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Steampunkette

Rules Tinkerer and Freelance Writer
Supporter
Y'know... I live in Wisconsin.

Maybe I should apply to work for them as a writer/designer/educator and just ... teach them how to not be so bad at this stuff. From apologizing appropriately to the community, to hiring at least one trans employee, to basic understanding of intersectional feminism, and then... y'know... Grammar.
 

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Bolares

Hero
Y'know... I live in Wisconsin.

Maybe I should apply to work for them as a writer/designer/educator and just ... teach them how to not be so bad at this stuff. From apologizing appropriately to the community, to hiring at least one trans employee, to basic understanding of intersectional feminism, and then... y'know... Grammar.
DON'T YOU DARE STEAL MICHAEL'S JOB! :p :ROFLMAO:
 




Sacrosanct

Legend
Publisher
Everything about that cover is incredible. From calling it Core Rules as well as a GM Content Manual to noting that it's "1st Edition," as though that's a selling point, it's extremely "graphic design is my passion."
The weird thing is that they have all these products and games, but you can't find a single one on a google search. They only exist on their FB page and their (new) site. That seems weird to me. If you don't exist in Google, do you really exist? lol

It's also weird how they have a handful of games all coming out at the same time? (and missed dates for KSs)? As an indie publisher myself, that makes zero sense to me, and raised a ton of red flags.
 






Ancalagon

Dusty Dragon
Sorry, trying to check myself and start taking the high road and not pointing out every glaring spelling error on their website. That's kind of petty of me and I shouldn't do that.
Fair enough.

Let's look at more significant issues:

1: You mentioned that they use the term LLC in their emails and such, but yet not such company is registered. Is that... legal? Like I'm pretty sure I can't legally claim to be a surgeon when I am not.

2: The name wizard's tower has been in long use in Canada (I bought my 3e books from them!). This could be a problem if they want to expand north of the border: Home

3: (less serious). Who is ... Don? It's kind of interesting they are railing against threats from anonymous people, but "Don" is... thin. Is he related to Michael?
 


Sacrosanct

Legend
Publisher
Fair enough.

Let's look at more significant issues:

1: You mentioned that they use the term LLC in their emails and such, but yet not such company is registered. Is that... legal? Like I'm pretty sure I can't legally claim to be a surgeon when I am not.

No idea, not a lawyer. Maybe they registered it somewhere else, but Wizards Tower Games is not a registered LLC in MI, WI, SC, or NC (the states where they live or lived in).

2: The name wizard's tower has been in long use in Canada (I bought my 3e books from them!). This could be a problem if they want to expand north of the border: Home

3: (less serious). Who is ... Don? It's kind of interesting they are railing against threats from anonymous people, but "Don" is... thin. Is he related to Michael?
Don Semora is a real person. An artist (not a bad one either from what I can tell), but it seems like he's letting Justin do all the web design and graphic design work on his games, because the really bad grammar and spelling issues are exactly how Justin writes. That, or part of Justin is rubbing off on him.

Whoever wrote that threatening email (if anyone really did; I'm dubious) is an idiot. Not only for making a dumb threat in the first place, but it's also written in the same bad grammar as Justin, and apparently Don and Justin are "great friends" according to Don, so an email like that would just reinforce the partnership, not split it apart. Also, AFAICT, Wizard Tower Games doesn't have any actual products for sale (imagine the surprise there), so what's to boycott and talk bad about in the first place?

Just look at the flyer they have for TSR CON (still not buying the excuse they gave for moving it to the same date as Garycon). Most of these "sponsors" were registered by Justin. Wizard Tower Games says they aren't affiliated with Justin at all (but also say they are partnered??), but they were created the same time the other two were (June/July) when nuTSR blew up in their faces, by the same circle of people. Funny coincidence, that. Out of all of them is the coffee place the only one with actual products to sell? Besides dollar store dice at 4x the markup?

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They have products now... sort of...
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It appears they are reselling MTG, D&D 5E, and other things. But some links are still 404. Also, some links takes one to a different website which looks like an online used game reseller, where all the prices are Canadian.
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