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Internet_Commodus posted:Has anybody heard any updates on the Ryuutama translation? Last I heard "late August" was the goal and that's gotten pretty close.
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Aug 20, 2012 20:52
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DiamondSutra posted:That reward level is back up now. Upgradin' games! Want me some furoshiki and casino dice. Seriously, though, this game looks pretty sweet. I was sort of "meh" months ago when I first read about it (mostly ignorance on my part), but the more I hear the more awesome it sounds. That, and the artwork samples are gorgeous. I hit my "squee" level pretty fast.
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Aug 21, 2012 04:37
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So I couldn't get the $70 level right now, but will there be more details and/or will be it be possible to buy the campaign setting separately later?
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Aug 21, 2012 17:30
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aldantefax posted:One of my friends is off teaching in Iwaki City, so I'm going to send her off to Tokyo WTF???? Seriously, Iwaki City (FUKUSHIMA), are you sure about that? She's at ground zero of the tsunami??? If that's right, I think she's got far more important things to do than shopping in Tokyo! ...or do you mean Isesaki (GUNMA) or somewhere else? Just curious! Internet_Commodus posted:Has anybody heard any updates on the Ryuutama translation? Last I heard "late August" was the goal and that's gotten pretty close. Ahh. That was before Tenra got close to completion, and now done. The last three months have been nothing both TBZ. Ryuutama is now on the backburner (well, has been as of a few months ago). We originally planned for a simultaneous Japanese (revised edition, PDF only)-French-English release this or next month, but that was before other longer projects swept that away. Currently we're going to ANNOUNCE it in late August, at JGC (Japan Game Convention). But it's eventual pre-sales (possibly a kickstarter; currently the plan is PDF only, but we might do a limited kickstarter for print copies) will happen towards the end of this year or the beginning of the next, once Tenra is settled. Plus, this last weekend I got a confirmation on a lot of really, really cool things towards a Ryuutama release, stuff that will take a while to ready before it's announced. But I have to get one white whale off my plate before tackling the next one. The difference is that Ryuutama and Tenra during the Announcement Stage is that Ryuutama is already 95% translated, just needs the final bits, a re-localization and edit, layout and likely a little more material. DiamondSutra fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Aug 21, 2012 |
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Aug 21, 2012 20:45
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BTW, thanks everyone for all the support! A not insignificant number of people funded the game from SA.quote:So I couldn't get the $70 level right now, but will there be more details and/or will be it be possible to buy the campaign setting separately later?
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Aug 21, 2012 20:56
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DiamondSutra posted:WTF???? That sounded like the case since she received her assignment this year and flew out for orientation. Reviewing previous correspondence with her that is in fact the case that she's out there in Iwaki-shi. She seems like she is doing OK!
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Aug 21, 2012 21:26
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DiamondSutra posted:But it's eventual pre-sales (possibly a kickstarter; currently the plan is PDF only, but we might do a limited kickstarter for print copies) will happen towards the end of this year or the beginning of the next, once Tenra is settled. Seriously, do this.
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Aug 21, 2012 21:41
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I finally managed to get copies of both the Meikyuu Kingdom books. The random name table listing Adam and Eve (well, Eva) in the fantasy category alongside Conan and Elric is pretty much priceless 
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Aug 21, 2012 22:38
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DiamondSutra posted:WTF???? Honestly, she's probably safer there than in Tokyo now. If you look at the pattern of earthquakes that happened off the Sanriku coast, they just had their big one and won't have another one like that in another century. That and following that same pattern, Tokyo's due for their big one within the next 20 years. Also, thanks for mentioning Isesaki. I miss Gunma. 
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Aug 21, 2012 22:43
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Nanja Monja posted:I finally managed to get copies of both the Meikyuu Kingdom books. I still can't get over how pretty the books are. They have excellent layout and visual design.
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Aug 21, 2012 22:44
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shoplifter posted:Seriously, do this. It'd be a crime for a book as pretty as Ryuutama not to have a super-snazzy physical copy, and I want to throw money at such a project as hard as my noodley little nerd arms can manage.
