by Steve Dubya

An item RPG: Choose Your Doom! has been added to the geeklist [US] RPGG Pay It Forward: Traditional List

by Hopeless_Wanderer

Yes. In fantasy settings, I always play a ranger or a bard. A ranger-bard would be ideal.

In sci fi space settings, I always play a high-ranking intelligence officer.

In Call of Cthulu-like investigative settings, I usually play an aristocratic dilettante.

In horror settings, I always play a Malkavian-like character, preferably ancient if possible.

They all usually have a kind of mysterious, wandering, outsider vibe.

by PopeBelligerent

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Skello496 wrote:

Wow, that Josh guy made some great picks

But he's pretty rude when it comes to people's ages...

by pdzoch

I'm all in for something old, rare, and esoteric. Got to love a well-loved game, especially if it is something different.

by JohnDevlin

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lVvJoWa_iEMfCAqqrH4dGsd...

by JohnDevlin

Added two new classes to my Homebrew Dark Fantasy Villain RPG such as the Charlatan an interesting spin of the Warlock class and the Inquisitor a more authoritarian class that comes with political power

by coil23

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Happy Birthday, Troy! 🦘🍕💫

by Guyfumble

This sounds interesting. I haven't been on the site in a while, but the 1-2 times a week sounds great.

by Gorath44000

My group Gems and Experts pledge spent a month being dropped off to UPS in May and then returned to Queen Games a week later due to some paperwork/payment issue on their end. The only reason I know this is because of the UPS tracking number I was sent and checked in on - Queen themselves have not mentioned this happening at all, not to me or the other people around the world who have enquired about this already on the Campaign comments. They've been CMON'ing it for a while now, maybe it's finally catching up to them. Their campaigns routinely pull low numbers of late, frequently less than 1000 copies of a game in some scenarios and truly abysmal in others - take their Ronincampaign that saw a whopping 226 copies ordered, which for any other company would be an absolute disaster, but at 450% funded was A-OK for Queen - after all, their use of crowdfunding is little more than a glorified pre-order service and a warehouse clearance sale combined. The knock-on effect of dwindling sales numbers is no doubt due in part to the ongoing concerns around customer service and extensive waiting periods before games are shipped and produced or, if the latest Shogun debacle is considered, whether they're even produced at all. The aforementioned Five Families managed a whopping 118 copies through crowdfunding - truly an achievement for such a venerable organisation.

The Gamefound failure was the straw that broke the camels (& nomads) back for customers, and ideally was the point at which the company began to address the ongoing criticism around their dubious crowdfunding practices, SKU bloat, poor communication and having far too many incomplete campaigns while still opening new ones across two KS accounts. But here we are more than six months later and what has changed? Oh right, nothing.

Queen Games (not to be confused with Queen Games) has three more campaigns in the works, with their latest Palace Quest pulling a solid 114 backers, which is perhaps why Palace Quest (aka the game formerly known as Alhambra: Sultans Quest, way to leave that in the url ya dorks) is getting a launched again! But wait, isn't it against the KS ToS to resell the exact same product? I mean, sure but as long as they get their percentage KS don't really seem to care much about anything that happens on their platform, let alone a former powerhouse German game publisher slowly shrinking into mediocrity and obscurity.

I honestly think the best thing for Queen Games to do at this point is to remove themselves from crowdfunding platforms, retract to their domestic German market and stop pretending they're equipped or even interested in being a global publisher in 2026.

by Jlerpy

If it's a new thing, I could just buy that elsewhere, right? So naturally the old curio.

by Steve Tudor

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Its back to the normal table top gaming conversation in Episode 188 of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, we're travelling from the far reaches of space to the darkest corners of Lovecraftian horror, with a few rabbits and xenomorphs thrown in for good measure.

First we take a deep dive into one of the most talked-about sci-fi strategy games of recent years, Andromeda's Edge. Does Andromeda's Edge build on the foundations of Dwellings of Eldervale, or does it chart its own course among the stars? We discuss the engine building, exploration, combat, and whether it's worth sitting at the table for nearly 3 hours!!! We then move to the complete opposite end of the board game spectrum with Bunny Kingdom Town, the new two-player only version of Richard Garfield's cutesy area control game Is it an essential addition or one for devoted bunny fans only?

Then it's time to open the forbidden tomes as we investigate Miskatonic Tales: Journey to Innsmouth. We talk eldritch mysteries, impossible choices, and whether this Lovecraft-inspired story-driven game delivers the atmosphere and tension horror fans are looking for. Finally, we step aboard another doomed spacecraft with Alien: Rapture Protocol, the latest cinematic adventure for Alien RPG Evolved Edition. We discuss the new rule set while testing out the new adventure while asking the important question: did Sid backstab everyone?

And don’t forget—you can join the discussion over on our https://discord.gg/RtC25Vf2qA.

Games Mentioned
00:00:00 Can AI summarize crack the PhC hosts?
00:07:32 Andromeda's Edge
00:29:42 Bunny Kingdom Town
00:40:09 Miskatonic Tales: Journey to Innsmouth
01:01:20 Alien RPG Evolved Edition and Rapture Protocol

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