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Post by rossik on Aug 17, 2018 21:04:04 GMT -6
From the Facebook group: Order a T-shirt and you'll get a FREE Access code to see the Online Screener of the Gary Con X movie Draft. See 35 minutes of the documentary about your favorite hobby.  Get your T-shirt and FREE Screener NOW, by clicking the link below: store.secretsofblackmoor.com Access codes have already been sent out to all of you that have purchased shirts already! Please let us know if you ordered a shirt and did not get a code! Thanks for your support! It's people like you that help make this film happen! |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 18, 2018 7:03:52 GMT -6
Maybe this is blasphemy, but I'm even more excited about the t-shirt than the video!  Too many choices, however. I can't decide "Killer DM" or "The Legend Begins" and in what color? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 15:18:39 GMT -6
Whoops was responding and lost my post... I knew that text edit program was good for something. We are sort of doing it all backward. We actually have a movie draft of the entire 2 hours. We're just tweaking it and need to do a bit of fine tuning to get it ready to be seen as a product. From the very beginning it was a learning process. But we hid out and we actually are close to having something. So unlike a lot of people who might go to Kick Starter and grovel for cash, cuz we're gonna do amazing things later on! we are asking people to help fund the project directly via T-shirt sales. This means that no matter what, you got something more than a promise of an amazing gamer thing... later on! Finarvyn FYI - the shirt is an original Bob Bledsaw design made specifically for the film. Bob even donated the drawing to the project. So yes, you should want the shirt, because we'll do others and be yanking this one off the sales page after a bit. Perhaps two, one to wear and one to stash for the archives. d**n, I knew I should've bought 2 T-shirts when I saw that band on the first tour before they got famous!  Here is the teaser video from youtube, it may change your mind about seeing the movie draft www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP2_go_YVCo |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 19, 2018 4:34:20 GMT -6
Here is the teaser video from youtube, it may change your mind about seeing the movie draft Um, so if I want to see the movie draft, then I watch the teaser and it changes my mind, that's a bad thing. Right? EDIT: Nope. Didn't change my mind. Still interested in the thing. |
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Post by asaki on Aug 19, 2018 8:38:33 GMT -6
Looks awesome, I just bought one B)
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 19, 2018 8:55:54 GMT -6
Decided upon "Killer DM" in cardinal. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 10:55:36 GMT -6
Here is the teaser video from youtube, it may change your mind about seeing the movie draft Um, so if I want to see the movie draft, then I watch the teaser and it changes my mind, that's a bad thing. Right? EDIT: Nope. Didn't change my mind. Still interested in the thing. I am just gonna take this statement and translate to: Gimme the God Dammmned Thing! Must have THING - My Precious! Thanks for the T-shirt purchase. you're gonna get the screener anyway, just watch it.  Feel free to come here and make comments about it. You can say it sucked even. But tell me why first. he he he |
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Post by rossik on Aug 20, 2018 16:10:16 GMT -6
I have watch, and oh boy...its great!
Remembering its the raw version, it have a lot of great info. I love the story of the game, and its nice to see a different perspective. Its not to take sides, but its a wonderful work to have this kind of documentary, telling the story from other points of view.
You can see the passion on those players! What a great games they must had had ...
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 22, 2018 11:56:57 GMT -6
Watched it this AM. (From 5:00 to 5:30, before getting ready for work.)
I liked it. Of course, like most good "teaser" videos it ended before the actual creation of the First Fantasy Campaign. Made me want more. I did like the look into the Napoleonic games and Strateegos and how the philosophy of "playing a role" evolved.
It made me feel pretty nostalgic about the good old days of gaming. I didn't grow up in the Twin Cities, so I didn't get to personally witness much of what was in the video, but the notion of simplicity in rules and the fact that players didn't need to be rules masters ... that stuff was always a big part of my early gaming years and it continued when I ran games for my wife and sister and young kids.
No real criticism about the thing. 8)
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Post by Malchor on Aug 24, 2018 11:23:40 GMT -6
I can't decide "Killer DM" or "The Legend Begins" and in what color? Having this problem now. I'm not a TPK kind of person, but if you do something silly, you are likely gonna get yourself killed, and if you don't interact with the world I put you in and just let things happen around you without getting involved, then NPCs are going to die. That said, both speak to me. SaveSave |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 24, 2018 14:16:59 GMT -6
Yeah, "the legend begins" might have been a better choice. So hard to know for sure.  |
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Post by rossik on Aug 24, 2018 18:06:30 GMT -6
Yeah, "the legend begins" might have been a better choice. So hard to know for sure. but "killer DM " may be like "killer breakfast, like something super good |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 18:09:57 GMT -6
You guys are dorks. Killer breakfast indeed! |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 25, 2018 6:32:21 GMT -6
Maybe, but we're dorks wearing YOUR shirt! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 12:51:42 GMT -6
We can always blame it on Bob Bledsaw!
