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BBF Has Finally Broken Me (Yea!)
Thu, 11/08/2012 - 12:13am | 
Mulsiphix
Honestly I don't have that much of an expendable income. This is the first RPG that I am actually going to play (tomorrow in fact). I own lots of RPG books that I have accumulated over the years that I have perused but never sat down to play. But for some reason BBF stood out for me. I stumbled across it a few days ago while browsing DriveThruRPG's top 20 Indie products listing.
I read the product description and it caught my attention. I immediately Googled up some reviews and was very impressed with what people were saying. I had $10 bucks in my pocket and took the plunge. I read the book cover to cover the next day and unlike just about every other product I have come across over the last four years, of on again off again pen and paper romancing, I felt compelled to play it. I had my wife read the book yesterday, we bought materials to build out own battle mat today, and tomorrow we are going to run Maidens of Moordoth.
I read that you will be releasing Trouble at Karam's Claim on Nov 12th along with the Keranak Kingdoms setting book. I also read you have some spell cards in the works for a DTRPG release. My wife gets paid tomorrow and I'll be setting some money aside to buy all three of these products. I guarantee you that if you release additional BBF P&P cards that I will snatch those up as well. I don't know what it is about this product but it has my complete attention.
Beyond reading every post made at these forums and tracking new ones daily, I'm compiling a list of all the player submitted content others are sharing. I hope that I have some affinity for the game once I get the ball rolling and will be able to make my own contributions. I am really digging the feel of a concerted community effort with bettering this game. It feels like it has future, a bright future full of both crunchy and fluffy goodness. I look forward to watching the game evolve and being a part of that process.
Keep up the great work and please, PLEASE, keep those new products rolling out. My income may be limited when it comes to recreational expenses, but both my wife and I are committed to supporting your hard work and future community contributions. I have found a winner in BareBones Fantasy. Coming from somebody like me, that is not a statement that should be taken lightly. Viva La BBF!
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Awesomeness. :)
Yay for diving into the hobby! Remember to HAVE FUN and enjoy yourselves!
It's a good broken, right? :-)
This post brought me back to 13 when I got my first boxed set from Rider's Hobby. I'm really excited for you.
Bill and I have a long history of commitment to communities and love developing stuff. We'll be around for a long, long time. :-)
Consider running a game on G+ and invite me.
Mulsiphix, this might seem dorky, but I printed your post and pinned it on my cork-board.
That's not dorky. That's enjoying the fruits of your labor. It's a success story showing that your game is doing its job.
I had some trouble getting the battle mat assembled today and had to go out for new parts. I'm taking another stab at it tomorrow morning and with any luck I will be enjoying my first game. I'm wishing I had a blog to detail this little adventure of mine =)
Sign up at Blogger.com. It's the best blog program there is. And you can post it to G+.
"somebody so well versed in the hobby" ...if you only knew. ;-)
Sorry, Mulsiphix, if I piggy-back your thread, but I share you sentiments.
I've been playing/DMing since 1980 (B/X D&D). Although B/X was always our "main" game system, in the 80ies and early 90ies I bought, ran, played more RPGs than I can remember, gaining satisfaction in all of them (almost). Somewhere along the line (2000ish) all these new games coming out simply left me feeling blah. Although I kept on buying new RPGs, I began to fear I'd never stumble upon something I could really get excited about. Until BBF!
It's humbling to read all these comments. We are so grateful you are all enjoying the game. I'll let you in on a little secret...
Bill, what are we going to do tomorrow?
The same thing we do every night Larry, try to take over the RPG industry!
Bill, what are we going to do tomorrow?
The same thing we do every night Larry, try to take over the RPG industry!
Ah, one of my favorite cartoons.
What's really awesome is that BBF is already a silver pick on RPGNow.
What's more is it went silver within 5 days.
That... is staggeringly awesome. I knew it was silver when I bought it, but I didn't realize it went silver quite that fast.
Okay, I have to run this game. I've already put a post on my FLGS's facebook page looking for players. Wish me luck!
Keranak Kingdoms just hit No.2 right behind BareBones.
The BareBones Fantasy guys are all on Google+. If you post there, they have the Google Hangout, where games are played live on camera. If you do, join BareBones's and DWD Studios's circles and I'm C. J. Williams in those circles. I'd be glad to do a game in Google Hangout if it is good with my schedule.
As you unravel the scroll, magical, glittering, tinkerbell pixie dust falls ever so gently to the floor. The sound of ocean waves crashing into rocks fills your ears. Writing appears on the scroll... make a LOG check to see if you can read. Make a DEX check to see if you can click the magical hyperlinks.
Hey, who wants just the links? ;-P
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