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Understandable point of view. Even speaking as a US citizen TLG seems almost uncomfortably happy about developments, which should improve their market share at the cost of their competitors - assuming the broader economic downturn doesn't result in too many folks just buying less gaming...

Long, but well-written. Recommended.

I did the same thing a couple of times for Awful Green Things From Outer Space, albeit in 15mm. Yeah, it's a tricky format to design in, especially the really tightly constrained ones from TSR and some of Metagaming. Task Force and Dwarfstar had a little more wiggle room in terms of size and...

Yes, it's worth exploring if you're unfamiliar with the business side of the hobby.

Accurate. The project creator may have a very different definition of "successful" than the backers do.

The worst part is that they're hiding the meeples in shipments of drugs.

It was only a month or two back that I was joking about college students making runs to Canada to stock up on little plastic trains and wooden sheep instead of booze, and the narco-lords in Mexico reducing their drug output to mass produce meeples instead.

I'm quoting myself from the manufacturer tariff thread, because the link is useful and there's more to FRG's decision making here than GTG: For those who weren't aware, the majority of the KS add-ons for the Sentinels RPG remain unfulfilled (and unfinished) even years after the campaign and are...

There isn't one. Every project will overproduce based on the publisher's expectations about sales to non-backers, balanced against their ability to tie up money and warehouse space until the extras sell down. There are usually volume discounts involved that may encourage making more rather...

Crowdfunding is not a pre-order system. You are an investor, not a customer, and because of that you're accepting a risk that the project you're investing in may fail. If it really was a pre-order there would be a lot more legal options to use when something fails to delivery, which is why so...

While it remains my favorite of the TSR minigames and has seen far more play post-2000 than any of the others, I'm not sure it even edges out all its siblings based on plays in the 80s and 90s. We played a weirdly large amount of Saga back in the day, which I credit to it being incredibly...

Give it a few years and I guess "Dire Wolf Hunting" will be back on the table as well. :) Ooh, a little more work and we can do Sticks & Stones as historical re-creation.

I don't know the situation in Canada, but Reaper's presence in retail stores has diminished enormously since they started the Bones kickstarters. Some shops don't carry them at all (which used to be unthinkable) and distributors are spotty about keeping them in stock compared to (say) WizKids'...

I haven't seen this BGG news post mentioned here. Appears that Flat River Group is doing a lot more than "just" shuttering GTG over the tariff situation. Also some news on Pandasaurus.

That's unexpected and uninformative, even with the tariff situation. I hadn't heard anything about them being in financial trouble or getting set to retire, although they've been pretty quiet for a few years now. Usually there'd at least be a mention of their molds and masters being sold or on...

Strongly advise everyone to actually read the comments on that blog post - heresy, I know - to get the misinformation he's trying to spread out of your brain. He's quite rightly getting flayed over it. Don't buy his book, either. If you must waste your time reading it, get it through the...

They're still talking about 145% tariffs, when they're facing 245% the last I checked. If that holds for any extended period I have no idea how they'll keep their doors open.

Is that the one that never got found, or am I thinking of the Treasure of the Silver Dragon? Both were such weird gimmicks, I assume meant to increase sales, which I doubt worked very well. They seem like such a break from his usual skinflint behavior. Understandably awkward. I have never...

Ah, I wouldn't be too hard on Fury, of the various microhistories that was one of my favorites. Easy to learn/teach, gameplay was fine with decent replay value, and the bits of chrome in the rules really helped sell an already-appealing theme. I know my old high school friends got a kick out...