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02-09-2008, 09:57 PM | #1 |
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What is the popularity of In Nomine...and related questions.
Now that the d20 craze is over, I was wondering how many people are still playing/buying In Nomine.
Though SJG is still producing pdfs, would you consider In Nomine a "dead game"? Is pdf publishing the way of the future? Was Egon Spengler right, when he said, "Print is dead"? Any plans for a 2nd edition In Nomine? Isn't In Nomine the most successful non-GURPS game as SJG? Is this to many questions for one post? Biomage My In Nomine Auctions. |
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For my part, I'm very (i mean VERY) disappointed about the ending (or like SJG said, the futur) of In Nomine. SJG continue saying: « Yes, we support IN Nomine... look! We have PDF on e23! » ... yea right... last pdf released 8 months ago and let facing the truth, a PDF less than 50 pages. R.I.P. In Nomine (1997-2000 but officially 2003 and THEY want to tell us 2008 or more). :( |
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02-10-2008, 05:45 PM | #3 | |
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As for "explain what, where, when, why and how," I can only respond: could you phrase that in the form of a question? I guess it boils down to what you consider a "dead" line. On one end of the spectrum, as long as you can still play the game with your friends, it'll never be truly dead. On the other, some would say that regular, frequent releases are required. By that logic, of course, GURPS -- who's release schedule has been infrequent, irregular, and both over the past several years -- would count as dead. In Nomine isn't dead as far as anyone at Steve Jackson Games is concerned. We'll continue to upload In Nomine projects for the foreseeable future -- in fact, we've got another installment in the Superiors series that's looking like it'll go up in the next month or two.
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02-11-2008, 12:37 AM | #4 | ||
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It's at the top of the page. I don't know if that's been the case before, but it is now. Placement looking good to me. I don't think frequent releases is necessarily a good measure of 'dead' or not. Granted my background is...different. What makes a game alive is if people are playing it--I'd look at sales of the Core rules, and how much work is put into promoting that--to gauge whether the publisher is taking it seriously. That placement looks good. It's still not a huge title by any stretch of the imagination, but growth can be slow. IMHO In Nomine has a massive potential for LARP (obviously, since that's what I run) because of the baroque political structure inside the game story. LARP in my experience allows greater conflict between player-characters as opposed to the whole party pointing towards one objective. Word-friction is your plot toy! A few people I've talked to say the ruleset is too loose to support a competitive game, which is what such in-character politicking lends itself well to. Even so, you can have a very satisfying, exciting, fierce roleplaying experience with what it is, with the right GM at the helm. ;) or should I say ;::) Quote:
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02-11-2008, 06:27 AM | #5 | |
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Re: What is the popularity of In Nomine...and related questions.
If I remember, it was alway at this place. Good or bad news, I don't know. I don't think it mean so much.
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More seriously, what IN fan receive from SJG back to 2003? 5 Superiors supplement and one Liber. No more Cycles, no update about the politic, the product's not evolving (canonically I mean). And like dinosaures, if you don't evolve, you'll face instinction. Sure, I can find material on the net, made by fan. I build my own supplement for my IN campaign but hey! that's not what I want - I want canon material. |
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02-11-2008, 07:07 AM | #6 | |
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(flips a coin) Zadkiel, maybe?
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02-12-2008, 04:30 AM | #7 | |
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flips another coin Whew, mine came up with Marc...hope it'll really be him. And what devious a coin you have that won't come up the right side for its master (who can only be Marc). And, by the way, just having to be patient is nothing I'd equate with the line one likes being "dead". It's much better to have to wait for some time than to get a half-baked product every two months... M. who doesn't like minor Superiors at all :)
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I'm guessing that korbeau would like to know how much of SJGames' resources are being put toward In Nomine, and whether there will be any further adventure Cycles, revisied rule editions, or print products of any sort for the line. (But that's just my guess.) Come to think of it, I'm curious about the possibility of further adventure Cycles. I've purchased all of the adventures available on e23, and would like more... Are there any plans for official adventure material based on what Eli's doing, or the existance of the Grigori, or the relationship between Janus and Valefor?
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02-11-2008, 12:24 PM | #10 |
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Thank you for the reply, Paul. I appreciate the straightforward answers, even though I wish they could have been more "optimistic" for the line...
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