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mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Kingdom Death owns :fap::nws:

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LordAba
Oct 22, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

mango sentinel posted:

Kingdom Death owns :fap::nws:



Dude has some crazy pubes.

Valatar
Sep 26, 2011

A remarkable example of a pathetic species.
Lipstick Apathy
Male power fantasy pubes.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Valatar posted:

Male power fantasy pubes.

That's all female gaze. The artist is hamletmachine, a lady who does a yaoi space opera porn comic called Starfighter.

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.
Don't worry, the giant nutsack with boobs and a tentacle-dick that comes with three suffering pregnant women, helpfully depicted here as immediately pre-or-post penetration, is optional.

vkeios
May 7, 2007




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3 x accompanying suffering pregnant women that complete the tableau

HazCat
May 4, 2009


Well it's not even really 'optional' - it has no game rules. You can buy it to put on your shelf with your titty models if that is the kind of thing you are into, but that's it.

Fortunately, the frog woman with human heads with vaginas for mouths birthing puppies on the sides of her neck just got announced as a new expansion complete with game rules.

Or you can get the 'pinup' version of the ballsack boob tentacle rape model, which is just a generic sexy human nurse. She comes with game content that makes your female characters better at getting pregnant by making them lactate.

HazCat
May 4, 2009

And this game is currently (with 20 days left of its campaign) the 8th most funded Kickstarter ever (not just within boardgames, but site-wide), with 1,500 backers pledging $7.9 million dollars to it so far.

Only $820,000 before it unseats Exploding Kittens as the most funded boardgame ever :confuoot:

Ratoslov
Feb 15, 2012

Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

People really like stuff with scrotums and vaginas on it.

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
Kingdom Death makes me ashamed of being a tabletop gamer.

I mean I already was but

quote:

3 x accompanying suffering pregnant women that complete the tableau

Det_no
Oct 24, 2003
The Shut Up & Sit Down guys reviewed. It's basically so crazy, it kind of averages out?

https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/review-kingdom-death-monster/

Cinnamon Bear posted:

Kingdom Death makes me ashamed of being a tabletop gamer.

I mean I already was but

I just saw you post about Malifaux in the KS game thread. The game with the serial killer that targets women then makes undead gently caress puppets out of their corpses - complete with cabaret outfits.

I guess that game IS cheaper though so it's probably ok. Everyone can get their necrophiliac rapist :toot:

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Det_no posted:

The Shut Up & Sit Down guys reviewed. It's basically so crazy, it kind of averages out?

https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/review-kingdom-death-monster/


I just saw you post about Malifaux in the KS game thread. The game with the serial killer that targets women then makes undead gently caress puppets out of their corpses - complete with cabaret outfits.

I guess that game IS cheaper though so it's probably ok. Everyone can get their necrophiliac rapist :toot:

Yep there is a character in the game that is Jack the Ripper and is highly problematic and I have been outspoken about my distaste for it.

A zombie in a caberet dress is not the same as

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3 x accompanying suffering pregnant women that complete the tableau

dr_ether
May 31, 2013

Latest video is up (and is the last one for a while until the next batch are recorded).

Spolier - it is the first nemesis encounter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-08YlhnSQ

LordAba
Oct 22, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Det_no posted:

I just saw you post about Malifaux in the KS game thread. The game with the serial killer that targets women then makes undead gently caress puppets out of their corpses - complete with cabaret outfits.

I guess that game IS cheaper though so it's probably ok. Everyone can get their necrophiliac rapist :toot:

I put jack the necromatic ripper as slightly less shameful than anime babes in a field of dicks getting molested to death by giant plants.

rkajdi
Sep 11, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Det_no posted:

I just saw you post about Malifaux in the KS game thread. The game with the serial killer that targets women then makes undead gently caress puppets out of their corpses - complete with cabaret outfits.

I guess that game IS cheaper though so it's probably ok. Everyone can get their necrophiliac rapist :toot:

Or you can say both are poo poo. That might be the reasonable response instead of trying to act like Kingdom Death isn't a huge pile of hosed up.

KD is an incredibly expensive line of games that has both overly complex rules and incredibly creepy fetish figures. If you're going to like something with creepy stuff, own it. You're going to get poo poo for anyway, so pretending you aren't into it for the wank fodder is not incredibly effective.

