I would say it is in the "this is an awesome setting with tons of poo poo" sense, not the "rules designed by Kevin Sembida" sense.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2012 22:24

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Tenra Bansho Zero hit $80k! :woop:

I can't wait to see the Persona hack.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2012 04:22

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Potsticker posted:

Wow, there's definitely a pledge spike. Even if there's no more stretch goals or anything. It's not just a spike in money, but a spike in backers too. Maybe I didn't take enough Econ courses in school, but I figured it would have a much smoother tail end compared to other Kickstarters I've watched where there's some big news or stretch goal added or whatnot.

Andy got interviewed on the Penny Arcade report today; that might have something to do with it.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2012 00:08

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

InfiniteJesters posted:

First Tenra, and then at some point after that Golden Sky Stories.

This is a good year.

Then Meikyuu Kingdom!

Right? :ohdear:

# ¿ Sep 14, 2012 03:17

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Bitchtits McGee posted:

Attention mikeycp and Rasamune:

If you're still following this thread, I'd appreciate some sort of status report, since I seem to be the only one working on Meikyuu Kingdom anymore.

As for everyone else, uh... sorry about that.

Dammit, you two better not be holding up me getting my hands on a translated Meikyuu Kingdom. :argh:

# ¿ Dec 7, 2012 04:58

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

aldantefax posted:

Yeah uh if anybody wants to help with this please let btmg or me know because the aforementioned have some circumstances I hear

Is this still open? I don't know what help I could give, but I want Meikyuu so I could try to lend a hand.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 17:32

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Man, I'm never going to get a translated version of Meikyu Kingdom, am I?

# ¿ Mar 27, 2013 12:40

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Dammit, I'm still waiting on mine. :argh:

# ¿ May 16, 2013 03:00

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Aw yeah got my copy of Tenra today! :woop:

I seriously need to devour this thing and absorb its power.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 00:22

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Does anyone have a link to the fan-translation of Meikyuu Kingdom?

# ¿ Oct 30, 2013 15:25

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

unseenlibrarian posted:

Got my copy of the Double Cross Advanced Player's Guide. I am vastly amused that it is possible to be a double full borg now, with Trait Loises (Trade one of your starting loises for a special quality) and Items of Power (Special renegade-related items that you buy with XP instead of stock.)

Both have a full body replacement option, that give different benefits, and would seem to stack with each other.

DOUBLE CYBORG, hero of the people.

Then take "Complete Augmentation" on top of that. TRIPLE CYBORG. :science:

# ¿ Nov 30, 2013 03:09

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Black Dog + Bram Stoker = TURBODRACULA

# ¿ Nov 30, 2013 07:03

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Double Cross really is the anime-est game ever.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2013 20:53

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Sionak posted:

Okay, Double Cross fans. I really liked how the book was described in the Fatal and Friends write-up and in the character generation thread. But I am not sure about using the default setting with my usual group.

I can kind of picture the Encroachment Rate (which I find very cool) being reskinned as % dragon or mindless undead or whatever, depending on the character, in a fantasy game. Besides redoing the table of NPCs, would this be an insane amount of work? Are the rules tied in so closely with the setting that reskinning them is far more hassle than it's worth?

The mechanics and fluff are pretty easy to separate out, so you should be able to keep most of the powers as-is. Although some Syndromes like Morpheus or Black Dog won't be as useful since they're a little more dependent on "technology".

quote:

Also, what exactly is in the Advanced Guide? Just more items, powers, and NPCs?

Pretty much. There are new "trait Loises" which are better powers you can take in place of one of your permanent Lois slots (so you have a kick-rear end unique power, but it's harder for you to keep your Encroachment down), villain-only powers, unique virus-powered items, and an expansion of the default setting with about twice as many NPCs. There's other stuff there too but that's probably the main thrust of the book.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 20:04

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Morpheus may not need that much of a tweak, if you assume that instead of guns you're making infinite throwing knives/arrows/whatever. I'm at work so I can't thumb through the book to really check though.

I wish they'd do a PDF.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 20:21

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Or you're part golem or whatever. Alternately, on the more gruesome end, you could be part Frankenstein, powered by self-galvanization.

Both options are equally :black101:

. If you wanted to be a little more mundane you could just fuse armor to your limbs.

Just skimming the Morpheus powers, the only ones that wouldn't really work for fantasy are Ace Driver and Vehicle Morph, unless you used them to turn horse-drawn carts into Spartacus-style death chariots or something.

