Drake
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 25
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Post by Drake on May 28, 2013 22:09:06 GMT -8
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Post by malifer on Jun 25, 2013 5:36:24 GMT -8
They now have CoC Quickstart rules! I can only imagine...
Page 1 - Instructions to make a character Page 2 - The character goes insane, return to page 1.
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Post by muntjack on Jun 27, 2013 6:26:41 GMT -8
Yeahhhh...not gonna back Chaosium. Rather spend my money elsewhere.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 27, 2013 9:52:09 GMT -8
Yup. My boycott is still firmly in place.
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Post by ayslyn on Jun 27, 2013 9:54:48 GMT -8
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Chaosium?
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Post by Forresst on Jun 27, 2013 12:08:36 GMT -8
I believe the Chaosium boycott stems from their heavy-handed treatment of another small company that tried to make Cthulhu-themed playing cards. They waded in with balls a-jingling and told the other guy "hey fuck you, we own the name Cthulhu" or some similar crap. They demanded that Bicycle not produce the cards, they went swinging for Kickstarter... basically Chaosium went up against everyone and then wondered why there was an outcry.
Short form is, they're jerks.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 27, 2013 20:59:15 GMT -8
That's basically it. They took their trademark for "Call of Cthulhu" which specifically relates to RPGs and went to Bicycle and intimidated them to cease production of a guy and his artist buddy who made a Call of Cthulhu themed playing card deck. And all this appears to have happened because Charlie Krank didn't like the response he got from the Kickstarter organizers when he asked for decks with custom backs. Here's the text from the Kickstarter project where the Krank reared his ugly head: So as far as I'm concerned, Charlie Krank can go fuck himself.
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Post by Kainguru on Jun 28, 2013 5:42:21 GMT -8
Yep fuck 'em. I'll stick to my old edition quite happily. Reading the kick starter I'm a bit mystified as to there being a legitimate cause to revise CoC except as a naked opportunity to make a cash grab. Aaron
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Post by malifer on Jun 28, 2013 16:08:10 GMT -8
I would rather pick up of Realms of Cthulhu. It's a lot cheaper.
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fredrix
Master Douchebag
Posts: 2,142
Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
Currently Running: Fate, Coriolis, Nights Black Agents
Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Jul 3, 2013 11:27:15 GMT -8
Chaosium have been in my bad books for years. A mate of mine had a game published through them, but they sold a licence they had no right to sell for a French translation.
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jimto
Supporter
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Post by jimto on Jul 5, 2013 11:35:47 GMT -8
Yup. My boycott is still firmly in place. So is mine as far as Chaosium getting any of my money. I really want Horror on the Orient Express and the 7th ed rules. And someday I'll have them. Just as soon as I can get them used to ensure Chaosium gets none of my cash.
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