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    RAFM Miniatures closed up shop.

    That sounds promising, anyway. Reason to be hopeful that someone else will pick up their range. Maybe several someones. Hey, maybe Abney Park has always wanted to own a minis casting company on the side. :)
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    OSR OSR News Roundup

    Seconded, that sudden spilt was very alarming. Kala Mandala is delightful. Reimagining "adventurers" as professional meddlers instead really changes the tone. Whatever happens with that, Lee Gold needs to be involved and give full approval.
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    Worlds of Design: What Should Be in an RPG Book?

    Oh good, now I don't need to read the rest of the thread. As long a someone said it. :)
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    Do Tariffs Apply To RPG Books? Maybe, Maybe Not!

    My father had a possum as a child. First and last pet he ever owned until he bought a beagle when my sister and I were young. His possum was a survivor from some kind of predator attack that had killed its mother, and stuck around in a surprisingly domesticated fashion for over a year before...
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    When disagreeing…

    "I was already grudgingly willing to accept your criticisms due to your status as my superior here at our place of employment. Your token compliment was unneeded. I will still be vilifying you to my friends and family after the work day ends."
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    When disagreeing…

    LET THE BLOOD FLOW!!!
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    Mass Layoffs At Polygon, Major Gaming News Outlet

    I feel much the same about Seth Skorkowsky. He's still got surprisingly few subscribers considering the quality of his content.
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    Mass Layoffs At Polygon, Major Gaming News Outlet

    Click on News. Don't bother answering me back.
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    Greater Than Games Shutters Due to Tariffs

    I had to go look through the updates, it's been so long. Project funded February 2019, expected delivery for core book was Dec 2019. Backers got the core pdf May 2020, physical book shipped December 2020, so a full year late. Of the stretch goals, the Guise book shipped April 2022. That was...
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    Greater Than Games Shutters Due to Tariffs

    You can find the long, long string of promises and progress reports on the RPG's kickstarter updates. It was supposedly due to go to layout in May back in the April update. Be interesting to see what the May update has to say, assuming there is one.
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    White Dwarf Reflections #18

    There were a few other options. FGU's Starships & Spacemen had been out since 1978, and was a transparent Trek knockoff at that point. Gamescience's Space Patrol (later Star Patrol) came out in 1977, and attempted to stuff every scifi thing they could think of into the melting pot including...
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    RPG Print News – Tuesday Knight Games, Chaosium, and More

    No worries, just thought I ought to mention it on the off chance it was just me. I've certainly done worse while blogging.
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    Do Tariffs Apply To RPG Books? Maybe, Maybe Not!

    Rather obviously, that's only true for people who abide by the rules. The pirates throw the calculations of value off for everyone, and an awful lot of them get awfully self-righteous about it when confronted. They aren't "helping the community" or whatever their individual excuse is, but...
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    Do Tariffs Apply To RPG Books? Maybe, Maybe Not!

    Granted, but part of the reason pdfs are frequently seen as being worth significantly less that physical books is because if a pdf buyer wants to use the "let Kinkos do it" approach to getting a hardcopy, it usually winds up costing the customer a lot more than the $3 a big fancy hardcover a...
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    RPG Print News – Tuesday Knight Games, Chaosium, and More

    Playthings cover is displaying all blurred and oversized for me. When copied I get this instead:
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    A brand new Villains & Vigilantes adventure in 2025?

    It's not exactly thriving, but there's been a surprising amount of new stuff since FGU went quiet back around the early 90s. There's something just shy of 60 things on DTRPG for V&V, and about half of it is post-2000. Plus there's everything from Monkey House Games, who actually own the core...
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    RPG Archive: Star*Drive for D&D and Traveller

    He tends to be allergic to the mention of Trek canon IME (which I've had rather more of than I care to for one lifetime). His reflexive response is to deny any connection to the IP except the narrow legally-allowed one his deal with Franz Joseph Designs grants, and he's very insistent about how...
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    In print physically? Aether Knights is less than a year old and just got its hardcopy version after starting as a pdf-only. But why does that format define an active game? The rest (barring Jorune, which isn't legally available as a pdf) are all readily available on DTRPG, which is arguably a...
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    News to me, and my players certainly enjoyed my own homebrews and lengthy TSR Spelljammer and SW Sundered Skies campaigns. Jorune wasn't huge in its day but has a bit of a cult following still (mostly based on the art and quirky setting), but Aether Knights did nicely on launch. Too soon to...
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