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It's been a long time since rope kid talked about Delta Green. At least, WW2 setting with some Cthulhu elements is not patented, hopefully?
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I will only accept a gritty re-examination of power rangers a la KOTOR 2. The protagonist is either Bulk or Skull.
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Dec 15, 2013 13:19
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I'd be up for a Russian Civil War setting with Cthulhu elements.
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Dec 15, 2013 14:01
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'd be up for a Russian Civil War setting with Cthulhu elements. Sure. 
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Dec 15, 2013 14:07
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Sea Otter posted:It's been a long time since rope kid talked about Delta Green. At least, WW2 setting with some Cthulhu elements is not patented, hopefully? Nothing Lovecraft is copyright. A certain dick claimed he had the copyright for decades, then it turned out he didn't and by that time the copyright had run out. Now it's public domain. You can do all your lovecrafting you want for free - and charge for the product. A specific setting based on Lovecraft's stuff might be patented, but as long as you don't specifically make your own setting the same one, even if it has the same elements, you're fine. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Dec 15, 2013 |
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Dec 15, 2013 14:16
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DatonKallandor posted:Nothing Lovecraft is copyright. A certain dick claimed he had the copyright for decades, then it turned out he didn't and by that time the copyright had run out. Now it's public domain. You can do all your lovecrafting you want for free - and charge for the product. Copyright is not patent is not trademark. Please don't use the terms interchangeably, as they mean very different things.
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Dec 15, 2013 14:21
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I'm pretty sure "Call of Cthulhu" is a trademark, right? Even if Lovecraft's works are public domain, there are still some legal shenanigans going on somewhere.
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Dec 15, 2013 14:26
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I was just watching the teaser trailer one more time before I deleted it from my hard drive, and I realised what had been bugging me about the fireball. I'm pretty sure that the enemies die before the shockwave should have reached them. I have no way of going through it frame by frame to check, but if that's the case, it should be a really easy problem to solve. Just put a couple of frames of delay on the gibbing.
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Dec 15, 2013 14:39
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I really don't think the animations in the the teaser were finished.
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Dec 15, 2013 15:03
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J.E. Sawyer posted:The character animations are all alpha.
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Dec 15, 2013 16:23
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Yeah, I'm real disappointed. The game looks like it won't be ready to be released until, like, Winter 2014! Oh, wait...
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Dec 15, 2013 18:30
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As long as they make hitting dudes as satisfying as in the BG series, I want my screen shaking chunky salsa and ham-against-concrete effects ...blood fountains are optional 
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Dec 15, 2013 18:46
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Somebody PLEASE submit their nonsense fantasy Lovecraft game setting to the United States patent office and post their reply. thanks.
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Dec 15, 2013 18:47
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Pimpmust posted:...blood fountains are optional How wrong can one person be? The first thing I want from killing that giant dragon is an explosion of gold and magical items loosed from his body with enough force to slide for a few meters. The second thing I want is a fountain of blood and dragon parts smacking my adventurers in the face with a wet, meaty thud. Let it rain. 
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Dec 15, 2013 19:01
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Megazver posted:Sure. edit: well alrighty http://www.peginc.com/red-land-available-from-studio-101/ That looks FAR loving SUPERIOR to more Hitler fetishism.
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Dec 15, 2013 19:28
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Chairchucker posted:The sequel, Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich, was almost exactly that, and also they both own. A serious RPG about the dynamics of a superhero team would be absolutely beautiful.
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Dec 15, 2013 19:28
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AXE COP posted:A serious RPG about the dynamics of a superhero team would be absolutely beautiful. Oh god I would love this so much. You could choose the team out of a pool of heroes with each having likes/dislikes, views on how to deal with bad guys (i.e a punisher like dude isn't going to want to hook up with someone like spider-man), and previous relationships (hero A hates Hero B because he was the reason Hero A's friend became a villain) Being the leader you would have to deal with the public when one of your dudes accidentally kills an innocent or somebody betrays the team and becomes a villain. DrManiac fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Dec 15, 2013 |
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Dec 15, 2013 19:40
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How is any of that specific to a superhero setting.
