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Best of Humble Bundle: Beamdog & Owlcat: RPG Masters (pay what you want and help charity)

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  1. [2]
    Chemslayer
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    Posting here, the only game I have personal experience with is Rogue Trader (you can sniff through my recent posts to see how I feel, its very good). Worth noting that Rogue Trader can currently...

    Posting here, the only game I have personal experience with is Rogue Trader (you can sniff through my recent posts to see how I feel, its very good). Worth noting that Rogue Trader can currently be had elsewhere for $14 right now, so if that's all you want you should probably just grab that alone, but I've heard good things about the other games here and if other people can endorse this is probably an amazing bundle.

    Note that this doesn't come with the season pass (aka the first two DLCs), which I'd highly recommend, maybe for $7 at that cheap shark link?

    3 votes
    1. trobertson
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      I can endorse both of the Pathfinder RPGs, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous. They are both great, and if you've played the tabletop adventure module, you'll roughly know what to expect....

      I can endorse both of the Pathfinder RPGs, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous. They are both great, and if you've played the tabletop adventure module, you'll roughly know what to expect.

      Kingmaker is game where you and your adventuring party build a kingdom in a hostile land. Kingdom management is a large part of the experience, for better or for worse. The mechanic is divisive but if you like cRPGs this is definitely worth trying.

      WotR is a war campaign against demons. It is a much better realized vision (being the second game by the team, after Kingmaker). Characters are better, there's more mechanical depth and story depth, etc. But the war campaign mechanics are universally considered to be a cheap rip off of Might and Magic. There's a mod to auto-win these battles, and I suggest you get it.

      Both games have the best character creation and build planning in any cRPG ever. For many people the character creation screen is the game (in a good way). Coming up with new ideas for characters is incredibly addictive. This is in direct contrast to something like BG3, where it almost felt like the builds were on rails. BG3 gave you maybe 1 choice, on average, per character level; KM and WotR give you on average 3-5 choices per character level depending on class.

      1 vote
  2. BailerAppleby
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    Glad you posted this deal here. I'm very much inclined to buy this bundle at the second tier (as I have Rogue Trader from a previous bundle), but the one thing that is holding me back is that this...

    Glad you posted this deal here. I'm very much inclined to buy this bundle at the second tier (as I have Rogue Trader from a previous bundle), but the one thing that is holding me back is that this bundle represents thousands of potential playtime hours. I suppose that's not necessarily a bad thing, but man, that's a lot of playing.

    This bundle showing up now is quite a coincidence for me as I have been binging the YouTube channel for Mortismal Gaming, this crazy guy who 100% all the games he reviews, of which the CRPGs in this bundle are his bread and butter. In fact, his hard playthrough of Tyranny is downright insane; it's where he spends half a week doing 50 runs to pass a particularly difficult section.

    Anyways, he waxes so poetically about Pathfinder that this bundle sounds really appealing. This is a nice balance between old and new, which for me will probably mean playing Planescape again as well as Mythforce for the novelty of it.

    Honestly, the time between Steam sales are too short, I have got to slow down, so this won't help the backlog at all.

    3 votes
  3. [3]
    phoenixrises
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    Noting that it's not exactly pay what you want, make sure you put exactly what you want for each tier, (for example Rogue Trader is only in the 23$ tier and above) Also note you can use sliders to...

    Noting that it's not exactly pay what you want, make sure you put exactly what you want for each tier, (for example Rogue Trader is only in the 23$ tier and above)

    Also note you can use sliders to adjust how much you can split!

    3 votes
    1. [2]
      Chemslayer
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      Ah yes, shoulda been more careful with the auto-gen title. Man, I remember the days of literal 1 cent humble bundles (or $1 for steam keys haha)

      Ah yes, shoulda been more careful with the auto-gen title. Man, I remember the days of literal 1 cent humble bundles (or $1 for steam keys haha)

      3 votes
      1. phoenixrises
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        No worries I'm sure someone will be able to fix! As an aside I'm usually posting these in the Save Points thread we have that's reoccurring every Sunday (iirc)! Just to be clear it's not frowned...

        No worries I'm sure someone will be able to fix! As an aside I'm usually posting these in the Save Points thread we have that's reoccurring every Sunday (iirc)!

        Just to be clear it's not frowned upon to post these at all :) just giving you more options! (I used to do a lot of the game deals stuff here but I've been pretty busy so the more posts on that thread the better!!)

        2 votes