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Does he have a sword? A knight should have a sword.

I think it's more about the societies they portray, not the philosophies they espouse. Looking at Corey for example, there's a lot of very ruthless capitalism going on in the Expanse with both corps and states treating people as expendable assets, but it's never portrayed as a good thing.

Oh right, I finally got the physical Draw Steel books I had ordered from my FNSLGS, just before leaving town to celebrate Christmas with family. I also have my physical copy of The Han Cluster on its way, having cleared customs just before Christmas. So I'm hoping to get it before New Year's.

Like many countries, Sweden has a tradition of advent calendars where you open a little flap on the calendar for every day in December until Christmas (which is celebrated on the 24th here – the religious part is still on the 25th for those who care about that, but the family stuff is on the...

That's a fairly clever way to do it. If you're doing something like the original trilogy, having Luke as "the Jedi" is sufficient differentiation from Han as "the Scoundrel", Leia as "the Badass", and Chewbacca as "the Big Dude". But in a Force & Destiny campaign, where everyone is a force user...

We call those "Snoopies". Can't be unseen.

I think (hope) you got your companies confused there. Wildspire are the ones cleaning up part of the mess Blacklist Games left. As far as I can tell, they're doing right by BLG's customers by (a) giving them STLs for free and (b) offering actual minis at a substantial discount.

Certain. The dump truck only comes by occasionally, while the Internet is providing a steady stream of crap.

Well, it's not a big dump truck, that's for sure.

Which is why you should only do them if they require very little additional development work, so the manufacturing step doesn't have time to change up their prices. I mean, I've never published anything myself, but I imagine that something like "spell cards" is pretty low-hanging fruit.

Another thing is that the game explicitly supports victory conditions beyond "kill them all". This can be as easy a variant as "Kill that one in particular" or "Kill half of them", but it can also be things like "Bring Macguffin to the spot" or "Protect this thing" or whatever else.

I think there can be a place for physical stretch goals, but you'd need to be careful with them. I think one place where they can be useful is material extracted from the main product, where minimal development effort is needed for the stretch goal. I'm thinking of things like cards containing...

I think Covid and the disruptions it caused is to blame for many of these failures. The disruptions to Chinese manufacturing as well as shipping caused production costs to rise in ways sellers had not accounted for, and did not have the margins to cover. Digital stuff is of course not as...