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Dec 15, 2013 19:42
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I lost this thread for a few weeks because I was looking for the old thread. Life is hard. I am glad that Josh said that they are going to be a bit less referential than bg1 and bg2 - I was playing BG1 recently and I am not sure how much a random guy called bub snikt wandering up to you adds to the proceedings.
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Dec 15, 2013 21:45
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'd be up for a Russian Civil War setting with Cthulhu elements. This could be amazing, although far too out of the ordinary for most people to ever have a chance of being made.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:08
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gog.com have a D&D collection at 80% off as part of the winter sale at the moment, for anybody interested. I finally picked up digital copies of the BG series and Planescape: Torment, as well as getting the Icewind Dale games and Temple of Elemental Evil for the first time... now I just have to find the time to play them 
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Dec 15, 2013 22:13
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Fuligin posted:This could be amazing, although far too out of the ordinary for most people to ever have a chance of being made. Internet nerds however would likely throw money at Obsidian/inXile no matter what they proposed and love the Cthulhu mythos already. Probably not another 4million kickstarter but I can see it doing 1million easy.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:23
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epitasis posted:How is any of that specific to a superhero setting. superheros are cool and fun to play
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Dec 15, 2013 22:27
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Basic Chunnel posted:superheros are cool and fun to play And very few settings have a power disparity that stark between the player characters and villains and the general population. A fantasy wizard is just a wizard - a superhero is a god compared to the average person. That makes for some interesting situations when the incredibly powerful heroes interact with the ants that are the people they're trying to help.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:29
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Darkhold posted:Internet nerds however would likely throw money at Obsidian/inXile no matter what they proposed and love the Cthulhu mythos already. Probably not another 4million kickstarter but I can see it doing 1million easy. I just hope they begin said Kickstarter until after Stick of Truth is done, get some extra money under their belt. Also to provide said nerds (us) with enough time to save up and arrange to mortgage our houses 
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Dec 15, 2013 22:30
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Jerusalem posted:gog.com have a D&D collection at 80% off as part of the winter sale at the moment, for anybody interested. I finally picked up digital copies of the BG series and Planescape: Torment, as well as getting the Icewind Dale games and Temple of Elemental Evil for the first time... now I just have to find the time to play them Make sure you get the Circle of Eight modpack for ToEE and then get ready to enjoy what is far and away the best computerized D&D combat ever. PoE should've been emulating ToEE's combat, not the Infinity Engine's. 
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Dec 15, 2013 22:35
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epitasis posted:Somebody PLEASE submit their nonsense fantasy Lovecraft game setting to the United States patent office and post their reply. thanks. Honestly, the way the US patent system's been working lately, they might just issue one Jerusalem posted:gog.com have a D&D collection at 80% off as part of the winter sale at the moment, for anybody interested. I finally picked up digital copies of the BG series and Planescape: Torment, as well as getting the Icewind Dale games and Temple of Elemental Evil for the first time... now I just have to find the time to play them Oh man, you are just in for a treat. One thing, you might want to hit up the Infinity Engine thread (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3586742) for some quality-of-life mods and a good mod install order for the Baldur's Gate trilogy, PS:T and the Icewind Dale games. I'd definitely skip any content mods though, there's already plenty of awesome content in the game for a first-time player. I'd also do what FuriousGeorge said and get Circle of Eight for ToEE, it's more than a little buggy without it. FuriousGeorge posted:PoE should've been emulating ToEE's combat, not the Infinity Engine's. I don't know man, I just got done skimming rope kid's posts from the last thread and PoE combat's sounding pretty choice right now.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:43
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Fungah! posted:I don't know man, I just got done skimming rope kid's posts from the last thread and PoE combat's sounding pretty choice right now. Oh don't get me wrong, I'm pretty stoked for PoE. Although more for "original-IP, isometric RPG by Obsidian" than I am for more RTwP combat. It's just a shame we only got one buggy, under-written game with ToEE's combat system. I would've been down for an entire Gold Box series resurrection utilizing it. 
