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This game about airships looks pretty cool - I backed with the intent of giving it as a gift to my father, who loves board games, history, and airships.
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Infinitum posted:Yeah you're poo poo out of luck if you wanted it early. I decided to pledge to get a spot in line, and can always pull it later. I tried to pledge for May 2021, about 5 minutes after they launched. That failed, because the tier filled up while KS was processing my pledge. Then I tried to pledge for July 2021. Same thing happened again. Finally got a spot in the October wave. It's over $4 million already.
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Chainclaw posted:Geek Chic was established and had been around for years, looks like 2008 to 2017. I think they went under because they hired up too fast when they had a lot of preorders and burned through the deposit cash faster than they were putting out tables. Wyrmwood was founded in 2012, so they're roughly as established now as Geek Chic was when they went under. Wyrmwood is acquiring a very well-established traditional furniture company, Keystone, to fulfill this Kickstarter. I have a pretty good degree of confidence that they know what they’re doing here. I don’t doubt there will be bumps, especially with this scale, but they’ve been pretty careful to only commit to what they’re confident they can deliver. They’ve talked about it a lot on their (hilarious) YouTube channel, I recommend it if you’re on the fence.
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The Wyrmwood table kickstarter just added a bunch of slots, if you hurry you can get in as early as July 2021 (at time of writing).
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Blacklist's next giant miniatures box (and optional board game) is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacklistgames/dire-alliance-horror. It's horror-themed this time.
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Honestly as a backer I’m kind of fine if Mortasheen’s RPG rules are total rear end as long as it’s a good setting/ideas/art book. I’ll probably never get to play a system that obscure anyway unless I specifically sought it out. I’m a sucker for big weird idea books that I can ste- I mean get inspiration from
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Infinitum posted:I think it's more they need to stop talking about flagrantly flaunting OHSA rules in front of their cameras, and talking about some of their employees weed habits. Yyyyyyeah they've posted a ton of videos with folks not wearing masks, and they just recently had both a video where a number of employees admitted, on camera, to having come to work high, and a video where the CEO of the company tells a line worker to disregard safety regulations if he feels like it. So my guess is they're in legal hot water for one or both of those things.
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Agrias120 posted:Wait, what happened? Unclear, they just put out a backer update that Jason is taking over as CEO. Doug is still with the company but “working on other things”.
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Mors Rattus posted:I'd guess taking the blame for the OSHA stuff talked about before? They just posted a video of Doug’s resignation speech and it’s basically that. He realized he’s not the person to take Wyrmwood to the level of scale it’s going to be at (because he’s going to get them sued, basically) based on some internal concerns about OSHA stuff, general stability/predictably stuff. He’s probably right, and I think Jason and James (the guy from Keystone) will do a better job as the company gets bigger. So nothing external, no lawsuits or whatever, but that’s still the driving force - not getting to the point where there’s a Big Problem.
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Comstar posted:I couldn't stomach watching all of it - what I watched included: This is a much harsher read of the situation than I came away with. I read it as a small company CEO realizing that his business is now too big to be managed by someone like him, who is more interested in employee freedom and flexibility than following the letter of the law. I think it comes across as techbro-y because it includes a lot of the same things that techbros say, but most techbro CEOs don’t step down at that point, they resist or half-rear end implementing the necessary things, whereas Doug is intentionally saying someone other than him will do a better job of taking the company where it needs to go from here, not disagreeing that these things need to be done. I disagree with Doug on a fair few things, but he seems to genuinely care about his employees and is willing to let someone else take the reins when they tell him he’s not doing a good job. I agree someone else needs to be CEO, but I don’t think he’s a bad person or has had self centered motivations for the things he’s done thus far. Also keep in mind that this company has basically exploded over the course of a year or two, including a large acquisition. No HR department and not providing health benefits (which, as mentioned above, honestly sounds like a reasonable tradeoff in MA) are a lot more acceptable for a ~20 person company in 1 state than a 100+ person one across 2 states, and that change happened really fast, on top of dealing with COVID. I’m willing to give some benefit of the doubt, especially given that they’re taking steps to catch up with where they should be.
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My only experience with "they just took the money and ran" so far is Barkley 2. Thankfully only $15. So far everything else has come and been pretty good when it did, though frequently late. Arcsech fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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DCC Dying Earth is live, with some early bird spots left.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:E: Oh looks like this is a different game set in the same universe. Boy is my face red, and now I want to know if it's good as well. The KS page says it’s compatible with the original, so probably basically the same game with new cards and a new gimmick or three.
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Jul 5, 2021 17:15
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lilljonas posted:Great 3 small ducks in a trench coat. Artificer duck with a metal leg. Witch duck. Business duck with a top hat and cane. Honestly you’d probably do well to have a few that are blatantly Ducktales characters with the serial numbers filed off. (Like all of my other suggestions).
