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Len posted:I hope you don't get almost-raped Yeah, that didn't happen with me at all. Our game was a soft PG (OOC not-so-much, but nothing vulgar or anything) the whole way; I would've been comfortable with my sons being there. That said, my game was loving awesome. I did this back-to-back with a Pathfinder Beginner Box, and the lack of structure and ability to just set things up on the fly just translate wonderfully to the universe. Our GM (Mike Olson, if gold stars are to be passed out) was completely on point and funny and just ran things perfectly. Obviously the GM has a lot of control over any RPG, but the open-endedness of this system lends itself to some...creative...GMing, and everything was just hilarious and great. I became Covered In Monkeys. TWICE. So, yeah. I will run this game into the *ground*.
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Deathlove posted:Yeah, that didn't happen with me at all. Our game was a soft PG (OOC not-so-much, but nothing vulgar or anything) the whole way; I would've been comfortable with my sons being there. Mike Olson is the game's writer, so I am double-jealous of you now.
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Man, playing Pathfinder and a FATE game back to back must have been a real case of whiplash. Super stoked to hear the game is that good, and super sad that Len got a bad case of Convention Game.
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Geekner posted:I know you can't get into specifics, but is your per-sale profit from comixology as good as print? Deathlove posted:my game was loving awesome. I did this back-to-back with a Pathfinder Beginner Box, and the lack of structure and ability to just set things up on the fly just translate wonderfully to the universe. Our GM (Mike Olson, if gold stars are to be passed out) was completely on point and funny and just ran things perfectly. Obviously the GM has a lot of control over any RPG, but the open-endedness of this system lends itself to some...creative...GMing, and everything was just hilarious and great. I became Covered In Monkeys. TWICE. 1) FATE is just right for Robo. 2) Mike is brilliant at working with FATE. 3) Also he's hilarious. So here we are!
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Endless Mike posted:I keep reading FATE as FATAL, which is am entirely different RPG system, I'm guessing. It would be difficult for them to have less in common.
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rantmo posted:It would be difficult for them to have less in common. FATAL is the porn RPG with the aspergers like attention to detail on all sorts of inane things right?
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Gunjin posted:FATAL is the porn RPG with the aspergers like attention to detail on all sorts of inane things right? Yeah, that's close enough.
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Hyperactive posted:Yup! BTW. The scene where robo discovers that his pistol can't be fixed made me genuinely very sad. Absolutely love the book, keep them coming.
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The only problem I can see with the Robo rpg is that it might be more fun playing each session with new characters than it would be to keep using one for a long time. But thats not a very big problem really
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Bucnasti posted:BTW. The scene where robo discovers that his pistol can't be fixed made me genuinely very sad. I think the saddest part of Vol 6 for me is when Robo tells Sparrow and company to run in the last issue. It's not a big moment in itself, but it's when he's made up his mind about what needs to be done and it's just awful. Len posted:The only problem I can see with the Robo rpg is that it might be more fun playing each session with new characters than it would be to keep using one for a long time. But thats not a very big problem really It also support long form campaign play, so whatever makes sense for your group will work fine. I'd also like to at least mention some of the alternative assumptions about the game within the text just to make sure they're explicit. Stuff like: "Hey, you can play as a rival group like Majestic 12." Or "What if Robo disappeared when he defeated the Shadow From Beyond Time?" And so on.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhX4gGikEA I figured this would be the place to share it - just a little thing I noticed in this particular episode pertaining to one atomic robo.
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The cover to the new Real Science Adv is amazing, I really wish you guys would do some prints or posters.
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McKilligan posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhX4gGikEA Lindsay (The Artist) is one of the She-devils in the current series. She has actually drawn "wobo" He is in the show notes of the audio Commentary of the current Issue #2.
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Bumping the thread with a question about the RPG. Hyperactive you said once that it was going to be possible to play as any organization you felt like playing as so in theory could you use the Robo book to play an XCom style game? The quick character creation would be perfect for playing a game where players drop like flies.
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Len posted:Bumping the thread with a question about the RPG. Hyperactive you said once that it was going to be possible to play as any organization you felt like playing as so in theory could you use the Robo book to play an XCom style game? The quick character creation would be perfect for playing a game where players drop like flies. There's also rules for how those organizations can support or hinder characters in the field, and how they'd change during the course of play, so yes, you could easily fake an XCOM game.
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Hyperactive posted:We're intending to make it possible to play as agents from any organization from the pages of Atomic Robo, or any organization that could be found there. Neat! I'm kind of excited for the release of it. Other than the bad GM I had fun with my playtest at Gencon. Will it have additional fluff for the series in it too? If it does I won't feel too bad if it doesn't get played often/ever. The guys I try and play with assure me they want to play things, get a day off to play it, but then plan something else on that day instead leaving me with a game but no players.
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Just wanted to thank Hyperactive for being a good sport this weekend and signing this for me. Also I'm form former Yugoslavia so my parents got a kick out of the Tesla shirt I bought form you. Keep up the great work.
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Hey I had no idea it was a second printing and I didn't feel like checking out every comic seller at the con, I clearly hadn't thought that far ahead.
