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I think I offended my buddy over Kickstarter. He flew into town for training on Monday and that night we talked about Emperor's New Clothes. I started laughing about how it was a great satire about Kickstarter culture of throwing good money at bad projects. He said he was surprised about the fact that he thought they'd be slowly rolling out images of the real game.
I was like, you realize that it's a satire, a joke to make fun of people who jump on ridiculous Kickstarter projects for novelty's sake alone, and he got this look on his face. He said, "No, the joke is on the people who see you playing it, that they can't see what you're playing and you can. It's not 75$ good..."
It was at that point I realized he had backed it, and was the butt of the joke. I didn't back down from my assertion that backing 40 projects a year is insane, but I felt kind of like a shithead for the way I came across.
stormseeker75 wrote: I backed Dungeon Roll for $15. I'll buy damned near any game for $15.
That was a good pick. It was just about the perfect Kickstarter: reasonable entry point, no over-promising, lots of fun stretch goals, frequent (but not constant) updates, etc. Tasty Minstrel has it wired.
So you've just now discovered that people you choose to spend time with [more valuable than money in my life, but YMMV] are dumb as a bag of hair. Strikes me that the joke's actually on you in that scenario, Pete. (And, of course, you could have just said you already had your hands on a review copy and that you were showing it to him *right at that moment.*)
This may have been discussed before, are you guys backing Sails of Glory? I don't think I will, I don't have anyone to play it with, but it looks awesome. And I LOVED GWs Man O' War that had similar move templates, etc.
Straight up, it's a much better fit for the Wings of War movement concept and they seem to have taken some care to get the movement aspects of it relatively correct. I like it. But I'd like to get one of the ships in my hands to see the overall quality and get a turn or two in to see how deep the game is before I go after it. There's a lot of games out from this era and I'm not so sure how many of them are technically superior to Wooden Ships & Iron Men. I like a brainy, broody play for this kind of thing.
It's too expensive for my taste, Sag, but I'd otherwise be all over it. I really loved playing Man O' War, although I've not played it all that much. This seems to be right in my wheelhouse (chortle chortle).
Dogmatix: That was kind of a shitty thing to say. He's not dumb, not by any standard. He's just hopelessly addicted. Plus, I hired him and he was here primarily for training....ut oh
(And, of course, you could have just said you already had your hands on a review copy and that you were showing it to him *right at that moment.*)
UGH! What a missed opportunity. That would've been friggin hilarious!
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