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Aug 21, 2012 23:28
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Thirding the desire for physical copies of Ryuutama. PDFs and Ebooks are nice and all, but nothing beats flipping pages in your own book.
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Aug 22, 2012 02:42
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A physical copy of Ryuutama would increase my social standing amongst my peers! I'd be the belle of the ball!
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Aug 22, 2012 02:58
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Mikan posted:I still can't get over how pretty the books are. They have excellent layout and visual design. You know, I kind of wonder, in a more general sense, how the layout of JTRPGs compares to WTRPGs. We have some folks who do beautiful layout, especially in the indie community, but a ton of it is still horrible, even among second-tier publishers, and a lot of top-tier is just okay, not really anything special.
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Aug 22, 2012 03:49
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LincolnSmash posted:You know, I kind of wonder, in a more general sense, how the layout of JTRPGs compares to WTRPGs. We have some folks who do beautiful layout, especially in the indie community, but a ton of it is still horrible, even among second-tier publishers, and a lot of top-tier is just okay, not really anything special. I honestly don't know how it's gotten so bad at some companies. With White Wolf books I count any time they actually use a legible header font as a win. There are so many organizational and design problems that could be fixed if people just hired a good layout person. One of the reasons I'm confident in pledging for Tenra is that Luke Crane is working on that angle.
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Aug 22, 2012 03:57
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VoodooXT posted:Also, thanks for mentioning Isesaki. I miss Gunma. GUNMA DAIHYO! My family lives in Isesaki (formerly Sakai-machi, next to Azuma, between Isesaki and Ohta). It's... changed... A Lot. Some in good ways, some in bad. But Joyful Honda is still there between Isesaki and Ohta, so as long as that place stands as a shrine to the hobbyist gods, all will be well.
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Aug 22, 2012 03:57
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Just to clarify, Meikyuu Kingdom is two books? Does anybody have the ISBNs for both?
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Aug 22, 2012 05:24
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DiamondSutra posted:GUNMA DAIHYO! I actually left last year and I lived in Agatsuma-gun. Isesaki always had the reputation as the gaijin smash town of Gunma.
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Aug 22, 2012 07:01
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aldantefax posted:Just to clarify, Meikyuu Kingdom is two books? Does anybody have the ISBNs for both? Yes, a player book and a GM book. Here's Amazon Japan Links http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%86%92%E...45641619&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%86%92%E...45641619&sr=8-2
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Aug 22, 2012 14:21
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Skimmed through the first half of Ryuutama last night, and I want to run/play in a game of this so bad. It is the RPG for people who enjoy smiling.
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Aug 22, 2012 17:38
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Is it for people who want to play as a transforming robot ninja dog? No? Didn't think so. 
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Aug 23, 2012 06:08
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My dreams of roleplaying as Mecha-Koromaru will be realised. Ryuutama isn't my cup of tea but I'll be contributing to the Kickstarter anyway once it surfaces.
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Aug 24, 2012 04:28
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Pledging $55 to Tenra Bansho Zero. I played in an excellent demo at Gen Con last year. The Kiai economy seems like it would be a lot of fun to explore in an extended campaign. Plus, I got to be a samurai prince with a giant robot on rollerblades!
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Aug 24, 2012 10:07
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DNA Cowboys posted:Pledging $55 to Tenra Bansho Zero. Me too! This looks great. My non-goon friend is in for $70 as well.
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Aug 25, 2012 19:02
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SavageMessiah: Your really horrifying yet awesome user icon got me remembrin'. Escapist Expo (which Yahtzee is coming to) is coming up, right down the street (figuratively) from me in Durham, NC in September. I'll be there with the Games on Demand group running demos of TBZ and other small-press RPGs. If you happen to be anywhere near there, might be worth coming down to play.
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Aug 26, 2012 17:52
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16.5 days remaining for the Tenra Bansho Kickstarter. Another $4114 and the next stretch goals get unlocked (extended sample characters, material release). Over 600% 
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Aug 31, 2012 05:00
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Finally got paid, in on Tenra Bansho. Woo!
