sbloyd
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WHAT! A human in a Precursor service vehicle?!
Posts: 2,762
Preferred Game Systems: Storyteller; Dresden; Mage
Favorite Species of Monkey: Goddamnit, Curious George is a CHIMP not a monkey! Stop teaching my daughter improper classification!
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 8, 2015 12:45:41 GMT -8
I voted with my wallet. That's why I went from collecting seven armies to zero.
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Post by HourEleven on Oct 8, 2015 14:58:41 GMT -8
Yes. But I recall when they started doing wide scale changeover to plastic, they hiked the prices "to cover the costs of retooling" and that prices would go down lower than pre-changeover rates. Prices only kept going up. Yeah, but there was also that "fine cast" debacle. We are raising our prices to switch from metal to our special recipe of resin that will give perfect detail and be so much cheaper in the long run. Then the first two generations were full of casting bubbles and bent weapons. And their answer was the new product "liquid green stuff" to fill the holes. They wound up having to redo their entire resin casting process to one that doesn't suck. And for PR reasons, remove the words "fine cast" from all of their products...
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HyveMynd
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Dirty hippie, PbtA, Fate, & Cortex Prime <3er
Posts: 2,273
Preferred Game Systems: PbtA, Cortex Plus, Fate, Ubiquity
Currently Playing: Monsterhearts 2
Currently Running: The Sprawl
Favorite Species of Monkey: None
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Post by HyveMynd on Oct 8, 2015 15:17:26 GMT -8
Ahh GW minis. How I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and pimpslap younger me into not buying any of them. Heroquest was my first ever roleplaying game and so I owe GW something, but Jesus Christ. Do I ever wish I had all the cash I dropped on their stuff in my teens and 20s back.
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Benji
Journeyman Douchebag
Alea iacta est
Posts: 176
Preferred Game Systems: Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, V20, D&D 3.5, Castles & Crusades, Monsters & Other Childish Things, Little Fears, TFOS
Currently Playing: Not a damn thing
Currently Running: Pathfinder, Savage Worlds
Favorite Species of Monkey: Cebuella pygmaea
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Post by Benji on Oct 8, 2015 15:18:58 GMT -8
And this is why I purged my entire GW collection with the exception of Necromunda earlier this year.
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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 8, 2015 15:26:31 GMT -8
This is the exact reason we use little Lego men!!!
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Post by HourEleven on Oct 8, 2015 17:16:00 GMT -8
This is the exact reason we use little Lego men!!! brikwars.com is a rad free war game made for Lego men.
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Post by shadrack on Oct 8, 2015 17:17:54 GMT -8
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HyveMynd
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Dirty hippie, PbtA, Fate, & Cortex Prime <3er
Posts: 2,273
Preferred Game Systems: PbtA, Cortex Plus, Fate, Ubiquity
Currently Playing: Monsterhearts 2
Currently Running: The Sprawl
Favorite Species of Monkey: None
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Post by HyveMynd on Oct 8, 2015 17:36:41 GMT -8
Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack and Mobile Frame Zero: Intercept Orbit are rad. The rules are pay what you want (so free) for a PDF. The rules are simple enough for kids to get, but have enough emergent complexity to appeal to adults. You can play with LEGO you have on hand. That being said, people make some fracking AMAZING mechs for the game, and you can spend a significant amount ordering the necessary pieces. I should know, I've done it. I console myself by saying that unlike GW and Privateer Press minis, you can disassemble and reassemble the bits into new things. I've got a Google Plus Collection of frames and ships I've built here and a tumblr here.
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Post by joecrak on Oct 8, 2015 19:44:37 GMT -8
This is the exact reason we use little Lego men!!! Not to mention how awesomely customizable Lego minifigs are! We used to us them for our old D&D minis. I tried playing a friend in Mordenheim using Legos, and he refused to play me. I was all like "but you can customize them, and see what weapons they actually have! And they even have bases!" Dumb purists! (We quit that game for entirely different rules related reasons)
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Post by mook on Oct 9, 2015 3:52:47 GMT -8
Oh, man, when I take into account third-party Lego sellers like Brick Arms and such, where you can literally buy individual pieces of gear, specific weapons -- I could easily spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars amassing a small army of customizable Lego mini-figs (and that's just for modern games! Fantasy and Sci-Fi would require their own!) I would love, love to do it, but... I know myself too well, I would have a hard time stopping once I started. The last thing that came this close to sucking me in was discovering they make hex-shaped figure bases. You bastards. Nutshell: That shit ain't cheap!