Jeb Bush 2012
Apr 4, 2007

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Seamus is gross but it's ludicrous to claim that malifaux and kingdom death are remotely comparable in that regard

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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Man this game depresses me on multiple levels. I like the idea of "survivors eking out a terrifying existence in a world where you might just get eaten alive by a monster made out of hands" and having gameplay revolving around hunting down a big awful beast, murdering it, and carving weapons out of its bones and skin. That's metal as gently caress and is also something I'd like out of a Monster Hunter game. (Someone should make that btw just saying) Even the fanservice-y bits with sword-ladies with their tits hanging out is acceptable to a point, but the deeper I look into this the more embarrassing and creepy it is and the less I want to do with it. Man there's a lot of big-tittied ladies in distress or being menaced by tentacled monsters. The preoccupation with blood, tits, pregnancy, and slavery is a trainwreck of gross poo poo I would never be able to invite friends over to the table to play. I guess I can just take some comfort in the fact that the game has lovely mechanics so I don't have to be sad I'm missing out on something fun.

Seriously someone make a good Monster Hunter game though.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Yeah I think I'd be super down if this were more in the spirit with Monster Hunter and the tone was Scrappy instead of Bleak but yeah, there's so much gross stuff in there with the things I like. It's not even like you can excise those elements from the game since it's so pervasive.

Are the other games beside this and Sentinels that use a card deck for enemy behavior?

Caros
May 14, 2008

rkajdi posted:

Or you can say both are poo poo. That might be the reasonable response instead of trying to act like Kingdom Death isn't a huge pile of hosed up.

KD is an incredibly expensive line of games that has both overly complex rules and incredibly creepy fetish figures. If you're going to like something with creepy stuff, own it. You're going to get poo poo for anyway, so pretending you aren't into it for the wank fodder is not incredibly effective.

The rules aren't really overly complex.

There are a lot of components but nearly everything in kdm boils down to 'roll a d10, add your modifier, and try to beat a target number. The stuff that doesn't follow that mold is roll percentiles and get hosed by the random event, match colored squares together, write down rules off of this card, or roll 2d10 and pick what you want.

Kdm doesn't have even a fraction of the complexity of even a pretty simple rpg like pathfinder. It just has a lot of charts.

Scyther
Dec 29, 2010

"A pretty simple rpg like pathfinder:

:raise:

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Caros posted:

The rules aren't really overly complex.

There are a lot of components but nearly everything in kdm boils down to 'roll a d10, add your modifier, and try to beat a target number. The stuff that doesn't follow that mold is roll percentiles and get hosed by the random event, match colored squares together, write down rules off of this card, or roll 2d10 and pick what you want.

Kdm doesn't have even a fraction of the complexity of even a pretty simple rpg like pathfinder. It just has a lot of charts.
Most actions eventually boil down to roll a d10, but you're looking at like 30 different game phases, a bunch of different decks of cards, and having to constantly cross reference stuff in the book.

little munchkin
Aug 15, 2010

Only one pair of tits on that frog. What a garbage model.

dr_ether
May 31, 2013

mango sentinel posted:

Most actions eventually boil down to roll a d10, but you're looking at like 30 different game phases, a bunch of different decks of cards, and having to constantly cross reference stuff in the book.

Yes many decks of cards, which at any point in the game only 4 or 5 are in use, and most cases only a few cards are used from those decks, save for AI and HL decks. On the board it is easy to manage even solo.

Very little needs cross referencing since most things are explained on the cards. And if not the glossary is all you need. Only the hunt phase requires the most page flipping.

Caros
May 14, 2008

mango sentinel posted:

Most actions eventually boil down to roll a d10, but you're looking at like 30 different game phases, a bunch of different decks of cards, and having to constantly cross reference stuff in the book.

There are three 'phases'. One of them is distribution of resources and roll maybe five or six dice. One is the hunt where you roll a couple of d10's and combat which is 'attack monster, follow results on relevant cards'.

Again, the game is a loving mess of bad mechanics, but if you're going to give it poo poo I just suggest giving it poo poo for the things the game gets wrong. KDM isn't complex, it just has lousy core mechanics and swingy as poo poo game design.


