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This month's Blacklist Fantasy Series 1 excuses are out:quote:
Except they didn't even bother with the excuses this time. Note that last month they said: quote:QML has confirmed that they have received the financial portion from us and we will need to provide them with a new backer data export to ensure they have the most up-to-date backer data possible (more on this below). Once this is done, we'll update you once we know what the scheduling is. We’ll then provide you all with updated timelines, as mentioned in previous updates, and things should move quickly once this is done as all the items needed are ready and waiting in the local fulfillment warehouse. Absolutely no reasons given for the delay, or any details at all. I already backed Lasting Tales, like a fool, so the free PDF doesn't do much for me. Good push to request some refunds, though, not that I expect to get them. Arcsech fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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I dunno, I really think I'm hosed with them. That's like 4 KS campaigns (and I bought doubles of the minis), and 3 pre-orders (Buddy Cop, Contra, Street Masters: something or other bonus content on Indiegogo). Comments said they got sued recently by Cards Against Humanity for a couple hundred thousand dollars for unpaid debts related to storage and shipping of previous campaigns. By "they," I really mean Alex Lim, who I think is the only employee left and is somehow "managing" all this by himself. The Sadler bros and Scottie Mick noped outta here and are trying to lay low. It was especially insulting for the Sadler brothers to do a few live streams where they were dismissing any criticism and at the same time pleading ignorance of any shipping concerns as they had legally separated themselves from "management" who they never named. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Mar 30, 2022 22:28
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"If we send you the digital version you can't get a refund of the physical" lololilololool that's not how that works What you are telling your backers is to ask for a full refund NOW, and gently caress the poor schmucks who don't read updates and will either not get their copies or receive it insanely delayed.
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Mar 30, 2022 22:56
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Looks like someone's trying to bring back the old Chronopia miniatures game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chronopia/chronopia Looks cool, but as is the case with almost any kickstarter not put out by a reputable company (and this appears to be, like.... one dude???? I don't know what's going on) I will pick it up if it ever makes it to retail
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Mar 30, 2022 23:45
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Arcsech posted:This month's Blacklist Fantasy Series 1 excuses are out: I don't understand what went wrong with Fantasy Series 1, I received mine months ago. Did they not manufacture it all at the same time or what?
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Mar 31, 2022 03:04
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They mysteriously didn't have the money to pay the US fulfillment company and the minis have been sitting at the QML warehouse for months. Then they allegedly got a cash injection from an investor, which I'm sure definitely didn't just go to settling with CAH's fulfillment company for... not paying their bills with them.
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Mar 31, 2022 03:14
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Buck Wildman posted:dungeon degenerates out for delivery and I'm super stoked My shipping label is printed. It may even get here by my birthday!
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Mar 31, 2022 03:54
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DressCodeBlue posted:They mysteriously didn't have the money to pay the US fulfillment company and the minis have been sitting at the QML warehouse for months. Then they allegedly got a cash injection from an investor, which I'm sure definitely didn't just go to settling with CAH's fulfillment company for... not paying their bills with them. They're Madoffing all the fulfillment companies 
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Mar 31, 2022 03:58
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lol i backed the blacklist miniatures when i was first getting into tabletop gaming in 2019 and i forgot about that. doubt i ever see them, but i don't really want them at this point anyway. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ovb/league-of-dungeoneers/description just funded and i'm looking forward to getting that. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sorcerytcg/sorcery-contested-realm-tcg also spending a lot on this sorcery game. hopefully that actually fulfills on some sort of schedule since it's just cards?
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Mar 31, 2022 14:18
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jarofpiss posted:
Edited your post down to the relevant parts.
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Mar 31, 2022 14:31
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Arcsech posted:This month's Blacklist Fantasy Series 1 excuses are out Oh boy, I backed through GameFound after the campaign, so not only do I not have my miniatures, I also don't even get the pity PDF either. What a bang up job, thanks guys, appreciate it. 
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Mar 31, 2022 15:31
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperbones5/bones-6-tales-from-the-green-griffin Bones 6 is up. No waves this time and only two pledge options
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Mar 31, 2022 18:29
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I have plenty of unpainted minis from the first 3 waves. I was still considering backing this one but $125 plus shipping buy in for what is going to be mostly more unpainted plastic is too much for me.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:58
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What is even left for Reaper to convert to Bones?
