Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Good god, RPGs are inexpensive.

Good god, RPGs are inexpensive.

More than two years ago, I pledged $25 for Urban Shadows. The game hit what, 12 times the initial funding goal?

For that $25, I got a book, pdfs, and a whole bunch of updates.

The updates are still coming! Just today, the final city guides dropped -- top notch work by almost a dozen writers who were somehow miraculously paid. I am not smart enough to understand how my $25 funded so much! (oh, right, it didn't; $35k did.)

I've played the game not as much as I would have liked, but for sure more than 3 sessions. At 4 hours a session, that's $2 an hour. That's cheap!

and I've used the corruption mechanic in every damn hack I've started, so that's another dozen hours or more of enjoyment.

When I say games are cheap, this is what I mean!

3 comments:

  1. My crew has just finished a campaign of Stars Without Number and we're starting a campaign of Mutant Future. Both rulebooks are available for free. #divisionbyzeroerror

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  2. John Aegard What'd those cost to make?

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  3. Aaron Griffin Oh, sure. I'm not sure yet that Invisible Sun is at all the same sort of product.

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