Episode 35 - Future Flight

Iain & Jamie are back from their vacation with a longer cast than normal to catch up on all the tasty boardgame news. They are joined by Glenn Ford of Man O’Kent Games to cover Kickstarter Unions, CMON time machines, trucks full of dice, when RPGs go wrong and much more! 

 

Headlines

 

 

 

Kickstarter in the Firing Line

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-union-organizing.html

https://www.evilhat.com/home/a-word-about-kickstarter/

https://www.evilhat.com/home/a-further-word-about-kickstarter/

 

CMON goes back in time

https://cmon.com/news/back-to-the-past?fbclid=IwAR1v-Mx4Y_U08vXFN-mQBKJcEX7BZPoh-DyI-6EEO-cdtoZRwlnJfVXkJcE

 

Fantasy Flight Games looks to the future

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/9/6/scry-the-future/

 

News

 

Dice hit the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1iaE42DU4

 

Stores given grants by Wizards

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/44094/rolling-for-initiative-wizards-puts-its-money-where-its-mouth-is-other-trends

 

Evil Dead 2 springs back to life

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/44085/evil-dead-2-board-game-will-finally-reach-market-via-jasco

 

 

 

RPG Corner

Kamigakari ks goes sideways

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/serpentseagames/kamigakari-god-hunters-modern-action-anime-rolepla/posts/2620992?ref=ksr_email_creator_project_update_copy

 

Fandom acquires Cortex from Margaret Weiss Productions

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/44087/fandom-acquires-cortex-rpg-rules-system

 

Monte Cook games releases consent guide

https://twitter.com/MonteCookGames/status/1171825130575671296?s=19

 

Outro

Belgian Monopoly takes the piss

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/20/monopoly-censor-belgiums-manneken-pis-brussels-edition-box/?fbclid=IwAR0cc449Hsxqiznz4mO4rDfWdj2bA0cd1ci26zHTviQWlN2RJT3MUuz6AYo

 

Ms. Monopoly

https://twitter.com/hasbro/status/1171355523989561344 

 

Dollop episode: Landlords game

https://thedollop.libsyn.com/379-the-landlords-game

 

Patreons

Lucky Sparrow Game Cafe

https://www.facebook.com/luckysparrowgamescafe/

 

Funding Article

https://giantbrain.co.uk/2019/09/25/funding-the-time/

 

Man O’Kent Games

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ManOKentGames1

Website: https://www.manokentgames.com/ 

 

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