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Mar 31, 2022 19:17
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Bucnasti posted:What is even left for Reaper to convert to Bones? The rest of people's money?
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Mar 31, 2022 19:25
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Bucnasti posted:What is even left for Reaper to convert to Bones? Reaper's catalogue is nuts in a delightful way. I never would have gone out and bought a turtle paladin, axolotl adventurers or the original demogorgon, but they all showed up with Bones 5 and it rules to be able to just reach over into a box and pull out something unusual to paint.
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Mar 31, 2022 20:19
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Aniodia posted:Oh boy, I backed through GameFound after the campaign, so not only do I not have my miniatures, I also don't even get the pity PDF either. What a bang up job, thanks guys, appreciate it. Even if you don't get it, I can totally spot you a copy of mine cuz gently caress em. Better news for at least one of their campaigns (that reached US shores in QML warehouses already, not the ones in China): Hour of Need https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacklistgames/hour-of-need/posts/3469627 quote:Heroes, we’re back with a new Hour of Need update!
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Mar 31, 2022 21:37
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Jedit posted:Edited your post down to the relevant parts. i'm still going to spend infinite money on it because of the art. i know frazetta girls will license his stuff to literally anyone, but with jeff easley and doug kovacs and dan seagrave and just this insane stable of fantasy artists i'm going to buy it all. i also like that the artists will be able to sell prints and playmats and whatever themselves.
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Mar 31, 2022 21:59
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JazzFlight posted:Not like this is good news for you at all because the whole thing is a major shitshow that I have no confidence in, but there was a remark that the Gamefound backers would also get a PDF. Honestly, I bought in because I was hoping to get some neat minis for my old HeroQuest board. Appreciate the offer, though. Meanwhile, not only did Hasbro/Avalon Hill start their campaign for a rerelease after the Blacklist campaign already ended, they not only released it, but also released the Commander of the Realm Knights expansion (which I managed to grab from a release over on Big Bad Toy Store months after the fact, and at only double MSRP instead of hundreds from scalpers). There's also apparently plans to rework Frozen Horror and Against the Ogre Hordes as well, and maybe even more after that. At this point, I don't even know what I'd be using the minis for.
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https://twitter.com/25thCG/status/1509356630365847559
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https://twitter.com/meeplestokens/status/1509423143613513729?s=21 Modern board gamers.txt
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Bucnasti posted:What is even left for Reaper to convert to Bones? Afaik a lot of the recent kickstarters have not been strictly conversions of metals to bones, but newly designed stuff or redesigns of older sculpts. Like this one, a lot of the sculpts look very much like they're completely digitally sculpted from the get-go. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Apr 1, 2022 11:54
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Bottom Liner posted:https://twitter.com/meeplestokens/status/1509423143613513729?s=21 PandemicBoardGamers.rtf
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I backed that Blacklist 1 stuff and also haven't received anything and figure I probably never will Refunds aren't possible someone said though, huh? Edit: Ehhh I'll probably just wait and see anyway, it's Kickstarter and I knew what I was getting into BaronVanAwesome fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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I know Mutants in the Now was brought up here and is apparently a goon favorite, but their latest update just leaves a bad taste in my mouth: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arbco/mutants-in-the-now-a-modern-mutant-animal-zine-rpg/posts/3463489 Basically, the author has been updating the pdf over and over past the printed edition (which I only received a few months ago), enough to brand the digital version the "revised edition." The errata pdf is 6 pages long of tiny text. Why should I even look at my print copy now, knowing there's a ton wrong with it? Just makes me not want to back anything (at least physical) by them again.
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JazzFlight posted:I know Mutants in the Now was brought up here and is apparently a goon favorite, but their latest update just leaves a bad taste in my mouth: I’m very confused by this take (I don’t know the game in question that well though). A designer continuing to update the game and make it better is a good thing, IMO. and an errata page I can print out and stick in my book is perfect. I have plenty of RPG books like this already, from official D&D rulebooks to Monster of the Week to little Kickstarter things. It doesn’t make the print copy useless. It just means I’m using it with an additional document which is extremely common for lots of books in all kinds of writing.
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Arivia posted:I’m very confused by this take (I don’t know the game in question that well though). A designer continuing to update the game and make it better is a good thing, IMO. and an errata page I can print out and stick in my book is perfect. I have plenty of RPG books like this already, from official D&D rulebooks to Monster of the Week to little Kickstarter things.