Scyther posted:

"A pretty simple rpg like pathfinder:

:raise:

Yeah, realized it when I said it. That said as far as RPG's go, pathfinder isn't especially terrible. I'd honestly say its probably at the same complexity as something like 13th age. The point was 'lots of stuff, simple mechanics'.

rkajdi
Sep 11, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Caros posted:

The rules aren't really overly complex.

There are a lot of components but nearly everything in kdm boils down to 'roll a d10, add your modifier, and try to beat a target number. The stuff that doesn't follow that mold is roll percentiles and get hosed by the random event, match colored squares together, write down rules off of this card, or roll 2d10 and pick what you want.

Kdm doesn't have even a fraction of the complexity of even a pretty simple rpg like pathfinder. It just has a lot of charts.

Piles of charts is the definition of complex. Even most Ameritrash board games I've played don't have any charts past a single combat matrix. KD is definitely on the high end. Also, comparing it to known overly complex RPGs like Pathfinder instead of anything with sane design is a bit of a bad idea. KD is trying to straddle the line between board games, minis games, and RPGs. I don't think it's doing a good job of it even before the wank fodder starts being added into the equation.

LordAba
Oct 22, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

rkajdi posted:

Piles of charts is the definition of complex. Even most Ameritrash board games I've played don't have any charts past a single combat matrix. KD is definitely on the high end. Also, comparing it to known overly complex RPGs like Pathfinder instead of anything with sane design is a bit of a bad idea. KD is trying to straddle the line between board games, minis games, and RPGs. I don't think it's doing a good job of it even before the wank fodder starts being added into the equation.

Well, maybe tedious over complex.

Caros
May 14, 2008

rkajdi posted:

Piles of charts is the definition of complex. Even most Ameritrash board games I've played don't have any charts past a single combat matrix. KD is definitely on the high end. Also, comparing it to known overly complex RPGs like Pathfinder instead of anything with sane design is a bit of a bad idea. KD is trying to straddle the line between board games, minis games, and RPGs. I don't think it's doing a good job of it even before the wank fodder starts being added into the equation.

Different definitions I guess. Descent has a forty something page rulebook for different adventures each with their own fiddly adventure specific maps, an sizable number of different decks and so forth and a dice mechanic that is significantly more complex (though still very simple) than 'roll a d10, add number, compare'.

None of the charts are in any way complex. This isn't 'roll 2d10+17 for anal circumference' it is 'You have stumbled across the crystal caverns, roll to see if you fall and break your neck, or find fancy crystals'. It is basically impossible to do a game like KDM that includes a the sort of roguelike narrative gameplay they're going for without including something akin to that.

LordAba posted:

Well, maybe tedious over complex.

This is more accurate. The hunt is tedious as balls, but it isn't complex to open a book to the number 57 and read what it says after rolling percentiles.

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
One thing I really don't understand is for all its shock value its still incredibly puerile. Like if you're going to have a tentacle rape monster you should embrace it enough to not have to write "you hit the lion in it's ding-dong". You can sculpt all the puppy barfing vagina faces you want but saying penis is a line in the sand you won't cross.

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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mango sentinel posted:

Yeah I think I'd be super down if this were more in the spirit with Monster Hunter and the tone was Scrappy instead of Bleak but yeah, there's so much gross stuff in there with the things I like. It's not even like you can excise those elements from the game since it's so pervasive.

Are the other games beside this and Sentinels that use a card deck for enemy behavior?

I don't even really mind bleak as a tone. Bleak is a great tone. Bleak makes it that much sweeter when you actually win. I'm totally down with the game's setting as far as the whole "you basically have little more than a loincloth and a sharp stick" so I can jam that sharp stick right in one of the hundreds of eyes of some horrible abomination. It's so close to being something I'd be super down with and that's what hurts the most.

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!

Glagha posted:

I don't even really mind bleak as a tone. Bleak is a great tone. Bleak makes it that much sweeter when you actually win. I'm totally down with the game's setting as far as the whole "you basically have little more than a loincloth and a sharp stick" so I can jam that sharp stick right in one of the hundreds of eyes of some horrible abomination. It's so close to being something I'd be super down with and that's what hurts the most.