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Aug 31, 2012 13:33
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Kayumi posted:Finally got paid, in on Tenra Bansho. Woo! Why do people keep posting this about Kickstarter? They don't charge you until after the time is up, so it only matters if you have money in your account at that point, and not when you make the pledge. No one cares when you get paid, son.
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Aug 31, 2012 17:20
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DRAKES N CAKES posted:Why do people keep posting this about Kickstarter? They don't charge you until after the time is up, so it only matters if you have money in your account at that point, and not when you make the pledge. No one cares when you get paid, son. They just want to feel like they're a part of something v  v
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Aug 31, 2012 17:34
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MadRhetoric posted:They just want to feel like they're a part of something v I think the issue isn't about people saying they contributed to the kickstarter, it's people waiting until payday to do it even though you don't get charged until the end of the campaign, not at the time that you make your pledge.
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Sep 2, 2012 04:20
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Sometimes poo poo comes up. If you pledge at the end of the campaign when you know you have the money, you don't have to worry about the ignition in your car locking up and costing 400 bucks to replace between now and the end of the kickstarter.
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Sep 2, 2012 04:26
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PublicOpinion posted:Sometimes poo poo comes up. If you pledge at the end of the campaign when you know you have the money, you don't have to worry about the ignition in your car locking up and costing 400 bucks to replace between now and the end of the kickstarter. Oh, it's just a poor person thing then? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 2, 2012 05:17
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DRAKES N CAKES posted:Oh, it's just a poor person thing then? Ha yea, it's a thing only us poors do and has nothing to do with us keeping track of our monthly budget. 
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Started a Ryuutama campaign yesterday over roll20 with some online friends and my own jumbled translation of the rules. It was very nice, in a way that I'm not used to tabletop games being. The quest of the first adventure involved putting an end to a series of raids on an inn's food supplies by a pair of catgoblins. When the party found them, they ended up healing their sick child in exchange for a promise that the goblins would move on peacefully. No combat occurred. The party spend about half an hour, without prompting, playing out eating dinner, with no actual relevance to ongoing plotlines. Mechanically, the system is fairly simple, but functional. There's some weirdness we found where camping outside can be more beneficial than paying for cramped lodgings, and it's unexpectedly easy for characters to fail at things, so the GM needs to be prepared for the party to mess up repeatedly, especially with a low-level group. My favorite mechanic is probably the daily Condition Check, because what other system has rules for waking up on the wrong side of the bed and having it throw off your groove for the rest of the day? Overall everyone had a huge amount of fun. It's a system that encourages characters to spend a lot of time just being characters at each other, and that was before I added in the house rule to allow player nominations of good roleplaying moments at the end of the session for bonus XP. Looking forward to getting further into this.
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The latest Tenra Bansho Zero update  quote:I'm going to reskin Tenra to loosely simulate a particular console RPG franchise that I PERSONAlly like a lot. It's not going to be a 1 to 1 conversion, because that would bring up copyright concerns (I'm not interested in stealing ideas, just building things from a similar origin point), but it will certainly be inspired by it (and a few other series; honestly there's about 3-4 popular franchises of "high school students fight occult horrors after school"). In short, a game where the player characters are Japanese high school kids in a dark/grim world of ancient and mysterious supernatural horrors, where they can summon magical demons to fight for them at night. School drama by day, fighting for the fate of the world and their own souls by night.
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It's like the Kanji avatar was tailor-made for this. Also I guess my mention of Koromaru earlier on is an odd coincidence. Edit: that's a big update. Lots of nice stuff. 7 days 7 hours to gooooooo Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Sep 9, 2012 |
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Sep 9, 2012 09:49
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Went ahead and back Tenra Bansho Zero. Makes me think of Exalted done more elegantly.
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Sep 9, 2012 09:49
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Mikan posted:The latest Tenra Bansho Zero update Oh hell yeah! They got me with the exclusive hardcover run - gonna have to go boost my pledge.
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Sep 9, 2012 09:53
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It was about time someone stepped up to the plate, I had been thinking if TBZ would have been a viable starting point. Looks like it is!
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If there's one thing I could love more than pretending to be an elf, it's pretending to be a monster-hunting high-school student that summons demons.
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