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Dec 15, 2013 23:04
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FuriousGeorge posted:It's just a shame we only got one buggy, under-written game with ToEE's combat system. I would've been down for an entire Gold Box series resurrection utilizing it. Don't tease me. 
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Dec 16, 2013 00:59
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Darkhold posted:I'd submit that most ordinary people don't give money to video game kickstarters to begin with.
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Dec 16, 2013 03:14
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Its probably that arena shooter Cliff Bleszinski was talking about lately. http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/11/5200922/cliff-bleszinski-next-game-first-person-arena-shooter-pc I haven't heard of any kickstarted FPS yet. Id love to play the spiritual successor of Unreal Tournament with the writing of Planescape: Torment.
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Dec 16, 2013 05:36
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User0015 posted:How wrong can one person be? The first thing I want from killing that giant dragon is an explosion of gold and magical items loosed from his body with enough force to slide for a few meters. The second thing I want is a fountain of blood and dragon parts smacking my adventurers in the face with a wet, meaty thud. Let it rain. I actually hope that gore and such are optional, like in BG2. I'm not the most comfortable with all the violence in video-games; though I recognize it as an essential part of how they're built. I still would prefer not to have tons of gore as a part of my party's actions. FRINGE posted:That looks FAR loving SUPERIOR to more Hitler fetishism. What would make the russian civil a great setting for lovecraftian mythos fun is the fact that you have figures like Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg; a brutal white russian warlord who gathered a cavalry division in Mongolia and marched under the banner of the swastika (Invoking it as a good luck symbol) Who was attracted to the foreign esoteric nature of tibetan buddhism- Though he missed the whole compassionate part and took straight to the sorcery part. You could have this brutal ivan the terrible lunatic warlord and his mongolian cavalry trying to rule the world and bring in the new era of foreign deities of the great beyond.
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User0015 posted:How wrong can one person be? The first thing I want from killing that giant dragon is an explosion of gold and magical items loosed from his body with enough force to slide for a few meters. The second thing I want is a fountain of blood and dragon parts smacking my adventurers in the face with a wet, meaty thud. Let it rain. Alright, I want this too but man, doesn't feel very likely 
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I tossed $500 at this thing in September of 2012 and then I kinda tuned out (mostly cos I didn't wanna get too excited.) Now that the backer portal is up, and I've confirmed my stuff (which will be coming to the beautiful island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia--I will perhaps be the only player on the island), I'm pretty keen. We have about a year or so to go from now, right? Rope Kid, you're already my hero for making both childhood and adulthood entertaining, but can you inform me on two thingers? One--I know we're getting two BIG cities. What are they named? (I keep looking at the map.) And are the other towns/villages going to be fairly sizeable on their own, or are we looking at "shop, inn, quest house" type stuff? Two--Do you guys have the gist for system requirements? That is to say, if my laptop can run Mathematica 9 just fine, it should probably be able to run PoE?
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Dec 16, 2013 07:01
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The big cities are Defiance Bay (west coast of the map, just left of "of Dyrwood") and, if I'm not mistaken, Twin Elms (dead centre of the map).
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Dec 16, 2013 08:10
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The cities are Defiance Bay and Twin Elms e: too slow!
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Dec 16, 2013 08:11
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'd be up for a Russian Civil War setting with Cthulhu elements. Maybe you'd like this and the forthcoming book it's from: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2013/10/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-the-iron-devil/
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fez_machine posted:Maybe you'd like this and the forthcoming book it's from: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2013/10/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-the-iron-devil/ This looks exactly like what I'm looking for; thanks a lot.
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Dec 16, 2013 10:14
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I would love an RPG set in either of Charlie Stross's versions of the Cthulhu mythos (his first crack, which you can read for free, is probably the superior).
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Otto Skorzeny posted:Charlie Stross's Or riding Accelerando. Or a trade war with/around The Family. Or cyber/police work ala Rule 34. Basically STROSS YES.
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