Black Dog isn't as bad as it looks, though. There's only two powers that really directly deal with "cybernetics" in the core book: Cyber Arm and Cyber Leg. The "On Air & Tapping" and "Radio Wave Jamming" simple powers wouldn't fit either.

But really, everything else can probably be refluffed easily to fit the trad fantasy mold. You'd just need a different Job table and that's it.

Man, now I really want to play this. A fantasy world where there's no magic or weird races, then all of a sudden people with these powers start appearing. If I wasn't insanely bad at finishing any project I started, I'd try my hand at writing it.

e: You know, looking at the list of settings, I'm surprised there isn't just a traditional fantasy style setting already. I think DX would lend itself well to the kind of setting Exalted tries to be; super-powerful demigods in a world of mundanes, fighting demons and carving out empires.

Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Feb 26, 2014

# ¿ Feb 26, 2014 18:28

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

I wonder how much it'd cost to have a deck of cards printed up through one of those print-on-demand services you see on BoardGameGeek.

How many powers/cards are there all told?

# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 19:51

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Hey everyone who likes Double Cross, this got posted by Ver. Blue on G+ today:

quote:

Hello. It has been a while since my last post, but I do have good news today. After an extensive negotiation period, we have the green light to release PDFs of Double Cross.

Details concerning distribution sites and pricing are still being worked on, but the PDFs will be available soon. We will make an announcement via our social media pages when we begin digital sales.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101235997413051519555/posts/Pzz3uUUXxqG

# ¿ Apr 21, 2014 14:34

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Ver. Blue Entertainment said over on G+ that they're going to bring Public Enemies (the False Hearts sourcebook) over next.

quote:

We do intend to release Public Enemy as a PDF. We are currently waiting on confirmation from FEAR.

# ¿ May 1, 2014 14:26

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Oh, and it looks like Ver. Blue just updated the PDFs with bookmarks, so get to redownloadin'.

# ¿ May 1, 2014 14:43

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

mikeycp posted:

Is it just me, or is all of the power combination stuff in Double Cross not clearly explained in any one place? I've been going through the book for like 40 minutes and I still can't make heads or tails of it.

It's on page 300/301. The only real limitation is that the powers involved in the combo have to have the same Timing and Skill (but if the power was - as a skill, that power can combine with everything).

# ¿ May 4, 2014 17:08

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

mikeycp posted:

How does it factor into the numbers you're supposed to fill in? Mainly dice and attack power.

At 60% and above, you get a bonus to your powers' die pools, and at 100% or higher you get bonus effective levels on your powers. It's on page 274.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you know there's a pretty good index, right?

# ¿ May 4, 2014 20:29

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

False Hearts is (hopefully) coming out late May/Early June.

# ¿ May 8, 2014 14:23

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

By the way, if you haven't picked up the Double Cross PDFs yet, they're on sale for 25% off this weekend.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/browse.php?discount=9537adb619

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/browse.php?discount=9537adb17a

# ¿ May 24, 2014 15:35

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

LeSquide posted:

Hmm. For me, it looks like they're still full price. Did I miss the sale, or...?

Did you use the links? They apply the discount and put in it your DriveThru cart.

# ¿ May 25, 2014 17:08

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Ver. Blue just announced that Public Enemy will be released on the June 2nd. $32 for the book, $15 for the pdf.

# ¿ May 29, 2014 12:26

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

False Hearts is up on Ver. Blue's webstore (and Amazon for $3 more for some reason), and they said the PDF should be on DriveThru in a few days once it's approved.

quote:

-New Trait Loises and Items.
-Five new sample characters.
-A more detailed look into the False Hearts organization and the motivations of its members.
-The Random Scenario System. The dice determines what happens during your story and adventure.
-New enemy abilities and sample bosses.
-Includes two sample Scenarios.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2014 14:47

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

shoplifter posted:

It works out to $1 cheaper after shipping if you buy it direct, which is probably to account for amazon's listing fees.

I figured it was something like that. I bought it direct anyway because yay supporting good companies.

Darksaber posted:

When someone gets it, I'd really appreciate them coming in here to tell us how much of the info is reprinted. I'll be glad to buy it as long as there's less stuff reprinted than the Advance Rulebook.

I know most people didn't like that, but I actually appreciated the reprinted setting information in the Advanced Rulebook because it meant I could read the whole setting without having to bounce back and forth between two books.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2014 16:03

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Public Enemy is up on DriveThru.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2014 17:08

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:23

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Covok posted:

Wouldn't replacing loises with traits make it hard to fight off the virus?

Yeah, that's the trade-off.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 01:25

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