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JazzFlight posted:I dunno, it just seems like a LOT of revisions, like maybe they should have held back for some more playtesting before going "okay, let's print this." It's not an errata page, it's 6 errata pages. Your biggest amount of play testing is always when you release something for public consumption. No matter the game people always find more stuff when they get to actually play with it themselves.
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JazzFlight posted:I dunno, it just seems like a LOT of revisions, like maybe they should have held back for some more playtesting before going "okay, let's print this." It's not an errata page, it's 6 errata pages. ARBCo went through like 5 or 6 playtest revisions before finalizing the print edition, he definitely did not skimp on trying to catch everything.
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JazzFlight posted:I dunno, it just seems like a LOT of revisions, like maybe they should have held back for some more playtesting before going "okay, let's print this." It's not an errata page, it's 6 errata pages. If your Kickstarter is a year old and you've already had to label the digital edition a revised edition, I agree, that's not a good look.
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Dark Quarter, a game seemingly made for me (1980s New Orleans, magic) launches on April 12th.
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CitizenKeen posted:If your Kickstarter is a year old and you've already had to label the digital edition a revised edition, I agree, that's not a good look. It makes perfect sense looking at the kickstarter update, there’s a new print run coming and some very clear communication about the different printings.
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Arivia posted:It makes perfect sense looking at the kickstarter update, there’s a new print run coming and some very clear communication about the different printings. I didn't say it doesn't make sense, I said it's not a good look. Edit: Like, reading that post, if I had bought the physical edition and received it in the last couple months, I'd be pretty frustrated. CitizenKeen fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Apr 3, 2022 |
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You're not wrong to feel this way. There's a definite amount of heartbreak when I look at something that either isn't working or it's causing confusion, and I'm inclined to fix it rather than forget it, but that draws attention to it and I know that's never going to look great. I had three playtest groups (two internal, one external), as well as more recent games run for a future podcast. I got tons and tons of feedback from dozens of folks, had two passes with an editor, and practically lived inside this text. But things change with a wider audience. I had a mean playtest group that tried to break things all over (which was great), but it's not the same. This isn't that unusual; if you look at the errata for much, much larger publishers than I am with much more time and money for editing and playtesting, you'll find comparable lists on their first printing. (This is true even for folks working with a well-established systems; some post-D&D d20 games have massive lists of fixes.) But they rarely draw attention to it, so it feels different. That isn't to use that as an excuse--both they and I could do better--but an explanation. But I felt it would be dishonest to just quietly make zero distinctions between the printings, as is the norm. Subsequent expansions will be better for these fixes, not running into clarity issues between things like "fight" and "combat", for example. That's a slight change, as most people understand the two to be synonymous, but when going out to translation or doing an open system, you don't want small problems to result in big confusion when extrapolated elsewhere, or if you're having a secondary writer working off the core material. And since I'm going into translation now, and potentially am hiring a writer now, I don't get a second shot at it. And, of course, I don't want to hold off on anybody else than my backers getting these fixes first! But there's no way to keep it from being an inconvenience, and I apologize for that. I'm looking to make sure these issues are minimized in the future, and this is a big part of doing so. If you have any suggestions or requests, you're free to reach out to me via DM or just speak openly. I'll do what I can to make things right. Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Apr 3, 2022 |
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I don't buy physical books anymore (mainly to reduce clutter), but I guess this is an advantage of going strictly digital now that I had never realized.
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It's definitely something I don't want to make a habit of. I'd rather just write cool new material!
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Look 18xx Nerds A new 18xx https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1840vienna/1888-north-china
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Infinitum posted:Look 18xx Nerds I hope I'm an 18xx nerd. I'll find out when Shikoku shows up.
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CitizenKeen posted:I hope I'm an 18xx nerd. I'll find out when Shikoku shows up. 
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Nothing overly amazing launching this week That said, keep an eye on whatever the hell this is going to be from Cyanide & Happiness https://gamefound.com/projects/draft/wqfm8isonpdchzq0bb1hrsgok5s And if for nothing else Ajisai looks very pretty, and you should take a look at it. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/344447/ajisai Other than that there's a bunch of relaunches and games that were meant to have launched previously. Next week should be big: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332614/paradox-initiative https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/354768/dark-quarter https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/347935/far-cry-beyond Infinitum fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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