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I'll be sculpting all Summer to gear up, so I'm taking ideas if there's a specific type of duck adventurer you'd like me to try to sculpt for the set. Currently working on archers and mages. My thief sculpts ended up pretty boring so I'll go back and revisit them after that.
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Blacklist is currently advertising their next kickstarter, which will bring them to 5 (five!) simultaneous unfulfilled projects. Plus two more preorders that were done direct rather than through KS. I genuinely don't mind delays due to shipping or whatever. But continuing to pile more on just looks irresponsible.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:44
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Memnaelar posted:I mean, not really. They've fulfilled four KS'es reasonably well (although they picked a bad distributor for Street Masters: Aftershock and that turned into a fiasco). But maybe you're just being comedic on a dead internet comedy forum. I dunno, how they've handled this has left a really bad taste in my mouth. All of their commications are like 60% repeated explanation and links about shipping crisis. Which... Sure. Fine. poo poo's gonna be late, that happens. I don't really care about that part. But they have such a huge backlog of unfulfilled work - literally more unfulfilled Kickstarters than completed ones - and they're adding more on the pile. And drat near zero concessions to backers. Not even an apology, not even after like 3 months in a row of "oh, we're gonna get them on a ship this month! (A month passes) oh they didn't actually get on a ship, sometime eventually but definitely nothing is our fault at all". It really feels like they're going "eh, we've got your money, who gives a poo poo about you now? By the way please give us even more money"
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The DCC Dying Earth Kickstarter is down to about 45 minutes, if anyone's been putting that off. I don't think they'll hit the "send the authors to stay at the Vance estate and see what they come up with" stretch goal unfortunately, but I could be surprised - it's only about $30k away.
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Quixotic1 posted:Did the gaming table making company, was it wormwood, get it act together? Kinda. They’re a bit behind on production due to an essential custom machine being delivered hella out of spec and the vendor giving them the runaround on fixing it, but that appears to have been fixed as of this past week. Everything else seems to be in order so we should see things pick up very soon. He didn’t hire a new CEO really, one of the other founders took over and seems to be doing a better job - I haven’t heard anything in the way of that kinda complaint and no news is probably good news on that front.
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Aug 14, 2021 23:39
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EverettLO posted:Myth and Goal is up. It's intended to be a Blood Bowl competitor. Not just three: This will be their sixth simultaneous unfulfilled miniatures project. Two of those are a year overdue, and another is about to pass the estimate with no sign of shipping starting any time soon.
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Sep 21, 2021 21:40
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The photos of those cards look kind of similar to these Bicycle Prestige cards, which are also some form of textured plastic and feel quite nice IMO.
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JazzFlight posted:Quick update for Blacklist Games from one of the 4 guys who work there (Scottie Mick): All this and yet they’re still one of two companies putting out new Kickstarters while hellaciously behind on prior ones. The other one is Wyrmwood, who is producing videos multiple times a week talking about the exact ways in which their very expensive table production machine is hosed and what the next steps are to fix it. Blacklist is “I dunno, THINGS, man, like we can’t tell you cause it’s too sikkrit”
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senrath posted:I feel their point was that Wyrmwood is doing the whole "run multiple Kickstarters while behind" thing way better with how transparent about everything they're being, not that Wyrmwood was also doing it badly. Yep, it was this. While I’m not thrilled with how behind Wyrmwood is, they’ve done a good job communicating why and what they’re doing about it. Admittedly this is easier if you’re doing the manufacturing vs waiting for a cargo ship halfway around the world. But like, they’ve been very vague and given wrong info several times. They say they can’t give more info because it’s not professional to give out info about partners, but either the shipper straight up lied (almost certainly) and don’t deserve professionalism, or Blacklist did.
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I sort of don’t give a poo poo about the Mothership rules (I’ll probably just use the Alien rules? Haven’t run them yet but it seems quite nice), but the modules are pretty cool - I wish there was a modules-only option. E: GreenBuckanneer posted:I’m not really keen to kickstart a D&D style roleplay when I already have some roleplay books I haven’t had the chance to use. Well if I held to that philosophy I’d never buy any new RPG books, and that’s obviously not right.
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Nov 30, 2021 21:59
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Shes Not Impressed posted:Still waiting for an update from Blacklist miniatures series 1. At this point it will be a whole year since backing soon. They just posted an update that… doesn’t really make me feel better. quote:Firstly, I would like to apologize for the vagueness of our last update as we were not in a position to get into specific details due to the sensitive nature of our relationship with our partners. Although this update is to help clarify things, please note that I cannot disclose information beyond what is shared today for a variety of business-related reasons.