he he he
It is a nicely done shirt though, right?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 12:52:29 GMT -6
... May have to add the Killer Dorks T-shirt to the shop. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 25, 2018 15:16:36 GMT -6
Shirt came in today. Looks really spiffy and I may wear it to play D&D at my local store tomorrow. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 9:57:50 GMT -6
It's interesting to see where one gathers a following. OSR is really big in Poland of all places. Thus we have a fairly large contingent of friends over there now. I am working on interviewing a player who is ref'ing strict no thieves OD&D in a campaign, which seems very interesting. It'll be curious if they introduce some of their own home rulings and such. Another friend of ours published a blog post about our screener. It is on his Polish language blog, but I simply cut pasted the text into a translator and got a good idea of what he had written. www.blekitnyswit.pl/2018/08/29/secrets-of-blackmoor-kopia-robocza/It's nice to see a favorable view on our project. I never assume that I know what I am doing, thus all the feed back is good to read. |
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Post by rossik on Aug 29, 2018 17:11:43 GMT -6
nice!
btw, what its you opinion about those "Living" project? Like a Living Blackmoor, with players in charge of specific regions. i think that would be very nice
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2018 14:49:30 GMT -6
nice! btw, what its you opinion about those "Living" project? Like a Living Blackmoor, with players in charge of specific regions. i think that would be very nice Well, seeing as Blackmoor was originally like that, and I think most historians who have read a great deal of Arneson writing might agree, it would merely be running Blackmoor the way it should be run. Arneson's idea of a campaign certainly wasn't entirely unique. Yet, his ability to comprehend the significance of using a multi tiered and scaled approach seems to be his alone. One see's it at least a year before Blackmoor in his napoleonic campaign that begins with a big Braunstein game where everyone is playing a single individual, then everyone becomes the leader of a country, and everyone also plays as a general, or admiral, and again, sometimes as a single individual. I think it was Jon Peterson who described the Napoleonic Campaign as "the greatest undertaking of its kind" in his book. Having seen the awesome quantity of papers, it's pretty clear why Arneson wanted to switch time periods to medieval. The paper based world level campaign, requires massive amounts of time and effort. Why do you ask about this? |
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Post by rossik on Aug 30, 2018 15:22:50 GMT -6
nice! btw, what its you opinion about those "Living" project? Like a Living Blackmoor, with players in charge of specific regions. i think that would be very nice Well, seeing as Blackmoor was originally like that, and I think most historians who have read a great deal of Arneson writing might agree, it would merely be running Blackmoor the way it should be run. Arneson's idea of a campaign certainly wasn't entirely unique. Yet, his ability to comprehend the significance of using a multi tiered and scaled approach seems to be his alone. One see's it at least a year before Blackmoor in his napoleonic campaign that begins with a big Braunstein game where everyone is playing a single individual, then everyone becomes the leader of a country, and everyone also plays as a general, or admiral, and again, sometimes as a single individual. I think it was Jon Peterson who described the Napoleonic Campaign as "the greatest undertaking of its kind" in his book. Having seen the awesome quantity of papers, it's pretty clear why Arneson wanted to switch time periods to medieval. The paper based world level campaign, requires massive amounts of time and effort. Why do you ask about this? i have never participated in such a way of gaming, but always thought it was cool |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2018 18:21:35 GMT -6
We're doing a lot of marketing. I don't want to burden this forum with endless posts. And I do not expect people here to fund the project, as this is much more of a shared research community. We just posted this video and it contains some interesting anecdotes as well as the odd game clip or two, thought people would enjoy it as it's self and not worry about the whole Buy My Thing aspect. I do want people to notice the work of Alex Kharlamov the composer. He has added so much to what could be a really dry research documentary. Thanks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8GHeFVHyA |
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Post by Malchor on Aug 31, 2018 9:03:10 GMT -6
Shirt ordered.
Went with "The Legend Begins..." after consulting the kiddo. When I read off the Killer DM qualifiers on the shirt's description, she said, "yeah..." thoughtful pause, "kind of..." in answer.
After I ordered the reason for the kiddo's reasoning finally dawned on me. She likes old school style play, but to her thinking, a DM in a "Killer DM" shirt self-fulfilling prophecy waiting to happen.
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 31, 2018 10:03:35 GMT -6
We're doing a lot of marketing. I don't want to burden this forum with endless posts. Not a problem so far.... |
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Post by Malchor on Sept 1, 2018 9:42:22 GMT -6
Watched the screener last night with my wife.
Lots of little tidbits of awesome and definitely left us both wanting to see more.
One note, I so want a live play video of the Blackmoor bunch's annual game! I really want to see these people play a full session, there way.
So much more to say, but I don't want to give anything away.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 9:42:52 GMT -6
Well, there is that need to fund factor that can out weight actual content. Hopefully the old anecdotes in the videos is a decent compensation. Doing the interviews is always fascinating and fun. You can here me chuckle when he says he still can't remember what his character name is after 40 years. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 19:23:48 GMT -6
Watched the screener last night with my wife. Lots of little tidbits of awesome and definitely left us both wanting to see more. One note, I so want a live play video of the Blackmoor bunch's annual game! I really want to see these people play a full session, there way. So much more to say, but I don't want to give anything away. I missed your comment about seeing them play. They played another game this last year which we recorded some of as well. Maybe we'll edit up a video at some point. |
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Post by Malchor on Sept 16, 2018 9:12:53 GMT -6
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Post by asaki on Sept 16, 2018 12:56:39 GMT -6
Got my shirt a week ago, wore it on Friday B)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 10:05:14 GMT -6
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Feel free to come here and make comments about it. You can say it sucked even. But tell me why first. he he he 