This. When I see pure crap, I just shrug my shoulders and walk on. But KDM has all those hints of shining jewels in the crapheap, so you want to look closer, but then you realize that you have your nose in a crapheap, and pull back.

And then something comes up half a year later, which makes you turn back to look for those jewels, and your nose is back in the crapheap. It's a very curious circle.

Valatar
Sep 26, 2011

A remarkable example of a pathetic species.
Lipstick Apathy
I don't care one whit about a game having giant vagina monsters with dicknipples, so long as the sole purpose of them is to be hit with sticks until they die. I can get behind 'hey guys, you're doing a great job founding your dirt farm village, and by the by, a giant vagina monster just crawled up with the horrifying examples of what it did to the dirt farm village down the road being dragged along, you might want to do something about that'. Ditto for games where you punch some necrophiliac serial killer.

Where I draw a line is when a game is set up so that the players are supposed to be playing/helping/empathizing with the writer's magical realm fetish. That's what sets poo poo like Black Tokyo and FATAL apart; not the existence of a hosed up concept, but the fact that they were designed to make the player be an active participant in the hosed up fetish, in a way beyond the "oh god kill it with fire" that Kingdom Death seems to be going for. The tacky edgelord content isn't what's keeping me from the game, it's the high price and mediocre-looking mechanics.

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
You can kill a monster to make a magical breast pump that increases your character's fertility in this game.

But on top of that is mediocre mechanics. There are kernels of good ideas, but I'm not wading through poo poo to find it.

Det_no
Oct 24, 2003

rkajdi posted:

Or you can say both are poo poo. That might be the reasonable response instead of trying to act like Kingdom Death isn't a huge pile of hosed up.

KD is an incredibly expensive line of games that has both overly complex rules and incredibly creepy fetish figures. If you're going to like something with creepy stuff, own it. You're going to get poo poo for anyway, so pretending you aren't into it for the wank fodder is not incredibly effective.

That's my point. The things people worry are in KDM are not actually in KDM. People have already mentioned it in here: The game is not that complicated to play, there is no rape, there is no fetish poo poo. Its worst crime is boobs and lovely dice rolls that can occasionally kill you.

Is something like the wet nurse hosed up? Yes. Is it in the game? No. Is it really a tentacle rape monster? No, it was designed to have reproductive motifs while ruling out rape but of course no one gives a gently caress about that. Is it bad enough that you can opt not to support the company that makes it? Yes. But coming to a thread of a game you don't like to post about it a bunch is dumb, especially if you never actually played/seen the contents of the game and enjoy other games full of questionable poo poo.

Let's face it: Out of aaaall the posters in here only like 3 have played the game and the rest are just running on whatever they heard the game had. If people are interested I suggest they give the Tabletop Simulator KDM mod a try; it has the creator's blessing (as long as you don't upload the full rulebook) and then we can discuss the actual game and why it might or might not be poo poo.

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Det_no posted:

Is it really a tentacle rape monster? No

:nws::nms::nms::nws:

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

yeah that's clearly a prehensile cock, not a tentacle

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"
Or double-sided Dildo.

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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Cinnamon Bear posted:

You can kill a monster to make a magical breast pump that increases your character's fertility in this game.

Det_no posted:

That's my point. The things people worry are in KDM are not actually in KDM.

These two things are mutually exclusive. Also that's a lameass defense of that loving game. All those things people are worried are in the game actually aren't? You mean all the things the game advertises with and are in the additional minis they sell for this universe they've built? I mean gently caress even the "punch the lion in the ding dong" card is totally in there, and various other creep-rear end art from the rulebook that I don't feel like looking up right now. How much more do you need?

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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Oh hey and look at this thing that I 100% saw come out of the game. Yes it still counts of its in an expansion.



Look at that monster with the huge dick tentacle coming off the front.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

god drat those designers love them some extraneous hands

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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


When you are looking into a game and it feels like this guy is behind it, it's time to cut out quick.



Kingdom Death has always been some guy's excuse to make all his weird slave/pregnancy/rape fetish poo poo and get paid for it by That Creepy Dude at every game store despite a few good models.

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