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JazzFlight posted:Agreed. They just made a post in the Fantasy Series 2 updates as if everything's going great for that and estimated a (completely unbelievable) August 2022 delivery for those. So like, death threats are obviously uncool. But also, man, they just never say anything concrete. It's all vague handwaving, all the time. I've got a few things in the pipe from them as well and never again.
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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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Magnetic North posted:Also, I wonder if "crowdfunding" could be said to apply to continual Patreon supported game systems like One Page Rules and Archvillian Games. These are mostly files for 3D printers, but maybe there are ones for table top RPGs? I have no expertise on these; I just know them by osmosis since they are referenced by and/or sponsor some trad gaming youtubers. I support Macguffin & co, which makes micro-settings which are pretty clever (and includes Johnny Sims of Magnus Archives fame as one of the main creators, if you're familiar), as well as Printable Heroes, not so much to print them and more so I can easily grab tokens for whatever the monster of the week is and random NPCs.
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Cool, DHL claims to have delivered my Redgrass wet palette, but there’s definitely no package here (and I know it didn’t get porch-pirated, I have cameras). loving DHL.
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Arcsech posted:Cool, DHL claims to have delivered my Redgrass wet palette, but there’s definitely no package here (and I know it didn’t get porch-pirated, I have cameras). loving DHL. This got delivered today. Tracking still says it was delivered yesterday. 
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BaronVanAwesome posted:I still don't get it, are they in a warehouse or not? Didn't they raise a bunch of funds for a second release? Blacklist has been claiming since February that QML has all the packages in a warehouse and they’ve secured funding to ship everything and just need to provide QML with an updated backer list, which is like, really hard man cause of all the backers.
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EverettLO posted:Their GoFundMe is already canceled, not that it was going to work anyway. They're screwed and have been lying about it for well over a year. Talk on the Kickstarter page is that it got pulled because GoFundMe doesn’t allow rewards for donations. Even hosed up their grift in a boneheaded way.
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armorer posted:I would like to eventually get them, and I'm willing to pony up for shipping (again) as long as it isn't too insane. Same, like... the pandemic hosed shipping forever, I get it, I'm willing to cover that gap. Especially given how cheap these were originally. There is a limit to how much I'd pay for shipping but like, they're in the country already at least, hopefully it won't be that bad. I'm glad it's QML doing it directly though, I'm not giving Blacklist any more money.
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armorer posted:https://www.qmlogistics.com/blacklist/ Looks like I’m in the smoke test group. $31 shipping to get the copy I already paid for, extra copies are $125+$86 shipping. I’m in Colorado in case that changes the number.
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armorer posted:It's not great, but I'll spend another $31 to get my minis if that's what it costs. This is about how I feel. It was a screaming deal to start with, it’s substantially less of one now but I’d rather pay it and get the things than stay mad and not pay it out of principle. Edit: and it is also two loving gigantic boxes, and it’s currently the holidays. It’s better than I was afraid of, honestly.
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rydiafan posted:Ok, so who else still hasn't gotten their shipping notification for Blacklist? I’m still waiting as well.
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rydiafan posted:I feel like anything Wyrmwood makes you could find for half the price and twice the quality from some local craftsman. I dunno, Wyrmwood’s stuff is more nicely made than like 90% of what I see at local shops and con vendor spaces. Their prices do get ridiculous quickly above the bottom couple tiers of woods though, but those bottom tiers are pretty competitive with smaller makers, especially given all the fancy magnets and stuff. Like, if you have a local maker that makes stuff like that, go for it. Edit: this is about their gaming accessories, not the furniture. I do have one of the cheaper Wyrmwood tables I’m pretty happy with but am much more lukewarm on their furniture than their accessories. If you’re spending table money it’s probably worth finding a local craftsman to commission from yeah. Arcsech fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 16, 2023 |
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Lumbermouth posted:Did they ever address their sexual assault problem? Not really, no. I’m not going to be buying anything more from them because of it.
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Echophonic posted:I was kind of intrigued by the KS for The Magnus Archives RPG, but it's Cypher and they want 75 United States dollary-doos for a hardback. Is Cypher actually any good? I’m a Magnus junkie; listened since like halfway through Season 1. I backed the Magnus Protocol Kickstarter for probably more than I should have. I’m taking a pass on the RPG; I’m kind of shocked at how lame it looks given how into tabletop the cast & crew are.
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Zurai posted:Wonder if people realize not everyone has a 3D printer. A decent resin printer is literally the same price as the lowest tier of this kickstarter. Admittedly that’s not what everyone wants to do but like… I bet you can find someone locally who has one and will print poo poo for you in exchange for you painting some stuff for them or similar. 3D printers aren’t exactly high dollar or particularly rare anymore.
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