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I looked for this thread month or two back and didn't find it. Figured we didn't have an atomic robo thread since I don't usually see many inde books here with their own threads. Anyway, just wanted to mention, I learned about robo from the team fortress 2 read, someone there posted a page of the tf2 crossover and I got super curious and had to hunt down that issue. Which I read then immediately bought all 7 volumes and the first issue of "flying she-devils." It was a fantastic read for my family vacation and I am waiting for vol. 8 for the Dr. Dinosaur arch so hard. I'm now torn though, buying issues in print help out you guys and the local shop, but digital is cheaper and so much easier. Going to probably switch to digital for vol. 8 and buy the physical trades.
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gogisha posted:Hey I had no idea it was a second printing and I didn't feel like checking out every comic seller at the con, I clearly hadn't thought that far ahead. I'm just yanking ya.
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KGBAgent185 posted:Which I read then immediately bought all 7 volumes and the first issue of "flying she-devils." It was a fantastic read for my family vacation and I am waiting for vol. 8 for the Dr. Dinosaur arch so hard. quote:I'm now torn though, buying issues in print help out you guys and the local shop, but digital is cheaper and so much easier. Going to probably switch to digital for vol. 8 and buy the physical trades. The honest answer is: GET ALL THREE. But the realistic answer is: the royalties Scott and I get from each format are so close to each other that it makes no functional difference on our end which one you get. Buy what works best for your needs.
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Hyperactive posted:But the realistic answer is: the royalties Scott and I get from each format are so close to each other that it makes no functional difference on our end which one you get. Buy what works best for your needs. Good to know, I like others think I'm going digital for vol. 8 then picking up the paper trade. At this point of my life I can't justify piles of comics taking space when I'm buying the trades already.
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KGBAgent185 posted:Which I read then immediately bought all 7 volumes and the first issue of "flying she-devils." It was a fantastic read for my family vacation and I am waiting for vol. 8 for the Dr. Dinosaur arch so hard. What's this about seven volumes? I thought there are only six, and She-Devils is going to be the seventh. Do you mean to tell me I'm not as Robo'd as I can be?! 
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Really Pants posted:What's this about seven volumes? I thought there are only six, and She-Devils is going to be the seventh. Do you mean to tell me I'm not as Robo'd as I can be?! Sorry to bring up your hopes. For actual content, I'm also looking forward to new real science adventures. While I really liked the new series, I was a little sad that there were repeated stories from earlier atomic robo trades.
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Really Pants posted:What's this about seven volumes? I thought there are only six, and She-Devils is going to be the seventh. Do you mean to tell me I'm not as Robo'd as I can be?! The TPB collection of the anthology series Real Science Adventures was just solicited, so that'll be a seventh book. The other seventh collection will be the Vol 7 TPB. That should be out in Dec. Possibly Jan. Don't recall. We'll start up a new batch of RSA issues somewhere in 2013. Probably sooner rather than later. This time they'll be one-shots instead of shorts. Right now we're in the middle of powering through a couple little Robo side projects before Scott delves into the art for Vol 8 and I tackle the script for Vol 9. Hyperactive fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Oct 27, 2012 |
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For those of you who missed it, here is our Free Comic Book Day story for 2012. And here's Tesla's Electric Sky Schooner from Real Science Adventures v1 #3. RSA v2 will be six issues about these guys. Both stories are collected in the RSA TPB coming at you in December. Hyperactive fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Nov 13, 2012 |
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Hyperactive posted:For those of you who missed it, here is our Free Comic Book Day story for 2012. I forgot how awesome that teamup was. Though your second link was wrong (at least while I was typing it). Here be the right one. Both of those are going in the OP anything else I should ad/update that you know of?
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Fixed! re: more OP stuff Have you added the Vol 7 (and possibly beyond) audio commentaries? Hyperactive fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Nov 13, 2012 |
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Hyperactive posted:Fixed! I have not. I didn't even know those were things. Added
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Hyperactive posted:Fixed!
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KGBAgent185 posted:Did you post about these in your sites news feed? I only saw the first one, but didn't know you had done more.
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I recently got into comics. Got addicted to Batman and then I came across Atomic Robo's first issue for free in the Comixology app. I'll defiantly have to pick up Vol 1 once I get my hands on a tablet. Already bought Issue #2 as well. More comics should have their first issue for free so you can get a feel for what it actually is, three preview pages doesn't cut it. Boar It fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Nov 19, 2012 |
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I just got a copy of The Manhattan Projects in the mail and I've been blowing through it, figured it was worth mentioning because I'm digging it and it's reminding me of Atomic Robo in a lot of ways. It's much more of a "secret history" motif than Robo's "super-sized ants are real and everyone knows it, let's go punch them", and tonally it's a lot darker than Robo (and some of the characters are downright hosed up), but it's still got its fair share of silly/over-the-top moments and by and large the main focus of the series is "crazy action-science", complete with a bunch of real-world scientists as main characters (Oppenheimer, Feynman, Einstein, Fermi, Von Braun). I'm not exactly keen on the art, but it's far from a dealbreaker.
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Just wanted to take the time to say how much I enjoyed the final issue of Flying She-Devils - nice mix of action and heart to wind it up. Too early to ask about Vol. 8?
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Hyperactive posted:Well, duh. You've ruined that word forever by the way.
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