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Post by chriton227 on Oct 9, 2015 5:06:12 GMT -8
On mini's: as predicted the time of the 3D printed at home mini is drawing nearer. Here is my humble first attempt with a 2nd generation FDM 3D printer at 52mm scale which is perfectly adequate for most RPG's. SLA 3D Printers have halved in price in the last 2 months and are now only a shade more expensive than the 2nd generation FDM 3D printers were this time last year: a 1st generation (eg: Form1 by FormLabs) should be capable of printing precise detail clearly at this resolution and should retain most of it approaching 28-32mm (faces would lose the most detail still at this resolution but still be comparable to the old Ral Partha mini's circa 1980's) Aaron Did you see the Fat Dragon Games "Dragonlock" kickstarter for 3d printed dungeon terrain? The end result looks very similar to the Dwarven Forge terrain, but instead of selling the physical pieces, they are selling the 3d design files to let you print them on your own 3d printer. I expect to see a lot more terrain design offerings since most terrain doesn't require quite as much detail and precision as figures do, but it is just a matter of time before the print resolution improves enough and the printer costs come down enough that we'll start to see the same sort of thing for miniatures as well.
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Post by Kainguru on Oct 9, 2015 7:23:15 GMT -8
On mini's: as predicted the time of the 3D printed at home mini is drawing nearer. Here is my humble first attempt with a 2nd generation FDM 3D printer at 52mm scale which is perfectly adequate for most RPG's. SLA 3D Printers have halved in price in the last 2 months and are now only a shade more expensive than the 2nd generation FDM 3D printers were this time last year: a 1st generation (eg: Form1 by FormLabs) should be capable of printing precise detail clearly at this resolution and should retain most of it approaching 28-32mm (faces would lose the most detail still at this resolution but still be comparable to the old Ral Partha mini's circa 1980's) Aaron Did you see the Fat Dragon Games "Dragonlock" kickstarter for 3d printed dungeon terrain? The end result looks very similar to the Dwarven Forge terrain, but instead of selling the physical pieces, they are selling the 3d design files to let you print them on your own 3d printer. I expect to see a lot more terrain design offerings since most terrain doesn't require quite as much detail and precision as figures do, but it is just a matter of time before the print resolution improves enough and the printer costs come down enough that we'll start to see the same sort of thing for miniatures as well. Lol. Screw kick starter go on thingiverse and there is a whole catalogue of FREE Dwarvenforge compatible meshes as a series . . . The best one I've printed is wood floor tile using wood filament, no painting 'real' wood Aaron
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Post by weaselcreature on Oct 12, 2015 10:04:05 GMT -8
Yes, pretty soon we'll be able to buy 3D minis on Drivethru and print them HeroForge already has a service to print custom minis. They're pricey right now, but you get to pick a lot of options, including facial expressions.
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sbloyd
Supporter
WHAT! A human in a Precursor service vehicle?!
Posts: 2,762
Preferred Game Systems: Storyteller; Dresden; Mage
Favorite Species of Monkey: Goddamnit, Curious George is a CHIMP not a monkey! Stop teaching my daughter improper classification!
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 12, 2015 10:05:36 GMT -8
The question is whether I can justify getting my own printer. TBH, what I'm looking at right now it's a 3D Printer, it's a laser cutter - Glowforge. Still pricy at $2k though, and they're not out of development yet.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Oct 12, 2015 10:37:11 GMT -8
Check to see if you have a local makerspace. We've got one here in our area, and it has both a 3D printer and industrial laser cutter available for use (free for public use on Saturdays, and club members have full 24/7 access)!
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